IS 1091: Links on global effects of technology.

Climate changes, Kyoto protocols, and related subjects

• Europe's Cold Sweat Over Kyoto, Christian Science Monitor.
• Information on Global Warming from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
• Data on global environmental change from The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC).
• Testimony of Prof. S. Fred Singer President, The Science & Environmental Policy Project before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Climate Change (July 18, 2000), Global Warming Information Center.
• US Global Climate Change Policy, U.S. Department of State.
• GlobalWarming.org: a project of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a sub-group of the National Consumer Coalition.
• Fixing the weather, Environment News Service.
• Environmental Impacts Due To Exponential-Type Changes, CanadianAlien.com.

Environmental Effects of Air and Water pollution, pesticides, etc.

• Environmental Health Effects of Diesel Engines (Vermont public interest research group).
• Effects of the herbicides sprayed to kill coca plants in Colombia from Americas.org.
• A Minnesota proposed regulation, to be voted on this Monday."Sun Tribune" article on effects of off-road motoring on environment. The proposed legislation relaxes laws restricting off-road motoring (Membership required for access, but we'll try to post a paper copy on the board).
• Senators Fault Mercury Pollution Proposal (NY Times)
• Effects of DU (depleted uranium) weapons on the environment, Christian Science Monitor.
• Conflict Brewing Over Herbicide's Link to Frog Deformities, Science Magazine.

Recycling and reuse of materials

• Electronic Tags for Product Lifecycle Management and Environmentally Benign Polymeric Packaging from Renewable Resources, reports from the National Center For Environmental Research of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• Computers and the Environment (a book review).

Environmental Technology

• Global Network of Environment and Technology
• Global Implications of Biotechnology: biotechnology used to fight hunger.
• Global Environment & Technology Foundation
• Rat Genome Helps Separate Mice from Men, Wired.com. Research on animals helps in understanding human genome. This is not quite on the topic, but somewhat related.

Energy

• Report of the National Energy Policy Development Group from whitehouse.gov