Maryland
State/local strategies
International Center for Sustainable Development
To apply sustainable principles to development projects around the world in order to impact world development through practical projects that meet local needs and that are: community focused, environmentally friendly, financially healthy, and replicable.Green Party of Maryland
A politics of hope and a future that is not dominated by politics- or business-as-usual.Education
Economic security
Energy/climate
Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER)
Established in 2006 by the University of Maryland , College Park , the Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER) provides a focal point for multidisciplinary environmental research and collaboration on local, regional, national and international scales.Potomac Region Solar Energy Association
A nonprofit organization whose purposes are to further the development, use of, and support for solar energy and related arts, sciences, and technologies with concern for the economic, environmental, and social fabric of the state.Peak oil energy conference
To increase awareness and discuss practical changes to overcome the potentially devastating challenges posed by global peak oil.Clean Energy Partnership
Anon-partisan, not-for-profit business group centered around the vision of creating a cleaner, better future. We are the first and only group that is organizing businesses in the Chesapeake Bay region and offering clean energy solutions nationwide to fight global warming and air pollution.Environment
Center for Chesapeake Communities
Works to assist local governments in their efforts to plan for growth and development and the protection of their own natural resources and the Chesapeake BaySierra Club - Maryland Chapter
Maryland Environmental Service
A business focus on environmental concerns.Environmental Fund for Maryland
An alliance of more than twenty non-profit organizations dedicated to preserving, protecting and sustaining Maryland's natural heritage.Maryland Center for Environmental Training
Provides site-specific environmental, health and safety training and services for municipalities, private businesses and industry, and state and federal agencies.Maryland ECO System
(Environmental Citizens On-line) is a collaborative effort among environmental organizations throughout Maryland working to educate and mobilize their memberships utilizing a state-of-the-art electronic action alert system. This new system will provide citizens with a powerful means for getting their collaborative message out to elected officials, administrative decision makers, and industry leaders.Baltimore Ecosystem Study
Aims to understand metropolitan Baltimore as an ecological system. The program brings together researchers from the biological, physical, and social sciences to collect new data and synthesize existing information on how both the ecological and engineered systems of Baltimore work.Maryland's Green Infrastructure
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is working to identify those undeveloped lands most critical to the state's long-term ecological health.Food
Center for a Livable Future
To promote research and to develop and communicate information about the complex interrelationships among diet, food production, environment and human health; to advance an ecological perspective in reducing threats to the health of the public; and to promote policies that protect health, the global environment and the ability to sustain life for future generations.Future Harvest
A network of farmers, agricultural professionals, landowners and consumers living and working in the Chesapeake region. Future Harvest-CASA promotes profitable, environmentally sound and socially acceptable food and farming systems that work to sustain communities.Maryland Certified Growers Co-operative
Providing you and your family with fresh, organically grown, fruit and vegetables from our farms ....direct to you!Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
Since 1988, the SARE program has helped advance farming systems that are profitable, environmentally sound and good for communities through a nationwide research and education grants program.Food for Life Global
Uniting the world through food.Landuse/transportation
MERLIN Online
Maryland's Environmental Resources & Land Information Network.Water
Clear Water Action (Maryland)
Maryland Water Resources Research Center
Established in 1965 to develop new technology and more efficient methods for resolving local, state and national water resources problems.Water for Life: Decentralized Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future
Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable
Advisory Committee on Water Information"Running dry? Maryland growth could threaten water supplies"
Baltimore Sun, Feb. 5, 2006Chesapeake Bay Ecological Foundation
To educate the public and work with various State and Federal Agencies to provide current data on any relevant matters involving the quality of water and the living resources within and surrounding the Chesapeake Bay.
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