Environment

Links and background information on U.S. and global environmental issues, including issues such as air quality, water quality, global warming, wildlife, and energy conservation.

Provides tools to campaign on critical environment issues all over the world from climate change to construction projects in protected areas.

Papers, projects, and general information on ecological debt.

Helps citizens take action on policies related to the environment, global warming, nuclear weapons, clean energy, clean vehicles, and biotechnology.

Official government site provides comprehensive information on the issue of climate change and global warming including climate change science, U.S. climate policy, greenhouse gas emissions, environmental effects, and what can be done.

The Climate Protection Partnership discusses the pollution and climactic effects of air traffic, and environmentally sustainable alternatives.

Offbeat look at shopping centers in America.

Statistics, compiled by the New Road Map Foundation, describing USA consumption patterns and their effects on personal lives and the environment. Advocates a cultural trend toward low-consumption lifestyles.

Dedicated to raising awareness and discussion of the impending and permanent decline of cheap oil and gas supplies. Includes contact and local group details, resources listing, events, news and a forum.

An alliance of organizations promoting renewable energy and conservation in the Pacific Northwest.

An online, alternate reality game that allows players to play out the events that could arise from the increasing scarcity of petroleum.

Advocacy organization site includes training manual, issues information, press releases and information on empowering those affected by environmental abuses to investigate, expose and combat those problems.

Information and resources from an advocacy organization that wants to protect the scenic qualities of communities and roadways.

A quick-study outline of sustainable development for planners and policy-makers, with extensive web references for more in-depth information on each topic. Written by Beryl Magilavy, past director of San Francisco's Department of the Environment.

Provides information on health effects of pesticides, news, campaigns and projects.

Up to date bibliography of research on light pollution and animal responses to light. Includes links to many journal articles.

Provides resources, archives, campaign and event information.

The magazine of spiritual ecology. Includes subscription information, articles from the current issue and a library of articles.

Features a wide variety of essays published in Independent Review which explore free market environmentalism and its policy suggestions.

A forum of thought on environmental and social issues including ecology, alternative education, sacred art, the economics of wellbeing, sustainability and holistic philosophy. In print and online.

United Kingdom and international environmental news, on-line journal, e-mail newsletter, annotated links and search.

Noise consulting services to municipalities, industry and impacted residents, including: sound studies; ordinance development; enforcement issues; acoustical modeling; planning and zoning; impact statements; private and public nuisance advocacy.

Franklin Institute Report.

Reviews of places without piped music. Includes restaurants, pubs, hotels, and places to relax, shop, and meet. Reviews submitted by members of the UK-based Pipedown campaign.

An inter-disciplinary international journal devoted to research on all aspects of noise and its effects on human health.

Militant movement in Los Angeles fighting noise of all kinds.

Education campaign of the US National Institutes of Health to increase awareness among parents about causes and prevention of noise-induced hearing loss; encourages children to adopt healthy hearing habits.

Working for the preservation of biodiversity, against monoculture agriculture, and for better ways for humans to live in harmony with their environment.

The Center operates The Refuge For Land And People, a unique leadership forum where citizens and activists from around the country come together to find solutions to the most pressing and difficult conservation issues our nation faces today.

Cleanwater is a website aimed to increase environmental awareness, provide information to community on how they can prevent pollution at their local waterways and to help people to get involved in ecosystems restoration projects.

California nonprofit funding research, education, and land acquisition and supporting programs that benefit the quality of human life; promotes Al Gore's environmental ideas set out in "Earth in the Balance"

KEC aims to inspire young people to make environmental action part of their everyday life and generate a critical mass of people to create environmental harmony throughout the world.

An industry organization that works to develop international and U.S. government policies on ozone protection and climate change. Details current regulations, upcoming events, articles, and news items.

Novelist and alternative gardening columnist, Elizabeth Stromme. Bibliography and reviews, sketchbook, reflections, and non-fiction works.

Includes personal theories on climate change.

US presidential candidates' views on environmental issues.

Based on an educational TV program. The articles cover topics such as human consumption, sustainable population rate, and the impact of the average age within a country. Page includes people counter, photos, quizzes, and maps.

Focus is on social and cultural change, without which sustainable development is unattainable. Pages include threats and opportunities, agenda for change, practical examples, skilled people, models for change, sources of information.

United Kingdom company providing services in the development of aquaculture projects. Background on company, links, and contact information.

Specialist social research company that promotes litter reduction and prevention. Based in Australia.

Offers several suggestions to save water.

Investigating how ExxonMobil funds the climate change skeptics.

Parenting in an age of climate change. Seeking to engage the parents of young children with the climate change debate, this website has links to articles about possible effects on children's health and economic future.

Information and links, especially for activists.

Site from Dr Singer expressing skepticism regarding many aspects of global warming.

Information on World Bank activities in relation to climate change, including energy strategy and the Prototype Carbon Fund.

News and information on overfishing. Requires Flash plugin.

An international forum for scientific discussion about the protection of the species and habitat. Includes news, details of conferences and publications, discussion board, global data bank, and links to related sites.

NY Times.

News, articles, recipes, product reviews and other resources on organic foods.