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INTERNET SITES WITH ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE
- The Information Center for the Environment (ICE), housed within the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis, is a research laboratory that focuses on the brokerage of environmental information for better decision making in regards to resource management and policy formation.
- The Argus Clearinghouse offers subject-oriented Internet guides covering Biodiversity, Conservation, Earth Science, Ecology and Environment.
http://www.clearinghouse.net.
- Envirolink is
a project of The EnviroLink Network, a non-profit organization which has been
providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.
- CEDAR (The Central European Environmental Data Request Facility) is a service provided by the International Society for Environmental Protection.
- EcoNET serves organizations and individuals who are working for environmental
preservation and sustainability. http://www.igc.org/home/econet/index.html.
- Yahoo Search Directory on Environment and Nature http://dir.yahoo.com/society_and_culture/environment_and_nature/.
- The Cygnus Group, contains information on packaging and waste reduction, including the newsletter The ULS Report (ULS
= Use Less Stuff) and The Center for
Informed Decision Making (CIDM).
- Galaxy is a search guide to worldwide
information and services. The
information is organized by topic, and can be searched. Areas of specific interest
might include Community Environment or Environmental
Law.
- The University of California at Santa Cruz's
search engine can be used to search for resources within the UCSC site. Additional environmental
resources at UC-SC and other sites can also be found at http://ic.ucsc.edu/~aschiffr/envs151/lienv-re.htm.
- The Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing is
a multi-disciplinary research and educational partnership between academia,
industry and government to develop linkages between manufacturing and design
and their environmental effects and to integrate engineering information, management
practices and government policy-making.
- The CLCV Legislative Environmental Scorecard rates California House and Senate representatives according to their voting records on critical environmental issues for the past year. http://www.ecovote.org/scorecards/scorecard-top.html.
- The State Environmental
Resource Center (SERC) researches state environmental policies and assembles information and tools to help legislators make important decisions on key environmental issues.
Usenet Groups:
- Discussions about Biosphere and general Ecology bit.listserv.biosph-l
- Discussions about Ecological research sci.bio.ecology
- Discussions about Energy and general science and technology. sci.energy
- Discussions about Environment and Ecology sci.environment
- General discussion on the Environment. talk.environment
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INTERNET SITES WITH ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES OF INTEREST TO GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND MANAGERS
Databases Found On and Off the Net:
- ENVIRONMENTAL/SAFETY LIBRARY is a comprehensive
collection of EPA, OSHA and DOT regulations and state regulations.
The database contains the full text of the following documents:
Public Law Administered by EPA, OSHA Act of 1970 (with
amendments, 29 CFR 1900-end (OSHA Regulations in their Entirety),
40 CFR (EPA Regulations in their entirety) 42 CFR 80-89 (OS&H
Research and related activity Regulations) 49 CFR 100-199 (DOT
Regulations on Transport of Hazardous Materials), Federal Register
Final, Interim, and Proposed Rules, notices and other data pertaining
to the CFR sections listed, including preambles from July 1, 1990
forward, and Industry Standards pertaining to OSHA and EPA.
Also
included with the service is a weekly newsletter highlighting
current and changing regulatory activity. The database may be ordered
on floppy diskettes and CD-ROM from MICROMEDEX, Inc.
- Sponsor:
Commercial
- System Developer: Information Handling Services,
Inc./Co-marketed by MICROMEDEX, Inc.
- Contact: John Logan: (800) 525-9083
- ENVIROTEXT (EnviroText Retrieval System) is a new U.S.
Government comprehensive environmental requirements on-line
database, containing Federal and State statutes (abstract and full-
text), Federal and State regulations (abstract and full-text), Federal
Register (full-text), Federal Executive Orders (full-text), status
of Congressional legislation, Federal interagency agreements,
National Oil and Hazardous Substance Pollution Contingency Plan
(full-text), National Register of Historical Places, Native American
Tribal Laws (full-text), Tribal Treaties (abstracts and full-text),
and International Treaties (abstracts and full-text).
