• News sites
  • Environmental news network
  • Planet Ark glabal environmental news.
  • Chicago Tribune
  • Nando Times
  • SFGate news
  • Nature Magazine
  • Science Magazine
  • Scientific American
  
  
• Traditional energy sources
  • Energy Information Administration (US Department of Energy, DOE, site) LOTS of very useful information, including statistics on e.g. petroleum , coal , nuclear fission , and much more.
  • Powerpoint slides about conventional energy use in US.
  • The Uranium Institute (nuclear fission info)
  • Hubbert Center , Interesting collection of newsletters about the supply (or lack of it) of petroleum!
  • American Petroleum Institute - facts, issues, analysis from the viewpoint of industry.
  
  
• Alternative energy sources
  • National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden.
  • US DOE Renewable Energy Network , with e.g. the "million solar roofs" program.
  • DOE Energy Information Administration has links for alternative energy too.
  • Solstice , source for sustainable energy information.
  • Rocky Mountain Institute , products, information about energy efficiency, new technologies, etc.
  • Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Colorado Renewable Energy Society with links to e.g. purchase solar panels...
  • American Wind Energy
  • How Stirling Engines work
  
  
• Climate, environment, conservation
  • PBS site on global warming
  • CU solar system colab with java applets about the Greenhouse effect.
  • US EPA site
  • EPA Fuel economy. Cool site! They estimate my little fuel efficient (40 mgp highway) Honda Civic dumps 5.2 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere per year. (A Ford Expedition would be 13.6 tons!) Another site is an online guide rating the "greenest" cars.
  • Saving energy in your home
  • International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas page.
  • Colorado energy page lots of useful and practical information about alternative and renewable energy here in Colorado.
  
  
• Collections of sites. (Lists of lists)
  • The "Amazing Environmental Organization" Web Directory
  • Environmental Education on the Internet directory (From U. Michigan)
  • A well organized collection of links from a course like ours at Cal Poly.
  • Another well organized collection of links from a course like ours at Prescott College, AZ
  • Yet another well organized collection of links from a course like ours at MIT.
  • A closely related CU course in geoscience, with good notes.

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