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AIR
POLLUTION
Air Topics:
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
Air Pollution definitions:
Infoplease Encyclopedia
- Air Pollution
Effects on Health and the Environment:
Infoplease Encyclopedia
- Air Pollution Effects
Solution to Air Pollution:
Infoplease Encyclopedia
- Air Pollution Solution
Ozone Pollution:
The Effects of Ozone Pollution
How Ozone Pollution
Works
ANTIBIOTICS
Keep Antibiotics Working Website
BIODIVERSITY
John Hopkins University:
Biodiversity
and Classification
Biodiversity and Organic Farming Methods
About biodiversity:
Australian Museum
Online
Australian
Government - Department of Environment and Heritage
Centre for
Biodiversity and Bioresources
Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Government of South
Australia - Department of Environment and Heritage
New South Wales
Department of Environment and Conservation - Biodiversity
Forest biodiversity:
South Australia
Urban Forest Biodiversity Program
Ecological Science Based
Forest Conservation Advocacy
Forest Conservation
Links
Conservation:
Asean Regional Centre
for Biodiversity Conservation
Coral
Reef and Biodiversity Conservation
Biodiversity
Conservation Programme for the Eastern Carribean
Endangered species:
Threatened and Endangered
Animals and Plants
Austrlia's Threatened
Species
Dying Seas
Threaten Several Species
Elephants:
Bagheera - In
The Wild
Illegal Poaching:
Mountain
Tapir
Elephant
Elephant
Elephant
Black
Bears Canada
Genetic Diversity:
The Canine
Diversity Project
Host Plant Resistance and
Conservation of Genetic Diversity
Understanding
Genetic Diversity
Loss of Genetic Diversity
Among Managed Populations
CARS
Fatalities:
IRTAD Database.
International Traffic Safety Data and Analysis Group.
Production:
The
Smogbusters Way to School Article
Electric Car
Pollution
Hartwick
Environmental Science Research Article
Lead:
Effects of Lead on
Human Health
Removal of
Lead
Natural
Cleanup Solution
Sub-Saharan Africa Celebrates Leaded Petrol Phase-Out, United Nations
Evironment Programme News, 27 December 2005.
Improvements:
Improving
Air Quality Document
World Car-Free Day
Article
Sustainability
Document
Trip
Chanining Document
Nickel Metal
Hydride Battery,
Enviro car:
Hybrid
Cars
Hydrogen Cars
Electric Vehicle
Commission
Presents the Results of the CUTE Project: the World’s Largest Trial of
Hydrogen Fule Cell- Powered Buses. Fuel Cell Works, 11 May 2006.
Brewery
Shows Industry Working to Protect Sierra.North Lake Tahoe Bonanza 5
August 2005
Compressed Natural
Gas
CHEMICALS
Pollution:
Pollution
Scorecard
Organochlorines:
The Organochlorines Research Programme
Organochlorines
in Streambed Sediment and Aquatic Biota
Dioxins:
Dioxins and Their
Effects on Human Health
Dioxins and Their
Effects
Sources of
Dioxins
Synopsis on Dioxins
and PCBs
Cadmium:
Cadmium
Overview
Cadmium
FAQ
Safety
and Health Topics
Biodegradable:
Biodegradable
Technology
Biodegradable
Definition
CONSUMPTION
Energy
Consumption in Canada
Fossil Fuel Production and
Consumption
World
Fossil Fuel Consumption
Conservation:
Energy
Conservation News and Resources
CORAL REEFS
The Coral Reef
Alliance
Conservation:
World Conservation
Monitoring Centre
Mesoamerican Reef: Conservation Tips
Conservation
Cology Abstract
The Nature
Conservancy
CORPORATE
RESPONSIBILITY
Anchorage Daily News, Wesley Low, "BP hasn’t lived
up to spill agreement, DEC chief charges".
BushGreenWatch -
looks at Bush’s administration environmental record.
Chap. 6 in Ownership and Control: Rethinking Corporate
Governance of the Twenty-First Century, Blair, Margaret M.
Democracy4Sale -
Who filled the big parties coffers last year.
Hoofprints in the Forest, Douglas R. Shane.
Power and
Accountability, Robert A.G. Monks and Nell Minow.
Standards of Corporate Social Responsibility, Goodell,
Edward.
The Civil Corporation, Simon Zadek.
The Divine Right of Capital, Dethroning the Corporate
Aristocracy, Marjorie Kelly.