The system
will also contain the EPA catalog of Superfund publications, ARARs
policy documents, environmental review/NEPA guidance, lists of
contacts in Federal and State agencies and Native American Tribal
Organizations, information about accessing other useful Federal data
systems, and a bulletin board for real-time communication.
- Sponsor: EPA, DOE, and U.S. Army
- System Developer: U. S. Army
Construction and Engineering Laboratory (USACERL)
- Contact: Cal Corbin (800) 872-2375
- CLU-IN (Cleanup Information Bulletin Board System) offers
access to information about innovative technologies and
environmental databases, as well as on-line consulting between
environmental professionals. Contains files that can be
downloaded to the user's PC, such as directories, databases, models,
and EPA documents. Designed to assist hazardous waste cleanup
professional in locating current events information about innovative
treatment technologies.
- Sponsor: EPA
- System Developer: Technology Innovation Office, EPA
- Contact: CLU-IN System Operator (301) 589-8368
- On-line Computer Access: (301) 589-8366
- REOPT (Electronic Encyclopedia of Remedial Action Options)
contains about 90
remediation technology descriptions developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest Laboratory, as well as applications and
regulatory
information for nearly 400 contaminants. ReOpt also gives
references for where more
information concerning a particular technology can be found. Each
profile contains a
flow diagram, description, engineering/designing parameters,
contaminant
applicability, data requirements, similar technologies, technical
restraints, regulatory
constraints, previous applications, etc. ReOpt is a commercialized
version of RAAS.
- Sponsor: DOE, EM-43
- System Developer: Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL)
- Contact: Janet Bryant (509) 375-3765
- PROTECH (Prospective Technology Communication System),
developed in support
of the DOE's Office of Technology Development (OTD), is a computer-
based
communication tool to describe innovative environmental cleanup
technologies. The
ProTech system contains information pertaining to six Integrated
Demonstration
Sites supported by the DOE OTD. Fact sheets on each technology
contain
evaluation criteria, including technical performance, cost, cleanup
time, ease of use,
regulatory acceptability, public acceptability, etc. Users can
compare technologies by
viewing any two of the evaluation criteria for the technologies on
the same screen.
- Sponsor: DOE, EM-50
- System Developer: Battelle Seattle Research Center
- Contact: Bill Noel (301) 903-7900
- ENVTRD (Environmental Technologies Remedial Actions Data
Exchange or
Envirotrade) is designed to facilitate the transfer/exchange of Environmental Management technologies for
domestic and international user groups (governments, industry,
academic-partnerships). User will be able to search the database and produce
ad-hoc reports
such as: available technologies for environmental restoration and
waste
management, status of a given technology, indexing technology
research sites, and
indexing restoration sites. The system supplies users with possible
matches
between worldwide site needs and technologies specific to their
queries.
- Sponsor: DOE, EM-50
- System Developer: Pacific Northwest Laboratory and
Sandia Laboratory
- Contact: Susan Johnson (301) 903-7930
- TECHNOLOGY PROFILE SYSTEM is a database and computer
information system obtaining worldwide information on the Department of Energy's Environmental Management activities and needs,
using existing
information and databases developed by others to the maximum
extent possible.
The system allows identification of Environmental Management activities and
technologies in a country
and associated technology needs, and allows matching needs to
technologies on a
worldwide basis.
- Sponsor: EM-50
- System Developer: Pacific Northwest Laboratory and SAIC
- Contact:
Don Alexander (301) 353-7954 or Sandi Marcum (301) 353-7949
- RAPIC (Remedial Action Program Information Center) database is
a bibliographic
database containing relevant technical information pertaining to
scientific, technical,
legal, regulatory, financial, and social aspects of environmental
restoration work.
