Consumption
The average U.S. person now consumes twice as much as they did 50 years ago. Our national happiness peaked sometime in the 1950s. Is there a connection? The "Story of Stuff" is a video and online resource for learning about where stuff comes from, where it goes and the impacts of consumerism. www.storyofstuff.com or The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard.
Grassroots Sustainability Groups
Sustainable Communities All Over Puget Sound (SCALLOPS)
Over 70 local neighborhood and community groups work to promote sustainable living. Sustainable NE Seattle is our local group.
www.sustainableneseattle.ning.com
The Bigger Picture
Great City
A Seattle urban advocacy group that believes smart and responsible urbanism is the solution to many of our social, economic, and environmental challenges.
www.greatcity.org/
Sustainable Sites Initiative
Is an interdisciplinary effort by landscape architect, gardening, and botanical organizations to create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable landscape design, construction and maintenance.
www.sustainablesites.org/
U.S. Green Building Council: LEED for Neighborhood Development
This rating system integrates the principles of smart growth, urbanism and green building into the first national rating system for neighborhood design.
www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=148
Transition Culture is about communities responding to peak oil and climate change by rebuilding their local economies and community organization.
transitionculture.org
Worldchanging.com is a nonprofit media organization headquartered in Seattle, that covers the world’s most innovative solutions to the planet’s problems and inspires readers with stories of new tools, models and ideas for building a bright green future.
www.worldchanging.com