Sustainable Communities

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News

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is pleased to announce the
opening of its online book shop at http://www.EarthPrint.com

The new UNEP Internet book shop complements UNEP's existing home page
http://www.unep.org and its publication catalogue Environment in Print.

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The United States Environmental Protection Agency has created a home
page designed to promote "Community-Based Environmental Protection" (CBEP).

CBEP is a policy framework within EPA that:

* addresses the environmental priorities and economic well-being of
communities;

* facilitates partnerships and stakeholder involvement;

* incorporates long-term ecosystem and human health concerns;

* highlights the positive correlation between economic prosperity and
environmental well-being; and,

* sustains biological diversity of ecosystems.

The web site focuses on providing the following types of information:

Tools: Maps and Mapping Resources, Databases, Geographic Information

Systems, Planning and Assessment Guides, Visualization Tools, etc...

Financial Resources: Grants and Technical Assistance from various sources.

Case Studies: Examples of sustainable development approaches in communities
around the U.S. (Soon to be in a searchable database format.)

Publications and Documents: A large and comprehensive library of useful
publications and other documents.

Links to Related Sites: Comprehensive, well-organized set of Internet links
to other similar organizations and related activities.

***Please point your browser to: http://www.epa.gov/ecocommunity

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Questions or comments can be addressed to:
Christopher Solloway
Office of Sustainable Ecosystems and Communities
US Environmental Protection Agency
Mail Code: 2182
401 M Street SW
Washington, DC 20460
voice 202.260.3008
fax 202.260.7875
solloway.chris@epa.gov

Mailing Lists

CLEANER PRODUCTION AND SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

http://www.tei.or.th/ctic

Free distribution by e-mail of all IISD Reporting Service material
available by sending the following command in the body of the message to
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Usenet Newsgroups

alt.sustainable.agriculture
alt.agriculture.misc
alt.agriculture.fruit
sci.agriculture

* Links *

The Sustainable Business Network is at
http://www.envirolink.org/sbn
Rona Fried, Ph.D.
Executive Editor, Sustainable Business Network Journal
516-423-3277

Here's a site that should cheer us all. It is hte homepage of URBED
(the Urban and Economic Development Group) in England, who have been
promoting sustainable communities for twenty years. They have numeous
on-the-ground projects that are described in the website. There is also
more extensive matter available in their printed matter, including
SUNDial, the organ of their Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods arm (also
discussed in the website). Go to:
http://www.urbed.co.uk/index.html
Well worth the time.
Richard Risemberg
rickrise@earthlink.net
http://www.earthlink.net/~rickrise/

Those interested in brewery waste utilisation and a process for
recycling waste to saleable items please visit:
http://www.fishace.demon.co.uk/subwum.htm

The Internet Conference on Integated Bio-Systems has a new homepage: http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-25860/icibs

Midwest Research Institute,website:http://www.mriresearch.org
or call Erin McGrane, 816-753-7600 ext 1449 (emcgrane@mriresearch.org)
Margaret Thomas, Senior Resource Planner,
425 Volker Boulevard, Kansas City, MO 64110 816-753-7600 ext 1449.
mthomas@mriresearch.org

Florida Sustainable Communities Center, bringing you our latest news, reviews, resources and
links to sustainability and sustainable communities in Florida, and around the world.
http://edesign.state.fl.us

Cleaner Technology Information Center,
Thailand Environment Institute,
Bangkok, Thailand
Email : mandar@tei.or.th
http://www.tei.or.th/ctic

The International Institute For Sustainable Development (IISD) Announces the
Availability Of On-Line Information Resources

IISD publishes real-time meetings reports in the Earth Negotiations Bulletin

and Sustainable Developments as well as digital photos, RealAudio and RealVideo interviews with participants.
These resources can be found at the IISD "Linkages" WWW site, located at
http://www.iisd.ca/

IISD Reporting Services provides:
The Earth Negotiations Bulletin - daily and summary reports on
international negotiations, supported by 14 governments
Sustainable Developments - a for-hire reporting service for
conferences, workshops, symposia and other international policy
meetings /linkages/journal/ - a quarterly report in PDF format that
summarizes environmental and development policy meetings worldwide

Free distribution by e-mail of all IISD Reporting Service material
available by sending the following command in the body of the message to
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subscribe ENB (your name)

For more information on the IISD Reporting Services contact the
Managing Editor, Langston "Kimo" Goree at 1-212-644-0204 and
e-mail:kimo@iisd.org

SOURCE International Institute for Sustainable Development
CONTACT: Langston "Kimo" Goree, 212-644-0204, or kimo@iisd.org of
International Institute for Sustainable Development/

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ATTRA, the national sustainable farming information center
located at the University of Arkansas, has several new publications
on its web site relating to composts and organic amendments for
disease suppression, nematode control, organic waste recycling,
soil quality testing, etc.

Compost Teas for Plant Disease Control
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/comptea.html

Disease Suppressive Potting Mixes
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/dspotmix.html

Organic Potting Mixes
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/potmix.html

Worms for Composting (Vermicomposting)
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/vermicom.html

Alternative Soil Testing Laboratories
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/soil-lab.html

Sources for Organic Fertilizers & Amendments
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/orgfert.html

Alternative Nematode Control
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/nematode.html

The concepts and technologies described in these publications are
a result of the rapidly expanding knowledge base in sustainable
agriculture that has evolved from the work of farmers, non-profit and
university specialists, and product suppliers in the past 10 years.

Steve Diver
ATTRA
steved@ncatark.uark.edu

In Context: Sustainable Culture

Sustainable Technologies/Renewable Energy

Sustainable Living

Sustainable Agricultural Management of Pesticides

Organic Agricultural Self-Sufficiency In the States

Urban Ecology Australia

Arsenical Pesticides

Agricultural Utilization Research Institue

Canada-Ontario Agriculture Green Plan

Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems

Environmental Stewardship at the College of St. Benedict & St. John's University

Farmers Market

Green & Growing Environmental Education Project's Home Page

Hart Environmental Data

Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Mulch Based Agriculture Group's Home Page

National Center for Sustainability

NCSU: Sustainable Practices for Vegetable Production in the South

Permaculture and Organic Agriculture