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Additional Links

Perhaps a good place to start:

SECTION I: Ethics/Philosophy

• Western Philosophy of Nature: The Roots of Our Ecological Situation
  • http://www.phil.gu.se/a_NTF/envphil.html an excellent introduction/overview of environmental philosophy - Why study/think about it? What does it mean?

    http://www.cep.unt.edu/novice.html an introduction with its own set of links - either follow theirs or come back here to find more links to specific topics (many of my links are different)

    http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/environmental/ different types of environmental ethics resources - links to institutions, organizations, publications

     

• Animal Rights
  • http://arrs.envirolink.org/Faqs+Ref/ar-faq/faqtoc.html an excellent and extensive list of common questions about animal rights (morality, practice, etc.) and the Animal Rights Resource Site answers

    http://www.vrg.org/nutshell/animalrights.htm for a slightly different approach look at Animal Rights in a Nutshell (quick, easy to read overview) from the Vegetarian Resource Group

• Does Nature Have Intrinsic Value? Biocentric and Ecocentric Ethics and Deep Ecology
  • http://forests.org/ric/seed/deep-eco/welcome.htm excellent link - most Deep Ecology web roads lead to it.

    http://vegsource.com/biospirituality/ecology.html *brief* deep ecology summary, also links to environmental perspectives from most religions around the world

    http://128.214.205.16/hum/fil/ymp/Rodopie.html a very interesting "combined" philosophy (anthropocentric and naturocentric) called naturocentrism - check it out!

     

• Ecofeminism
  • http://www.macalester.edu/~phil29/welcome.html an excellent, comprehensive, ecofeminism guide to web resources with general information and alternative interpretations

    http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~orenstei/ecofem/ a college class project - a critical look at a variety of interpretations of ecofeminism

    http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/8385/ecofemlinks.html an ecofeminist writer's guide to individual ecofemimists on the web and bibliographies of writers whose books you can buy by navigating through this site

    http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jdingler/ecofem.html extremely extensive bibliography of ecofeminist sources

   

• The Gaia Hypothesis and Biospheric Ethics
  • http://magna.com.au/~prfbrown/gaia.html a work in progress - currently the first four chapters in hypertext (pretty graphics) of Dr. James Lovelock and Dr. Lynn Margulis's pivotal book The Gaia Hypothesis - great site

    http://www.ion.com.au/ourplanet/gaia2.html#return possibly bordering on fringe, but a very artistic, easy to read introduction of the idea of Gaia. Follow the link to 'What is Gaia? Text by James Lovelock' for insight into the development of this idea.

    http://ess.geology.ufl.edu/ess/Introduction/GAIA_hypothesis.html

     

• Preservation of the Species, Nature, and Natural Objects
  • http://ceres.ca.gov/elaw/ excellent, easy to use environmental law index

    http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/environmental.html overview of environmental law and index

• Non-Western Perspectives on Environmental Ethics
  • http://vegsource.com/biospirituality/hindu.html links to environmental perspectives from most religions around the world

   

• Obligations to Future Generations

SECTION II: Less Philosophy, More Reality

• Population: General Considerations
  • http://www.npg.org/facts.htm world population facts

    http://www.worldwatch.org/ lots of information related to the effects on the world of rising population

• Population and World Hunger
  • http://www.ecofuture.org/ecofuture/populat.html population and sustainability site with many links

    http://www.worldwatch.org/links/sow99-7.html feeding 9 billion - links to population and food pages/info

    http://www.worldwatch.org/links/sow99-3.html plant biotechnology links mostly

• Pollution: General Considerations
  • http://www.earthbase.org/home/timeline/index.html a superbly well organized page reporting the largest 15 environmental disasters of the century - a MUST

    http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/index.htm lots of information on communities, pollution, and regulatory policy around the world

    http://www.worldwildlife.org/toxics/ lots of links through WorldWildLife Fund's Campaign to Reduce the Use of Toxic Chemicals - very good, but slow loading with lots of graphical images!

