Table of Contents
Executive
Order 12803 - Infrastructure Privatization
Sustainable
System Engineering Blog
Sustainable System Engineering Links
Interesting Companies
Associations and Non-Profit Organizations
Building Codes and Standards
Building Materials, Guides and Certification
Case Studies
Campus Initiatives
Commissioning and Post-Occupancy Evaluation
Design and Simulation Tools
Design Resources
Economics
Energy
Funding
Government Initiatives & Guidelines
Life Cycle Analysis and Costing
Media
Rating Systems
Research Centers
Sustainability/Miscellaneous
Sustainable System Engineering Links
INCOSE
IEER - Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free Aug
2007
SCIAM - Energy’s Future Beyond Carbon
Sept 2006
Economist - The power and the glory issue
of June 21st 2008
Sustainable Development Possible with Creative
System Engineering
U.S. Climate Change Technology
Program
National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL)
84
ways you can help the planet
Calculate your
personal Ecological Footprint
Natural Capitalism
The Hannover
Principles
The Natural Edge
Project
The
Sanborn Principles
UNESCO Int’l
Year of Planet Earth
NASA PICKS HUGHES AIRCRAFT FOR SATELLITE DATA BASE
Released: September 30, 1992
National Aeronautics and Space Administration selected the Hughes Aircraft
Company to build a computer data base containing all information known to
scientists about the earth. TRW was the other company considered. The 10-year
contract will build a data and information system for the Earth Orbiting
System. The program, which will collect environmental data from satellites,
is expected to cost NASA about $3 billion, according to a General Accounting
Office report.
The company's proposed cost of the project is $685 million, but the final
value of the contract will be determined after payment negotiations begin
in January. The data base will be used in part to determine public policy
decisions affecting the ecology of the earth, like global warming trends,
the company said.
Next Energy News
Solar
in Germany
NJ Local Links
Atlantic County Utilities Authority
New Jersey Community Water
Watch
Stockton
Environmental Forum
PA Local Links
GreenPlan Philadelphia
Philadelphia Going Green
PennFuture
Next Great City Philadelphia
Delaware Valley Green Building Council
Pennsylvania Environmental Council
Sustainable
Philadelphia
Institute for Environmental
Studies
Tools
Policy Document
Analysis
General Document Analysis
Legislative Document Analysis
Constitutional Analysis
UK
Forum For The
Future
Sustainable Development
Commission
USA
An Inconvenient
Truth
Climate Change Technology
Program
ORG
Earth Policy
Institute
United Nations Environment Programme
UNEP
Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment MA
Alliance to Save Energy
Other
Think
Tanks
USA FFRDC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change IPCC
Howard Hughes
UNLV
Digital Libraries
Hughes
Aircraft Remembered (April 2005 issue of SatMagazine.com)
Hughes
Aircraft's Widespread Deployment of a Continuously Improving Software
Process
This report describes the software improvement activities of Hughes Aircraft
Company over the last 25 years. The focus is on continuous improvement of
the software development process and the deployment of that process from
a single organization at Fullerton, California, to virtually all the 5000
software engineers of Hughes Aircraft. For this achievement, the widespread
deployment of a continuously improving software process, Hughes Aircraft
was awarded the 1997 IEEE Computer Society Software Process Achievement Award.
PDF
www.firstsolar.com
www.rangefuels.com
www.passivhaus.org.uk
www.biocharengineering.com
Associations and Non-Profit Organizations
American Indoor Air Quality
Council
American
Institute of Architecture Committee on the Environment (COTE)
American Planning
Association
American Solar Energy
Society
Architects, Designers and Planners
for Social Responsibility (ADPSR)
Better
Bricks (productivity)
Boston Area Solar Energy
Association
Boston Building
Materials Co-op (BBMC)
Boston
Building Materials Resource Center (BMRC)
Building
Concerns
Business for Social Responsibility
(BSR)
Canada Green Building
Council
Climate Action Network
(CAN)
Climate Healers
Community Greenhouse
Foundation
Congress for the New
Urbanism
Construction Materials
Recycling Association
Development Center for Appropriate
Technology
Education
Design Showcase
Ecological Design Institute
(EDI)
Environmental
Defense
Florida Green
Building Coalition
Global Environmental Options
(GEO)
Global Green USA
Green Building Alliance
(Pittsburgh)
Green Building Council
Australia
Green Building Council
Korea
Green Building Information
Council (GBIC), Canada
Green Round Table:
Sustainable Architecture and Design
Green Pages
(Canada)
Healthy House Institute
(HHI)
Metropolitan Partnership for
Energy
Mexico Green Building
Council
National Association of State
Energy Officials (NASEO)
National Environmental
Trust
National
Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education (NPPC)
Natural Resources Defense
Council
Natural Step (US)
New Urban Guild
North East Sustainble Energy
Association- NESEA
NW Energy Efficiency
Alliance
Second Nature
Society of Building Science
Educators
Soil and Water Conservation
Society (SWCS)
Solar Living
Institute
Sustainable Buildings
Industry Council (SBIC)
Sustainable
Energy Coalition
Urban Ecology
Used Building Materials Association
(UBMA)
Wisconsin Green Building Alliance
(WGBA)
World Green Building
Council
Codes and Standards
American Society of Heating,
Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
American Society for Testing
and Materials (ASTM)
Building Codes Assistance
Project
Center
of Excellence for Sustainable Development - codes compilation
Development
Center for Appropriate Technology - codes
GreenSpec
International Code
Council
International
Organization for Standardization
U.S.
