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Envirolinks
Here is a list of environmental internet
sites we have compiled. If there are any sites you think we should add,
or any of the links do not work, please contact
us.
Australian
Government
| Environment Groups and Organisations
| Teaching and Research Institutions
| Legal
International
Environment
Centres | Environment Agencies
and Organisations
Miscellaneous
Campus
and Curriculum Greening | Agreements
on the Environment | Environment
Information Sites / Search Engines | Other
useful sites
Government Sites - Australian
- Commonwealth Government
Home Page - the entry point for all
Commonwealth Government sites.
- Commonwealth Department
of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Coastcare
- Demand
Management and Planning Project - iPLAN -
The Demand Management and Planning Project will investigate and identify
ways of reducing the peak demand for electricity in the inner Sydney
region.
- Environment Australia
- This is the site of the Commonwealth Department
of the Environment and Heritage. It contains legislation, details of
policies and programs, and has entry points to the Australian Commonwealth,
State, Territory and Local Government sites. It also has links to Environment
Departments in other countries
- Land and Water
Resources Research and Development Corporation -
The LWRRDC aims to achieve innovation in the form of improved and more
sustainable management of resources. The site includes information on
commisioned research and programs, publications and calls for proposals.
- Department
of Environment Protection, Western Australia
- Environmental
Management and Pollution Control Board (Tasmania)
- Environment
Protection Authority, ACT
- Environment
Protection Authority, New South Wales - The
EPA is the leading NSW public sector organisation responsible for environment
protection. The site contains details of NSW environmental legislation,
a calendar of 'green events' and links to other Australian environment
sites and NSW Government Departments.
- Environment
Protection Authority, Victoria
- Environmental
Protection Agency, Queensland
- Environment
Protection Authority, South Australia
- Environment Protection
and Heritage Council - incorporating National Environment Protection
Council
- NSW Government homepage
- NSW Department
of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources (formerly
Dept of Land and Water Conservation and PlanningNSW)
- NSW Department
of Local Government
- NSW Fisheries
- NSW Ministry
of Energy and Utilities
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Environment Groups and Organisations- Australian
- Australian Association
for Environmental Education - A professional
association for environmental educators in Australia. They provide networking
and information exchange between the environmental education community
in Australia.
- Australian
Conservation Foundation - ACF is a national
non-profit organisation. The site has details of current campaigns,
and offers a forum for discussion, links and publication lists.
- Environment Education
Association
- Environment Institute
of Australia - The EIA is the professional
association for environmental practitioners. The site contains details
of membership, current environmental issues, an article index for the
Australian Journal of Environmental Management and other items of interest
to practitioners.
- The
Gondwana Centre - The Gondwana Centre is
a unique, non-profit, ecological adult learning centre at Binna Burra
in South East Queensland. Our mission is to create and host world-class,
transformative adult learning programs that contribute to and extend
the knowledge and application of ecological, sustainability, social
justice and social change principles in Australia and the Asia Pacific.
- Greenpeace
Australia Pacific
- National
Toxics Network - Environment Advocates Homepage -
National Toxics Network is a community-based organisation with the common
aim of decreasing the chemical load on the environment and of promoting
environmentally responsible technologies and management systems.
- Nature Conservation
Council of NSW - The Nature Conservation
Council of NSW is the peak umbrella organisation for over 100 conservation
and environment groups in NSW, Australia.
- The Natural
Step - The Natural Step works with organisations
to develop sustainability, using a model which focuses on the systemic
causes of environmental problems.
- The Wilderness
Society - The Wilderness Society is a national
community-based advocacy organisation. The site has information on past
and present campaigns, links to other activist groups and environment
organisations.
- Total Environment
Centre- TEC - TEC was founded in 1972 as
Australia's first environment centre. It is committted to genuine public
participation in environmental decision-making and conducts research
into environmental policies at the cutting edge.
- WWF- World Wide
Fund for Nature Australia - WWF is an independent,
apolitical organisation which focuses on collaboration rather than confrontation
to achieve its ends. It develops solutions by involving local communties,
landholders and decision makers.
