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Some good examples from UK local government
Devon Local Agenda 21 - good ideas, good links http://www.devon.gov.uk/agenda21/homepage.html
Cheshire Local Agenda 21 http://www.cheshire.gov.uk/cheshpln/la21/home.htm
Lancashire Local Agenda 21 http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/localagenda21/index.asp
Gloucestershire Local Agenda 21 known as Vision21
National Government sites
UK government's sustainable development page http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/links/location/int.htm
Truly wonderful US site on making sustainable communities and building. Good sections on planning to reduce traffic, land-use planning. http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/
... and from other organisations
'Local governments implementing Sustainable Development'. An international site with lots of good examples at http://www.iclei.org/
New Zealand sustainable development http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/sustainable/forum_feb02.php
What a sustainable economy may look like http://www.conservationeconomy.net/
Guide to how planet Earth works http://www.planetguide.net/book/chapter_1/earth_whole.html and http://www.planetguide.net/chapter1/index.html
The Living Planet Report (by the World Wide Fund For Nature for the United Nations) showing human's effect on planet Earth - that one third of all the Earth's resources have been used up or badly damaged since the 1970's. Basically, it shows how humans are using more than the planet can support - why a shift to more sustainable development is important.
United Nations 3rd State of the World Report 2002
The Isle of Man lies at the centre of the British Isles
More information on the Isle of Man
can be found on the websites of the
Isle of Man Government,
of the Tourist Board,
or of Isle of Man Newspapers
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