Associations/Organizations- Gov't and UN:
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www.unep.org
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United Nations Environment Program.
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www.epa.gov
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Environmental Protection Agency leads the U.S. environmental
science, research, education and assessment efforts. The mission of
the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and
the environment.
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www.cec.org
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Commission for Environmental Cooperation- Canada, Mexico
and the United States cooperating to protect North America's shared
environment.
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www.usgs.gov
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U.S. Geological Survey focuses on biology, geography, geology,
geospatial information, and water, dedicated to the timely, relevant,
and impartial study of the landscape, our natural resources, and the
natural hazards that threaten us.
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Associations/Organizations- Non Gov't:
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www.nrdc.org
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Natural Resources Defense Council. NRDC is an
environmental action organization, which uses law, science and the
support of 1.2 million members and online activists to protect the
planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy
environment for all living things.''
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www.wri.org
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World Resources Institute (WRI) is an environmental think tank
that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth
and improve people's lives.
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www.ewg.org
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Environmental Working Group, a non-profit that uses the
power of public information to protect public health and the
environment.
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www.edf.org
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Environmental Defense Fund, tackles the most serious
environmental problems with science, innovative markets, corporate
partnerships, laws and policy.
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www.pewtrusts.org
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Pew Charitable Trusts is a major force in educating the public
and policy makers about the causes, consequences and solutions to
environmental problems.
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www.nature.org
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Nature Conservancy a leading conservation organization
working around the world to protect ecologically important lands
and waters for nature and people.
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ncseonline.org
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National Council for Science and the Environment, a non
profit, improves the scientific basis of environmental decision making
through collaborative programs with diverse communities,
institutions, and individuals. While an advocate for science and its
use, the Council does not take positions on environmental outcomes.
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www.rmi.org
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Rocky Mountain Institute, the energy and environmental "think
and do tank" headed by the Lovins brothers....
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www.foe.org
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Friends of the Earth, defends the environment and champions a
healthy and just world.
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www.saveour
environment.org
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Save Our Environment Action Center is a collaborative effort
of environmental advocacy organizations harnessing the power of
the internet to increase public awareness and activism on
environmental issues.
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informinc.org
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Inform prides itself on more than three decades of identifying
innovative technologies, practices and products that provide practical
solutions to complex environmental and health-related problems.
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www.earthshare.org
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Earth Share is a national fundraising federation whose member
organizations work to protect human health, clean air and water,
conserve wilderness and wildlife, combat global warming and
safeguard parks and other natural spaces. EarthShare is committed
to making environmental support as easy as possible by giving
working people the ability to donate through workplace payroll
contribution campaigns.
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www.rff.org
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Resources For the Future is a nonprofit and nonpartisan
organization that conducts independent research rooted primarily in
economics and other social sciences on environmental, energy, and
natural resource issues.
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www.american
hiking.org
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American Hiking Society a national organization dedicated to
promoting and protecting America’s hiking trails, the natural areas
that surround them, and the hiking experience itself.
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Conservation: see Biodiversity, Animal Welfare, etc...
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www.nrcs.usda.gov
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Natural Resources Conservation Service's natural resources
conservation programs help people reduce soil erosion, enhance
water supplies, improve water quality, increase wildlife habitat, and
reduce damages caused by floods and other natural disasters. U.S.
Dept of Agriculture.
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Data:
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webnet.oecd.org
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OECD.Stat an online platform where users can discover and access
statistical databases from the Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development. Large Search engine with diverse
worldwide info. European Environment Agency.
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Developing World:
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www.gefweb.org
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The Global Environment Facility (GEF) helps developing
countries fund projects and programs that protect the global
environment. GEF grants support projects related to biodiversity,
climate change, international waters, land degradation, the ozone
layer, and persistent organic pollutants. GEF is an independent
financial organization that provides grants to developing countries
for projects that benefit the global environment and promote
sustainable livelihoods in local communities.
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Economics:
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www.neweconomics.org
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New Economics Foundation is an independent 'think and do' tank
who believes in economics as if people and the planet mattered.
Unique in combining rigorous analysis and policy debate with
practical solutions on the ground, often run and designed with the
help of local people.
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Education:
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www.epa.gov
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Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Education
Portal.
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www.globe.gov
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Globe is a worldwide community of students, teachers, scientists,
and citizens working together to better understand, sustain, and
improve Earth's environment at local, regional, and global scales.
Globe's Mission is to promote the teaching and learning of science,
enhance environmental literacy and stewardship, and promote
scientific discovery.
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newton.dep.anl.gov
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DOE's Argonne National Laboratory Division of Educational
Programs. Argonne's Ask-A-Scientist program has over 600
questions and answers in their environmental science archive and
provides a means to have questions answered that may not be easily
found on the web or within common references.
