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This 2-page learning activity, from the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), allows students the opportunity to visit a brownfield site and observe the physical status of the site while determining its past and potential future uses. Student learning outcomes, a description...

This site offers the user a variety of informational links that specifically address the testing, standards, and regulations with which the gasoline manufacturers must comply. Links to various programs pertaining to the lowering of gasoline consumption by the Environmental Protection Agency are...

This site from the Environmental Protection Agency contains information on sustainable building: green-built schools, residences, and office buildings. This site also describes what EPA is doing to "green" its own buildings. Topics such as energy efficiency, indoor environment, and sustainable...

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. This episode from ATETV focuses on green jobs in wind technology, technician jobs that are in high demand, and home energy audits that save money and create jobs. The episode can be watched in full or...

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. This episode of ATETV focuses on just how much input community colleges receive from industry. The first part of the video, Making Sense of What You Are Learning, looks at electrical engineering...

This site provides information regarding the improvement of indoor air quality through increased ventilation, air cleaners for particle removal, and source control.  It is divided into three sections, one for each of the three aforementioned strategies.  An overview of the effectiveness of each...

This site offers numerous informational items concerning sources, eradication and treatment of indoor air problems. Pollutant sources, ventilation, other issues involved in indoor air pollution are explained in detail.  A list of popular indoor air quality topics is included, with accompanying links...

This site provides access to The Interior Air Quality (IAQ) Building Education and Assessment Model (I-BEAM), developed by the EPA to offer-state-of-the-art guidance for managing interior air quality in commercial buildings.  Additionally, this site offers numerous links pertinent to information for...

This paper, published by the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, discusses possible strategies for developing long-term goals for climate policy. The author looks at the role of benefit estimates in policy formation, the challenges associated with these estimates, and...

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...