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 Sustainability

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City of San Francisco -- Department of the Environment
    “The Department of the Environment was created by the new City Charter, which was passed by the voters in the November 1995 election. It is currently setting up its environmental programs, and in addition is responsible for overseeing plans for the city’s long-term environmental sustainability and educating the public on environmental issues.”

Sustainable San Francisco Home Page
    “Sustainable San Francisco is a community effort to create a sustainable future for the City of San Francisco. Organized by the Commission on San Francisco’s Environment, the City Planning Department, the nonprofit organization Sustainable City, President of the Board of Supervisors Kevin Shelley, and many other elected officials, individuals and organizations. Nearly 350 individuals have prepared a draft plan to preserve and enhance The City’s long-term environmental health and quality of life.”

Urban Ecology - Blueprint for a Sustainable Bay Area
    “In shaping its blueprint, Urban Ecology has reached out to hundreds of individuals, representatives of local, regional, state and federal government, the business community and numerous community-based organizations working on scores of related issues. What has resulted is a remarkable effort of collaborative listening, learning and debate. Blueprint for a Sustainable Bay Area is the first step of what is an evolving and on-going process.”

City of Santa Monica Sustainable City Program

Communications for a Sustainable Future

Ecological and Environmental Seminars @ CSF

The E. F. Schumacher Society
    “The E.F. Schumacher Society was founded in 1980 to promote the ideas inherent in the decentralist tradition and to implement them in practical programs that link economics, ecology, and culture. Named for Fritz Schumacher, whose 1973 book Small is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered continues to influence new generations, the society has developed model self-help economic programs in its home region of the Berkshires.”

Cities and Counties: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
    “Numerous cities and counties are designing and implementing sustainable plans. ... This study examines how various governmental policies, institutional configurations, and intergovernmental relationships are enabling local governments to identify and achieve sustainability objectives.”

Institute For Local Self Reliance
    “ILSR helps communities throughout the U.S. and abroad reap the benefits of recycling. Our innovative advice and analysis link community waste management needs with economic development. Through research, policy initiatives, coalition building, and technical assistance, we lay the groundwork for developing humanly-scaled, sustainable economic systems. For 21 years ILSR has helped businesses, community groups and local governments.”

Sprawl Guide: Strategies for Dealing with Sprawl
    * Creating A Sense Of Place
    * Preserving Open Space & Farmland
    * Concentrating Growth And Investment
    * Transportation Priorities

The Center for Livable Communities
    “The Center for Livable Communities is a national initiative of the Local Government Commission and is a principal partner in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Transportation Partners program. The Local Government Commission or LGC for short, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization of elected officials, city and county staff, and other interested individuals throughout California and other states (with over 600 current members), the Local Government Commission helps local governments identify and implement solutions to today’s problems.
    In 1991, working with some of the country’s leading architects and planners, the Local Government Commission developed the “Ahwahnee Principles” for resource-efficient local and regional land-use planning. The Center grew out of the Commission’s work helping local officials implement these principles.
    Realizing that economic vitality and livability are inextricably linked, the LGC followed up by developing a set of Economic Development Principles, with guidance from numerous nationally recognized economic development experts.”

The Preservation Institute: What We Believe
“During the Nineteenth Century, most people still lived at a near-subsistence level, and rapid economic growth was needed to provide everyone basic education, health care, housing, and other necessities. The factory system was increasing production so dramatically that many people believed every aspect of life ultimately would be modernized on the factory model. Health care, child care, education, transportation and housing would all be mass-produced by specialized technological organizations managed by experts.
    Today, most people recognize that modernization and growth can harm the natural environment. The Preservation Institute believes that modernization also damages the social environment -- that many of our social problems are side-effects of modernization.”

Links to other Healthy Cities
    “The Healthy Cities project was begun by WHO’s Regional Office for Europe to develop local strategies and action for health for all. One of the main objectives is to change the ways in which individuals, communities, private and voluntary organizations and local governments think about, understand and make decisions about health. Ultimately the Healthy Cities project aims to enhance the physical, mental, social and environmental wellbeing of the people who live and work in the cities. The project is a long-term international development effort that seeks to put health on the agenda of decision-makers in cities and to build a strong lobby for public health at the local level. A fundamental principle of the approach is the recognition that city government can play a key role in promoting and maintaining the health of its citizens and has a unique capacity to mobilize action for sustainable development.”

I C L E I Home Page
    “The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) is the international environmental agency for local governments. We know from concrete experience that local actions can have a global impact. Global consumption and waste production is increasingly concentrated in urban areas. The concentration of people in cities provides unparalleled opportunities to both meet human needs and reduce and manage wastes. Meanwhile, by strengthening rural communities we can reduce the pattern of ecological destruction and population migration which is often a result of rural poverty and desperation.
    Local governments, in partnership with their residents and local businesses, are taking action. ICLEI was established in 1990 through a partnership of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Union of Local Authorities (IULA), and the Center for Innovative Diplomacy. ICLEI maintains a formal association with IULA. We welcome you to join and support our movement!”

The Change Project: Healthy Cities
    “You know what a healthy community is. Somewhere, you’ve experienced it - a community that nurtures its members, that makes us all more than we were. But what makes a community healthy? What builds health, it turns out, also builds community, safety, wealth, and families. The health of a community grows from how many children people have, in what kind of families, with how much money and education, from a sense of choice, and from friends and family who give life meaning, from clean water and air, and basic medicine, from families who eat well, are well housed, secure from crime, and not deranged by drugs or alcohol.
    Building a healthy community requires all the energy the community can muster, from everyone who can make a difference - but it can be done. There are ways to do it. This powerful idea has taken hold in over a thousand cities and towns around the world. This is how to build a world that works.”

Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
    “The Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development helps communities design and implement innovative strategies that enhance the local economy as well as the local environment and quality of life. Created by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.”

Sustainable Communities Network Homepage
    “The Sustainable Communities Network is for those who want to help make their communities more livable. Here a broad range of issues are addressed and resources are provided to help make this happen. This web site is being developed to increase the visibility of what has worked for other communities, and to promote a lively exchange of information to help create community sustainability in both urban and rural areas.”

