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Conservaton and Ecology Books at Amazon.com
Earth
Day
http://www.earthday.org/
"Throughout the world, Earth Day
is recognized as the symbol of environmental responsibility
and stewardship."
Center for the Environment - Cornell University
http://environment.cornell.edu/
EarthWatch
Institute
http://www.earthwatch.org/
The
World Conservation Congress
http://www.iucn.org/wcc/index.html
WWF Global Network
http://panda.org/
The
Living Planet Campaign
http://panda.org/livingplanet/
The World of
WWF
http://www.wwf.org/
WWF
- U.S.
http://www.worldwildlife.org
The World Resources
Institute
http://www.wri.org/
"The World Resources Institute is a Washington,
DC-based center for policy research and technical
assistance on global environmental and development
issues. It provides objective information and
practical proposals for policy change that will
foster environmentally sound development."
The Nature Conservancy
http://nature.org/
Earthscape:
A Learner's Guide to the Environment
http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/eng/fkarner/earth.htm
"Study Earth and its future! Earthscape invites
you outdoors to investigate Earth systems, landscapes
and environmental challenges."
Global Learning
and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)
http://www.globe.gov/
"a worldwide network of students, teachers,
and scientists working together to study and understand
the global environment. Students and teachers
from over 6,000 schools in more than 70 countries
are working with research scientists to learn
more about our planet.
EnviroLink
http://www.envirolink.org/
Ducks Unlimited
http://www.ducks.org/
IGC
EcoNet
http://www.igc.org/igc/econet/
"working to support ecological sustainability
and environmental justice"
The Izaak Walton
League of America
http://www.iwla.org/
"Defenders of Soil, Air, Woods, Waters and
Wildlife"
U.S. Geological
Survey - a bureau of the U.S. Department
of the Interior
http://www.usgs.gov/
USGS
News Releases
http://www.usgs.gov/public/press/public_affairs/press_releases/index.html
Environmental
Fact Sheets
http://water.usgs.gov/public/wid/index-environ.html
Environment
http://www.usgs.gov/themes/environ.html
Volunteer
for a Changing World
http://www.usgs.gov/volunteer
The United States
Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/
Forests.org
http://forests.org/
"Works to end deforestation, preserve primary
and old-growth forests, conserve and sustainably
manage other forests, conserve water and climatic
systems and commence the age of ecological restoration."
Project
WILD
http://www.projectwild.org/
"Project WILD is one of the most widely
used conservation and environmental education
programs among educators of students in kindergarten
through high school. Project WILD is based on
the premise that young people and educators have
a vital interest in learning about our natural
world"
Global
Change Master Directory - NASA
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/
U.S. Long Term
Ecological Research Network (LTER)
http://lternet.edu/
"a collaborative effort involving more than
1100 scientists and students investigating ecological
processes operating at long time scales and over
broad spatial scales."
Northern
Prairie Wildlife Research Center
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/
"This Web site emphasizes natural resource
issues and data pertinent to the North American
Great Plains. Our desire is that this site will
be useful to managers, scientists, and the public
for addressing issues in the mid-continent."
The Wilderness
Society Home Page
http://wilderness.org/
"Today, Americans enjoy some 104 million
acres of protected wilderness, due in large part
to the efforts of The Wilderness Society. The
Wilderness Society is a non-profit membership
organization devoted to preserving wilderness
and wildlife, protecting America's prime forests,
parks, rivers, deserts and shorelands, and fostering
an American land ethic." |
Conservaton
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| Atmosphere
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Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
- Zurich
http://www.iac.ethz.ch/
Northern
Hemisphere Ozone Maps
http://woudc.ec.gc.ca/e/ozone/Curr_allmap.htm
Taking
the pulse of ecosystems with DISPro
http://www.aqd.nps.gov/pubs/yr_rvw97/chapter04/chapter04_a02.html
"Ozone thinning in the stratosphere is likely
increasing the exposure of both humans and natural
ecosystems to this damaging radiation each year.
But up until now, scientists have not measured this
“external stress” that can trigger human cancers
and cataracts, and can change the mix of insects
and algae."
Total
Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) - from
NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center
http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/
World Meteorological
Organization
http://www.wmo.ch/ |
Weather
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| Biodiversity
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Mothers for Natural Law
http://www.safe-food.org/
"You are eating genetically engineered food.
Is it good for you? Do you have a choice?"
