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This site from the Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair (CCAR) introduces ozone, its affect on public health, how it's formed, previous attempts at controlling it, and promising solutions. Contact information for further resources is at the bottom of the page.
This website provides information designed to help building industry professionals and policy makers to improve environmental performance and reduce the adverse impacts of buildings. It print and electronic resources to help industry professionals to take an integrated design approach that will...
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), a nonprofit organization, provides information, tools, training and advisory services to make corporate social responsibility an integral part of business operations and strategies.
The Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources (CSANR), part of the Washington State University College Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, develops and fosters agriculture and natural resource management approaches that are economically viable, environmentally sound,...
Center for Alternative Technology is an environmental nonprofit that promotes sustainable living. Its key areas of work are renewable energy, environmental building, energy efficiency, organic growing and alternative sewage systems. The group offers workshops on alternative energy, including wind,...
This map, provided by the Alaska Geobotany Center, displays the vegetation and associated characteristics of the polar region. Information on bioclimatic zones, bedrock, surficial geology, acidity of parent material, soils, hydrology, and remotely-sensed vegetation classification is included in...
This webpage, produced by the Environmental Protection Agency, provides information about the agency's Acid Rain Program (ARP). The page is divided into four sections: Overview, Sulfur Dioxide Reductions, Nitrogen Oxide Reductions, and Applicability Determinations. Links for additional information...
Cleanup! is an educational software package that allows students to learn about hazardous waste site characterization and remediation. The software models a contamination scenario that students can experiment with and find solutions to the contamination problem.
In this two to three week module from InTeGrate, Interdisciplinary Teaching about Earth for a Sustainable Future, "students explore short-term climate variability resulting from atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions." Units in the module are Forecasting Climate Change Variability and Change, Deciphering...
This paper, published by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, explores some of the weaknesses of ocean models for climate prediction. The author discusses what role oceans play in the behavior of climate, reviews why models still do not precisely replicate the behavior...
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