Environmental Web Sites

Below are some environmentally-oriented institutional home pages and bulliten boards that we found interesting or helpful. Some of our observations about these web sites are included here as an introduction.

Today, there is some variability as to the quality and completeness of web sites in general. These are new components for most organizations and the identification and commitment of the resources needed to create and maintain web sites is challenging.

Please provide us your feedback about the pluses or minuses of the web sites linked below. Also, do you know of a web site that should be added to this list? If so, please submit your candidate web site on the feedback form for consideration.

National Institute for the Environment

http://www.cnie.org The National Institue for the Environment (NIE) is a proposal for a nonregulatory science Institute with a mission "to improve the scientific basis for making environmental decisions". This is an informative website about this proposal and the discussions surrounding it. The website includes the beginnings of the National Library for the Environment that you may find interesting and helpful.

Natural Resources Canada

http://www.NRCan.gc.ca This is the home page for Canada's federal natural resource agency. It provides paths to high level information about the organization and links to important things like libraries. A subject search capability is provided to help get the user into more organizational details.

MEND (Mining Environment Neutral Drainage)

http://www.NRCan.gc.ca/mets/mend The MEND organization home page guides you through MEND and also has a long list of links (55) to other mining-related web sites. This list includes 20 links to international sites.

Australian Minerals and Energy Environment Foundation

http://www.ameef.com.au The Australian Minerals and Energy Environment Foundation is an independent, non-political organization that promotes environmentally responsible resource development in Australia. There is a good links page on the site.

Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable

http://www.frtr.gov/frtr.html The Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable is a forum for joint activity regarding the development and demonstration of innovative technologies for hazardous waste site remediation. It has many links established to things like Cost/Performance and North American Technology Demonstration Projects.

EPA Office of Research and Development

http://www.epa.gov/ORD/BBS.html The Office of Research and Development has a very good home page and the address above gets you to its bulletin boards and databases page. From here you can get to a lot of what ORD provides.

EPA SITE Program

http://www.nttc.edu/env/demo_comp.html The Superfund Innovation Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program has documented the results of 216 demonstration and emerging technology projects. An introduction to the program and a listing of the projects, with links to documentation of project results, can be accessed at this web site.

Clean-up

http://clu-in.com Information Bulletin Board System (Clu-in). This is an EPA-maintained web site whose purpose is to provide guidance and electronic access to information about innovative treatment technology to the hazardous waste remediation community. It is very successful at doing this and is a good example of how powerful a good web site, in mostly a bulletin board mode, can be. It has many important links and seems to be well-maintained.

Global Network of Environment and Technology

http://www.gnet.org This bulletin board is sponsored by the Federal Energy Technology Center and DOE's Office of Science and Technology. It primarily reports (and provides links to) general environmental news.

Enviromine

http://www.enviromine.com This web site is maintained by Robertson Geoconsultants, Inc. out of their Vancouver, BC office. It is providing an information dissemination service with a goal of informing pr ofessionals and the interested public on environmental issues related to mining. It maintains a long list of links to relevant sites and supports online discussions on mining- related environmental issues. The Enviromine mailing list is being actively used by professionals around the world to solicit information from one another.

Last Modifed: Apr-29-99 12:04:35 am