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For the Greener Good Series: Related Resources

Recommended Links

Living in a Disposable World: Recycling for the Future
December 18, 2007

Construction & Demolition, Beneficial Use of Industrial Materials

• www.epa.gov/cdmaterials
• www.epa.gov/greenbuilding
• www.epa.gov/rcc/priorities/bene-use.htm
• www.cdrecycling.org
• www.shinglerecycling.org
• www.drywallrecycling.org
• www.concreterecycling.org
• www.buildingreuse.org
• www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/conserve/c2p2/index.htm
• www.lifecyclebuilding.com/resources.htm

• www.deconstructioninstitute.com

Landscape Architecture

• www.epa.gov/greenscapes
• www.sustainablesites.org
• www.epa.gov/organicmaterials

General Muncipal Solid Waste

• www.epa.gov/rcc/
• www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/msw99.htm
• www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/wstewise/index.htm 
  

Also of Interest

• The 2030 Challenge: www.architecture2030.org/home.html
• City of Dallas – Green initiative: www.greendallas.net/index.html
• Determine your carbon footprint: www.carbonfootprint.com
• The forces behind construction growth and sustainability: http://texasarchitect.org/pdfs/conventionhandouts/10755.pdf
• Population Connection Factoids: www.popconnect.org/Factoids/
• Architects - take the EnergyStar Challenge: www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=new_bldg_design.architects_challenge
• Dewberry Sustainable Design Services: www.dewberry.com/sustainabledesign.asp
• Debris Management Guide – FEMA 325: www.fema.gov/government/grant/pa/demagde.shtm
• Jack Evans Police Headquarters – Green Building Design: www.dallascityhall.com/pdf/ehs/JackEvansPoliceBldg.pdfWh

What 1 Billion Slum Dwellers Mean for the Environment
January 22, 2008

• Rome Millennium Cities Prize: http://w3.uniroma1.it/romemillenniumcitiesprize/Slum
• Dwellers Task force report, UN Millennium Project: http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/tf_slum.htm
• Centro PVS, Rome University Urban Research Centre for the developing countries: http://w3.uniroma1.it/centropvs/index.htm
• Woodrow Wilson Center: www.wilsoncenter.org/cusp

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