EARTH CHARTER
Earth Charter
USA
Earth Charter
Australia
The Earth
Charter summit
The Earth
Charter
Green Cross
International
The Earth
Charter's Spiritual Agenda
Intergovernmental panel on
Climate Change – IPCC
ECO-TAX
Research Issues in Environmental Tax Reform, EEPSEA, David Glover
Eco-taxes and Perverse Subsidies, Michael Jessen, October 1999
The Ethical Consumer Guide, Manual 2000, John Elkington and Julia
Hailes
Natural Capitalism, Paul Hawken, Amory and L. Hunter Lovins, March
1997
The Carbon Tax Debate in New Zealand – The Agricultural Perspective, John
Pask, May 2003
Cleaning up our Tax System, Eco-Tax Reform Policy, Jeanette Fitzsimons
MP, Green Party, ratified 11th July 2002
Briefing: Eco-nomic Tax Reform - The wiser use of nature and the wider
use of labour?, David Gee
What Are Some Potential Examples of ETS?, ELM and Tellus Institute
When Corporations Rule the World, David C. Korten, 1995
Eco Tax Reform - an option for CEE, Kai Schlegelmilch, April 1997
Review of the Landfill Tax, HM Customs & Excise, March 1998
A general guide to landfill tax, HM Customs & Excise, June 1997
Restoring Landfill sites and filling quarries, HM Customs & Excise,
31 July 1999
CE9, HM Customs & Excise, 17 March 1998
CE5, HM Customs & Excise, 9 March 1999
Landfill tax briefing, HM Customs & Excise, 6 September 1999
HM Customs & Excise News release 38/99, 6 September 1999
HM Customs & Excise News release, 4 November 1999
Accountancy Magazine, January 1995 and March 1997
The Tax for Fuel Conservation in Ontario, Government Budgets
Green
Budget Reform Case Studies
The
User Pay Waste Management Initiative in the Victoria Capital Regional
Dist. BC., Government Budgets
Environmental Taxes in OECD Countries, OECD Publications, 1995
Global Environmental
Tax?
Eco Tax Reform - an
option for CEE
A New Economics for the 21st Century, Future Wealth, James Robertson
ENERGY
Natural
Gas
National Renewable Energy
Laboratory
Renewable
Energy
Wind Power Energy:
European Wind Energy
Association and Wind Directions magazine
Windpower monthly
news magazine
Illustrated History
of Wind Power Development
History of Wind
Power
American Wind Energy
Association
Guided tour on Wind
Energy
Interests in Wind Power
Technology
Wind Power -
BBC
Green Energy
Ohio
Wind
Power Primer - PBS
Wind Power -
GCSE Physics
Wind Power - Energy from
the Air
Solar Energy:
Information about their
products, solar power technology generally, the financial implications
and current trends.
The solar
electric power association
Information on solar
technologies and cost benefits.
A forum
on solar energy, with news, links, bulletin board and reports.
Research and
Development Advances in CSP
Solar
Energy Topics
How to make a Solar Power
Generator
Arizona
Solar Center Solar
Water Savings
Active
Solar Energy
Chemicals Fuels From
The Sun
Solar Power -
BBC
Solar Power Is Energy
From The Sun
History of Solar Power:
History of Solar Power - Go
Solar
History
of Solar Power - The Why Files
History of Solar Energy -
solarenergy.com
History of Solar Energy -
tuffydog.com
Geothermal Energy:
The
International Geothermal Association
Geothermal Topics - US
Department of Energy
Geothermal
Education Office
Geothermal
Technology
Clean Energy
Basics
Geothermal Energy
- World Bank Group
Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy
Bioenergy
Biodiesel
Association of Australia
Bioenergy Information
Network. Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Biomass Cost. Public
Renewables Partnership
Biomass
Program. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, US Department
of Energy.
Clean
Alternative Fuels: Biodiesel. US Environmental Protection Agency
Factsheet, March 2002.
Ethanol cars cause
fuming. Washington Post, 2 August 2003.
Energy Power Resources
Group
Ewall,
Mike The Burning Issues with Biomass, March 2000. Energy Justice
Network
Is Ethanol
Energy-Efficient ?
Landfill Methane Outreach
Program. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Losure, Mary Gopher State Ethanol Problems Trigger National Crackdown,
Minnesota Public Radio, 23 September 2002.
Monbiot, George Fuel for Nought, The Guardian 23 November, 2004
Patzek,
Tadeusz W. Ethanol From Corn : Just How Unsustainable is it ? Civil and
Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, 2003.
Queensland
Government
Renewable Energy Annual 2003. Energy Information Administration
Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Science Program. US Climate Change
Science Program, July 2003.
