MBCL Sustainable Living Links
Sustainable Transport:
Travel Smart - Sustainable
Transport (Vic Govt)
VicLink
Public Transport Trip Planner
Public Transport Users' Association
Sustainable Building,
Planning and Urban Design:
ICLEI - International Council for Local
Environmental Initiatives (Aus/NZ)
RUDI - Resource for Urban Design
Information (intl)
Architects for Peace
(International)
Sustainable Melbourne
(cached)
Victoria - State of Design
Covers all fields of design.
Water Sensitive Urban
Design Hosted by Melbourne Water.
Your Home
Commonwealth Government Sustainable Building site.
Grow Indigenous and Native
Plants:
Indigenous Flora
and Fauna Association
Native Nursery Advice on
growing native plants and where to get them.
Friends of Braeside
Park have a fantastic plant nursery.
Community Building:
Community.gov.au (C'wealth site)
Victorian Local Governance
Association (VLGA) Now based at 60L.
Sustainable Food and
Agriculture:
Friends of
the Earth (Collingwood) Sustainable Food page
The Organic Federation of Australia
BFA - Biological Farmers of Australia
Against Genetic Engineering in Agriculture.
Biodynamic Agriculture
Australia
Australian Vegetarian
Society Based in Melbourne.
The Permaculture Research
Institute (Australia)
WWOOF Australia Willing Workers
On Organic Farms (Australia).
List of Australian Food
Cooperatives
Dandenong Market Reduce
your food miles.
Kingston
Farmers' Market Opposite Southland at the Sir William Fry Reserve
Greenline Organic Home
Delivery (Melbourne)
Grow Food in your own
Backyard:
Earth Garden magazine Best
gardening and renewable energy information.
Jackie French -
Sustainable Gardening Books
Gardenworld, Braeside Local
nursery with good range of vegetable seeds and seedlings.
Greengold
Gardening Hints (Australia).
Backyard Poultry, Australia
Cruelty free eggs.
Vasili's Garden (SBS)
Melbourne gardening show on SBS.
Project Gutenberg
Free, downloadable gardening books.
Many Books Free gardening texts.
Find a recipe for your
home grown produce:
ABC 774 Online
Recipe Finder Great selection of recipes
Project Gutenberg
Free, downloadable cook books.
Publications and Media:
SBS Online Best environmental TV
coverage.
ABC Radio National (621 AM) Best
coverage of sustainability issues and design.
The Age Save paper and read The
Age on-line.
Earth Garden magazine
Sustainable gardening and renewable energy.
Alternative Technology Association
(ATA) Publishers of Renew magazine.
Amazon books (USA) Great selection
of new and second hand books.
VICNET Victoria's Biggest Web
Site.
Project Gutenberg
Good range of free, downloadable gardening and cooking books.
Many Books Another easy-to-use ebook
site, with free gardening and cooking texts.
Sustainable Clothing and
Products:
Wardrobe
Refashion Pledge to buy no new clothes for a specific period - only
handmade, thrifted and renovated clothing.
Little Brown Dress
project (Seattle) One dress for a whole year.
Patterns from the Past
(Sewing) Retro dress and clothing patterns.
Knitting Nerds Knitting
patterns and ideas.
White Hat, Victoria
Listing of Melbourne's second hand and craft markets.
Corporate Scrutiny and
Globalisation:
Corpwatch Resource page for
corporate scrutiny and investigation.
Multinational
Monitor The electronic database of the magazine that scrutinises multi and
transnational corporations.
Sustainable International
Development:
Oxfam Community Aid Abroad
(Australia)
Grameen Bank Information on
microcredit.
MSF - Medecins Sans Frontieres
Architects for Peace
(International)
APHEDA - Union Aid Abroad
(Australia)
Australian Volunteers
International (AVI)
People for Fair Trade (Australia)
Chemicals and Pollutants:
Greenpeace Toxics Good
downloads and links.
International POPs Elimination Network
Information on persistent organochlorine pollutants.