Sustainable Links
Additional Sustainable Links, credit due to the USGBC for assembling this exhaustive, continuously updated resource: www.USGBC.org
Life Cycle Analysis & Costing
- ATHENA Sustainable Materials Institute
- BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) [NIST]
- BuildingGreen.com – Life Cycle Assessment
- California Life Cycle Cost Assessment Model
- ENVEST (environmental impact estimating design software) [UK BRE]
- LCA Center
- Life Cycle Analysis of Wood Products
- LISA (LCA in Sustainable Architecture)
Materials, Guides & Certification
- Advanced Buildings
- Advanced Buildings Core Performance Guide
- American Concrete Institute
- ASHRAE Advanced Energy Design Guides
- ASHRAE GreenGuide
- Building Materials Resource Center
- Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES 2.0)
- CIWMB Recycled Content Product Database
- Concrete Network
- Construction Materials Recycling Association
- Environmental Design + Construction magazine
- Environmental Resource Guide- American Institute of Architects
- Forest World – Sustainable Forest Products Resource
- Good to be Green
- Green2Green
- Green Building Databases & Design Resources
- Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification, Second Edition
- Green Building Products Initiative
- Greenroofs.com
- GreenFormat
- Green Guide for Health Care
- Green Home Guide
- Green Sage
- GreenSpec, from Environmental Building News
- Minnesota Green Affordable Housing Guide
- NY Wa$teMatch Materials Exchange: Building Materials Reuse Calculator
- oikos – Green Building Source
- Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing
- ReGreen
- SpaceMedGuide – A Space Planning Guide for Healthcare Facilities
- Sustainable Design Resource Guide
- Sustainable Products Corporation
- U.S. EPA Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
- Whole Building Design Guide
Media
- Building Design + Construction
- BuildingGreen Suite/Environmental Building News
- Eco-Structure
- Environmental Building News
- Environmental Design + Construction Magazine
- Environmental News Network
- Green@work
- GreenBiz.com
- GreenerBuildings
- GreenSource
- HGTV – Green Building Pages
- Journal of Green Building
Product Certification & Testing
- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
- Forest Certification Resource Center
- Forest Stewardship Council (in U.S., with international links)
- GreenGuard
- Green Seal
- Scientific Certification Systems
Research Centers
- Carnegie Mellon University Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics
- Carnegie Mellon University Green Design Institute
- Center for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Technologies (CEERT)
- Center for Green Roof Research
- Center for the Built Environment – UC Berkeley
- Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (CMPBS)
- Center for Sustainable Building Research
- Centre for Sustainable Design
- Environmental Energy Technologies Division – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- FICUS-Florida Internet Center for Understanding Sustainability
- Green Building Research Center
- Hong Kong University – Building Energy Efficiency Research
- InformeDesign
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory-Building Technologies Dept.
- MIT Building Technology Group
- National Association of Home Builders Research Center
- National Institute of Building Sciences
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory-Buildings Technology Center
- Pacific Energy Center
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Renewable Resource Data Center
- Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
- Rutgers Center for Green Building
- Sandia National Laboratories Renewable Energy Office
- The Vital Signs Project
Residential Resources
- 16 Ways to Green Your Home – US Green Building Council
- Consumer’s Guide to Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
- Fine Homebuilding – Green Building Guide
- Green Building Advisor
- Green Home Guide.com
- Health House
- Healthy Home Brochure – Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
- National Association of Home Builders Research Center
- Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing
- ReGreen
- Residential Energy Services Network
Sustainability/Miscellaneous
Ecosystem
Sustainability
- ClimateBiz.com
- Ecosustainable – Sustainable Environment
- Education for Sustainability Profiles (Second Nature)
- The Florida Center for Understanding Sustainability
- GreenerComputing
- Institute of Energy and Sustainable Design
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- National Centre for Sustainability (NCFS)
- Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
- Redefining Progress – Sustainablity Indicators
- Sustainable Development Gateway
- Sustainable Energy Authority of Victoria, Australia
- Sustainable Measures
- The Natural Step
- Towards Sustainability
- United Nations Environment Programme
- United Nations Sustainable Development Programme
- World Bank
- Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
Urban Sustainability
- Congress for the New Urbanism
- Global Development Research Center – Virtual Library on Urban Environmental Management
- Green Communities Assistance Kit
- Livable Communities
- Smart Growth Network
- SURBAN (database on sustainable urban development in Europe)
- Sustainable Urban Design and Climate
- Urban Ecology Australia
