Friends of the Earth Australia, 'Towards a sustainable Australia: fair shares in environmental space & ecological footprint analysis', PAMPHLET. Contact FOE Sydney.
Friends of the Earth International, 'Ten times better: fair shares in environmental space', PAMPHLET. Contact FOE Sydney or www.xs4all.nl/~foeint
Environmental Resources Limited, 'The best of both worlds: sustainable and quality lifestyles in the 21st Century', Oxford, January 1993. REPORT for the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment. Contact FOE Sydney.
Hart S, 'Beyond greening: strategies for a sustainable world', Harvard Business Review 75(1), Jan-Feb 1997, pp. 67-76. JOURNAL ARTICLE.
Friends of the Earth, Netherlands, 'Sustainable consumption. A global perspective', 1996. BOOK. Contact info@foenl.antenna.nl or www.milieudefensie.nl/mildef.html or FOE Sydney.The result of a collaborative process between NGOs from 'developed' and 'underdeveloped' countries, this little book tackles consumption head on. Future scenarios are graphically depicted and the challenges of 'limiting growth' are outlined. To help us understand 'sustainable consumption' concepts such as equity, eco-efficiency, sufficiency and environmental space are introduced. Topics covered include fossil fuels, mineral resources, land use -- each coupled with case studies and examples.
Lovins Amory and Hunter and von Weizsacker Ernst, 'Factor Four', BOOK. Contact www.rmi.org/catalog/energy.htm#e97-8 or Earthscan Publications 120 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JNWe can double our wealth and cut resource use in half. This book claims that 'doing more with less is not the same as doing less, doing worse or doing without'. Fifty examples of how end-use can be uncoupled from the use of energy and mineral resources by a factor of four. Described by David Suzuki as 'a priceless guide'.
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS
Wackernagel, 'Ecological Footprints of Nations', REPORT for the Earth Council of the RIO+5 Forum in March 1997. Contact www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio/focus/report/english/footprint
Includes the footprint assessments of 52 countries representing 80 percent of the world population. Summary report is being prepared.
Wackernagel and Rees, 'Our Ecological Footprint' 1996. BOOK. New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, USA. Contact mathiswa@edg.net.mx or mathiswa@compuserve.com
Outlines a process for determining local ecological footprints, which takes into account fossil fuel use, land use (built environment, farm land, forest products) and consumption of food, housing and transport.
Centre for sustainability studies at Xalapa, Mexico, ORGANISATION. Contact www.edg.net.mx/~mathiswa or Centro de Estudios, para la Sustentabilidad, Universidad Anáhuac de Xalapa, Apartado Postal, 653 91000 Xalapa, Ver. f: (+52) 28 190 453
Ecological Footprint Requests Task Force on Healthy and Sustainable Communities, ORGANISATION. Contact Centre for Human Settlements, University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 Canada. or chevans@unixg.ubc.ca
EXTENDING PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY
Product Stewardship Advisor, JOURNAL, Cutter Corporation at www.cutter.com/psa
News and strategies for Product Stewardship. In depth articles on case studies from all over the world. A must for policy makers and business.
Greenpeace International, 'Strategies to promote Clean Production -- Extended Producer Responsibility', Greenpeace Briefing Paper, REPORT, June 1995. Contact FOE Sydney or www.rec.hu/poland/wpa/cpb4.htm
Inform, ORGANISATION at www.informinc.org or 120 Wall St, 16th fl, New York, NY 10005-4001
Inform have undertaken some studies related to EPR, in particular, reusable packaging. View online fact sheets for free.
US EPA, 'A New Principle for Product Orientated Pollution Prevention', June 1997, REPORT at www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/epr
RMIT, 'Return to Sender -- Case studies in EPR', BOOKLET. Contact National Centre for Design at RMIT, Contact GPO Box 2476V Melbourne 3001 p: 03 9925 2362 or cfd@rmit.edu.au
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, ORGANISATION at www.lu.se/IIIEE
Based at Lund University, Sweden. Website features online papers detailing philosophy of EPR and its historical development. Case studies from Swedish car industry.
DESIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Corporate Design Foundation, ORGANISATION at www.cdf.org/green/case1
Contact details for a range of 'design for the environment' groups, and internet resources. Website includes an online primer and questionnaire for practical use in green design.
