The state of the world
 The Climate Change Debate Is Over
Stern Report - The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change is a serious global threat, and it demands an urgent global response. Key points are summarised on the Guardian website.
realclimate.org - "Climate science from climate scientists"
Globalissues.org - inter-related issues discussed range from trade, poverty and globalization, to human rights, geopolitics, the environment, and more.
State of the Future - An extraordinary overview of the emerging future, including Future Ethical Issues and Values, Global Challenges, Sustainable Development and Quality of Life issues
State of the Environment - From the Ministry for the Environment New Zealand [nz]
The issues - From the Ministry for the Environment New Zealand [nz]
Caluculate Your Ecological Footprint - From the Ministry for the Environment New Zealand [nz]
Global Environmental Change - Fact sheet from the World Health Organization - United Nations specialized agency for health
The Carbon Neutral Myth - Fact sheet from the World Health Organization - United Nations specialized agency for health
Ecosystems and Health - Fact sheet from the World Health Organization - United Nations specialized agency for health
Atmospheric - Fact sheet from the World Health Organization - United Nations specialized agency for health
Climate Change - Fact sheet from the World Health Organization - United Nations specialized agency for health
New Zealand Climate Change office [nz]
Environmental reports - The International Corporate Environmental Reporting Site
They Rule - Provides a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class, and is a starting point for research about these powerful individuals and corporations.
In your community and around your home
Worldchanging User guide to the 21st century
top 50 things you can do today
We are what we do
4million.org.nz resources to assist us making positive behaviour changes [nz]
Eat less meat Our farm animals generate more greenhouse gas than all forms of human transport. [nz]
Sustainable Households [nz]
Waste Reduction [nz]
Reduce Rubbish [nz]
EECA - Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority [nz]
Fuel Saver [nz]
The Greens Peak oil Toolkit [nz]
Carbon Caluclator [nz]
Changethis - Manifestos for a new world order
Offset your Carbon emissions as an interim 'stop-gap' measure, but be aware that carbon offsetting is not a solution. [nz]
100 Mile Diet - tools to help you eat locally.
EnergyStar Loans - Eco Mortage Broking services
Residential Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Calculator [nz]
Commercial Waste solutions [nz]
Become a Changemaker [nz]
Sustainable Procurement
Govt 3 Procurement gaining improvements in areas such as fuel efficiency, building energy efficiency, office supplies, cleaning services, and print services. [nz]
Computer Report Card (340 KB PDF) Annual report from the Computer TakeBack Campaign which documents whether manufacturers are including environmental design concepts into their products and taking responsibility for the entire life cycle of their products.
EcoCover mulch and fertilizer enriched mulch mats [nz] are a 'world first' in providing a cost-effective substitute for plastic and other mulch systems used in the horticultural, agricultural and land management industries.
Hybrid Cars - an independent online reference about fuel efficient vehicle technology.
Vodafone, together with Recycle NZ, is making it easy for people to return their mobiles and accessories for reuse or recycling through a new Mobile Recycling programme. Contact Vodafone at recycling.nz@vodafone.com
Remarkit professionally manage the commissioning, decommissioning and remarketing of Information Technology IT equipment.
In Business:
World Changing
Sustainable Business Network [nz]
Greenfleet [nz]
New Zealand Council for Sustainable Development [nz] - Providing business leadership as a catalyst for change toward sustainable development, and promoting eco-efficiency, innovation and responsible entrepreneurship.
Green Business News
Green Biz - Information resource on how to align environmental responsibility with business success.
Idealog [nz] the magazine and website of creative business, ideas and innovation.
GreenOptions - online hub for all things Green
Forum for the future - Leading sustainable development charity in the UK.
The Natural Step [nz] - Helping companies, non-profit organisations, individuals and communities lead the transition to an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable future.
Emprove [nz] - An Energy Management Programme which gives an organisation the knowledge and the tools to actively manage their energy use and to shave significant dollars off their operating costs.
Waste Not [nz] - A specialist professional consultancy determined to lead the way in providing solutions to the growing waste problem.
Govt 3 - Under the motto ‘walking the talk’, the Ministry for the Environment runs the Govt3 programme that helps central government agencies become more sustainable.
CSR Best Practice Directory - The leading source of corporate responsibility and sustainability, press releases, reports and news.
Global reporting Initiative - Developing and disseminating globally applicable Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.
AccountAbility - British Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability
Sustainable Business - Growing sustainable businesses who offer products and services that fulfill society's needs while contributing to the well-being of all earth's inhabitants.
Environmental Footprint Calulators
Offset your Carbon emissions
SIGnal - MFE's Sustainability Newsletter Growing sustainable businesses who offer products and services that fulfill society's needs while contributing to the well-being of all earth's inhabitants.
3R Commercial Waste solutions Specialist local advice on product stewardship, resource recovery systems, waste management and recycling & e-waste recycling solutions.
Ethical and Sustainable Investment:
Ethical and Sustainable Investment [nz] - New Zealand based research and advisory services on ethical and sustainable investment and business.
Prometheus[nz] - Investing in the future, Banking with heart, Lending with forethought...
The Dow Jones Sustainability Index - Tracking the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide.
