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Acid Rain Program Forms
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Acid Rain Program. Forms required under the US EPA's Acid Rain Program, including those required for the Allowance System, Permitting, Monitoring, the Opt-In Program, Annual Reconciliation, the Allowance Auction, and Conservation and Renewable Energy Reserve. The forms are in PDF and WordPerfect formats.
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BTS Core DataBook
By Department of Energy's Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS). Data related to energy use in commercial and residential buildings. Topics include: energy consumption and expenditures; end-use splits; geographic region and vintage; construction statistics; and, estimated carbon emissions. Tables are fully indexed, and can be viewed as HTML or PDF formats or downloaded as a spreadsheet (tab-delimited) file. The entire DataBook can be downloaded as a PDF file (registration required).
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Electricity and Environment Database
By Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Provides information relating to the "Environmental Challenges and Opportunities of the Evolving Continental Electricity Market" and the green goods and services certification project. The database is searchable by keyword or text, and contains information on government and non-government initiatives from Canada, Mexico and the United States.
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Energy Star Products
By US Environmental Protection Agency and US Department of Energy. Helps you make the most economical purchases for your facilities and home with a simple estimate of potential energy savings.
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Green Conference Initiative
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT). Opportunities for conference planners and suppliers (e.g., hoteliers, convention centers, and food service providers) that can help reduce pollution, energy use, and water use at a conference.
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Green Vehicle Guide
By US Environmental Protection Agency. Find information about the air pollution emissions and fuel economy performance of different vehicles.
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Heat Transmission Properties of Insulating and Building Materials
By National Institute of Standards and Technology. A reference for building designers, material manufacturers, and researchers in the thermal design of building components and equipment.
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Home Energy Saver
By Environmental Energy Technologies Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Is your home energy efficient? This online tool looks at ways to save energy for heating/cooling, domestic hot water, appliances and miscellaneous uses, and lighting.
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HORIZON Solutions Site
By HORIZON Communications, UNEP, UNDP, UNPF, UNICEF, Harvard University, Yale University, and the IDRC of Canada. A source of case studies on proven or promising solutions drawn from all parts of the world and from both high and low technologies. Subjects include agriculture, biodiversity, desertification, forests, oceans, fisheries, land management, energy production and consumption, population, public health, toxic chemical and pollution control, transportation, waste management, and water quality and supply.
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Residential Energy Efficiency
By US Environmental Protection Agency and Purdue University. Shows effective ways to reduce home energy consumption. Topics include insulation, windows, doors, weather-stripping, and caulking. The expert system feature allows users to calculate how much they will save by making their homes more energy efficient. After you enter information about your home and the energy-saving changes you intend to make, the program uses local utility and climate data to calculate your savings in money, energy, and reduction of pollutants. Useful for everyone from the general public to utility managers.
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Tailpipe Tally
By Environmental Defense. Using Tailpipe Tally, you can compare the environmental and economic costs of different vehicles. Simply provide some basic information and get fuel consumption, fuel cost, and vehicle emissions for any vehicle (model year 1978 to present) you choose.
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U.S. Life-Cycle Inventory Database
By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This database provides a cradle-to-grave accounting of the energy and material flows into and out of the environment that are associated with producing a material, component, or assembly. It's an online storeroom of data collected on commonly used materials, products, and processes.
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