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This is the website of the sole existing federal Individual Development Account program.

The Center for Sustainability promotes a culture of sustainability on the University of Kansas campus. The Center facilitates research, learning opportunities, policies, and practices that address environmental, economic, and social responsibility, including developing an outline in the summer of 2007 of what is anticipated to be an upcoming comprehensive campus-based sustainability report.

The Donella Meadows Institute (formerly named the Sustainability Institute), based in Hartland, Vermont, was founded in 1996 to apply systems thinking and organizational learning to economic, environmental and social challenges. The Institute works for change in three ways: through workshops, leadership development, and consulting; by targeting specific systems and issues, including natural resource economies, climate change, energy, and regional development; and by applying the consulting, workshops, and research work to develop conceptual frameworks for large-scale change. The site includes many papers based on the Institute's research work.

The Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) is a research, development, project implementation, and community outreach facility based at the University of California, Berkeley in the Energy and Resources Group and the Department of Nuclear Engineering. RAEL focuses on designing, testing, and disseminating renewable and appropriate energy systems. The Laboratory's mission is to help these technologies realize their full potential to contribute to environmentally sustainable development in both industrialized and developing nations while also addressing the cultural context and range of potential social impacts of any new technology or resource management system.

Developed by the National Association of Counties, U.S. Communities, the Responsible Purchasing Network and Green Seal, this green purchasing toolkit enables counties across the nation to reduce their negative environmental impacts without compromising on cost or performance.  The website offers information and evaluations on different types of green products, assessment tools so that counties can evaluate what point they are starting from, and a model process for how to implement a green purchasing program.

Formed in 1982 as a non-profit organization, the mission of the Interstate Renewable Energy Council is to accelerate the sustainable utilization of renewable energy sources and technologies in and through state and local government and community activities. The group's members include state energy offices, city energy offices, other municipal and state agencies, national laboratories, solar and renewable organizations and companies, and individuals.

The Green Power Network provides information on green power markets and related activities. The site provides up-to-date news on green power providers, product offerings, consumer protection issues, and policies affecting green power markets. It also includes a reference library of relevant papers, articles and reports. The Green Power Network is operated and maintained by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.

GreenBiz publishes daily on topics regarding how to align environmental responsibility with business success. In addition to daily news feeds, Green Biz's website also has electronic newsletters, briefing papers, and other reports regarding the United States' growing green economy.

Econ4 is focused on redefining the economics profession - shifting it from a discipline focused on short-run output and profits to one that aims to secure long-run human well-being. To accomplish this goal, an economy must meet four necessary conditions: a level playing field, resilience, true-cost pricing and real democracy. Econ4 strives to change the current orthodoxy through disseminating these ideas through new media, transforming the traditional introductory economics class for undergraduates, altering the profession by targeting how economics PhD's are trained, and trying to instill a body of ethics into a profession that has often refused to adopt or talk about one.