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.