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From Environmental Technology

Current revision as of 15:26, 2 February 2006

• • ecological footprint**

www.bestfootprintforward.com/footprintlife.htm On this web site you fill out a survey on things like; where you live, what kind of energy you use. After you fill out this information the site then estimate what your personal ecological footprint would be according to your answers.

• • renewable resources**

www.grrb.nt.ca/ This site is The Gwrich'in Renewable Resource Board [GRRB]. This is a program that works with communities in the GSA to make sure that renewable resouces are used in a sustainable way. They think that if people work together that resources will be available for future generations.

• • environmental sustainability**

www.hp.com/hpinfo/glogialcitizenship/environment/ This web site is a company called HP. HP is on the EPA. HP creates new hardware that can be recycled. The site says the HP boost the recycling rate by 17% in 2005 and that they have recycled 140 million pounds of hardware.

• • sustainable development**

www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/ This site tells what the governments approach is as far as sustainable development is concerned and the stradegy that they plan to use. It also shares info on what people can do in thier homes to help. It provides different funding programs that are available.

• • environmentalism**

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism This is basically an encyclopedia on the net. It explains that environmentalism is a social movement which seeks to influence the poltical process by lobbing, education,activism, and setting an example in order to protect natural resources and the ecosystem. It also tells what issues are concerns for the environment.

• • emission reduction credits**

www.fraqmd.org/ERCs.htm It explains what emission reduction credits are. It also explains what happens if a facility has too many credits.

• • environmental ethics**

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-environmental/ Here it tells what environmental ethics are and explains what topics are covered on this environmental ethics web site.

• • environmental inpact statement**

http://roadless.fs.fed.us/development/feis/ It states that the final EIS are divide into 4 volumes. You can view all 4 volumes from this web site for free.

• • Earth Day**

www.getgreen.com/atstore.html This web site says that you can save money while saving the world and in order to do this it gives different way to help the environmrnt.

• • Chernobyl**

www.chernobyl.co.uk/ Here it tells what happenend in the former USSR in 1986. It explains what the consequqnces were for the environment as well as the people.