The Virtual Library
of Ecology, Biodiversity and the Environment
http://conbio.net/vl/
The Tulane/Xavier
Center for Bioenvironmental Research - (CBR)
http://www.cbr.tulane.edu/
World Resources
Institute - Biodiversity
http://biodiv.wri.org/
New
Report Says that Cultivating Agricultural Biodiversity
is Necessary for Global Food Security |
Biodiversity
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| Birds
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Audubon WatchList - Sponsored by
National Audubon
Society
http://www.audubon.org/bird/watchlist/index.html
The Peregrine
Fund and the World Center for Birds of Prey
http://www.peregrinefund.org/
Save
the birds: drink shade-grown coffee
http://forests.org/gopher/america/shadegro.txt |
Endangered
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| Ecosystems
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The Association of Ecosystem Research Centers
http://culter.colorado.edu:1030/~aerc/
"Recognizing that the ecological problems confronting
our society are large and the means of addressing
them are not limitless, the founding institutions
set up the AERC in 1987 to seek new ways to pool
their scientific resources and undertake a comprehensive
integration of their current knowledge. The goal
of the AERC is to promote the optimal use of limited
scientific resources in the search for solutions
to complex, large-scale environmental problems." |
Ecosystem
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| Energy
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The
International Institute for Energy Conservation
http://www.iiec.org
"IEC has worked to bring the power
of sustainable energy solutions to developing countries
and economies in transition since 1984. These solutions
include energy efficiency, renewable energy, and
integrated transport planning."
World Resources
Institute
http://www.wri.org
"The World Resources Institute's mission is
to move human society to live in ways that protect
Earth's environment and its capacity to provide
for the needs and aspirations of current and future
generations."
The American Solar Energy Society (ASES)
http://www.ases.org/ |
Energy
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| Forests
and Trees |
World
Resources Institute - Forest Frontiers Initiative
http://www.wri.org/ffi/
"The Forest Frontiers Initiative (FFI) is a
five year, multi-disciplinary effort to promote
stewardship in and around the world's last major
frontier forests by influencing investment, policy,
and public opinion. The FFI team is working with
governments, citizens' groups, and the private sector
in Amazonia, Central Africa, Indonesia, North America,
and Russia. We also take part in pressing international
discussions on forest policy."
The National
Arbor Day Foundation
http://www.arborday.org/
"The National Arbor Day Foundation is involved
in much more than just Arbor Day celebrations around
the world. Its mission is to help promote tree care
and conservation and to educate people on tree issues."
American Forests
"the nation's oldest nonprofit citizen
conservation organization, founded in 1875"
Global
Releaf - Plant a Tree and Restore A Forest
"For $1 and a phone call (or the click
of a mouse!), you can help American Forests plant
a tree in a threatened forest ecosystem. Our Global
ReLeaf program plants trees in Global ReLeaf Forest
sites all across the United States to restore ecosystems
that have been damaged or destroyed by hurricanes,
fire, disease, erosion, insects, or human abuses...For
every 10 trees that are planted, we will send a
personalized certificate to you or the person of
your choice. These certificates make great gifts
for any occasion--weddings, birthdays, or anniversaries...Each
tree is $1 with a 10-tree minimum for each order."
Rainforest Action
Network
http://www.ran.org/
Prime Forestry
Group
http://www.ownatree.com/
Own A Tree / Replant A Tree / Replant A Tree
For Kids
TreeGivers
- The Gift That Keeps On Growing...
http://www.treegivers.com/
Reforestation
Technologies International
http://www.reforest.com/
"Manufacturers & Suppliers For: Reforestation,
Mine Reclamation, Watershed Restoration, Riparian
Mitigation, Wetland Construction, Christmas Tree
& Woodlot Farmers, Community Tree Planting Projects
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Cana
Teca International S.A. - A Pioneer
in Teak Reforestation in Costa Rica
http://www.canateca.com/CT/pioneer.html
"Cana Teca's mandate is to plant, maintain,
harvest and sell high quality teak in Costa Rica
and elsewhere providing international markets with
a sustainable source of teak wood and investors
a strong, long term, tax free revenue stream." |
Forests
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| Health
and the Environment |
World
Resources Institute: Health, Development and Environment
http://www.wri.org/health/
"Pollution takes a toll on human health, and
there is increasing evidence of interaction among
large-scale environmental, development, and demographic
changes with human disease. WRI's new Program in
Health, Environment and Development explores the
synergies among these elements and to assess policy
options to reduce human risks." |
Environmental
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| Miscellaneous
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Earth Day Cards at American Greetings
Plugging
Abandoned Wells
http://ndsuext.nodak.edu/extnews/askext/recycle/63.htm |
Nature
Calendars at Amazon.com
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| Oceans
& Sea Life |
Sea
Shepherd Conservation Society
http://www.seashepherd.org/
Inter-American
Convention for the Protection and Conservation of
Sea Turtles
http://www.seaturtle.org/iac/intro.shtml
U.S. Fish
& Wildlife Service - Endangered Species Home
Page
http://endangered.fws.gov/ |
Marine
Life Books at Amazon.com
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| Online
Publications |
Conservation
Ecology - A Publication of the Ecological
Society of America
http://www.consecol.org/Journal/
"an electronic, peer-reviewed, scientific
journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of current
research"
Environmental
Education Publications
http://eelink.umich.edu/
Brownfield
News Home Page
http://www.brownfieldnews.com/
"Brownfield News is the premier magazine for
tracking the developments associated with environmentally
impaired properties (brownfields)." |
Conservaton
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| Plants
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Center
for Plant Conservation
http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/
"The mission of the CPC is to prevent
the extinction of plants native to the United
States"
Lady
Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
http://www.wildflower.org/
Native
Habitats
http://members.aol.com/gstigall/
http://www.nativehabitats.org
"The mission of Native Habitats is to participate
in and support efforts to restore and preserve
native ecosystems (urban, suburban & wild)...for
the sake of restoring ecological process and biodiversity;
and allowing native species, both flora and fauna,
to survive and thrive."
