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Sustainable Development

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1	Development Gateway Portal Development Gateway Foundation’s online resources portal for development information and knowledge-sharing worldwide. The tools on this website bring together people and organizations around the globe who are working to improve life in developing countries.	310
2	Earth Charter Initiative The Earth Charter is a widely recognized, global consensus statement on ethics and values for a sustainable future. Developed over a period of ten years, in what has been called the most extensive global consultation process ever associated with an international declaration, the Earth Charter has been formally endorsed by over 2,500 organizations, including global institutions such as UNESCO and the World Conservation Union (IUCN).	373
3	Ecological Footprint Quiz The Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates the amount of land and ocean area required to sustain your consumption patterns and absorb your wastes on an annual basis.	395
4	EH&S Management Systems Center The EMS-HSMS.com website is intended to be a useful information resource for those seeking to implement and maintain effective environmental, health & safety management systems.	299
5	European Union Eco-label The Flower is the symbol of the European Eco-label – your guide to greener products and services. It is a voluntary scheme designed to encourage businesses to market products and services that are kinder to the environment and for European consumers - including public and private purchasers - to easily identify them. You can find the Flower throughout the European Union as well as in Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland. The European Eco-label is part of a broader strategy aimed at promoting sustainable consumption and production.	379
6	Factor 10 Institute The Factor 10 Institute has been created to provide practical support for achieving significant advances in resource productivity in the production and consumption sectors.	359
7	Forum on Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development The Forum on Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development is an attempt to outline the burgeoning field. Rather than looking broadly at sustainability, the Forum focuses on the way in which science and innovation can be conducted and applied to meet human needs while preserving the life support systems of the planet. It highlights people and programs that are studying nature-society interactions and applying the resulting knowledge to create a sustainability transition around the world.	523
8	Nordic Ecolabel The Nordic Ecolabel's vision is a sustainable society, in which future generations can benefit from the same conditions and opportunities as we ourselves do. An important step towards this vision is for us all, with the help of ecolabelling, to choose the most environmentally sound products.	455
9	Paint for the Planet Paint for the Planet was an exhibit and auction of children's art which launched the global United Nations campaign "UNite to Combat Climate Change". The event featured a selection of paintings from UNEP's International Children's Painting Competition. Showcasing children's fears and hopes for the planet, the paintings are a powerful plea from children for leadership on climate change before it is too late.	343
10	People & the Planet peopleandplanet.net provides a global review and internet gateway into the issues of population, poverty, health, consumption and the environment. It is published by Planet 21, an independent non-profit company and a registered British charity recognised by the United Nations.	485
11	SD Gateway The SD Gateway integrates the on-line information developed by members of the Sustainable Development Communications Network. In addition to over 1,200 documents available in SD Topics, we provide services such as a calendar of events, a job bank, the Sustainability Web Ring, a roster of mailing lists and news sites dealing with sustainable development.	551
12	The Story of Stuff The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.	337
13	Sustainable Business SustainableBusiness.com provides global news and networking services to help green business grow, covering all sectors: renewable energy, green building, sustainable investing, and organics.	466
14	Sustainable seafood: Consumer guides Together with the Seafood Choices Alliance, WWF developed a methodology to assess the sustainability of seafood species. Based on this, we've created guides that tell you which seafood to enjoy and which seafood to avoid.	435
15	Sustainable Cities Being a sustainable city means "improving the quality of life in a city, including ecological, cultural, political, institutional, social and economic components without leaving a burden on future generations".	375
16	Sustainable Development Indicators in Finland Finland's sustainable development indicators are being used to monitor and assess the implementation of sustainable development goals in Finland. Sustainable development can often be a rather abstract concept, and since 2000 images that illustrate sustainable development have been gathered into a set of indicators that represent clear development directions. Thus the indicators function as support for decision-making and a tool for monitoring sustainable development.	323
17	Sustainable Development International News on sustainable development.	591
18	TVLink Europe The TVLink Europe web-site has been designed to meet the needs of audiovisual journalists by helping them to provide better coverage of European issues. The site enables journalists to illustrate European subjects through the distribution of video reports that can be ordered directly on-line. These video reports are also accompanied by a full description of the images used in each film, transcripts of the commentary and interviews.	375
19	World Population Clock The figure of the world population is an estimate based on the observation of the statistics of growth of the world population. Being given the difficulties of harvests of precise data on a planetary scale, it cannot be regarded as absolutely exact.	773
20	The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Sustainable Development A comprehensive list of internet sites dealing with sustainable development, including organisations, projects and activities, electronic journals, libraries, references and documents, databases, directories or metadatabases	411