Key Web Resources about Energy and Global
Warming
Carbon Offset Sites
The Climate Trust funds high quality greenhouse gas offset
projects. The best way to become carbon neutral is to go to
www.CarbonCounter.org
to calculate your CO2 and enter your credit card. Climate
Neutral Network helps companies implement a Climate Neutral
strategy:
www.climateneutral.com
American Forests will plant trees to absorb your CO2:
www.americanforests.org
AirHead has compiled emissions data for hundreds of consumer
goods, especially appliances:
www.AirHead.org
Advocacy Sites
Sierra Club has good info on solutions for global warming
including clean energy and higher mpg cars:
www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/get_involved
Environmental Defense has a lot of info, including a great
"tailpipe tally" totaling the pollution from just about any car:
www.environmentaldefense.org
Union of Concerned Scientists - combines scientific research
with public education, advocacy:
www.ucsusa.org
Physicians For Social Responsibility - dedicated to protecting
public health and the environment.
www.psr.org
The Climate Institute - devoted to public education and efforts
to curb global warming.
www.climate.org
Overcoming Consumerism describes how you escape the consumerism
trap: www.verdant.net
World Wildlife Fund - WWF has large web site devoted to the
international global warming debate, as well as extensive
information on global warming impacts.
www.worldwildlife.org/climate
Climate Action Network - A worldwide network of over 340 NGOs:
www.climatenetwork.org
Science Sites
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) is the authority on global warming.
www.ipcc.ch
U.S. Global Change Research Program web site provides a wide
variety of information on the science of global warming, as well
as education information.
www.usgcrp.gov
Environmental Protection Agency web site on global warming has
much info, including a state by state chart of electric
utilities and the pollution they emit.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html
Post Fossil Fuel SitesPost Carbon Institute explores options
without fossil fuels. It has
excellent links:
www.postcarbon.org
Richard Heinberg has helpful writings on the oil crisis and what
communities can do to prepare:
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