The Following Links Relate to the Various Sections and Articles on this Web site

SECTION 1: Thoughts on what sustainability is

• The definition of sustainability depends on who is speaking
  • Oregon Solutions for a Sustainable Future
  • Northwest Environment Watch
  • Cascade Policy Institute
• This Norwegian’s past may connect with your future
  • Earth Summit 2002
  • President's Council on Sustainable Development, Final Report to President Clinton
• The scarcest resource may be the willingness to listen to each other
  • The Sustainability Institute

SECTION 2: Some issues in discussions of sustainability

• Population Growth: A blessing or a curse?
  • Alternatives to Growth in Oregon
  • 1000 Friends of Oregon
  • Union of Concerned Scientists Warning to Humanity
• How we affect nature is a concern for the future
  • 2000 Oregon State of the Environment Report
  • The Sixth Extinction (National Geographic article)
• Consumption debate continues but some choose to 'downshift'
  • The Center for a New American Dream
  • New Roadmap Foundation
  • Northwest Environment Watch
    
• One Prediction: 'Natural capitalism' to be next economic revolution
  • Natural Capitalism
  • Natural Capitalism (Mother Jones)
  • Rocky Mountain Institute
    
• Oregon's landscape has changed: Should the pioneer spirit?
  • Economics, Philosophies, and Mindsets (World Population Awareness Web site)
  • Perilous Optimism (Online Gadfly Web site)
    
• Do asthma rates in Portland fit into sustainability puzzle?
  • Oregon Food Bank
    
• Barkers of Seneca reflect energy concerns in Oregon
  • Oregon Office of Energy
  • Renewable Northwest Project
  • Portland General Electric
    
• Despite recycling, solid waste keeps rising on state horizon
  • Oregon Department of Environmental Quality Land Quality Page
    
• Have we lost our sense of the common good?
  • Columbia River Pastoral Letter Project
  • Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

SECTION 3: Examples to make Oregon more sustainable

• Companies taking 'The natural step'
  • Oregon Natural Step Network
• Nonprofit groups tackling issues like climate change, food concerns
  • The Climate Trust
  • The Food Alliance
  • The Nature Conservancy of Oregon
  • Oregon Food Bank
• Oregon: The state with the 'triple bottom line'
  • Oregon Solutions for a Sustainable Future
  • Measuring Sustainability with Oregon Benchmarks
• Voluntary simplicity, green building: Individuals explore what they can do
  • The Center for a New American Dream
  • New Roadmap Foundation
  • Food not Lawns
  • Oregon Solutions for a Sustainable Future
• Communities around state working on Oregon's future
  • Oregon Solutions for a Sustainable Future
• Many Oregonians studying concepts of sustainability
  • OSU Extension Service Sustainable Living Project
  • University of Oregon Institute for a Sustainable Environment
  • Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources

SECTION 4: What's happening in other states and countries?

• Sustainability a major focus in other states
  • Sustainable Communities Network: Civic Engagement
• Pacific Rim countries explore how to live more sustainably
  • Horizon Solutions

SECTION 5: What might the future be like?

• Citizens develop visions of Oregon basin's future
  • Wilamette Valley Alternative Futures
  • Pacific Northwest Ecosystem Research Consortium

SECTION 6: What can you do?

• What can I do? Some thoughts
  • Northwest Earth Institute
• Here's where you can get more information
  • Oregon Solutions for a Sustainable Future
  • Northwest Environment Watch
  • Cascade Policy Institute
  • Oregon State University Extension Service Sustainable Living Project
  • Oregon Natural Step Network
  • Cato Institute
  • Sustainable Northwest
  • Oregon Office of Energy
  • The Hudson Institute
  • Alternatives to Growth in Oregon Publications
  • Northwest Earth Institute
  • Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon's Interfaith Network for Earth Concerns
  • Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University
  • Facing the Future: People and the Planet
  • Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute

   

Other Related Resources

• Oregon Solutions - Community-Based Collaboration for Sustainability