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This webpage, provided by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, provides a 50-page guide on saving money and energy in your home. The guide includes a table of contents and the following chapters: Save Energy and Money Today; Audit Your Home's Energy Use; Weatherize Your Home; Heat...

Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) provides this webpage entitled, Environment and Health Program. The webpage addresses an array of environmental health issues relevant to health professionals in the United States and around the globe. These issues include climate change, air pollution, and...

This page is a course overview for Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) course 11.122, Environment and Society.  The course examines the effects of industrialization on the environment and society and the regulatory response to these changes. Projects produced by students in the course,...

Like most businesses, automotive recycling facilities are subject to stringent federal, state and local environmental laws. The ECAR website is designed to provide a state-by-state breakdown of the requirements that apply specifically to industry activities for those states having developed said...

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 1-page resource, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, provides a problem-based activity on risk assessment of environmental health issues. In the activity, students look at how people pass diseases and germs through their hands. During this classroom activity, students...

This webpage provides an overview of the Environmental Leadership Program.  The Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) is a non-profit center for leadership development within the environmental field; it addresses the leadership development and training needs of emerging professionals, generally...

Environmental Literacy and Inquiry (ELI), sponsored by the Lehigh Environmental initiative, is an inquiry-based middle school curriculum that uses geospatial information technologies including GIS and Google Earth to investigate environmental issues. The Web site includes curriculum units Energy,...

This 5-page document, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, provides a classroom activity where students build knowledge and skills about releases of polluting materials into the environment. Students apply knowledge and skills in a community context. Five scenarios are...

During this 2-page activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center, students learn about releases of pollutants into the environment and how to apply knowledge and skills in a community context. The lesson consists of four steps including research on what triggers asthma,...