Please don't be too overwhelmed by all these resources! While there are LOTS of ways to be green, sustainability is often very simple -- if not fun, enriching, and life-giving!
It's not that sustainability is impossible to achieve...
Indeed, it's the only thing that is possible.
The links below will take you to wealth of ideas, organizations, and other resources that can help us go green. The Pattern Language links can help us see the connections between people, places, and the interrelationships between the parts and the whole.
Organizations & Coalitions
Click on the links below to see the full range of benefits for everyone (from Green Communities On-line)
SEEDS
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Bioneers, for all things green
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Intentional Communities Network
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Co-housing Network (from Tom Stanton)
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A "Pattern Language"
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Using Patterns to Guide Development (an example) | |
| A Pattern Language for a Conservation Economy (from Tom Stanton) |
Green Community Charrette Grants
Affordable Green Homes (PDF file)
reprint from Environmental Building News
MSHDA'S Supportive Housing Priorities (11/29)
Resource Efficient Home (An Urban Options exhibit "under reconstruction")
The READ Project (Resource Efficient and Affordable Dwelling) (here)