The mission of Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) is to reduce the cost of government by advancing energy efficiency, water conservation and the use of solar and other renewable energy.

US Government

Energy Efficiency

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Field Museum of Natural History - The Office of Environmental and Conservation Programs (ECP)

established in 1995, to expand the Field Museum's research and education efforts in critical conservation biology issues.

Field Museum, Chicago, ILL

conservation biology issues.

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A list of software products that could be of interest to biologists who do fieldwork. Short info and links to further information, sometimes freely downloadable programs.

This Field Biology Software Checklist is a product of an informal Field Biology Software Workgroup

organization with biology software downloads

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has developed data collection software for a wide range of mobile computers. It is easy to use and flexible enough to collect almost any kind of information. Can you imagine doing data collection without pen & paper? How about defining your location using the Global Positioning System (GPS)?

FieldWorker Products Ltd.

Download demo software using Global Positioning System (GPS)

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from the the Environmental Scorecard site. Enter your zip code to find waste generating sites and information about the types and quantities of toxins released. The HazDat map presents the same kinds of information in greater detail. The map is a little difficult to navigate, but gives you usefully precise data: samples from ABC Drum's facility in Michigan contained 2.4 ppm of trichloroethane. (Look up fact sheets on toxic materials on this site too).

Environmental Defense Fund

toxic discharges in your area

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Legal Subjects: Environmental Law - the award winning World Wide Web site devoted to legal research and the legal community.

private website

environmental law directory

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the home of the finishing industry - for people around the world who have an interest in metal finishing and the allied surface finishing arts

private web site - no affiliations

finishing industry resources

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ESD personnel are developing a computer fire simulation, EMBYR, an Ecological Model for Burning the Yellowstone Region, to investigate the causes and consequences of large-scale fires like those that burned in Yellowstone National Park during 1988.

US Government Laboratory

Simulating Fire Patterns in Heterogeneous Landscapes

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US government

U.S. Forest Service

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First Aid & Safety Information

Wilderness Safety & Emergency Care Home Page

Outdoor Action Program at Princeton University

First Aid & Safety

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US government

mission to conserve, protect and enhance the nation's fish and wildlife and their habitats for the continuing benefit of people.

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newsgroup

fisheries

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a new work, being an English-language revision of the Flora Republicae Popularis Sinicae (FRPS), with taxonomy reflecting the current understanding of each group; botanical names, literature, geographical distribution inside and outside of China, and endemism status are available as an on-line checklist.

Harvard University

Flora of China

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a search engine developed by the Western Australian Herbarium, CALM, to provide up-to-date information on the names of Western Australian plants.

The Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) is the State Government agency responsible for the management of WA's national parks, conservation parks, marine parks, State forests and timber reserves, nature reserves, marine nature reserves, and all associated forest produce, native plants and animals.

Australian plants.

 

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serves as a catalyst for promoting best practices in community and facility design and usage. Early in 1999, FDI merged the best of its websites into one site -- The Florida Sustainable Communities Center.

Florida government

energy efficient buildings

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the largest natural history museum in the southern United States, holding more than 16,000,000 specimens of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, mollusks, butterflies, vertebrate and invertebrate fossils,

University of Florida Campus, Gainesville

museum

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Specific information systems and applications which have been developed by WAICENT in collaboration with a worldwide network, include the International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology (AGRIS) and the Current Agricultural Research Information System (CARIS).

United Nations

Food and Agriculture

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newsgroup

Food Science

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a Norwegian organization for the protection of the predators in Norway.

a nonprofit organization

protection of the predators in Norway

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Forestry Advisers Network (CFAN) of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

Website of the Forestry Advisers Network (CFAN) of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Its purpose is to stimulate thought on international forestry issues and to provide opportunity for Internet users to discover what development initiatives CIDA has taken to meet the challenges facing the world's forests.

Canadian International Development Agency

international forestry issues

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get several cups of coffee, lots of very big pictures before text

Japanese government

forestry

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CSU Fullerton, Biological Science Home Page

Forestry Ecology

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Finnish Forest Research Institute

Forestry Ecology

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To protect and enhance the forests and wildlife habitat of California through educational, legislative and electoral activities - Our current top priority is to save the Headwaters Forest from logging.

a [501(c)(3)] nonprofit organization

forests and wildlife habitat of California

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Since 1987, a premier software for analysis and modeling of heterogeneous and fractured rock masses containing discrete features such as faults, fractures, paleochannels, karsts, and stratigraphic contacts; a complete set of data analysis tools, geological, geometric, flow, and geomechanical simulators for a wide range of flow and transport projects.

Environmental B152Software Company

software for analysis and modeling of heterogeneous and fractured rock masses

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Freshwater and Marine Research

gopher

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private website, Ph.D. student - Australia

amphibians

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page you can find your community and astonishing details: quality indices for drinking water and wetlands, level of forest cover, pesticide and fertilizer runoff, soil permeability, superfund sites, etc.

US EPA -government

find your community - maps

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Future of Long-term Ecological Data (FLED), Ecological Society of America (ESA)

professional association

ecology status report

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