Links to Related Organizations & General Interest Sites
Below is a list of links to related organizations and general interest sites. Please email crystal.r.leto@gmail.com to report any broken links or to suggest additional sites you think 1000 Friends would be interested in adding to this list.
- American Farmland Trust
- American Public Health Association Transportation and Health Toolkit
- Architecture 2030
- Beginning Farmer Center
- Bleeding Heartland
- Blog for Iowa
- “Built To Last “a short film explores the connection between New Urbanism and environmental issues
- Carbon Farmers of America
- Center on Sustainable Communities (COSC)
- Clean Water Alliance
- Complete Streets
- Congress for New Urbanism
- Eat Well Guide
- ECO Iowa City a grant funded initiative to improve environmental sustainability in Iowa City
- Edible Communities
- Economic Impact of Fruit and Vegetable Production in Southwest Iowa Considering Local and Nearby Metropolitan Markets
- Farm Progress
- Farmland Information Center
- Farming On The Edge Map
- Food and Water Watch
- High Road For Human Rights includes an excellent video on global climate change
- Highways to Boulevards
- International Erosion Control Association
- Iowa Association of Railroad Passengers
- Iowa Environmental Council
- Iowa Fence Law
- Iowa Food Cooperative
- Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation
- Iowa Renewable Energy Jobs 2020
- Job Sprawl
- Keep Iowa Beautiful
- Land Institute
- Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Local Harvest
- Location of Metropolitan Planning Organizations from the IDOT
- Mapping Decline
- Marketing and Food Systems Inititiative
- Midwest Energy News
- NCOA
- Passenger Rail Fact Sheet
- Pew Center
- Pheasants Forever
- Practical Farmers of Iowa
- Preservation Iowa
- Pro Publica statistics on unemployment and percapita spending by county
- Raccoon River Watershed Association
- Re-Amp
- Rebuild Iowa Office
- Smart Growth America
- Smart Growth Leadership Institute
- Smart Growth Network
- State of Iowa Office of Citizens’ Aide/Ombudsman
- Trees Forever
- Transportation For America State Facts
- Transportation Networks
- Urban Thoroughfares Manual
- Whiterock Conservancy
- Women, Food and Agriculture Network
- 2010 State of the Environment Report