Neighborhoods Online
    “Neighborhoods Online was created in 1995 by the Institute for the Study of Civic Values and Philadelphia’s LibertyNet as an online resource center for people working to build strong communities throughout the United States.
    Our aim is to provide fast access to information and ideas covering all aspects of neighborhood revitalization, as well as to create a national network of activists working on problems that affect us where we live.”

The Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities
    “Across America, over twelve hundred multisectoral, comprehensive, community-based health and quality of life improvement initiatives are seeking local solutions to address America’s challenges. This movement has its roots in community, not in a national agenda. At its core, is a local phenomenon which mobilizes local creativity and resources. In serving this movement, the Coalition is a strategic linkage of these local forces. In its two primary directions of activity, it brings together scores of local, state and national organizations, collaborative partnerships and citizens to assist these local efforts in creating healthier communities and improving the well-being of families and children.”

SCN About Sustainable Communities
    “Find out what’s happening in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Seattle, Washington; what the Green Institute is doing in the Phillips Neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and how the Mountain Association For Community Economic Development and Rural Action are helping rural areas of Appalachia. Learn about principles of sustainability and visioning processes and how they can help guide community initiatives.
    Discover how community indicators in Olympia , Washington or Jacksonville , Florida are helping residents define and inventory what they value. Find out about how $mart Growth can guide planning in neighborhoods and regions and what tools are available to help. Locate your local community network and civic engagement opportunities. Then tell us what other resources you need to help make your community more sustainable.”

The Green Plan Center
    “This site has been developed to educate and inform those interested in Green Plans as the means to a sustainable environment and economy.”

Resources for Urban Sustainablity
    “Sustainable Community Experiments | Sustainable Communities Technical Assistance Organizations | Guides and Workbooks | Books | Articles and Reports”

Sustainable Seattle
    “Sustainable Seattle is a citizen group working to improve our region’s long-term health and vitality--cultural, economic, environmental and social. Our mission is to advocate for sustainability in Seattle/King County. Specifically we focus on:

Awareness: Creating opportunities to learn about the values, principles, and practices of sustainable living.
Assessment: Developing resources and tools for citizens to monitor progress and track sustainable practices in the region.
Action: Promoting citizen participation in making sustainability a reality.”

The Bioneers
    “Since 1990, The Bioneers Conference has brought together leading scientific and social visionaries with practical solutions for restoring the earth. The Bioneers Conference has helped define the biological model and galvanize its many brilliant practitioners into a thriving culture. Their ideas are so original and pragmatic as to uplift the spirit with their extraordinary creativity and ingenuity -- to create a future environment of hope.”

CERES: Information by Geographic Area for San_Francisco
    “Themes: Economics and Demographics | Environmental Groups and Projects | Governmental Institutions | Land Use Planning | Media Sources | Recreation | Road and Weather Conditions | Special Status Species | Water Resources | Vegetation and Habitats; Information Types: Maps and Spatial Data | Photos and Satellite Imagery | Documents and Publications;| Related Geographic Regions: Bay Delta”

WITS -- Information by Geographic Area
    “Currently, only information regarding the North Coast Region is available. We expect to have information for the other regions soon.”

 

 

 

 Bioregion

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Cascadia Planet
    A great resource, extremely rich in articles and interviews of substance


 

 Civic Renewal

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Institute for the Study of Civic Values
    “The Institute for the Study of Civic Values is a non-profit organization established in Philadelphia in 1973 to promote the fulfillment of America’s historic civic ideals.
    At a time when millions of Americans are struggling to identify the values that we share, the Institute for the Study of Civic Values believes that it is our civic values---the principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights--that bring us together as a people.”

National Civic League
    “The National Civic League (NCL) advocates a new civic agenda to create communities that work for everyone and promotes the principles of collaborative problem-solving and consensus-based decision making. NCL accomplishes its mission through technical assistance, publishing, research and an awards program.”

Alliance for National Renewal
    “The Alliance for National Renewal (ANR) brings together a network of people and organizations who want to better their communities. At the grassroots, all over the nation, inspiring stories of community renewal are waiting to be told and heard. This is your opportunity to tap into this rich and growing movement.”

Seattle Community Network
    “The Seattle Community Network is a free, public-access computer network run by volunteers.”

 

 Air Quality

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Bay Area Air Quality Management District
    The BAAQMD (District) is the regional, government agency that regulates sources of air pollution within the nine San Francisco Bay Area Counties.

 

 

 Biodiversity

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North American Reporting Center for Amphibian Malformations
    “In the summer of 1995, middle school students on a field trip to a farm pond in southern Minnesota discovered large numbers of frogs with misshapen, extra, or missing limbs. About 50% of the northern leopard frogs they caught that day were malformed. ... Malformed amphibians are not a new phenomenon, but reports were only infrequent until recently. Since 1995, reports have become increasingly common, and a number of scientists -- herpetologists, developmental biologists, aquatic toxicologists, and parasitologists -- are looking for the cause(s). ... The mission of the North American Reporting Center for Amphibian Malformations is to facilitate the transfer of information on malformed amphibians.”

Bird Identification
    Bird Photos and Information | Wildlife Rehabilitation | Links

Golden Gate Audubon Society

Swallow
    “Swallows are dark blue above with a metallic sheen. They have brown or chestnut foreheads, chin and throat with a blue collar on the breast - the rest of the underparts are dull white. The adults have a deeply forked tail (juveniles less deep) with exaggeratedly long outer feathers on the male -- almost the consistency of wire at the tip. The tail has white marks (windows) around it near the tip.”

San Francisco Estuary Wetlands
    “Wetlands provide invaluable habitat for fish and wildlife, improve water quality, protect urban and agricultural areas from flooding, and serve many other vital functions within the San Francisco Estuary. Despite their central role in the Estuary’s ecology, however, many wetlands face degradation or destruction due to urban encroachment. The San Francisco Estuary Project seeks to promote conservation, restoration, and environmentally sound management of the Estuary’s wetlands.”

San Bruno Mountain: Preservation of an Ecological Island
    “San Bruno Mountain is a 3600 acre wildlife refuge in a sea of urbanization. At the summit, the Mountain rises 1314 feet above sea level with a main ridge extending 4 miles long. It is surrounded on all sides by cities: Daly City, Colma, South San Francisco, and Brisbane. It is home to three rare (two endangered and one threatened) species of butterflies, and 10 species of rare plants.
    The factors contributing to the Mountain’s high biological diversity are its variable topography and microclimates. The main ridge separates the steeper and dryer southeast slopes from the more gradual and wetter northwest facing slopes. The southeast side is dominated by native and introduced grassland vegetation, while the northwest side is comprised of mostly coastal scrub, and riparian scrub/woodland plant communities.” 