    http://www.scorecard.org/ health effects, regulatory controls, pollution locator with maps - a very comprehensive site to make even the most conservative person paranoid

    http://www.pollutionprobe.org/ a Canadian grassroots organization with information on pollution in the air, water, home, etc. - mostly an update on their efforts, but also some useful informative essays

     

• Pesticides
  • http://www.epa.gov/internet/oppts/ Environmental Protection Agencies Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances

    http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/factsheets/ Pesticides Fact Sheet

    http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/pesticides/pest_food.html a very good site - pesticides in food has article about Alar (see papers)

• Atmospheric Conditions: The Greenhouse Effect and the Ozone Layer
  • http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/global/faq.html *excellent* introduction to global warming - what is it? why is it worrisome? what's the science behind it? why isn't everyone scared?

    http://www.davidsuzuki.org/climate/links.html another really good introductory site. be sure to explore some of the links/options available on the left-hand side

    http://www.cicero.uio.no/eindex.html CICERO: Center for International Climate and Environmental Research

    http://www.ucsusa.org/warming/index.html Union of Concerned Scientists is alarmed - they'll tell you why

    http://www.vision.net.au/~daly/links.htm a huge list of climate information, compiled by a greenhouse warming skeptic

• Are We Conquering Hazardous Waste?
  • http://www.epa.gov/superfund superfund information from the source - government - a good page, actually

    http://www.worldwildlife.org/toxics/ lots of links through WorldWildLife Fund's Campaign to Reduce the Use of Toxic Chemicals - very good, but slow loading with lots of graphical images!

   

• Should We Revive Nuclear Power?
  • http://www.nonukes.org an excellent comprehensive site about why we should NOT revive or continue using nuclear power

    http://www.cannon.net/~gonyeau/nuclear/welcome1.htm a very straighforward question-and-answer guide to nuclear power, but conveniently avoids discussion of the health and environmental effects of nuclear waste

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/ a straightforward informative page which also denies any environmental effects associated with nuclear power (i.e. be skeptical)

    http://enn.com/news/enn-stories/1999/03/030999/nukes_2044.asp a press release titled: "Nuclear Power Can't Compete" announcing the demise of nuclear power on the open market (in other words, touting the whole debate as moot)

   

• Economics and the Environment
  • http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Econ/econ234/EnvironEconHome.html an excellent comprehensive guide to environmental economics with a good introduction and lots of annotated links (like this)

• From Dysfunctional to Sustainable Society
  • http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/extme/1706.htm this ain't theory - what's really going on in the world these days. don't be turned off by the top of the page, there's lots of great factoid-type information if you scroll down

    http://www.earthbase.org/home/timeline/indexb.html a beautifully well organized index of major environmental disasters of the last half-century with brief and extended synopses and pictures

    http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/sos/ Swarthmore Organization for Sustainability - an activist group on campus

Key word searchable abstracts for all papers published in the last 20 years by the International Society for Environmental Ethics http://www.phil.unt.edu/bib/

For extensive bibliographies on deep ecology, ecofeminism, sustainable development, and "environmental ethics and environmental justice" from a PhD thesis http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jdingler/project.html

Papers which might be interesting to look up coming out of the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ocees/pubs.htm

Eco book titles on ecological philosophy http://www.ecobooks.com/cat_phil.htm

http://www.envirolink.org/ environmental homepage for shopping, news, action, info on the web

http://www.libertynet.org/eca/weblist.html energy index along with environmental groups and other action-oriented links

http://www.dungeon.com/~weaver/ The Worldwide Institute for the Preservation of Everything

http://www.rachelcarson.org/ecolinks.html environmental links through the Rachel Carson Homestead to: Environmental Organizations; Goverment Agencies; Media, Publications, and Associations; Environmental Education; Organic and Pesticide Issues; Sustainability Pages

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