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Sustainability

Sustainlane - 'People Powered Sustainability Guide'

Sustainable Sites Initiative Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks
2009

More Information
Sustainable Landscaping Fact Sheet - Colorado State University Extension
Sustainable Landscaping - Santa Barbara County (pdf)


Sustainability - Organizations and discussions on the topic of sustainability.
Sustainability Institute  - "We focus on understanding the root causes of unsustainable behavior in complex systems to help restructure systems and shift mindsets that will help move human society toward sustainability. "

Texas Water Foundation - a non-profit organization for the purpose of generating awareness regarding the role water plays in our daily lives.

Definitions from Dallas Trees

Ecology - 'the science of the interrelationships of organisms in and to their complete environment.'
Forest ecology 'is concerned with the forest as a biological community with the interrelationships between the various trees and other organisms (including us) constituting the community, and with the interrelationships between these organisms (including us) and the physical environment in which they exist.'
    - Forest Ecology, Third Ed., Spurr & Barnes, 1992



TRANSITION INITIATIVE
"The Transition Initiative" by Jay Griffiths (The Orion Magazine)