Obtained from domestic and worldwide sources, documents covered
in the database
include technical reports, progress reports, journal articles,
conference papers,
symposia proceedings, theses, books, patents, legislation,
regulations, and The Department of Energy's (DOE)
orders. Each record in the database provides a bibliographic
citation, and abstract,
and number of indexing data fields. Indexing fields consist of key
words, subject
categories, and geographic descriptions of the site.
The database
currently contains
over 10,000 records encompassing all aspects of DOE's
environmental restoration
program. RAPIC's Home page can be reached at http://web.em.doe.gov/rapic/.
- Sponsor: Department of Energy
- System Developer: Martin Marietta Energy Systems
- RTIMS (Remedial Technology Information Management System)
contains
information on 156 technology process options within 36
technologies for
environmental restoration. Intended to assist RI/FS users in
selecting appropriate
remediation technologies for non-radioactive contaminants.
- Sponsor: U.S. Army
- System Developer: EBASCO Environmental
- Contact: Mark Besmer or Bryan Peters (303) 988-2202
- TECHNOLOGY CATALOGUE is an information catalog that features
various Department of Energy's
Environmental Management (EM) technologies. The
catalog will
help enhance the communication between developers and end users.
It features a concise 2-page format that describes performance data of EM-
support technologies.
- Sponsor: Department of Energy, EM-50
- System Developer: Sandia National Laboratories along
with Applied Sciences Laboratory, Inc.
- Contact: Joe Paladino (301) 903-7449
- DROLS (Defense Research Development Testing & Evaluation On-line System) provides on-line access to the Defense Technical Information Center's data collection of Department of Defense (DOD) research and technology efforts in progress. The system contains citations to DOD reports, and allows the user to identify, input, and order documents.
DROLS may be searched by subject, title, author, project, contract,
report numbers, and funding sources. The system actually accesses three databases, including the Research & Technology Report Database and the Independent Research and Development Database.
- Sponsor: Department of Defense Technical Information Center
- System Developer: Defense Technical Information Center
- Contact: Agnes Taylor (703) 274-7709
- RAAS (Remedial Action Assessment System) contains
information on environmental restoration technologies. This database, which is intended to support the RI/FS process, can be used alone or in conjunction with a knowledge-based system. This
system is intended to act as a human expert in guiding the user
through the process of selecting technologies suitable to a specific situation.
- Sponsor: Department of Energy, Environmental Management-43
- System Developer: Pacific Northwest Laboratories
- Contact: Mary Tolbert-Smith or Jim Buelt, (509) 376-3926
- ATTIC (The Alternative Treatment Technology Information
Center) is a collection of four databases accessed through an electronic Bulletin Board System. This includes the ATTIC database, RREL Treatability database, Technical Assistance database,
and a Calendar of Events.
Features include news items, bulletins,
computer files and a messaging system which allows user to communicate and
request advice from each other. There is a system operator for seeking help.
- Sponsor: EPA
- System Developer: Environmental Management Support
- Contact: Gary Turner (301) 670-6294
- On-line Computer Access: (301) 670-3808
- ETIS (Environmental Technical Information Service) is a 800
phone number service and knowledge-based information retrieval system.
- Sponsor: Department of Energy, Environmental Management-50
- System Developer: HAZWRAP
- Contact: Bill Noel: (301) 903-7900
- ITIS (Integrated Technical Information System) provides
access to DOE scientific and technical databases, information merging for customized information products, and electronic mail to act as a communication link among OSTI and other DOE and contractor offices. The system accesses the following databases: Energy Science
and Technology System (ESTS); Management Information File (MIF);
Report Holdings File (RHF); Research in Progress (RIP); Controlled Access
File (CAF); Minority Economic Impact (MEI); Nevada Nuclear Waste (NNW);
Energy Science and Technology Software (ESTS); Numeric Database Directory (NDB); Foreign Research in Progress (FRP); New Technology from DOE (NTD); and Nuclear Critical Safety (NCS). ITIS's Home page can be reached at http://artemis.osti.gov/focus/osti_iti.html.
