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- Air & Waste Management Association
- Role: provide training, information and networking opportunities
- Information: conferences, courses, workshops
- Canadian Chemical Producers' Association/Association canadienne des
fabricants de produits chimiques
- Role: committed to managing chemicals responsibly
- Information: reducing emissions reports, Responsible Care initiatives/reports
- Canadian Environment Industry Association / Association des
Industries de l'Environnement
- Role: represent interests of 1500 Canadian Environmental companies
- Information: searchable database profiling members
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CSA International
- Role: standards development, product certification, management systems
- Information: product catalogue, ISO documents
- GLOBE Foundation
- Role: facilitator of environmental business opportunities
- Information: company profile
- Lambton Industrial Society
- Role: monitors quality of local air, water and ground water on behalf of
members
- Information: Annual Progress Review, monographs, newsletter
- Pollution Prevention Experts
- Role: a searchable database of private sector pollution prevention
(P2)
professionals including consultants, business professionals, educators and NGOs
- Canadian Government Departments
- Role: directory to Canadian Government Departments
- Information: links to government websites
- Environment Canada's Green
Lane/Environnement Canada
- Role: provide current data on Canadas environment
- Information: documentation on climate change, air, nature, water and weather
Alberta Environment
British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands &
Parks
Manitoba Environment
New Brunswick Department of the Environment
Newfoundland and Labrador:
Department of Environment and Labour
Northwest Territories: Department of
Resources, Wildlife & Economic Development
Nova Scotia Dept of the Environment:
Pollution Prevention
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
Prince Edward Island Technology and
Environment
Qu?bec Minist?re de l'Environnement et
de la Faune
Saskatchewan Environment and Resources
Management
Yukon Department of Renewable Resources
- Better Environmentally Sound Transportation
- Role: to promote the use of sustainable transportation and appropriate forms of
transportation
- Information: Alternative Transportation toolkit, papers on transportation
planning
- Greenpeace Canada
- Role: global environmental problems
- Information: current campaigns, publications on environmental problems
- Institute For Local Self Reliance
- Role: research and educational organization
- Information: Carbohydrate Economy Clearinghouse, publications
- Ontario Environment Network
- Role: network serving Ontarios NGO environmental community
- Information: contacts
- Pembina Institute of Appropriate Development
- Role: research and educational organization
- Information: publications on energy/green house gas issues
- Pollution Probe
- Role: research and educational organization
- Information: reports/fact sheets on: mercury, childrens health, air &
water
- Sierra Club of Canada
- Role: public policy and environmental awareness
- Information: campaigns/events
- World Wildlife Fund Canada
(WWF)
- Role: dedicated to conservation of nature and ecological processes
- Information: factsheets on species & conservation issues
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)
Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
FedWorld Information Network
Georgia Pollution Prevention Assistance
Illinois Waste Management and Research Center
Michigan DEQ Pollution Prevention
North Carolina Waste Reduction Resource Center
Ohio Office of Pollution Prevention
Western Regional Pollution Prevention Network (P2
West)
- Canadian Renewable Fuels Association
- Role: promote biofuels for auto transportation
- Information: fact sheets on ethanol and biodiesel production/consumption in
Canada
- Canadian Sustainable Energy Web Site, The
- Role: information on sustainable energy technologies
Information: links to solar, wind, small hydro, co-generation, biomass
- Canadian Wind Energy Association
- Role: represents the Canadian wind energy community
- Information: current and potential wind production in Canada
- Department of Energy's
(DOE's) Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy Network
- Role: provides resources for energy efficiency and renewable energy
Information: descriptions and links to DOEs programs
- Natural Resources Canada -
Energy and Sustainable Development
- Role: R&D, policy development and programs in energy efficiency,
alternatives
- Information: publications and links to NRCs initiatives
- Office of Energy Efficiency
- Role: disseminate information on energy efficiency
- Information: publications for homeowners, business and governments
- Renewable Energy and Sustainable Energy Systems in Canada
- Role: to provide information on producing or using energy efficiently
- Information: links and contacts for alternative energy technologies
- Solar City
- Role: to inform the public about renewable forms of energy
- Information: links on solar thermal, solar power, hydrogen, water, wind and
biomass
- Solstice: Sustainable Energy and Development Online!
