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Table of Contents

1. Associations and Non-Profit Organizations
2. Building Codes and Standards
3. Case Studies
4. Campus Initiatives
5. Commissioning and Post-Occupancy Evaluation
6. Design and Simulation Tools
7. Design Resources
8. Economics
9. Energy
10. Funding
11. Government Initiatives & Guidelines
12. Life Cycle Analysis and Costing
13. Media
14. Rating Systems
15. Research Centers
16. Sustainability/Miscellaneous

Associations and Non-Profit Organizations

• American Indoor Air Quality Council
• American Solar Energy Society
• Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR)
• Building Concerns
• Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)
• Climate Action Network (CAN)
• Congress for the New Urbanism
• Construction Materials Recycling Association
• Development Center for Appropriate Technology
• Ecological Design Institute (EDI)
• Environmental Defense
• Florida Green Building Coalition
• Global Environmental Options (GEO)
• Global Green USA
• Green Building Information Council (GBIC), Canada
• Green Round Table: Sustainable Architecture and Design
• Green Pages (Canada)
• Healthy House Institute (HHI)
• 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)
• Second Nature
• Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS)
• Sustainable Buildings Industry Council (SBIC)
• Sustainable Energy Coalition
• Urban Ecology
• Wisconsin Green Building Alliance (WGBA)
• World Green Building Council

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Building Codes and Standards

• 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
• International Code Council
• Internat ional Organization for Standardization
• U.S. DOE BTS - Codes and Standards program

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Building Materials Guides and Certification

• Advanced Buildings
• Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES 2.0)
• Casey and Amber's Sustainable Building Materials
• Center for Resourceful Building Technology
• CIWMB Review of Projects Using Sustainable Materials
• 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
• Green Building Databases & Design Resources
• Green Seal
• oikos - Green Building Source
• Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing
• Sustainable Design Resource Guid
• Sustainable Products Corporation
• Used Building Materials Association (UBMA)
• U.S. EPA Environmentally Preferable Purchasing

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Product Certification and Testing

• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
• Certified Forest Products Council
• Forest Stewardship Council (in U.S., with international links)
• Green Seal

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Case Studies

• 4 Times Square (Conde Nast Building)
• 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
• BTS House of Straw
• Civan o - 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
• Ecovillage
• enCompass - map of recycled-content buildings
• GreenHOME
• Green Building Alliance - Pittsburgh case studies
• 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
• Pennsyl vania Cambria Office - Department of Environmental Protection
• Pennsylvan ia DEP case study research
• PennsylvaniaR 17;s First Green Building: DEPs 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
• Takenak a Corporation - Environmentally Responsible Projects
• Ten Shades of Green
• Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco
• UNEP International Environmental Center
• U.S. DOE - CESD's Green Building Success Stories (compilation)
• U.S. EPA - Leading by Example (EPA buildings)
• Village Homes - a green-built community in Davis, CA
• Vital Signs Case Studies
• William McDonough + Partners
• Zion Canyon Visitor and Transportation Center, NREL

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Campus Initiatives

• Blueprint for a Green Campus
• Brown is Green
• CSU, Monterey Bay and Greening of the Campus
• Environmental Education and Campus Greening
• FGCU Green Building Project
• Florida A&M University and Guidelines & Principles for Sustainable Community Design
• Green Campus Design Saving 60% on Energy [CSIRO]
• Middlebury College Guiding Principles
• Sustainable Development on Campus [IISD]
• University of British Columbia
• University of California - Berkeley, Green Design/Sustainable Architecture Information Sources
• University of Michigan, Sustainable Architecture
• University of Vermont - Building a Green Campus
• University of Washington and Facility Design Information Manual

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Commissioning and Post-Occupancy Evaluation

• Portland Energy Conservation Inc. - Commissioning Resources
• Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Higher Education Teaching Spaces - A Methodological Approach
• The Power of POE (Facilities Design & Management article)

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Design and Simulation Tools

• Building Energy Simulation Tools
• Energy Design Tools
• Environmental Support Solutions
• EQUER (France)
• Green Building Advisor
• Green Buildings [Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development]
• International Association for Impact Assessments (IAIA)
• U.S. DOE Building Energy Software: Tools Directory

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Design Resources

• Alternative Architecture and Sustainable Development
• Architecture and Building
• Architectur e and Community
• Earthship Architecture
• Environ mental Design and Sustainability
• Environmental Resource Guide - American Institute of Architects
• Green Building Primer
• greendesign.net - Green Building Resource Center
• 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
• Susta inable Architecture Resource
• Sustainable Building Resource
• Sustainable Building Sourcebook
• Sustainable Design Resource Guide - Denver AIA COTE

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Economics

• Green Economics Website
• Natural Capitalism

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Energy

• Alliance to Save Energy
• Renewable Energy Policy Project
• State Energy Offices (U.S.)
• Sustainable Energy Coalition
• U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN)
• 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

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Funding

• Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development - funding sources
• Funding Green Buildings
• Kresge Foundation
• State Energy Offices (U.S.)

