Earth Day:  Assessing our world - Protecting our home

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On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans gathered on campuses, in small towns, at
city parks and at the foot of the Washington Monument to demand more be done to
protect the earth's resources. That year, Congress enacted 28 environmental laws. Thus,
Earth Day was born and has been celebrated every day since.

More links will be added as state, federal, and international groups begin to put up more information for Earth Day

CELEBRATION

Celebrate Earth Day with ideas from the Earth Day network: http://www.earthday.net/

Read about EPA Earth Day activities here:  http://www.epa.gov/earthday/

Get a head start on May 2005, Biodiversity Month, by exploring biodiversity resources in your area:  http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/iboy/biomonth/

Become involved in protecting your watershed.  For more information, see the EPA Office of Water's page on community action and water reference tools.  http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/earthday/earthday.html

Green Illinois is designed to increase awareness and promote efforts to reduce waste, use alternative fuels, improve energy efficiency, and generally use products and procedures that are environmentally sustainable and economically efficient.  Linked on this page are executive orders, reports, sustainability manuals, and recycling initiatives.  http://www.epa.state.il.us/green-illinois/index.html

Research  

Explore our new Environmental Information page for general data sources on environmental issues.  The page includes state, federal, and international resources.  http://www.library.uiuc.edu/doc/environment.htm

Another useful Documents Library page (linked off of our main environment page) is our page on international environmental information.  The page includes links to organizations, statistics, reports, directories, and more.  http://www.library.uiuc.edu/doc/inter/topic/environ.htm

The Illinois EPA includes on their air information site several useful features, including an Illinois Air quality index and reports, air fact sheets, and vehicle emission testing resources.  http://www.epa.state.il.us/air/index.html

Search environmental databases, including those for cleanup and regulatory information from the IEPA Bureau of Land's database links:  http://www.epa.state.il.us/land/database.html

Illinois State Geological Survey:  The home site includes research, publications, educational resources, and data. http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/

The Illinois Natural History Survey provides access to publications, collections, and other natural resources agencies.  http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/

Illinois State Water Survey:  A division of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, is the Water Survey.  Their home page includes links to a publications list, and their library.   http://www.sws.uiuc.edu/

The Waste Management and Research Center page includes mapping and waste information databases, as well as a documents list, and compilation of current projects, and a library.  The library includes several reference guides and material information. http://www.wmrc.uiuc.edu/

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