Arizona Native
Plant Society
http://aznps.org/
California
Native Plant Society
http://www.cnps.org/
Colorado
Native Plant Society
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~shill/conps.html
Georgia
Native Plant Society
http://www.gnps.org/
Florida Native Plant Society
http://www.fnps.org/
Native
Hawaiian Plant Society
http://www.angelfire.com/hi4/nhps/
Idaho
Native Plant Society
http://www.idahonativeplants.org/
Iowa
Native Plant Society
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~herbarium/inps/inpshome.htm
Kentucky Native
Plant Society
http://www.knps.org/
Maryland Native
Plant Society
http://mdflora.org/
Minnesota
Native Plant Society
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/biology/mnps/
Missouri
Native Plant Society
http://www.missouri.edu/~umo_herb/monps/
New Mexico
Native Plant Society
http://npsnm.unm.edu/
Native
Plant Society of Oregon
http://www.npsoregon.org/
Native Plant
Society of Texas
http://www.npsot.org/
Virginia Native
Plant Society Home Page
http://www.vnps.org/
Washington
Native Plant Society
http://www.wnps.org/index.html
Wyoming
Native Plant Society
http://www.rmh.uwyo.edu/wnps.html |
Native
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| Population
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Population Connection (formerly Zero Population
Growth)
http://www.zpg.org/
Instant
World Awareness!
http://cn.org/zpg/mother.htm
"By letting this counter run a while, you'll
gain a better sense of the incredible rate of habitat
loss and human population increase. Sadly, we are
losing species at a rate that is equally alarming
(and a whole lot harder to calculate)."
World
POPClock Projection - by the U.S
Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw |
Population
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| Recycling
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The GrassRoots Recycling Network (GRRN)
http://www.grrn.org/
"dedicated to environmental stewardship and
achieving a sustainable economy by eliminating waste
and reusing, recycling and composting resources
which will support community economic growth, create
jobs, save wilderness, reduce pollution, and conserve
natural resources"
Recycler's
World
http://www.recycle.net/
"a world wide trading site for information
related to secondary or recyclable commodities,
by-products, used & surplus items or materials."
Resource Recycling
Systems, Inc.
http://www.recycle.com
"Resource Recycling Systems, Inc. (RRSI) is
a resource management, consulting and engineering
firm based in Michigan. We have served clients both
nationally and internationally since 1985. Our core
personnel have over 80 years of experience in a
range of skill areas including manufacturing engineering,
product/process development, system design, planning,
public policy, business and public finance, and
market development."
Houston
Environmental Resources
http://www.cechouston.org/
The Environmental
Recycling Group Inc. (E.R. Group)
http://www.ergroup.com/
"formed in 1990 to pool resources, source recyclable
materials, and facilitate distribution of recycled
building materials and environmental products around
the world"
Earth’s 911
http://www.earth911.org/
"the nation’s official, 24 hour public service
resource for geographically specific environmental
and recycling information"
Preserving
Resources through Integrated Sustainable Management
of Waste
http://www.residua.com/rrf/index.htm
"PRISM is the information service of the World
Resource Foundation (WRF), dedicated to providing
a information on sustainable waste management." |
Recycling
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| Wetlands
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EPA's Office of Water/Office of Wetlands/Restoration
http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/restore/
Wetlands Conservation & Restoration
http://www.erols.com/wetlandg/
"A home page dedicated to furthering wetland
restoration, enhancement and conservation on private
lands. Maintained by the National Wetlands Conservation
Alliance." |
Ecosystems:
Wetlands Books at Amazon.com
Hydrology
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| Wildlife
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International Wildlife Coalition
http://www.iwc.org/
Environmental
Defense
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm
The
Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force (DAPTF)
http://www.open.ac.uk/OU/Academic/Biology/J_Baker/JBtxt.htm
Threatened
and Endangered Animal Specie
http://endangered.fws.gov/
The
Consortium of Aquariums, Universities and Zoos (C.A.U.Z.)
http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/idp/idp/entry/455
"an international network of scientists
and educators in universities, zoos, aquariums,
conservation organizations, and governmental agencies
who are dedicated to worldwide conservation"
Kenya Wildlife
Service
http://www.kws.org/
All
Florida Herpetology Conference
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/afhc.htm
"a day of talks, information sharing, and
exhibits of books, art, paraphernalia, information,
and live amphibians and reptiles" |
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| Links
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| The
Man From the Sunflower Forest
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4189/LCElinks.html
Environment
http://www.usgs.gov/themes/environ.html
Ecology
WWW page
http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/Ecology/Ecology-WWW.html
Environmental
Organization WebDirectory!
http://www.webdirectory.com/
The
International Institute for Energy Conservation
- Links
http://www.iiec.org/index.php?option=weblinks&Itemid=4&topid=1
Habitat
Restoration Entities & Volunteer Projects
http://members.aol.com/gstigall/restore.htm |
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