Message-ID: <378CE92A.DDBFF4BD@cnie.org> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:46:50 -0400 From: Jeff Keller <mailto:jeff@CNIE.ORG> Subject: online environmental resources To: mailto:INTDEV-L@pete.uri.edu
Dear Group...A great site that I want to share with you.... The Committee for the National Institute for the Environment Website
We would like to introduce you to the CNIE's Environmental website, winner of the Computerworld/Smithsonian's Information Technology Award: http://www.cnie.org. Home of the online National Library for the Environment, the CNIE website provides a wealth of environmental information not found elsewhere. The NLE has by far the largest collection of Congressional Research Service reports on the web (550 and counting). These new and continually updated, nonpartisan research reports are produced by the Library of Congress exclusively for members of Congress and their staffs and are made available to the public by the CNIE (http://www.cnie.org/nle/crs_main.html).
The CNIE also posts four CRS produced Briefing Books on Global Climate Change, Electric Utility Restructuring, Oceans and Summaries of EPA Administered Laws - all available from the CNIE home page. There is also the Daily Planet, http://www.cnie.org/news/splash.htm, a gateway to a dozen of the best environmental dailies online, and a comprehensive jump page to over 300 environmental online journals http://www.cnie.org/Journals.htm
The CNIE site also provides many pure research resources. First among them ranks the Environmental Researcher's Bookmarks, http://www.cnie.org/book/ which contains entrance points to general and environmental-specific information. Information on federal, state, and private organizations can be found here, as well as access points for various types of information media. Local environmental information can be accessed via the numerous databases contained in the Your Neighborhood page, (searchable by zip and area code) or the State of the Environment page, both accessible from the CNIE home page.
The CNIE, in collaboration with numerous professionals in the field, has also developed the Population & Environmental Linkages database, a collection of web pages complete with extensive bibliographic information. Many introductory articles, some commissioned by the CNIE, are also available to provide an overview of this often overlooked environmental topic.
Contact information is available from the Yellow Pages for the Environment http://www.cnie.org/yellow/ And this month the CNIE has launched ERIE - the Environmental Research Information Exchange - a bulletin board for posting research needs and funding opportunities. http://www.cnie.org/exchange.htm
-- JeffK mailto:jeff@cnie.org