Helps individuals, companies and organisations do practical things to combat climate change. It is a group blog by internationally recognized writers. They have a discussion forum, a questions and actions section, and a way to make personal climate change commitments. They have a listing of climate change projects you can review, follow and rate.
Aims to facilitate online networking among Nepalese foresters, to provide a platform to share news and information on forestry sector of Nepal and to promote forest science among general public.
Rain gardens are an old idea, a simple idea ... Rain gardens are positioned so they catch rainwater coming from any hard surface (roof, driveway, etc.), they need to be dug to create a shallow depression (to hold that water) and they need to be planted with plants that will survive periodic flooding and often long periods of dry weather. Rain Garden Network supplies information and educational resources to homeowners and others to help them do what they can on their property and in their lives to protect the water quality of our lakes, rivers and streams from pollution and the damage done by stormwater runoff.
Prepared annually by EPA, the national greenhouse gas inventory report presents estimates of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and sinks for the years 1990 through 2006. This report also discusses the methods and data used to calculate the emission estimates.
A greenhouse gas inventory is an accounting of the amount of greenhouse gases emitted to or removed from the atmosphere over a specific period of time (e.g., one year). A greenhouse gas inventory also provides information on the activities that cause emissions and removals, as well as background on the methods used to make the calculations.
Current and Near-Term Greenhouse Gas Reduction Initiatives: The Federal government administers a wide array of public-private partnerships to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas intensity.
Climate Change Technology Program: New and refined technologies offer great promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly.
Climate Change Science Program: In February of 2002, the United States government announced a climate change research initiative to focus on key remaining gaps in climate change science.
International Cooperation: The United States government is extensively engaged in international climate change activities in areas such as science, mitigation and environmental monitoring.
An overview of web pages related to climate change and water. National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change ...
EPA's Climate Change Site offers comprehensive information on the issue of climate change in a way that is accessible and meaningful to all parts of society – communities, individuals, business, states and localities, and governments.
Biosolids are the nutrient-rich organic materials resulting from the treatment of sewage sludge (the name for the solid, semisolid or liquid untreated residue generated during the treatment of domestic sewage in a treatment facility). When treated and processed, sewage sludge becomes biosolids which can be safely recycled and applied as fertilizer to sustainably improve and maintain productive soils and stimulate plant growth.
The National Biosolids Partnership (NBP) is a voluntary program to promote effective biosolids management involving the Water Environment Federation (WEF), the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies (AMSA), and U.S. EPA. EPA serves as an advisory member to the Partnership.
Water pollution degrades surface waters making them unsafe for drinking, fishing, swimming, and other activities. As authorized by the Clean Water Act, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program controls water pollution by regulating point sources that discharge pollutants into waters of the United States. Point sources are discrete conveyances such as pipes or man-made ditches. The site contains technical and regulatory information about the NPDES permit program. The NPDES Permits Program consists of a number of programs and initiatives.
WaterSense, a partnership program sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, makes it easy for Americans to save water and protect the environment. Look for the WaterSense label to choose quality, water-efficient products. Many products are available, and don't require a change in your lifestyle. Explore the links below to learn about WaterSense labeled products, saving water, and how businesses and organizations can partner with WaterSense.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Wastewater Management (OWM) oversees a range of programs contributing to the well-being of the nation's waters and watersheds. Through its programs and initiatives, OWM promotes compliance with the requirements of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
A longish article and resources list regarding low impact development and effects on water systems.
Low Impact Development (LID): to reduce runoff volume by infiltrating rainfall water to groundwater, evaporating rainwater back to the atmosphere after a storm and finding beneficial uses for water rather than exporting it as a waste product down storm sewers – resulting in less surface runoff and less pollution damage to lakes, streams and coastal waters. Kitsap LID is dedicated to helping builders and homeowners find the best way to lessen their impact on the environment. If you don't see what you're looking for here on our site, please contact us and we'll find the answer you seek!
Directory of low-impact hydroelectric technologies and related resources.
Low Impact Development (LID) is a more sustainable land development approach that begins with a site planning process that first identifies critical natural resource areas for preservation. Development patterns based on conventional zoning codes in Massachusetts often result in "sprawl" with its associated large impervious areas, loss of natural resources and habitat, increase in nonpoint source pollution, and alteration of hydrologic systems.