- Sponsor: Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
- System Developer: DOE, OSTI
- Contact: ITIS Hotline: (615) 576-1222
- NTIS (National Technical Information System Bibliographic
Database) is the largest single source for public access to federally-produced information.
The database covers information on federally-generated machine-readable data files and software, U.S. government inventions available for licensing, reports on new technologies
developed by federal agencies, federally-generated translations, and
reports prepared by non-U.S. government-sponsored research. NTIS's Home page can be reached at http://www.ntis.gov/.
- Sponsor:
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Technical Information Center
- System Developer: NTIS
- Contact: Betty Van Epps (703) 603-8918
- OSTI (Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
maintains a database for all of the Department of Energy (DOE). The purpose of this database is to archive and
retrieve technical data, reports, journals, etc., generated by various
laboratories in the DOE complex. This system can be accessed remotely by DOE and contractors through modem. There are over a million technical reports archived
at OSTI.
This office provides an alternative to the National Technical Information Services (NTIS) for DOE and its contractors. Tracking Research in Progress (RIP) for the DOE is a
function of OSTI. DOE laboratories are required to provide
information to this office for include into the OSTI Database.
DOE Order 1430.1C, 2-27-92, Management of Scientific and Technical Information required that all DOE Department Elements and
DOE contractors involved in the creation of scientific and technical
information report all information used, developed, or accumulated to the Office of Technical Information (AD-21), Office of Information Resource Management. This DOE order outlines the various elements, responsibilities, forms, and software to be used. OSTI's Home page can be reached at http://www.osti.gov/.
- Sponsor: DOE, Office of Science and Technical Information
- Contact: Customer Service (615) 576-1288
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INTERNET SITES WITH ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES OF INTEREST TO SCIENTISTS
- The National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) contains links to over 300 federal government/agency home pages, as well as specific sublists for technology transfer resources, Requests for Proposals and "gateway" to information on environmental technology. A good one-stop shopping stop.
- The World Bank's site contains a searchable "Documents and Reports"
section. http://www-wds.worldbank.org.
- The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has established the Technology Information System (TIS) to help locate pertinent information on federal technologies and recent patents as well as locating requests for proposals.
- The North Carolina Department of Agriculture's Homepage lists various divisions of the department along with sections on news releases, facts and the North Carolina Board of Agriculture. http://www.agr.state.nc.us/
- The National Agricultural Library gives access to information on water quality, biotechnology, food and nutrition, farming systems, etc.
- The University of Iowa's Center
for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) promotes interdisciplinary research efforts focusing on the multiple aspects of global environmental change.
- Australia's Department of Environment provides world-wide geographically related data for environmental planning and decision making.
http://kaos.erin.gov.au.
- The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) is dedicated to making information available to a wide range of users--researchers, policy makers, and the general public.
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory Environmental
Sciences Division offers a series of articles in its electronic journal http://www.esd.ornl.gov/pubs/index.html.
- Rice University has a number of leads on Environmental information, especially for women.
- University of Texas at Dallas.
- The US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a collaborative effort among over 775 scientists and students and extends the opportunities and capabilities of the individual sites to promote synthesis and comparative research across sites and ecosystems, and among other related domestic and international research programs.
- The Center for Ecological Health Research is located at the University of California, Davis. It is one of four environmental research centers established in 1991 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (R819658 & R825433).
- Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS).
- Institute for Global Communications site is a launching point into
EcoNet, PeaceNet, WomensNet and AntiRacismNet. EcoNet covers issues such as global
warming, water quality, environmental education, energy policy.
Usenet Groups:
- Discussions about ecological research: sci.bio.ecology,
- Discussions about energy, science and technology: sci.energy
- Discussions about environment and ecology: sci.environment
- Discussions about spectroscopic techniques: sci.techniques.spectroscopy
Databases Found On and Off the Net:
- CLU-IN (Cleanup Information Bulletin Board System) offers
access to information about innovative technologies and
environmental databases, as well as on-line consulting between
environmental professionals. Contains files that can be
downloaded to the user's PC; such as directories, databases, models,
and EPA documents. Designed to assist hazardous waste cleanup
professional in locating current events information about innovative
treatment technologies.
