Related Social Endeavours

Communities, Eco-Villages Worldwide

• Global Ecovillage Network, (GEN) - "A growing network of sustainable communities, ecovillages, transition town initiatives, intentional communities, and ecologically-minded individuals worldwide."
• Intentional Community, Fellowship for Intentional Community, Communities Directory - "Promoting Community Living and Cooperative Lifestyles Across North America"
• Cohousing - "Cohousing communities bring together the value of private homes with the benefits of more sustainable living."
• The Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC) - "A union of egalitarian communities which have joined together in our common struggle to create a lifestyle based on equality, cooperation, and harmony with the earth".

Social Platforms

• An FP7 SSH Programme - Support for Social Platform on Sustainable Lifestyles and NCP Networks
• Social Platform on Sustainable Lifestyles, PDF - Information Day on "Social Platform on Sustainable Lifestyles"
• SSH research: providing the insights for future solutions - EU FP7 funds for socio-economic sciences and the humanities (SSH)

Social Studies

• [Research in Social Sub Communities] - ...

Political Studies

• Toward sustainable communities: transition and transformations in environmental policy - Authors: Daniel A. Mazmanian, Michael E. Kraft
• Sustainable communities: the potential for eco-neighbourhoods - Authors: Hugh Barton

Innovative Research Institutions

• The Seasteading Institute - Creating libertarian ocean colonies, experimental governments.
• Foresight Institute - Promoting transformative technologies
• Singularity University - Leveraging the power of exponential technologies to solve humanity’s grand challenges

Conferances

• Foresight Institute Breakthrough Philanthropy - Presentation video available
• Planet Under Pressure 201 - Discussing solutions, at all scales, to move societies on to a sustainable pathway.