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Sustainable Building
Adobe Builder — Your portal to Adobe Homes, Rammed Earth, Green Building, Pressed Block, Adobe Houses, and Passive Solar Homes.
Advanced Buildings — technologies and practices
Energy & Environmental Building Association
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network — US Department of Energy information site.
Green Building Information Council
Greenbiz.com — "The resource center on Business, the Environment, and the Bottom Line."
Home Energy Magazine — published by a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide objective and practical information on all aspects of home performance, from residential energy conservation to indoor air quality to building more energy efficient homes.
Joiners' Quarterly — an excellent list of links.
The Last Straw "isn't just a specialty publication; it's the voice of a community."
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Natural Building Resources — an umbrella organization created to disseminate and coordinate information and activities regarding natural building, sustainable architecture, and ecological living.
Residential Construction Contractor's Guide — regulatory issues and best management practices for contractors and designers.
Smart Communities Network — US Department of Energy information on green buildings.
Solar Energy International — Solar Home Design & Natural House Building.
Straw Bale in Canada — Someone who took the time to document building their straw bale house. Makes me half jealous!
Surfin' StrawBale — Big list of straw bale links, annotated more than I could ever do.
Sustainable Architecture, Building and Culture — Sustainable Development and Social Environments.
Sustainable Buildings Industry Council
Sustainable Communities Network — Creating Energy Smart Communities.
Sustainable Development Information Service
YourHomePlanet — Online Resources to Assist in Environmental Building Design.
Renewable Energy
Home Power Magazine — Absolutely the best resource for any and all things renewable energy, especially do-it-yourselfers. Get all the back issues (on CDs even) and read them cover to cover. Very informative web site as well.
REFOCUS — web site of the magazine put out by the International Solar Energy Society
Renewable Energy Policy Project
Solar Power
American Solar Energy Society (ASES) a national organization dedicated to advancing the use of solar energy for the benefit of U.S. citizens and the global environment.
International Solar Energy Society (ISES) The global network for Renewable Energy.
New Mexico Solar Energy Society (NMSEA) dedicated to promoting solar energy and related sustainable practices. NMSEA was one of the first organizations in the country to seek methods and ideas on how to use renewable energy, how small villages could live sustainably, and how to empower people through education about these issues.
Solarbuzz — "Connect to solar energy companies worldwide, search solar energy links by topic, utilize the most informative guide to solar energy on the web, or access our Solarbuzz Services."
Solar Energy International — offers hands-on workshops in solar, wind, and water power and natural building technologies.
Solar Today — Published by ASES. More of a technical "for the trade" magazine rather than hands on, do it yourself thing. Good for keeping up with the industry of renewable energy, including wind, and sustainable building.
US Department of Energy PV Home Page
Vanadium Redox Batteries
Cellennium — a Thai company developing a residential size vrb
Official history — from the University of New South Wales, Australia
VRB Power Systems — a Canadian company doing huge, utility size installations around the world
VAWT Wind Power
Chinook 2000 — A 250 kW Canadian vawt
Eurowind Developments Limited — Developing utility size vawts
McKenzie Bay International Ltd — working on vawt/vrb systems, 75 mW and up.
Ropatec — Italian vawt maker
Solwind — New Zealand vawt maker 3, 5, 10 and 30 kW sizes available. Contact us for more info
WEI windrotor — an obelisk design
Windstar Wind Turbines — 75 kW vawts
Wind Turbine Analysis — with an emphasis on Darrieus' vawt designs
Wind Power
American Wind Energy Association
Danish Wind Industry Association — a huge resource.
European Wind Energy Association
Wind Powering America — discussing small wind turbines.
Wind-Works — web site of Paul Gipe, free-lance author
Distributed Generation
Distributed Generation — "the use of small-scale power generation technologies located close to the load being served."
Latest Distributed Generation News
Energy Conservation
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Energy Efficient Windows Collaborative
Illuminating Engineering Society — Information on energy efficient lighting.
Energy Star — Lists of products meeting energy star guidelines.
Natural Farming
Alternative Farming Systems Information Center — "Specializes in locating and accessing information related to alternative cropping systems including sustainable, organic, low-input, biodynamic, and regenerative agriculture."
Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas — "A leading information source for farmers and Extension agents thinking about sustainable farming practices."
