Learning Resources

This page offers a compilation of online resources conference participants may find useful as they work to develop a greater understanding of global climate change. 

Primary Sources "Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events occurred or well after events in the form of memoirs and oral histories. Primary sources may include letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals, newspapers, speeches, interviews, memoirs, documents produced by government agencies such as Congress or the Office of the President, photographs, audio recordings, moving pictures or video recordings, research data, and objects or artifacts such as works of art or ancient roads, buildings, tools, and weapons. These sources serve as the raw material to interpret the past, and when they are used along with previous interpretations by historians, they provide the resources necessary for historical research." [Godleski, Nancy et al.  "Using Primary Sources on the Web."  Instruction & Research Services Committee of the Reference and User Service Association History Section in the American Library Association.  Retrieved from http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA] Local/Regional Center for Climatic Research, UW- Madison  http://ccr.meteor.wisc.edu/ USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station http://www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/ Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources www.dnr.state.wi.us Wisconsin State Climatology Office http://www.aos.wisc.edu/~sco/ National Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration     http://www.noaa.gov/climate.html National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) http://nsidc.org/ United States Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/ United States Department of Energy    http://www.energy.gov/ United States Department of State http://www.state.gov/g/oes/climate United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) http://www.usgcrp.gov United States National Assessment http://www.gcrio.org/NationalAssessment/ International Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research http://www.rivm.nl/en/milieu/ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change      http://www.ipcc.ch/ International Energy Agency, Greenhouse Gas Programme http://www.ieagreen.org.uk International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis http://www.iiasa.ac.at United Nations Environment Program http://grida.no/climate/ United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change    http://unfccc.int/ More Online Resources Local/Regional Biodiversity Project www.biodiversityproject.org Brown Thomas Architect www.tombrownarchitect.com Clean Wisconsin www.cleanwisconsin.org Congregations Caring for Creation www.c3mn.net Energy Institute, UW-Madison www.energy.wisc.edu Environmental Law & Policy Center http://www.globalwarmingsolutions.org/ Fresh Energy www.fresh-energy.org Gimme Shelter Construction http://www.gimmeshelteronline.com/ Midwest Renewable Energy Association www.the-mrea.org Preserve Our Climate http://www.madison.com/communities/preserveourclimate/ RENEW Wisconsin www.renewwisconsin.otg Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute (Northland College) www.northland.edu/soei Waukesha County Recycling Center www.waukeshacounty.gov/recycling Will Steger Foundation http://www.willsteger.com/ Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation http://www.weccusa.org/ National/International An Inconvenient Truth www.climatecrisis.net Apollo Alliance www.apolloalliance.org BBC Science & Nature http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/ Campus Climate Challenge http://www.campusclimatechallenge.org/ Care of Creation http://www.careofcreation.org/ Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/ Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) http://www.iclei.org/ Classroom Encounters http://www.classroomencounters.org/ EPA's "Climate Change for Formal and Informal Educators" Listserve http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/news_listservs.html   Climate Crisis Coalition www.climatecrisiscoalition.org CNN, Changing Earth http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/changing.earth/ Co-op America's Climate Action Campaign www.climateaction.org Discovery Channel, "What you need to know" with Tom Brokaw http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/globalwarming/globalwarming.html?clik=n The Economist www.economist.com Energy Action Coalition www.energyaction.net Environmental Defense, Ask Dr. Bill http://environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?contentID=5501 EPA's Personal Greenhouse Gas Calculator http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterToolsGHGCalculator.html Evangelical Environmental Network http://www.creationcare.org/ Focus the Nation http://www.focusthenation.org/K-12.html Global Warming 101 http://www.globalwarming101.com/ Global Warming Art www.globalwarmingart.com Global Warming: Early Warning Signs http://www.climatehotmap.org/ Global Warming Photos, Art, etc. http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/index.html The Great Warming http://www.thegreatwarming.com/ GreenBiz www.greenbiz.com Greenhouse Network www.greenhousenet.org HBO's "Too Hot Not to Handle" http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/toohot/index.html Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation http://www.leonardodicaprio.com/ (You can go to this site to watch "Global WARNing," a short overview of global climate change produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.  Just click on the icon at the bottom of the page.) Moyers on America: Is God Green? http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/green/index.html Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/default.asp New American Dream http://www.newdream.org/ Pew Center on Global Climate Change www.pewclimate.org Princeton Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI) http://www.princeton.edu/~cmi/ Planet Ark www.planetark.com Renewable Energy Access http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/ Rolling Stone: Warriors & Heroes http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/8742145/warriors__heroes/ Safe Climate for Business http://www.safeclimate.net/business/index.php Sierra Club http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/ Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org/ Voices of Tomorrow http://www.voicesoftomorrow.org/ Wall Street Journal www.wallstreetjournal.com The Weather Channel, One° Climate Change http://climate.weather.com/ Watersheds: Connecting Weather to the Environment http://www.meted.ucar.edu/broadcastmet/watershed/ World Resources Institute www.wri.org World Changing http://www.worldchanging.com/ World Watch Institute, Vital Signs Online www.worldwatch.org/taxonomy/term/456 Yale Project on Climate Change http://environment.yale.edu/climate/  Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!) www.yesworld.org Last updated: 11/21/2006