Tag Archives: websites
Climate Change Conference Copenhagen — keeping track
The Telegraph Media Group Ltd. appears to be blogging or tweeting the issues from Copenhagen.
The public comments, so far, appear to be against reducing the rate of climate change.
For the RSS feed:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/rss
Environmental Resource — new website coming from Gale Pub.)
“GREENR: Your Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) is part of a new generation of online Gale resources offering authoritative content on the environment, energy and natural resources. Launching in June 2009, GREENR focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. Both interactive and current, GREENR allows users to navigate open Web-like issue, organization and country portals. A one-stop site, this resource provides news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics in highly accessible, visually-appealing research areas, covering relevant categories including energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population and economic development.
GREENR is coming in June!
Researchers: ask your librarian for more information.”
Some websites are listed here.
Incidentally, the federal government has some good websites relating to environmental issues: www.epa.gov,
www.nrel.gov,
www.usgs.gov,
www.energy.gov
Through GPOAccess, Environment links are here.
This page of environment, energy and agriculture information links for the public is obtained via USA.gov.
Renewable Energy — website & business note
RenewableEnergyAccess.com is “a leading online-only publication and business-to-business (B2B) community for renewable energy”. Even though, PennWell Corporation, a business-to-business (B2B) publishing corporation, has become the major owner of the website, its founders, Jim Callahan and Oliver Strube will continue to direct operations.
“RenewableEnergyAccess.com serves 50,000 registered readers by providing comprehensive industry information and insight with its daily news, weekly podcasts, and regular columns and interviews. The site covers finance, policy, and technology for renewable energies including solar power, wind power, biomass and biofuels, geothermal, hydrogen/fuel cells, and hydropower.”
Princeton University has most of the journals listed in the extended entry. However, as always, if anyone needs an article we don’t own, Interlibrary Loan or Document Delivery is encouraged.
Intute Environment Gateway
From their “About” page:
“Intute is a free online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research. All material is evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists to create the Intute database.
The Intute database makes it possible to discover the best and most relevant resources in one easily accessible place. You can explore and discover trusted information, assured that it has been evaluated by specialists for its quality and relevance.”
They have organized the pages by very broad subject areas: Health & Life Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Science Engineering & Technology Environment has recently gained separate category status: Intute Environment Gateway
EnvironmentalResearchWeb
Environmentalresearchweb is a community website maintained by IOP, the Institute of Physics for Science, Policy and Engagement. It offers departments on: Opinion, Research, Sustainable Futures, Journals, Jobs, Resources, Companies, and Events.
The IOP is an highly-respected British institution.
EPA has revised its Library Network Website
The EPA has revised its Library Network Website
Note that they are asking for advice about their future direction.
News updates about the EPA libraries can be seen from this site, too.
Environmental Science & Technology links via ACS
The American Chemical Society through its journal, Environmental Science & Technology Online has collected links with — and without — descriptions for the following topics: Air, Bioaccumulative & Toxic Chemicals, Biotechnology, Career, Climate Change, Energy, Green Chemistry, Groundwater, Land & Forests, Policy, Remediation, Risk Assessment, Sustainable Development, Technology, and Water.