General shared community calendar for county-wide events, supported by many local organizations, including PlacerSustain.

Home page of the Sacramento News and Review, with a great "Green Guide."

Robert Gilman published a somewhat dated, but still relevant description of the state of the sustainability movement.  The material includes a description of the elements of the movement.

The Context Institute publishes an award winning quarterly on sustainability issues.  All their articles can be reviewed on-line.

An excerpt from their site:

GRASSROOTS.ORG

Mission

The mission of Grassroots.org is to serve as a catalyst for positive social change by leveraging modern technologies and best business practices. Grassroots.org provides nonprofit organizations with free valuable technologies and resources to increase their efficiency and productivity.

Goals

Our ultimate goal is to adopt 10,000 nonprofit members, and to provide each of them with an average of $10,000 per year worth of services at no charge (for a total savings of $100 million per year!).

Information about a Baltimore/Washington DC sustainable communities initiative support organization.

An article on the sustainable communities movement.

Information about the book titled "Sustainable Community Development: Studies in Economic, Environmental, and Cultural Revitalization" by Marie Hoff

The Sustainable Communities Network has information resources in a variety of subject matter areas.  This particular link relates to "Visioning and Implementation."  The site contains the identity of a number of organizations and published materials on these subjects.

Global Stewards -- their information on tips and solutions for a sustainable economy.

BALLE hosted a Webinar on February 1, 2011, the first in a series on "Accelerating Community Capital."   This is a link to the Powerpoint and audio presentations.

[THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE WORLDWATCH WEB OVERVIEW] 

 

State of the World 2010

Link to World Watch Institute Blog

The American River Watershed Institute completed this project several years ago in the Colfax Area.  The Project is a model of the entire process of taking an environmental issue through the planning and analysis phase to actual on the ground implementation on private lands.  The Institute has an entire Powerpoint presentation of the work; however, much of the material is available on their website.  See the following link.

Here is an excerpt from the Link to Sustain "About Us" material:

Sinclair Family Farm Home Page

This is a link to a website that helps people find certified farmers markets in California.

[An excerpt from the wiki site]

 

This is a short introductory article by Krebs on Social Networking Analysis.

A Sacramento networking and community organizing website.

The UC Davis Center for Regional Change brings together faculty, students, and communities to collaborate on innovative research to create just, sustainable, and healthy regional change in California’s Central Valley and the Sierra Nevada.

This is a link to SACOG's Sustainable Communities Initiative

[NOTE: THESE ARE LINKS DIRECTLY FROM THE SITES HOME PAGE TO SPECIFIC CONTENT]

itle:	Statewide Sustainability Programs in the U.S.
Resource type:	Article
Topics:	Statewide/Global

AN EXCERPT FROM THEIR SITE:

EcoTrust is located in Portland, Oregon.  They have created a "Reliable Prosperity" website centered around a graphic representation of all the elements of sustainability that is their primary site navigation tool.  The link below is to the primary EcoTrust site.

The UC Davis Center for Regional Change brings together faculty, students, and communities to collaborate on innovative research to create just, sustainable, and healthy regional change in California’s Central Valley and the Sierra Nevada.

An international organization that holds annual world conferences, publishes a print academic journal, an on-line blog, and knowledgebase.  Seems to have heavy involvement from Australia and New Zealand.

Maharishi University has one of the few Sustainable Living undergraduate degree programs in the US.  This is a link to their Google site, which contains information on their courses, program activities, etc.

This is a link to Siemens website materials on their Sustainable Cities related Programs.

President's message

Working together for a bright, bountiful future

By Paul Wenger, president, California Bountiful Foundation

This website is the portal for web information related to the Sacramento Greenwise Initiative.  The portal includes access to the various Policy Team Discussion Forums.

Millenium Villages (MV) is a UN Development Program sponsored initiative supported by the Columbia University "Earth Institute," pioneered by Jeffrey Sachs, a world renown global sustainable economic development expert.  MV is promoting a new sustainable economic development model centered around building the capacity of local communities to help themselves--local capacity building with global expertise support. 

A Facebook community page devoted to "self sustainability."

Sierra Nevada Alliance Sustainability Initiative

 

[Except from SNC website]

Sustainable Sierra Nevada Initiative

Sierra Nevada Forest and Community Resolution
As Approved by the Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Governing Board on June 3, 2010

Philidelphia created a Mayor's office of sustainability and launched a "Greenworks" Sustainability Initiative.  Here's an excerpt from their site:

In Mayor Michael Nutter’s January 2008 inaugural address, he pledged to make Philadelphia the number one green city in America. To make good on his pledge, he created the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability.

An international organization that holds annual world conferences, publishes a print academic journal, an on-line blog, and knowledgebase.  Seems to have heavy involvement from Australia and New Zealand.

In its updated Global Sustainability Perspective, Jones Lang LaSalle highlights global energy incentives, mandates, and standards currently in practice and to come.

This is a link to SACOG's Sustainable Communities Initiative