Resources & Tools

Sustainability

School Sustainability

National LISTSERV for Sustainability in Higher Education

This active nation-wide LISTSERV for school sustainability efforts is primarily focused on institutions of higher education, but much of the discussion is equally relevant for K-12 application, and K-12 folks are welcome to join. To subscribe, send an email to listserv@listserv.brown.edu. The body of the email should say "subscribe grnsch-l" (without quotes).

National K-12 Sustainability LISTSERV

This national LISTSERV is coordinated by the K-12 and Teacher Education sector of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development. Educators involved with teaching students in any subject within the K-12 arena are encouraged to join. The goal of the Sustaink12 LISTSERV is for educators to communicate and collaborate on strategies to integrate education for sustainability into the teaching and operations of U.S. K-12 schools.

There are two ways to join the LISTSERV:

1) Go to https://listserver.itd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=sustaink12 and join;
2) Send an email message to: sustaink12-request@umich.edu , with the word "subscribe" in the subject line of your message.

Sustainable Schools LISTSERV (For members of the National Association of Independent Schools only) –access via the NAIS website at www.nais.org

(a) Send an email to: lyris@lists.nais.org

(b) Leave the subject line blank

(d) After sending this email, you will receive a confirmation message

General Sustainability Information

SOSI Documents
- Info-Sheet: What is Sustainability? (330K PDF)
- Worksheet: Sustainability for Kids (471K PDF)
- Brief Summary of the Natural Step: TNS Summary (46K PDF)

Cradle to Cradle
http://www.mcdonough.com/cradle_to_cradle.htm

Earthday Network
http://ww2.earthday.net/

Global Footprint Network
http://www.footprintnetwork.org

Global Reporting Initiative
http://www.globalreporting.org

Japan for Sustainability

http://www.japanfs.org/en_/view/index.html

Living Planet Report, World Wildlife Fund
http://www.panda.org/news_facts/publications/living_planet_report/index.cfm

Natural Capitalism
http://www.natcap.org/

Oregon Natural Step Network
http://www.ortns.org/

Redefining Progress
http://www.rprogress.org/index.htm

Sustainable Northwest

http://www.sustainablenorthwest.org/

Sustainable Oregon

http://www.sustainableoregon.net/