Eco City Network Contacts

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Organisations working for sustainable cities: 

• EcoMatters Waitakere
• International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives 
• Resource Renewal Institute
• United Nations Development Program
• International Institute for Sustainable Development 
• Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development 

Sustainability programmes for cities: 

• Healthy Cities (WHO)
• Clean Cities (US Dept of Energy) 

Examples from around the world: 

• City of Chattanooga
• City of Davis, California
• Sustainable San Fransisco
• Urban Ecology (San Francisco Bay Area)
• Urban planning in Santos, Brazil
• Nordlicht (Kiel, Germany)
• Eco-Village Information Service

Examples within New Zealand:

• Manukau City
• The Department of Planning, University of Auckland

Conferences, events, discussion:

• The Third International EcoCity Conference
• Habitat IIECOCITY 
• EcoDay 2007 information + action = change

Measuring sustainability:

• Sustainability indicators website

The related topic of ecodesign and building new ecocities:

• Sustainable Building Sources
• Urban Ecology Australia
• e design online
• Global Eco Village Network (GEN)

Another approach to ecodesign: new urbanism:

• Beyond Sprawl: New Patterns of Growth to Fit the New California

Infotech for sustainability:

• IGC Econet
• Global Environment and Technology Foundation

Starting points for further searches:

• The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Sustainable Development
• Yahoo! - Sustainable Development