Animal Care and Control, City of San Francisco
    “The San Francisco Department of Animal Care and Control is responsible for the community’s lost, abandoned, injured, and neglected animals. We care for approximately 17,000 animals every year and rely heavily on the time and talents of volunteers to assure the success of our efforts.”

Greg’s Bay Area Bird Page
    “The San Francisco Bay Area is rich with bird life. From the south bay waterfowl refuges to Point Reyes, a wide variety of avian wild life can be observed. These pages attempt to show a small part of what you can see if you get out and visit a few places in the area. Many of these photos were taken in urban areas.”

California Native Plant Society
    “The mission of the California Native Plant Society is to increase understanding and appreciation of California’s native plants, and to preserve them in their natural habitat through scientific activities, education, and conservation.”

Habitat Restoration Information Center
    “Our Center’s mission is to provide private landowners, river and watershed groups, environmentally conscientious businesses, environmental and conservation organizations, land and resource managers, teachers, and students with the educational tools needed to restore the environment.”

Exploring Urban BioDiversity (“City Bugs”)
    “This Field Guide is an effort by the University of California, Berkeley, partnering with the McClymonds High School, Oakland, to survey the insect species diversity within the San Francisco Bay Area. With the continued development of land, reclamation, and preservation always in flux, species diversity also is changing.
    This Guide can serve best as a reference to those species which are either commonly encountered or important. Thegroups occuring in and around homes are given the most attention.”

Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
    “Just north of San Francisco, this Sanctuary is 1,235 square miles of nearshore and offshore waters ranging from wetlands and intertidal to pelagic and deep-sea communities. Multiple uses abound, from fishing and sailing to surfing and whale watching. In fact, some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world pass through the Sanctuary into the San Francisco Bay.”

Golden Gate Raptor Observatory
    “The mission of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory is to study migrating birds of prey along the Pacific coast and to promote public awareness of the state of raptor populations. The GGRO is dedicated to the conservation of raptors and to community involvement in wildlife research. Our studies of the movements of hawks through the Golden Gate National Recreation Area demonstrate that biological boundaries extend far beyond political boundaries. The GGRO is a project of the Golden Gate National Park Association and the National Park Service, and is made up of 250 community volunteers and a small staff.”

The Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network
    “WHSRN links wetland and grassland sites essential to migratory shorebirds in a voluntary, nonregulatory program of research, training, and collaborative effort for habitat management and protection. Shorebirds migrate across the hemisphere, some from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego. Their movements carry them through wetlands with immense natural value to wildlife and to humans alike. The Network uses shorebirds as symbols of the intense conservation challenge that wetlands face and of the need for international cooperation in the protection of these areas.”

WHSRN-California/San Francisco Bay
    “The San Francisco Estuary Hemispheric Reserve is made up of a mosaic of seven subsites, all used by shorebirds dependent upon the San Francisco Bay system. ... Located on the west coast of the United States, the reserve extends from California’s San Pablo Bay (north) to South San Francisco Bay (south).”

Rare Bird Alerts for Northern California
    “...journals of the Rare Bird Alert (RBA) reports from various sources including the National Birding Hotline Cooperative’s mailing list servers.”

 

 

 

 Energy, Climate Change, and Ozone Depletion

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Global Warming Central
    “Global Warming Central, which is growing daily, is presently focused on three key issues: the limits on greenhouse gas emissions that will be set at Kyoto in December; the actions needed post-Kyoto to meet these limits; and the moral, political and economic issues underlying the global warming debate.
    U.S. Position | Key Reports | World Speaks Out | Legislative Action | Key Experts | Great Global Warming Debate | Key Websites | Key Government Documents | Key NGO Documents | Key Treaties”

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change The Official Web Site of the Climate Change Secretariat
    The Convention | The Secretariat | What is Climate Change | CC:INFO Products | Official Documents | Country Information | Emissions and other Data | Meetings / Workshops | Handbook

The Kyoto Convention on Climate Change Official Web Site
    The Convention | Info for Participants | Info for Media | Official Documents | Daily Programme | Special Events | Exhibits | List of Participants | Special Features | Kyoto Information

Kyoto Compromise
    A summary of what was achieved | The complete text of the “KYOTO PROTOCOL” | An assessment of Vice-President Al Gore’s speech | Analysis of Climate Change “Misinformation” | Reactions from the US, Europe, Japan, Australia, India | Reactions of selected NGOs |Printed Resources for further reading

Eco: The Climate Action Network Newsletter
    “Eco is: the definitive source - it’s what government negotiators and journalists alike read to find out what’s really going on at the negotiations.
    Produced and written by the Climate Action Network (consisting of over 160 Non-Governmental Organizations from around the world), and distributed electronically worldwide, Eco’s contributors include leading independent scientists and political analysts, giving you unrivaled access to the negotiations and what they really mean.”

Linkages: Coverage of the Kyoto Convention
    The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has one of the best NGO sites on global warming and the Kyoto Protocol.

Conference on Demand
    The Kyoto negotiations, speeches, and responses in session can be listened to on the internet, along with some stunning visuals. To do this you’ll need a copy of the RealPlayer plug-in for your net browser.

Cities for Climate Protection Home Page
    “We are a campaign of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), which encourages cities to reduce local emissions of carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases which contribute to global warming (climate change), and related air pollutants. Over one hundred and fifty municipalities have joined the campaign and their number is growing. This Web site gives you a tour of the climate issues as it affects urban areas, and illustrates actions you can take as a citizen or local elected official.”

Climate Change Briefing
    “The following document answers some of the typical questions that you might have about urban carbon dioxide reduction. Find out who and what is responsible for the greenhouse effect, what we know for sure, and what we still don’t know, what kinds of problems we can expect as the planet heats up, and what municipalities can do about it right now. Finally, learn how municipalities can create jobs, keep money in the community, improve international competitiveness, and save more than they spend on reducing carbon dioxide emissions.”

