Architecture
US Green Building Council Emerging Green Builders
The USGBC's Emerging Green Builders represents a coalition of students and young professionals intent on promoting the integration of future leaders into the green building movement. Their mission: to create a network of emerging green building leaders and develop opportunities for involvement through the USGBC to further generate momentum for the green building industry.

San Francisco Institute of Archtecture
SFIA is creating one of the first and most comprehensive programs in Ecological Design in the U.S. It is truly a school for the creative mind.

UC Berkeley
The College of Environmental Design (CED) and its three departments, Architecture, City and Regional Planning, and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, bring together an active community of students, scholars, creative designers, and technologists concerned with the built environment and many related aspects of the natural environment. Through instruction and research programs and in their pace-setting design practices, the people of this college work in the forefront of the effort to build more efficiently, more beautifully, and in ways better fitted to the multiplicity of human, social, and ecological needs. The college is one of the largest in its field nationally and among the most distinguished internationally.

Green Building's Young Gun, right here in SASS Magazine. John Mlade opines about the future and why green building is such a necessary part of it.

Beauty
Safe Cosmetics is a coalition of public health, educational, religious, labor, women’s, environmental and consumer groups. Their goal is to protect the health of consumers and workers by requiring the health and beauty industry to phase out the use of chemicals that are known or suspected carcinogens, mutagens and reproductive toxins.

Fashion
SSF’s Best Dressed Environmentalist 2004
Including cover model Angela Lindvall, Severn Suzuki, Leo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, and SSF advisor Sharon Lawrence.

The Ben Barry Agency strives toward providing models of all ages, sizes, races, and abilities with the presence and professionalism necessary for success in a dynamic and fast-changing industry.
The Ben Barry Agency provides a diverse selection of models for fashion shows, advertising, commercials, corporate videos, feature films, voice-overs, grand openings and special events, conventions, promotions, hostessing, and customer service.

Loyalty Clothing Company
Designer Daniel Blue custom-designs each swoodie to your specs, and stitches them from recycled and second-hand fabrics. Read all about Mr. Blue and his company, right here in SASS Magazine.

EMA's Gen E is the Environmental Media Association's program designed to bring awareness of Young Hollywood to environmental concerns. There is so much successful young talent between the ages of 20 and 35 that are unaffiliated with any philanthropic organizations. The environmental issues that EMA promotes awareness of will impact this age group significantly in the coming years. In turn, these celebrities can greatly affect the youth that supports their talent.

Food and Restaurants
A school-age child using a disposable lunch generates 67 pounds of waste per school year. That equates to 18,760 pounds of lunch waste for just one average-size elementary school. Learn what you can do to reduce lunch waste in schools from the folks at Waste-Free Lunches.

Gardening, Landscaping & Agriculture
Farm Aid 2004 is presented by Silk Soymilk and includes performances Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews. Farm Aid's goal is to bring together family farmers and citizens to restore family farm-centered agriculture. Family farmers ensure safe, healthful food, protect natural resources, and strengthen local economies.

Click here for the USDA's handy list of Farmer's Markets across the country, listed by state.

Graphic & Multimedia Design
Meet Marta Windeisen, creator of Kitten Chops Illustration & Design.

Industrial Design
Metropolis Magazine’s Next Generation Design Competition will award $10,000 to a project that reflects thinking about sustainability, universal access, and new technologies. The competition is open to any designer who has been working for ten years or less; submissions may come from multiple disciplines, including architecture, interior design, industrial design, experience design, communication design, and urban planning. The winning entry be featured in the June issue of Metropolis and on MetropolisMag.com; runners-up will also receive coverage in the magazine. The deadline for entries is January 15, 2005.

Read about The Future of Industrial Design, at the University of Washington's Industrial Design Program, right here in SASS Magazine.

Eco-Artware.com has lots of fun, original artware that's good for your living room and the planet.

Mobility

The eGo Cycle is the perfect solution for urbanite environistas and anyone who wants a bicycle that doesn't have to be pedaled.

International Walk and Bike to School Week is October 4-8. Join up and help enhance the health of kids, improve air quality and the environment, and create safer routes for walking and biking.

Music
SoundWood Jam, a monthly music series based from the Sweetwater Saloon in Mill Valley, CA, gathers musicians in support and promotion of tonewood conservation. Musicians include The Waybacks, Austin DeLone, Chris Martin & friends, and many more.

VH1 Save the Music is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of education in America’s public schools by restoring music programs in cities across the country, and raising public awareness about the importance of music participation for our nation’s youth. Since its inception in 1997, VH1 Save The Music has donated more than $25 million worth of musical instruments to 1000 public schools in 80 cities, improving the lives of more than 500,000 children.

Sports
Action Sports Environmental Coalition is a hip young group determined to change the world for the better through action sports. With DC Shoes CEO Damon Way, professional skateboarders Bob Burnquist and Jen O'Brien and action sports guru Frank Scura behind it, ASEC is making waves in the sporting world. Read all about their plan for global domination, SASS Magazine.

UNICEF and FIFA are joining forces to call to attention the rights of children all around the world. They believe that children gathering to play football (the old-school kind, with the round ball and goalies) will share in a passion that unites people all over the world.

Travel
Earthwatch Institute engages people worldwide in scientific field research and education to promote the understanding and action necessary for a sustainable environment. Their mission: Research, Education, Conservation.