- Web Sites
- Articles
- Reports
- Further Resources
- Sustainability Plans
- Blogs
- Best Practices
- Sustainability & Green Organizations
Web Sites
America’s 50 Greenest Cities – Popular Science
Cazenovia Area Community Development Association (CACDA)
The Alchemical Nursery Project
Empire State Future – NYS Smart Growth Coalition
The Environmental Literacy Council
Green CNY – Syracuse.com magazine and blog
Home Grown: The 21st Century Family Farm
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Making Sense of Place – A documentary film series and education outreach project; features Cleveland, Phoenix, Portland, OR
The Mannahatta Project – Wildlife Conservation Society’s original ecology of Manhattan
NYS American Farmland Trust (AFT)
SU -The Green University – SU Sustainability web site
Sustainable Enterprise Partnership – SU
Envi: prototype environmental magazine online
NRDC’s Smarter Cities Rankings
ICLEI – International association of Local Governments for Sustainability
Agenda 21 – U.N. Commission for Sustainable Development
Chapter 28 of Agenda 21 – Local Authorities’ Initiatives
Sightline.org – Seattle-based Pacific NW think tank
PBS Blueprint America: Road to the Future
Transportation Demand Management: Victoria Transport Policy Institute Online TDM Encyclopedia
Earth Day Network (Earth Day is April 22)
Evergreen Electric Vehicle Company
Onondaga Environmental Institute
Articles
Freiburg, Germany – German City Emerges as a World Class Energy-Saver
Top 10 Earth and People Friendly Buildings
Toughest Recycling Law in the U.S.
Greening With Envy – article on peer information/social pressure in the July/August Atlantic
Biking and Walking: Our Secret Weapon?
A New Enforcer in Buildings: The Energy Inspector
Small, Green and Good: The role of neglected cities in a sustainable future
By Catherine Tumber BOSTON REVIEW, MARCH/APRIL 2009
Op-Ed Columnist: It’s Easy Being Green
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Saving the planet won’t come free (although the early stages of conservation actually might). But it won’t cost all that much either.
Op-Ed Columnist: The New Sputnik
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
China is embarking on a new, parallel path of clean power deployment and innovation. It is the Sputnik of our day. Unfortunately, we’re still not racing.
The Green Case for Cities
By WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI (THE ATLANTIC)
OCTOBER 2009
Forget the solar panels and the rain barrels—if you want to save energy, leave the suburbs.
Reports
Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America, Brookings Report
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) LOCAL LEADERS Studies
COUNTIES with green programs:
Summary chart
Full report
CITIES with green programs:
Summary chart
Full report
Reducing U. S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much At What Cost?
The McKinsey & Company Report, December 2007 (click here for PDF)
“Unlocking Energy Efficiency in the U.S. Economy”, July 2009
by Hannah Choi Granade, Jon Creyts, Anton Derkach, Philip Farese, Scott Nyquist and Ken Ostrowski
165 pages
Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan
New York’s Offshore Wind Energy Development Potential in the Great Lakes:Feasibility Study
NYSERDA, April 2010
Sustainability Plans
Sustainable City—San Francisco
City of Portland and Multnomah County Climate Action Plan 2009
Vancouver 2020: An Action Plan for Becoming the World’s Greenest City by 2020
Further Resources
Syracuse MSA Rural Urban Commuting Area Codes Brief
Syracuse MSA Rural Urban Commuting Area Pattern Map
Blogs
The Dirt – Landscape Architecture, Sustainability and Environmental News
Best Practies
US Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Center – Best Practices
Sustainability and Green Organizations
Review of Organizations Summary
Review of Resource-Related Organizations
Review of Government Organizations
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