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Environmental Resources

For a selected list of environmental resources, compiled by Prof. Betsy Tompkins of the Kingsborough Library, please click here [pdf].

United Nations Environmental Programme
The mission of UNEP is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

Greenpeace International
Greenpeace is a global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by: Catalysing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our planet: climate change; Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves; Protecting the world’s remaining ancient forests and the animal, plants and people that depend on them; Working for disarmament and peace by reducing dependence on finite resources and calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons; Creating a toxic free future with safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals in today's products and manufacturing; and supporting sustainable agriculture by encouraging socially and ecologically responsible farming practices.

Global Forest Watch
Global Forest Watch is an initiative of the World Resources Institute.

The Center for Sustainable Energy
The Center for Sustainable Energy, established in 2003 at Bronx Community College, City University of New York, is funded with a Congressional appropriation sponsored by Representative José Serrano, and administered through the U.S. Department of Energy.

Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future
The mission of the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF) is to support sustainability as a critical focus of teaching, research, operations and outreach at colleges and universities worldwide through publications, research, and assessment. ULSF also serves as the Secretariat for signatories of the Talloires Declaration, a ten-point action plan committing institutions to sustainability and environmental literacy in teaching and practice. Over 350 university presidents and chancellors in more than 40 countries have signed the Declaration.

Barry Commoner: Environmental Prophet
Decades before Al Gore was honored with the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in spreading awareness of man-made climate change, there was Dr. Barry Commoner. An early prophet in the green movement, Dr. Commoner was dubbed “the Paul Revere of the environmental movement” in a 1970 Time magazine cover story. His groundbreaking books, including “The Closing Circle” and “The Politics of Energy,” along with 30-plus years in the classroom, have influenced a generation of scientists. The founding director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Queens College, Dr. Commoner officially stepped down in 2000, but, at age 90, continues to make daily visits to the center. Dr. Commoner warns that, unless we look to the sun, we are doomed. “Nothing is going to happen simply because people conserve energy. What has to happen is that we switch 100% from our non-renewable sources to solar energy in its various forms.”
For a CUNYMatters interview with Barry Commoner, click here...