Sustainable housing directory

[edit] Information sources by region

[edit] Australia

• The EcoShop - online eco shop with links to information resources
• Earth Garden magazine -- Australia's original magazine about sustainable living with country and city alternatives, now in its 33rd year
• Earth garden favourite Links -- renewable energy, RAP installers, owner building, earth and straw building, permaculture and organic gardening, waste management, ethical investment, green organisations, ecoproperty, eco products
• The Greendirectory - Australian online eco directory
• Alternative Technology Association - Australia’s leading not-for-profit organisation, promoting sustainable technology and practice to protect the environment.
• Sustainable Living Foundation is a community based not-for-profit organisation committed to promoting, celebrating and practicing principles of sustainable living.
• Warming: Cool It An Australian Government home guide to reducing energy costs and greenhouse gases.
• Australian Greenhouse Office

[edit] Victoria

• Sunpower Design - over 25 years experience specialising in integrated sustainable building design of homes that exceed the 5 star energy performance rating.
• Zen Architects
• Lighter footprints is a climate change neighbourhood action group active in Surrey Hills and adjacent suburbs, Melbourne, Victoria
• Families Facing Climate Change is a group based in Ashburton, Melbourne, Australia.
• Greenlink Box Hill -- Local plants for local places.
• Environment Victoria -- Victoria's peak non-government environment organisation, campaigning across Victoria for more than 30 years.
• Bayside Climate Change Action Group -- formed by parents in the Bayside area, the group goals are to provide a collective voice for Bayside residents for both families and individuals determined to fight for a clean energy future.
• Wren Industries -- makes of concertina foil bats and Renshade aluminium foil holland blinds for windows.
• Going Solar -- provides innovative solutions for integrating PV solar power modules into buildings.
• Building and renovating sustainably -- Sustainability Victoria, Victorian Government, how you can be energy and water efficient in all aspects of your project.

[edit] Western Australia

• Solar Dwellings -- passive solar energy efficient homes designer in Perth.
• Sustainable Consulting -- Perth-based consulting firm established in 2001 to help progress the sustainability agenda in Western Australia and beyond.
• Sustainable Living WA -- provides information from Western Australian Government agencies and other sources on sustainable living in Western Australia.

[edit] Queensland

• Sustainable Living QLD -- Queensland Government information on sustainable living and building.

[edit] New South Wales

• The Institute for Sustainable Futures -- Based in Sydney, Australia
• Michael Mobbs Sustainable Projects -- design, consulting and speaking services.
• Geo Air Services -- Sydney-based company dedicated to helping home owners cool and heat their homes efficiently, and with less power than conventional air conditioning

[edit] Tasmania

• Sustainable Living Tasmania -- community resource and education centre to provide a for the protection and restoration of the natural environment and the development of homes and cities for a sustainable future.

• Core Collective -- is committed to the production of innovative architecture grounded in a sensitivity for its environmental, social, cultural and economic context.

[edit] United States

• Green Home Building
• Building Living Neighborhoods
• TheGreenerHome -- Sustainable Living Resource for Western North Carolina
• LA Green Living
• America -- Economic Action for a Just Planet
• Architecture for humanity -- charitable organisation promoting architectural and design solutions to global, social and humanitarian crises.

[edit] Germany

• SCHOTT AG -- is one of the leading solar industry companies worldwide, offering a wide range of future-oriented products and solutions for almost all photovoltaic and solar thermal applications.

[edit] General information and topics

• Google Directory - Sustainable Living

[edit] Wikis

• Appropedia is focused reducing poverty through international development and increasing sustainability through the use of appropriate technology
• Technology and Social Action Wiki was established to foster dialogue and collaboration between activists in social movements, voluntary and community organisations and technology designers.
• Howtopedia is a collaborative platform for practical knowledge and simple technologies that are easily explainable and usable by individuals or small communities for a sustainable and ecological future.
• Village Earth's Appropriate Technology Wiki Project aims to improve the development of and access to information on small-scale do-it-yourself technologies through an open design approach.
• TipThePlanet is a green wiki website that encourages discussion and the generation of tips that benefit you and the planet - from tips for individuals to tips for multi-national companies on how to limit their carbon footprints.
• PermaWiki is a free permaculture designers manual that anyone can edit
• SolaRoof Open Eco Wiki's goal is to transform our homes and communities through an Open Source initiative for Sustainable Living

[edit] Energy

• Oil Depletion Protocol is an international agreement that will enable nations of the world to cooperatively reduce their dependence on oil.
• Futureenergy.org -- information about clean power, polluting power, energy efficiency, climate change, oil peak, politics, energy efficient homes and transport solutions.
• Renew News -- is a community-based resource about Renewable Energy

[edit] Wikipedia articles

• Carbon dioxide sink
• ‎Global warming
• Greenhouse effect
• Natural gas
• Permaculture
• Renewable energy
• Solar power
• Sustainability
• Sustainable energy
• Sustainable living

[edit] Notes