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Environmental Studies Program

Resources & Facilities: Environmental Links

There are an astounding number of internet resources catering to environmental interests. On this page, we list a few of the ones that we find to be especially important, interesting or informative for our interests and our location.

We have organized them by category, so scroll through this page to see what kinds of links we have provided. If you have any suggestions for links that you would like to see added to this site, or if you notice that any of these links are no longer current, please let us know.

MEGA-SITES

Envirolink, the Online Environmental Community
Institute for Global Communications
Green Net - Networking for the Environment, Peace, Human Rights and Development (European and Developing World focus)

GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS AND PROGRAMS: TEXAS

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Lower Colorado River Authority
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS AND PROGRAMS: INTERNATIONAL

United Nations Environment Programme
World Bank Environment Matters Page
Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service
United Nations Population Information Network

GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS AND PROGRAMS: FEDERAL
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Agency for International Development
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
Department of Energy

CAREER INFORMATION
Environmental Jobs and Careers
Wildlife and Fishery Jobs
Jobs in Sustainable Development
Environmental Employment Directory

ORGANIZATIONS: GENERAL
The Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory

ORGANIZATIONS: ACTIVIST League of Conservation Voters
Soil and Water Conservation Society
Natural Resources Defense Council
Sierra Club
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Greenpeace
Student Environmental Action Coalition
World Wildlife Fund
Earth First!
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
Social Ecology Project
Earth Island Institute
Environmental Defense Fund
Rainforest Action Network
National Audubon Society
National Wildlife Federation
The Nature Conservancy
World Resources Institute
Conservation International
Audubon International
National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Program
Rainforest Action Network
Center for Respect of Life and the Environment
National Religious Partnership for Life and the Environment
Christian Environmental Organizations
Indigenous Environmental Network
Union of Concerned Students
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish life

ORGANIZATIONS: TEXAS
Ecology Action in Austin
Texas Environmental Center
Austin Sierra Club home page

ORGANIZATIONS: PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Institute for Social Ecology
Ecological Society of America
International Association for the Study of Common Property
American Society for Environmental History
Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association
Center for Conservation Biology Network
Green Chemistry Institute

ORGANIZATIONS: OTHER
Earth Preservation Fund of the Ecotourism company, Journeys
Texas Organic Grower's Association

JOURNALS: ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Advances in Environmental Research
Environmental Management
Environmental Ethics
Cultural Ecology Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers
Left Green Perspectives (of the Social Ecology Project)
Journal of Political Ecology
The Ecologist
Conservation Biology
Ecology
Conservation Ecology

JOURNALS: NEWS PUBLICATIONS
CNN's Page for Environmental News
The Earth Times: Online News of the Environment, Politics, Society
The Electronic Green Journal
E Magazine online
eNet Digest

JOURNALS: ACTIVIST PUBLICATIONS
Earth First! magazine

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Farmworker's Website of the Sin Fronteras Organizing Project
Environmental Justice Resource Center
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
Univ. of Michigan's Environmental Justice Resource Center
Peoples of Color Environmental Groups Directory
Ecojustice Network
Greenaction, working for environmental justice in the U.S. Southwest
Environmental Inequality Bibliography

SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS
Brown University's listing of University Environmental Studies Programs
Second Nature
Williams College's Center for Environmental Studies
College of the Atlantic's Web Page (the whole school is environmentally focused)
Center for Environmental Philosophy at the University of North Texas
Boston Theological Institute Religion & Ecology
ACS Environmental Initiative

STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS
Institute for Central American Development Studies in Costa Rica

OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESOURCES
Environmental Education Link
Project Kaleidoscope

MISCELLANEOUS RESOURCES: INTERNET
Environet Center On-line sources for Environmental Industry Professionals
World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK

MISCELLANEOUS RESOURCES: OTHER
Ecological Footprints of Nations
Global Recycling Network
The Video Project: Educational Videos on the Environment, Human Rights

MISCELLANEOUS RESOURCES: PRINT
Washington State University's Sustainable Development Sourcebook
Environmental Organizations Web Directory--Publications
Eco Books on Ecological Literature and Criticism
Environment History Timeline Committee for the National Institute for the Environment, National Environmental Library