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Urban Sustainability

Sustainable Sites Initiative

Click Here for a link to The Preliminary Report on the Standards and Guidelines for Sustainable Sites

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.

Environment

IoE

The homepage of the UCLA Institute of the Environment

Land Use and Health

CHEC

The Children's Environmental Health Center (CEHC) at USC and UCLA was established to investigate effects of the environment on children's respiratory health, with a focus on asthma and allergic airway disease

Climate Change

Environmental and social breakdown is now so extensive that we need to fundamentally examine long-held assumptions about "progress." Healthy restraint was the Buddha’s intent, in his philosophy of the Middle Way between excess and deprivation; It is a key factor in lasting progress.

Water

WaterNews is published by Circle of Blue, nonprofit affiliate project of the Pacific Institute. The site is a daily extension of Circle of Blue’s long-form journalistic and scientific coverage of the global freshwater crisis and its solutions. WaterNews will grow to encompass a wide range of information in various formats — from the complex to the quirky — frontline reporting that’s engaging, valuable, timely and relevant.Circle of Blue strives to identify and describe the dimensions of the global freshwater crisis in ways not imagined only a few years ago.

Spouting Off

A Blog about water-related environmental topics by Mark Gold, D. Env., President of Heal the Bay.

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