- Role: library and archives for renewable and sustainable technology
- Information: documents and database on renewable energy, energy efficiency
- Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy
- Role: provides up to date details on the progress of the Binational Strategy
- Information: workgroup reports, reduction activities
- Great Lakes Information Network
(GLIN)
- Role: disseminate information on the binational Great Lakes region
- Information: facts, figures and publications on each Great Lake
- Great Lakes Commission
- Role: statutory mandate to represent collective views of the 8 Great Lakes
States
- Information: policy papers and programs
- Great Lakes Environmental Education Center
- Role: provide access to Great Lakes educational material
- Information: training programs, guides
- Great Lakes United
(GLU)
- Role: an international coalition dedicated to preserving and protecting the
Great Lakes-St.Lawrence River ecosystem
- Information: publications
- Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
(GLWQA)
- Role: Canada and the U.S.s commitment to the integrity of the Great Lakes
Basin
- Information: agreement, background
- International Joint Commission
(IJC)
- Role: assists Canadian and U.S. agreements in managing lakes and river systems
along the border
- Information: Air Quality Agreement, Boundary Waters Treaty, reports
- Our Great Lakes (formerly the
Great Lakes Information Management Resource)
- Role: guide to Environment Canadas Great Lakes programs and publications
- Information: publications
- State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference
(SOLEC)
- Role: information exchange on the ecological condition of the Great Lakes
- Information: State of the Great Lakes Report
- Aboriginal Environmental Enterprises
- Role: profiles of aboriginal environmental businesses
- American Indian Environmental Office - U.S. EPA
- Role: to assist tribes in administering their own environmental program
- Information: tribal programs, publications
- Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
- Role: provides educational, research and technical assistance to
First Nations
people facing environmental issues
- Information: library provides useful internet links
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
- Role: strengthening Canadas relationship with Aboriginal peoples
- Information: sustainable development reports
- Tribal Solid Waste
Management Program - U.S. EPA
- Role: what the EPA will undertake to implement waste programs on tribal lands
- Information: guides on waste: municipal, hazardous, construction/demolition,
mining etc.
- Laboratory
Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention
- Role: a guide for teachers
- Information: guidebook
- National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education
- Role: develops P2 educational materials for university instructional faculty
- Information: teaching and research materials
- U.S. EPA Environmental Education Center
- Role: provides resources to assist teaching students about the environment
- Information: collection of fact sheets, brochures and web pages
- Canadian Environmental Auditing Association
(CEAA)
- Role: to further the development of the professional practice of environmental
auditing
- Information: certification programs
- Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants
(CICA)
- Role: represents a membership of over 60 000 professional accountants
- Information: services, policies, news, Environmental
accounting information.
- U.S. EPA'S Environmental Accounting
Project
- Role: to integrate environmental costs into decision making
- Information: publications and case studies
- Agricultural Groups Concerned about Resources and the Environment
(AGCare)
- Role: funded by all major Ontario farm organizations involved in crop
production
- Information: pesticide use, Environmental Farm Plans
- Canada-Ontario Agriculture Green Plan
- Role: committed to environmental sustainability of the agri-food sector
- Information: Best Management Practices, Environmental Farm Plans
- Ecological Agriculture Projects
- Role: disseminating information on environmentally sustainable food systems
- Information: publications
- Farm*A*Syst/Home*A*Syst Home Page
- Role: provides tools to manage and avoid environmental problems
- Information: on-line voluntary assessments to prevent pollution
- National Agriculture Compliance
Assistance Center
- Role: outreach tool of the U.S. EPA
- Information: laws, regulations, policies and publications
- New Uses Council
- Role: promote new industrial, energy, and non-food consumer uses of renewable
agricultural, forestry and livestock products
- Information: reports, Bio Products directory
- C.A.N. DO Online
- Role: provide citizens with options to improve air quality
- Information: home audit, fact sheets
- Ontario Clean Air Alliance
(OCAA)
- Role: advocates the need to reduce air pollution from the electricity sector
- Information: publications on emissions policies
- Ozone Action
- Role: voluntary emissions reduction initiative
- Information: fact sheets on how to reduce emissions
- Pilot Emission Reduction Trading Project (PERT)
- Role: design, development and implementation of an emissions trading system
- Information: projects, registry, program information
- Pollution Probe - Air Programme
- Role: to provide solutions through research, education and outreach
- Information: reducing smog, Ontarios smog plan
- Smog / Air Quality - Issues and Topics
- Role: Environment Canada publications on smog and air quality issues
- Canadian Automotive Parts Manufacturers'
Association (APMA)
- Role: represents Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) producers of parts,
equipment, tools, supplies and services for the auto industry
- Information: news, links and contacts
- Michigan Department of
Environmental Quality
- Information: P2 case studies, U.S. Automotive Pollution Prevention Project
Report
- U.S. Department of Energy's
(DOE's) Alternative Fuels Data Center
- Role: disseminating information on Alternative Fuels
- Information: fact sheets on fuels/cars, DOE program information
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