Resources
Green Building
- Planetizen is a network for planning and development.
- Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme is part of UN-Habitat and is dedicated to successful solutions for sustainable development.
- Development Gateway: Urban Development.
- The Urban Institute.
- The Rocky Mountain Institute.
- New Urbanism.
- Urban Land Institute.
- Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies.
- Sustainable Settings.
- Cities Alliance.
- US Green Building Council.
- Building Green.
- The Green Resource Center.
- National Brownfield Association.
- Homes Across America a construction technology showcase.
Water Efficiency Strategies
- Water Wiser developed by the American Water Works Association as a clearinghouse for water efficiency articles.
- Stormwater Manager’s Resource Center and Stormwater Authority both provide information relevant to planners and builders.
- Low-Impact Development provides tools and techniques for protecting receiving waters from development impacts.
Green Roofs
- Green Roofs for Healthy Cities.
- International Green Roof Institute.
- Green Roof Research Program at Michigan State University.
- Center for Green Roof Research at Pennsylvania State University.
- International Green Roof Association.
- FLL Forschungsgesellschaft Landschaftsentwicklung Landschaftsbau is the research association of landscape development and landscape gardening.
Building Energy
- Energy Information Administration provides US energy statistics.
Air Emissions
- Platt’s Emissions Marketplace.
- Chicago Climate Exchange.
- EPA’s Clean Air Market.
- Emissions Trading Links as provided by Emissions Trading Education Initiative.
Government
- Environment of Tokyo is an English website that summarizes the environmental activities that are occurring in Tokyo as provided by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG).
- Sustainable Technologies Evaluation Program is a multi-agency program led by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.
- Sprawl City provides data on urban sprawl collected by the US Bureau of Census data on Urbanized Areas.
- State of the Cities Data Systems, part of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, provides data on US metropolitan cities.
Urban Planning and Smart Growth
- Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program is a resource on sprawl impacts.
- The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Harvard Business School maintains a “cluster mapping project” that provides information on the performance of local and export industries at the state, metropolitan, and inner city areas.
- Alliance for Regional Stewardship.
- American Farmland Trust.
- American Forests.
- American Planning Association The website for planning regulations and resource materials.
- Citistates Group.
- Funder’s Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities.
- Growth Management Leadership Alliance.
- Metropolitan Area Research Corporation.
- National Association of Regional Councils.
- National Governors Association.
- National League of Cities.
- Smart Growth America.
- Smart Growth Leadership Institute.
- Smart Growth Network.