Sustainable Living & Simple Living Resources

Energy Muse Jewelry

The world's most recognized conscious lifestyle jewelry available. Handmade crystal and gemstone jewelry with healing properties for love, health, prosperity, luck, and empowerment. View our glossary of crystal meanings, and our celebrity section showing who's wearing us. Embraced by athletes and celebrities, our pieces are worn by Sting, Heidi Klum, Britney Spears and many more.

The Sierra Club - Explore, Enjoy and Protect the Planet

Environmental quality and quality of life go hand in hand. Whether it's fashion or finance, transportation or trash recycling, you'll find regular updates and ideas for integrating style and sustainability on The Green Life, where the best things in life are green. The Sierra Club's members are more than 750,000 of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, we work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. Our influence and effectiveness is dependent upon our members, donors, and benefactors, so give us avisit today.

Gaiam - A Cultural Creative, Green Living Lifestyle Company

Gaiam is a lifestyle company, as well as a leading source for products relating to health, wellness, fitness, yoga and other natural living materials. Gaiam's goal is to become the trusted source and unifying brand for Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) participants. We partner with experts in health and wellness, eco-living and personal development to create products that meet our customers needs with meaningful solutions.

Ideal Bite: Green Living Tips Made Fun and Easy

Ideal Bite: Your place for green living tips made fun and easy, green consumer, organic foods, organic living, eco-friendly, ecologically sustainable lifestyle website. Make your voice heard, join our newsletter. The concept behind Ideal Bite is an easy one - if we all knew what to do in our day-to-day lives to help impact the planet and our communities positively and painlessly (and without preachiness), we would all do it. We promise to entertain and educate you on easy ways to be greener (that is, environmentally and socially conscious) and give you fantastic deals on the best green products and services. Join Ideal Bite, and receive free daily email tips showing how you can easily align your daily decisions with your personal values.

True Majority

TrueMajority was founded by Ben Cohen, Co-founder, Ben and Jerry’s. It is a grassroots education and advocacy project of Priorities, Inc., a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-deductible, 501(c)(3) corporation.

Praxis Peace Institute

Praxis Peace Institute is a non-profit, peace-education organization dedicated to radical inquiry, deep dialogue, creative problem solving, and informed action. Praxis Peace Institute is dedicated to building coalitions with like-minded organizations, sharing research information, and cooperatively forging sustainable and respectful civil societies.

Good Samaritan Mission

Child Help Agency is an organization that has been working with children for over 30 years. With over 3,000 children sponsored, we are the largest child sponsorship organization who works with children in Central America.

Campaign for America's Future - Institute for America's Future

Over 100 Prominent Americans — citizen activists and policy experts concerned about our country and our planet — joined together to launch and build the Campaign for America's Future. We are challenging the big money corporate agenda by encouraging Americans to speak up — to discuss and debate a new vision of an economy and a future that works for all of us. America's Future insists that the question of falling wages and rising insecurity be placed at the center of our national debate. We challenge those who suggest that nothing can be done and expose the conservative agenda that has made things worse. America's Future works to revitalize a progressive agenda, and fights to make this economy work for working people once again. We engage citizens, activists and political leaders in a renewed debate about the kind of country — and the kind of world — we want to build for the generations yet to come.

Diesel Secret Energy - Make Your Own Fuel

Diesel Secret has developed a revolutionary method for producing an inexpensive, high performance fuel that can power ANY DIESEL ENGINE and the cost to you is only 46¢ per gallon! You have NOT heard of this before. This is an entirely new way in America to make your own fuel from vegetable oil that takes only minutes. Become fuel independent and have more money for the good things in life.

Green Nest

Is your home or office making you sick? Green Nest sells healthy home products to assist in creating non-toxic home or office environments. Products include: air purifiers, water filters, organic bedding and baby goods, healthy building materials and more! It's fast, easy and secure. Click here to see products and information to help you create a healthy home now!

