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Ecological Footprints Miscellaneous/General UVM 
Eco-Reps Programs National Campus Sustainability Organizations Water
Energy National Student Organizations

Actions & Campaigns
Carbon Conscious Consumers Actions
Change the Margins
Think Outside the Bottle

Climate Change
10% Challenge
The Alliance for Climate Protection
Global Warming: Early Warning Signs
How to Live a Low-Carbon Life 
Lick Global Warming
Lick Global Warming -- How to make your dorm room better!
Step It Up!
Union of Concerned Scientists
We Can Solve It
World Mapper's GreenHouse Gas Maps

Consumption
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
Better World Books
Beyond the Three Rs
Buy Nothing Day
Consume This: Buying that Matters
Co-op America 
Ecological Footprinting 
Fair Trade Resource Network 
Global Exchange’s Fair Trade Store 
GreenGuide
Local First Vermont
National Green Pages
New American Dream
Responsible Purchasing Network
Responsible Shopper
Reusable Bags  - facts about plastic bag usage in the US
Simple Living Network
SweatShop Watch
Think Outside the Bottle

Composting
BioCycle, The Journal of Composting and Organics Recycling
Chittenden Solid Waste District
Composting Association of Vermont
Highfields Institute
Intervale Compost
U.S. Composting Council
Compost Science and Utilization
Worm Woman 

Ecological Footprints
Redefining Progress's Ecological Footprint Quiz

Eco-Reps Programs
"Green houses (and dorms)" from Harvard Gazette
Other Eco-Reps Programs across North America
"The new organic" from Brown Alumni Magazine
"Students spread the word and turn off the lights" from Tufts Journal

Energy
 18 Seconds
Burlington Electric Department
Central Vermont Public Service's Cow Power
 Department of Energy Computer Sleep Mode
Efficiency Vermont - our statewide energy efficiency ulitility
 EPA's Energy Star Program
Fossil Fools
I Love Mountains -- End Mountain Top Removal
 The Light Movement
Native Energy  student portal
 Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
 UVM Physical Plant Department, Energy Management Office
Vending Misers
 Vending Misers™ at UVM

Environmental Health
ACE: Alternatives for Community & Environment
Center for Health, Environment and Justice
Cornell University’s Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors 
Environmental Health Coalition
Environmental Health News 
Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative 
Idle-Free Vermont 
National Council for Science and the Environment 
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
New England Coalition on  Nuclear Power 
Nuclear Information and Resource Service 
Organic Consumers Association 
Pesticides, Human Health and the Environment 
Regional Farm and Food Project 
Scorecard 
Seventh Generation
           *Informational Guides  
Silent Spring Institute
Slow Food USA 
Smoking: Environmental and Social Impacts
World Health Organization 
Vermont Yankee

Environmental Literature/Films
Bullfrog Films
Chelsea Green Publishing
Green Planet Films
Island Press
ToTheSurface.org

Environmental News
eMagazine
GreenWire
Grist
Plenty Magazine

Local Foods/Urban Gardening
100 Mile Diet
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Audubon's Seafood Lover's Guide
Certified Green Dining Restaurant Guide
City Market/Onion River Co-op
Eat Local Vermont
Eat Well Guide 
Eat Wild
FoodRoutes.org
Farm Aid
Friends of Burlington Gardens
Intervale Center
Local Harvest
Meat-Out 
NOFA-VT 
Organic Consumers
Real Food Challenge -- national campaign to create a student movement for a "just and sustainable" food system
Robyn Van En Center for CSA Resources
Seafood Watch
Slow Food USA
Sustainable Table
USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service's Farmers' Markets Directory
University of Northern Iowa Local Food Project 
Vermont Agriculture's Buy Local Campaign
Vermont Fresh Network
Vermont Localvore
Vital Communities’ Valley Food & Farm Program


Miscellaneous/General
The "Ask Umbra"Column of Grist Magazine is full of great bulletin board factoids.
Ideal Bite offers bite-sized ideas for light green living.
OurEarth.org
Sightline
Vermont Agency of Natural Resources's EcoLogical Solutions
WiserEarth

National Campus Sustainability Organizations
Apollo Alliance's New Energy for Campuses
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
Campaign for Environmental Literacy
Campus Sustainability Assessment Project (CSAP)
Clean Air-Cool Planet
National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology
University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF)

National Student Organizations
Campus Climate Challenge
The Climate Campaign
Energy Action
Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)
SustainUS

Recycling
 Association of Vermont Recyclers
Calculate your waste in coffee cups 
 College and University Recycling Council
 Computer Take Back Campaign
Chittenden Solid Waste District
 Chittenden Solid Waste District's Materials Recovery Facility - where our recycling goes
 Earth 911
Earth Engineering Center of Columbia University & BioCycle
Garbage in America”
Global Recycling Council
Grassroots Recycling Network 
Green Disk/TechnoTrash Cans
 Northeast Recycling CouncilUVM Recycling 
Recyclemania - intercollegiate recycling competition that UVM participates in
Zero Waste
Zero Waste Alliance
Regional Campus Sustainability Organizations
Green Campus Consortium of Maine
Vermont Campus Energy Group (VCEG)

Re-Use
 Craigslist Burlington  - free section
 Freecycle Burlington
 Freecycle Network
 ReCycle North - a re-use store & organization
 The ReStore  - scrap art supplies store in Montpelier
Vermont Business Materials Exchange - a searchable database of available and wanted materials and equipment

 Transportation
Campus Area Transportation Management Association
CarShareVermont
Chittenden Country Transportation Authority
eRideshare.com
Local Motion
Pick-Up Pal
Vermont Bicycle and Pedestrian Coalition
Vermont Clean Cities Campaign

UVM
Biodiesel Buses Project
Common Ground Student-Run Educational Farm
Consortium for Ecological Living (CEL)
Energy Management Office
Environmental Council
Greening UVM
Recycling and Solid Waste
Surplus Property Program
Transportation Center
Transportation and Parking Services
UVM Residential Life 
UVM Eco-Reps Program 

Water
Bottled Water Blues
Burlington Department of Public Works - Water & Wastewater
EPA's Surf Your Watershed
Food and Water Watch
The Green Guide on Bottled Water
Lake Champlain Basin Program
New American Dream's Kick the Bottled Water Habit
Smart WaterWays
Think Outside the Bottle
USGS's Water Resources of the United States
VTANR's Water Conservation
Water Conserve 2.0
Water Music
Water Words the Work 

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