To protect and maintain the integrity of the natural environment while promoting the growth, prosperity and quality of life of Alberta’s communities. Implementation of low impact development practices will lead to healthier, more sustainable watersheds. The Alberta Low Impact Development Partnership (ALIDP) was created in the fall of 2004 in response to the need to protect and maintain the integrity of the natural environment while promoting the growth, prosperity and quality of life in Alberta’s communities.
The goal of LID is to mimic a site's predevelopment hydrology by using design techniques that infiltrate, filter, store, evaporate, and detain runoff close to its source. The Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program is an advisory and planning unit of the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management. We receive funding from, and are part of, the US Environmental Protection Agency's National Estuary Program. Created in 1985, the Buzzards Bay NEP completed a Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan for the Bay in 1991.
A book by the Maine Environmental Policy Institute: Low-Impact Forestry: Forestry as if the Future Mattered. If the future mattered, how would our forests be managed? This question is asked and answered in an indespensible new book, Low-Impact Forestry: Forestry as if the Future Mattered, edited by Mitch Lansky, author of the acclaimed critique of industrial forestry, Beyond the Beauty Strip: Saving What’s Left of Our Forests.
A cost effective way to address storm water management through site design modifications and "Best Management Practices". Water quality concerns have intensified and storm water management practices have come under scrutiny as development occurs on an increasing percentage of the available land area in the United States. With more stringent design requirements, costs for traditional collection and conveyance systems have risen sharply.
The site provides watershed managers with a new set of tools and techniques that can be used to meet regulatory and receiving water protection program goals for urban retrofits, re-development projects, and new development sites. LID technology is an alternative comprehensive approach to stormwater management. It can be used to address a wide range of Wet Weather Flow (WWF) issues, including Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs), National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Stormwater Phase II permits, Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) permits, Nonpoint Source Program goals, and other Water Quality Standards.
This is an U.S. EPA site about Low Impact Development. LID is an approach to land development (or re-development) that works with nature to manage stormwater as close to its source as possible. LID employs principles such as preserving and recreating natural landscape features, minimizing effective imperviousness to create functional and appealing site drainage that treat stormwater as a resource rather than a waste product. There are many practices that have been used to adhere to these principles such as bioretention facilities, rain gardens, vegetated rooftops, rain barrels, and permeable pavements. By implementing LID principles and practices, water can be managed in a way that reduces the impact of built areas and promotes the natural movement of water within an ecosystem or watershed. Applied on a broad scale, LID can maintain or restore a watershed's hydrologic and ecological functions. LID has been characterized as a sustainable stormwater practice by the Water Environment Research Foundation and others.
The Low Impact Hydropower Institute (LIHI) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to reducing the impacts of hydropower generation through the certification of hydropower projects that have avoided or reduced their environmental impacts pursuant to the Low Impact Hydropower Institute’s criteria. There are thousands of hydropower dams in the United States located on many of our most important rivers and streams. These dams can create pollution-free energy, but they can also produce significant adverse impacts on fish and wildlife and other resources.
A non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Low Impact Development technology. Low Impact Development is a new, comprehensive land planning and engineering design approach with a goal of maintaining and enhancing the pre-development hydrologic regime of urban and developing watersheds. The Low Impact Development Center was established to develop and provide information to individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting the environment and our water resources through proper site design techniques that replicate pre-existing hydrologic site conditions.
Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to help people reduce their impact on the environment, improve their quality of life, gain new skills, live in a healthier and more satisfying way, have fun and save money.
They have an online forum, offer a long list of books, offer courses, etc, related to low impact living.
Low-impact living is a way of behaving and thinking that aims to reduce our impact on the ecology of our planet, on resources and on each other.
Their goal is to identify and document outstanding examples low energy, low environmental impact housing. The survey is open to the full range of housing forms from single detached to multi-unit projects, community and subdivision developments, from owner-built to custom-designed demonstration projects.
Apparently it is a questionnaire style survey about different low impact housing projects.
New Society Publishers - the activist publisher focused on solutions and social change. Our Books are tools to Build a New Society. They help you to know the talk, and walk the talk. New Society Publishers' mission is to publish books that contribute in fundamental ways to building an ecologically sustainable and just society, and to do so with the least possible impact on the environment, in a manner that models this vision. They walk the talk in several ways like printing on forest-friendly paper.
