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Access Board. Accessibility Guidelines and Standards. Accessible
Design
Forest
Service Outdoor Recreation Accessibility Guidelines. Trails, exhibits,
outfitters.
National
Center on Accessibility
Training, newsletter, technical advise, research
United
States Department of Justice. Design standards, technical assistance,
enforcement, mediation
Association for Challenge Course Technology. Promotes the safe and effective use of Challenge Courses and to set minimum standards for installation, operation, and inspection.
Camps Helping Camps is a not for profit organization that will assist you in sharing your camp's unwanted capital items. They will arrange to have your donated item(s) picked up and shipped to an inner city or underprivileged camp that is in need.
Biodiesel
National Biodiesel board
Composting
toilet world
Wind
Energy Resource Atlas of the United States
What
is Green Building?
Design, site issues, materials, equipment, business practices. Also available
are downloadable
files:
Building Products: What Makes a Product Green?
Establishing Priorities with Green Building
Checklist for Environmentally Responsible Design and Construction
BuildingGreen. Publishers of Environmental Building News; Information on Environmentally Responsible Building Design & Construction
Built Green Colorado. Built Green Checklist. The largest green building program in the nation.
Ecoworld. The Business of Green Technology: Nature and Technology in Harmony.
Green Building Information Centre. A Canadian non-profit organization, disseminates information about energy and environmental issues in the building sector from international sources and organizations.
Green Building. City of Portland's depository of green building technologies, case studies, specifications, and other technical resources.
Guide to Green Building Resources. British Columbia. Making resources efficient, requiring less energy to operate, making better use of materials and consuming less water. In addition, they will improve the comfort of building occupants, generate cost savings and foster the growth. Resources
Healthy Building Network (HBN) Resources and alternatives on Arsenic and PVC/vinyl. Promotes healthier building materials as a means of improving public health and preserving the global environment.
US
Green Building Council (USGBC). Council members work together to
develop products and resources, policy guidance, and educational and marketing
tools that support the adoption of sustainable buildings that are environmentally
responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work.
HVAC & IAQ (Indoor air quality)
Developing an IAQ
Profile - article
(11 pages). From EPA website.
HVAC Checklist - Short
Form (4 pages). From EPA website.
HVAC Checklist - Long
Form (15 pages). From EPA website.
HVAC Systems and IAQ Article
(19 pages). From EPA website.
IAQ Management Checklist
(4 pages). From EPA website.
Managing Buildings for Good IAQ Article
(13 pages). From EPA website.
Sewer Cleaning & Inspection Article
(11 pages). From EPA website.
Home
components and systems, National Assoc. of Home Builders (NAHB), This
Old House website
Life
Expectancy, Independent Inspection Services
Useful
life of assets, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Green Building Maintenance Manual.
Incorporate environmentally preferable operation and maintenance of buildings
and associated grounds able practices...
Handyman Club of America Discounts, free products to test, and HANDY Magazine for home improvement, home maintenance and woodworking
IFMA International Facility Managers Association
BOCA
Building Officials Code Administration
IECC 2000 The 2000 International Energy Conservation Code covers energy efficiency provisions for residential and commercial buildings, prescriptive- and performance-based approaches to energy-efficient design, and building envelope requirements for thermal performance and air leakage.
ISO 14000. Environmental Management
OSHA. Occupational Safety & Health Administration
SustainAbility.
A strategic management consultancy and think-tank to encourage adoption
of thinking and practices which are economically competitive, environmentally
sound, and socially responsible - that is, the ‘triple-bottom line
of sustainable development’.
Complete
Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance (1998). Appalachian Mountain
Club. Essentials for creating environmentally sound trails: how to plan,
design, build, and maintain trails. 256 pages.
Trail Design for Access (pdf 347 K) 36 pp, Dept of transportation - Federal Highway Administration Universal trail assessment, design guideline comparisons, trail types, access characteristics.
Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado. 300 page manual for crew leaders, which is a concise and effective technical guide to trails construction that has become a primer for land management agencies.
Information
from ACA.
Consumer
Advisory National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
60 minutes TV show, September 9, 2002
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