Selected Web Sites: Ecology and the Environment
- The Best Environmental Resources Directory
- An extensive list of other environmental directories and Internet sites arranged in subject order.
- The Chemical Scorecard
- Excellent source for environmental information about chemical polluters from the Environmental Defense Fund. Search by zipcode to find out what pollutants are being released locally and who is responsible.
- CREST(Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology)
- This homepage provides information on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable technology.
- Ecology Action Centre
- Focus is on ecological issues.
- E Magazine
- This net version of E Magazine gives coverage of key environmental issues and trends, news, individual and consumer product updates, food and environmental health issues, lifestyle tips, commentary, and book and film reviews.
- Endangered Species Home Page
- Provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, this site offers the best way to findinformation about threatened and endangered animal and plant species in the United States. Besides "Species Information," you can identify proposed and candidate species for the list, learn about species recovery programs and conservation practices, and view a slide show or photos. The statistics, state lists, and policy documents are invaluable.
- EnviroLink
- Full service site to environmental topics.
- Environmental Professional's Homepage
- Specialized to highlight government regulations, agencies, and health and safety issues and is intended to be useful for environmental professionals. Look here for the full scope of government sites as well as for all environmental issues.
- Global Recycling Network
- The Net's recycling business center, this site has information on news headlines, company directories, equipment, prices on traded recyclables, and educational services.
- Green Car Congress
- Analysis of trends in biofuel/sustainable mobility field. It is searchable by topics including biodiesel, hybrids and by country.
- Greenpeace
- The electronic home of Greenpeace.
- National Center for Atmospheric Research
- A large collection of atmospheric and oceanographic data for use in climate research from a variety of databases is accessible from here.
- League of Conservation Voters
- Voting Records
- Population Reference Bureau
- PRB publishes the quarterly Population Bulletin, the annual World Population Data Sheet, and PRB Reports on America, as well as specialized publications covering population and public policy issues in the United States and abroad, particularly in developing countries. PRB's website, www.prb.org, is updated approximately every three weeks with new articles and reports, frequently country- or region-specific, that span subjects as diverse as HIV/AIDS, children's environmental health, family planning, immigration, adolescent sexual health, maternal mortality, and population growth.
- The Sierra Club
- Web pages run by the Sierra Club.
- StreamNet
- Provides data and data services to support efforts to manage and restore the pacific northwest region's aquatic resources. StreamNet is a cooperative venture between the pacific northwest's fish and wildlife agencies and native american tribes.
- Tidepool
- Somewhere between your local newspaper and the national news mega-sites, there's Tidepool -- an on-line news filter for the Pacific Northwest that contains the top stories on the environment, community development and the economy. Tidepool's editor updates the website every weekday morning at 9:00 am with articles from over thirty Northwest newspapers. Tidepool also features original weekly news and commentary.
- TRIDS: Toxic Release Inventory Display System
- This tools requires a free software install. Once loaded, you can view the environmental impacts of specific chemicals.. View by company name or type of industry. Great visuals.
- U.N. Population Information Network
- The PRB provides information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications.
- U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Information Services
- This portal provides access to the NOAA and has links to international sources of weather-based services.
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Information about the energy industry in the US, provided by the US Government
- U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center
- More than 3,000 documents, an interactive fuel station mapping system, current listings of available alternative fuel vehicles, and lots of alternative fuels information and related links.
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- Links to agencies within the Department of the Interior as well as current events that pertain to these agencies.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Information about the EPA, links, and more.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Links to information about coastal ecosystems, endangered species, environmental contamination, directives, programs and much more.
- U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Information
- Includes publication, data, maps and interactive features to learnabout water resources. The "Science in Your Watershed" feature is particularly interesting for getting detailed water flow information at the local level.
- U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Provides information about US Nuclear Policy.
- WaterWiser: The Water Efficiency Clearinghouse
- "The premier water conservation, efficiency, and demand management information resource." Provides links to news and is searchable.
- World Resources Data Tables 2000-2001
- "The first place to go for country-level data about sustainable development and the environment." Statistics on atmosphere and climate, biodiversity, forests and land cover, freshwater, population and human development, etc. International and U.S. By World Resources Institute. Print edition is in Cannell Library's Reference collection. Call number: REF HC79 .E5 W67
- World Resources Institute
- The World Resources Institute is an independent center for policy research and technical assistance on global environmental and development issues. "World Resources 2000-01": great source for international environmental statistics. Links to other sites.
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