Working Towards Sustainability

Background

Research, Teaching and Outreach

Operations

Additional Resources

Sustainability and U Home

Additional Resources

• U of M Green Campus Resources
• Community Organizations and Resources
• Green Products/Purchasing
• Higher Education/Campus Environmental Programs

University of Minnesota Green Campus Resources

• U of MN Regents Policy onWaste Abatement and Pollution Prevention
  http://www.dehs.umn.edu/hwd/pollutionrpt.html
  (Note: This policy is due for review in 2004, and new policy is expected to embrace sustainability in a range of areas.)
• Commission on Environmental Science and Policy Final Report http://www1.umn.edu/enviro/NewFiles/report.html
• Green Gopher
  http://www.greengopher.umn.edu
• Recycling information
  http://www.facm.umn.edu
• Reuse Center
  http://www.umn.edu/reuse
• U of M Construction Standards (2002)
  http://www.cppm.umn.edu/standards.html
• 2001 Midwest Green Campus Workshop Resources Handout
  http://www.cnr.umn.edu/sci/ 2001WorkshopGCReferences.html

Community Organizations and Resources

• 3M Environmental Policy
  http://www.3m.com/about3m/sustainability/policies_ehs_tradition.jhtml
• 3M Sustainability Programs
  http://www.3m.com/about3m/sustainability/
• APPA: Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers
  http://www.appa.org
• Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
  http://www.asle.umn.edu/
• Clean Air-Cool Planet - Higher Education Partnership Program
  http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/
• The Centre for Sustainable Design
  http://www.cdsd.org.uk
• Dump & Run
  http://www.dumpandrun.org/
• Green Design Network
  http://www.greendesign.net
• Green Guardian
  http://www.greenguardian.com
• Green Institute
  http://www.greeninstitute.org
• Greenseal
  http://www.greenseal.org
• IISD – Sustainable Development on Campus
  http://www.iisd.org/educate/
• Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
  http://www.icgc.umn.edu/
• Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide
  http://www.msdg.umn.edu
• Minnesota Pesticide Resource Center
  http://www.mnpesticide.org/
• National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Program
  http://www.nwf.org/campusecology/index.cfm
  • NWF State of the Campus Environment
    http://www.nwf.org/campusecology/stateofthecampusenvironment.cfm
• Resource Renewal Institute
  http://www.rri.org/homw.html
• Rocky Mountain Institute
  http://www.rmi.org
• Second Nature – Education for Sustainability
  http://www.secondnature.org
• United States Green Building Council
  http://www.leedbuilding.org
• US Green Building Council; home of LEEDS
  http://www.usgbc.org/

Green Products/Purchasing

• Baltix Sustainable Furniture
  http://www.baltix.com/
• MN FSC certified wood
  http://www.mnforestcertification.org
• Food and Health (Institute on Agriculture and Trade Policy)
  http://www.iatp.org/foodandhealth/safefood.html
• Green Guide Smart Shopper
  http://www.thegreenguide.com/
• Community Forestry Resource Center
  http://www.forestrycenter.org
• Rainforest Action Network
  http://www.ran.org
• Treecycle Recycled Paper
  http://www.treecycle.com
• New Leaf Paper
  http://www.newleafpaper.com
• ReThink Paper
  http://www.rethinkpaper.org
• Sustainable Table
  http://www.sustainabletable.org

Higher Education/Campus Environmental Programs

• Sustainable Campus Policy Bank
  http://www.iisd.org/educate/policybank.asp
• Brown University, Brown is Green
  http://ww.brown.edu/Departments/Brown_Is_Green
• Cornell University, Cornell Center for the Environment
  http://www.cfe.cornell.edu