Sustainable Living & Simple Living Resources

Mia Bella Candles - Cleaner Burning, Stronger Scented Candles

Scentsationaly Delicious Gourmet Candles. The best performing gourmet scented candles you will ever burn! Safe, organic, eco-friendly, non-toxic, cleaner burning stronger scented candles for your home. 95% soot free! No black mess. Better than Yankee candles, you'll LOVE these! Cleaner-burning candles in over 100 Scents. Made with a unique blend of natural vegetable waxes. The perfect gift for UNDER $20. Enter every Monday to win a free jar candle!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) - Investing in Socially Responsible Mutual Funds

SocialFunds.com features over 10,000 pages of information on SRI mutual funds, community investments, corporate research, shareowner actions, and daily social investment news. Learn how to invest with your values and earn competitive returns by ordering a free guide today!

The Solar Harvest Organization - Promoting the Do It Yourself spirit...

The Solar Harvest Organization, solar power information in Montana, alternative energy source, sustainable living. A search of Google will turn-up more than 900 websites featuring Do-It-Yourself. But less than 100 of these are alternative energy and out of those 90+ are trying to sell you something. (Dec. '02) The Harvest is here to help fill the void. We feature articles on what we've done and how it worked out, good or bad. We don't promote anyone's products but we do tell you who steps up to help and who's stuff we've used successfully. And the only thing we'll sell is equipment our members have taken out of service.

Solstice–The Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology

Solstice is the Internet information service of the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST), and is your site for Sustainable Energy and Development Information.

Sustainability 101

At Sustainability101.com you will find an abundant array of sustainability articles, news and resources including renewable energy, green building, permaculture, and more to help you learn about sustainability practices. We affirm the ability to affect positive change on our lives and our planet.

Sustainable Building Coalition

The Sustainable Building Coalition exists to facilitate the organization and education of the building and design community and the general public to foster: healthy and ecologically-sound, built environments, sustainable, cyclic use of resources, responsible and healthy businesses.

Sustainable Ways

Sustainable Ways is dedicated to promoting alternatives that help by fostering a sustainable relationship with the environment. Helping the environment doesn't have to mean making inconvenient, often expensive changes in our lives. Ultimately, it's about finding ways to live that are comfortable, satisfying, and sustainable. A comprehensive resource for people who want to live sustainably. Find out what saving the environment really means, and what you can do to help.

The Suzy Lamplugh Trust

The Suzy Lamplugh Trust is the Leading Authority on Personal Safety. It aims to create a safer society and enable people to live safer lives, providing practical personal safety advice for everyone, everyday, everywhere. The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, a registered charity, is the leading authority on personal safety. Its role is to minimise the damage caused to individuals and to society by aggression in all its forms - physical, verbal and psychological. The Trust works alongside government, the police, the educational establishment, public bodies and the business sector to encourage safety wherever people may be at risk - in the home, at work, in public and in schools and colleges, on public transport and when travelling at home or abroad. As well as being dedicated to improving personal safety for all, whether female or male, young or old, the Trust undertakes a wide range of research, campaigning, training, education and practical support activities to put its aims into practice.

The Time Dollar Institute

A non-profit corporation that creates and sponsors initiatives so that the beneficiaries of social programs can become co-producers of education, justice, self-sufficiency, opportunity, community development, and social change.