ICLEI Personal CO2 Calculation
    “Fill in the following form as accurately as you can and then press the “Calculate Emissions” button to calculate your yearly direct personal carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This will be compared to world averages and suggestions for reducing this amount will be given.”

Energy Fact Sheets
    “The following articles where originally prepared for The Energy Eduators of Ontario. They have been made available on the Web by ICLEI. This series of articles discusses our past, present and future use of energy. The most commonly used energy sources today, are not without their consequenses to the environment. Advantages and disadvantages of various energy sources and the potential of alternatives are described.”
Traditional Fuels - Fuels of Today and Yesterday | Nuclear Energy | Energy Use/Waste and Society | Consequenses | Alternative Fuels | Renewable Energy Sources

Mission of The Committee For Nuclear Responsibility
    “One of CNR’s priorities is to make actual progress in preventing cancer, by helping other groups and individuals to eliminate the careless xray overdosing which occurs today in medicine. Xray dosage can be cut in half (or more) without interfering with good diagnostic information. CNR supplies the evidence for such action, and regards “getting the job done” as an ethical imperative --- because every action which reduces unnecessary irradiation is guaranteed to prevent a share of future cancers which would otherwise occur.
    A second function of CNR is helping other groups and individuals to prevent additional nuclear pollution of the planet. The importance of such prevention is supported by CNR’s detailed proof that there is no safe dose (threshold dose) of ionizing radiation with respect to causing mutations and human cancer.”

Nuclear Information and Resource Service
    “NIRS is the information and networking center for citizens and environmental organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues.”

Energy Net Home Page For the Abalone Alliance & Ward Valley
    “The Abalone Alliance has been working since 1977 to promote safe renewable energy sources as alternatives to nuclear energy in California.”

Solstice: Sustainable Energy and Development
    “Solstice is the Internet information service of the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST), and is your site for Sustainable Energy and Development Information.”

The Solar Century
    “The Solar Century seeks to expand the use of solar power in order to fight global warming and promote sustainable development. We do this in two ways: by building a global solar consumer alliance of businesses, organisations, and individuals and by developing an investor’s forum to promote investment in solar companies and projects.”

Solar Information Center
    “The Solar Information Center is a student-run organization sponsored by ASUO (the Associated Students of the University of Oregon ) and EWEB (Eugene Water and Electric Board). Our purpose is to serve as a research, education, and information center on solar and alternative energies, their applications in architecture and sustainable design and development.”

The International Solar Energy Society
    “The International Solar Energy Society (ISES) represents an international network of scientists, businesspeople and decisionmakers in more than 118 countries around the world. These form a Global Alliance aimed at the advancement of renewable energy through research, technology transfer, commercialisation and education.”
 
American Solar Energy Society
    “The American Solar Energy Society (ASES) is a national organization dedicated to advancing the use of solar energy for the benefit of U.S. citizens and the global environment. ASES promotes the widespread near-term and long-term use of solar energy. ASES sponsors the National Solar Energy Conference, publishes SOLAR TODAY magazine and Advances in Solar Energy, publishes white papers, sponsors issue Roundtables in Washington, DC, distributes solar publications, organizes a Solar Action Network and has regional chapters throughout the country. ASES is the United States Section of the International Solar Energy Society.”

American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
    “The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing energy efficiency as a means of promoting both economic prosperity and environmental protection. ACEEE fulfills its mission by: conducting in-depth technical and policy assessments; advising governments and utilities; working collaboratively with businesses and other organizations; publishing books, conference proceedings, and reports; organizing conferences; informing consumers.”

 

 

 

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City Farmer’s Urban Agriculture Notes
    “Our non-profit society promotes urban food production and environmental conservation from a small office in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia and from our demonstration food garden in nearby Kitsilano, a residential neighbourhood.
    Urban Agriculture is a new and growing field that is not completely defined yet even by those closest to it. It concerns itself with all manner of subjects from rooftop gardens, to composting toilets, to air pollution and community development. It encompasses mental and physical health, entertainment, building codes, rats, fruit trees, herbs, recipes and much more.”

Food Runners
    “Food Runners is an eight year old San Francisco volunteer organization that picks up excess food from restaurants, bakeries, markets, hotels, conventions, even food photograhers and delivers it to feeding programs in the city of San Francisco. We need volunteers to pick up and deliver the donated food. A pick up and delivery is called a “run”. A run usually takes less than an hour. Volunteers use their own cars and are dispatched by other volunteers who pick up donation offers from a central message number, then make calls from their own homes.”

Meals on Wheels of San Francisco
    “Meals on Wheels was started in 1970 by a group of volunteers who worked out of neighborhood kitchens to prepare and deliver meals to their frail, homebound neighbors. As the need for this service outstripped volunteers’ capacity to provide for it, professional drivers, social workers and administrative staff were hired, and meals were prepared by a hospital nutrition staff, and later by a corporate caterer.”

American Farmland Trust
    “How we eat tomorrow depends on what we do today. Most Americans take for granted the cornucopia on our grocery shelves. Whether it is a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, or a head of lettuce, the fruits of a farmer’s labor are always available to consumers with a few dollars to spend. Yet our best farmland -- and the food and fiber, jobs, open space and wildlife habitat it provides -- has been vanishing. In its place have come poorly planned subdivisions, shopping malls and traffic-clogged roads. On Capitol Hill, at USDA, and around the country, American Farmland Trust is looked to as a responsible voice for the majority of America’s farmers that care about the problem of farmland loss and the future of American agriculture.”

The Compost Resource Page
    “This site is intended to serve as a hub of information for anyone interested in the various aspects of composting. I hope it will provide many useful links to answer your questions, pique your interest, and inspire you to participate in this eternal process.”

Bay Area Permaculture Guild
    “Permaculture is a design system for land and home which creates integrated sustainable environments for all sentient beings. ... The intention of the Bay Area Permaculture Guild is to disseminate information on the emerging grassroots movement of Permaculture in the San Francisco Bay Area and the surrounding Shasta bioregion.”

Permaculture Magazine Information Service
    “This site currently offers you a brief and longer definition of permaculture, information about Permaculture Magazine and the team who put it together, a plan of our site, permaculture news from around Britain and an introduction to forest gardening by Robert Hart.”

San Francisco Food Bank

Alemany Youth Farm
    “The Alemany Youth Farm, a project of the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners (SLUG), is a multifaceted project that trains and employs residents from the surrounding low-income communities in the construction and maintenance of an urban farm.”

