Environmental Sites

Asian Development Bank The site makes available to the public information brochures, project profiles, news releases and an electronic edition of the publication ADB Business Opportunities. Also available is a new section on Law and Development. A page on Environmental Impact Assessments of Bank-supported projects in the Asia-Pacific region is under construction. http://www.asiandevbank.org

CEG/GRC Publications Online A visually appealing catalog of position papers to download in Adobe Acrobat, ASCII, or PostScript formats. Contains information about city planning, sustainability, and recycling [markets and programs]. Papers are nicely abstracted; a good combination of FTP and Web. http://www.grc.org/cec/pubs3.html

Center for Ecological Sciences News on environmental programs and research from a facility in India http://ces.iisc.ernet.in

Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST) http://solstice.crest.org/

CREST: Global Change http://www.globalchange.org/

CREST: Environment On-Line http://solstice.crest.org/environment/eol/toc.html

CREST: Renew America http://solstice.crest.org/environment/renew_america/index.html

CREST: SunAngle http://solstice.crest.org/staff/ceg/sunangle/index.html

Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) http://www.ciesin.org/

CIESIN: Thematic Guide On Ozone Depletion Issues http://www.ciesin.org/TG/OZ/oz-home.html

CIESIN: Overview of Ozone Depletion http://www.ciesin.org/TG/OZ/overview.html

CIESIN: Ozone Depletion http://www.ciesin.org/docs/011-466/011-466.html

CIESIN: Production and Use of Chlorofluorocarbons http://www.ciesin.org/TG/OZ/prodcfcs.html

CIESIN: Measurements and Trends in Ozone and Chlorofluorocarbon Levels http://www.ciesin.org/TG/OZ/trends.html

CIESIN: Overview of Health Effects from Increased Ultraviolet-B Exposure due to Ozone Depletion http://www.ciesin.org/TG/HH/ozover.html CIESIN: Health Effects from Increased Exposure to Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) Radiation due to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion http://www.ciesin.org/TG/HH/ozhlthhm.html

CIESIN: Ozone Depletion And Global Environmental Change Internet Resources http://www.ciesin.org/TG/OZ/oz-net.html

CIESIN: Ozone Depletion And Global Environmental Change List Of References http://www.ciesin.org/TG/OZ/oz-bib.html

Cygnus Group The Cygnus Group Web site is designed to provide individuals and organizations with information regarding the most efficient and effective ways to reduce waste and conserve resources. Thus, the focus is on source reduction and reuse, rather than just recycling. http://cygnus-group.com Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/

DOE: Cities and Counties http://www.nrel.gov/documents/cities_counties/cities_counties.html

DOE: Clean Cities http://www.ccities.doe.gov/

DOE: Conservation Update http://www.eren.doe.gov/events/cu/ Earth and Environmental Sciences Center (EESC), Pacific Northwest Laboratory This server contains general information about the EESC, as well as descriptions of the research activities of our 20 technical groups. http://terrassa.pnl.gov:2080/

EarthAware Environmental Awareness Software This site describes the EarthAware software, with which one can make an estimation of their environmental impact on the planet. http://wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/earthaware

ECO: The Global Climate Action Network's Newsletter http://www.igc.apc.org/climate/Eco.html EcoGopher, EcoWeb A large collection of environment-related documents http://ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu/ecogopher.html

Eco-Home Online info about an environmental demonstration home which consumes very little water, energy, or anything else for that matter. http://www.av.qnet.com/~supak/ecohome.htm

EcoMall Ecology America, Inc. is proud to announce the opening of the EcoMall, the first "green shopping center" in cyberspace. Information is available about ecological products, activism, invesments, and energy. http://www.ecomall.com

EcoNet climate resources directory http://www.igc.apc.org/climate/ EcoWatch Survey of current environmental issues, with pointers to many other sites. http://www.cadvision.com/Home_Pages/accounts/vut/ecowatch.htm

EcoWeb (University of Virginia) http://ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu/EcoWeb.html

Energy And Climate Information Exchange (ECIX) Files ECIX consists of files on a variety of energy- and climate- related topics including an archive of issues of several electronic journals. ftp://igc.apc.org/pub/ECIX

Energy, Environment and Resources Center Founded in 1973, the Center was created to pursue multidisciplinary research on regional environmental and socioeconomic problems. Since its inception, the Center has grown beyond its original regional focus to address research issues that are national and international in scope. Today the Center consists of active programs that probe scores of research areas, among them, waste management, techniques for making cleaner products, and advanced software development and utilization. http://www.ra.utk.edu/eerc/

Environmental Communicator North American Associations of Environmental Educator's bi-monthly newsletter. 3 issues are on-line. Features links to the especially useful resources, events, and jobs sections of each issue. http://www.nceet.snre.umich.edu/COMMUNICATOR/Sep95toc.html

