The Fourth Realm of the sustainable community speaks of education. For many of us this signifies our responsibility to teach each other and to pass along what we know to the next generations. Human resources to accomplish this are a significant aspect of community creation and restoration, so we present here people, organizations, books and other forms of textual or visual information relevant to sustainable community development study and practice. If you know of resources that would be of interest to our SCD community, please use the “Contact” link to share those resources with us.

Online Resources

Women for Sustainable Technologies is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing education about issues of sustainability, promoting women's involvement in sustainable technologies, and encouraging the development of sustainable communities. The organization includes women and men from diverse backgrounds: architects and engineers, mothers and fathers, agronomists, educators, social scientists, hydrologists, gardeners, bee-keepers, anthropologists, business people, community organizers, house-stewards and voters.

Native West Press is a small, natural history press that creates books and other educational materials to help readers understand and appreciate the diversity of life in the American West. The press is co-published by Terril L. Shorb and Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb.

EE-Link is a participant in the Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP) of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE). To find out more about EE-Link, check the site criteria and the principles of environmental education that guide the work or contact EE-Link via email at eeadmin@eelink.net.

The website learnsustainability.org is a newly created one that contains some of the sustainability writings of Terril Shorb and will include resources related to sustaining communities.