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Protect your environment
Using energy more efficiently will also help to slow the rate of climate change on our planet, by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2), and other harmful greenhouse gases that enter the atmosphere.
Energy Saving & Organization Websites.
Pollution
- Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth is a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental degradation.
- Clean Air Council
A member supported, non-profit environmental organization dedicated to protecting Pennsylvanians' right to clean air.
- Environmental Defense
Environmental Defense is a not-for-profit environmental advocacy group with four main goals: (1)Stabilizing the Earth's climate, (2) Safeguarding the world's oceans, (3) Protecting human health, and (4) Defending and restoring bio diversity.
- Scorecard
Scorecard combines data from over 200 different state and federal databases to profile local environmental problems and the health effects of toxic chemicals.
- Pollution.com
The latest nuclear power and pollution news.
- EPA: Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds
OWOW provides tons of information to raise public awareness and encourage involvement in water quality issues.
- Clean Up Australia
A very successful Australian organization that works to cleanup environmental pollution and to teach citizens how to lead greener lives.
- Worldwatch Institute
Worldwatch is dedicated to fostering the evolution of a society in which human needs are met in ways that do not threaten the health of the natural environment.
- Greening Industry
New ideas in pollution prevention.
- EPA: Acid Rain Program
The goal of the Acid Rain Program is to significantly reduce electric utilities emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, the pollutants responsible for acid deposition.
Recycling
- Earth's 911
A public and private sector partnership to empower the public with community specific resources to improve their quality of life.
- Use Less Stuff
A bi-weekly newsletter from 1994 to 2000 including articles on recycling and what some companies are doing to help. Also included are 42 ways to Trim Your Holiday Waste-line.
- Waste Wise
"WasteWise is a free, voluntary, EPA program through which organizations eliminate costly municipal solid waste, benefiting their bottom line and the environment."
- Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention (C2P2) x
Encourages actions that avoid or minimize the creation of pollution or waste.
- Recycle.com
The place to turn for recycling and composting expertise.
- FreeCycle
A grassroots movement to reuse unwanted items. Membership is free, with one rule being that everything posted must be free.
- Ecology Action
Achieving community and environmental excellence through partnership and innovation. Information of annual coastal cleanup, pollution prevention, and alternative transportation solutions.
- Recycle City
Learn how to recycle, reduce, and reuse waste.
- Waste Watch
A charity working to protect the environment by ensuring the sustainable use and disposal of scarce resources through waste reduction, re-use and recycling of materials.
- Recycler's World
A world wide trading site for information related to secondary or recyclable commodities, by-products, used and surplus items or materials.
Climate Change
- Pew Center on Global Climate Change
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change brings a new cooperative approach and critical scientific, economic and technological expertise to the global debate on climate change.
- Climate Institute
Working to "to protect the balance between climate and life on earth."
- US Global Change Research Program
The USGCRP provides the foundation for increasing the skill of predictions of seasonal-to-inter-annual climate fluctuations (which can bring excessively wet and dry periods) and long-term climate change.
- United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
World Meteorological Organization coordinates global scientific activity in several areas, including: air pollution research, climate change and ozone depletion studies.
- Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment
A project of the Atmosphere, Climate, & Environment Information Programme at the Manchester Metropolitan University.
- EPA Global Warming Page
ˇ°Explains climate change science, U.S. climate policy, greenhouse gas emissions, environmental effects, and what you can do.ˇ±
- Climate Change Solutions
An online resource centre of success stories, opportunity areas, tools, and resources on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Earth System Research Laboratory
Identifies the nature and causes of climate variations on scales ranging from months to centuries.
- Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research
Provides the UK government with up-to-date assessments of both natural and man-made climate change.
- What's Up With the Weather?
NOVA and Frontline examine the issues of global warming and its link to the burning of fossil fuels.
Renewable Energy
- Alternative Fuels & Advanced Vehicles Data Center
This Office of Transportation Technologies site has information on the latest advances in alternative fuels, vehicles, refueling sites, and more.
- The American Solar Energy Society
ASES is a national organization dedicated to advancing the use of solar energy for the benefit of U.S. citizens and the global environment.
- American Wind Energy Association
AWEA advocates the development of wind energy as a reliable, environmentally superior energy alternative in the United States and around the world.
- Florida Solar Energy Center
FSEC is the largest and most active state-supported renewable energy and energy efficiency research, training and certification institute in the United States.
- Re-Energy
Informative and educational site that teaches about various forms of Renewable Energy and then teaches you how to build and use them.
- National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium
NAFTC fosters a clean environment for the benefit of all people through education, training and research dealing with advanced fuels and engine systems.
- Renewable Energy Policy Project
REPP supports the advancement of renewable energy technology through policy research.
- Alternative Technology Association
A non-profit community group that aims to use and promote environmentally friendly technology, including renewable energy sources such as the sun, wind and water; building with natural materials and conserving energy.
- CANTEST
Find information on alternative fuels (propane or LPG, natural gas, hydrogen, methanol, ethanol, biodiesel), hybrid electric vehicles, batteries and fuel cells.
- California Energy Commission
The California Energy Commission is the state's primary energy policy and planning agency, charged with ensuring a reliable and affordable energy supply.
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