Environment Links
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
The Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development, created by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, helps communities design and implement innovative strategies that enhance the local economy as well as the local environment and quality of life.
The Center for Livable Communities
The Center for Livable Communities helps local governments and community leaders be proactive in their land use and transportation planning, and adopt programs and policies that lead to more livable and resource-efficient land use patterns.
AFT works to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming practices that lead to a healthy environment.
Suburbanization drains the vitality of older neighborhoods and creates endless urbanized regions that are dependent on the private automobile. This page lists groups working to stop sprawl.
The Trust for Public Land is the only national nonprofit working exclusively to protect land for human enjoyment and well-being. TPL helps conserve land for recreation and spiritual nourishment, and to improve the health and quality of life of American communities.
Report on sprawl, including the 30 most threatened cities.
The leading land conservation organization in the nine county San Francisco Bay Area. Formed in 1958, our mission is to protect the 3.8 million acre Greenbelt of farmlands, watersheds, parks and other productive open space through citizen action, research and education, and advocacy. Donations to Greenbelt Alliance are tax-deductible and memberships are encouraged.
President's Council on Sustainable
Development (PCSD)
Global Environment & Technology Foundation
Showcases best practices that promote sustainability around the country. The program emphasizes building individual and institutional capacity so that best practices can be replicated elsewhere. The NTM focuses on sustainable solutions that are available today and ways that you can take advantage of them.
A project of US EPA’s Transportation Partners Program and Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP). It is a collection of information and resources about making communities more livable and helping the environment through innovative transportation projects and initiatives.
Environmental Grantmaking Foundations
Directory is a valuable resource for nonprofit organizations looking for grants to support environmental activities and programs.