- Sponsor: EPA
- System Developer: Technology
Innovation Office, EPA
- Contact: CLU-IN System Operator (301) 589-8368
- On-line Computer Access: (301) 589-8366
- REOPT (Electronic Encyclopedia of Remedial Action Options)
contains about 90
remediation technology descriptions developed at Pacific Northwest Laboratory, as well as applications and
regulatory
information for nearly 400 contaminants. ReOpt also gives
references where more
information can be found containing a particular technology. Each
profile contains a
flow diagram, description, engineering/designing parameters,
contaminant
applicability, data requirements, similar technologies, technical
restraints, regulatory
constraints, previous applications, etc. ReOpt is a commercialized
version of RAAS.
- Sponsor: DOE, EM-43
- System Developer: Pacific Northwest
Laboratory (PNL)
- Contact: Janet Bryant (509) 375-3765
- PROTECH (Prospective Technology Communication System),
developed in support
of the DOE's Office of Technology Development (OTD), is a computer-
based
communication tool to describe innovative environmental cleanup
technologies. The
ProTech system contains information pertaining to six Integrated
Demonstration
Sites supported by the DOE OTD. Fact sheets on each technology
contain
evaluation criteria, including technical performance, cost, cleanup
time, ease of use,
regulatory acceptability, public acceptability, etc. Users can
compare technologies by
viewing any two of the evaluation criteria for the technologies on
the same screen.
- Sponsor: DOE, EM-50
- System Developer: Battelle Seattle Research Center
- Contact: Bill Noel (301) 903-7900
- ENVTRD (Environmental Technologies Remedial Actions Data
Exchange or
Envirotrade) is designed to facilitate the transfer/exchange of EM
technologies for
domestic and international user groups (governments, industry,
academic-partnerships). User will be able to search the database and produce
ad-hoc reports
such as: available technologies for environmental restoration and
waste
management, status of a given technology, indexing technology
research sites, and
indexing restoration sites. The system supplies users with possible
matches
between worldwide site needs and technologies specific to their
queries.
- Sponsor: DOE, EM-50
- System Developer: Pacific Northwest Laboratory and
Sandia Laboratory
- Contact: Susan Johnson (301) 903-7930
- TECHNOLOGY PROFILE SYSTEM is a database and computer
information system obtaining worldwide information on Environmental Management activities and needs,
using existing
information and databases developed by others to the maximum
extent possible.
The system allows identification of Environmental Management activities and
technologies in a country
and associated technology needs, and allows matching needs to
technologies on a
worldwide basis.
- Sponsor: EM-50
- System Developer: Pacific Northwest Laboratory and SAIC
- Contact:
Don Alexander (301) 353-7954 or Sandi Marcum (301) 353-7949
- RAPIC (Remedial Action Program Information Center) database is
a bibliographic
database containing relevant technical information pertaining to
scientific, technical,
legal, regulatory, financial, and social aspects of environmental
restoration work.
Obtained from domestic and worldwide sources, documents covered
in the database
include technical reports, progress reports, journal articles,
conference papers,
symposia proceedings, theses, books, patents, legislation,
regulations, and DOE
orders. Each record in the database provides a bibliographic
citation, and abstract,
and number of indexing data fields. Indexing fields consist of key
words, subject
categories, and geographic descriptions of the site.
The database
currently contains
over 10,000 records encompassing all aspects of DOE's
environmental restoration
program. RAPIC's Home page can be reached at http://web.em.doe.gov/rapic/.
- Sponsor: Department of Energy
- System Developer: Martin Marietta Energy Systems
- RTIMS (Remedial Technology Information Management System)
contains
information on 156 technology process options within 36
technologies for
environmental restoration. Intended to assist RI/FS users in
selecting appropriate
remediation technologies for non-radioactive contaminants.
