 | LinksGardening tools and supplies including seed starting equipment, greenhouses, and garden furniture. www.gardeners.com Developing farm-and land-based enterprises that generate economic and social opportunity while protecting natural resources. www.intervale.org A broad-based ecological consulting, contracting, and restoration firm overseeing the Neotropical Bird Project –funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Association, to study and improve migratory bird habitat in the Andomojo Watershed. www.appliedeco.com Costa Rica’s premier "green" residential community. www.tierrapacifica.com Reforest Teak: Superior quality teak furniture with a conscience. An innovative new measure that shows the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered around the world. www.happyplanetindex.org A non-profit institution called Sol de Vida dedicated to improving women’s lives through solar cooking and organic gardening. Academic programs at MonteVerde Institute in tropical biology and conservation biology; sustainable design and planning (architecture, landscape architecture, resource management, community planning); environmental technologies; community health; and Spanish and Costa Rican Culture. www.mvinstitute.org Unprecedented warnings from the scientific community indicate that the planet’s ecosystems are stressed near the point of collapse, business as usual is no longer possible, and we have little time left to respond. www.survivingpeakoil.com WorldChanging Team - Graduate research assistants at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment at UW-Madison where they work on understanding how human activities affect the biological and physical systems of our planet. www.worldchanging.com |