Here are some websites and books that Dan Powell found that will help you find out more about the subjects on this site.
Composting Links
These sites discuss resources and
methods for home composting with great ideas and building plans for composting
systems and worm bins
http://www.a-horizon.com/compost/compost_menu.html
(RotWeb)
http://www.mastercomposter.com/
http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/compost/Composting_Homepage.html
(Cornell university's compost site with links to great info on science and engineering
of composting)
http://www.oldgrowth.org/compost/
http://www.vegweb.com/composting/
http://www.recyclenow.org/r_composting_worm.html
http://www.compost.org/ (Composting council
of Canada site)
http://www.cityfarmer.org/
http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/waterq/wq0351.htm
(great site on composting dead swine)
Compost-Related reading
Let It Rot : The Gardener's
Guide to Composting (Storey's Down-To-Earth Guides) -- by Stu Campbell
Worms Eat My Garbage : How to Set Up & Maintain a Worm Composting System
-- by Mary Appelhof
The Rodale Book of Composting -- by Deborah L. Martin
The Humanure Handbook : A Guide to Composting Human Manure (The Humanure
Hand Book, 2) by Joseph C. Jenkins
Secrets to Great Soil : A Grower's Guide to Composting, Mulching, and Creating
Healthy, Fertile Soil for Your Garden and Lawn (Storey's Gardening skills
by Elizabeth P. Stell
Backyard Composting: Your Complete Guide to Recycling Yard Clippings
by John Roulac
All About Compost: Recycling Household and Garden Waste by Pauline Pears
Recycling Links
http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/
Federal recycling site
http://www.bagbed.com/ use up all those
plastic grocery bags! gives new meaning to the term "sleeping bag"
http://www.container-recycling.org/
container recycling institute's homepage, a non-profit, research and public
education organization studying container packaging recycling and reuse.
http://www.grrn.org/cgi-bin/reframe/reframe.cgi?http%3A//www.grrn.org/order/welfare4waste.html
Grass Roots Recycling Network
http://www.grn.com/ Global Recycling Network
http://www.property.orst.edu/Campus_Recycling/
(Oregon state's recycling homepage)
http://www.corvallis.disposal.com/
(local recycling pick-up, follow link to recycling)
Recycling-related Reading
Choose to Reuse : An Encyclopedia
of Services, Businesses, Tools & Charitable Programs That Facilitate Reuse
by Nikki Goldbeck, David Goldbeck
The Resourceful Renovator : A Gallery of Ideas for Reusing Building Materials
by Jennifer Corson
McGraw-Hill Recycling Handbook, 2nd Edition by Herbert F. Lund
Likeable Recyclables : Creative Ideas for Reusing Bags, Boxes, Cans, and
Cartons by Linda Schwartz
Beyond Recycling: A Re-user's Guide by Kathy Stein
Waste and Want : A Social History of Trash by Susan Strasser
Save Our Planet: 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up the Earth by
Diane Maceachern
The Recycler's Manual for Business, Government, and the Environmental Community
by David R. Powelson, Melinda A. Powelson
Global Warming Links
http://globalwarming.enviroweb.org/
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/
(Environmental Protection Agency's Global warming site)
http://www.panda.org/climate/ (World
Wildlife Fund site)
http://www.ucsusa.org/index.html
(Union of Concerned Scientists site)
http://www.climatenetwork.org/
http://www.edf.org/Want2Help/b_gw20steps.html
(20 ways for everyone to reduce global warming)
http://www.worldwatch.org/ (Worldwatch
Institute webpage)
http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (NASA
page addressing solar radiation and human induced climate change)
http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/
http://www.gcrio.org/ (US Global Change
Research Information Office)
Global Warming-related Reading
Global Warming : The Complete
Briefing by John Theodore Houghton
Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate : How Truth Became Controversial
by M. Mihkel Mathiesen, Zbigniew Jaworowski
Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming by Gale E. Christianson
The Satanic Gases by Patrick J. Michaels, Robert C. Balling
Beating the Heat Why and How We Must Combat Global Warming by John J.
Berger
The Carbon War : Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era by Jeremy
K. Leggett
Global Warming : The Truth Behind the Myth by Michael L. Parsons, S.
Fred Singer
Sound and Fury : The Science and Politics of Global Warming by Patrick
J. Michaels
A local watershed site
Mary's River Watershed Council, http://www.marys-river-wc.peak.org/
Other Books of Interest
Balance Point by Joseph
Jenkins
Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable
Future by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows and Jorgen Randers
The Spirit in the Gene: Humanity's Proud Illusion and the Laws of Nature
by Reg Morrison
Natural Capitalism : Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul
Hawken, Armory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water Penguin
by Mark Reisner