Since this is a growing part of our web site, we welcome input on new links and resources to include. Please send these to our web design team. Many of these resources are provided by other organizations but are quite similar to dreams the NAAGE founders had--at least at the time they just seemed like dreams.

• The International Institute for Sustainable Development
  "For development to be sustainable it must integrate environmental stewardship, economic development and the well-being of all people not just for today but for countless generations to come. This is the challenge facing governments, non-governmental organizations, private enterprises, communities and individuals." Check out IISD's interactive tool kit for greening your campus!

• Blueprint for a Green Campus: The Campus Earth Summit Initiatives for Higher Education
  The Blueprint for a Green Campus is affiliated with the The Center for Environmental Citizenship. "The CEC was founded by young activists in 1992 to encourage college students to be environmental citizens. CEC is dedicated to educating, training, and organizing a diverse, national network of young leaders to protect the environment."

• "The Talloires Declaration is founded on the belief that institutions of higher learning must exercise leadership to promote and reinforce environmental responsibility by integrating the ethical, social, economic, and ecological values of environmentally sustainable development into institutional policies and practices."

  
  
• EE Link: Environmental Education On the Internet
  "Where can EE-Link add the greatest value to Environmental Education resources online? In some cases, we will create new materials that fill an unmet need for the EE community. But in many cases, our directories of links to other EE resources are the best service we can provide. Our goal is to promote the best EE materials available; this page explains how we decide which materials are best."

• Use the NAAGE Virtual Schoolhouse, provided by the EcoSage Corporation's SolarQuest Program, to explore interactive learning experiences on the World Wide Web. Students and teachers are encouraged to design and implement their own curriculum and activities in the Schoolhouse allowing anyone to develop learning "Quests" within a global internet learning community. Check out NAAGE's first program using this method, The Living Sustainability Project.
  
  

  

  
  

• NASA's Sustainability and Global Change Program, in collaboration with Prescott College is one of the first courses to post parts of their program, specifically their Explorations in Sustainability Course, in the NAAGE Virtual Schoolhouse. We hope others will provide similar resource sharing.

"Second Nature is a nonprofit organization working to help colleges and universities expand their efforts to make environmentally sustainable and just action a foundation of learning and practice. Education for Sustainability (EFS) is a lifelong learning process that leads to an informed and involved citizenry having the creative problem-solving skills, scientific and social literacy, and commitment to engage in responsible individual and cooperative actions. Second Nature focuses on colleges and universities because they educate our future teachers, leaders, managers, policymakers and other professionals."

Second Nature Resource Center / Bibliography: Educators create customized course reading lists by searching this database of over 2,800 bibliographic references to sustainability, covering 42 topical areas from Agriculture to Water Resources. Explore the rest of the Resource Center!

"Campus Ecology can help you get your environmental projects off the ground! Check out our Campus Environmental Yearbook.

"Scorecard is the ultimate source for free and easily accessible local environmental information on the Internet. Simply type in a zip code to find out about local air pollution and explore state-of-the-art interactive maps. Scorecard delivers accurate information on the toxic chemicals released by manufacturing facilities and the health risks of air pollution."

• Carbon Claculator: "Atmospheric Carbon - What's your share?"
  
• Footprint Estimation Form
  

• EcoFoot: Ecological Footprints on the Internet: "Here you will find the EcoFoot Java system, enabling anyone to calculate ecological footprints based on consumption patterns. Ecological Footprint analysis is a clever tool which gives a measure on how much ecoproductive resources specific consumption patterns demand."

"The SD Gateway and SD Job Bank provide both employers and persons seeking employment in the various fields of sustainable development a place to come together. While the field of sustainable development is broad, successful employment requires specific knowledge and skill sets."

"The SD Gateway integrates the online information developed by members of the Sustainable Development Communications Network (formerly the Spinning the Web Network). In addition to over 1,200 links in the SD Primer, we provide services such as a calendar of events, a job bank, the Sustainability Web Ring, and listings of mailing lists (listservs) and news dealing with sustainable development."