ENVIRONMENT -
GENERAL
Global Environment Outlook 3 – Past, present and future perspectives,
EarthScan, United Nations Environment Programme, London, 2002
The State of the Planet,National Geographic, M. Klesius, September
2002
Climate Change/Global warming
EPA's
Global Warming Site
United Nations Framework
Climate on Climate Change
Global warming:
Early Warning Signs
Union of Concerned Scientists
Global Warming
Information Page
National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
Climate
Change Solutions
United Nations
Environment Programme
Loss of Biodiversity
Air Pollution
Asian air pollution can reach U.S., Seattle Post, Lisa
Stiffler, 14 February 2004
Seattle
University
EPA
USA
Natural Resources Defence
Council
Forest degradation and deforestation
Earth
Observatory
Freshwater stress and scarcity
GRID-Arendal
United
Nations Environment Programme
World Health
Organisation
Degradation and pollution of coastal and marine environments
Ocean
Planet
Ocean Link
Genetic Engineering
United
Nations System-Wide Earthwatch
Sustainable use of
genetically modified crops in developing countries, Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), F. Gould and M. B. Cohen,
Washington, D.C., USA, 2002
Science-based risk
assessment for the approval and use of plants in agricultural and other
environments, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
(CGIAR), R. J. Cook, Washington, D.C., USA, 2002
Radioactive and hazardous waste
United Nations
Environment Programme
United
Nations System-Wide Earthwatch
Secretariat of the Basel
Convention
FARM WASTE
Environment
Canterbury - Farm waste
Solution:
Anaerobic
Digesters
Management
Disposal
Farm Waste for
Cars
Farm Waste in your
Tank
FOOD PRODUCTION AND
DISTRIBUTION
European Environment Agency
Nature-rich farmland areas need greater support to prevent species loss, 29
April 2004
Food and Agriculture
Organisation of the United Nations
Agribusiness Accountability
Initiative
Who will tame the supermarkets ? and From market to
hypermarket: food retailing, Britain Ecologist, Tim Lang and Hugh Raven,
July/August 1994
Breaking up the
monoculture, International Society for Ecology and Culture, Helena
Norberg-Hodge
Oxfam International Rigged rules and double standards:
trade, globalization and the fight against poverty, 2002
Reuters, 17 September 2001
The world’s problems on a plate, Jeremy Rifkin
Fears rise over aid to Asia, West Australian, P.T. Singam, 31 July
2000
Rising market control
of transnational agribusiness, Amit Thorat
FISH AND OVER
FISHING
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Columbia
Encyclopedia
David
Suzuki Foundation
Neolithic
Fishing-Hunting economy in Yellow Valley
Noaa Fisheries
Oceana
Oceans Alive,
Environmental Defense USA
Science Mag
FORESTS – GENERAL
Global land environments
since LGM – Last Glacial Maximum
Tree
Resources
World Rainforest
Movement
Deforestation:
SEDAC
- Deforestation
Tree Uses:
Uses
of Tree Species
Conservation:
Forest Conservation
Portal
Forest,
Conservation, and Logging Workers
Global conservation
FORESTS – BRAZIL
Brazil's Forest
in Brief
Amazon
Forest
Working Forests
in the Tropics
Deforestation:
Deforestation:
Brazil, Andrew Pease, Colby College 1997
Amazon deforestation and
Brazil land problems
TVE's Earth
Report - If Tree's Could Talk
Effects of Deforestation in Brazil:
Effects of
Deforestation
Causes
and Consequences of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Solution to Deforestation in Brazil:
Brazil: Forests in the
balance: Challenges of Conservation and Development
FORESTS - CANADA
BorealForest.org
Canadian
Forestry Association
Canadian Parks and
Wilderness Society
David Suzuki
Foundation
Forest Action
Network
Forest Service.
2003. An overview of Canada's forests and forest industry Canada
Forest Stewardship
Council
Global Forest
Watch
Raincoast Conservation
Society
Sierra Club of
Canada
State of the Environment InfoBase. Sustaining Canada’s Forests:
Overview
The state of Canada’s forests. 2005
FORESTS - CONGO
Miscellaneous information
Adams, Jonathan
[compiler] Africa During the Last 150,000 Years. Environmental Sciences
Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Congo Basin Forest
Partnership
Congo Basin
Forest Partnership Fact Sheet. US Department of State, 13 April 2004.
