Environmental Sites and Issues

Articles and Websites

Suggestions for a Green Christmas   http://www.modbee.com/life/yourhome/story/523391.html

Gifts that Help the planet  http://www.modbee.com/business/story/524995.html

Wind Power in Texas  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/business/23wind.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th

Oil and Gas Development in Western U.S. Facts from the Environmental Working Group

Strategy to Stabilize Greenhouse Gas Emissions  CMI Institute Flash Movie

United Nations Global Environmental Assessment GEO 4 site Check out the press release and video

U.S. Population Clock  http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html

Mountaintop removal - Coal mining at its worst  http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/multimedia/2007/09/gallery_mountaintop_mining?slide=1&slideView=2

Human - Elephant Conflicts: Elephants have complex societies; when we disrupt them, elephants and humans both suffer  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08elephant.html 

Effects of Pollution in China  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/08/26/world/asia/choking_on_growth.html#story3

More on the Effects of growth in China  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/08/26/world/asia/20070826_CHINA_GRAPHIC.html

Choking on Growth: Water Shortages in China  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/asia/28water.html

Cooperation between farmers and biologists  http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/51643.html

Ecological Footprint   http://www.footprintnetwork.org/index.php

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment   

Living beyond our Means    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15398149/ 

Global Warming and Polar Bears: some news stories and a poem

Ever wonder where all those lobsters at the restaurant come from?

    http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/04fal/redgold1.asp

The effect of paper companies on U.S. Forests

    http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/04win/cumberland1.asp

Climate Change and California

    http://www.ucsusa.org/publications/catalyst/fa04-catalyst-a-tale-of-two-futures.html

   series in the Modesto Bee

          http://www.modbee.com/local/story/12852914p-13536101c.html

          http://www.modbee.com/local/story/12858781p-13541808c.html

Who is sowing doubt about global warming, and why?

    Vanity Fair Article

State of US Ecosystems

    http://www.heinzctr.org/ecosystems/index.shtml

Economics and Environment  What's wrong with the GDP?

Which fish are safe to eat? http://www.environmentaldefense.org/documents/4966_fishflyer.pdf

    http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp

Organizations 

Ecological Farming Association - just what it sounds like

Environmental Defense - analysis and opinions on a wide range of issues

Union of Concerned Scientists- a good resource on all kinds of environmental issues

Natural Resource Defense Council- covers a wide variety of topics

Rocky Mountain Institute innovative design and energy conservation

Biodiversity and Extinction

Natureserve - a partnership of NGOs and govt agencies that collect and make available data on the state of biodiversity and ecosystems in North America

 California Habitat Recovery Plans  List of Plants and animals

Conservation  International Biodiversity Hotspots

Endangered orchids in Florida swamps: National Wildlife magazine article

Organization All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory  www.discoverlife.org

Geography Course Extinction web site

Number of Presumed Extinct Species By State

National Geographic Singapore Extinctions may show future of Asia

U.S. Fish And Wildlife Endangered Species Recovery Program

U.S. Geological Survey Extinctions on Guam 

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