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From Environmental Technology

• • 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.