Sustainable Living & Simple Living Resources

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.

Trees for Life

Empowers people by demonstrating that in helping each other, we can unleash extraordinary power that impacts our lives. We do this by helping people plant fruit trees in developing countries. Each tree protects the environment and provides a low-cost, self-renewing source of food for a large number of people.

True Food Now!

The True Food Network is a consumer network campaigning to ban genetically engineered foods by providing educational, activist and informational resources to concerned consumers.

The Urban Design Alliance (UDAL)

UDAL is a unique collaboration of leading organisations and professional bodies. It campaigns for and promotes awareness ofhow good urban design can make healthier, more sustainable, and safer towns and cities. The goal is a radical improvement in the quality of urban life. The alliance is unique in its focus on collaboration between the built environment professions to make better places in which to live, work and relax. UDAL is committed to: Providing a joint voice for UDAL’s member professions, ensuring design remains high on the political agenda. Developing a culture of multi-disciplinary working in urban design. Helping to remedy the current shortage of professionals with urban design skills. Raising awareness within communities of the value of good urban design.

Urban Farmstead

The Earth Loving Urban Farmstead was the brain child and home of two eco-friendly housemates for 2.5 years. We joined together and bought a huge 114 y.o. house in massive disrepair located the middle of a major U.S. city. Together we fixed it up and created our eco-friendly home with an emphasis on what we dubbed "urban farming".

Urban Initiatives

Urban design, transportation, regeneration, development and planning consultants. We believe in making cities work through our unique inter-disciplinary approach to urban design, transportation, regeneration and development. Our business is to deliver innovative ideas and achievable solutions in complex urban environments for the public and private sector.

Vision Paper - A Division of KP Products

An amazing company which produces paper products from the plant Kenaf. Kenaf is easily grown producing 3-5 times the amount of pulp in just one year as Southern Pine, which takes 7-40 years to produce. A sustainable business which might in the end help save our beautiful forests! Learn more about this company AND it's products. Manufactuers and distributors of 100% kenaf tree-free paper and kenaf/recycled blend paper, kenaf seeds, kenaf paper products.

Women's Travel - Women's Adventure Programs - Living Adventure

Join Living Adventure this summer for its' women's kayaking programs. Kayaking trips this summer include: Madeline Island, Pukaskwa National Park, Apostle Islands. Also included are Breast Cancer Workshops. Our women's programs are based on the belief that gender camaraderie is to be celebrated and that women bring distinctive talent, insight and ecological connections into the natural human relationship to the planet. Our programs are designed to meet all women at their present level of expertise in wilderness travel and skill, personal development and creativity in natural expression.

Wonderland Hill Development Company - Cohousing Intentional Community WHDC

Wonderland Hill Development Company specializes in the creation of cohousing communities and is the leading developer of cohousing neighborhoods in the United States. Having worked with over 17 communities, Wonderland supports this growing trend by bringing cohousing into the mainstream through a streamlined development model we have created.

World Peace Sanctuary - May Peace Prevail On Earth

People all over the world are joining together to bring peace to our hearts and our planet through the prayer May Peace Prevail on Earth. This prayer for world peace carries a message of great hope and healing. It transcends barriers of nationality, race and religion to unite humanity in a call for the common good of all life on Earth.

Wow! Imports fair trade and eco friendly gifts, decor & collectibles

Handcrafted African beaded wire art, beaded Christmas ornaments, beaded Christmas decorations, beaded animal figurines, beaded key chains, piggy banks, motorcycle figurines, beaded flatware, tagua nut carvings, personalized silver name necklaces and fair trade recycled plastic bag animals

AAVS - American Anti-Vivisection Society

The American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) is a non-profit, animal advocacy and educational organization dedicated to ending experimentation on animals in research, testing, and education. AAVS also opposes and works to end other forms of cruelty to animals. An international organization that works to end vivisection (the use of animals in biomedical research, dissection, testing and education).

Abundant Dawn Community

Abundant Dawn Community is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia. We are creating a diverse eco-village, including small income-sharing groups, clusters of independent homes, and group houses.

ActForLove.org Activist Personals -- Online Dating for Progressives

Welcome to ActForLove.org -- founded by progressive activists, for progressive activists. ActForLove.org is the place to meet liberals, Democrats, activists -- folks who actually care about the world. Find a date, find a friend, or find a partner for activism. Best of all, just by using ActForLove.org, you're helping to support progressive causes. There really are great people out there -- why not take a minute and take a peek?

Affordable Comfort - Your Key to Building Performance

Affordable Comfort, Inc. is a not-for-profit educational service organization that promotes energy and resource efficiency, comfort, health, safety, affordability, and durability in buildings, focusing on those buildings in which people live, and the people who live in them.

American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

ASHRAE advances the art and science of HVAC through research, standards writing, continuing education, and publications.

Animal Abuse Prevention Agency

A publicly supported 501(c)3) nonprofit organization. A non-profit organization which takes a pro-active approach in preventing cruelty to animals. AAPA does pet adoptions, pet rescue and provides veterinarian services when needed. A publicly supported 501(c)3) nonprofit organization.

Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR)-NorCal Chapter

ADPSR is an architectural organization dedicated to ecological and sustainable practices for the built environment.

Bioneers - Collective Heritage Institute (CHI)

Bioneers - An educational network of visionaries for the environment. An educational nonprofit that strengthens and expands networks of practical visionaries working on behalf of the environment and people. We spread solutions-oriented stories — including both ecological models and social strategies — for restoring the earth.

Blueberry Hill Home

When some friends introduced them to the cohousing book in the early 1990’s, the Newcomb family, owners of farm property in both Fairfax and Loudoun County, began talking about this intriguing new concept with farm friends and neighbors. With the help of the Cohousing Company and some local cohousing experts, they formed a group in November 1994 and called themselves “Beulah Road Cohousing.” Twelve families attended the first meeting. Learn More! .....

Building Research Establishment (BRE)-BREbookshop.com

The BRE Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) tool allows the owners, users, and designers of buildings to review and improve environmental performance throughout the life of a building.