Biogene — "A clearinghouse for information about production without genetic manipulation (GM) - with special focus on alternatives to GM: Organic farming, Organic Seeds, GM-free Food and Feedstuffs."
Biopuglia [Italian] — A project of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy, to promote Apulian organic production.
Cedar Meadow Farm, Pennsylvania — "Steve Groff of Holtwood, Pennsylvania, was honored as the "1999 No-Till Farmer of the Year" for developing and implementing no- till crop production methods on his farm."
Centre for Alternative Agricultural Media — A non-government organization in India working for a farmer friendly communication system.
Cherkady Ramachandra Rao — "Their goals and intentions - fertility of soil and purity of heart - were similar but their ways were different: Fukuoka explored it by experimenting with natural farming and Cherkady achieved it by following Gandhian way."
Eastern Native Seed Conservancy — "endeavors to preserve rare genetic stock and in so doing is able to offer the public a sampling of true rarity."
Ecological Agriculture Projects — Canada’s Leading Resource Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.
Economads — Some interesting articles on Natural Farming, links, and other stuff.
Ecoscape Environmental Design — "Designing dynamic living systems that are ecologically sustainable, mimicking the self-reliance, diversity, and resilience of natural systems."
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — A specific priority of the Organization is encouraging sustainable agriculture and rural development, a long-term strategy for increasing food production and food security while conserving and managing natural resources.
The Future is Abundant — Tantalizing excerpts from the hard to find book by Larry Korn. I'm trying to find affordable copies of this, even trying to get permission to reprint it.
Fukuoka Farming Website — "an outgrowth and extension of The Fukuoka Farming Mailing List. Both were created as a place where people interested Masanobu Fukuoka's revolutionary method of sustainable agriculture can network and share resources."
Ion Exchange - Native Prairie Seed and Plant Nursery — as in Iowa prairie.
The New Farmers' Market — "Books & Online Resources for Farmers & Market Gardeners"
Native American Ethnobotany Database — "Foods, Drugs, Dyes, and Fibers of Native North American Peoples."
Native American Seed — "only those plants that are native to our bioregion." As in "our little 7- acre patch of prairie remnant in Argyle, Texas." But seriously, "native to the Texas-Oklahoma-Louisiana region."
Native Seeds/SEARCH — "works to protect crop biodiversity and to celebrate cultural diversity."
The NEW FARM® — New as of January, 2003. "Farmer-to-Farmer know-how from the Rodale Institute®." A notable absence of Masanobu Fukuoka's work in their book store, articles on Japanese organic farming history, etc. I get the sense™ that this© site is quite corporate®©™€† and No-Till® something they discovered¡¥!. As of February, 2003, any links to contact them resulted in various forms to sign up for their newsletter. I declined.
organicXseeds — Their database lists organic seed and transplants supplied by seed companies from all over Europe.
Permaculture the Earth — "provides the functional connections that link people to people and people to information" — about permaculture, that is.
Plants of the Southwest — Native plant nursery in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Sells wild collected seeds, too.
Rodale's Russia RARC — I include this because the Russian root site may be of interest, and the English Rodale section is so full of non-information and acronyms you wonder why anyone bothered.
Seedman.com — Some very unusual and exotic seeds from around the world.
Seeds of Change — "Our mission is to preserve biodiversity and promote sustainable organic agriculture. We offer many heirloom, traditional, medicinal and original seed varieties."
Sustainable Agriculture Network — "SAN is the communications and outreach arm of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program." And "SARE is a program of USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)." (Have you noticed how acronyms are taking over the world?) This site contains some excellent information on cover crops, and other methods of interest to natural farming.
Synergy Seeds — "Private collection heirloom seeds, strictly organically grown and handcrafted at confluence nature farm (or carefully wildcrafted). We do not buy and resell seed of commercial origin. Our isolated location (approximately 100 miles from commercial agriculture) in mountainous northwest California offers unparalleled purity."
Texas Native Plant and Seed Sources
Tilth Producers — "A membership organization of over 400 Washington growers, Tilth Producers fosters and promotes ecologically sound, sustainable agriculture in the interest of environmental preservation, human health and social equity."
Video: The Close to Nature Garden — Masanobu Fukuoka's ("The One Straw Revolution") unique approach to agricultural problems.
Who Practices Natural Farming Or Uses Seed Balls? Jim Bones' selected links.
Off Grid Life
Just take some time, right now, go outside and watch the world go by for a while — the real world.
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