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Agriculture

National Agricultural Library - USDA     
American Farmland Trust

Agriculture, Sustainable

Agricultural Research Service
Eastern Native Seed Conservancy
Land Institute
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Leopold Education Project
Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
Preparing Agriculture for a Changing World, ARS, USDA
Sustainable Agriculture Network 
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Air & Air Pollution

AIRNOW - Real Time Air Pollution Data - EPA
Clearing our View of Smog - 9/5/99 - Christian Science Monitor
EPA's Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Home Page
PureAir Controls - IAQ Screen Test
Acid Rain and GIS Resources - Bellingham Public schools, WA

Bioconcentration

Bioconcentration of radium in Florida lakes

Brownfields

Brownfields Homepage, Office of solid Waste & Emergency Response - EPA

Climate Change

Climate change, International Sites

Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC
IISD Linkages - Information on UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Climate Change, U.S. Government Sonsored Sites

Global Warming Site, EPA
Global Ice & Global Change, NASA
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
Climate Change Integrated Assessment Modeling, CIESIN
 
US Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) provides access to data and information on global environmental change research, adaptation/mitigation strategies and technologies, and global change related educational resources on behalf of the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and its participating Federal Agencies and Organizations

Climate Change, Other Sites

Climate Change and Human Health Integrated Assessment Web
Global Warming 1998 Draft U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory — Recent Trends
High CO2 produces less nutritious plants, ENN Daily News - 8/18/98
New Mexico State University Climate Center
Past climate-elgygytgyn lake- siberia- sediment cores
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Society for Amateur Scientists
Antarctic Warming - Early Signs Of Global Climate Change - Greenpeace
Weathervane - A Digital Forum on Global Climate Policy
WWF - Global Warming

Endangered species

Endangered Species Home Page, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services
Maine Dept. of Conservation, Rare, Threatened and Endangered Plants
Non game Wildlife Species Specific Information - Kirtland's Warbler
Kirtland's Warbler Tour Information
Ottawa Nat'l. Forest- Plant Inventory
Summary of Changes to Michigan's Endangered Species List
U.S. Listed Flowering Plant Species by Region and Status, USFWS
Virginia Natural Heritage Program, Rare Plants and Animals

Endangered Species, Butterflies

Karner blue & lupine- gis in mich
Karner Blue Butterfly Great Lakes Science Center
Karner Blue Butterfly, CEI, CPC Case Study
Karner Blue Butterfly, USFWS
Karner Blue- Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources
Town of Wilton Boosts Karner Blues
U.S.Listed Butterflies

Earth day

Earth Day 2000 Online, Envriolink
Earth Day, Wilderness Society
Earth Day Home Page- Canada
Earth Day Information, National Center for Public Policy Research
Earth Day Network
Secretary Albright on Earth Day 1998

Energy

CMS Energy Corporation
Consumers Energy Ludington Pumped Storage Plant

Consumers Energy 
Detroit Edison
DTE Energy
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN)
Energy Star
GeoExchange Information Center Michcon, a natural part of your world
Michigan Energy Resources Division
NWF Campus Ecology - Green Investment, Green Return Report
Rocky Mountain Institute
Schatz Energy Research Center (SERC)
Solstice Sustainable Energy and Development Online
States get $1.4 million for renewable energy, ENN Daily News - 8/14/98
Urban Options - Lansing, MI

Energy, Alternative fuels

Biodiesel- National Biodiesel Board
Duo holds key to mainstream biodiesel, ENN Daily News - 3/11/99

Great Lakes Regoinal Biomass Energy Program Homepage
Vegetable Oil-Powered Veggie Van Web Site

Environmental Law

Michigan Environmental Law Deskbook Contents
Michigan-Laws, Regulations, and Court Decisions
EnvironmentalTreaties and Resource Indicators

Environmental Online Newsletters

Discovery Channel Online
ENN - Environmental News Network

EnviroLink

GNET, Global Network of Environment & Technology

MSNBC Environment News

Science News Online - The Weekly Newsmagazine of Science
The Daily Planet- Links to World Environmental Reporting

