Alternatives Environment Links
TOXICS
Recycling
- Genesis II
describes a mixed solid waste composting system that is
ecologically benign, economical, and the best choice
for government or business that want to process solid mixed
waste.
- Global Recycling
Network is a virtual market-place set up on the Web to aid
businesses worldwide in exchanging recyclable goods.
- Global
Futures Foundation Sacramento, CA USA
- National Oil Recyclers Association - To encourage and
promote the proper recycling of used oil, oil filters, used
antifreeze and other automotive and industrial materials.
- NU
Recycling Exhibit
- Pla
stic Bag Associations' Environmental Educational Resource
- Recyler's World - a
resource centre for information relating to secondary or
recyclable commodities, by-products, used and surplus items or
materials and collectible items.
- Rot
Web - assist those beginning home composting, by providing
how-to information, compost demonstration site listings, a
compost booklist, etc.
- Stanford
- Using Recycled Paper - A table of how much recycled paper
we use at Stanford and compares the numbers to other
Universities. Lists some other useful info about
recycled paper.
- State Recycling
Laws Update Newsletter
- Talking Trash -
A newsletter covering current issues in solid waste management,
especially related to packaging and the environment
- University of
Windsor (Canada) - Environmentally Conscious Design &
Manufacturing Lab
- University of
Waterloo - Waste Management
- University
of Waterloo - WATgreen
- WasteWater
Management
MILITARY
ATMOSPHERE
- ECO
Environment Conference Newsletters
- El
Nino Information in North America
- Earth Negotiations
Bulletin
- Methyl
Bromide World Wide Web Home [Ozone depleting soil
fumigant]
- Centre for
Atmospheric Chemistry
- Macquarie University,
Sydney, Australia - Atmospheric Science includes
undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Global
Climates, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Dynamical and Physical
Meteorology, and Applied Meteorology.
- Royal
Meteorological Society is the national society in the United
Kingdom for all interetsed in meteorology and physical
oceanography.
- University of Cologne - EURAD is
a three-dimensional Eulerian air pollution modelling system which
simulates the transport, chemical transformation and deposition
of minor atmospheric constituents in the troposphere over Europe.
- University
Corporation for Atmospheric Research is a consortium of 61
universities that manages the National Center for Atmospheric
Research in Boulder, Colorado, as well as other programs that
conduct and facilitate research in the atmospheric and related
sciences.
- El Nino Theme Page [Ocean Currents by
NOAA)
- Global Change Electronic Edition
- U.S. Global
Change Research Program (USGCRP)
- Carnegie Mellon University, Global Climate Change Integrated
Assessment Program, "Degree of Change Newsletter"
- Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC)
OCEANS
Fisheries
- American Fisheries
Society is an internation professional and scientific
organization of more than 8,500 fisheries managers and aquatic
scientists dedicated to to strengthening the fisheries
profession, advancing fisheries science, etc.
- Mote Marine
Laboratory is an independent non-profit marine and estuarine
research and education facility, working in fields from marine
biomedicine to coastal engineering and fisheries science.
- Pacific
Fishery Biologists 57 years of dedication to promoting
fisheries and exchanging ideas between fisheries biologists of
the west coast states of CA, OR, WA, BC, and AK.
Whales
OCEANS - OTHER
ENERGY
- National Energy
Foundation [USA]
- U.S. and Mexican governments on energy
production standards
- Anthon
y Marmont Sustainable Energy Technology Centre (AMSET) exists
to conduct research and training in sustainable technologies
inspired by Agenda 21.
- BRH LC Electromagnetic Fields Information
Service The Bridlewood Residents Hydro Line
Committee offers an information service on electromanetic fields
and health on the National Capital Freenet in Ottawa, Canada.
- Delft University - The
Environment & Energy Directory lists research at Delft
University of Technology.
- University College
Dublin - THERMIE Home Page aims to provide users with a wide
range of energy information resulting from the associated
measures of the European Commission's THERMIE programme.
- Energy & Environmental
Research Center (EERC) specializes in clean, efficient energy
technologies and environmental systems that prevent pollution and
clean upcontaminated air, soil and water.
- Solstice
Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology. Contains
files, images, interactive multimedia CD-ROMs and searchable
databases on energy efficiency, renewable energy, etc.
- Biofu
els Information Network The Biofuels Feedstock Development
Program is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Our goal is
to develop and demonstrate environmentally acceptable crops and
cropping systems for producing large quantities of low-cost,
high quality biomass feedstocks.
- California Energy
Commission (Access Energy) is the state's principal energy
policy and planning agency that is dedicated to the advancement
of alternative technologies, energy efficient measures,and a
stable and environmentally balanced energy system.
- Jade Mountain
Appropriate Technology News Appropriate Technology for a
Sustainable World
- National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (NREL) is the nation's leading laboratory for
renewable energy and energy efficiency research.
NREL develops renewable energy technologies to heat and cool
buildings; increase efficiency in industry, light homes and
offices; power cars and trucks; produce plastics, clothing, and
chemicals; clean our water; and destroy toxic waste.
- Solstice: sustainable
energy on-line CREST NGO exploring advanced information and
communication technologies in the fields of sustainable energy
and development.
- Energy Information
Administration)U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
SOLAR ENERGY
- Clark
University - Israeli liquid solar cell Dept. of Chemistry
- Friends of the
Red Road Homepage describes the story of the potential
destruction of one of the last naturally pristine regions of
Hawaii in a pre-established, low-impact, solar powered
community.
- The International Solar Energy
Society (ISES) umbrella body for solar energy. Founded in
1954, it has more than 30 National Sections world wide. The
organisation's headquarters is in Freiburg, Germany, with
four regional offices inthe UK, South Africa, Australia and
Argentina.
- Jade Mountain
Appropriate Technology News Appropriate Technology for a
Sustainable World
- National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (NREL) renewable energy and energy
efficiency research. NREL develops renewable energy technologies
to heat and cool buildings; increase efficiency in industry,
light homes and offices; power cars and trucks; produce
plastics, clothing, and chemicals; clean our water; and destroy
toxic waste.
- University
of Wisconsin-Madison - Solar Energy Laboratory graduate
school laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. We
specialize in the study of solar systems, HVAC systems through
both experimentation and simulation using several computer
programs that were developed at the SEL.
TRANSPORTATION
- Citizens
for Appropriate Rural Roads - CARR We are opposed to all new
terrain highways, and were recently listed on the Green Scissors
Report as one of the countries top ten enviro-boondoggles.
- Khabir Press Letter
from a Busy Street: Traffic vs People, profiles one street,
exploring environmental, social, psychological, economic impacts,
exposing hidden subsidies, showing how road "improvements" create
more traffic, discussing moral aspects, etc.
- Solstice is the
Internet information service of the Center for Renewable Energy
and Sustainable Technology. The site contains files, images,
interactive multimedia CD-ROMs and searchable databases on energy
efficiency, renewable energy, etc.
- California Energy Commission Wind Energy
Site
TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY
WILDERNESS PROTECTION
FORESTS
GENERAL ENDANGERED SPECIES
ANIMAL RIGHTS
POLITICS
GROUPS
International
Greenpeace
United States
- National Wildlife
Federation
- Natural Resources
Defense Council
- Environmental Working
Group
- Policy
Instruments Database (PIDB) [international agreements related
to global environmental change and sustainable development]
- Center for
Environmental Information
- Critical Mass[US
Energy Group]
-
California Energy[State of California]
- Communication for a
Sustainable Future (CSF)(Colorado)
- Consortium for
International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
- Greenbelt
Organization [USA]
- Greens USA Home Page
- Environment & Youth
Survey
- Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Resources
- The Internation
Directory of Environmental Sources
- EcoNet Environmental
Network[Recommended]
- WWW-
Server for Ecological Modelling
- Center for Clean
Technology University of California at Los Angeles
- DOE Pollution
Prevention Information Clearinghouse (EPIC) by the DOE Office
of Energy Research to provide info on pollution
prevention-related topics such as laws, regulations, project
summaries, training, workshops, databases, guidance
documents, and links to other sources of information.
- Global Network for
Environment and Technology is a state-of-the-art, WWW based
communications and content delivery system designed to complement
and facilitate efforts to commercialize Department of
Energy-developed environmental technologies.
- National Pollution
Prevention Center for Higher Education develops and
disseminates college-level curriculum materials
- MIT Press recent environment books
published.
- Society
of Environmental Journalists
- Feder
al Depository Library internet "gateways."
- Association for
the Preservation of the Eno River Valley
- Biofu
els Information Network The Biofuels Feedstock Development
Program is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Our goal is
to develop and demonstrate environmentally acceptable crops and
cropping systems for producing large quantities of low-cost,
high quality biomass feedstocks.
- Centre for
Alternative Technology promotes ideas and information on
technologies which support rather than damage the environment
- CHA -
Coalition for Hemp Awareness is a non profit organization for
the re-introduction of cannabis Hemp as aviable economy base.
- Coalition
for Safer Cleaner Vehicles is Not for Profit Org.
- Coalition to Ban
Dihydrogen Monoxide
Homepage
- Committee
for the National Institute for the Environment (CNIE) NGO re
scientific basis for decisions on environmental issues
- Coral Health and
Monitoring Program is a funded program at the the Atlantic
Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory's Ocean
Chemistry Division (NOAA) and reports advances in the health and
monitoring of coral.
- Earth Pledge
Foundation is a non-profit organization promoting Sustainable
Development
- EarthWatch is a
non-profit company founded in 1972, which provides funding to
scientific endevors through the Earthcorps volunteers in 150
countries.
- Ecotrust is a
private, nonprofit organization established in 1991 to promote
conservation-based
development, beginning in the temperate rain forests of North
America.
- Environmental
Hazards Management Institute is a nonpartisan, nonprofit
organization dedicated to resolving environmental problems
through education and relationship building
- Environmental Research
Institute of Michigan (ERIM)
is a private, nonprofit, high technology organization that
performs research and development and related services for its
sponsors.
- Friends of the
Red Road Homepage describes the story of the potential
destruction of one of the last naturally pristine regions of
Hawaii in a pre-established, low-impact, solar powered
community.
- Global
Futures Foundation helps to resolve conflicts and unify
business, social, and environmental interests
- Global Network for Environment
and Technology is a state-of-the-art, WWW based
communications and content delivery system designed to
complement and facilitate efforts to commercialize Department of
Energy-developed environmental technologies.
- GLOBE - Global
Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment is a
worldwide science and education program coordinating the work of
students, teachers, and scientists to monitor the global
environment.
- Global Rivers
Environmental Education Network (GREEN) seeks to improve the
quality of watersheds and rivers, and thereby the lives of
people.
- Grand Prairie Friends (GPF) is an organization of
volunteers from all walks of life who share a commitment to
preserving and restoring tallgrass prairie in east-central
Illinois.
- International
Environmental Liability Management Association (IELMA) is a
non-profit international association including environmental
engineers, lawyers, actuaries, insurance experts, corporate
officers, association people, government people etc.
- International
Arid Lands Consortium (IALC) is an independent, nonprofit
organization dedicated to fostering sustainable uses of the
world's arid and semiarid lands.
- Kiwi
Conservation Club
- League
of Conservation Voters
- The Manitoba Hemp
Alliance is a non-profit organization devoted to the
promotion of Industrial Hemp as a viable alternative to forestry
and the oil industry
- Mendocin
o County Ecology Web One of the most active environmental
communities in California, including group contact info, articles
from the Mendocino Environmental Center newsletter,
extensive links to many environmental-related sites in the
world.
- National Parks and
Conservation Association (NPCA) was established in 1919,
America's only private, NGO dedicated solely to protecting,
preserving, and enhancing the U.S.National Park
System.
- North
Island Citizen's Community Coalition
- Nova
Scotia Environment and Development Coalition
- Palouse-Clearwater
Environmental Institute serves as a focal point of
environmental discussions in North Idaho and Eastern Washington
State.
- Peace 2000 Network
contains information about the peace 2000 network.
- Resource Renewal Institute
(RRI) promotes Green Plans as the path to a sustainable
environment and economy.
- Rocky Mountain Institute fosters the efficient and
sustainable use of resources as a path to global security.
- Ro
und River Conservation Studies is an ecologically oriented
research and education organization
- The Soil and Water
Conservation Society NGO advocates the protection,
enhancement, and wise use of soil, water, and related
natural resources.
- Solstice: sustainable
energy on-line CREST is a non-profit institution dedicated to
exploring the use of advanced information and communication
technologies in the fields of sustainable energy and
development.
- Students for
Environmental and Ecological Development (Northwestern
University)
- Stockholm School
of Economics Student Union - MEGHA is working towards showing
the links between business and the environment.
- Sustain
able Communities Network
- Utrech
t Univetsity -Environmental Platform Environmental Student
Group
- The
Virtual Emu Established in 1901, the Royal Australasian
Ornithologists Union (RAOU) is one of Australia's major
conservation organisations.
-
Wilderness Society is devoted primarly to public lands
protection and management issues
- Wilderness
Society, The (Australia) is Australia's only environment
organisation which focuses on the protection of Australian
Wilderness. Originally the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, the
Wilderness Society was established to counter the proposed
development of the Franklin River into a hydroelectric power
facility.
- World Conservation
Monitoring Centre provides information services on the
conservation and sustainable use of species and
ecosystems, and supports others in the development of their own
information management systems.
- Greater Yellowstone Coalition -
Gold Mine Threatens Yellowstone Noranda's New World gold mine
threatens Yellowstone Park, wilderness in Wyoming and Montana,
Clarks Fork of Yellowstone River, wildlife, flyfishing and
skiing. Help Greater Yellowstone Coalition stop the mine.
- Project 2050 Save
Earth has one premise that we can design better communities.
We propose complete communities linked together with mass
transportation built in the desert with sand and solar
power, to help solve world hunger, population, and the
environment.
- PlanetKeepers is a
bi-monthly web-zine dedicated to projects, ideas and people
online who are networking for the health and well-being of
life on Earth to meet the needs of the present while still
preserving the health and beauty of this planet for future
generations.
Europe
- Friends
of Earth, UK
Canada
- Citizens'
Advisory for Research on the Environment (CARE)[BC
Canada]
AFRICA
- Earth Times
Magazine
- Environmental guide to the Internet
- Ariga is an on-line
publication from Tel Aviv, and an alternative information source
to the mainstream press coverage of Israel and
the Middle East. It carries an on-line novel about Jerusalem,
short stories about Tel Aviv, articles on the peace process, etc.
- Boycott Quarterly in
Seattle, Washington.
- Environmental
News Network (ENN) provides daily environmental news, Monday
through Friday, updated by 9 a.m. Mountain time. ENN also
provides a Library, Daily News archive, Calendar, Navigator
and Marketplace.
- Geraghty &
Miller,Inc. is an environmental firm with a publishing
subsidiary, Water Information Center.
- Khabir Press
Traffic vs People, profiles one street, exploring environmental,
social, psychological, economic impacts, exposing hidden
subsidies, showing how road "improvements" create more traffic,
discussing moral aspects, etc.
- National
Parks is an award- winning, full color magazine that offers
spectacular photographs and articles on national parks.
- National Pollution
Prevention Center for Higher Education develops and
disseminates college-level curriculum materials (bibliographies,
articles, student assignments, etc.) on business, engineering,
and interdisciplinary topics; the only cost is for
photocopying and mailing!
- NHBS - Environment
Bookstore is a specialist mail-order environmental bookstore
that offers NHBS BookNet, a searchable catalog of over 40,000
books and other materials. Subjects include Biology, Botany,
Ecology, Environment, Geology, Habitat, Marine & Freshwater
Biology etc.
- North
American Vegetarian Society has been for 26 years a North
American consortium of local vegetarian societies (now numbering
160 affiliates) and individual members, NAVS publishes
"Vegetarian Voice" and various brochures and booklets related to
vegetarian living.
- El
Planeta Platica: Eco Travels in Latin America El Planeta
Platica/The Earth Speaks is a quarterly English-language
newsletter with environmental news and travel info from
Latin America.
- The
Prairie Falcon is the monthly newsletter of the Northern
Flint Hills Audubon Society, a chapter of the National Audubon
Society; it focuses on birds, wildlife, habitat
preservation, and sustainability.
- Threatened
Fauna in Australia: a select bibliography is maintained by
the School of Aquatic Science & Natural Resources
Management at Deakin University-Rusden. The bibliography contains
ove 5,000 citations and covers in excess of 600 taxa. Compiled by
Rob Wallis & Kevin Slattery.
- The ULS Report The ULS Report is the first newsletter
devoted to the concept of source reduction, or Using Less Stuff.
It's read by more than 10,000 people around the
world. E-mail and hard copy subscriptions are available for free.
- University of
Arizona - The Arid Lands Newsletter is a semiannual research
magazine published both in print and online for an international
readership of researchers, land managers, conservationists, and
policy makers. It is a service of the Office of Arid Lands
Studies at The University of Arizona.
- Wilderness Press
is the venerable publisher of West Coast hiking guides, maps, and
other information.
ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH
- Agricultural Genome
Information Server is sponsored by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, the Agricultural Research Service and the National
Agricultural Library. This server lets you browse
and search the National Genetic Resources Program genome
databases, AGRICOLA, and related biological information.
- AquaNet is an
information server for the aquatic world. Subject areas covered
include aquaculture, conservation, education, fisheries,
oceanography, maritime heritage, ocean engineering,
and seafood.
- California
Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) is an
information system designed to facilitate access to a
variety of electonric data describing California's diverse
resources including text, photos, satellite images, statistical
databases, and GIS analysis.
- Central European
Environmental Data Request Facility (CEDAR) Providing
environmentally relevant information with special
regards to (Central and Eastern) Europe and LDCs.
- Delft University
- The Environment & Energy Directory lists research at Delft
University of Technology.
- EcoMall exclusively
markets ecologically-sound merchandise that will help save the
planet's limited resources and offers free information from the
environmental community on current issues, a classified
directory and a business services section.
- Global Environment and
Technology Foundation facilitates the introaduction of new
technologies.
- Global Recycling Network is
a virtual market-place set up on the Web to aid businesses
worldwide in exchanging recyclable goods.
- Montana Natural Resource
Information System located in the Montana State Library,
provides comprehensive access to information about Montana's
natural resources to all Montanans through the acquisition,
storage, retrieval, and dissemination of that information in
meaningful form.
- NASA Global Change
Master Directory contains over 3000 data set descriptions
representing Earth science data held nationally and
internationally, across agencies, universities, and research
centers.
- NHBS - Environment
Bookstore is a specialist mail-order environmental bookstore
that offers NHBS BookNet, a searchable catalog of over
40,000 books and other materials. Subjects include Biology,
Botany, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Habitat, Marine &
Freshwater Biology etc.
- SOLUTIONS Software
Enviromental Database
- Yahoo!
Environment and Nature is the environmental section of the
largest web directory on the planet.
- Zoological
Data Processing
OTHERS