Sustainable Development Partnerships
Congo Basin Forests Under
Threat. BBC News 3 September 2002
Jones, Lucy Logging
Threatens Pygmies’ Forest Life, BBC News 4 June 2002
Jungle: episode two: Congo, BBC Television Natural History Unit, 2003
New
Threats to the Forests and Forest Peoples of the Democratic Republic of
Congo. Rainforest Foundation Briefing Paper, February 2004
Saving
the Congo Basin Forests. Testimony of Tony Mokombo, Senior Program Officer,
West and Central Africa and Madagascar Endangered Species Program, World
Wildlife Fund – US before the Sub-committee on African Affairs of the U.S.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 24 July 2003
Sizer, Nigel and
Plouvier, Dominic Increased Investment and Trade by Transnational Logging
Companies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific: Implications for the
Sustainable Management and Conservation of Tropical Forests. World Wildlife
Fund for Nature and World Resources Institute’s Forest Frontiers
Initiative, 2000
Wildlife Conservation
Society
FORESTS - PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Dance
with the Papua New Guinea Wigmen
BBC.co.uk
Forest Conservation
Portal
FORESTS - RUSSIA
The Woods Hole Research Center
FOREST.RU
World Resources Institute,
Greenpeace Russia - Forests
National Geographic Society
IndexMundi - Russia Unemployment rate
The Wildlife Foundation
FORESTS - NEW SOUTH WALES
NSW
Department of Primary Industry - Forests
The Native Vegetation
of New South Wales
Deforestation:
SBS -
Deforestation
The Department of
Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources
Biomass Energy
FORESTS – WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Reports detail
continued deforestation, Juliet Fox
Managing WA
Forests
Deforestation:
Forests, Woodlands &
Grasslands
GENETIC
ENGINEERING
GreenPeace -
Genetic Engineering
Cartagena
Protocol on Biosafety for the Convention on Biological Diversity
Fact Sheet:
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. US Department of State Bureau of Oceans
& International Environmental & Scientific Affairs
EU sets GMO labelling, traceability rules. Environmental Science &
Technology News 7 August 2003. American Chemical Society
International Treaty on Plant
Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. FAO Commission on Genetic
Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
CSIRO Halts work on genetically modified peas, Dow Jones 18 November
2005
Office of the Gene
Technology Regulator
Global status of
commercialised biotech/GM crops: 2005, International Service for the
Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA)
GM crops linked to rise in pesticide use, Guardian 8 January 2004
Another gene genie out of the bottle, Economist 19 May 2004
Down in the forest, something stirs, Economist 6 January 2005
Seeds of dispute, Guardian 22 February 2006
US wins WTO backing in war with Europe over GM food, Guardian 8 February
2006
EU Commission admitted GM food uncertainty, Guardian 18 April 2006
Gene
Technology Act Review: media release 28 April 2006, Crop Life
Australia
Gene laws survive
review. News in Science 28 April 2006.
Up from the dead, Economist 4 May 2006
Ministers pave way fro GM crops, Guardian 21 July 2006
Cost and Danger:
Genetic Engineering
and Its Dangers
Dangers of Genetic
Engineering
Genetic Engineering and
the Risk of Harm, Matti Häyry & Tuija Lehto
Weighing
Up Benefits And Risks of Genetic Engineering
Genetically modified organism:
Questions About
Genetically Modified Organisms, The Daily Mail, 1st June, 1999
Economic
Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops on the Agri-Food Sector
Genetically
Modified Organisms - Bacillus thuringiensis
History
of Genetic Engineering - American RadioWorks
The Impact of
Genetically Modified Organisms on Human Health
GMO,
safety and labelling
Opposing Genetic
Engineering in New Zealand (and around the world), Bill
Christison
Genetics
and Patenting
Patenting laws
Benefits of Genetic Engineering:
Potential Benefits of Genetic Engineering
Genetic
engineering: who benefits?
Genetic Engineering: Who Benefits?, Alan Durant, March 2000
GLOBALISATION
Globalisation Guide: The key questions
on globalisation
Globalisation
Management Strategies
Globalisation
team research pages
Free Trade
History of globalisation:
Globalization: History and
Problems,Professor Gérard de Bernis
Globalization:
History of the International Economy in the 20th Century, Prof. Brian
A’Hearn
A
Quick Guide to the World History of Globalisation
General Agreement on Trades in Services (GATS):
World Trade Law
Problem:
Globalisation is not the problem – the problem is what’s driving it
Solution:
GREENHOUSE
EFFECT
Global Warming - Greenhouse
Effects
Greenhouse - Green
Planet
Climate change history:
Sudden Climate
Change Through Human History, Jonathan Adams and Randy Foote
Global
Climate Change: Exploring the Interface Between History, Science, and
Development, Robert Page, February 7, 2002
Exploring
Weather & Climate Change Through the Powers of 10
Climate change Solutions:
Putting it back where it came from: Is geological disposal of carbon dioxide an option for Australia? Cook, P. J., A. Rigg, and J. Bradshaw. 2000. APPEA Journal 11
David Suzuki Foundation. Climate Change
Earthdaynetwork. Climate Change Solutions: What can you do right now?
European Renewable Energy Council (CREC). Renewable energy: The solution to climate change
Freehills. 2005. Renewable Energy & Greenhouse Update
Holloway, S. 2004. Underground sequestration of carbon dioxide – a viable greenhouse gas mitigation option. Energy (11-12): 2318 – 2333.
Holmes, J. 28 August 2006. What price of global warming? ABC Four Corners
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