Appalachian Sustainable Development

Focuses on developing healthy, diverse and ecologically sound economic opportunities through education and training.

Cabo San Francisco Foundation

Ecuadorian foundation working for a sustainable development of poor villages in coastal Ecuador.

Center for Neighborhood Technology (Chicago)

Creative strategies for making cities and their surrounding areas work for everyone, environmentally and economically.

Chattanooga Institute

Seeking to provide communities and companies with the resources and support necessary to create a sustainable and competitive future by finding solutions that integrate business, social equity and the environment in ways that are both sustainable and profitable.

Chelsea Green's Books for Sustainable Living

Chelsea Green publishes information to help design future lives where human activities of production and consumption are balanced in harmony with the natural state of the world.

City Repair Project (The)

Citizen activists educating and inspiring people to build a more community-oriented and ecologically sustainable society. (Portland, Oregon)

Communities by Choice

Web-based network for people and communities committed to the practice of sustainable development. Includes message boards, a calendar of sustainable development events, tips for sustainable living, and other resources for sustainable community development.

Criterion Planners/Engineers

Criterion is an urban planning firm specializing in sustainable community development.

Ecocity of Malm?

Describes the transformation of Malm?, Sweden, into sustainability, including details of building design and about management of traffic, rainwater, and waste.

Ecosystems

South African consultants and advisors in the field of sustainable community and rural development describe their capabilities and discuss topics such as permaculture and handling issues of rapid urbanization through waste management, recycling, and incineration.

exSite Research Ltd.

exSite Research Ltd. focuses on innovative and sustainable solutions for advancing the State of the Art in the regeneration of Brownfield and contaminated land.

Five E's Unlimited

Consulting firm that specializes in environmental sustainability, strengthened economies, and social equity, Based in Virginia.

Green Map System

Project to promote healthy cities and sustainable communities by developing maps to chart the sites of environmental significance in urban places around the world. Includes examples.

Groundwork Wales

Promotes sustainable communities through joint environmental action. Includes information on community involvement projects and efforts to reclaim old industrial and mining sites.

Indicators of Sustainability

develops indicators that measure progress toward a sustainable economy,society and environment.

International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)

International clearinghouse on sustainable development and environmental protection policies, programs, and techniques being implemented at the local level by local institutions.

Northern Innovative Communities

An inclusive regional effort committed to Sustainable Community Development rooted in economically viable, socially equitable, ecologically sound, and locally nurturing initiatives.

Rural Planning Network

RPN combines extensive land use planning expertise to solve problems involving open space preservation and/or economic development in rural areas.

Smart Communities Network

Resources on the concept of sustainable development, including overview articles, slide shows, links, recommended books and videos, and educational materials and programs that can help communities in their sustainable development efforts.

Smart Growth Network

Searchable databases of information resources on smart growth case studies, smart building design, smart development design and zoning, brownfields redevelopment and eco-industrial parks; and related topics.