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Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) Environmental information including air pollution, hazardous waste, management, regulations, measuring, modeling, emissions, testing, monitoring, modeling.
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Build It Green Build It Green is a professional non-profit membership organization whose mission is to promote healthy, energy and resource-efficient buildings. Supported by a solid foundation of outreach and education, Build It Green connects consumers and building professionals with the tools and technical expertise they need to build quality green buildings. Build It Green fosters collaboration with key stakeholder groups to accelerate the adoption of green building practices, policies, and programs through its network of councils.
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Citizens’ Clearinghouse on Waste Management This web site will help you gain access to information on a wide-range of waste management issues. It is primarily intended for use by citizen activists and those concerned about how wastes are being handled in their community. This site is focused on waste issues in Ontario, but includes information from throughout the world so that we can benefit from findings elsewhere.
Clean Water Fund Clean Water Fund (CWF), based in Washington, DC, is a national nonprofit research and educational organization, with locally staffed environmental and health protection programs. Clean Water Fund’s mission is to develop strong grassroots environmental leadership and to bring together diverse constituencies to work cooperatively for changes that improve their lives, focused on health, consumer, environmental and community problems. Since 1978, Clean Water Fund has helped people campaign successfully for cleaner and safer water, cleaner air, and protection from toxic pollution in our homes, neighborhoods and workplaces. Organizations and coalitions formed and assisted by Clean Water Fund have worked together to improve environmental conditions, prevent or clean up health-threatening pollution in hundreds of communities and to strengthen policies locally and nationally.
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David Suzuki Foundation Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas – oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and the Nature Challenge – the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation.
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Electricity Choices Calculate your air quality impact. This site has been produced by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Largest autonomous agency within the United Nations system. Dedicated to raising levels of nutrition and standards of living, improving agricultural.
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Get Wise! At Getwise.org our goal is to help visitors learn ways to conserve water and energy by providing helpful savings tips, links to local resources, and well-designed products.
Global Water Global Water is an international, non-profit humanitarian organization focused on creating safe water supplies, sanitation facilities and related health programs for rural villagers in developing countries. We believe the lack of safe drinking and agricultural water and lack of access to sanitation facilities are the root causes of disease, hunger and poverty throughout the world today.
Greenpeace Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action. Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behavior, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.
Green Work Canada Welcome to the Green Work Canada database of Canadian conservation organizations. The Green Work Canada database features one of Canada’s largest — and still growing — conservation-based resource lists.
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International Space Station This site contains an ISS Overview, a section to which information about successive ISS missions will be added as the construction of the station proceeds, and sections on ISS Components and Structures, Systems, and Science.
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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Co-Development OECD – For a better world economy – Monitoring, analysing and forecasting. For more than 40 years, the OECD has been one of the world’s largest and most reliable sources of comparable statistics, and economic and social data. As well as collecting data, the OECD monitors trends, analyses and forecasts economic developments and researches social changes or evolving patterns in trade, environment, agriculture, technology, taxation and more.
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The Pembina Institute: Advancing Sustainable Energy Solutions The Pembina Institute provides policy research leadership and education on climate change, energy issues such as oilsands and coalbed methane.
Pollution Probe Pollution Probe is a Canadian charitable environmental organization that defines environmental problems through research, promotes understanding through education, and presses for practical solutions through advocacy.
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David Suzuki Foundation Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas – oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and the Nature Challenge – the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation.
Sierra Club of America The Sierra Club’s members and supporters are more than 1.3 million of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, we work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America’s oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.
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TecEco TecEco is an Australian-based environmental technology firm that is developing and using eco-cement that is sustainable, with 100% utilization, totally recyclable and would reduce global CO2 emissions in the order of 10% – 15%.
Tennessee Aquarium Home to more than 9,000 animals representing 575 species of fish, jellyfish, crustaceans, mussels, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, the Tennessee Aquarium tells the story of fresh water ecosystems. They follow the Tennessee River from it’s Appalachian beginnings through the swamp waters of the Mississippi River and into the Gulf of Mexico, making side trips to some of the world’s other great rivers.
Terra: The EOS (Earth Observing System) Flagship The flagship in NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS), Terra launched in December 1999 and began collecting science data on February 24, 2000.
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United Nations Global association of governments facilitating cooperation in international law, security, economic development, and social equity.
UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) UNDP is the UN’s global development network. Provides publications and special initiatives, full list of countries, and information on the Millennium.
UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization encourages international peace and universal respect by promoting collaboration among nations. Conducts studies, facilitates knowledge sharing, and develops…
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the voice for the environment in the United Nations system. It is an advocate, educator, catalyst.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Largest autonomous agency within the United Nations system. Dedicated to raising levels of nutrition and standards of living, improving agricultural.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Official site for UN Climate Secretariat: Kyoto protocol, COP4 in Buenos Aires, world emissions data.
United Nations Global Compact This is the homepage of the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiative.
UN-HABITAT Analyses and studies human settlement patterns, and develops methods for controlled settlement with the preservation of the environment in mind.
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Aims to improve the living conditions of people and promote global prosperity through offering tailor-made solutions for sustainable industry.
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The Wildlife Conservation Society The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild lands through careful science, international conservation, education, and the management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks. These activities change attitudes toward nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in sustainable interaction on both a local and a global scale. WCS is committed to this work because we believe it essential to the integrity of life on Earth.
World Wildlife Fund World Wildlife Fund’s ultimate goal is to build a future where people live in harmony with nature. WWF is a non-profit foundation with its Secretariat based in Gland, Switzerland. With almost 5 million supporters distributed throughout 5 continents, WWF has offices in over 90 countries and can safely claim to have played a major role in the evolution of the international conservation move.