- Sponsor: U.S. Army
- System Developer: EBASCO Environmental
- Contact: Mark Besmer or Bryan Peters (303) 988-2202
- TECHNOLOGY CATALOGUE is an information catalog that features
various
Environmental Management technologies. The
catalog will
help enhance the communication between developers and end users.
It features a concise 2-page format that describes performance data of EM-
support technologies.
- Sponsor: DOE, EM-50
- System Developer: Sandia Nationals Labs along
with Applied Sciences Laboratory, Inc.
- Contact: Joe Paladino (301) 903-7449
- DROLS (Defense Research Development Testing & Evaluation On-line System) provides on-line access to the Defense Technical Information Center's data collection of DOD research and technology efforts in progress. The system contains citations to DOD reports, and allows the user to identify, input, and order documents.
DROLS may be searched by subject, title, author, project, contract,
report numbers, and funding sources. The system actually accesses three databases, including the Research & Technology Report Database and the Independent Research and Development Database.
- Sponsor: DOD Technical Information Center
- System Developer: Defense Technical Information Center
- Contact: Agnes Taylor (703) 274-7709
- RAAS (Remedial Action Assessment System) contains
information on environmental restoration technologies. This database, which is intended to support the RI/FS process, can be used alone or in conjunction with a knowledge-based system. This
system is intended to act as a human expert in guiding the user
through the process of selecting technologies suitable to a specific situation.
- Sponsor: DOE, EM-43
- System Developer: Pacific Northwest Laboratories
- Contact: Mary Tolbert-Smith or Jim Buelt, (509) 376-3926
- ATTIC (The Alternative Treatment Technology Information
Center) is a collection of four databases accessed through an electronic Bulletin Board System. This includes the ATTIC database, RREL Treatability database, Technical Assistance database,
and a Calendar of Events.
Features include news items, bulletins,
computer files and a messaging system which allows user to communicate and
request advice from each other. There is a system operator for seeking help.
- Sponsor: EPA. System
- Developer: Environmental Management Support
- Contact: Gary Turner (301) 670-6294
- On-line Computer Access: (301) 670-3808
- ETIS (Environmental Technical Information Service) is a 800
phone number service and knowledge-based information retrieval system.
- Sponsor: DOE, EM-50
- System Developer: HAZWRAP
- Contact: Bill Noel: (301) 903-7900
- ITIS (Integrated Technical Information System) provides
access to DOE scientific and technical databases, information merging for customized
information products, and electronic mail to act as a communication link among
OSTI and other DOE and contractor offices. The system accesses the following
databases: Energy Science and Technology System (ESTS); Management Information
File (MIF); Report Holdings File (RHF); Research in Progress (RIP); Controlled
Access File (CAF); Minority Economic Impact (MEI); Nevada Nuclear Waste (NNW);
Energy Science and Technology Software (ESTS); Numeric Database Directory (NDB);
Foreign Research in Progress (FRP); New Technology from DOE (NTD); and Nuclear
Critical Safety (NCS). ITIS's Home page can be reached at http://artemis.osti.gov/focus/osti_iti.html.
- Sponsor: DOE, Office of Scientific and
Technical Information (OSTI)
- System Developer: DOE, OSTI
- Contact: ITIS Hotline: (615) 576-1222
- NTIS (National Technical Information System Bibliographic
Database) is the largest single source for public access to federally-produced
information.
The database covers information on federally-generated machine-readable data
files and software, U.S. government inventions available for licensing, reports
on new technologies developed by federal agencies, federally-generated translations,
and reports prepared by non-U.S. government-sponsored research. NTIS's Home
page can be reached at http://www.ntis.gov/.
- Sponsor:
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Technical Information Center
- System Developer: NTIS
- Contact: Betty Van Epps (703) 603-8918
- OSTI (Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
maintains a database for all of the Department of Energy (DOE). The purpose
of this database is to archive and retrieve technical data, reports, journals,
etc., generated by various laboratories in the DOE complex. This system can
be accessed remotely by DOE and contractors through modem. There are over a
million technical reports archived at OSTI.