"The Student Conservation Association allows you to serve the great outdoors while tapping into an inner, personal landscape you may never have known existed. With exciting, hands-on service opportunities lasting up to a full year, women and men as young as 16 can start blazing a new trail of conservation service, experiential environmental education, career skills and leadership training."

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): Proposed by the OECD Megascience Forum Working Group on Biological Informatics Subgroup for Biodiversity Informatics. The Megascience Forum of the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy addresses issues related to large-scale scientific programmes requiring international collaboration. Within the life sciences, it has established a Biological Informatics Working Group, pursuing its mandate through subgroups for Neuroinformatics and Biodiversity Informatics.
  

• INDEXING THE WORLD'S KNOWN SPECIES: "Species 2000 has the objective of enumerating all known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on Earth as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity. It will also provide a simple access point enabling users to link from here to other data systems for all groups of organisms, using direct species-links." Check out the Species Locator!

• European Foundation: For the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
  "Sustainable development is the achievement of continued economic and social development without detriment to the environment and natural resources. The quality of future human activity and development is increasingly seen as being dependent on maintaining this balance. This Sustainable Development homepage has been specifically designed to support the needs of the social partners at all levels in their activities to promote sustainable development from a practical company level to a policy level. In particular, it is hoped that employers and employees at small and medium sized companies will benefit from the information and tools provided. The resources here may also assist public policy makers and non-governmental organisations working in the area."
  
• The Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC), founded at Clark Atlanta University in September 1994, seeks to assist, support, train, and educate people of color professionals and grassroots community leaders with the goal of facilitating their inclusion into the mainstream of environmental decision making.
  
• The Earth Charter Campaign: "The target population of the Environmental Justice Resource Center is the eleven-state service areas of The Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Environmental Technology. The 17-member HBCU/MI Consortium institutions cover most of the southern and -tier states from Washington, DC to Arizona. The overall goal of the HBCU/MI Consortium is to increase the amount and quality of scientific and technical education and information available to low-income and people of color."
  

• "From its beginning in 1995, the Green Map System was inspired by a desire to: help urban dwellers of all ages represent and share the and cultural resources in their cities; promote good greening efforts underway in communities across the globe, build inclusive networks that extend community capacity and expedite progress toward sustainability, employ the info-web in service of the web-of-life celebrate and learn from the beauty, brilliance and diversity of Nature, and together, make our hometowns better, healthier places."

  
  
• Earth's Biggest Environmental Search Engine!: Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory.
  

• "The Environment News Service (ENS) is the original daily international wire service of the environment. Established in 1990 by Editor-in-Chief Sunny Lewis and Managing Editor Jim Crabtree, it is independently owned and operated, and is not affiliated with any business, industry, government or environmental group.

  
  
• SustainAbility: "We are an award-winning strategic management consultancy and think-tank. Founded in 1987, we are the longest established international consultancy dedicated to promoting the business case for sustainable development. Our three main areas of operation: foresight, agenda-setting and change management."
  
• Global Reporting Initiative: "The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) was established in late 1997 with the mission of designing globally applicable guidelines for preparing enterprise-level sustainability reports. The GRI is convened by CERES (Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies) and incorporates the active participation of corporations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international organizations/UN agencies, consultants, accountancy organizations, business associations, universities, and other stakeholders from around the world."
  Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment
  

• "The purpose of this site is to provide a forum for the presentation of solutions to vital concerns in the areas of health, population, development and the environment. Initiatives are gathered through a number of different means, including direct user submissions, the efforts of partner institutions, and HORIZON's own research activities. The case studies not only encourage the replication of existing projects and provide information on how to do so, but also inspire the development of new initiatives."

  
  
• Earthscan: The World's Leading Publisher On Environmentally Sustainable Development
  

• EDIE: Environmental Data Information Exchange: "Edie is a free, personalised, interactive news, information and communications service for water, waste & environment professionals around the world. With comprehensive independent coverage, powerful search facilities, e-mail alerts and discussion forums, edie provides a one-stop-shop for the exchange of specialised information on the Web."

  
  

• "Earth Day Network is the nonprofit coordinating body of worldwide Earth Day activities. Our goal is to promote a healthy environment and a peaceful, just, sustainable world by organizing events, activities, and annual campaigns."

  
  

updated February 2002