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What's New?
Environmental Planning for Small Communities (Trilogy)
- This program offers
a complete one-stop introduction to a wide range of environmental issues and decisions that affect small to medium-sized communities. It offers
communities the chance to judge their own needs and preferences, and to make informed decisions on their own.
Now available in both HTML and non-HTML Versions!
Water Efficient Landscape Planner
- If you're starting a new lawn, you'll find help for selecting a type of grass and preparing/planting your seedbed. If your interest
is maintaining your lawn, we offer information on pest and disease
control (including integrated pest management), fertilization
and irrigation.
Environmental Enrichment for the Lodging Industry: A Toolkit
- Pollution prevention in the lodging industry can be positive
both economically and environmnentally. The program features a
Virtual Hotel Tour which looks at the impacts of: energy management,
solid waste controls, water conservation, air quality, purchasing
management. You also can tour the virtual hotel through these
areas of: Restaurant and Bar, Front Desk, Housekeeping, Administrative
Office, Maintenance, Recreation, Grounds and Landscaping. You'll
also find self-assessment tools, case studies, contacts and references.
Mercury in Buildings
- Why mercury matters, how to reduce mercury releases, what to
do if there's a mercury spill, what problems exist in different
types of buildings, and what devices contain mercury. For demolition
contractors, buidling contractors, and building owners.
Biodiversity Around the Great Lakes
- Biodiversity Around the Great Lakes is perhaps the most feature-rich multimedia program EPA and Purdue
University have produced to date. This program is aimed at high school and entry college level students and others
with an interest in the concept of biodiversity, particularly as it is a matter of concern for the Great Lakes.
Protecting Children's Health in Schools
- This guide will introduce you, as a decision-maker in your school system, to potential
hazards and aid you in protecting the environment and the health of those who use your school. The guide
will discuss what those hazards might be, how to test for them, and how to remedy problems found.
L-THIA: Long-Term Hydrological Impact Assessment
- L-THIA is a Web-based analytical tool to estimate impacts upon runoff, recharge and nonpoint source
pollution resulting from past or proposed land use changes. It assesses the long-term Hydrologic impacts of
land use change. It gives long-term average annual runoff for a land use configuration, based upon actual
long-term climate data for that area. By using many years of actual climate data in the analysis, L-THIA
focuses on the average long-term impact, rather than an extreme year or storm. By accreting other geographical databases,
including wetlands, floodplain mapping,and demographics t thus can expand into an almost unlimited succesion
of planning and design tools covering wellhead protection, feedlot management, ambient air quality, stream hypoxia,
and environmental justice.
New HTML versions of Farm*A*Syst Programs:
- Livestock Manure Storage
- Livestock Manure Handling Practices
- UIC Class V Injection Wells
Available in both English and Spanish Versions!
Just completed and very Soon to be Released:
- Habitat Management and Volunteer Monitoring
- Following up on Biodiversity, Habitat Management and Volunteer Monitoring is another new multimedia
environmental education program oriented to high school students and college students, with some interest for
advanced junior high as well. This program focuses on the upper Midwest and Great Lakes, but users and their
instructors will find application almost everywhere. It takes the user through exercises leading to an understanding
of the concepts, principles and practices of habitat management and monitoring, with an emphasis on what can be
done in our communities to protect and restore natural ecosystems. A second emphasis of the program is to introduce
the student to environmental management as a career. It acquaints users with the tools and practices, skill sets
and daily lives of people working in the field. Like the ecosystem tour in Biodiversity, this program contains a
virtual habitat restoration tour of projects.
- Big River: the Upper Mississippi
- The third volume in this set, Big River is the "compleat" Upper Mississippi River for grades 9-12. Take a virtual tour of the Big River --its people, places and living things.
Explore its length and breadth from its Lake Itasca source to its juncture with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois.
Be steeped in the River's bountiful history, both human and natural, from the times of the Ancient Mound Builders to present day.
Examine some of the environmental issues facing the Mississippi River and Riverside communities today. Investigate the
River's dynamics and how human responses have changed them -not always as expected. Like the companion programs,
Biodiversity Around the Great Lakes and Habitat and Volunteer Monitoring, Big River includes a species guide offeringt details about the
Upper Mississippi's indigenous flora and fauna.
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