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.
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 Council for Science
and the Environment
The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) has been
working since 1990 to improve the scientific basis for environmental
decisionmaking. NCSE is supported by nearly 500 academic, scientific,
environmental, and business organizations. The Council promotes a new
crosscutting approach to environmental science that integrates interdisciplinary
research; scientific assessment; communication of science-based information
to decisionmakers and the general public; and environmental education.
As a neutral science-based organization, NCSE promotes science and its
relationship with decisionmaking only, and does not take positions on
environmental issues themselves
Natural Resources Canada
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.
CANMET
Mining and Mineral Sciences Laboratories
The CANMET Mining and Mineral Sciences Laboratories (MMSL) are federal
government research laboratories within the CANMET Mineral Technology
Branch of Natural Resources Canada. CANMET-MMSL provides quality research
and sound scientific advice to the mining and minerals industries, and
to provincial/territorial and federal government departments involved
in promoting or regulating these industries.
Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable
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.
Clean-up
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
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
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.
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