Environmental Organizations

Environmental Defense Fund WorldWide
Environmental Organization WebDirectory
Friends of the Rouge
Great Lakes Radio Consortium
INFORM, Inc.
Little Traverse Conservancy
MAEP - Michigan Assoc. of Environmental Professionals
Michigan Botanical Club
Michigan United Conservation Clubs
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Natural Resources Defense Council
Orion Society
Second Nature - Education for Sustainability
Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
Sierra Club Huron Valley Group
Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy

Environmental programs- colleges

Environmental Jobs and Careers
Environmental Programs at Albion College
Environmenta Studies at Oberlin

Great lakes

CIESIN Center for International Earth Science Information Network
Conservation of Biological Diversity in the Great Lakes Ecosystem - EPA
Council of Great Lakes Governors
Digest of Federal Resource Laws- Great Lakes Fishery Act of 1956 USRWS
Effects of Great Lakes Basin Environmental Contaminants on Human Health
Great Lakes Coast Watch - NOAA
Great Lakes Commission
Great Lakes Ecological Assessment - USFS
Great Lakes Environmental Directory
Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Great Lakes Fishery Trust
Great Lakes Forecasting System
Great Lakes Forest Information Center
Great Lakes Geographer
Great Lakes Information Management Resource - GLIMR - Environment Canada
Great Lakes Information Network
Great Lakes Links
Great Lakes NationalProgram Office - USEPA
Great Lakes Protection Fund
Great Lakes Science Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USGS
Great Lakes Sea Grant Coastwatch
Great Lakes Shipping Photo Gallery
Great Lakes signal great shift in seasonal changes - 6-13-2000 - ENN
Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network - Great lakes Basin
International Association for Great Lakes Research
International Joint Commission
Lake Michigan Forum
National Wildlife Federation - Great Lakes Office
North Temperate Lakes LTER - Spatial Data Catalog
Office of the Great Lakes - Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality
Pollution Prevention in the Great Lakes Region
Save the Dunes Council, Inc.
Sea Grant Institute - University of Wisconsin
State of the Great Lakes - GLIMR
Upper Midwest Regional Earth Sciences Application Center

Fishery

Great Lakes Fishery Trust Web Site
Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Consumption Advisories - EPA
Great Lakes Sport Fishing Council
Consumers Energy Ludington Pumped Storage Plant
Great lakes Fishery Trust Awards - NWF
Great Lakes Science Center - Commercial Fishery Statistics
Great Lakes Fishery Act of 1956 - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Supplementary Fish Consumption Advisory for Michigan's Great Lakes Waters - 1997 - EPA
Fish of the Great Lakes by Wisconsin Sea Grant

 

Great Lakes, Fish Advisories

Consumption Advisories - Office of Water - EPA
How did the Toxins get into the Trout? Natl. Wildlife Federation
Supplementary Fish Consumption Advisory for Michigan's Great Lakes Waters- 1997
Michigan 2000 Fish Advisory

Land Use

British columbia LUCO-GIS - land use coord. office GIS
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
Historical land cover changes in Great Lakes Region LUHNA Pilot Project

Land Use Planning

Michigan Land Use Institute
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development- Land Use Planning Strategies
Urban Land Institute

Leopold, Aldo

Aldo Leopold Foundation
Aldo Leopold Lecture Series, Oregon State Univ
Aldo Leopold Presentations
Aldo Leopold, Excerpts from the Works of
Big Eastern The Edge of the Prairie- About Aldo Leopold
Callicott -- The Land Ethic Dynamized
Leopold Center for Sustainalbe Agriculture
Leopold Education Project
NWF View Aldo Leopold's Enduring Legacy
Outdoors Library
Reflections - Aug. 1998, Aldo Leopold. A Critical Celebration of his Land Ethic

Michigan

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Ozone

Ozone Action Days - EPA Region 5
Ozone Action! - SEMCOG
Ozone Hole Tour Home Page
Ozone inhibits plants' ability to breathe, ENN Daily News -- 12-8-1999
Ozone Secretariat - The Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer
WEST MICHIGAN CLEAN AIR COALITION
Ozone Action Homepage, MI DEQ

