Article Content Sources

Political Economy Research Center:  PERC is dedicated to research that brings market principles to resolving environmental problems.

World Wildlife Fund:  Known by its panda logo, the WWF's mission is to protect nature and the biological diversity that we all need to survive

Rainforest Action Network:  The Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.

Greenpeace:  Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organization that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.

Social Investment Forum:  A national nonprofit membership organization promoting the concept, practice and growth of socially responsible investing

World Commission on Dams:  A global commission undertaking the most comprehensive review of dams and development to date.

Department of Energy (Hybrid Veh) :  The Department of Energy's mission is to foster a secure and reliable energy system that is environmentally and economically sustainable, to be a responsible steward of the Nation's nuclear weapons, to clean up our own facilities and to support continued United States leadership in science and technology

The Worldwatch Institute:  The Worldwatch Institute is dedicated to fostering the evolution of an environmentally sustainable society--one in which human needs are met in ways that do not threaten the health of the natural environment or the prospects of future generations.

The Wilderness Society:  The Wilderness Society works to protect America's wilderness and to develop a nation-wide network of wild lands through public education, scientific analysis and advocacy.

Natural Resources Defence Council:  The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.

The Nature Conservancy:  The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive

Friends of the Earth:  Friends of the Earth is a national, non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental degradation; preserving biological, cultural, and ethnic diversity; and empowering citizens to have an influential voice in decisions affecting the quality of their environment -- and their lives.

Conservation International:  Their mission is to conserve the Earth's living natural heritage, our global biodiversity, and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature.

General

EE Link :   EE-Link is a great database of environmental educational resources on the internet. They are a participant in the Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP) of the North American Association for Environmental Education.

Elements:   Elements offers a wide spectrum of environmental information. Based on the ancient concept of the four basic elements, featured articles are grouped according to water, earth, air and fire. They are a publication of the New Brunswick Environmental Network and produced in New Brunswick, Canada.

Natural Resources Conservation Service:   The Natural Resources Conservation Service is a Federal agency that works in partnership with the American people to conserve and sustain our natural resources.

Planet First 2000:   Planet first 2000 acts as a resource base and information point for those who wish to learn why it is necessary to be environmentally active now.

EnviroOne:   EnviroOne.com is your "one-stop center" for everything environmental. They have created propriety technology that combines a vast array of resources, timely content, innovative tools, and e-commerce (B2C/B2B) functionality that closes the loop on searching for information and having the ability to immediately act upon that information.

Earth Systems:  Earthsystems.org is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that develops, compiles, categorizes, and delivers environmental education and information resources to the world at large using leading electronic technologies. Earthsystems also maintains the Environment section of the WWW Virtual Library.

Fed Up Panda:  Dedicated to changing the current system and improving the environment. Up-to-date environmental news, newsgroup, related links, recycling tips, cartoons, and more!

Expedate:  Vegetarian Speed Dating.

Enviro Links:  A free, international, environmental link exchange website

Blue Link Information Network:  BlueLink offers information about the state of environment in Bulgaria and South Eastern Europe, and about the work of nature protection non-profit organizations, environmental news, campaigns, projects.

Home Finder  An everyday resource to help you find a home.

Website Science at Leigh University  This Web site contains recommended science education Web-based resources for elementary, middle school, and high school teachers. Each resource has been reviewed by Dr. Alec M. Bodzin, Assistant Professor of Science Education at Lehigh University.

PEI Science & Technology Awareness   STAS, the Prince Edward Island Science and Technology Awareness Site, is a bilingual resource for students and teachers to learn, teach, and discover.

Eco-IQ   EcoIQ Magazine is for everyone interested in making decisions that are both economically and ecologically intelligent.

Garbage  This site aims to improve next year's environmental record by teaching visitors how waste is currently being handled and how some communities are doing it better. You can also test your knowledge about the hazardous waste we generate in our homes and try to shrink a landfill.

Bill's Wildlife Sites  

Academic Information   Academic Info aims to be the premier educational gateway to online college and research level Internet resources. Even though the target audience is the college and university community, the subject guides will prove useful to high school and general users as well. There is no attempt to create an online community with chat rooms, personals, and a dorm store. Academic Info is the "white pages" to the academic community.