Environment Canada http://www.ec.gc.ca/

Environment Canada, A Primer on Ozone Depletion http://www.ns.doe.ca/udo/depl.html Environment Canada, Atmospheric Change http://www.ec.gc.ca/atmos_e.html

Environmental News Network The Environmental News Network Inc. is a regional news and information service that focuses on the environment. Since 1991, ENN has covered the Northwest and Intermountain regions including the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Wyoming. The service provides hard copy and computer access, via Internet, to national, regional and local environmental news and information. http://www.enn.com

Environmental Policy Atlas Map or text based search of environmental policies and governmental intitatives worldwide. Extensive and very user-friendly. http://www.rri.org/envatlas/

Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) http://www.epa.gov/

EPA: Common Myths About Ozone Depletion http://www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/science/myths.html

EPA: Ozone Science http://www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/science/sc_fact.html

EPA: Methyl Bromide Homepage http://www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/mbr/mbrqa.html

EPA: Myth: Volcanoes and the Oceans are Causing Ozone Depletion http://www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/science/volcano.html

EPA's OnLine System The EPA provides the comprehensive Access EPA document describing environmental information, as well as a number of other pointers to Information Locators that can be obtained from the EPA and related organizations. In addition to this document the EPA's Public Information Center is available to provide assistance in accessing environmental information. An experimental EPA People Locator is also available. http://www.epa.gov/

EPA Futures Group Gopher This EPA server that concentrates on population, critical technologies, energy, agriculture, industry/commerce, environmental justice, environmental security, and ecology/habitat issues. gopher://futures.wic.epa.gov/

Environmental Technology Network for Asia The United States Environmental Partnership (US-AEP) is engaged in a variety of activities to help US environmental businesses enter Asian and Latin American markets. One such effort - the Environmental Technology Network for Asia (ETNA) helps link your environmental business with appropriate opportunities in Asia. http://www.conet.com/etna Enviro$en$e A government-sponsored (DoD, EPA, DoE) database allowing those implementing pollution prevention programs or developing research and development projects to benefit from the experience, progress, and knowledge of their peers. http://es.inel.gov/index.html

EnviroWeb Many kinds of environmental information http://envirolink.org/

Florida Center for Environmental Studies This inter-university group was created to synthesize and communicate knowledge in the management of Florida ecosystems and other tropical and sub-tropical water dominated freshwater and estuarine ecosystems worldwide. Various information systems and announcement listings are available here. http://www.ces.fau.edu/homeg1.htm

Global Action and Information Network The Global Action and Information Network (GAIN) supports and encourages actions for a sustainable society. This Web site is designed to give you easy access to information on: environmental legislation and policy, environmental and sustainability issues, and what you can do. http://www.igc.apc.org/gain/#About

Global Change Data and Information System http://www.gcdis.usgcrp.gov/

Global Change Electronic Edition Magazine http://www.globalchange.org/

Global Change Research Information Office (U.S. GCRIO) http://www.gcrio.org/

Global Futures Foundation GFF is an innovative environmental non-profit foundation, focusing on systematically integrating programs which lead to source reduction, pollution prevention, low-cost market development, and incentive market driven regulatory structures which tend to reduce both economic and environmental costs. http://www.quiknet.com/globalff/globalfu.html

Global Network of Environment & Technology (GNET) The Global Network of Environment & Technology (GNET) uses communications and information technology to bring together the information, resources and people that shape the environment and technology marketplace. More than an information archive, GNET provides services to enhance your efforts to communicate, exchange information, and conduct business. http://www.gnet.org

Gorby Files: Renewable Energy Small but attractive directory of significant AE and environmental online sites. http://www.halcyon.com/alancrab/re.page.html

Green Building Information Council Canadian non-profit dedicated to building effiency and environmental concerns. GBIC contains several links to government, non-profit, R&D facilities, and international organizations. Several databases and tools to download. http://greenbuilding.ca/

Greenhouse Gas Miser Handbook http://www.ns.doe.ca/co2/greenhouse1.html

Greenpeace Climate Crisis Homepage http://www.greenpeace.org/%7Eclimate/index.html

Greenpeace Multilateral Conventions Page - The full text of the United Nations Framework

Convention on Climate Change and other related materials. http://www.greenpeace.org/~intlaw/ Greenpeace Ozone Campaign http://www.greenpeace.org/~ozone/index.html

Greentie Homepage Information, press releases, and current projects of Greentie, a cooperative effort between OECD and IEA to reduce greenhouse emissions. Also contains Antenna Index, a set of related links in Dutch language. http://www.greentie.org/

Growing EDGE A very unique quarterly magazine with a focus on innovative methods of gardening and the cultivation of plants. gopher://gopher.enews.com:2100/11/magazines/alphabetic/all/edge

Hagler Bailly Homepage Hagler Bailly is an international management consulting firm that specializes in the fields of energy and the environment. http://www.habaco.com/