PBB

Britannica Search PBB
Brominated Flame Retardants and Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) - An Industry Perspective June 1999
Cancer among a Michigan Cohort exposed to PBB's in 1973. Epidemeology 1998
Concentration of flame retardent in human adipose tissue & risk of non-hodgkin's lymphoma- 1998
Gratiot County Colf Course, EPA Fact Sheet
Gratiot County landfill, EPA Fact Sheet
Inhibition of Gap Junctional Intercellular Communication in Normal Human Breast Epithelial Cells after Treatment with Pesticides, PCBs, and PBBs, Alone or in Mixtures Feb 1996 - Environmental Health Perspectives
Preliminary List of Chemicals Associated With Endocrine System Effects in Animals and Humans (*) or In Vitro 10/26/1996 - Illinois EPA
Michigan PBB Cohort 20 Years Later - Endocrine Disruption - EPA
PBB, Chemical of the Month. Prop 65 News, September 1994, Vol 8, No. 9
PBB's, PCB's & dioxins in food animals - public health implications-1999
Polybrominated Biphenyl Mixture (Firemaster FF-1)
Profiles of Great Lakes Critical Pollutants; a sentinel analysis of human blood and urine. 1998
Still Dumping After All These Years - Vesicol Chemical - Mother Jones - 11/11/97
Vesicol Chemical Corporation (Michigan Chemical Corp.), EPA Fact Sheet
Half-life of Polybrominated Biphenyl in Human Sera. Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 103, Number 3, March 1995
Polybrominated Biphenyls - Bureau of Laboratories - State of Michigan

PCB's

PCB Bookmark
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) ATSDR - ToxFAQs
Saginaw Saga - PCB settlement a model of environmental repair
Why? - MotherJones Interactive Daily News

Permaculture

Animal Farm Permaculture Center
Bay Area Permaculture Group
Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
Cross Timbers Permaculture Institute
Eastern Permaculture Teachers Association
Ecological Engineering and Sustainable Strategies
Heathcote Intentional Community and Permaculture Demonstration Site
InterGarden(c) - Organic Agriculture, Farmscaping, Permaculture and Bioregionalism
Introduction to Permaculture Concepts and Resources - Alternative Farming Systems
Permaculture Connection - Mama Gaia
Permaculture Hot Spots
Permaculture International Journal
Permaculture Internet Resources
Permaculture Research Institute - Australia
Permaculture Resources at CSF
Permaculture Magazine - U.K.
Permaculture Association - Britain
Rodale Research Center

Pesticides

Pesticide Information on National Wildlife Refuges USFWS

Pollution

ATSDR - PHA - Lower Ecorse Creek Dump, Wyandotte, Wayne County, Michigan
Contaminant Information Management and Analysis System (CIMAS)- Division of Environmental Contaminants - USFWS
National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education
Pollution Prevention in the Great Lakes Region
Related Pollution Prevention Homepages
Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project

Pollution, Air, Ozone

Ozone inhibits plants' ability to breathe 12/8/99 ENN Daily News
Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer

Recycling

Michigan Recycling Sites - MDEQ-EAD
Recycler's World 
Resource Recovery & Recycling Authority of Southwest Oakland County

Risk Assessment

Chemical Sampling Information - OSHA
Studies Under Way To Assess Environmental Exposures and Risk of Breast Cancer

Rouge River, Michigan

Friends of the Rouge  
Practical and Cost-Effective Watershed Management Conference - May 3, 1996, Livonia, Michigan
Resources of the Rouge River, City of Livonia
Real-time data for USGS 04167150 MIDDLE RIVER ROUGE AT DEARBORN HEIGHTS, MI
Rouge River - Area of Concern
Rouge River Bird Observatory - University of Michigan-Dearborn
Rouge River - Water Quality Online
Rouge River Wet Weather Demonstration Project
Surf Your Watershed - Detroit
Water Quality Studies - Math Science Center - SE Michigan
Water Science for Schools - USGS water information
Water Links We Like
USGS Water Resources of Michigan Home Page

Benthic macroinvertebrates

Benthic Macroinvertebrate Page
Practice Samples - macroinvetrebrates
Aquatic Macroinvertebrate identification Key
SOS Stream Study
Major Stream Invertebrates
Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Access Excellence
Freshwater Benthic Ecology
Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Clean Waters - EPA

