Helpful Sustainable Development Websites

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UN Framework on Climate Change
Union of Concerned Scientists
UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
United Nations Enviromental Program
UNESCO - TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
United Nation International Drug Control Program - UNDCP
United Nations' Population Fund
United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
URBAN ADAVANTAGE - Envisioning Smart Growth - Projects
URBAN ECOLOGY

e-topias ; cities that work smarter, not harder.
The new settlement patterns of the twenty-first century will be characterized by live/work dwellings, 24 hour pedestrian-scale neighborhoods rich in social relationships and vigorous local communitiy life, complemented by far-flung configurations of electronic meeting places and decentralized production, marketing and distribution systems. - William J. Mitchell

"The World's top 20 percent of income earners made thirty times as much money as the bottom 20 percent did in 1960, according to the UN Development Program, but by 1991, they made sixty-one times as much. By 1994, the ratio was seventy-eight to one." - Mark Hertsgaard

U.S. Agency for International Development USAID

U.S. Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators

U.S. Interagency Working Group on Industrial Ecology, Material, and Energy Flows

Uncommon Opportunities: An Agenda for Peace and Equitable Development

United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

United States Geological Survey

U.S.G.S. Information about Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

Urban Growth Seen from Space

USDA Office of Community Development

The Venus Project - Tracking the Technological Revolution