Eco-Portal   The Eco-Portal is dedicated to making the Internet useful for the pursuit of ecological sustainability, and more than a home shopping experience.

Global Response   Global Response is an international letter-writing network of environmental activists. In partnership with indigenous, environmentalist and peace and justice organizations around the world, Global Response develops "Actions" that describe specific, urgent threats to the environment; each "Action" asks memebers to write personal letters to individuals in the corporations, governments or international organizations that have the power and responsibility to take corrective action.

Environmental Sites on the Internet   A very comprehensive directory of environmental websites on the internet. Maintained by the Royal Institute of Technology - Stockholm, Sweden.

Action Resource Center   The Action Resource Center (ARC) spearheads and supports campaigns that protect the environment, human rights and social justice. ARC also provides resources, training and coordination for organizations and activists working on these issues.

Air

UC Berkeley Digital Library:   The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project is developing the tools and technologies to support highly improved models of the "scholarly information life cycle."

Envirosense Consortium, Inc.:   A nonprofit association that promotes a proactive approach to indoor air quality issues.

ARIC:   A one-stop source of information, for a range of atmopsheric issues, including air quality, acid rain, global warming and ozone depletion

Carfree.com:   Carfree cities past, present, and future: solutions to the problem of the urban automobile

Elements:   Elements offers a wide spectrum of environmental information. Based on the ancient concept of the four basic elements, featured articles are grouped according to water, earth, air and fire. They are a publication of the New Brunswick Environmental Network and produced in New Brunswick, Canada.

Climate Action Network:  The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of over 287 Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.

Water

NOAA Photo Collection:  Photos

UC Berkeley Digital Library:  The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project is developing the tools and technologies to support highly improved models of the "scholarly information life cycle."

SeaWatch:  SeaWatch is an organization of private citizens dedicated to a healthy Sea of Cortez. They monitor destructive activities throughout the region and report their findings over the web.

SeaWeb:  An organization dedicated to the protection of the seas, its ecosystems and its inhabitants.

Trees Water & People:   TWP is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping communities develop sustainable forests and watersheds.

Mississippi River Restoration Project:   Chad Pregracke and a group of 5 assistants are cleaning up the Mississippi River.

World Commission on Dams:  A global commission undertaking the most comprehensive review of dams and development to date.

Columbia Environmental Research Center:  THE CERC addresses international environmental contaminant issues, and assessing effects of habitat alterations on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. This includes large-river floodplains, coastal habitats, wetlands, and lakes

Elements:   Elements offers a wide spectrum of environmental information. Based on the ancient concept of the four basic elements, featured articles are grouped according to water, earth, air and fire. They are a publication of the New Brunswick Environmental Network and produced in New Brunswick, Canada.

Divine Dolphin:   Divine Dolphin provides research data and other educational materials to assure the protection and survival of the dolphins and whales and their natural habitats, specifically Drake Bay, Costa Rica, including monitoring and photo identifying the whales and dolphins who frequent this area and creating a national marine sanctuary.

Earth

UC Berkeley Digital Library:  The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project is developing the tools and technologies to support highly improved models of the "scholarly information life cycle."

Society for Ecological Restoration:  SER promotes ecological restoration around the globe through a newsletter, website, training program, committees, working groups, two journals and annual conferences.

The Wildlands Project:   The mission of the Wildlands Project is to protect and restore the natural heritage of North America through the establishment of a connected system of wildlands. Visit this site to get specific info on current projects.

ESRI Conservation Geography:   Using GIS maps to save the earth.

The Alternative Technology Association:   A non-profit community group that aims to use and promote environmentally friendly technology.

Earthtimes.org :   Web newspaper on the human environment and related economic, humanitarian and social issues

Columbia Environmental Research Center:  THE CERC addresses international environmental contaminant issues, and assessing effects of habitat alterations on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. This includes large-river floodplains, coastal habitats, wetlands, and lakes

Elements:   Elements offers a wide spectrum of environmental information. Based on the ancient concept of the four basic elements, featured articles are grouped according to water, earth, air and fire. They are a publication of the New Brunswick Environmental Network and produced in New Brunswick, Canada.

Alaska Community Action on Toxics:  The mission of Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) is to protect human health and the environment from the toxic effects of contaminants.

