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Ecological Footprint

http://www.redefiningprogress.org/footprint/ This website defines Ecological Footprint as the measure of reuseable and nonreuseable resources in the world. It has a few links to take you to other sites, one of which is an ecological footprint calculator that measures your dent in the worlds resources.

Renewable Resources

http://www.eco-pros.com/renewableresources.htm This website is a very basic site that defines renewable resources and gives examples of some. It also tells some unrenewable resources and explains why they are in that category.

Environmental Sustainability

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability This site gives a definition of what Environmental Sustainability is and where the term came from. It breaks down the meaning so that you can fully understand the term.

Sustainable Development

http://sbinfocanada.about.com/od/environmentbiz/g/sustainabledev.htm This site gives examples of sustainable development and tells what it is. It also has links that tell you more about the topic and how it affects different countries.

Environmentalism

http://www.environmentalism.com/ This is a full site devoted to environmentalism. It has links for global warming and animal rights. It contains quotes and problems recently in the news that effect environmenalist.

Emission Reduction Credits

http://www.fraqmd.org/ERCs.htm This website talks about how buisness regulations are connectes with the ERC. There are five qualifications the buisness must achieve to get the certificate.

Environmental Ethics

http://daphne.palomar.edu/calenvironment/ethics.htm This website talks about environmental ethics and different divisions of it. It also has links to authors such as Walden and Thoreau that wrote about nature and their perception of it.

Environmental Impact Statement

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/environimp This site defines the Environmental Impact Statement and talks about the long term and short term effects that choices made today will have on the society.

Earth Day

http://www.earthsite.org/day.htm This site is all about Earth day. It talks about the first earth day, why we have an earth day, and the founders of earth day.

Chernobyl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident This site tells how Chernobyl is considered the worst accident in the hisory of nuclear power. It talks about the evacuations, deaths, and changes that have happened since.