Links to industrial ecology and sustainable development web sites

Ecology
Industrial ecology
Eco-industrial parks
Sustainable communities
Architecture, construction and urban planning
Sustainable agriculture
Genetic Engineering
South Africa

Ecology and World Systems

Ecology and Society, (formerly the Journal of Conservation Ecology) An online, peer-reviewed journal, including many articles with a broad systems view. Many papers are essentially industrial ecology from the ecologist's perspective, filling a major gap in IE itself. Edited by C. S. Holling, noted systems ecologist who was director of International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.:  http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Includes reports on industrial metabolism studies of the Rhine River Basin and long-term analysis of alternative energy scenarios. (Austria)

Industrial Ecology

The Smart Communities Network has been a dormant site since 2005 but contains some useful resources: http://www.smartcommunities.ncat.org/

Sustainble community, industrial ecology, and eco-industrial park information, including articles and bibliographies. Maintained by the Department of Energy.

National Pollution Prevention Center includes information of industrial ecology research projects,  course designs, bibliographies, and articles
http://www.umich.edu/~nppcpub/resources/compendia/ind.ecol.html

Rockefeller University Program for the Human Environment
Includes twenty papers on industrial ecology, energy, materials, and related subjects

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Zero Emissions Research Iniative http://www.zeri.org/
for general introduction to this initiative and a status report.

Zero Emissions Strategy Conference http://www.the-commons.org/zero-ems/z-site-map.html
An apparently aborted electronic conference, but the site does have a good library of downloadable information, including several new papers by Robert Ayres on industrial metabolism.

Rocky Mountain Institute has been applying systems thinking to energy and transporation issues for over two decades, including the Hypercar concept for very high efficiency vehicles. In the 90s RMI has added valuable work in community and real estate development. http://www.rmi.org/

Ecological Operating Systems Home Page Gil Friend and Associates's home page for information on company eco-audits, community metabolism, and other applications of IE.   http://ext.lanl.gov/projects/green/index.html

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Green chemistry Institute  http://ext.lanl.gov/projects/green/index.html
Promotes and fosters Green Chemistry through information dissemination, chemical research, and conferences and symposia. Green chemistry = environmentally benighn chemical synthesis and processing. See our page on GC for more links.

McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry http://www.mbdc.com
Architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart apply a proprietary Index of Sustainability to evaluate a product's materials and processes in the categories of ecology, social equity, and economy.

Companies applying industrial ecology

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Interface Inc. http://www.ifsia.com/ecosense/
Interface, Inc.'s "Journey to Sustainability by Practicing Industrial Ecology. We accept our responsibility as a member of the industrial world... if we can get it right (recycling), we might never have to take another drop of oil from the earth."

FIX Suprachem (South Africa)  http://www.suprachem.co.za/
This wholly owned subsidiary of Iscor Steel is responsible for identifying uses and markets for all by-product materials from steel production.

Eco-industrial park and industrial ecosystem sites

Eco-Industrial Development Institute in Taiwan is a blog on eco-industrial activity here and elsewhere in Asia: http://www.eco-industrial.org

The Eco-Efficiency Centre at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada is a strong center for industrial ecology and eco-industrial education and research. http://eco-efficiency.management.dal.ca/

US-EPA $martGrowth Network, eco-industrial parks http://www.smartgrowth.org/resources/ecoind_res.html

Designing Industrial Ecosystems Tool (from $martGrowth Network) -- a computer database for matching materials and energy by-products with potential users. http://www.smartgrowth.org/library/DIET.html

Canadian Eco-Industrial Network   http://www.cardinalgroup.ca/CEIN/index.html

Londonderry, New Hampshire eco-industrial park http://www.londonderry.org/II_EPARK/II_epark.htm

Proceedings from the International Symposium on Management of Industrial Estates Through Green Productivity, Penang, Malaysia, September 2000 http://www.apo-tokyo.org/gp.new/A0gpdp.htm

Sustainable Communities

The International Institute for Sustainable Development http://iisd1.iisd.ca/

Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development links to agencies, organizations, and cities
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/hotspots.html

US-EPA SmartGrowth Network http://www.smartgrowth.org/index.html

Center for Neighborhood Technologies  http://www.cnt.org/jump_www.html#org

Center for Sustaiable Communities, U of Washington http://weber.u.washington.edu/~common/

Green Plan Center of the Resource Renewal Institute

Sustainable Community Network http://www.sustainable.org/index.html

Architecture, construction and urban planning

Yale University School of Architecture and Planning EcoArch site and links to many other sites http://pantheon.cis.yale.edu/~jluke313/

University of Buffalo School of Architecture links (a very large number in all subject areas!)http://www.arch.buffalo.edu/pairc/index.html

The Center for Construction and the Environment and the Center for Affordable Housing at the University of Florida http://www.bcn.ufl.edu/  (link to Research Centers)

The Center for Sustainable Cities, University of  Kentucky http://www.uky.edu/Classes/PS776/cscinfo.html

Habitat in the developing world   http://obelix.polito.it/forum/links/

Sustainable Agriculture Sites

USDA's site offers  extensive links on sustainable, alternative, and organic farming http://www.sare.org/san/htdocs/docs/other.html

The Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at University of Califonria Santa Cruz  http://zzyx.ucsc.edu/casfs/index.html

Agroecology Activities at U.C. Berkeley  http://www.CNR.Berkeley.EDU/~agroeco3/
Promoting sustainable agriculture among resource-poor farmers in the developing world.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  http://www.fao.org

University of Wisconsin's links page http://www.wisc.edu/cias/links/susag.html

Proceedings of the Internet Conference on Integrated Bio-Systems (1998)   Editors: Eng-Leong Foo & Tarcisio Della Senta: http://www.ias.unu.edu/proceedings/icibs/See also the Resource Site on Integrated Bio-Systems link from this site for case studies, links and other resources.

This e-conference that Jacky Foo coordinated is a rich resource of industrial ecology thinking related to closing loops in human biological systems, particularly agriculture. Each paper has commentaries from conference participants. (with the whole set for each paper downloadable as a Word97 file or as html viewed separately)

Genetic engineering in farming

Union of Concerned Scientists  http://www.ucsusa.org/agriculture/index.html
See  the UCS paper on industrial agriculture, sustainable agriculture, and genetic engineering at this site.

USDA's page on biotechnology in agriculture http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/
Extensive information and links, generally favorable to genetic engineering.

Greenpeace genetic engineering page  http://www.greenpeace.org/~geneng/index.html
Information and links, generally critical of genetic engineering.

Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture http://www.foundation.novartis.com/nfhome.html
Novartis is the merger of Sandoz and Ciba-Giegy with major interest in commercialization of biotechnology and genetic engineering in both agriculture and pharmaceuticals.

See also the Monsanto link given above.

South African Sites

The African National Congress site includes extensive links to agencies, news sources, policy papers, and SA organizations. http://www.polity.org.za/

The SA Embassy in the US offers a comprehensive set of links for news sources: http://www.southafrica.net/news/newspapers.html

Southern African Environment Page (Rhodes University) http://www.ru.ac.za/departments/law/SAenviro/saep.html

Index of community development organizations in SA http://www.amandla.org/za/host/comdev.html