Local Resources:
WIRE is a grassroots initiative designed to investigate environmental concerns in Wichita by providing opportunities for citizens,neighborhood groups, community leaders, businesses, and government groups to voice their environmental concerns and work toward improving our local environment.- Earth Spirit Kansas is a support network of citizen activists working to bring about sustainability in Kansas, and to raise publicawareness of critical conditions in our natural environment. Clem Design http://www.clemdesign.com/
- Custom home design specializing in green design and energy efficient homes. - Green Building – We emphasize green building (energy and material conservation) in all our projects. Designing our homes for higher energy efficiency helps to conserve our energy resources for tomorrow as well as reduce our individual pollution contribution and your energy bills today.- Solar Ready – We make all of our designs “Solar Ready” by specifying conduit and/or piping at specific locations in the initial construction, making the addition of a solar energy system much easier in the future. - Interested in discussing renewable energy sources, sustainable living, and having a minimal impact on the environment. This is the group for you. Based in Wichita, Kansas.- The Kansas Chapter has taken the responsibility for the protection of our Kansas environment. Our mission is simple...Explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth. Practice and promote the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources.Educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment.Use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.- Cartridge World is providing consumers and businesses with an alternative to reduce the impact of millions of cartridges that are thrown away and that end up in landfills each year. National Resources:
-Non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everyone within a generation.- Economic action for a just planet- Architecture 2030, a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization, was established in response to the global-warming crisis. 2030’s mission is to rapidly transform the US and global Building Sector from the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions to a central part of the solution to the global-warming crisis. - Goal: to achieve a dramatic reduction in the global-warming-causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the Building Sector by changing the way buildings and developments are planned, designed and constructed.- The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices. - The GREENGUARD Environmental Institute (GEI) is an industry-independent, non-profit organization that oversees the GREENGUARD Certification Program. As an ANSI Authorized Standards Developer, GEI establishes acceptable indoor air standards for indoor products, environments, and buildings. GEI’s mission is to improve public health and quality of life through programs that improve indoor air. A GEI Advisory Board consisting of independent volunteers, who are renowned experts in the areas of indoor air quality, public and environmental health, building design and construction, and public policy, provides guidance and leadership to GEI. - In light of the climate crisis and other ecological challenges increasingly facing us, people are becoming more aware than ever about environmental problems and taking more actions to lessen their impacts. However, learning about the environment can often be confusing and overwhelming. There are lots of voices talking about the environment -- activists, governments, companies, advisory groups, and non-profits, to name a few -- all of whom have different ways of explaining things and advising people. They also make their points through a variety of different media from articles to blogs to films to white papers to position papers. It can be hard to find what you are looking for! To compound things, information can also be contradictory: are biofuels good or bad? To what degree? DIY Projects
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