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Government Initiatives & Guidelines

National/International Government

• Federal Energy Management Program - Greening Initiatives/Tools
• Federal Greening Toolkit
• Greening Federal FacilitiesNational Renewable Energy Laboratory
• OECD Project on Sustainable Buildings
• U.S. Air Force Environmentally Responsible Facilities Guide
• U.S. Air Force and Green Base of the Future
• U.S. DOE Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
• U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN)
• U.S. DOE and U.S. EPA -- Energy Star program
• U.S. DOE High Performance Commercial Buildings: A Technology Roadmap
• U.S. DOE Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs
• 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

State/Provincial Government

• British Columbia Buildings Corporation-Green Buildings BC
• California High Performance Schools (CHPS)
• Florida Sustainable Communities and e-design
• Maryland Green Building Program
• Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide
• New Jersey Clean Energy Program - design support incentive
• New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA)
• Oregon Housing and Community Services
• Pennsylvania Buildings - Governor's Green Government Council
  

Local Government

• Alameda County, CA, Waste Authority - Green Building programs
• Austin, TX, Green Building Program
• Battery Park City Authority, NYC - High-Rise Residential Green Guidelines
• Boulder, Colorado - Green Points Program
• Cambridge Sustainable City
• Hennepin County, MN - Sustainable Design Guide and Rating System
• ICMA - Green Building Goes Local (article)
• Issaquah, WA - Sustainable Building
• King County, WA - Encompass
• King County, WA - Sustainable Building program
• Los Angeles, CA - Green Building Guidelines
• Miami-Dade County, FL - Green Coalition
• New York City High Performance Building Guidelines
• Philadelphia, PA and 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
• S eattle City Light - Built Smart program
• Seattle Sustainable Building
• Triangle J Council of Governments - High Performance Building Guidelines
• Washington, DC - Metropolitan DC Council of Governments

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Life Cycle Analysis and Costing

• ATHENA Sustainable Materials Institute
• BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) [NIST]
• Buildings and Life-Cycle Costing [Canadian Building Digest]
• Comparing the Environmental Effects of Building Systems [Canadian Wood Council]
• Eco-Quantum (Netherlands)
• ENVEST (environmental impact estimating design software) [UK BRE]
• Life Cycle Analysis for Residential Buildings [Canadian Wood Council]
• Life Cycle Costing and Stainless Steel - ASSDA
• LISA (LCA in Sustainable Architecture)

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Media

• Environmental Building News
• Environmental Design + Construction Magazine
• Environmental News Network

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Rating Systems

• Austin, Texas, Green Building Program
• Bepac and British Columbia
• Breeam and UK
• British Columbia University and Facilities Branch Environmental Guidelines
• Built Green Colorado
• EarthCraft HouseTM
• Scottsdale, Arizona, Green Building Program
• U.S. Green Building Council and LEEDTM

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Research Centers

• Carnegie Mellon University Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics
• Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development (CESD), USDOE
• Center for Resourceful Building Technology (CRBT)
• Center for Sustainable Systems - Environmental Energy Technologies Division
• FICUS-Florida Internet Center for Understanding Sustainability
• Green Resource Center, Berkeley
• Hong Kong University - Building Energy Efficiency Research
• 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
• Sustainability Research Profiles [Second Nature]
• The Vital Signs Project

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Sustainability/Miscellaneous

Agenda 21

• Agenda 21 and other UNCED agreements
• Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development
• Agenda 21 - National Information

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Ecosystem

• Ecosystem Valuation
• Revisiting Carrying Capacity: Area-Based Indicators of Sustainability
• What is an Ecological Footprint?

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Sustainability

• Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
• Consulting the Public Interest
• Ecosustainable - Sustainable Environment
• Environment & Sustainable Living
• The Florida Center for Understanding Sustainability
• Indicators of Sustainability Training Course
• 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
• Sources of Sustainability
• Sustainable Development Gateway
• Sustainable Energy Authority of Victoria, Australia
• Sustainable USA
• The Sustainability ReportTowards Sustainability
• United Nations Environment Programme
• United Nations Sustainable Development Programme
• U.S. House of Representatives' Livable Community Task Force
• Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

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Urban Sustainability

• Congress for the New Urbanism
• European Union's Database on Good Practice in Urban Management and Sustainability
• 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
• SURBAN (database on sustainable urban development in Europe)
• Sustainable Urban Design and Climate
• Urban Ecology Australia

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