Pesticide Action Network North America Regional Center (PANNA)
    “For 15 years, the Pesticide Action Network has campaigned to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound alternatives. As one of five Regional Centers worldwide, PAN North America links individuals, researchers, farmers, opinion leaders, businesses and public interest organizations in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. with over 400 consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups in more than 60 countries.”

The Organic Farmers Marketing Association
    “The Organic Farmers Marketing Association, or OFMA, was created at the March, 1996, Leavenworth, KS Meeting, in an effort to assist organic farmers in marketing, communication and public advocacy. In the spirit of such cooperation, this Website has been created to bring together organic farmers, consumers and supporters of organic agriculture from all over the world.”  

 

 

 Hazardous Materials

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California Center for Land Recycling
    “The mission of CCLR is to encourage and facilitate the development of idle, abandoned and underutilized land and buildings in urban or rural areas as an integral strategy for revitalization and the creation of sustainable communities. CCLR acts as a catalyst for mobilizing public and private sector resources to facilitate the redevelopment of this land commonly called brownfields.

 

 

 

 Human Health

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Communities in Focus: California Healthy Cities Project
    “These are stories collected and updated regularly by our members featuring the experiences and profiles of Communities that have really excelled in promoting a healthy cities and communities agenda.”

San Francisco Suicide Prevention Website
    “San Francisco Suicide Prevention (SFSP) is the oldest volunteer crisis line in the United States. Founded in 1963 with the initial focus of providing telephone intervention to people experiencing suicidal crisis, the focus of the agency has gradually shifted from strictly suicide prevention to more general counseling services. Services are provided 24 hours a day by over 250 trained volunteers with the supervision of a small multi-disciplinary staff. 415-781-0500”

 

 

 

 Parks, Open Spaces and Streetscapes

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San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department
    This is a great site with lots of information about all of the Parks, with historical archives of documents and pictures.

San Francisco, CA - Friends of the Urban Forest
    “Neighbors sign up, attend a couple of meetings, pick their tree and get ready to dig. On Planting Day, they’re joined by FUF’s corps of trained volunteers for a Saturday morning of rewarding work and a potluck lunch. Then, as the trees grow, FUF’s experts remain on call to advise you on proper tree care. The group even has a low-cost maintenance program to provide professional tree care by a qualified arborist for FUF-assisted trees.
    FUF’s public-private partnerships have brought more than 15,000 trees to San Francisco neighborhoods--and will add another 2,800 this year. Because it’s all done at a cost of a fraction of commercial plantings, tree planting dollars yield more boughs for the buck.”

Golden Gate NRA Home Page
    The Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) is the largest urban national park in the world. The total park area is 76,500 acres of land and water. Approximately 28 miles of coastline lie within its boundaries. It is nearly two and one-half times the size of San Francisco. It includes famous places like the Presidio, Fort Point, Alcatraz, Marin Headlands, and Muir Woods.

Sustainable Presidio Alliance
    “Five flagship initiatives have emerged that will address global environmental priorities: Research and Policy Studies -- emerging scientific and policy topics of international concern, such as global change; Environmental Technology Demonstration -- a showcase of products and processes that will help us move toward a sustainable future; Environmental Education and Information -- a center for catalyzing public-private efforts to advance environmental education, and a nationally recognized source of credible environmental information; Professional Training -- multidisciplinary courses in environmental policy, management, and applications of sustainable technologies; and Environmental Service -- a bridge between technology and education through community service.”

Friends of Lake Merced
    “Friends of Lake Merced (FoLM) is an all-volunteer, community-based organization dedicated to restoring and preserving the natural and recreational value of Lake Merced.  Now nearing the end of our third year of operation, FoLM has approximately 150 active members.  Our goal is to bring together and develop Friends of the Lake who are knowledgeable about the Lake and its shores, and who can work together to support and sustain this very real treasure.”

GreenSense -- Financing Parks and Conservation
    “As traditional appropriations for parks and open space are cut to the bone, new strategies and finance techniques are emerging to fill the gap in conservation funding. States and municipalities are finding cash for critical purchases through such programs as...”

218 Trees
    “An Organization Formed to Advocate for the Potential of Existing Public Space Resources.”

 

 

 

 Solid Waste

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San Francisco Recycling Program
    Lots of useful information

The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide
    “This recycling guide provides a starting point for consumers in the USA and Canada searching the net for recycling information. The information is for regular folks with regular household quantities of materials to recycle. The goal is to help make recycling so easy and automatic that it blends into the flow of everyday life.”

Californians Against Waste
    “Established in 1977, Californians Against Waste (CAW) is a nonprofit grassroots organization that has grown to represent the interests of more than 24,000 Californians. We rely on individual donations for over 90% of our operating funds, and therefore answer only to our activist citizen membership base. We are the only environmental group in California with full-time staff lobbying exclusively in support of a recycling economy. We advocate policy initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels.”

California Integrated Waste Management Board
    “The California Integrated Waste Management Board is responsible for managing California’s solid waste stream. The Board is helping California divert 50 percent of its waste from landfills by 2000 by developing waste reduction programs, providing public education and outreach, assisting local governments and businesses, and fostering market development for recyclable materials. The Board also protects public health and the environment by encouraging used oil recycling, regulating waste management facilities, and cleaning up abandoned and illegal dump sites. The Waste Board is one of six agencies under the umbrella of the California Environmental Protection Agency.”

The Computer Recycling Center
    “Whether you are an individual with one old computer collecting dust in your closet or a corporation with a storage room filled with 286 machines, Computer Recycling can use what you have.
    We accept computer hardware, software, and manuals of any age and in any condition. We accept parts of machines or entire systems. No brand or platform is too obscure for us! Working machines that can be processed quickly help us “fast track” computers into local schools.”

Computer Recycling Project, Incorporated
    “Our mission statement is to acquire obsolete and unused computer equipment for distribution to non-profit organizations, educational programs, NGO’s, and low-income individuals in order to foster computer literacy and support ongoing social programs with technical assistance. Also to support educational programs to teach computer literacy to economically disadvantaged groups.”