This office provides an alternative to the National Technical Information Services
(NTIS) for DOE and its contractors. Tracking Research in Progress (RIP) for
the DOE is a function of OSTI. DOE laboratories are required to provide
information to this office for include into the OSTI Database.
DOE Order 1430.1C, 2-27-92, Management of Scientific and Technical Information
required that all DOE Department Elements and DOE contractors involved in
the creation of scientific and technical information report all information
used, developed, or accumulated to the Office of Technical Information (AD-21),
Office of Information Resource Management. This DOE order outlines the various
elements, responsibilities, forms, and software to be used. OSTI's Home page
can be reached at http://www.osti.gov/.
- Sponsor: DOE, Office of Science and Technical Information
- Contact: Customer Service (615) 576-1288
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INTERNET SITES WITH ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES OF INTEREST TO EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS
- Students for Environmental
and Ecological Development (SEED).
- The Cygnus Group contains information on packaging and waste reduction, including
the newsletter The ULS Report (ULS
= Use Less Stuff) and The Center for
Informed Decision Making (CIDM).
- The Environmental News Network offers timely environmental news, daily feature stories, audio, video, interactive quizzes, polls and more.
- EE-Link is a participant in the Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP) of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), which is a network of professionals, students, and volunteers working in the field of environmental education throughout North America and in over 55 countries
around the world.
- Sierra Student Coalition is a resource for high school students who share concerns on environmental issues.
- Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) offers information about SEAC, a nationwide grassroots coalition of student and youth environmental groups.
- Science and Environmental Writing Program at Lehigh University provides information on topics of interest to science and environmental writers. http://www.lehigh.edu/~injrl/sciwrit/.
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INTERNET SITES WITH ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES OF INTEREST TO JOURNALISTS COVERING THE ENVIRONMENT
- Legislative information can be found at the Thomas
Legislative Information.
- Internet Meta-resources for journalists covering the environment (compiled by Bill Kovarik).http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/intl/envsources.html.
- International environmental training & information centers: Seminars & resources for journalists (compiled by Bill Kovarik). http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/intl/envtraining.html.
- Science and Environmental Writing Program at Lehigh University provides information on topics of interest to science and environmental writers. http://www.lehigh.edu/~injrl/sciwrit/.
- A wide variety of regional and national environmental information is available from Environment
Canada, including weather, regional and national programs, publications, frequently asked questions, regional experts' phone numbers, publications available to order, and documents covering biodiversity, ecoaction, state of the environment, pollution prevention and regulations.
- The Journalist's Toolbox features more than 20,000 Web resources helpful to the media and anyone else doing research.
- The National Press Club lists news sources.
- Society of Professional Journalists.
- The American Amateur Press Association is a nation-wide non-profit organization of amateur journalists founded in 1936.
- National Press Photographers Association.
- C-SPAN with schedules and resources.
- NewsLink has a number of listings of reference material available to journalists such as the Journalism Reference page at http://newslink.org/gref.html and a list of organizations at http://newslink.org/org.html.
- Studentpress.org has a media sourcebook for student journalists at http://www.studentpress.org/sourcebook/index.html.
- PR Newswire is a multi-lingual online news and information service.
- Journalistic Resources.
Usenet Groups:
- Discussions about general journalism topics alt.journalism
- Discussions about newspaper journalism, very sparse alt.journalism.newspapers
- Discussions about general journalism topics alt.news-media
- Discussions about print, very sparse alt.journalism.print
Bibliographies of Interest:
- Anders Hansen, Ed., The Mass Media and Environmental Issues
(St. Martins Press,
Scholarly & Reference Division, 257 Park Ave. South, New York, N.Y.
10010) Note
Examination copy price is $5.00.