DOE BTS - Codes and Standards program
Materials Guides and Certification
Advanced
Buildings
Building Materials
Resource Center
Building
for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES 2.0)
Certified Forest Products
Council
Center for Resourceful Building
Technology
CIWMB Recycled Content
Product Database
Concrete
Network
Construction Materials
Recycling Association
EnCompass
- Map of Recycled Content Buildings
Environmental Design +
Construction magazine
Environmental Resource Guide - American Institute of
Architects
Find Green
Forest World - Sustainable
Forest Products Resource
Good to be Green
GreenGuard (interior
products emissions testing)
Green
Building Databases & Design Resources
Green Building
Pages, Inc.
Greenroofs.com
Green Sage
Green Seal
GreenSpec, from Environmental
Building News
NY
Wa$teMatch Materials Exchange: Building Materials Reuse Calculator
oikos - Green Building
Source
Partnership for Advancing
Technology in Housing
Sustainable Design Resource
Guide
Sustainable Products
Corporation
Used Building Materials Association
(UBMA)
U.S. EPA Environmentally
Preferable Purchasing
Product Certification and Testing
American Society for
Testing and Materials (ASTM)
Certified Forest Products
Council
Forest Stewardship Council (in
U.S., with international links)
GreenGuard
Green Seal
Scientific Certification
Systems
901 Cherry in San Bruno, California
Adam J. Lewis
Center for Environmental Studies
AIA COTE 2001
Top Ten Green Projects
Audubon House: Building for an environmental future
Bachelor Enlistied Quarters, Great Lakes Naval Training
Center
Barney-Davis
Green Renovation - Denison University
Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED)
Better
Bricks (productivity)
Big Horn Home Improvement Center - Silverthorne, CO
BRE
Environmental Building at Garston
BTS House of
Straw
Civano
- Tucson, AZ
CIWMB
case studies
C. K. Choi Building, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia,
Canada
Cobb Hill Cohousing -
Vermont
Daylighting and Productivity
Study by Heschong Mahone Group
Desert
House, Phoenix, Arizona
Earth
General
Earthship
Ecology
House - evaluation report
Ecovillage
Energy
& Environmental Building Association - success stories
enCompass
- map of recycled-content buildings
GreenHOME
Green Building Alliance -
Pittsburgh case studies
The Greening of the White House
Innovative
Design Inc. - daylighting in schools
International
Case Study compilation - Hong Kong University Architecture
King County, WA - Sustainable Building program case
studies
MIT Building Technology - Sustainable Urban Housing in China
NESEA - Northeast
Green Building Awards
NEXT
21 (Osaka Gas Experimental Housing)
Northland
College - McLean Environmental Living and Learning Center
NREL
High Performance Buildings Research Projects
OIKOS case study
compilation
Pennsylvania Cable and
Telecommunications Association
Pennsylvania Cambria Office - Department of Environmental
Protection
Pennsylvania’s First Green Building: DEP’s Southcentral
Regional Office Building
Property2us
article: High Rise Apartment Building in Battery Park City
Research
Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) office
Rocky Mountain
Institute - Green Development Case Studies
San Diego Environmental Services' Ridgehaven building
Smart Growth Network
- eco-industrial parks and other case studies
Takenaka
Corporation - University buildings
Ten Shades of
Green
Thoreau Center
for Sustainability, San Francisco
UNEP
International Environmental Center
The Universal Design Living Laboratory
U.S.
DOE - CESD's Green Building Success Stories (compilation)
U.S.