FTSE4GOOD - Measuring the performance of companies that meet globally recognised corporate responsibility standards, and facilitating investment in those companies.
Academic Research and Policy Development
New Zealand Energy Revolution A report by Greenpeace examining how New Zealand can restructure its energy system to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the worst effects of climate change.
Rachel.org - Environmental Research Foundation - News and resources for environmental justice.
World Resources Institute - Environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives.
WorldWatch - Interdisciplinary global research, providing a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends.
WWF [nz] - Policy work, campaigning, on-the-ground action and education and capacity building to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.
Online Activism and Social Innovators
WiserEarth - an international community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations and individuals addressing the central issues of our day
We Are What We Do - a new movement inspiring people to use their everyday actions to make a change
bigpicture.tv - streams free video clips of leading experts, thinkers and activists in environmental and social sustainability.
ChangeThis - challenging the way ideas are created and spread.
Changemakers [nz] inspiring and supporting a greater citizen engagement on social, economic and environmental issues.
Change Agency developing capabilities for effective community and activist groups.
New American Dream - Conscious Consumer website.
Adbusters - Vancouver based anti-consumerist magazine
RTMARK - providing key services to artists, activists and the intellectual community.
Independent media
Corporate Watch - Focused on corporate crime and the nature and mechanisms of corporate economic and political power.
Bioneers - Educational and economic development programs in the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, traditional farming practices, and environmental restoration.
Media Rights - Human Rights film network, maximizing the impact of social-issue documentaries and short films.
Sustainable Design and Innovation
Inhabitat - a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.
Treehugger web magazine, dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible.
Vivavi - online store with beautiful modern style
eco-friendly furniture & furnishings.
LED lighting Creative Lighting
Cradle to Cradle - Industry Transformation
Mio Culture- combining business rigor with environmentally and socially progressive design
Re-nourish - resource for the graphic design industry
The Mighty ODO Advocates of using creativity to try and rekindle a connection between people and nature, and helping to foster a new sustainable design model based on nature’s laws through education, exploration and example.
Massive Change website exploring paradigm-shifting events, ideas, and people, investigating the capacities and ethical dilemmas of design in manufacturing, transportation, urbanism, warfare, health, living, energy, markets, materials, the image and information.
McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry MBDC's Design Paradigm models human industry on natural processes, creating safe and healthy prosperity.
Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough , Michael Braungart
Worldchanging - by Alex Steffen, Al Gore (Foreword), Bruce Sterling (Introduction)
Biomimicry : Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
Ecological Design by Sim Van Der Ryn , Stuart Cowan
Eco Design - The Source book by Alastair Fuad-Luke
Best Blogs and Wikis
Celsias - [nz] a weblog devoted uncovering truths and exploring concepts and ideas relating to sustainability. A great resouce.
treehugger - web magazine, dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible. Their goal is to make sustainability mainstream and are looking for solutions, constructive developments and positive initiatives.
Monbiot.com - a weblog from leftwing journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist in the United Kingdom who writes a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper.
HUGG - The best green news as decided by you and your peers. Daily.
appropedia.org appropedia is a dynamic and open library wiki, focused on increasing Sustainability through the use of appropriate technology.
Inhabitat - a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.
Films to watch:
An Inconvenient Truth
A Decent Factory
The Corporation
Who killed the Electric car?
What the Bleep Do We Know
The Take
The Yes Men
China Blue
You Tube
Sustainable Dance Club
Climate Change Denial Industry
Global Warming
What does your car say about you?
Macs and PCS - Brothers from another Mother
Petrolius - the oil habit
Mad World
Glossary:
CSR
Lohas
Natural Capital
Social Capital
Cultural Creatives
Gross National Happiness
Triple Bottom Line
Full cost Accounting
Natural Capitalism
Peak oil
Interconnectedness
Holism
Some Key People:
Jonathon Porritt
Ray Anderson
Paul Hawken
Amory Lovins
Hunter Lovins
Dr Nicholas Stern
Marilyn Waring [nz]
Al Gore
George Monbiot
Reading List:
Worldchanging - by Alex Steffen, Al Gore (Foreword), Bruce Sterling (Introduction)
Getting to Maybe - Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, and Michael Quinn Patton - How the world is changed
Blessed Unrest - by Paul Hawken
HEAT - How to stop the planet burning by George Monbiot
Natural Capitalism - Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken , Amory Lovins , L. Hunter Lovins
Ecology of Commerce - A declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken
Capitalism As If the World Matters Jonathon Porritt
Manifesto for a New World Order by George Monbiot
The Natural Step for Business : Wealth, Ecology & the Evolutionary Corporation by Brian Nattrass , Mary Altomare
Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model: by Ray Anderson
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order by Noam Chomsky
The Answer to How is Yes by Peter Block
Healthy Money, Healthy Planet Developing Sustainability through New Money Systems by Deirdre Kent [nz]
A Simpler Way by Margaret J. Wheatley , Myron Kellner-Rogers
Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future (Paperback) by Margaret J. Wheatley
An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (Paperback) by Arundhati Roy
Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate - The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff
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