Green Resources
Green Resources
BUILDINGS & BUSINESSES
DC Green Works:
o DC Greenworks, a 501 c3 non-profit, is the national capital region’s preeminent green roof advocate and educator, as well as a one stop shop for green roof consultation, design, and installation. We serve the Washington, D.C. community by providing training, tools, and techniques that utilize, protect and advance the environment.
o http://www.dcgreenworks.org/
o The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everyone within a generation
o Great resource for anyone looking to make their existing business green!
o http://www.business.gov/expand/green-business/
Government Grants: Green Grants
o Determine your eligibility to qualify for a grant to help make your business/home more environmentally sustainable. Also, has links to tips on grant writing.
o http://governmentgrant.com/green-grants
Good Jobs Green Jobs National Conference
o The 2010 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference is the leading forum for transforming ideas into action and building a green economy that creates good jobs, reduces global warming and preserves America’s economic and environmental security
o http://www.greenjobsconference.org/
HOME & LIVING
Greenopia
o Greenopia provides consumers with high quality information to help them reduce their impact on the environment through their daily purchasing decisions. Greenopia publishes extensive green business directories, product directories, and brand directories, as well as offering a growing community, news articles, blogs, and tips to help everyone eat, shop, and live green.
o http://www.greenopia.com/WA/
o Eco-Green Living is a leading supplier of green products for building, design, and living. We offer homeowners, contractors, and builders a wide variety of green products, from organic mattresses and no VOC paints to tankless hot water heaters and solar skylights. We are experts in making eco-green living easy.
o http://www.eco-greenliving.com/
GreenHOME
o GreenHOME’s goal is to make green building as fundamental as safe building. We aim to make green affordable housing a pillar of health and economic security for low-income residents and an environmental and community asset for the National Capital Region.
o http://www.greenhome.org/about/greenhome.html
Green Guide to Washington D.C.
o Provides visitors with green ways to enjoy the city. Also useful for residents as it lists various farmer’s markets and organic restaurants
o http://thetravelersnotebook.com/destination-guides/green-guide-to-washington-dc/
HEALTH & EDUCATION
Environmental Leadership Program
o Each year we select 15-20 emerging leaders to participate in each of our regional fellowship programs. Fellows come from diverse personal and professional backgrounds as we strongly believe in broadening the voices within the “environmental movement.”
Earth Day Network: Green Schools
o Our National GREEN Schools Campaign, in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and The Clinton Foundation, aims to green all of America’s K-12 schools within a generation! We are achieving this through green school policy reform, green makeovers for schools across the country, two teacher grant programs and resources available on our Educators’ Network.
o http://ww2.earthday.net/greenschools
Earth Day Network: The National Civic Education Program
o In order to promote a more democratically active citizenry, Earth Day Network has launched the National Civic Education Project to foster solutions to the growing lack of civic and environmental education in today’s society. In our pilot effort in Cincinnati, OH last year, the National Civic Education Project scored an impressive victory, being credited with convincing the Cincinnati School Board to adopt green building standards for a $1 billion state refurbishment bond for schools.