- Craig L. LaMay, Everette E. Dennis, Media and the Environment,
Washington DC,
Island Press, 1991. Twenty one essays about media and the
environment. Authors
include now vp Albert Gore, also Mark Hatfield, Timmothy Wirth,
Sharon Friedman,
John Maxwell Hamilton, Jim Detjen, and others.
- Sharon Friedman, Reporting on the Environment, A Handbook for
Journalists, The
Asian Forum of Environmental Journalists, UN Environmental
Program, Bangkok,
Thailand. Excellent international overview. Second edition in press.
- Michael Keating, Covering the Environment: A Handbook on
Environmental
Journalism, National Roundtable on the Environment and the
Economy, 1 Nicholas
St., Suite 1500, Ottawa, Ontario K1N7B7 Canada. Source lists
focused on Canada,
excellent briefings on global problems, includes section on
sustainable development.
- Bill Kovarik, Roshi Pelaseyed, Nira Worcman, International
Environmental
Sourcebook, Center for Foreign Journalists, Reston, VA. Overviews of
environmental
issues and profiles of several hundred international sources. CFJ is
working on
reissuing the book.
Databases Found On and Off the Net:
- ENVIRONMENTAL/SAFETY LIBRARY is a comprehensive
collection of EPA, OSHA and DOT regulations and state regulations.
The database contains the full text of the following documents:
Public Law Administered by EPA, OSHA Act of 1970 (with
amendments, 29 CFR 1900-end (OSHA Regulations in their Entirety),
40 CFR (EPA Regulations in their entirety) 42 CFR 80-89 (OS&H
Research and related activity Regulations) 49 CFR 100-199 (DOT
Regulations on Transport of Hazardous Materials), Federal Register
Final, Interim, and Proposed Rules, notices and other data pertaining
to the CFR sections listed, including preambles from July 1, 1990
forward, and Industry Standards pertaining to OSHA and EPA. Also
included with the service is a weekly newsletter highlighting
current and changing regulatory activity. The database may be ordered
on floppy diskettes and CD-ROM from MICROMEDEX, Inc.
- Sponsor: Commercial
- System Developer: Information Handling Services, Inc./Co-marketed by MICROMEDEX, Inc.
- Contact: John Logan: (800) 525-9083
- (EnviroText Retrieval System) is a new U.S.
Government comprehensive environmental requirements on-line
database, containing Federal and State statutes (abstract and full-
text), Federal and State regulations (abstract and full-text), Federal
Register (full-text), Federal Executive Orders (full-text), status
of Congressional legislation, Federal interagency agreements,
National Oil and Hazardous Substance Pollution Contingency Plan
(full-text), National Register of Historical Places, Native American
Tribal Laws (full-text), Tribal Treaties (abstracts and full-text),
and International Treaties (abstracts and full-text).
The system
will also contain the EPA catalog of Superfund publications, ARARs
policy documents, environmental review/NEPA guidance, lists of
contacts in Federal and State agencies and Native American Tribal
Organizations, information about accessing other useful Federal data
systems, and a bulletin board for real-time communication.
- Sponsor: EPA, DOE, and U.S. Army
- System Developer: U. S. Army
Construction and Engineering Laboratory (USACERL)
- Contact: Cal Corbin (800) 872-2375
- RAPIC (Remedial Action Program Information Center) database is
a bibliographic
database containing relevant technical information pertaining to
scientific, technical,
legal, regulatory, financial, and social aspects of environmental
restoration work.
Obtained from domestic and worldwide sources, documents covered
in the database
include technical reports, progress reports, journal articles,
conference papers,
symposia proceedings, theses, books, patents, legislation,
regulations, and DOE
orders. Each record in the database provides a bibliographic
citation, and abstract,
and number of indexing data fields. Indexing fields consist of key
words, subject
categories, and geographic descriptions of the site.
The database
currently contains
over 10,000 records encompassing all aspects of DOE's
environmental restoration
program. RAPIC's Home page can be reached at http://web.em.doe.gov/rapic/.
- Sponsor: Department of Energy
- System Developer: Martin Marietta Energy Systems
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