The Compost Resource Page

 

 

 

 Transportation

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San Francisco Muni

Transit First San Francisco
    “Mayor Willie Brown made fixing the MUNI one of his campaign promises -- so far there has been little to show for it other than drivers being a little more polite and calling out stops. The public gets excuses, but not a reliable public transportation system.”
    Information | MUNI Issues | What you can do | Survey | the bike riders | Pedestrians | Groups working on Transportation issues in the city | High Speed Rail in California? | Some transit related links”

RESCUE MUNI
    “We’re a group of frustrated riders who figure that someone has got to speak up for common sense. We hope you'll join us, share your Muni bloopers, attend one of our meetings, volunteer on one of our many committees, and help out as we call on City Hall to see things from the riders’ perspective -- for once.”

San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
    “Members of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) are dedicated to making San Francisco the most bike-friendly city in the nation.
    Acting together as the city’s only grass roots bicycle advocacy organization, the SFBC, we organize for our right to ride a bicycle in safety and with dignity. Not only the voice of cyclists, the SFBC also serves as a critical resource, providing information on safe routes and safe riding, bicycle parking, equipment advice, and other information through our newsletter, many pamphlets, and this Web page.”

TransWeb news
    “This section of TransWeb summarizes transportation news stories from daily and weekly newspapers. The focus is on surface transportation news from California and beyond.
(A Transportation Web Site Service provided by the Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies (IISTPS) at the College of Business of San Jose State University)”

California Department of Transportation
    The San Francisco Bay Area Office

 

 

 

 Water and Wastewater

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Estuary
    “ESTUARY is a bimonthly newsletter that describes the activities of over 50 different organization and government agencies involved in protecting and restoring the waters and watershed of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary.”

Friends of the Estuary
    “Friends of the Estuary, a non-profit California corporation, is a coalition of environmentalists, business and industry representatives, state and local government agencies, elected officials and other community members dedicated to protecting, restoring and enhancing the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary.”

STATE OF THE ESTUARY
    “A transcript of the third biennial State of the Estuary Conference. ... Numerous technical sessions and information exchange occurred the first two days around various issue areas, Biological Resources Freshwater Flows, Contaminants, Wetlands, Land Use/Watershed Management.”

Water Education Foundation
    “The mission of the Water Education Foundation, an impartial non-profit organization, is to develop and implement education programs leading to a broader understanding of water issues and to resolution of water problems.”

Surfrider Foundation: San Francisco
    “The Surfrider Foundation is a grassroots-based, non-profit environmental organization that works to protect the coast. Founded in 1984, Surfrider now has 33 Surfrider chapters located along the East, West, Gulf, Puerto Rican, and Hawaiian coasts. The Surfrider National USA headquarters are in San Clemente, California. Surfrider has over 25,000 members in the U.S.; in addition, Surfrider chapters and affiliates have been established in 6 foreign countries (and most recently in Brazil).”

Projects in the Bay Area and Delta Bioregion
    “The California Watershed Projects Inventory (CWPI) is a non-profit cooperative effort to establish a database and geographic information system (GIS) to improve statewide access to information on watershed projects and associated data in California. The database provides a means to group projects and associated data by region and is a tool for ecosystem planning and management efforts.”

Projects in in the San Francisco Bay Region

The Watershed Management Council
    “The Watershed Management Council is a non-profit organization whose members represent a broad range of watershed management interests and disciplines. Membership includes professionals, students, teachers, and individuals whose interest is in promoting proper watershed management.”

The Watercourse
    “Established in 1989, The Watercourse is a not-for profit water science and education program based at Montana State University, Bozeman. Specializing in the development of educational materials on water and water related management issues, The Watercourse distributes these materials through training workshops and institutes. The goal is to promote and facilitate public understanding of atmospheric, surface, and ground water resources and related management issues through publications, instruction, and networking. The scope of The Watercourse Program is international, its delivery unbiased, and its mission is to build informed leadership in resource decision-making.”

Protecting Your Property From Erosion
    “The loss of soil from a construction site results in loss of topsoil, minerals and nutrients, and it causes ugly cuts and gullies in the landscape. Surface runoff and the materials it carries with it clog our culverts, flood channels and streams. Sometimes it destroys wildlife and damages recreational areas such as lakes and reservoirs.
    Such erosion costs the home construction industry, local governments, and homeowners of the Bay Area millions of dollars a year. We have to pay for damage to roads and property and our tax money has to be spent on cleaning out sediment from storm drains, channels, lakes, and the Bay. As an example, road and home building in the Oakland hills above Lake Temescal filled the lake to such an extent that it had to be dredged in 1979 at a public cost of $750,000.”

 

 

 

 Economy and Economic Development

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City of San Francisco -- Office of the Controller
    “San Francisco’s economy continues to demonstrate strong, sustained growth since the recession of the early 1990’s. Tourism, at the heart of the San Francisco’s economy, continues to thrive. In the past year, the number of people visiting San Francisco increased to more than 15 million, representing an average daily population of more 120,000. These visitors spent over $5 billion in the City, over $10 million per day.
    Employment, business and development trends are similarly optimistic. San Francisco’s unemployment rate in June, 1996. was 5.6% and has shown a continued decline from a high of 7.2% in 1992. Likewise, the office vacancy rate of 8.8% is the lowest in a decade.”

The Natural Step U.S.
    “The Natural Step is a nonprofit environmental education organization that seeks to build consensus on how we can become ecologically and economically sustainable as a society. This consensus, based on fundamental, non controversial scientific principles, can serve as a compass for businesses, communities, government entities, and individuals to understand how to redesign their activities to become more sustainable.”

Transaction Net: How Currency Systems Work
    “A growing number of currency and payment systems, each oriented toward different social and material incentives, are available for use today. The most appropriate one for any given transaction will depend on the needs and objectives of those taking part in the exchange. We present here an overview of the design characteristics of some representative currency systems, all of which are explained in further detail in our glossary of important terms and concepts and under discussion in The Money Conference.”

 

 

 

 Environmental Justice

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Urban Habitat Program
    “Founded in 1989, the Urban Habitat Program is dedicated to building multicultural urban environmental leadership for socially just, ecologically sustainable communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. ...through actions, networking, conferences, publications, teaching, and advocacy — UHP has assisted over a hundred organizations working on environmental justice issues: health, food security, recycling, energy, military base conversion, arts and culture, education, immigration and population, parks and open space.”
    “In conjunction with California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, UHP publishes Race, Poverty and the Environment, a quarterly newsletter providing an authentic voice for social and environmental justice.”

