Australian Air Quality Group Woodsmoke Site Provides resources and background information on the most significant source of health-hazardous PM2.5 particles in Australia woodsmoke.3sc.net Burning Issues U.S. group dedicated to reducing woodsmoke pollution www.burningissues.org National Pollutant Inventory Australia's national database of pollutant emissions www.npi.gov.au Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities website: www.environment.gov.au Air pollutants in Australia: www.environment.gov.au/atmosphere/airquality/pollutants.html Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC) Sets the National Environment Protection Measures (NEPM) for Air Quality www.ephc.gov.au/ Air Health British Columbia Air quality and health information from Canada www.airhealthbc.ca/default.htm California Air Resources Board Air Pollution Seminar Series http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/seminars.htm US EPA Air Science 40 seminar series http://www.epa.gov/airscience/past-seminars.htm Rural Fire Service NSW Information about bush fires and planned burn-offs www.rfs.nsw.gov.au Country Fire Authority Victoria www.cfa.vic.gov.au Rural Fire Service Queensland www.ruralfire.qld.gov.au Other Australian fire services Australian Lung Foundation Information on lung disease, its treatment, patient support and related issue website: www.lungfoundation.com.au Advice on woodsmoke and your health: www.lungfoundation.com.au/lung-information/patient-educational-material/fact-sheets/9 Heart Foundation Poor air quality is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. This website has information on keeping your heart healthy. www.heartfoundation.org.au Australian Asbestos Network The Australian Asbestos Network website has been created by a team of media researchers at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia to give you easy access to information on asbestos-related diseases, health information for work and home, and to tell the history of asbestos in Australia and abroad. www.australianasbestosnetwork.org.au Mesothelioma Help mesothelioma.net/mesothelioma/ Mesothelioma Symptoms U.S. website featuring information and resources for patients and their families to better understand the symptoms of mesothelioma and the various aspects of diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. www.mesotheliomasymptoms.com Pleural Mesothelioma Center pleuralmesothelioma.com - up to date information on asbestos and its negative health effects asbestos.com - provides vital services and free resources for patients and families affected by mesothelioma and other asbestos-related cancers World Health Organisation directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system website: www.who.int Air quality guidelines for particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide - Global update 2005: www.who.int/phe/health_topics/outdoorair_aqg/en/ The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is a public-private initiative to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions. http://cleancookstoves.org/ | Cooking shouldn't kill Beyond Zero Emissions podcasts Beyond Zero Radio for Climate Solutions beyondzeroemissions.org/media/radio Sustainable Living Armidale Part of the global Transition Towns movement in Armidale, NSW slaati.org Clean Energy Council The peak body representing Australia’s clean energy sector www.cleanenergycouncil.org.au/cec/home.html Friends of the Earth Australia Clean energy solutions to Climate Change www.foe.org.au/anti-nuclear/issues/clean-energy/research Earth Day Network Earth Day 2012 is on April 22 www.earthday.org Climate Change: a warming world The story of our warming world from NASA's Goddard Institude for Space Studies http://climate.nasa.gov/warmingworld CO2Now.org works to advance CO2 literacy as a stepping stone to decisions and solutions that will bring humanity's main environmental crises to an end: global warming, climate change and ocean acidification. http://co2now.org EcoSolar Housing Designing houses for the 21st century http://www.aaev.net/management/bdc/bdc_documents/files/EcoSolar%20housing%20manual.pdf Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Environmental action group in the U.S. NRDC works to solve the most pressing environmental issues we face today: Curbing Global Warming and Creating the Clean Energy Future; Reviving the World's Oceans; Protecting Health by Preventing Pollution; Fostering Sustainable Communities. http://www.nrdc.org Rocky Mountain Institute "At Rocky Mountain Institute we are practitioners, not theorists. We do solutions, not problems. We do transformation, not incrementalism.” Amory Lovins, Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist. Homepage: rmi.org Reinventing Fire Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era offers actionable solutions for four energy-intensive sectors of the economy: transportation, buildings, industry, and electricity rmi.org/reinventingfire Solar Air Heating is a renewable energy heating technology used to heat or condition air for buildings or process heat applications. It is typically the most cost-effective out of all the solar technologies, especially in commercial and industrial applications, and it addresses the largest usage of building energy in heating climates, which is space heating and industrial. SolarWall Solar Air Heating Technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_air_heat Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) is the primary climate-change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). CDIAC is located at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and includes the World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases. http://cdiac.ornl.gov |
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