Sustainability

Available to current Boise State University students, faculty and staff. Click on title link; on the next screen, click on the database title-- dates of coverage are listed on the left.

Open Access -- available to all

Available to current Boise State University students, faculty and staff. On the next screen, click on the database title-- dates of coverage are listed on the left.

Open Access -- available to all.

Open access -- available to all

Open Access-- available to all.

Open access -- available to all.

Available to current Boise State University students, faculty and staff. Click on title link; on the next screen, click on the database title-- dates of coverage are listed on the left.

A magazine from the Urban Land Institute with online articles since January 2010. Available to all.

Founded in 1980, Ashoka is the world’s working community of 3,000 leading social entrepreneurs in over 80 countries. It champions the most important new social change ideas and supports the entrepreneurs behind them by helping them get started, grow, succeed, and collaborate. As Ashoka expands its capability to integrate and connect entrepreneurs around the world, it builds an entrepreneurial infrastructure that is supporting the fast-growing needs of the citizen sector. Ashoka’s vision is to create change today, for an Everyone A Changemaker™ society to become the reality of tomorrow. (From "About Us", News:Print "Collaborative Entrepreneurship", June 2012)

The Center for Health, Environment & Justice is a national, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that provides organizing and technical assistance to grassroots community groups in the environmental health and justice movement. The Center was founded in 1981 by Lois Gibbs, who helped win the relocation of over 900 families from their neighborhood which was contaminated by chemicals leaking from the Love Canal landfill in Niagara Falls, NY. Through this effort, Gibbs and her neighbors woke up the nation to recognize the link between people’s exposures to dangerous chemicals in their community and serious public health impacts. (From "About Us", June 2012)

See how much you're likely to spend raising a child from birth to age 18.

"EPA efforts in the area of sustainability practices and approaches include labeling green products and promoting green chemistry and engineering, managing materials rather than creating waste, using green infrastructure to manage storm water runoff, and supporting the sustainable design of communities." From "Home", June 2012

GoodGuide provides a large source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of consumer products.

Great Green Careers connects employers and job seekers in the green jobs industries. The green job market includes energy (wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, biomass, and others), environment (ecology, health and safety, parks, abatement, and others), skilled trades (heating and cooling, electrical, plumbing, building automation), and transportation. (From "About Us", June 2012)

This blog is written by EPA employees (and occasional guests) about the things they bring to their jobs every day. The opinions and comments expressed in Greenversations are those of the authors alone and do not reflect an Agency policy, endorsement, or action, and EPA does not verify the accuracy of the contents of the blog. (From "About", June 2012)

MNN covers a broad scope of environmental and social responsibility issues. MNN content is divided among 8 different channels—each offering in-depth news and information updated throughout the day: Earth Matters, Lifestyle, Green Tech, Eco-Biz, Transportation, Your Home, Food, and Family. (From "About Us", June 2012)

A website from the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) dedicated to information about community-level paper and paperboard recycling.

Project Dirt is the most active green social network in the UK. We connect people and organisations doing tangible green projects. (From "Home", June 2012)

Greenwashing is defined as the act of misleading consumers about the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service. The Sins of Greenwashing provides tips to consumers, marketers, and manufacturers about how to identify and prevent greenwashing. (From "Home", June 2012)

The Story of Stuff is a short polemical animated documentary about the lifecycle of material goods. The documentary is critical of excessive consumerism and promotes sustainability.

SEED is a free initiative of the American Association of Community Colleges and ecoAmerica. The SEED Center aims to advance sustainability and green workforce development practices at community colleges by sharing innovative models and resources and building the capacity of college administrators, faculty, and staff to contribute as leaders. (From "Home", June 2012)

TerraCycle's purpose is to eliminate the idea of waste. We do this by creating national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste. Anyone can sign up for these programs, called the Brigades, and start sending us waste. (From "About Us", June 2012)

Walk Score makes it easy for apartment renters and homebuyers to find neighborhoods where they can drive less and live more. Walk Score believes that walkable neighborhoods with access to public transit, shorter commutes, and proximity to the people and places you love is the key to a happier, healthier and more sustainable lifestyle. Find your Walk Score by entering your address on the WalkScore website.

Established in 2005, the Office of Sustainability works to promote the tenets of sustainability at Yale, in New Haven, and around the global higher-education community. By facilitating the development and implementation of best practices and encouraging innovative collaboration, teaching, and scholarship on sustainable themes, we seek to position Yale at the vanguard of the field and help it make the environmental, social, health, and economic benefits of sustainability a reality on its campus and around the world. (From "About: Mission and History", June 2012)