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Environmental Health: see Health page as well...
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www.niehs.nih.gov
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.The
mission of the NIEHS is to reduce the burden of human illness and
disability by understanding how the environment influences the
development and progression of human disease.
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www.cdc.gov
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National Center for Environmental Health of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention- plans, directs, and coordinates a
national program to maintain and improve the health of the
American people by promoting a healthy environment and by
preventing premature death and avoidable illness and disability
caused by non-infectious, non-occupational environmental and
related factors.
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www.who.int
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World Health Organization is the directing and coordinating
authority for health within the United Nations system. It is
responsible for providing leadership on global health matters,
shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards,
articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical
support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.''
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podclimate.environmental
healthnews.org
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Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization
founded in 2002 to help increase public understanding of emerging
scientific links between environmental exposures and human health.
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www.besafenet.com
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Center for Health, Environment & Justice's BE SAFE campaign
is a nationwide initiative to build support for the precautionary
approach and prevent pollution and environmental destruction
before it happens.'' Campaigns against PVC, Nuclear, Dioxin, for
Healthy Schools, etc...
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chge.med.harvard.edu
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Center for Health and the Global Environment was founded in
1996 at Harvard Medical School to expand environmental education
at medical schools and to further investigate and promote awareness
of the human health consequences of global environmental change.''
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Environmental Law:
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www.epa.gov
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EPA's Environmental Justice Office oversees the fair treatment
and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color,
national origin, or income with respect to the development,
implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws,
regulations, and policies.
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Environmental Policy:
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www.doi.gov
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Office of Environmental Policy & Compliance.
U.S. Department of the Interior.
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www.heinzctr.org
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Heinz Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution dedicated to
improving the scientific and economic foundation for environmental
policy through multisectoral collaboration. Focusing on issues that
are likely to confront policymakers within two to five years, the
Center creates and fosters collaboration among industry,
environmental organizations, academia, and government in each of
its program areas and projects.''
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www.rff.org
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Resources for the Future is a nonprofit and nonpartisan
organization that conducts independent research – rooted primarily
in economics and other social sciences – on environmental, energy,
natural resource and public health issues.
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irps2.ucsd.edu
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Journal of Environment & Development: A Review of
International Policy. Offers policy-makers, non-governmental
organizations, scientists, academics, and the business community an
international forum that combines cutting edge academic research
with practical analysis of working policies.
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www.wri.org
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World Resources Institute is an environmental think tank that
goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and
improve people’s lives. Works to Empower people and support
institutions to foster environmentally sound and socially equitable
decision-making.
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www.pewtrusts.org
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Pew Charitable Trusts studies and promotes nonpartisan policy
solutions for pressing and emerging problems affecting the American
public and the global community.
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earth-policy.org
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Earth Policy Institute, dedicated to building a sustainable future as
well as providing a plan of how to get from here to there. Lester
Brown.
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www.environmental
-mainstreaming.org
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International Institute for Environment and Development's
(IIED) initiative- produced a ‘User Guide’ to approaches (tools,
methods and tactics) for mainstreaming (or integrating) environment
into development decision-making (environmental mainstreaming),
steered by an International Stakeholders Panel.
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Environmental Writing:
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www.asle.org
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment is a
community of teachers, writers, students, artists and
environmentalists interested in the natural world and its meanings
and representations in language and culture.
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Reports:
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www.unep.org
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Global Environment Outlook (GEO) project is the
implementation of UNEP’s mandate to keep the global environment
under review. Initiated at the request of the UNEP Governing
Council in 1995, GEO is both a process and a series of reports,
analyzing environmental change, causes, impacts, and policy
responses. It provides information for decision-making, supports
early warning and builds capacity at the global and sub-global levels.
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www.climatescience.gov
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"Adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and
resources" U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the
Subcommittee on Global Change Research. Preliminary review 2008.
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books.nap.edu
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"Valuing Ecosystem Services: Toward Better Environmental
Decision-Making" Nutrient recycling, habitat for plants and
animals, flood control, and water supply are among the many
beneficial services provided by aquatic ecosystems. In making
decisions about human activities, such as draining a wetland for a
housing development, it is essential to consider both the value of the
development and the value of the ecosystem services that could be
lost. National Academies of Sciences, 2004.
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www.nap.edu
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"Understanding and Responding to Multiple Environmental
Stresses" Report of a Workshop (2006) Using case studies on
drought and a wide range of atmosphere-ecosystem interactions, a
workshop was held in September 2005 to gather different
perspectives on multiple stress scenarios. The overarching lesson of
the workshop is that society will require new and improved strategies
for coping with multiple stresses and their impacts on natural
socioeconomic systems.
