Sustainability Background

Agriculture

• Biofuels NSF http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=130067&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click

• Land Institute

ASCE

• ASCD BOK2

• ASCE Code of Ethics

• ASCE Sustainability http://www.asce.org/sustainability/

Business

• SAP & the SDGs

Circular Economy

Development

• Development Initiatives https://devinit.org/who-we-are/?nav=header

Engineering Engagement in the UN SDGs

• ASCE

• ICE

• WFEO up to 2002 https://ceae.colorado.edu/~amadei/CVEN4700/PDF/WFEOdoc.pdf

Ethics

• IEEE Ethically Aligned Design https://standards.ieee.org/industry-connections/ec/ead1e-infographic.html

• OECD Ethics Infrastructure

General

• Canadian Architect Measures of Embedded Energy

• carbonfootprint.com - Carbon Footprint Calculator https://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

• CERES https://www.ceres.org/homepage

• Civil Engineering Commons

• Coursera

• Connexions Course http://cnx.org/content/col11325/latest/

• Environment & Natural Resources: Free Online Courses

• Global Footprint - Making SDGs Consistent with Sustainability https://www.footprintnetwork.org/2017/09/01/making-sustainable-development-goals-consistent-sustainability/

• Green Roads https://www.greenroads.org/

• Gross National Happiness - Wikipedia

• James Madison University STEM

• Royal Academy of engineering Engineering for Sustainable Development: Guiding Principles (pdf)

• Sustainable Society

• SERC SISL Engineering http://serc.carleton.edu/sisl/sustain_in_engineering.html

• Sachs Course "Age of Sustainable Development" new fall 2014

• Stockholm Resilience Center fall 2014

• Sustainability Collection

• Sustainable Sites

• The Exploding Metropolis See also Google where you can read the new (1993) Foreword

• Transformations to Sustainability

• U of Michigan Sustainability Fact Sheets

• U of Michigan Research Guide UN SDGs

• Urban Land Institute Center for Sustainability

• Visualizing Sustainability

History & Literature

• American Transcendentalists Web Ralph Waldo Emerson

• An Introduction to Sustainability: Humanity and the Environment

• Cliff's Notes Emerson and Thoreau

• Emergent Systems David Brooks http://bigthink.com/videos/what-is-emergent-thinking

• Sovereignty of Ethics Emerson

• Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Steps to Sustainability Emerson and Thoreau

• Sustainability at Harvard

• The Beginnings of American naturalism in our own backyard

Indicators and Indices

• Genuine Progress Indicator https://gnhusa.org/genuine-progress-indicator/

• Maryland Genuine Progress Indicators https://dnr.maryland.gov/mdgpi/Pages/default.aspx

Industry Engagement in the UN SDGs

• Global Reporting Initiative

• UN Global Compact

• World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Infrastructure Science

• Argonne National Laboratory

• MIT Laboratory for Infrastructure Science and Sustainability (LISS)!

• Science Daily Infrastructure

News

• IISD SDG Knowledge Hub http://sdg.iisd.org/

• UN SDGs – News, Research and Analysis – The Conversation

Roadmaps and Route Maps for SD

• Engineering Route Map Launched to Deliver UN SDGs

• GEC Route Map https://www.ice.org.uk/news-and-insight/latest-ice-news/engineering-route-map-launched

• GPSEN https://gpsen.org/project/sustainability-route-map/

• Indian Cement Sector SDG Roadmap https://www.wbcsd.org/Programs/People/Sustainable-Development-Goals/SDG-Sector-Roadmaps/News/Indian-Cement-Sector-SDG-Roadmap

• Innovation for Cool Earth Forum Road Maps https://www.icef-forum.org/roadmap/

• Route Map for Sustainable Health https://www.sduhealth.org.uk/policy-strategy/route-map.aspx

• STI for Innovation

• WBCSD SDG Sector Roadmaps

Social Aspects

• Brookings Institute People First Perspective

• Michael Green Stern Speakers https://sternspeakers.com/speakers/michael-green/

• Social Progress Imperative https://www.socialprogress.org/

• Sustainability | Special Issue : Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development

Sustainability Science

• Gala Open Access Tools for Sustainability Science https://www.learngala.com/

Sustainable Infrastructure

• CRC Research

• IADB What do we mean by sustainable infrastructure?

• IISD

• ISI

Systems

• Future Earth https://futureearth.org/publications/explainers/a-systems-approach/

• Papers where IIASA Author is "Nakicenovic, Nebojsa http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/214.html

• Systems Thinker https://thesystemsthinker.com/topics/archetypes/

UN Sustainable Development Goals

UN & UNESCO

• UNDP Sustainable Cities https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals/goal-11-sustainable-cities-and-communities.html

• UNESCO Sustainability Science http://en.unesco.org/themes/science-sustainable-future

• UN ESCAP https://www.unescap.org/

USAID

• Global Waters

USEPA

• USEPA P3 Competition http://www.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2014/2014_p3.html

• USEPA Sustainable Infrastructure

• USEPA Sustainable Manufacturing

  • USEPA Sustainability http://www.epa.gov/sustainability/

    • USEPA Strategic Plan 2014-2018

U.S. National Academy of Engineering (Most books can be downloaded for free)

• NAE Grand Challenges http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9221.aspx

• NAE Grand Challenges Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9136.aspx

U.S. National Academy of Sciences (Most books can be downloaded for free)

• Our Common Journey http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=9690

Youth Engagement

• UNCTAD https://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=2009

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia Books on Sustainability