Common Dreams is a national non-profit citizens’ organization working to bring progressive Americans together to promote progressive visions for America’s future. Founded in 1997, they use the internet as a political organizing tool – creating new models for internet activism.
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Earth Day, which began in 1970, is now celebrated by millions of people worldwide, hundreds of thousands of nongovernmental organizations, governments, teachers, and faith-based groups. This worldwide movement aims at protecting our planet, our children, and our future.
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rabble.ca is a new kind of publication, one built on the efforts of progressive journalists, writers, artists and activists across Canada. The site was launched just before the protests against the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, and leapt onto the Net with the kind of coverage you could only get from the point of view of the rabble. They covered events and issues that cannot be found anywhere else.
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Wikipedia is a continuously and collaboratively updated encyclopedia. Its description of sustainability (and many other topics) is worth the detour.
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iGreenBuild.com providesi information about environmentally responsible building. Most recently iGreenBuild.com and B.I.P.E.R., Building Industry Professionals For Environmental Responsibility, joined forces to develop this web site and to improve upon the already popular B.I.P.E.R. monthly e-Newsletter. At iGreenBuild.com you will find: – Articles about sustainable building design for commercial and residential buildings. – News about Green Building and Sustainability. – Upcoming events. – Green products, product reviews and samples.
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GlobeScan’s latest Survey of Sustainability Experts firmly puts climate change and energy issues at the top of the Sustainable Development agenda for the next five years. Femke de Man, who is the author of the GlobeScan report says that although general interest in sustainable development was expected to show an upward turn, the increasing concern with climate change and its impacts has proved more dramatic than expected. Another surprise, continued Ms. de Man, was the experts’ estimation of which sector of their national economies will have the farthest to go to achieve sustainability. For as long as the survey has been conducted (1994), the transport sector has been considered the most unsustainable. This year, however, the energy sector came out first.
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From 19 to 23 June 2006, Vancouver will host the 3rd World Urban Forum, a major UN event also known as UN-Habitat. The meeting will bring together public and private institutions, experts and decision-makers from around the world to discuss the key urban challenges facing the world today.
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The Britannia Project proposes the transformation of a heavily contaminated mining legacy site into one of Canada’s pre-eminent sustainability focused research, education and entertainment destinations.
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The Breakthrough Institute believes that we can create a better world by advancing a vision grounded in America’s founding values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Their current strategic initiatives include: – Death of environmentalism : a criticism of current environmentalism movement. – New Apollo project: a call to create 3 million clean energy jobs – King on the $20 : a request to put the picture of Martin Luther King on $20 US bill
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)is the nation’s foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work. Council membership has grown to over 4000 leading organizations. Developed by the USGBC membership, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System is a national consensus-based, market-driven building rating system designed to accelerate the development and implementation of green building practices. In short, it is a leading-edge system for designing, constructing and certifying the world’s greenest and best buildings.
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