Hazardous Substance Research Centers (HSRC) Focal point for hazardous materials management research. Site includes publication lists and project abstracts. http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/hsrc/

Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainably (HOPES) HOPES is a student organization at the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts. The fields of Architecture, Art and Planning offer opportunities to help balance the built environment with the natural systems which sustain it. HOPES strives to create a multidisciplinary dialogue which will raise awareness of the roles, responsibilities, and opportunities for people in the creative professions to encourage positive change. http://gladstone.uoregon.edu:80/~hopes/

Hunger Web: Climate change and world hunger are closely intertwined. What can we do about hunger? http://www.brown.edu/Departments/World_Hunger_Program/

Industrial Technology Institute Energy and Environment Center http://www.iti.org/ee/

International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research (ICAIR) http://www.icair.iac.org.nz/ Antarctica and Its Environment http://www.icair.iac.org.nz/tourism/visitor.html

International Conference on Ozone Protection Technology (formerly the International CFC and Halon Alternative Conference.) http://www.ecoexpo.com/EcoExpo/

International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives http://www.magic.ca:80/iclei/ Island Press Established in 1979 and reorganized in 1984 to focus exclusively on environmental issues, Island Press is the leading American publisher of solutions-oriented information for professionals, public officials, citizen environmentalists, business and community leaders, and all those working to solve local, regional, national, and global environmental problems. http://islandpress.com

Joint Implementation OnLine http://www.ji.org/

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LBL) Energy and Environment Division The Energy & Environment Division of LBL consists of the following three coordinating Centers: the Center for Building Science, the Berkeley Electrochemical Research Center, and the Center for Atmospheric and Biospheric Effects of Technology. This server has info on all three. http://eande.lbl.gov/EE.html

Linkages, a multimedia resource for environment & development policy makers. http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/

Ka'u Landing Newsletter Ka`u Landing is a monthly publication dedicated to community collaboration and a sustainable future for the Islands of Hawai`i. Subscription is offered, but much is available free. http://www.ilhawaii.net/kau-landing

National Environmental Directory Directories to environmental organizations in 5 regions, with a total of 7800 entries, are on-line and searchable. The regions are New England, Rocky Mtn States, Southeast, Great Lakes, and California. http://www.nceet.snre.umich.edu/~david/GLdir/html.dir/orderinfo.html

National Materials Exchange Network Created by a grant from the U.S. EPA and now funded and overseen by Earthcycle, the National Materials Exchange Network has been the free local and international on-line marketplace for trading and recycling used and surplus materials and goods for over six years. http://www.earthcycle.com/nmen/

Natural Resources Canada, Energy Sector http://es1.es.emr.ca/

Newspage: Hierarchy Level Energy Regulary updated news on energy, oil and gas production, and environmental news. http://www.newspage.com/NEWSPAGE/cgi-bin/walk.cgi/NEWSPAGE/info/d13/

Nortel Habitat Nortel Habitat is a multi-lingual interactive resource which provides ideas to assist corporations in building effective solutions to their environmental issues, and highlights some of Northern Telecom's successes in this area. Showcased are tools and techniques used by Nortel in their own environmental audit. http://www.nt.com/home/home.html

Nuclear Control Institute Site dedicated to reducing plutonium production in world trade, as well as general reduction of nuclear proliferation. http://www.nci.org/nci/

Ozone Information http://vest.gu.se:70/1s/ozone

Pacific Rim Consortium in Energy, Combustion, and the Environment (PARCON) PARCON is dedicated to advancing the evolution of energy utilization and the reduction of environmental impacts, benefiting not only the region, but the world as a whole. http://parcon.eng.uci.edu/

Pennsylvania State University: Global Atmospheric Change: Enhanced Greenhouse Effect, Ozone Layer Depletion and Ground-Level Ozone Pollution: A Teachers Guide to a Science-Technology-Society Issue Investigation and Action Unit for Middle and High School Science Courses http://www.ed.psu.edu/dept/ci/sts/gac-main.html

Power Project Financing Power Project Financing is an investment bank and consulting firm specializing in independent power. We provide financial advice, financial structuring, and financial placement capabilities for developers of electric power and environmental projects around the world. http://slip-2.slip.net/~ppf/

Princeton University Center for Energy & Environmental Studies This is a new site consisting primarily of references to published papers and reports which can be obtained from Center. It also has listings of faculty info, seminar descriptions, graduate program information, and undergrad research opportunities. http://www.princeton.edu:80/~cees/

Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Global Climate Change Site http://www.puc.ohio.gov/gcc/gcc_index.html

Rainforest Action Network Activities, links, and events from this group dedicated to protecting the rainforest. Graphically intensive, but worth it! http://www.ran.org/ran/

