This is your List of Links

Many of the assignments in this course will require you to search the Internet for resources. As a class we will compile a list of the Internet sites (Links) we visited that we think are good. Each time you find a new link (that hasn't been added to this list and isn't at the Chemistry in Context Site), send an email message with the URL. You can earn bonus points for recording new sites!

 

Chapter 1	Chapter 4
Chapter 2	Chapter 5
Chapter 3	Chapter 6
Chapter 7	Chapter 9

• Chapter 1 - The Air We Breathe
  • The Why?Files, Science behind the News -- this site is probably good for lots of things!
  • EPA Office of Air Quality and Standards
  • Information about the Pollution Standard Index (PSI)
  • Office of Air Quality Policy and Guidance Information
  • List of Regulated Pollutants
  • National Ambient Air Quality Standards
  • Air Pollution in Los Angeles -- one person's view
  • Organization created to help solve the problems of air pollution
  • GreenBeat, a monthly Internet magazine profiling environmental endeavors and related subject matter
  • The American Lung Association's Air Quality page.  It has many links to helpful information about air pollution
  • EPA National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report, 1996
  • The Center for Atmospheric Chemistry (CAC), York University, Ontario, CA
  • The ELSI Project Web site, a story of school students monitoring air pollution in Slovenia!
     

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• Chapter 2 - Protecting the Ozone Layer
  • The Why?Files, Science behind the News -- this site is probably good for lots of things!
  • A few facts:  CFCs: What they are.  Why the concern.  The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
  • US Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO)
  • The Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry (CAC), York University, Ontario, CA
  • MAJOR ACTION ITEMS TO REINVENT OZONE AND PM NAAQS AND REGIONAL HAZE IMPLEMENTATION  (as of 8/20/98)
  • NEW REFRIGERANTS AND OTHER SUBSTANCES FOR EFFECTIVE USE OF ENERGY
  • Greenpeace Report on the Montreal Protocol
  • Jan Cantin at the University of Michigan has a nice page:  Depletion of the Ozone Layer
  • Responses to the skeptics assertion that "The Ozone Hole is a Hoax"
    • Friends of the Earth Ozone Reality Check
    • The Way Things Really Are:  Debunking Rush Limbaugh on the Environment, a publication of the Environmental Defense Fund.
    • You have to use your skills as a Skeptical Chemist to analyze this next one: Ozone & Objectivity by Robert Bidinotto
  • University of Cambridge Center for Atmospheric Science Ozone Hole Tour
  • Union of Concerned Scientists Ozone Depletion Policy Fact Sheet
  • Information about the Montreal Protocol
    • Ozone Secretariat of the United Nations Environment Programme.
    • "Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer"
    • Phasing out CFCs:  A Summary of The Vienna Convention and its Montreal Protocol
    • Pesticide Action Network   Methyl Bromide is a substance known to deplete the Ozone layer

• Chapter 3 - The Chemistry of Global Warming
  • The Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry (CAC), York University, Ontario, CA
  • Greenpeace's Climate Homage
  • Official Web Site of the UN Climate Change Secretariat
  • The Pembina Institute's Climate Change Program
  • The Sierra Club Global Warming Campaign
  • The concept of Joint Implementation
    • Joint Implementation On-Line, an online resource for information about worldwide Joint Implementation (JI)                                 activities.
    • "E7 Joint Implementation Framework"
    • WRI Article: "Private Financing for Global Environmental Initiatives"
  • The US Global Change Research Information Office is a good Clearing house of information about Climate Change.
  • The World Resources Institute maintains an extensive library of material on Climate Change and JOint IMplementation
  • EPA Sites On Joint Implementation
    • EPA Global Warming Fact Sheet on Joint Implementation
    • More EPA links
  • Sites dealing with the Kyoto Conference :
    • The Official Web site of the Third Conference of the Parties
  • Views from the Union of Concerned Scientists
    • "Global Warming"
    • Union of Concerned Scientists GLobal Warming Page
    • "World Scientists' Call for Action at the Kyoto Climate Summit"
  • Opinions and Insight
    • Trading Places" an article in New Scientist
    • Dower, R. C.; Zollinger, P. "Joint Implementation and the Climate Change Treaty"
    • Larry Parker, "Global CLimate Change: market Based Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases"
    • "The Berlin Mandate: For the World to Keep Its Cool", Seth Dunn, US Climate Action Network

• Chapter 4 - Energy, Chemistry, and Society
  • The Exon Valdez and the GDP, an article in Adbusters
  • Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether & Reformulated Gasoline
  • Solstice -- Renewable and Alternative Energy
  • Green Mountain Energy Resources -- "Can making electricity really cause air pollution?"
  • Some Resources of Waster Recovery
    • Pennsylvania DEP -- Inspect a Resource Recovery Plant
    • Trash Today
    • Resource Recovery Center, City of Fort Meyers, Fla.
    • What happens if you "don't follow the rules"

• Chapter 5 - The Water We Drink
  • Safe Drinking Water & Health
  • Pennsylvania Water Quality Report
  • Water Purification Index
  • AVONSOFT, one of the U.K's leading WATER SOFTENER manufacturers
  • LifeSource Water Systems
  • The Water Group -- Purest Source of Quality Bottled Water
  • Aqua-Doc, manufacturers of Magnetic Water Conditioners, Water Filtration & Disaffection and Air Purification Systems.
  • "Water - Pushing the Limits of an Irreplaceable Resource" - Articles from the New York Times.
  • Hard Facts About Soft Water from EcoWater Systems
  • AquaScams --  The Real Truth about water softeners!

• Chapter 6 - Neutralizing the Threat of Acid Rain
  • GreenBeat, a monthly Internet magazine profiling environmental endeavors and related subject matter

•  Chapter 8 - Energy from Electron Transfer

• Writing letters to your elected representative?
  • US House of Representatives
  • US Senate
• Chem 0080 Home Page
  • CourseInfo site for Chemistry 0080
  • Chem 0080 Course Outline
  • Chem 0080 Syllabus
• "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - or - Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources"
• Guidelines for writing papers & citing references
• Good Chemistry Links that will serve as resources
• ScienceNet:  A free science information service, staffed by scientists who are expert in explaining complex topics in everyday language.
• Links with information about Environmental issues
  • Greenpeace International Home page
  • United Nations Environment Programme -- Geneva Executive Center
  • Pesticide Action Network
• The EPA Home Page (you'll be going here often)
  • A link to EPA Databases & Software
  • EPA Global Warming Fact Sheet on Joint Implementation
• The Why?Files, Science behind the News
• NEDO, New Energy and Industrial Technology
• Links to pages you found ...
• Starting point for Prep Chem
• Center Point for General Chemistry
• Inorganic Chemistry (Chem 1131) HomePage
• The Academic Support Center
• Want to know a little more about Dr. Bell-Loncella?
• Want to know more about the area?
  • Johnstown Homage
  • Pennsylvania Homage
  • University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

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