At the core of building more sustainable communities, energy efficient structures, and preserving our natural environment is our need to completely re-think global transportation and retool personal transport with multi-modal choices and more efficient, renewable energy vehicles.
"The horseless carriage is the coming wonder. It is only a question of a
short time when the carriages and trucks in every large city will be
run with motors." Thomas Edison, 1895
Alternative Fuel Vehicle News
Consumer Energy Center Transportation Choices
Electric Auto Association
Global Stewards Solutions for Getting Around Town
Hybrid Vehicles
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Transportation Choices for Consumers
Preservation
Building preservation is the front-line of sustainability. Adaptive reuse utilizes the embodied energy and materials of existing buildings that form the irreplaceable context of historic districts — national treasures and repositories of our community’s most important beliefs held together in the fabric of ‘place.’
Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation
Boston Preservation Alliance
Historic New England
Massachusetts Historical
National Park Service, Technical Preservation Services for Historic Buildings,
Preservation Briefs
National Register of Historic Places
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Preserve.net
Preservation MASS
Secretary of the Interiors Standards for the treatment of Historic Buildings
The Association for Preservation Technology International
Sustainability:
Earth’s human population in 1900 was 700-million. Today, we are 7-billion with estimates for 2025 at 8.5-billion and 11.6-billion by 2150. Adopting more sustainable living and building practices is not a burgeoning fad, is it a commitment to our humanity and survival of the planet. Change occurs one conversation at a time, one project at a time, and with each action we take.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alliance for Global Sustainability
Boston Building Materials Resource Center
Building Green
California Department of Toxic Substance Control
Center for Health Environment and Justice
Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
Collaborative for High Performance Schools
Conservation Economy
Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management
Earth’s Carrying Capacity and Populations
Eco-labels-The Consumers Union Guide to Environmental Labels
EcoWaters Projects
Environmental Design and Construction Ideas for Sustainable Design
Forestry Stewardship Council
GeoExchange
Geothermal Research Program
Global Footprint Network
Global Green USA
Green Affordable Housing Coalition
GreenBiz
Green Building Resource Guide
Green Decade Coalition, Newton, Massachusetts
Green Resource Center
Green Roundtable
Greener Building
Healthy Building Network
International Institute for Natural Environmental & Cultural Resource Management
Local Governments for Sustainability
Massachusetts Audubon
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
Minnesota Building Materials Database
MLUI New Ecology Inc.
Natural Resources Defense Council
New Ecology Network
The Institution Recycling Network
Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
Plant Native
Renewable
Review of Sustainable Design Technologies and Products
Rudolf Steiner Foundation Innovations in Social Finance
Scorecard Pollution Information Website
Sustainable Architecture, Building and Culture
The Association for Preservation Technology International
United Nations Division for Sustainable Development
United States Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy Network
United States Green Building Council
United States Green Building Council's LEED Green Building Rating System
for Existing Buildings
Whole Building Design Guide
Reference points
To glimpse into the future and envision where we are all heading, it is useful to see where we've come from. Today, nearly all of humanity benefited in some way from the great advancements of the 18th, and 19th Centuries. However, many of these technological advancements have created new challenge for us, our planet, and for all future generations.
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