Real Goods This is the first foray (officially) of Real Goods on to the World Wide Web. Currently the server has only some Real Goods graphics and information about their Institute for Solar Living project, but more is promised, namely their famous Alternative Energy Sourcebook. http://www.well.com/www/realgood/

Recycler's World Recycler's World was established to be a world wide trading site for information relating to secondary or recycleable commodities, by-products, used and surplus items & materials and collectable items. http://www.recycle.net/recycle

Recycling from the Source The Source's hot links to recycling companies. Contains a wide variety of material recycling resources. http://www.sddt.com/files/reports/rec/web.html

Resources for Multicultural Environmental Education Extensive set of educational resources [mostly primary and secondary] for environmental educators. Includes sensitivity issues for multicultural education. gopher://nceet.snre.umich.edu:70/11/eereadings/mcee

Rice University Gopher Server Comprehensive list of other environmental servers gopher://riceinfo.rice.edu/subject/environment

Riso National Laboratory Danish research lab specializing in energy technology and energy planning, environmental aspects of energy, industrial and plant production, and materials and measuring techniques for industry. Information about their many research projects can be found here. http://www.risoe.dk/risoe.html#Research

Roy F. Weston, Inc. Sustainable Development Environmental Consultants Roy F. Weston explore sustainable development issues on their web site through papers, treatises, and case studies. http://www.rfweston.com/

Sierra Club http://www.sierraclub.org/

Sierra Club: Critical Ecoregions Program The Sierra Club's guide to activism to save major land and water systems in the United States and Canada. Emphasis on grassroot action, and volunteerism. http://www.sierraclub.org/ecoregions/ecoregions.html

Smithsonian's Oceans in Peril display http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov:80/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/ocean_planet_oceans_in_peril.html

Sonoma State University, Department of Environmental Studies and Planning (ENSP) This department is home to a fine Energy Management and Design Program. Rocky Rohwedder, department chair, has a long history in using computers to promote environmentally progressive activities. Online here are Academic Programs and Study Plans, Faculty Profiles and Online Publications, and more http://www.sonoma.edu/ensp/

Stanford Youth Environmental Science Program (SYESP) http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/~tolis/syesp/

Stockholm Environment Institute - Boston (SEI-B) The Stockholm Environment Institute - Boston (SEI-B) develops and applies methods for sustainable development at the local, national and global levels. SEI-B is at the forefront of developing and applying computer-based tools for scenario analysis in four areas: Energy, Greenhouse Gases, Water, and Sustainable Development. http://www.tellus.com/seib.html

Stop the Junk Mail Information and action to take to stop junk mail, from Consumer Research Institute. Also contains facts, statistic, and press releases about the harmful effects and wastefulness of junk mail. http://www.stopjunk.com

Stratospheric Ozone Law, Information & Science (SOLIS) http://acd.ucar.edu/gpdf/ozone/ SOLIS: UNEP: Common Questions about Ozone http://acd.ucar.edu/gpdf/ozone/unep/unep-in-1995-033.html

Tellus Institute for Resource and Environmental Strategies Tellus Institute is a non-profit research and consulting organization that works on resource management and environmental issues. Tellus web pages contain information on the research programs, publications and computer tools developed at the Institute. http://www.tellus.com

Trexler and Associates, Inc. Internationally recognized leader in the emerging field of identifying and implementing greenhouse gas emissions reduction and offset strategies. News about their services and past projects is avaiable here. http://www.teleport.com/~taa/

Ultraviolet Radiation Information Sheet http://www.niwa.cri.nz/lauder/uvinfo.htm

Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org/

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) http://www.unep.org/

UNEP: Collaborating Centre on Energy and Environment http://www.risoe.dk/sys/syshom3.html

UNEP: National Action to Mitigate Global Climate Change: Copenhagen Conference http://www.risoe.dk/sys/proceed.html

UNEP/WMO Information Unit on Climate Change http://www.unep.ch/iucc.html

University of Florida Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center (EADC) Provides energy utilization and waste reduction improvement studies for small to medium sized manufacturing facilities. http://www.che.ufl.edu/EADC/

University of Michigan, Windows to the Universe http://www.windows.umich.edu/

University of Oregon Alternative Energy Course Info On-line course materials. Interesting to look at even if you're not a UofO student http://zebu.uoregon.edu/phys162.html

Usenet FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/ozone-depletion/top.html

Working Assets Long Distance Working Assets Long Distance (WALD) is a privately held long distance telephone and credit card company whose mission is to be an active participant in building a world that is more just, humane and environmentally sustainable. http://www.wald.com/

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Global Network http://www.panda.org/

Yahoo/Environment_and_Nature/Ozone_Depletion Yahoo! is a hierarchical subject-oriented guide for the World Wide Web and Internet. http://www.yahoo.com/Environment_and_Nature/Ozone_Depletion

Youth in Action Network http://www.mightymedia.com/youth/

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