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Authors
Richard Cook, Cook + Fox Architects
Eco Decor
Battle McCarthy
MBDC
William McDonough
Joyce LaValle, InterfaceFLOR Commercial
Jacqueline Ottman, J. Ottman Consulting, Inc.
Richard Riveire
Michael Singer
Annette Stelmack, Associates III Interior Design
Adam D. Tihany
Calvin Tsao

Carpet Reclamation
Carpet America Recovery Effort
Starnet Reclamation Services

Conferences
EnviroDesign
International Contemporary Furniture Fair

General
CIA World Fact Book: China

How To
A Baby’s Breath: How to Create a Healthy Home for Your Baby
A Practical Guide to Free Cooling, Alternative Cooling, Night Cooling and Low Energy Systems
Add up Your CO2 Emissions
How to Find True North Without a Compass
How Stain-Repellant Nanofabric is Made
The Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) FAQ
Module 6: Air Pollutants and Control Techniques Volatile Organic Compounds
Reduce Heat Island Effect with Trees and Vegitation
Solar Energy International
Which way is South?

Metropolis Articles
A Forbidden Garden Restored
Beyond Rhetoric
Eternal Optimist
Family Circus
Following Their LEED
Going Green: Tips for Interior Designers
How to Turn Down the Global Thermostat
Is Sustainable Luxury An Oxymoron?
Jaime Lerner: Architecture/Urban Planning’
Jane Jacobs
Letter from NIMBY-land
Local Focus
Marketing Sustainability to Industrial Designers
Metropolis, Aug-Sept 2003, p 58, by Tess Taylor
Sweet Sedum
The State of California
Super Tall and Ultra Green
Think Green
2005 Next Generation-An Update: Joseph Hagerman
Paper or Fabric
Rio Summit - 1992
Why People Don’t Understand What Interior Designers Do

Outside Articles
A Closer Look at Home Air Cleaners, HEPA filters
Biodiversity and Human Health
Brundtland Commission
Cogeneration-Combined Heat and Power (Electricity) Generation
Deng Xiaoping
The Dimensions of Sustainability
Efficient transportation for successful urban planning in Curitiba
Environmental Building News
For Fresher Air, Find Alternatives To Vinyl Walls [San Francisco Chronicle]
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
Greenhouse Gases, Global Climate Change, and Energy
Half [of] China to Live in Cities by 2010
Honolulu Mayor Wins APA Recognition
Indigenous Plants & Native Uses in the Northeast
LEDup
Mimicked Main Streets, Mall Makeovers Seek to Lure Shoppers
Ocean Acidification (animated diagrams)
Ocean Acidification
Olympics Imperil Historic Beijing Neighborhood
Pacific Trash Vortex Showing Drift of Ocean Pollution
Pollution from Chinese Coal Casts a Global Shadow
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Maternal and Fetal Blood Samples
Rouge Renovation
Significant Amounts of Potentially Harmful Chemicals Found in Blood of Mothers and Babies
Sinks for Anthropogenic Carbon
Strengthening and Improving New York City’s Waterborne Mass Transit Services
Survey on Environmental Action in and Around the Home
Tackling the Big Stuff
The Dimensions of Sustainability: A Primer
Toxic Toys
Trashed: Across the Pacific Ocean, Plastics, Plastics, Everywhere
21st Century City
2005 Keystone Award: Hon. Jeremy Harris
Why Waste-to-Energy Works

Regulations/Agencies & Institutions
American Lung Association with the Health House program
Architects/ Designers/ Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR)
BP Sustainability page
China-US Center for Sustainable Development
City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting (GIS Access)
Department of Energy
Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Electrolux Sustainability page
Energy Information Administration
Energy Star
Environmental Defense
EPA’s Climate Change Page
EPA’s Design for the Environment
Federal Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Florida Green Building Coalition
Florida Green Lodging
Florida Solar Energy Center
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
FTSE4Good Index Series
GIS Showcase, Featuring Honolulu fly-through simulation
Interactive GIS Maps and Data
Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS)
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
National Arbor Day Foundation
National Center for Photovoltaics
National Energy Policy
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
National Weather Service Central Pacific Hurricane Center
Organic Trade Association
Phoenix Solid Waste-Disposal Management Division
South Florida Water Management Divisionv
The Co-op Bank
Technology Transfer Network Air Toxics Website (NESHAP)
UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol
U.S. Department of State: Climate Change Policy
U.S. Energy Labeling System
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
U.S. Green Building Council
World Meteorological Organization
WWF

Terms
Biomimicry
Biomass
Biophilia
Bioswale
Cogeneration
Fangers Thermal Comfort Equation
Geothermal heating and cooling
Greenwashing
Low-e glass
Offgassing
Permeable Paver Specifications
Phytoremediation
What are MSDS’s, and where can I find them?

Tools & Materials
American Bamboo Society
Formaldehyde-free MDF
Frequently Asked Questions about PBDE Flame Retardants
IceStone®
Low- or No-VOC Paints
Nano-Tex
Non-Toxic Home Cleaning
Non-Toxic, Natural, and Organic Bedding
Particle board and Medium-Density Fiberboard