Technology, Innovation, and Design Sustainability Resources

Apollo Alliance

Architecture that Grows Itself (Ted Talk)

Are Mushrooms the New Plastic? (Ted Talk)

Canada Green Building Council

Canadian Home Builders' Association EnviroHome

Creative Houses from Reclaimed Stuff (TED Talk)

The E. F. Schumacher Society

The Earth Charter Initiative

Emerging Green Builders

Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium

Goya Ngan

How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air (TED Talk)

Integrated Designs

International Initiative for Sustainable Built Environment

International Institute for Sustainable Development

Kelln Solar

Native Energy

The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan for a Sensible Energy Future

P3 Architecture

Pembina Institute

Resource Renewal Institute

RETScreen International

Rocky Mountain Institute

Sustainability Institute

Sustainable Measures

Terra Firma Builders - Sirewall

Using Nature’s Genius in Architecture (TED Talk)

World Conservation Union

World Resources Institute

Worldwatch Institute

Janine M. Benyus. 1997. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. New York: Morrow. — Innovation Inspired by Nature is about how humans could have a fantastically high-tech and still sustainable civilization that could blend seamlessly into the Earth. To achieve such a world, Janine Benyus credibly explains, we have only to respect, study, and emulate nature.

Vandana Shiva. 1997. Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. South End Press. — Vandana Shiva is one of the world's most dynamic and provocative thinkers on the environment, women's rights, and international affairs. In this book she argues that genetic engineering and the cloning of organisms, far from being socially useful, are the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commodification of nature.