BATE Professor Wayne Hayes, Ph.D., May 30, 2000
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Bate Links

Some useful links to BATE-friendly web sites:

• Check out the Sustainable Business Insider for shrewd cues and news. The accompanying links library offers many useful resources.
• Students for Responisble Business runs Net Impact to promote progressive business leadership.
• How about linking to the Envirobiz web site to discover industry info.
• The International Organization for Standards -- ISO -- sets international standards for manufacturing and thus facilitates trade among nations.
• UNCTAD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Devevelopment, provides leadership in promoting environmentally and socially friendly trade. Check out UNCTAD'a program to promote trade and the environment.
• The World Bank has produced a Greenind Industryreport..
• Advice as to environmental risk management and regulation for financial decisions comes from the Environmental Bankers Association.
• EcoMarket Internationaloffers a site dedicated to promoting companies selling ecologically beneficial commodities.
• Global electronic markets for environmentally friendly products are made by GreenOnline.com.
• Cornell University offers resources on sustainable jobs and sustainable business links.
• The National Center for Business and Sustainability in the UK provides strategies and best practices to merge business and sustainability.
• The World Business Council for Sustainable Development offers a glossary of terms related to business and the environment.
• Executive Order 13148 requries the federal government to consider environmental impacts in purchasing decisions, and advises other forms of governement on how to follow suit.
• Consumers can find information on environmentally friendly products at GrsenSeal.

Ecological economics web sites are listed here:

• Check out ecological economics at the Sustainable Business Insider site.
• Factor Four -- doubling efficiency and halfing waste -- implementation in the field of industrial ecology is described by the Future 500 web site
• Examine a clearinghouse of information on the economics of biodiversity.

Sustainability web sites cited are:

• The International Institute for Sustainable Development provides a clearinghouse on sustainable development. Check out IISD's gateway to sustainable development on the Internet. The site provides an introduction to sustainable development.
• Join a dialog on the new global economy at the Stockholm Environmental Institute
• The Center for A Sustainable Economiy offers a clearinghouse on sustainable web sites.
• Looking for tools for a new economy?
• Boston-based Tellus Institute provides practical program surverys of sustainable development efforts at the metropolitan, regional, national, and global levels.
• Business for Social Responsibility provides information on how to implement a responsive corporate program.
• Indicators of sustainability are provided by Hart Environmental Data.
• The leading publisher of books related to sustainability is Island Press.

Links to regional, state, and local sustainability sites:

• The Institute for Local Self-Reliance provides leadership in civic responsibility and greaa-roots activism.
• The Pew Center for the States shows how sustainability intersects state-level issues.
• Standard and Poors research shows that cities are economic dynamos.

©Wayne Hayes, Ph.D.:ProfWork® profwork@yahoo.com
Business and the Environment, Summer, 2000
May 30, 2000