SustainableBusiness.com: Business, Environment, Clean & Green Technologies

The center for green (clean) business and environmental technologies. Economy, news, resources, insight and inspiration to accelerate momentum toward a green economy. Sections include Green Dream Jobs, Events, Stocks, Sustainable Business news, Business Connections, Sustainable Business Insider magazine, Sustainable Business Week In Review newsletter, Progressive Investor newsletter, Resource Directory for Sustainable Business. What is our vision? A world where human activities live in harmony with earth's carrying capacity. What is the definition of Sustainable Business? Business that contributes to an equitable and ecologically sustainable economy. How does a business do this? Sustainable businesses offer products and services that fulfill society's needs while contributing to the well-being of all earth's inhabitants. To us, sustainable businesses are companies that unabashedly embrace the goal of enhancing life on earth as an integral part of their business strategy. These companies show exceptional leadership by their explicit commitment - and the significant resources they allocate to back it up - to address the ecological crisis as it relates to their industry.

Planet-Era Action Inc.

Planet-Era is a non-profit technology transfer institute dedicated to innovation and public education in sustainable development and self-sufficiency. We are actively engaged in research and experimental development of cost-effective energy efficiency for homes, businesses, and farms. Planet-Era develops affordable solutions, sustainable technologies, and alternative practices in construction, including use of unconventional materials and methods. Our motto is "Keep It Simple and Save (KISS)." We practice a never-ending quest for excellence in the design and use of appropriate technologies.

Professors World Peace Academy

The Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) is a tax-exempt non-profit educational organization founded to support the academic community's role in the pursuit of world peace. PWPA publishes books, publishes the International Journal on World Peace, organizes conferences, and is forming a world university network. It was founded in 1973 and presently has chapters in over 100 countries.

Project Angel Food: "Earn Your Wings"

Project Angel Food's mission is to provide wholesome meals and nutritional counseling to men, women and children disabled by HIV/AIDS. We have never turned away a person in need nor have we had a waiting list. Our commitment can be directly attributed to the generous support of caring people like you! Donations from individuals account for over 70% of Project Angel Food's operating revenue.

Rainharvesting Systems - water conservation, recycling and reuse

Rainharvesting Systems Ltd is the UK leader in rainwater harvesting systems. We have been supplying equipment since 1994 and we have more installed systems than any one else in the country. We are the sole UK distributor for WISY AG, the market leading manufacturer of rainwater harvesting filters. We have designed rainwater harvesting systems for all types of buildings from garden sheds and houses to office buildings, industrial units, schools, garden centres and even environmentally friendly toilet blocks. We supply all the components you require in order to build a reliable rainwater harvesting system and have the design experience to ensure you get the right capacity system for your needs.

Rainwater Harvesting - Solution to water crisis - Technology and Systems

CSE is a public interest research and advocacy organisation which promotes environmentally sound and equitable development strategies. A campaign for participatory, equitable and decentralised paradigm for water management with the objective of making water everybody’s business. "The Real Green Revolution is about rainwater harvesting. Let us catch water where it falls. Let it transform human lives. Let it change social existence. If this happens, the world will be transformed. The world will merely be an agglomeration of ecological-rainwater harvesting-democracies." Anil Agarwal -Founder-Director, CSE.

Real Diaper Association

Cloth Diapers are Real Diapers. The Real Diaper Association organizes local advocates and activists for cloth diapers through a member-supported non-profit resource center which plans campaigns, trains organizers, distributes educational information, and supports local Real Diaper Circles.

Real Goods - Products For An Ecologically Sustainable Future

Shopping for a healthy home & planet - energy efficiency, non-toxic & environmental products for sustainable living, organic apparel & educational solar gifts - since 1978.

Religious Tolerance - An Agency Promoting Religious Tolerance, Freedom, and Understanding

This is a large religious web site which promotes religious freedom, tolerance and diversity as positive cultural values. The site contains over 2,500 essays and menus. But it is very different from almost all other religious sites: We do not promote our own religious beliefs. We can't because we are a multi-faith group. We try to explain the full range of religious belief in North America, from Asatru to Christianity to Zoroastrianism. We report on controversial religious topics, from abortion access to equal rights and protections for homosexuals and bisexuals including same-sex marriage (our most popular topic). We try to explain all sides to each topic fairly and objectively. You will find much in this site that you will agree with, and much to disagree with. Enjoy!