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Teaching and Research Institutions - Australian
- Australian Centre for Environmental Law (ACEL) ANU
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- This Centre is a collaborative venture between the Law Faculties of
the Australian National University, the University of Adelaide and the
University of Sydney. ACEL promotes teaching and research in environmentlal
law between the three universities and is estabilshing itself as a resource
base in this field for Australia, Asia and the Pacific Region.
- Centre
for Biodiversity and Bioresources, Macquarie University, Australia
- This centre is a Commonwealth key centre of
teaching and research. Information at this site includes Biodiversity
and Australia, Using Biodiversity Sustainably, and Conserving and Understanding
Biodiversity. The site also has details of research and education programs.
- Centre for
Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM) -
The Centre for Energy and Environmental
Markets (CEEM) at the University of New South Wales brings together
researchers in UNSW and partner organisations with the key objective
of providing Australian research leadership in the interdisciplinary
design, analysis and performance monitoring of energy and environmental
markets and their associated policy frameworks. CEEM undertakes research
drawing on expertise from the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of
Commerce and Economics, the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Arts,
the Australian Graduate School of Management, and the Institute of Environmental
Studies.
- Centre for Resource
and Environmental Studies (CRES), Australian National University
- CRES is an interdisciplinary research and postgraduate
centre focussing on resource and environmertal issues at local, national
and global scales.
- Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) -
This site includes research areas of agribusiness, environmental and
natural resources, manufacturing, minerals and energy. Further searches
will lead to more specific information, such as climate change scenarios
for Australia.
- Institute for
Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney -
ISF has four major programs: Sustainable Water and Waste Minimisation,
Sustainable Transport and Urban Form, Sustainable Energy, and Sustainable
Development in Local Government. ISF also works with organisations to
facilitate sustainability, conducts applied research, workshops and
short courses and sponsors public lectures and seminars.
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Legal Sites - Australian
- National Environmental
Defender's Offices Network - Through this
site you can access the EDO Network. The EDO Network consists of nine
independently constituted and managed community environmental legal
centres spread across Australia. Each EDO office is dedicated to protecting
the environment in the public interest. The site has details of the
various campaigns in which the EDO is involved around Australia
- Law &
Justice Foundation of NSW - This site contains
a set of relevant Commonwealth and NSW legislation and other internet-based
resources dealing with environment, planning and local government. It
has information on Land and Environment Court (NSW) cases, and links
to environment agencies.
- AustLII: Australian
Legal Information Institute - Database used
to search for cases and legislation.
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Environment Centres - International
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Environment Agencies and Organisations - International
- Biodiversity Conservation
Network - The BCN evaluates issues of business,
the environment and local communities. It is part of the Biodiversity
Support Program and is a USAID-funded consortium
of WWF, the Nature Conservancy and World Resources Institute.
- Environmental Research
Foundation - This Foundation aims to provide
understandable scientific information about human health and the environment
- Greenpeace
(International)
- International Institute
for Sustainable Development - This is a multimedia
resource for environmental and development policy-makers.
- International Rivers
Network - IRN supports local communities
working to protect their rivers and watersheds. It works to halt destructive
river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable
methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.
- Nautilus Institute
for Security and Sustainability - The Nautilus
Institute at Berkeley is a research and consulting organisation which
promotes international cooperation for security and sustainable development.
The site has online documents, a jobs page, email news services and
a weekly update.
- National Institute
for Environmental Studies, Japan Environment Agency
- The Earth Council
- The Earth Council is an international NGO created
in 1992 to promote and advance the implementation of the Earth Summit
agreements. The site contains details of the various Earth Council projects,
the Rio+5 National Consultations and Forum and the Earth Council Strategy.
- United States Environment
Protection Agency - One very interesting
aspect of this huge site is the Community-Based
Environmental Protection section. There is
a resources section, a tools for community-based initiatives section,
current information on grants and links to programs and resources for
communities. Another aspect of the site is the award-winning 'Envirofacts
Warehouse'. It maps environmental data about
more than 700,00 sites that handle potentially dangerous chemicals and
identifies their harmful substances.
- World Business Council
for Sustainable Development - The World Business
Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a coalition of 125 international
companies united by a shared commitment to the environment and to the
principles of economic growth and sustainable development.
