Sustainability Toolkit: Economic Models. Tools are needed to put sustainable design theory into practice.
To complement an earlier series of thematic resource guides organized around climate change, sustainable urban development, transportation, livable communities, and green infrastructure, this three-part “Sustainability Toolkit” will provide online toolkits, assessment tools, checklists, modeling software, and case studies designed to aid policy makers and design professionals roll out sustainable projects at the regional, urban, and local levels. The Sustainability Toolkit covers environmental, economic, and social models. Organic Architecture, Sustainable Lifestyle, Permaculture. Environment + Sustainability. Green Building. Green construction. Residential. Sustainability. Sustainability. Green-economy. Green-economy. Green-Tech. Green Resources. Green Resources. Low-tech green energy. Green construction. Going green.
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Our super lawyer, Corynne McSherry, Intellectual Property Director of the EFF, has a blog post up on the EFF site: Riding the Fences of the “Urban Homestead”: Trademark Complaints and Misinformation Lead to Improper Takedowns summarizing the situation and the important issues at hand–issues that affect all of us.
That post also has links to a letter she sent to the Dervaes Institute on our behalf. This has been such a big flap I suspect most of our readers know this by now, but for those of you who haven’t heard the news, the Dervaes Institute (the operators of the popular website, Path to Freedom) have trademarked the terms urban homestead and urban homesteading, and in the last week or so, have started to enforce their trademarks. Follow this link to Boing Boing for a concise summary of what’s been going on. (ETA 2/23: This two part article at Agrariana seems currently to be the most complete summary available. But back to business. Sustainable Communities Online. Sustainable Energy Blog. Sustainable Development.
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