Political Ecology Group
    “The Political Ecology Group (PEG) is a multi-racial, volunteer-based organization working for environmental justice in the San Francisco Bay Area. We bring people together for collective action, participatory education, leadership development, and for carrying out campaigns with national and international impact. PEG builds alliances to confront environmental destruction, racism, sexism, homophobia and corporate power.”

The EcoJustice Network
    “The EcoJustice Network provides on-line services, informational resources and training for activists and organizations involved in the environmental justice movement.”

Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
    “...a non-profit, statewide, multiracial, urban environmental health and justice organization that works with urban communities and grassroots organizations -- using science based research, legal tactics, and organizing strategies to prevent air and water pollution, eliminate toxic hazards, and improve public health. CBE’s long-term goals are to develop an environmentally sustainable manufacturing base, minimize the use of toxins, expand pollution prevention strategies, and involve those people most at risk by industrial pollution in decisions that impact their lives and their communities.”

 

 

 

 Municipal Expenditures

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San Jose, California
    “Through its Integrated Waste Management Program and its Source Reduction and Recycling Procurement Policy, San Jose has become a national leader in stimulating markets for recycled products. The San Jose strategy requires that the city consider the recycled content and recyclability of products and packaging in its procurement decisions.”

 

 

 

 Public Information and Education

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The Wallace Stegner Environmental Center
    “The Wallace Stegner Environmental Center is located in the northwest corner of the 5th floor of San Francisco’s New Main Library. The Center is named for the late Wallace Stegner whose writings contain illuminating perceptions of nature and convey a deep commitment to the task of bringing human activities into harmony with the natural environment. The mission of the Environmental Center is to inspire understanding and appreciation of the interconnectedness and mutual dependence of life on earth through an outstanding collection of environmental literature and innovative and inclusive public programs.”

Estuary Education Program
    “At the workshops, we introduce Estuarine Encounters, an activity guide for grades K-12. Estuarine Encounters, a curriculum guide developed by Friends and the Estuary Project, presents eight key habitats within the Bay and Delta, including mudflats, tidal marshes and riparian corridors. By studying an organism that lives within a habitat, students learn about current Estuary issues. The interdisciplinary guide blends natural science with social science, history, geography and literature. Estuarine Encounters includes a chapter on nonpoint source pollution and related activities.”

San Francisco Unified School District

E2: Environment & Education
    “In response to the need for environmental education materials that emphasize personal responsibility and action based on informed decisions, E2 has developed an activity based supplementary curriculum called Environmental ACTION. The issue based modules guide students through investigations of human health, resource consumption and environmental issues at their school/home/community and encourage taking actions for improvement.”

Bay Area Action
    “Bay Area Action (BAA) is an environmental education and action organization located in California’s San Francisco Bay area. Our mission is to help people discover and strengthen their connection and concern for the natural environment through education and hands-on, action-oriented activities.”

San Francisco School Volunteers
    “Today, San Francisco School Volunteers recruits, trains and links 2,700 community and business volunteers with students in over 100 schools. The organization’s innovative programs provide students with the most important service that our overburdened educational system cannot always deliver -- one-to-one interaction with an adult.”

Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary -- School Programs
    “The Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (GFNMS) supports several exciting and innovative education programs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Through a special arrangement with the Tarlton Institute for Marine Education, the GFNMS helps fund SEA CAMP, a marine-based summer camp for low income kids.
    GFNMS supports PROJECT OCEAN, an exciting education program that turns K-6 grades classrooms into marine ecosystems. And, GFNMS funds the WHALE BUS which travels to schools throughout the Bay Area to bring whale bones, give presentations, and lead activities that bring students into the lives of whales in the Sanctuary.
    Each year the GFNMS sponsors the participation of 25 San Francisco schools in the ADOPT-A-BEACH program at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Students learn first about the beach and its communities and then join a coastal cleanup. Tidepool walks, shark talks, whale watching, and kayaking trips are a few of the meaningful marine school programs that highlight the Sanctuaries and promote stewarship.”

California Trout Unlimited Education
    “The California Trout, Salmon and Steelhead Education Program is an adaptive education program centered around the life cycles of Trout, Salmon and Steelhead Trout. Students from grades K through 12 learn the importance of our valuable natural and economic resources. Classes study the first three life stages of these fish from eyed egg through the fry stage. Eggs are transported by sponsoring fishing clubs and provided by the California Department of Fish and Game.”

 

 

 

 Risk Management

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ABAG Earthquake Maps and Information
good stuff

Preparing for El Nino
    “El Nino, also known as the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), has been forecasted to occur this winter. In an effort to help people understand this incredible weather phenomenon, ABAG is happy to provide this informative website to help you learn more and get ready for the potentially tumultuous winter ahead.”

San Francisco Bay Area Current Earthquake Information

Recent Earthquakes for SF_Bay

Operation Fresh Start -- Sustainable Development Overview
    “Operation Fresh Start is a U.S. Department of Energy initiative that aims to help communities apply the principles of sustainable development when recovering from natural disasters, as well as to use sustainable planning techniques in pre-disaster development.”

 

 

 

 Indices

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Local-Links-San Francisco Bay Area

Earth Dream Eco Links

On the Net

Top URL’s: Web sites rated as high quality by The Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities

Bioneer’s Biolinks

Community-Building Resources
    “Academic Resources | Agricultural Resources | Children’s Resources | Community Radio | Community Resources | Community Service | Conflict Resolution Resources | Economics Resources | Fine Arts Resources | Game Theory Resources | General Reference | Global Knowledge Resources | Legislative Resources | Multicultural Resources | Natural Gardening | Natural Science | Peace Studies | Publications & Archives | Related Reading | Resources For Health | Spiritual Resources | University Mediation Services | Vocational Resources”

Raptor Link Clearinghouse
    substantial

American Solar Energy Society -- Related Websites
    Nonprofit Organizations | ASES Chapters | Government Agencies | University Sites
Renewable Energy Publications | Miscellaneous Sites | Events


Sustainable Resources on the Internet
    Featured Links | Land | Water and Deserts | The Natural Environment | Clearinghouses and Directories | Business and Economics | Employment | Recommended Reading | Interesting People | Food | Consumer Choices | Sustainable Development, Indicators | Health | Language