EPA - Leading by Example (EPA buildings)
Vital
Signs Case Studies
William
McDonough + Partners Projects
Zion
Canyon Visitor and Transportation Center, NREL
Arizona State University
Ball
State University
Blueprint
for a Green Campus
Bowdoin
College
Brown
is Green
California
Polytechnic State University
Carnegie Mellon University
Clemson University
Connecticut
College
CSU,
Monterey Bay – Greening of the Campus
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Emory
University
Environmental
Education and Campus Greening
FGCU
Green Building Project
Georgia
Institute of Technology
Harvard Green
Campus Issues
Lewis and Clark
College
Massachusettes
Institute of Technology
Michigan Technological
University’s Sustainable Futures Institute
Middlebury
College – Guiding Principles
Northwestern University
Omaha Metropolitan
Community College
Pitzer College
Pomona
College
Princeton
University
Purdue University
Santa Clara
University
State
University of New York (SUNY)
Sustainable Development
on Campus [IISD]
Univerity at Buffalo
- Green Office
University
of California - Berkeley, Green Design/Sustainable Architecture Information
Sources
University
of Cincinnati
University
of Florida
University
of Oregon
University of Michigan
University
of South Carolina
University
of Vermont - Building a Green Campus
University of Washington
– Facility Design Information Manual
Commissioning and Post-Occupancy Evaluation
Portland Energy Conservation
Inc. - Commissioning Resources
Post Occupancy
Evaluation
Design and Simulation Tools
Building Design
Advisor
Building Energy Simulation Tools
Energy
Design Tools
Environmental Support
Solutions
EQUER
(France)
Green Building
Advisor
Green Buildings [Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development]
Interactive
Tools Survey [University of Weimar, Germany]
International Association for
Impact Assessments (IAIA)
Introduction
to OTTV and Simulation Tools
U.S.
DOE Building Energy Software: Tools Directory
Whole Building Design
Guide
Architecture
and Building
Earthship
Architecture
EBN
Environmental Resource
Guide - American Institute of Architects
Environmental Sustainable Architecture
Field
Guide to Sustainable Construction
Green Building Pages,
Inc.
Green Building
Primer
Green
Design Sustainable Architecture
The
Hannover Principles
LISA (LCA in Sustainable
Architecture)
Natural Ventilation - A strategy for sustainability
[MIT]
Sustainable Architecture
Sustainable Architecture
Building and Culture
Sustainable
Architecture Resource
Sustainable Building
Resource
Sustainable
Building Sourcebook
Sustainable
Design Resource Guide - Denver AIA COTE
Green Economics
Institute
Natural Capitalism
Alliance to Save Energy
Better Bricks
(productivity)
Center for Renewable Energy
& Sustainable Technology (CREST)
The Energy
Foundation
State Energy Offices
(U.S.)
Sustainable Energy
Coalition
U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy (EERE)
U.S. DOE and U.S. EPA
-- Energy Star program
U.S. Department
of Energy Library
U.S. Department
of Energy - EnergyFiles
U.S. National Energy
Policy
U.S. National Renewable Energy
Laboratory
World Bank energy
projects
Bridgemer: Funding and
Investing in Green
Buildings
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development - funding
sources
Funding Green
Buildings
Kresge
Foundation
State Energy Offices
(U.S.)
Tax Incentives
Assistance Project (TIAP)
Government Initiatives & Guidelines
National/International Government
Federal Energy
Management Program - Greening Initiatives/Tools
Federal Greening
Toolkit
Field
Guide to Sustainable Construction
Greening
Federal Facilities
National Renewable Energy
Laboratory
OECD Project on Sustainable Buildings
U.S.
Air Force Environmentally Responsible Facilities Guide
U.S.
Air Force – Green Base of the Future
U.S. DOE Center of
Excellence for Sustainable Development
U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy (EERE)
U.S. DOE and U.S. EPA
-- Energy Star program
U.S.
DOE High Performance Commercial Buildings: A Technology Roadmap
U.S. DOE Low Life-Cycle-Cost
Air Conditioner Program
U.S. DOE Office
of Building Technology, State and Community Programs
U.S. DOE Rebuild America
- Schools and Commercial Buildings
U.S. EPA’s
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP)
U.S. GSA Sustainable Design and LEED
U.S. GSA - Great Lakes Region - Build Green
U.S.