National Centre for Design at RMIT, ORGANISATION. Contact GPO Box 2476V Melbourne 3001 p: 03 9925 2362 email: cfd@rmit.edu.au or www.cfd.rmit.edu.au
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
Ryan and Durning, 'Stuff -- the secret lives of everyday things', 1997. BOOK, Northwest Environment Watch at nwwatch@igc.apc.org or www.northwestwatch.org
Plain English LCA for a range of everyday 'stuff' in an informative, not preachy, way.
WEBSITE at www.ecosite.co.uk
WEBSITE at www.tai.org.au
WEBSITE at www.setac.org/lca.html
CLEAN PRODUCTION
Greenpeace International, 'Clean Production: eliminating toxic waste, technologies and products -- an action program', PAMPHLET.
Pollution Prevention and Clean Production Europe, WEBSITE at www.rec.hu/poland/wpa/p2cp-eu.htm
INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
Journal of Industrial Ecology, JOURNAL. Contact mitpress.mit.edu/JIEC
"Industrial Ecology has been described as 'an integrated management tool that designs industrial infrastructure in an interlocking, artificial ecosystem -- by 'linking metabolisms'."
-- Paul Hawken
ECOLOGICAL TAX REFORM
Greenpeace International, 'Strategies to promote Clean Production -- Ecological Tax Reform', REPORT. Contact www.rec.hu/poland/wpa/cpb4.htm
WASTE MANAGEMENT
Warmer Bulletin, JOURNAL. Contact The World Resource Foundation, Bridge House, High Street, Tonbridge, Kent TN91DP UK. f 44 0 1732 368337 or www.wrf.org
The WRF aims 'to provide worldwide information on the management of household waste and its value as a source of materials and energy'. The Warmer Bulletin is a quarterly magazine. Information sheets are also available.
Institute for Local Self Reliance, ORGANISATION. Contact the Global Recycling Network website at grn.com/org/ilsr
Recycling projects, reuse operations, eco-industrial parks, and interesting joint ventures in the US. Operates a mail order publication service.
Waste Prevention Association, ORGANISATION at www.rec.org/poland/wpa/wpa.htm
A non-profit NGO campaigning in cleaner production and waste management. Website includes an country by country A to Z of municipal solid waste legislation (a bit patchy), and general info on landfill, incineration, composting.
EcoRecycle Victoria, WASTE EXCHANGE at db.ecorecycle.vic.gov.au/erv
BROAD ENVIRONMENTAL
Rheingold, ed., 'Whole Earth Millennium Catalogue -- Access to tools, ideas for the 21st Century', 1994, BOOK at www.well.net/mwec or gopher.well.sf.ca.us/11/WER/MWEC or Harper Collins Publishers, 10 East 53rd t, NY, 10022
One of the most comprehensive environment and quality of life catalogues you'll find, with topics covering: communications, community health, philosophy, learning, taming technology, sustainability, biodiversity, whole systems, and tools for effective citizen action. It's from the US, so you may have to try your mail order skills or hook up with a good book store.
New Internationalist, JOURNAL at www.oneworld.org/ni or 7 Hill Street, Adelaide, 5000
Environmental Manager, NEWSLETTER. Contact PO Box 693, Manly, NSW, 2095 p: 02 9977 7500
'The independent, weekly newsletter on industry and the environment'. A good way to keep updated with weekly bites of what's on in the Australian and o/s Environmental Management scene -- a range of issues, including waste.
Korten, D., 'When Corporations Rule the World', BOOK at www.kpbooks.com/whencorp.htm
Examines the impacts of globalisation from an ecological economist's perspective.
Business and the Environment, JOURNAL. Contact Cutter Information Corp, 37 Broadway, Suite 1, Arlington, MA 02174-5552 USA or www.cutter.com/bate or bate@igc.apc.org or f: 1 617 648 8707
Useful case studies. View back issues for free on the internet.