Sustainability

Biosphere 2 Center
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development_ Land Use Planning Strategies
Greening of the White House
Linkages - A Multimedia Resource for Environment & Development Policy Makers
National Sustainable Buildings Workshop at CSS
President's Council on Sustainable Development
Second Nature--Starfish
SUNetwork - Sustainable USA Network
National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America - Detroit, MI May 1999 
National Town Meeting for a Sustainable American - PR Newswire

Toxicology

Institute for Environmental Toxicology - Michigan State University

Ultraviolet Radiation

Ultraviolet Interactive Service - provides on-screen visualization of hourly, daily, and monthly-averaged ultraviolet radiation dose quantities and corresponding total column ozone values from TOMS
Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health Project - The purpose of this site is to provide data and resources in the areas of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, ozone, and human health impacts of UV exposure for use by researchers, educators, government officials, health providers, students, and the general public.

Value of the Earth

Bridging Economics & Ecology -Nature- feature of the week- Oct. 1, 1998
Costing the Earth when ecology meets economics- Nature, Oct. 1, 1998
How economists see the environment - Nature- Oct. 1, 1998
Paying Off Mother Nature
The value of the World's Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital - PDF format
The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital

Waste

Waste Information & Management Services, Inc.

Waste, Hazardous

Effects of Great Lakes Basin Environmental Contaminants on Human Health
Hazardous waste -Mich Admin code R299.9203
Institute for Environmental Toxicology, Michigan State University
MERCK MANUAL - POISONING;Symptoms  
Superfund sites, EPA

National Priority List Sites in Michigan

Water

Drinking Water and Health Contaminant - PCB's - Specific Technical Factsheets
EPA's Office of Water Homepage
Federal Noxious Weed Act
Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Huron River Watershed Council
Huron River, MI
MDNR- Surface Water Quality Main Page
Michigan's Water Quality Trading Program Initiative
Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, EPA
Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project
Surf Your Watershed - Michigan
Surf Your Watershed - Detroit
Year of the Ocean 1998

Water

Drinking Water and Health Contaminant Specific Technical Factsheets
Federal Noxious Weed Act
GREEN's Home Page
Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water -EPA
Master Water Data Index - USGS
Office of Water - EPA
Year of the Ocean 1998
UN promoting process to clean water - 3-22-2001 - ENN
Journal of Environmental Engineering Online
National Rural Water Association
Michigan Rural Water Association home page
National Ground Water Association Front Page
Study finds animal feces a major urban water polluter, ENN -11 Dec 1999
National Ground Water Association
NGWA For the Public
Cadillac Desert Home Page -PBS
Index of Watershed Indicators - EPA
GREEN
 

Michigan

ROUGE RIVER - AOC
Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project
Detroit --04090004 - Surf Your Watershed -- Watershed Information --
Huron River Watershed Council
Huron River, MI
Institute of Water Research- Michigan State University
Lower Rouge River Water Quality Monitoring - Adopt Your Watershed
Surface Water Quality Division - MDNR
Michigan's Water Quality Trading Program Initiative - MDEQ
Water Quality Data Access System - MSU
Health Hazards from Groundwater Contaminations- Publications-Michigan State University
Southeast Michigan Initiative
Hillsdale-Lenawee-Monroe Mathematics, Science & Technology Center
Rouge River Wet Weather Demonstration Project
USGS Water Resources of Michigan Home Page
Real-time data for USGS 04167150 MIDDLE RIVER ROUGE AT DEARBORN HEIGHTS, MI

Rivers

Detroit River - American Heritage Rivers
Detroit Heritage River Home Page
Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project
Lower Ecorse Creek Dump, Wyandotte, Wayne County, MI - ATSDR - Public Health Assesment
American Heritage Rivers
Global Rivers Environmental Education Network
Institute for River Research International
Lower Rouge River Water Quality Monitoring - Adopt Your Watershed
ROUGE RIVER - AOC
Huron River Watershed Council
Huron River, MI

 

Weather & climate

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration Home Page 

Web page examples

Mallorn Plant of the Month Dodecatheon meadia
Mallorn Plant of the Month Silphium perfoliatum
PhotoDisc Royalty-free Digital Stock Photography
Wetland Plants- white cedar
Wildflower Nirvana - Midwestern United States Prairie Plants