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- Sustainability Ltd. - An award-winning strategic management consultancy and think-tank. Founded in 1987, Sustainability Ltd. is the longest established international consultancy dedicated to promoting the business case for sustainable development. The three main areas of operation: foresight, agenda-setting and change management.
- Local community sustainability indicators - Some new local community sustainability indicators developed in Australia. This site provides a new methodology for indicators that sustain and develop our community and that we can all count, measure and check them for ourselves.
- Sustainability Institute - A "think-do tank" dedicated to sustainable resource use, economics, and community. Providing information, analysis, and practical demonstrations that can foster transitions to sustainable systems at all levels of society, from local to global. Limited information on website.
- Sustainable Development - A Common Challenge for North and South - Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development (NFSD) article: From the point of view of sustainable development, all countries are "developing countries".
- Sustainable Cities Research Institute - Aims to improve the quality of life of urban communities through developing and promoting sustainable approaches to urban living.
- Sustainable Development Gateway - The tri-lingual Sustainable Development Gateway provides access to over 1,200 links, a calendar of events, a job bank, the Sustainability Web Ring, listservs, and news sites dealing with sustainable development.
- Sustainable Development Network - The Sustainable Development Network is a network of individuals and non-governmental organizations that promotes the debate on issues pertaining sustainable development including environmental and trade policy, economic policy, health, and legal frameworks.
- Second Nature: Education for Sustainability - Nonprofit organization working to help colleges and universities expand their efforts to make environmentally sustainable and just action a foundation of learning and practice. Organization information and resources for promoting sustainability.
- Sustainable Structures - Specialising in sustainable design and construction of straw-built homes in New Zealand.
- Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes - Maintains investable indexes to benchmark the performance of investments in sustainability companies and funds. Maintains independent indexes as a basis for derivatives and funds focused on sustainability companies. Switzerland. Global.
Wikipedia Articles
- Students of Sustainability - Students of Sustainability (SoS) is an annual conference of the Australian student environment movement and predates the Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN). The first Students of Sustainability conference was held in at ANU in 1991 when it was called Students, Science and Sustainability.
- Sustainability Appraisal - In United Kingdom Planning Law a Sustainability Appraisal is an appraisal of the economic, environmental and social effects of a plan from the outset of the preparation process to allow decisions to be made that accord with sustainable development. Since 2001, Sustainability Appraisals have had to be in conformity with the Strategic Environmental Assessment EU directive.
- Environmental Sustainability Index - The Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) is a composite index tracking 21 elements of environmental sustainability covering natural resource endowments, past and present pollution levels, environmental management efforts, contributions to protection of the global commons, and a society's capacity to improve its environmental performance over time.
- Inquiry into a Sustainability Charter - On Wednesday 5 September 2007, the Australian House of Representatives Environment and Heritage Committee presented, to the Speaker, its report on the inquiry into a sustainability charter entitled Sustainability for survival: creating a climate for change.
- Sustainability - Sustainability is a characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely. The term, in its environmental usage, refers to the potential longevity of vital human ecological support systems, such as the planet's climatic system, systems of agriculture, industry, forestry, and fisheries ...