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Supported by the Environmental Protection Agency and the University of Maryland Sea Grant College, the Region 3 Environmental Finance Center promotes alternative and innovative ways to manage the cost of environmental activities. It provides training, technical assistance, and program planning and...

This website, provided by the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, provides information regarding the economic, science, technology, and issues surrounding environmental policy and development.  Users can access teaching modules for economics instruction....

This paper, published by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, provides an economic analysis of a specific climate policy: a carbon tax. The analysis gauges the potential for a carbon tax to create an incentive for research and development, and subsequently lower the cost...

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) offers this website with resources related to sustainable and equitable development.  ILSR champions local, humanly scaled economies.  As such, it distributes research and teaching materials on a weekly basis.  These materials can be located under the...

This website, provided by the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE), seeks to highlight the interconnectedness of ecological, social, and economic systems as they apply to the well-being of the environment and people.  Visitor to the website can click on the resources tab to access...

This downloadable publication from the National Academies Press includes a report on U.S. competitiveness in the global economy. This report describes risks to America's future economic prosperity and security amidst  global competition. The report cites numerous statistics that describe areas in...

This website, provided by Sustainable Communities Online, is a compilation of various resources focused on the topic of sustainability.  The website offers resources and initiatives that "have been selected to help you learn about ways to make your community healthier, safer, greener, more livable,...

This page from the Agricultural Market Resource Center at Iowa State University reviews winery and vineyard feasibility workbooks. These Excel workbooks require the user to have "a good understanding of grape or wine production, marketing, management and accounting principles." The workbooks include...