Organizations

Organizations

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  This website includes information on “climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation,” including a 35-page report on mitigation strategies called Summary for Policymakers.

• Boulder Green Building Guild

  The journal available at this website features a wide range of articles, including work on historic buildings.

• Building Science Corporation

  Links to various presentations

• Eco-Futures Building, Inc.

  The carbon neutral retrofits to existing housing done by this sustainable design and construction firm in Boulder, Colorado, are useful and interesting.

• Efficiency Valuation Organization

  This global volunteer organization is “dedicated to creating measurement and verification (M&V) tools to allow efficiency to flourish” in the marketplace.

• Environment Michigan

  Reports – including The Road to a New Energy Future – make the case for efficiency and renewables.

• Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance

  This collaborative network’s vision is to “…foster market penetration of existing energy-efficient technologies and promote new technologies, products and best practices, including renewable energy” in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin.

• National Weather Service – Climate Prediction Center

  Region-specific information, including drought and hazards assessment, short and longer-term outlooks for temperature and precipitation is available here.

• Passivhaus Institut

  This site presents an excellent view of the definition, background, criteria, software and case studies of European passive houses, designed to reduce heating loads substantially enough so that no conventional central boiler is needed. Heating needs are met by conditioning the ventilation air. It provides a fine primer and stimulating reports of what can be achieved. It can be accessed in English and other languages.

• The Energy Center of Wisconsin

  This private non-profit organization promotes “economic and environmental sustainability through innovative research and education.” The site features good reports and good research which, though locally focused, largely apply north of the Mason-Dixon Line

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

  This website provides everything from background to current events regarding the Kyoto Protocol.