League of Conservation Voters

Focus on U.S. Congress -- information on proposed legislation, how Senators and Representatives voted on environmental issues, and pre-election evaluations of candidates.
http://www.lcv.org/

Earthside

Environment, politics, opinion and quality of life issues for Arvada, Colorado, and the USA.
http://www.earthside.com/

Planetizen

A public-interest information exchange for the urban planning and development community. Urban planning and development news, job opportunities, commentary and events.
http://www.planetizen.com/

Rep America

Formed in 1995 to resurrect the GOP's conservation tradition and to restore natural resource conservation and sound environmental protection as fundamental elements of the Republican Party's vision for America.
http://www.repamerica.org/

Vote No on Question 2

Maine's Question 2, the forestry referendum, will promote sprawl and reduce the overall quality of Maine's forests. This site explains the issues surrounding Question 2.
http://www.maineforest.com/

iGreens

Individualist environmental views, articles, reviews, discussion and polls. E-mail list available as well as obituaries, politician evaluations, reprints of papers and poetry.
http://www.igreens.org.uk/

The Tragedy of the Commons, by Garrett Hardin (1968)

An essay that forms the background for much of free-market environmental thinking, which asks how property rights can be extended into commonly held resources, to promote incentives to protect (rather than harm) the environment.
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/tragcomm.htm

Oikos

Italian environmental activist organization.
http://www.oikos.org/homeen.htm

Environmentalism from the Right

conservative letter to the editor regarding environmental policy.
http://www.greaterthings.com/Editorial/environmentalism.htm

Critical Decision

an organization that encourages citizens to study and question the influences large corporations have obtained over democracy, technology, religion, families, society, population growth, and the environment.
http://www.acriticaldecision.org/

Alternative Environmental Concepts

Addresses distinctions that should be made in employing words commonly used in the environmental discussion.
http://socialanalysis.siteideas.net/alt_environ.htm

Toxic Wells, NJ - A Satire

This tongue-in-cheek Chamber of Commerce brochure puts a brave face (and positive spin) on the problems of a mythical environmentally challenged town.
http://users.rcn.com/jonmarin/toxicwells.htm

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Global treaty to protect human health and the environment from these chemicals. Includes background information, implementation plans for reducing production of the substances, and list of signatories.
http://www.pops.int/

Ontheissues.org: Environment

US presidential candidates' views on environmental issues.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Environment.htm

Chesapeake Bay Blues: Science, Politics, and the Struggle to Save The Bay

Howard Ernst book addresses the Bay as a political problem and reveals how the political process has worked against the interests of science, the public, and environmental advocates all at once.
http://www.severnriverkeeper.org/blues/

Friends of the Commons

group seeking to protect the commons as the sum of all we inherit together and must pass on, undiminished, to our heirs.
http://www.friendsofthecommons.org

Whittaker Bermite Remedial Site

Public Information web site regarding the cleanup of the Whittaker Bermite testing grounds for explosives and fireworks.
http://www.whittaker-bermite.com