Trees

UC Berkeley Digital Library:  The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project is developing the tools and technologies to support highly improved models of the "scholarly information life cycle."

Trees Water & People:   TWP is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping communities develop sustainable forests and watersheds.

Trees for Life:   Saving India one tree at a time.

Alliance for International Reforestation:   Assisting communities to conserve their environment through self-sustaining environmental conservation and reforestation programs that can be implemented directly by community groups.

Plants

UC Berkeley Digital Library:  The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project is developing the tools and technologies to support highly improved models of the "scholarly information life cycle."

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service:  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the only agency of the U.S. Government whose primary responsibility is fish, wildlife, and plant conservation.

California Academy of Sciences:  Founded in 1853 to survey and study the vast resources of California and beyond, the California Academy of Sciences is the oldest scientific institution in the West and one of the 10 largest natural history museums in the world

University of Hawaii at Manoa:  Photos

The Department of Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison:  Dept. of Botany at the University of Wisc. The Virtual Foliage Home Page! Your direct link to thousands of plant pictures.

The Wildlands Project:   The mission of the Wildlands Project is to protect and restore the natural heritage of North America through the establishment of a connected system of wildlands. Visit this site to get specific info on current projects.

Botanical.com:  An online version of "A Modern Herbal," 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve. Over 800 varieties of medicinal, culinary, and cosmetic herbs, including economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore.

Botanic Sorting Machine:  On this web site you will get an impression of the (enormous) diversity within the Plant Kingdom, and of how botanists created order here. Just like you can split the Animal Kingdom up in Mammals and Worms, and within the Mammals you can make a distinction between Antilopes and the Cat family, so you can do the same in the Plant Kingdom. And as it turns out, it is very well possible to acquire a general insight.

Animals

Jaap's Marine Mammal Pages:  A general marine mammal site with information about the natural history, taxonomy and population status of mammals.

UC Berkeley Digital Library:  The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project is developing the tools and technologies to support highly improved models of the "scholarly information life cycle."

Feline Conservation Center (FCC):  Photos

SeaWeb:  An organization dedicated to the protection of the seas, its ecosystems and its inhabitants.

Wildaid:  Wildaid targets specific apex animals for protection worldwide.

Earthhope Action Network:   Earthhope provides a list of links to online environmental action sites so your voice can be heard.

BlueVoice:   Campaign to end Dolphin slaughter - BlueVoice uses the power of streaming video and internet technology to preserve and protect the oceans.

Divine Dolphin:   Divine Dolphin provides research data and other educational materials to assure the protection and survival of the dolphins and whales and their natural habitats, specifically Drake Bay, Costa Rica, including monitoring and photo identifying the whales and dolphins who frequent this area and creating a national marine sanctuary.

People

UC Berkeley Digital Library:  The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project is developing the tools and technologies to support highly improved models of the "scholarly information life cycle."

Trees Water & People:   TWP is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping communities develop sustainable forests and watersheds.

The Alternative Technology Association:   A non-profit community group that aims to use and promote environmentally friendly technology.

Earthtimes.org :   Web newspaper on the human environment and related economic, humanitarian and social issues

Media

Earthwave Society:   Earthwave provides information and education via television and educational videos to people around the world regarding biodiversity, sound conservation practices, and prudent utilization of our natural resources in order to insure healthy fish and wildlife populations in a healthy, thriving environment.

The Alternative Technology Association:   A non-profit community group that aims to use and promote environmentally friendly technology.

Earthtimes.org :   Web newspaper on the human environment and related economic, humanitarian and social issues

Goods

MIT Technology, Business & Environmental Program:   This MIT program promotes sustainability through research that develops profitable strategies for industry and effective policies for governing society. They also share research results with leaders from all sectors and provide a forum to exchange perspectives.

  

Tourism

Adventure Network:   Adventure Network is the ultimate online resource for outdoor, adventure and fitness enthusiasts. Experts and a wealth of free information right at your fingertips.

Tourism Geographies   The aim of Tourism Geographies is to provide a peer-reviewed forum for the presentation and discussion of geographic perspectives on tourism and tourism-related areas of recreation and leisure studies. They also serve to create a community of students, academics and practitioners with a shared interest and devotion to the geography of tourism.

  

Investing

The Investing Site   Thousands of investing and financial links, updated daily.