The following is a list of SOME of the organizations, engaged in sustainability, and literature/research on sustainability that UVC has consulted in developing it’s sustainable community planning methodology.
Sustainable community planners/practitioners may find it helpful to consult some of these sources.
INTERNATIONAL:
•Australia- Melbourne Principles for Sustainable Cities
•Stockholm, Sweden Resilience Centre
•The Natural Step, Multi-National
• Barefoot Collective, Multi-National
•The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (sic) (SPREP)
•IDEO, Global Design Firm, Human-Centered, Design (HCD)
•Global Ecovillage Network (sic)
•Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC)
•STAR COMMUNITY INDEX-CLEI, USGBC, National League of Cities , and Center for American Progress
•World Commission on Environment and Development: Brundtland Report, 1987; Agenda 21, 1992
•UNITED NATIONS URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACCORDS: Green City Declaration
•WORLD BANK- GLOBAL CITY INDICATORS PROGRAM (GCIP) –Developed with The UN-Habitat, The World Economic Forum, OECD, the Government of Canada, and ICLEI.
• International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)-Bellagio Principles
UNITED STATES: National
•Center for Transit Orientated Development
• Positive Deviance Initiative
• Smart Growth America
• Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
•Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI)
•IBM Smart Cities
•J. Kotter,” Organizational Transformation: Large Scale Change”
•C. Lindberg, “Assessment of Sustainability Barriers in Governance and Decision-making Systems”
•“SMARTER CITIES”
•Sustainable Business Achievement Ratings Categories of Business Activity (S-BAR) System
•The Green College Sustainability Indicators
•J. Yudelson, “The Ten Step Program for Corporate Sustainability”
• First Nations Development Institute
• Airports Going Green
• TELLUS Institute
• HUD-DOT-EPA Partnership for Sustainable Communities
States
•California- Santa Monica City Sustainability Plan,
•California-USC Center for Sustainable Cities
•Minnesota- Minneapolis Sustainability Indicators and Numerical Targets
•New York – PlaNYC 2030
•Massachusetts-Harvard University “Sustainable Science Program”
•Massachusetts- Sustainable Northampton Plan
•Oregon Progress Board: Oregon Shines; Oregon Benchmarks