Pollution Prevention
Carbon Watch
The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN)
Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, DC) and the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam)
SEEN works in partnership with citizens groups globally on environment and development issues with a particular focus on
climate change, human rights, energy, gender equity, and economic issues. SEEN also provides information resources to a
global network of citizens groups, non-governmental organizations, government officials, and the media. SEEN's research
focuses on investments made by international financial institutions and government agencies in developing countries and
economies in transition as well as in economically disadvantaged regions of the U.S. "Carbon Watch" is the Sustainable
Energy and Economy Network's bulletin on fossil fuel projects in the "pipeline" not yet approved by the directors of
development lending institutions like the World Bank. This bulletin is intended to give activists around the world
basic information about energy issues in developing countries. In English.
http://www.seen.org/
Central and Eastern European Consumption and Production Patterns Network, Common Policy and Action Plan.
http://www.ljudmila.org/retina/umanotera/budim/projekt2.htm//www.ljudmila.org/
Centre for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment (CESSE)
The CESSE devotes its activities to the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of economic-environmental interactions.
Research carried out concerns mainly the following areas: indicators of sustainable development; environmental metadatabase;
damage cost to the environment and health (externalities); study of mobility and its impacts; cost-benefit analysis,
the cost-effectiveness analysis, etc.
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/
GDAE - The Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University
The Global Development And Environment Institute (G-DAE) is a research institute
at Tufts University dedicated to promoting a new understanding of how societies
can pursue their economic goals in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner.
http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae
Emergency Response Notification System (ERNS)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
A database used to store information on notifications of oil discharges and hazardous substances releases. Information about ERNS,
links to ERNS database, including instructions, quick facts and customized searches.
http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/erns/epa.html
Industrial Pollution Projection System, The
World Bank - NIPR
Read about how to use IPPS in "Estimating Pollution". Get the IPPS coefficients which estimate the amount of a specific
pollutant by sector given some indicator of scale of production. Get sample country data. This is not real data, but is
useful for experimenting with IPPS and manages the description in "Estimating Pollution Load".
http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/ipps/index.htm
International Society for the Environmental and Technical Implications of
Construction with Alternative Materials (ISCOWA), The
ISCOWA is an international, non-profit organization formed to promote and coordinate
the exchange of information regarding the environmental and technical aspects of
construction with industrial by-products. Industrial by-products include residues
from industrial processes, such as flue gas desulphurisation sludge, metallurgical
slags, power plant, and municipal and hazardous waste incinerator fly ashes,
bottom ashes, foundry sand, blasting grit, mine tailings, as well as demolition wastes,
soils contaminated by industrial activities, and stabilized or treated residues and
soils, etc. ISCOWA members are involved with the utilization of these alternative
materials in construction applications, such as fill, roadbase, cement, concrete,
ceramic products, roofing materials, etc.. Contains News, General information on
ISCOWA, Conferences, Working Groups, and Jobs and Business Opportunities.
http://www.iscowa.org/
International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), The
ISWA's objective is the maximum exchange of information and experience world-wide on all
aspects of solid waste management. Substantive themes are addressed by ISWA Working
Groups: Biological Treatment of Waste, Collection & Transportation Technology,
Hazardous Waste, Health Care Waste, Legal Issues, Recycling & Waste Minimisation,
Sanitary Landfill, Sewage & Water Works Sludge, Communication & Social Issues,
Thermal Treatment, Economic Analyses for Sustainable Development, Developing Country Issues.
http://www.iswa.org/
Office of Response and Restoration/ Query Manager
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / National Ocean Service
Tools and information for emergency responders and planners, and others working to understand and mitigate the effects of oil
and hazardous materials in U.S. waters and coastslines. Includes Query Manager, a database program, developed by NOAA's Office of
Response and Restoration, that can be used to access sediment chemistry (surface and subsurface), sediment toxicity, and tissue
chemistry data from the relational database for individual watersheds. The selected data can be immediately displayed on maps
using MARPLOT and/or the output tables from the queries can be saved in a variety of formats for use with other mapping
software (e.g., ArcView) or other applications (e.g., spreadsheets, statistics packages, word processors).
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/cpr/watershed/watershedtools.html
Office of Transportation and Air Quality
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Information on Emission Sources & Controls for:
-- Automobiles
-- Heavy Trucks/Buses
-- Industrial Equip.
-- Lawn & Rec. Equip.
-- Marine Engines
-- Locomotives
-- Aircraft
-- Fuels
-- Transportation
Also contains links to Vehicle & Engine Emission Modeling Software
(MOBILE6, MOBILE5, PART5, NONROAD...).
http://www.epa.gov/oms/
Pollution Prevention Information Clearinghouse
U.S. Department of Energy
Providing a centralized source of U.S. DOE Pollution Prevention Information and assisting with valuable P2 resources outside of the DOE.
http://epic.er.doe.gov/epic
Taiwan Environmental Action Network (TEAN)
TEAN strives to increase Taiwan's involvement in international efforts on diverse environmental issues. TEAN collects
first-hand information to assist the Taiwanese society in moving toward sustainable development. Among its programs, TEAN
supports Basel Action Network's campaign to curtail Formosa Plastic's export of mercury waste from Cambodia to California,
and the Radiation Safety and Protection Association Taiwan, the Radiation Victims' Association Taiwan, Medical Professional
Alliance in Taiwan, Taiwan Environmental Protection Union and other environmental groups, aiming to solve nuclear nightmare
in Taiwan. With information on Animal Rights, Anti - Nuclear / Nuclear Wastes / Radioactively Contaminated Buildings,
Climate Change / Energy, Endangered species, Forestry, High-tech Expansion, Indigenous Communities and Biodiversity,
Ocean / Coastal Wetlands, Transportation of Hazardous Waste, and Water / Dams. With news archive and articles.
In English and Mandarin.
http://tean.formosa.org/
TRUSTNET
TRUSTNET Secretariat (Paris)
TRUSTNET is a pluralistic and interdisciplinary European network involved in the field of Risk Governance. The objective of
TRUSTNET is to contribute to the quality of the decision-making processes within the governance of hazardous activities in
Europe. TRUSTNET is assessing the emerging concepts and experiences (precautionary principle, pluralistic expertise,
decentralisation of risk management,?) as well as the innovative institutional arrangements (agencies, stakeholder
participation, citizen conferences,?) that may enhance the quality, the legitimacy and the practicability of the
decision-making processes on risk. The TRUSTNET steering committee involves representatives of major organisations
dealing with risk governance, among them European national regulatory bodies and representatives of the European
Commission. The site contains cases studies that address potential risks from magnetic fields, nuclear power,
pharmaceuticals, and riverine flooding, Agenda 21 implementation, chemical facility siting and management, the
Dunkerque Conurbation, GMO Maize, among other topics. With a Glossary of Risk Goverance topics. In English.
http://www.trustnetgovernance.com/
VendInfo
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Vendor Information search page, a repository of more than 400 listings of pollution prevention equipment, products, or services.
This page allows you to find listings using a free text method, or by selecting from the various equipment categories.
http://es.epa.gov/vendors/
Vocational Training for Women in Eco-Design for Industry
European Union Employment Initiative
TECQ is a training initiative with links with people across Europe.
The TECQ Project employs Eco-Design principles to it own web site.
http://www.tecq.com/