- World Resources
Institute - The World Resources Institute
is a publicly-funded educational institution. The site contains a library
and a newsroom and has some useful links.
- Worldwatch
Institute - The Worldwatch Institute is a
non-government research organisation. The site has access to recent
State of the World reports, Worldwatch feature articles and press releases,
other publications and email lists.
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Campus and Curriculum Greening Sites
- Centre for Educational
Advancement, Curtin University - This site
has sections such as Good Practice in Teaching and Learning and ideas
for innovative teaching and assessment which could be useful in education
for sustainability. Also see the Australian
Technology Network site for recent research
on graduate capabilities and assessment in education for sustainability.
- International
Institute for Sustainable Development, 1996 -
IISD's interactive tool kit for greening the campus will help you to
learn more about sustainable development and its relevance to teaching.
The site has learning modules, case studies, action plans, environmental
policies, resources, forums and contacts.
- Higher
Education HE21 Project - In 1997, Forum for
the Future, the UK-based charity, was awarded a 2 year grant from the
UK government to generate and provide best practice for sustainability
across the HE sector. Here is an archive with links to a selection of
the Best Practice Bulletins.
- Management
Institute for Environment and Business (MEB) -
MEB was founded in 1990 to help companies improve environmental quality
through business success. MEB works with business schools to integrate
environmental issues into the core curricula, and provides direct industry
outreach and training.
- Centre for
Sustainable Systems
-
Second Nature:
Education for Sustainability. Starfish Resource Centre -
The Starfish site has interdisciplinary educational resources for
sustainability available through the following free databases: * more
than 425 syllabi and reading lists to assist in the design of interdisciplinary
curricula; * a wide range of teaching techniques and examples of course
projects; * bibliographic references to help in the drawing up of
reading lists. Although the professors retain copyright for the syllabi
on the site, the material is a source of ideas for the integration
of environmental concerns into many disciplines.
- World Business
Council for Sustainable Development
- University
of Edinburgh Environmental Agenda - The site
contains details of the University of Edinburgh Environment Policy and
the infrastructure and educational reforms developed in response to
the Policy.
- University
of New South Wales Transport Program - This
site is constains up-to-date information on sustainable transport.
- University Leaders
for a Sustainable Future (ULSF) - ULSF is
the international association of signatories to the Talloires Declaration.
It promotes the concept of global environmental literacy and offers
service and support to member universities.
- UNESCO's
International Directory of Environmental Education Institutions on Internet
- This site offers a large list of environmental
education training and research organisations around the world.
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Agreements on the Environment
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Environment Information Sites/Search Engines
- Australasian
Disaster and Hazard Research Directory -
This research Directory, originally funded by the Australian Committee
of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and the Australian
Emergency Management Institute (AEMI), and undertaken by the staff of
the Natural Hazards Research Centre at Macquarie University, provides
a view of just what research is going on in the Australia - South Pacific
- South-east Asia region and a profile for the region's efforts on the
world
- EnviroNET
This is a network of environmental databases incorporating such material
as cleaner production strategies, environmental education and waste
treatment.
- Environmental
Organisation Webdirectory
- Global System for
Sustainable Development (GSSD) - GSSD is
an adaptive knowledge meta-network for use in conjunction with Internet
resources to explore innovative responses to sustainability challenges
-- at all levels of development and in all parts of the world.
- Australian
Government "Environment Portal"
- National
Library for the Environment - The service
includes Congressional Research Service reports, daily news, a population
and environment linkages service, laws and treaties, educational programs,
jobs and careers, meetings, journals and reference materials. It also
includes Briefing Books on Global Climate Change and other issues.
- Planet Ark
- This site provides up-to-date environmentally
relevant news and information
- Sustainability
Web Ring - This Internet tool allows users
to navigate easily between Web sites that deal with the principles,
policies and best practices for sustainable development. By following
the links through the web ring, you will find information from around
the world on how to deal with such crucial issues as climate change,
cleaner production, waste, poverty, consumerism, natural resource management
and governance. This site is aimed at decision-makers within civil society,
government, business, research and funding institutions, and communities.
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Other Useful Sites
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