Eco-Design Links collected by Modern World Design (creator of the first Green Map and intiator of the global movement) (click here for SolarLinks)

• O2 Global Network This eco-design association's site has excellent links to Green Resources and great concepts to explore.http://www.o2.org
  
  
• Treehugger.com An excellent resource for green design or all kinds, with new bits added continually, globally. http://treehugger.com
  
  
• Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology, also known as CREST is a powerful web site, housing several key projects. http://www.crest.org/
  
  
• Read up on Sustainable Business at this terrific resource, with fresh news (and job listings, too) monthly! http://www.sustainablebusiness.com
  
  
• The Green Business Letter has a wonderful newly relaunched website!http://www.greenbiz.com
  
  
• Clean Edge is a great new (2001) resource for clean technology and energy production. http://www.cleanedge.com
  
  
• A Pattern Language for Sustainability -This is a beautiful site! www.conservationeconomy.net
  
  
• The Buckminster Fuller Institute provides inspiration and keys to re-designing our future. www.bfi.org
  
  
• Fresh Eco resources for product designers can be found in the special interest group Environment pages of the IDSA's website. Highly Recommended! http://www.idsa.org
  
  
• Demi is a new sustainability matrix for design students createdby a consrtium of UK Design Schools. http://www.demi.org.uk
  
  
• Global Environmental Options has a great library of sustainable design links, and a sus-design center, too.http://www.geonetwork.org
  
  
• ReThink is a very useful resource for ecologically-sound paper options.http://www.earthisland.org/paper/rtp.html
  
  
• Simple Life very informative design oriented site on organic cotton and related fibrous topics.http://www.simplelife.com/
  
  
• The Orion Society's publications and web site are dedicated to presenting many voices on nature and culture. Orion Afield covers environmental education in a wonderfully inviting way. http://www.orionsociety.org
  
  
• ZERI, the Zero Emissions Research Intiative is a truly amazing industrial ecology site, involving bio-based production in several areas...see it for yourself & get inspired! Check out the "grow your own home" project http://www.zeri.org
  
  
• The Bioneers is an annual event to consider practical solutions for restoring the Earth. See it all (with great links) here!http://www.bioneers.org
  
  
• PlaNetworkers is a terrific though-provoking conference on eco-info. http://www.planetworkers.org
  
  
• Visit Smart Architecture for Euro News! http://www.doorsofperception.com
  
  
• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network Very useful resources, and very timely as the US utilities are de-regulated in 1998.http://www.eren.doe.gov/
  
  
• Eco-labels.org will help you sort through claims and certification organizations, thanks to Consumers Union.
  http://www.eco-lables.org
  
  
• Responsible Shopper is a terrific resource for those who want to buy from companies with good policies and records. Brought to you by Coop America, there's hungdreds of companies, brand names and products. http://www.responsibleshopper.org
  
  
• The Institute for Global Communications hosts EcoNet, PeaceNet and more. It is an amazing resource and home to dozens of important websites.http://www.igc.org/igc/
  
  
• International Design Resource Awards See winning recycled content products and get details on 2002's competition. http://www.designresource.org
  
  
• ICSID has a good calendar of international industrial design competitions and intensive charettes, some of which are eco and social. http://www.icsid.org
  
  
• Doors of Perception 3 A global conference on how designers are using information technology for sustainability, held at the Netherlands Design Institute in 1995. Check out their other sustainable design projects, too, and the Novemeber 2000 event is on Lightness! .http://www.doorsofperception.com
  
  
• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's Center for Design has many amazing projects underway. http://daedalus.edc.rmit.edu.au/
  
  
• Second Nature Useful resources for environmental education, etc.http://www.2nature.org/
  
  
• A very useful site is at http://www.environmentalsustainability.info/
  
  
• Liberty Tree Alliance has in-depth info on a number of hot enviro issues, such as endocrine disruptors, plywood & coffee, global warming & dozens of "high fives" of best sites picked by experts, campus related stuff plus an extensive eco-art gallery called the Serpent's Eye. The Works In Progress piece on the Green Map System is now posted here and Brawer's Maps High Five http://www.libtree.org/
  
  
• AWID is the Association of Women Industrial Designers, with some surprises! http://www.awidweb.com
  
  
• Eco Art Ware is an online shop. http://www.eco-artware.com