Paul Hawken, 'Living, human and industrial systems', BOOK. Contact www.design-inst.nl/doors/doors3/texts/hawken.html
Paul Hawken, 'The Least Cost Society', REPORT. Contact www.indeco.com/reuse/sum_ph.htm
Tellus Institute, ORGANISATION at www.tellus.org
Non profit research and consultancy organisation which promotes sustainable and equitable resource management. Areas covered include energy, solid waste, risk assessment, materials policy, source reduction, recycling, forecasting, software. Does not fail to neglect the world of accounting and methodology.
Stockholm Environment Institution, ORGANISATION at www.sei.se
Sustainable energy, environmental assessment, urban environments, atmospheric environment, institutional development, water resources, global knowledge.
CONSUMER INFO
Consuming Interest, JOURNAL at www.choice.com.au or the Australian Consumers Association p: 02 9577 3333
QLD Consumers Union, 'Ecoconsumer Declaration', PAMPHLET. Contact Eco-Consumer, PO Box 12046 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane 4002
Outcome of a collaborative process between consumer and environment movements in QLD. A strategic overview, which covers the origins, benefits and costs of consumer society. Plus moving towards ecologically sustainable consumption.
International Organisation of Consumers Unions 'IOCU and sustainable consumption', CONFERENCE PAPERS from Symposium: Sustainable Consumption, January 1994, Norway. Contact FOE, Sydney
Australian Competition and Consumer Commis-sion (formerly Trades Practice Commission), GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION. p: 02 9230 9133
You can obtain a copy of their environmental marketing guidelines for free. This includes samples of misleading claims and a simple guide to demystify plastics recycling labels. The ACCC also runs a hotline for misleading claims -- which it says it will pursue: 1 800 802 715
Distributions Standards Board ORGANISATION. p: 1800 676 136.
Has developed universal 'No Advertising Material' (NAM) stickers for letterboxes. (These are available from the organisation below). It has introduced an industry Code of Practice for member companies. A hotline has been established for unwanted mail which continues to be letterboxed if you have a NAM sticker: p: 1800 676 136
Direct Marketing Association, ORGANISATION. Contact p: 02 9368 0366
Get your No Advertising Material letterbox stickers from here.
Project Underground, ORGANISATION at www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground
An exposé of the ramifications of corporate activities on the environment and human rights. Public info on oil, gas and mining; and your consumer rights under international and US law.
Multinationals Resource Centre, ORGANISATION at www.essential.org/mdc
Assists journalists and activists by providing information on the activities of various corporations.
Corporate Watch, ORGANISATION at www.corpwatch.org
Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group, ORGANISATION at www.pirg.org/masspirg or Masspirg, 29 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111
Public Advocacy Group, with a great range of reports and studies -- some are directly related to waste issues.
Alfalfa House Food Cooperative, NON-PROFIT BUSINESS ph: 02 9519 3374
Reverse Garbage Cooperative, NON-PROFIT BUSINESS ph: 02 9569 3132 or 8/142 Addison Rd, Marrickville 2204
Co-ordinates a 'Reuse Centres Development Project' to assist groups in establishing non-profit reuse enterprises in its area.
SUFFICIENCY
Trainer, 'The Limits to growth and affluence: the transition to a sustainable society', REPORT. University of NSW. Contact FOE Sydney
A 'limits to growth' analysis of our global situation, which concludes that we must live more simply. How can we do this and improve our quality of life? Self-sufficiency, decentralisation, communality and co-operation are the keys to this alternative vision.
Affluenza, WEBSITE, VIDEO at www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza
Affluenza, a medical condition defined as: 'An epidemic of stress, overwork, shopping and indebtedness caused by the dogged pursuit of the American Dream'
Adbusters Media Foundation, ORGANISATION. Contact www.adbusters.org 1243 or West Avenue Vancouver British Colombia, Canada V6H 1B7.
Adbusters, JOURNAL Contact adbusters@adbusters.org
This organisation is the driving force behind 'Buy Nothing Day' and 'TV turnoff week'. Its journal is full and empty of ads -- using the slick tools of advertising to question consumerism and business culture.
Centre for the new American Dream, WEBSITE at www.newdream.org
THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN ASSISTED BY THE NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT THROUGH ITS WASTE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT FUND'S WASTE REDUCTION PROGRAM. THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THIS MATERIAL DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE POLICIES OF THE NSW GOVERNMENT.