Sustainable Discussion Groups
    Featured Discussion Groups | Directories of Mailing Lists | Horticulural Lists | Environmental Lists | Architecture and Community Lists | Human Systems Lists | Miscellany

Cooperatives and Nonprofits on the Internet
    Discussion Groups | Clearinghouses and General Sources for Cooperative Information | Essays, Guides and Pamphlets | Food | Community Housing | Consumer | Workers’ | Rural and Agricultural | Health Care | Energy | Credit Unions and Banks | Non-profits | Internet Cooperatives

Resources on Energy

Agriculture and Horticulture Resources
    Featured Sites | Articles, Reviews and Bibliographies | Seeds, Germplasm, Biodiversity | Community Supported Agriculture | Organic Growing | Wild, Native and Perennial Plants | Research | Organizations | Clearinghouses, Directories and Databases | Specific Species | Events | Sustainable Agriculture | Miscellany

Architecture and Community Design
    Original Works and Featured Sites | Sustainable Communities, Development and Indicators | Essays, Bibliographies | Natural Buildings | Architecture | Homesteading, Self-Reliance, Practical Skills | Discussion Groups | Land in Trust and Conservation | “Waste” | Miscellany

Corporate Watch - Links
    Corporations and U.S. Politics: Campaign Finance Reform | Corporate Crime | Corporate Rule | Corporate Sleaze | Corporate Welfare | U.S. & Global Economy
Corporate Globalization: Multilateral Development Banks | Trade & Investment
Intergovernmental Resources: United Nations

 

 

 

 Unclassified

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Bay Area Digital Resource (BADGER) - San Francisco
    This is an amazing resource that prompts you to input your street address in order to zoom in on a satellite photo of your neighborhood.

Access USGS
    Tour | New | Index | Search | Usage | USGS | Overview | Hazards | Water Flow | Wetlands | Water Quality | Biology | Urban | Digital Maps | Other Links

AT RISK: The Greenbelt in San Francisco County

Bay-Delta Division, CDFG

City and County of San Francisco Government Inf…

Cityspan - City and County of San Francisco Official Web Site

Greenbelt Alliance

PIXPage Weather

City.Net San Francisco, California

PROFILE & ANALYSIS

SFPL Government Information Center - Intellectu…

CALPIRG California Public Interest Research Group - Environmental Program

Urban

About CompuMentor

Computers and You

You Can Help
(volunteer page for the SF SPCA)

BIG BROTHERS / BIG SISTERS OF SAN FRANCISCO AND…

THE COLLEGE BOUND FOUNDATION

PENINSULA VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

FORT MILEY ADVENTURE ROPES COURSE

Hamotsi - Volunteer Opportunities in San Francisco

Habitat for Humanity San Francisco

Raphael House

San Francisco Conservation Corps

San Francisco School Volunteers

Project Open Hand

SFSP Home Page

THE SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Special Olympics - Bay Area Program Offices

St. John’s Educational Thresholds Center

THE VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO

Volunteer

Zen Hospice Project Home Page

Death Penalty Focus of California

NCRA Home Page

GreenInfo Network Home Page

Greenbelt Alliance

Global Knowledge 97: Document Archives

The Change Project: Marvin Weisbord interview

The Change Project: Interviews

Foundation for Global Community’s Home Page

2000 & One: Identity for the 21st Century

http://www.global-alliance.com/eventsmain.htm

of Quasars & Quanta

rat haus reality: the health costs of low-leve…

Earth Island

Solstice: Sustainable Living

Renew America

Sustainable Sources Environmental Website

Yellow Mountain Institute and Sustainable Build…

The Neighborhood Works Home Page

GMI: Site Index

Bay Area Green Web

Green Party News Update -- 7/10/97

San Francisco Green Party

Welcome to Urban Ecology

News From Native California

Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events by Topics

Costanoan-Ohlone Indian Canyon Resourcem, Holli…

CIBAHomePage

CHALK: Communities in Harmony Advocating for Le…

San Francisco, CA - Service Learning Program

Cascadia planet Storylines

The Case Against the Global Economy

Becoming neo-natives

how_to_be.html

Toward a Ritual, Story and Culture of Ecologica…

To Learn the Things We Need to Know: Engaging t…

Restoring Relations: The Vernacular Approach to…

Dreaming Indigenous: One Hundred Years From Now…

Shared Living Communities: Building New Extende…

Ecologize the Cities!: How a Confederation of M…

Re-creating Tribe in the City: Rediscovering th…

The Four RÕs of Green Cities: Recycling, Renewa…

Chaos, Play and Imagination: Creating the New M…

Is Community Coming Back?

Restoring the Human Measure to the City

Financial Giants Take Stand Against Sprawl, End…

Sabin Neighborhood: An Inner City Community Rev…

A dialogue with Northwest Environment Watch fou…

Highlights of a dialogue with Alan Thein Durning

O n e W o r l d Front Page

Creative Rights Forum

Welcome to NOL

GCDIS Global Change Calendar

Image Catalog

Kid’s Corner

Photo Gallery

ICE: MAB Fauna Database Online Query System

San Francisco Department of Public Works

San Francisco Department of Public Works

Bay-Delta Division, CDFG

Albuquerque’s Environmental Story

The Fillmore Museum

Earth from Space

CIWMB: Information for Local Governments

WHERE San Francisco - Neighborhoods

San Francisco Bay Area Relief Map

(San Francisco) Bay Area Backcountry

San Francisco Aerial Image Map Preview

U.S. Geological Survey

U.S. Department of the Interior Homepage Kids P…

Welcome To The College of Natural Resources, Be…

SD | Gateway

Gaia Preservation Coalition - GPC

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Other…

Facing the Future

Robert Theobald Home Page

 

 

 

 Books/Authors

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abby\civicnet\books

A Place in Space

Altars of Unhewn Stone -- Science and the Earth

ECO BOOKS

Wendell Berry

Farm as Form: Wendell Berry’s Sabbaths

Moving the Dark to Wholeness: The Elegies of We…

The Gift of Good Land

Another Turn of the Crank

Gary Snyder

The Practice of the Wild

Gary Snyder Manuscripts, 1955-1983

Neahtawanta Center, Synapse 35: Book Review, In…

Change Project: Recommended Reading

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