Rocky Mountain Institute

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of natural, human and other capital to make the world more secure, just, prosperous, and life sustaining. RMI does this by inspiring business, civil society, and government to design integrative solutions that create true wealth. Our staff shows businesses, communities, individuals, and governments how to create more wealth and employment, protect and enhance natural and human capital, increase profit and competitive advantage, and enjoy many other benefits—largely by doing what they do far more efficiently. Our work is independent, nonadversarial, and transideological, with a strong emphasis on market-based solutions.

The Role of Education in a System of Care: Effectively Serving Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders

Schools provide a logical setting for early identification of children at risk for serious emotional disturbance and for effective provision of services. In light of this, SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center offers this study that examines the efforts, experiences, and outcomes for three sites that have overcome the challenges to creating a comprehensive, school-based system of care. Some of the promising strategies identified by this study include persistent collaboration with families, both child- and family-driven assessments, planning and monitoring of all interventions, ongoing staff development, and a comprehensive and seamless system of care that provides appropriate, culturally competent child- and family-centered services. While this study focuses on urban settings, all schools can benefit from the insight shared in this report.

Serenbe Community - A 900 Acre Sustainable Living Community

Let's say you could create the perfect place to live. Blank slate. Anything you want. Maybe Serenbe Community is the place you want to call home. A 900 -acre sustainable living community found in Palmetto Georgia on the Chattahoochee Hill Country. Where the principles of sustainability touched everything from your home’s methods of construction to the organic produce on your table that was grown by one of your neighbors. The founders of Serenbe realize that their largely untouched 900 acres presented a short window of opportunity for creating a community in a new and better way. How? By protecting this land from the typical growth patterns of urban sprawl. By merging ecologically sound sustainability principles with the design philosophies of walking neighborhoods made up of both homes and shops. By building villages and hamlets for single people, families and empty nesters of a wide range of economic and cultural diversity. And by creating real community, where people are drawn together over gardening, over cooking, over books, over art, over ideas, and yes, even over back fences.

SkyJuice - Rainwater Harvesting

SkyJuice is a New England based company dedicated to helping you become less dependent on public or private well-water systems. SkyJuice New England offers systems ranging from one rain barrel to much larger cisterns suitable for homes, gardens, farms, or businesses. We also offer low-flow drip irrigation systems, which use approximately 50% less water than other conventional watering methods. With the scarcity of water becoming a major national and world issue, SkyJuice offers affordable products helping you become part of the global water solution instead of being part of the problem.

Small Is Profitable

Small Is Profitable describes 207 ways in which the size of "electrical resources"-devices that make, save, or store electricity-affects their economic value. It finds that properly considering the economic benefits of "distributed" (decentralized) electrical resources typically raises their value by a large factor, often approximately tenfold, by improving system planning, utility construction and operation, and service quality, and by avoiding societal costs. Small Is Profitable introduces engineering and financial practitioners, business managers and strategists, public policymakers, designers, and interested citizens to the new value opportunities presented by considering these economic benefits. It also provides a basic introduction to key concepts from such disciplines as electrical engineering, power system planning, and financial economics.

Smart Communities Network

The Smart Communities Network helps communities design and implement innovative strategies that enhance the local economy as well as the local environment and quality of life. Created by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the new Center of Excellence's mission is to provide communities with world-class consultation on sustainable development and to help them link to the other public and private programs that can help them develop sustainability.

Smart Growth Network

This nonprofit organization that helps created national and local coalitions to promote economic, social, and environmental development in communities. This site contains primers on alternatives to sprawl and a smart growth bibliography and policy database.

Smilechild - for fun, freedom and the future

Online shopping for the planet-conscious parent. Smilechild offers a full range of fair-trade and organic clothes, wooden toys, natural toiletries, eco-nappies and more. Founded in 2000 this family run business has dedicated itself to bringing the best for mother, baby and the environment to your door. An exciting new site for anyone with kids, offering shopping, information and discussion.