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The Resource Center organizes resources around 7 green economy “Sectors” and 7 “Topics.”
Search by sector or by topic, or across all sectors and/or all topics. Or search by keyword at the top right of this page.
Overview
How are the Resources Organized?
What are the Criteria?
Resources that are included in the SEED Center have been reviewed by the TAG and meet the following criteria:
- Accessible and available for colleges to model and/or customize to their local labor markets
- Not to be used as a means to market individual consultants or their products
- Promote colleges becoming generally more innovative
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USDA: Sustainability in Agriculture – Environmental Laws and Policies
This section of the USDA National Agricultural Library provides information on regulations, incentives and policies affecting sustainable agriculture as well as information on environmental legislation and laws on the international, Federal, state and local level.
October 14, 2011
USDA: Sustainability in Agriculture – Food Security
This section of the USDA National Agricultural Library provides reports and resources on the importance of the availability of an adequate, nutritious food supply worldwide.
US EPA’s Sustainable Management of Food
This US Environmental Protection Agency webpage contains numerous reports, research, guides, infographics, and other resources on reducing food waste. Target audiences include communities, businesses, and residential consumers, and the information may be used in many contexts within courses on agriculture, land use, business, and general sustainability.
Vermont Food Education Every Day (VT-FEED)
Vermont Food Education Every Day (FEED) is a Farm to School program run as a partnership of three Vermont non-profit organizations: Food Works at Two Rivers Center, Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT), and Shelburne Farms. Four main resources that are available for download are: A Guide for Connecting Farms to Schools & Communities, […]
Wallace Center at Winrock International
The Wallace Center focuses on developing market-based solutions that link a larger number of people and communities to “good food”- food that is healthy, green, fair, and affordable. They aim to connect people, resources, and information around the world to drive change that benefits farmers, urban and rural communities, our natural resources and the health […]
WhyHunger Publications and Resources
WhyHunger brings you into the food security movement, a movement that shows how our food system is connected, how our food grows, how it’s processed, who grows it, what we eat, where it comes from, who goes hungry and why. WhyHunger is helping to build the movement to end hunger and poverty by connecting people […]
World Biofuels Markets: Report Centre
A compendium of recent Biofuels Reports provided by the World Biofuels Markets, a private group out of Europe, providing a more international perspective.
The Northeast’s Food and Farm Network
NESAWG is the Northeast’s food and farm network. Activities are based on a systems approach, recognizing the interdependence of government, market, and civic arenas for social change. They maintain an overview of the region’s movement toward a more sustainable food system and guide the network to maximize collective impact. Working at local, state, regional, and […]
Urban Nutrition Initiative (UNI)
The Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative (UNI) is a program of University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships to address issues of poor nutrition and physical fitness in West Philadelphia. UNI’s activities are fully integrated into the university-assisted community school model. UNI organizes school day, after school and summer learning opportunities for more than 10,000 […]
USDA Economic Research Service: Food Environment Atlas
The objectives of the Atlas are to assemble statistics on food environment indicators to stimulate research on the determinants of food choices and diet quality and to provide a spatial overview of a community’s ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so. (Last updated 2022, Atlas data from ~2010-2017)
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