What are you looking here for? Your neighborhood is outside, across the street, next door, down the block, across town. Go talk to somebody face to face and find out what you have in common. You might get some ideas here, but anybody with a page link here will tell you, you don't build neighborhood community on the internet.
Sustainable
Building Sources
Under Construction
Low Cost
Furnace Efficiency Improvements - Energy Conservation
This could have been just as well placed in the energy sector of TOES
Town, as many residential related sites were, but its not. The
potential energy savings of weatherization programs is vastly greater
than the savings we have seen thus far. Furnace efficiency
adjustments and modifications can bring these programs more in line
with their potential. In this paper, furnace efficiency work on over
400 low income households is studied. Funded by LIEAP, these
modifications are described in detail and compared to other furnace
weatherization options.
Moms and Others
Mothers & Others, a national nonprofit education organization,
works to promote consumer choices which are safe and ecologically
sustainable for current and future generations. By providing
strategies that can reduce individual and community consumption of
natural resources, and by mobilizing consumers to seek sustainable
choices, we aim to effect lasting protection of public health and the
environment.
Welcome to NeighborWorks on the
Web
This site promotes the creation of healthy communities through
affordable housing, home ownership and investments in neighborhood
revitalization through local partnerships of residents, nonprofits,
lenders, business community and local government.
Toxic Free
Neighborhoods Campaign
The EHC Toxic Free Neighborhoods Campaign: (1) empowers, educates,
and demands protection for residents and workers in all communities;
(2) focuses on low-income, industrial neighborhoods of color as they
have been particularly impacted; (3) promotes economic and
environmental justice.
Neighborhood
and Community Organizations
The organizations in this category grew up as advocacy organizations.
They are not ad hoc groups, but rather represent a significant
citizen infrastructure in the communities where they exist. Their
often confrontational, multi-issue struggles have centered around
protecting the interests of their members and seeking to put them on
a level playing field with powerful political and economic interests
in their communities. In many cities, these organizations' success at
establishing themselves as major players in community decision making
now presents challenges to operate in new, increasingly
collaborative, ways. Many of these local community organizations were
catalyzed by national organizing centers-such as the Industrial Areas
Foundation (IAF), the Midwest Academy, and the National Training and
Information Center; others are linked to statewide and national
coalitions, including Citizen Action, the National Association of
Neighborhoods, ACORN, and National People's Action.
Housing
and Community Development
This site is maintained by a Philadelphia Neighborhoods service web
page that is a good model for anybody wanting to provide resources to
your community locally via the Web. Neighborhoods Online:National -
This page includes only federal agencies and national organizations
that address neighborhood concerns.
About
CPN
Born of the movement for a "new citizenship" and "civic
revitalization," CPN is a
collaborative and nonpartisan project dedicated to bringing practical
tools for public
problem solving into community and institutional settings across
America.