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Organizations

• 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: Greenhouse Gas Protocol
  Link:

  http://www.ghgprotocol.org
  Body:

  The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. Used by the ISO and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, among others.

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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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• Title: Institute for Sustainable Development
  Link:

  http://www.sustainablefoundation.org/Programs/development.html
  Body:

  The Institute for Sustainable Development is a new membership organization and a partnership of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, the Duke Center for International Development, the Fenwick Foundation, the Foundation for a Sustainable Community, the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Global Initiatives and the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work. The Institute’s mission is to capture, create, and transfer knowledge and application of best practices in sustainability in order to influence sustainable development research, policy, and practice.

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• Title: Metafore
  Link:

  http://www.metafore.org/
  Body:

  Metafore is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that specializes in working with businesses to implement innovations relating to evaluating, selecting and manufacturing environmentally preferable wood and paper products. In November 2009, Metafore joined GreenBlue (described above), a nonprofit institute that works to enable the positive redesign of industrial systems.

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• Title: National Furniture Bank Association
  Link:

  http://www.help1up.org
  Body:

  Members of the non-profit NFBA around the country provide beds, tables, chairs and other crucial home furnishings to over 100,000 people each year.

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• Title: Natural Resources Defense Council
  Link:

  http://www.nrdc.org/
  Body:

  NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action group, combining the grassroots power of 1.3 million members and online activists with the courtroom clout and expertise of more than 350 lawyers, scientists and other professionals.

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• Title: Natural Step
  Link:

  http://www.naturalstep.org/
  Body:

  The Natural Step works to accelerate global sustainability by guiding companies, communities and governments onto an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable path.

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• Title: Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment
  Link:

  http://www.princes-foundation.org/
  Body:

  The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment is a charity which exists to improve the quality of people's lives by teaching and practicing timeless and ecological ways of planning, designing and building.

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• Title: Rainforest Alliance
  Link:

  http://www.rainforest-alliance.org
  Body:

  The Rainforest Alliance works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior. This organization is the leading certifier of forestlands to the standards of the Forest Stewardship Council and helps businesses of all sizes incorporate sustainability into their supply chains by sourcing wood from responsibly managed forests.

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