Sustainability Links for Home and Work

Climate Change

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Environmental Benefit/Savings Calculators

  • Environmental Defense Fund's Paper Calculators
    The EDF’s calculator helps you quantify the benefits of better paper choices. The Paper Calculator shows the environmental impacts of different papers across their full lifecycle.
  • Global Footprint Network's Ecological Footprint Calculator
    Global Footprint Network is an international think tank working to advance sustainability through use of the footprinting which are resource accounting tools that measure how much nature we have, how much we use and who uses what.
  • Responsible Purchasing Network's Hybrid Vehicle Calculator
    Use the Hybrid Calculator to compare hybrid electric (HEV) and conventional vehicles. The calculator includes purchase price, fuel costs, repair and maintenance costs, resale value, and applicable tax incentives, and calculates expected lifetime costs for both vehicles, as well as cost and emissions savings from the HEV.
  • Northeast Recycling Council's Environmental Benefits Calculator
    NERC's Environmental Benefits Calculator is usable by any state, region, county, town, institution, school and business in the United States. Among the Calculator’s unique features are the environmental benefits of computer recycling and reuse calculator, an energy savings comparison chart, and an emissions savings comparison chart.

Environmentally Preferable Purchasing

Funding Opportunities

Green Building

Green Meetings and Conferences

Grounds Maintenance

Low Polluting Vehicles

Sustainable Practices

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State

National

Understanding Sustainability

  • The Natural Step
    The Natural Step is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to education, advisory work and research in sustainable development and strategically helps organizations work toward sustainability opportunities, reduced costs, and dramatically reduced ecological and social impacts.

Water Conservation