Output of the Urban Environmental Management Research Initiative (UEMRI), a grouping of urban planning researchers from around the world. Looks at urban areas as the intersection of natural, built, and socio-economic environments.

Creative strategies for making cities and their surrounding areas work for everyone, environmentally and economically.

Connects citizens with resources to implement innovative processes and programs to restore the economic, environmental, and social health and vitality of their communities.

International clearinghouse on sustainable development and environmental protection policies, programs, and techniques being implemented at the local level by local institutions. Resources and links on Local Agenda 21, Green Fleets, environmental budgeting, other topics.

sponsored by U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and National Association of Counties

Searchable databases of information resources on smart growth case studies, smart building design, smart development design and zoning, brownfields redevelopment and eco-industrial parks; and related topics.

An award-winning strategic management consultancy and think-tank. Founded in 1987, Sustainability Ltd. is the longest established international consultancy dedicated to promoting the business case for sustainable development. The three main areas of operation: foresight, agenda-setting and change management.

Explores planning process for community sustainability, including how to assess environmental issues and set environmental priorities; as well as how to implement selected actions and monitor and evaluate results.

Criterion is an urban planning firm specializing in sustainable community development.

Chelsea Green publishes information to help design future lives where human activities of production and consumption are balanced in harmony with the natural state of the world.

Book summaries and articles concerning urban affairs, planning, transportation, and coping with pollution, sprawl, and other environmental challenges. Includes "Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back." By the architecture/planning critic of The Nation.

Village Habitat Design, LLC is an award-winning architecture and planning firm with a 30 year family history of conservation design.

EcoIQ magazine and links to a large collection of Internet resources related to sustainable communities.

Citizen activists educating and inspiring people to build a more community-oriented and ecologically sustainable society. (Portland, Oregon)

Provides a team of international and Australian professionals committed towards a common goal of facilitating, developing and servicing sustainability. Also provides a Search engine for Sustainability using popular portals.

Canadian government entity's vision is to see a Canada where people make responsible decisions about the environment; and where the environment is thereby sustained for the benefit of present and future generations.

A series of urban, community design events and university of british columbia-based research projects providing a number of potential solutions to the problems spawned by non-sustainable urban/suburban growth.

The Green Communities Assistance Kit that you will find here is packaged as a step-by-step guide for planning and implementing sustainable actions. Each of the five steps results in a specific outcome.

develops indicators that measure progress toward a sustainable economy,society and environment.

Book published by The Institute for Local Self-Reliance, provides strategies for reviving independent businesses and Main Streets.

Consulting firm that specializes in environmental sustainability, strengthened economies, and social equity, Based in Virginia.

The Priorities Institute examines alternative community designs, carfree cities, cohousing, recycling pantries, and other concepts and technologies to promote environmentally sustainable community life.

Some new local community sustainability indicators developed in Australia. This site provides a new methodology for indicators that sustain and develop our community and that we can all count, measure and check them for ourselves.

Describes the transformation of Malmö, Sweden, into sustainability, including details of building design and about management of traffic, rainwater, and waste.

South African consultants and advisors in the field of sustainable community and rural development describe their capabilities and discuss topics such as permaculture and handling issues of rapid urbanization through waste management, recycling, and incineration.

Provides Canada's first independent assessment of living in balance for the long term to help Canadians understand if current lifestyle and development choices are improving or threatening prospects for a healthy and successful society.

An integrated environmental initiative for the 15-county metropolitan Charlotte region in North and South Carolina. Promotes issues on air quality, sustainable growth and water resources.

Aims to improve the quality of life of urban communities through developing and promoting sustainable approaches to urban living.

Resources on the concept of sustainable development, including overview articles, slide shows, links, recommended books and videos, and educational materials and programs that can help communities in their sustainable development efforts.

An UN inititative, and part of UNEP. A program to facilitate easy access to environmental information for sound decision-making and general awareness-raising in cities.

Ecuadorian foundation working for a sustainable development of poor villages in coastal Ecuador.

One stop guide for U.S. Local Governments. Enhance the Sustainability of Your Community Through: Environmental Protection; Economic Vitality; and Community Well-Being.

Online report of RAND study (1997). Includes case studies and extensive bibliography.

Washington State University's School of Architecture web site explores some interactive design-planning topics and presents a proposal for Pullman, Washington, USA.

Describes several projects to support sustainable development and improve community and regional leaders` understanding of how economic and environmental decisions can work hand in hand to bring a new vitality to Northwest Pennsylvania.

Program partners with communities to improve the energy efficiency of their commercial and multifamily residential buildings and reinvest energy savings back into the community. Offers business and technical tools as well as customized assistance.

Promotes sustainable communities through joint environmental action. Includes information on community involvement projects and efforts to reclaim old industrial and mining sites.

Project to promote healthy cities and sustainable communities by developing maps to chart the sites of environmental significance in urban places around the world. Includes examples.

ICIMOD is committed to economically and environmentally sound mountain development and improving the living standards of mountain communities in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas.