Environmental Internet Resources
Regional Interest
- Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness is a great group working to protect the Boundary Waters.
- Great Lakes Information Network contains news and links to other Great Lakes resources.
- Minnesota Outdoor Areas information.
- Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness: information on the region and all you need to know to organize an outing.
- Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance
- National Wildlife Federation -- Campus Ecology
- Society for College and University Planners (SCUP) -- Campus Sustainability Day
- US Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
- A Better Future
- Rockridge Institute
- Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
- Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley
- Energy Action
- League of Pissed-Off Voters
- Grist Magazine
- Treehugger
- The Center for Environmental Economic Development
- Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ME3)
- Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA)
- Recycleholics
- Environmental News Network
- Northfield Freecycle
- http://www.nextstep.state.mn.us/section.cfm?topic=16 (has an overview of greening the campus issues, with links)
- http://www.ulsf.org (University Leader's for a Sustainable Future)
- http://www.secondnature.org/ (has curriculum links for higher education)
- http://www.bio.psu.edu/Greendestiny/indicators.shtml (Penn State Environmental Indicators Report)
General Environmental Servers
- Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) current events in world and legislature.
- EnviroLink and Environmental Information Network have information on current events, environmental activism, green shopping, and other aspects of environmentalism.
- Consortium for International Earth Science Information (CIESIN) provides information to researchers, policy makers, and the general public.
- Your Planet Earth is an environmental discussion forum.
Environmental Policy
- Environmental Law server at Indiana University is great for looking up documents in both domestic and international environmental law.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- CapWeb, a guide to the U.S. Congress, contains information on legislative proceedings and links to Judicial and Executive branch pages.
- United Nations Environment Programme hold reams of UN documents and information.
- Globelaw
Energy
- The Virtual Library Energy page.
- Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST), is a site for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable technology information.
- Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Network contains information on national energy efficiency projects.
- American Solar Energy Society
- American Wind Energy Association
Environmental Science
- Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) provides you with access to global change and environmental data and information from around the world.
- NASA's Global Change Master Directory is another server containing data on global climate change.
- NOAA's Environmental Information Services links to meteorology, oceanography, climatology, and satellite image databases.
- US Geological Survey contains geological, water, and mapping information.
- National Water Resource Quality Report from the EPA.
- National Environmental Research Laboratories
- Carleton College Biology Resource Page and Geology Resource Page
Human Dimensions
- IISDnet, "spreading the messages of Sustainable Development"
- CIESIN Human Dimensions of Global Change Programme, an international social science research program that parallels and complements the natural science global change research efforts.
- Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health World Wide Web Site. This is an on-line service that integrates NASA remote-sensing and atmospheric data on stratospheric ozone depletion and ultraviolet radiation with health-related data and information to provide a multidisciplinary data resource for health officials, decision makers, government officials, researchers, and the general public.
Food and Agriculture
- Organic Consumers Association The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) The OCA is a grassroots non-profit public interest organization which deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, corporate accountability, and environmental sustainability.
NGOs and Interest Groups
- Earth Island Institute
- Earthwatch
- Friends of the Earth International
- Greenpeace International
- League of Conservation Voters
- National Audubon Society
- National Parks and Conservation Association
- National Resources Defense Council
- The Nature Conservancy
- Rainforest Action Network
- Rocky Mountain Institute
- Sierra Club
- Student Environmental Action Coalition
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- The Wilderness Society
- EnviroLink