Sustainability

SUSTAINABILITY

An increasing topic - but will it last?

NEW SPIRIT CHALLENGE 2003 a competition to promote the teaching of sustainability in engineering - get money for your pet project!

Sustainability IChemE minisite, including

Sustainability metrics (pdf file)
Melbourne Communique (pdf file)

Sustainability chemical engineering site at Newcastle University
Sustainability Short Courses supported by the IChemE
MSc Environmental Sustainability, Edinburgh
BSc Environmental Sustainability, Huddersfield

Sustainable Development WWW virtual library
Sustainable Development Online a good list by Envirowindows:
note the Tools, Browse Folder
Sustainability Web Ring a good starting point
Sustainable Development International news items and links
Sustainable Development UK government site
Sustainable Development UK DEFRA site
Sustainable Development and Environment UK DTI site
Sustainable Development Commission UK

UK Round Table on Sustainable Development reports and newsletters
British Government Panel on Sustainable Development 1994-2000

Education for Sustainability resources for teachers, students and surfers by the UK National Grid for Learning
Education for Sustainability an agenda for action, California 1994
Education for Sustainability articles by John Huckle
Sustainability Development Education by the UK Learning and Skills Development Agency
Local Sustainability European site with case studies and documents
Applying Sustainable Development articles and case studies
National Environment Research Council UK
includes Science for a Sustainable Future document
and Environmental Sustainability Workshop
Foresight UK documents include future of chemicals and process industries
Environment Agency UK
Towards Sustainability UK site
Sustainable Development UK a conference May 2002
Earth Summit 2002 Johannesburg
Sustainable Development UN web pages
Sustainable Development OECD
Forum for the Future UK charity devoted to disseminating and discussing sustainablity issues

includes the Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability

Sustainability for Students by Bath University
Sustainable Development Research Network (UK)
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development (USA) case studies etc
Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development (DeMonfort University)
The Centre for Sustainable Design (UK)
Journal of Sustainable Product Design (includes back issue downloads)
SustainAbility a commercial organization
Alliance for Global Sustainability 4 universities intent on world domination Proceedings (pdf)
Booklist: a selection with comments
Renewable Energy World archive of articles
International Institute for Environmental Development
Life Cycle Assessment by the European Environment Agency
Progress and its Sustainability an article from 1995 with links (updated)
An Account of Sustainability 1997 conference paper
Sustainability - the Facts article from the New Internationalist
Science and Sustainability site supported by Nature and others
Sustainable Measures how do you quantify sustainability?
Sustainability Indexes the Dow-Jones way
Global Reporting Initiative for sustainability practices including Sustainability Reporting Guidelines
Aspects of Sustainability by the Royal Society

This page updated 3 June 2003 by Martin Pitt
Note: I have been surprised by the inordinate growth in websites on this topic. I cannot possibly check even a fraction of them. I do not need lists of further ones. However, I would be grateful to be told of sites with genuinely useful content likely to be of real interest to chemical engineers.