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Research:
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www.cerc.columbia.edu
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Center for Environmental Research and Conservation's
two-part mission is to build environmental leadership and to solve
complex problems, in order to stem the loss of biological diversity
and achieve environmental sustainability. CERC is a consortium of
five scientific institutions and headquartered at Columbia University.
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www.eee.columbia.edu
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Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering.
Engineering Solutions for a Sustainable Planet. Columbia University.
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www.wmo.int
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World Meteorological Organization's Atmospheric Research and
Environment Programme co-ordinates and stimulates research on
the composition of the atmosphere and weather forecasting, focusing
on extreme weather events and socio-economic impacts.
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www.usgs.gov
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U.S. Geological Survey focuses on biology, geography, geology,
geospatial information, and water, dedicated to the timely, relevant,
and impartial study of the landscape, our natural resources, and the
natural hazards that threaten us.
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www.igbp.kva.se
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IGBP is an international scientific research program that studies the
interactions between biological, chemical and physical processes and
how they impact (and are impacted by) with human systems.
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ncseonline.org
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National Council for Science and the Environment's online
Handbook of Federal Funding for Environmental R&D was created
to help faculty and administrators at universities and colleges
identify opportunities for funding in the environmental and energy
fields.
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Society and the Environment:
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www.ciesin.columbia.edu
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Center for International Earth Science Information Network,
an independent non-governmental organization providing
information that helps scientists, decision-makers, and the public
better understand the changing relationships between human beings
and the environment. CIESIN's focus is on applying state-of-the-art
information technology to pressing interdisciplinary data,
information, and research problems related to human interactions in
the environment.
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www.energy.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Kyoto University's Graduate School's Department of
Socio-Environmental Energy Science aims at the establishment of
ideal energy systems harmonizing with natural and human
environments in order to sustain the continuous development of
human civilization. For this purpose, various energy problems are
systematically analyzed from sociological, political, economical,
biological and environmental perspectives.
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Sustainable Development:
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sustainer.org
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Sustainability Institute. Focuses on understanding the root causes
of unsustainable behavior in complex systems to help restructure
systems and shift mindsets that will help move human society
toward sustainability.
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www.rri.org
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Resource Renewal Institute facilitates the creation, development
and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex
environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively. We are an
incubator of transformational ideas designed to challenge and
change the piecemeal way our resources are currently managed and
protected.
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www.lead.org
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LEAD is an international not for profit organisation with a fast
growing network of 2000 leaders in more than 90 countries,
implementing innovative sustainable development projects and
programmes.
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sustainabilityscience.org
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Forum on Science and Innovation for Sustainable
Development is an attempt to outline the burgeoning field. Rather
than looking broadly at sustainability, the Forum focuses on the way
in which science and innovation can be conducted and applied to
meet human needs while preserving the life support systems of the
planet. It highlights people and programs that are studying
nature-society interactions and applying the resulting knowledge to
create a sustainability transition around the world. American
Association for the Advancement of Science; Science and Innovation
for Sustainable Development.
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sustainableproduction.org
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Lowell Center for Sustainable Production is associated with the
Department of Work Environment and the Toxics Use Reduction
Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
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Sustainability Reports/Research:
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www.worldinbalance.net
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"Our Common Future" aka the "Brundtland Report" 1987 report of
the United Nations World Commission on Environment and
Development – the Brundtland Commission. Defines ‘sustainable
development’ as development that meets the needs of the present
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs.
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sustainabilityscience.org
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Key Overview Documents- lists a half dozen of the papers that the
Editors believe provide an essential overview of the current state of
discussion on science and technology for sustainability. American
Association for the Advancement of Science; Science and Innovation
for Sustainable Development.
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thwink.org
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"The Dueling Loops of the Political Powerplace"
This paper presents an analysis of the social side of the sustainability
issue using a simulation model. The model shows the main source of
change resistance is a fundamental structure called the dueling loops
of the political powerplace. 2005, Jack Harich, Twink.org.
Really interesting. PDF.
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www.sustreport.org
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An Environment and Sustainability Time Line. Sustainability
Reporting Program. Developed with the support of Environment
Canada - Ontario Region and TD Friends of the Environment
Foundation.
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Weather:
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data.giss.nasa.gov
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Global Temperature Trends: 2008 Annual Summation. GISS
Surface Temperature Analysis, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space
Studies.
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www.wmo.int
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World Meteorological Organization's Atmospheric Research and
Environment Programme co-ordinates and stimulates research on
the composition of the atmosphere and weather forecasting, focusing
on extreme weather events and socio-economic impacts.
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