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Green Banks
Green Building
Green Real Estate
San Francisco Real Estate
Tenants Rights
Green Business Organizations
Other Sustainability

Green Banks

  • New Resource Bank
    Founded by renowned entrepreneurs, business leaders and highly experienced bankers, we understand how excellent banking can empower businesses, organizations and individuals to make greater impact on their efforts.
  • Permaculture Credit Union
    The Permaculture Credit Union pools the financial resources of people who believe in the ethics of Permaculture - care of the earth, care of people, and reinvestment of surplus for the betterment of both. We apply those resources to earth-friendly and socially responsible loans and investments.

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Green Building

  • McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry
    MBDC is a product and process design firm dedicated to revolutionizing the design of products and services worldwide. William McDonough and Dr. Michael Braungart founded MBDC in 1995 to promote and shape what they call the "Next Industrial Revolution" through the introduction of a new design paradigm called Cradle to Cradle Design, and the implementation of eco-effective design principles.
  • Green Home Guide
    Reviews and advice for green remodeling and living. Articles, directories of recommended products and green building professionals and retailers.
  • Build It Green
    Excellent resource for green building materials and service providers.
  • McGraw-Hill Green Building Products
    Find green building materials, products, and manufacturers on the McGraw-Hill Construction Sweets Network. Download CAD details, specs and product information.
  • Green Building Digest
    A “green” e-wire news service consisting of four parts: Green Real Estate, Sustainable Building, Green Landscaping and Modular Building. We post thousands of articles weekly, newsletters, and an archive featuring tens of thousands of articles.

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Green Real Estate

  • Eco Broker
    EcoBroker.com is your resource for real estate opportunities and energy and environmental information. Professionals and consumers use EcoBroker.com to conveniently find expert information, property listings, real estate agents, and other proven product and service providers.
  • Green Homes Listings
    Buy the home you have always dreamed of or sell your green home for the price it's worth.
  • Green Homes For Sale
    Green and Healthy Home Marketplace
  • Listed Green
    the Green MLS (Multiple Listing Service) exclusively for Green, Energy Efficient, Sustainable Homes and Housing Developments For Sale Worldwide.

    The way we currently build and maintain our homes is one of the contributing factors to global warming.

    Listed Green Homes is committed to being part of the solution to reduce global warming by promoting sustainable, energy efficient, healthy building design - in addition to helping elevate the market value of new green homes and eco-friendly residential developments.

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San Francisco Real Estate

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Tenants Rights

  • SF Tenant's Union
    Fighting For Tenants Rights Since 1970.
  • SF Rent Board
    The San Francisco Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Board implements the San Francisco Rent Ordinance. San Francisco has no commercial rent control.

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Green Business Organizations

  • Green House Collective
    Create a healthier environment for your home, support your community and shrink your environmental footprint. We are small, local businesses and
    leaders in greening the home service industry. Click on the service of your choice to find out more.
  • SF Green Business Program
    The goal of the San Francisco Green Business Program is to achieve a healthier and cleaner environment by helping businesses integrate environmental responsibility into their operations in a manner that is sustainable as well as profitable.
  • Co-Op America Green Business Network
    The Green Business Network™ is the green business program of Co-op America, the nation's leading non-profit educator on socially and environmentally responsible consumption and investing.
    Co-op America’s mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, businesses and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. We provide the economic strategies, resources and organizing power to make lasting, systemic change on a range of critical issues faced today, including renewable energy, fair trade, sweatshops and forest protection.
  • SustainableBusiness.com
    SustainableBusiness.com provides global news and networking services to help green business grow, covering all sectors: renewable energy, green building, sustainable investing, and organics.
  • GreenBiz.com
    The leading online news and information resource on how to align environmental responsibility with business success. It offers more than 8,000 resources, including daily news and feature stories, reports, checklists, case studies, and links to organizations, technical assistance programs, government agencies, and recognition programs. Its free e-newsletter, GreenBuzz, reaches more than 20,000 professionals every week.

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Other Sustainability

  • Walkscore
    "What I can walk to" is a common home-buying and apartment-renting criterion. Walk Score's patent-pending technology calculates a Walk Score for any property and shows a map of what's nearby with reviews to help you find a great neighborhood.
  • Energy Audits - Energy Star
    If you have five minutes and your last 12 months of utility bills, use the ENERGY STAR Home Energy Yardstick to compare your home's energy efficiency to similar homes across the country and get recommendations for energy-saving home improvements from ENERGY STAR. You will also need to enter some basic information about your home (such as zip code, age, square footage, and number of occupants). If you don't have your bills, contact your utility for a 12-month summary.
  • Energy Audits - Department of Energy
    You can easily conduct a home energy audit yourself. With a simple but diligent walk-through, you can spot many problems in any type of house. When auditing your home, keep a checklist of areas you have inspected and problems you found. This list will help you prioritize your energy efficiency upgrades.
  • Energy Audits - Home Energy Saver
    Web-based home energy audit.
  • Global Ecological Footprint Network
    Humans are the most successful species on the planet. But we are using more resources than the Earth can provide. We are in global ecological overshoot.

    In 2003, Global Footprint Network was established to enable a sustainable future where all people have the opportunity to live satisfying lives within the means of one planet.

    An essential step in creating a one-planet future is measuring human impact on the Earth so we can make more informed choices.

    That is why our work aims to accelerate the use of the Ecological Footprint — a resource accounting tool that measures how much nature we have, how much we use, and who uses what.

    The Ecological Footprint is a data-driven metric that tells us how close we are to the goal of sustainable living. Footprint accounts work like bank statements, documenting whether we are living within our ecological budget or consuming nature’s resources faster than the planet can renew them.

  • Recycling, Rebates, and Green Buying
    The OurEarth.org website began as a simple idea to make it easier for people to find environmental information. There are outstanding environmental programs, activities, initiatives, ideas, and grassroots efforts across the country but it can be difficult to sort through all of the websites and information available. As a result, important natural resources, energy savings, and pollutant reductions are lost each and every day, causing unnecessary damage to our planet.

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