National Park Service - Guiding Principles of Sustainable Design
U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command - design policy
Whole Building Design Guide
State/Provincial Government
British Columbia
Buildings Corporation-Green Buildings BC
California
Integrated Waste Management Board - Green Building Program
California High Performance
Schools (CHPS)
Maryland
Green Building Program
Minnesota
Sustainable Design Guide
New Jersey Clean Energy
Program - design support incentive
New York State
Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA)
New
York State Green Building Tax Incentive Initiative
Oregon Office of
Energy
Oregon Housing and Community Services
Pennsylvania
Buildings - Governor's Green Government Council
Local Government
Alameda County,
CA, Waste Authority - Green Building programs
Arlington
County, VA - Green Building Incentive
Austin, TX, Green Building Program
Battery
Park City Authority, NYC - High-Rise Residential Green Guidelines
Boulder, Colorado - Green Points Program
Cambridge Sustainable City
Coconino County, Arizona -
Sustainable Economic Development Initiative
Hennepin
County, MN - Sustainable Design Guide and Rating System
ICMA - Green Building Goes Local (article)
Issaquah,
WA - Sustainable Building
King
County, WA - Green Building Program
Kitsap County,
WA - Build a Better Kitsap
Los
Angeles, CA - Green Building Guidelines
Miami-Dade
County, FL - Green Coalition
New York City High Performance Building Guidelines
Oakland, CA
- Green Building Resource Center
Philadelphia, PA – Schools: Save Energy Campaign
Portland, OR - Green
Rated
Portland, OR
- Office of Sustainable Development
San
Francisco, CA - Green Building Program
San
Jose, CA - Green Building Program
Santa
Barbara, CA - Innovative Building Design initiative
Santa Monica
Green Building Guidelines & Ordinances
Scottsdale,
AZ, Green Building Program
Seattle City Light - Built Smart program
Seattle
Sustainable Building
Triangle
J Council of Governments - High Performance Building Guidelines
Washington,
DC - Metropolitan DC Council of Governments
Life Cycle Analysis and Costing
Activity-Based
Management
ATHENA Sustainable Materials
Institute
BEES
(Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) [NIST]
BuildingGreen.com
Buildings
and Life-Cycle Costing [Canadian Building Digest]
Carnegie Mellon
– Green Design Initiative (GDI)
Comparing
the Environmental Effects of Building Systems [Canadian Wood Council]
Eco-Quantum
(Netherlands)
ENVEST (environmental
impact estimating design software) [UK BRE]
LCAid
(Australia)
Life
Cycle Analysis for Residential Buildings [Canadian Wood Council]
Life Cycle Costing and
Stainless Steel - ASSDA
LISA (LCA in Sustainable
Architecture)
Colorado Green
Business
Environmental Building
News
Environmental Design +
Construction Magazine
Environmental News
Network
HGTV
http://www.greenatworkmag.com/
Alameda
County, CA, Multifamily Green Building Guidelines
Austin,
Texas, Green Building Program
Bepac
– British Columbia
Breeam – UK
British Columbia
University – Facilities Branch Environmental Guidelines
Built Green Colorado
EarthCraft HouseTM
Scottsdale,
Arizona, Green Building Program
U.S. Green Building
Council – LEEDTM
Carnegie Mellon University
Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics
Center for Energy Efficiency
& Renewable Technologies (CEERT)
Center of Excellence
for Sustainable Development (CESD), USDOE
Center for Maximum Potential
Building Systems (CMPBS)
Center for Resourceful
Building Technology (CRBT)
Center for Sustainable Systems
- Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Centre for Sustainable
Design
FICUS-Florida Internet
Center for Understanding Sustainability
Green Resource
Center, Berkeley
Hong Kong
University - Building Energy Efficiency Research
Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory-Building Technologies Dept.
Michigan Technological
University’s Sustainable Futures Institute
MIT Building Technology
Group
National Renewable Energy
Laboratory
Oak Ridge National
Laboratory-Buildings Technology Center
Pacific Energy Center
Renewable Resource Data
Center
Rocky Mountain Institute
(RMI)
Sandia
National Laboratories Renewable Energy Office
Simulation Research
Group
Sustainability
Research Profiles [Second Nature]
The
Vital Signs Project
Agenda 21
Agenda 21 and other
UNCED agreements
Agenda
21 and Sustainable Development
Agenda
21 - National Information
ICLEI (Local
Agenda 21 Campaign)
Ecosystem
Complexity
and Connectivity in Ecosystems
Ecosystem
Valuation
Revisiting
Carrying Capacity: Area-Based Indicators of Sustainability
What is an Ecological Footprint?
Sustainability
Applying Sustainable
Development
Center for Renewable Energy
and Sustainable Technology
Consulting the
Public Interest
Ecosustainable
- Sustainable Environment
The Florida Center for
Understanding Sustainability
Global Warming
Articles
Institute of Energy and
Sustainable Design
Interagency Working
Group on Sustainable Development Indicators
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC)
National Centre
for Sustainability (NCFS)
Organisation for Economic
Co-Operation and Development
President's
Council on Sustainable Development (U.S.) - publications
Sustainable Development
Gateway
Sustainable Energy Authority of Victoria, Australia
Sustainable
Measures
Sustainable
USA
The Natural Step
Towards
Sustainability
United Nations Environment
Programme
United Nations Sustainable
Development Programme
U.S. House
of Representatives' Livable Community Task Force
World Bank
Wuppertal Institute
for Climate, Environment and Energy
Urban Sustainability
Congress for the New
Urbanism
Florida Internet Center
for Understanding Sustainability (FICUS)
Global Development Research
Center - Virtual Library on Urban Environmental Management
Green Communities Assistance
Kit
Livable Communities
New Urbanism
Smart Growth
Network
SURBAN (database
on sustainable urban development in Europe)
Sustainable
Urban Design and Climate
Urban Ecology
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