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Organizations

• Title: Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
  Link:

  http://www.aashe.org/index.php
  Body:

  AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, is a member organization of colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada working to promote sustainability in all sectors of higher education - from governance and operations to curriculum and outreach.

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• Title: BALLE -The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
  Link:

  http://www.livingeconomies.org/
  Body:

  BALLE, brings small business leaders together to help business use less energy and produce less waste, help customers understand that locally owned businesses are important to the strength of our community and discover hat new business opportunities exist in regions for the emerging green economy.

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• Title: CARE-Carpet America Recovery Effort
  Link:

  http://www.carpetrecovery.org/
  Body:

  Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) is a joint industry-government effort to increase the amount of recycling and reuse of post-consumer carpet and reduce the amount of waste carpet going to landfills.

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• Title: Clean Car Standard
  Link:

  http://www.cleancarcampaign.org
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  A national campaign coordinated by state, regional and national environmental organizations promoting a clean revolution in the motor vehicle industry. In particular, the campaign seeks to promote the development and sale of advanced technology vehicles that meet a high standard of environmental performance.

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• Title: CNN - Climate Neutral Network
  Link:

  http://www.climateneutralnetwork.org
  Body:

  An alliance of companies and organizations committed to developing products, services, and enterprises that have a net-zero impact on global warming.

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• Title: Environmental Investigation Agency (eia)
  Link:

  http://www.eia-global.org/
  Body:

  EIA is and international environmental campaigning organizaiton that uses investigative technques to expose environmetal crimes and campaign against illegal wildlife trade and threats to our global environment.

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• Title: EPAT-Environmental Paper Assessment Tool
  Link:

  https://www.epat.org/
  Body:

  EPAT is an evaluation tool that translates technical paper supply chain data into a context businesses can use to select environmentally preferable paper products. EPAT does not determine “good vs. bad” paper products for users. EPAT is a data-driven tool for the purpose of “knowing vs. not-knowing” so users can select paper products that meet their own environmental goals.

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• Title: GEN- Global Ecolabelling Network
  Link:

  http://www.gen.gr.jp
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  A non-profit association of third-party, environmental performance labelling organizations founded in 1994 to improve, promote, and develop the "ecolabelling" of products and services.

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• Title: Greenblue
  Link:

  http://www.greenblue.org/
  Body:

  GreenBlue is a nonprofit institute that stimulates the creative redesign of industry by focusing the expertise of professional communities to create practical solutions, resources, and opportunities for implementing sustainability.

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• Title: GRI- Global Reporting Initiative
  Link:

  http://www.globalreporting.org
  Body:

  Providing guidance for organizations to use as the basis for disclosure about their sustainability performance, and also provides stakeholders a universally-applicable, comparable framework in which to understand disclosed information.

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