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Environment Day Special - Having Your Cake and Eating It Too

Lush green bushes. Colourful fragrant flowers. Clear water, chirpy birds and leaping deer are what the environment really means to us. Let's enjoy it and also sustain it. Here are few sites which enlighten us about the environment and its protection.

http://www.ecoworld.com
Provides information and answers about the Earth's energy and food supply, species, and ecosystems. And learn about projects to preserve them. There's also a guide to earth-friendly products and services, tours and green investing.

http://www.greenpeace.org/
Greenpeace, styled on an earthy background, is an independent campaigning organisation. And uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems. It forces solutions essential to a green and peaceful future. You can also participate by joining their cyber activist team.

http://www.worldenvironment.com/
Aspects of global warming, nature including flora and fauna, pollution and related stories about world environment are covered. Nuclear wastes, renewable energy, waste disposal and other environmental news is covered in length.

www.EnviroOne.com
This is your "one-stop centre" for everything environmental. It uses propriety technology that combines a vast array of resources with timely content, innovative tools, and e-commerce. This help close the loop on searching for information. While retaining the ability to immediately act upon that information.

http://www.world.org/
One person can make a difference and that person is you is the motto of this world environment organisation. And helps empower you to end environmental destruction. The site contains helpful news and tips updated several times each week. If you would like to represent World.Org in your state or country, you need to fill in a volunteer application.

www.ecopledge.com
How can ordinary people convince corporations to change anti-environmental practices? Through ecopledge.com of course. Consumers, investors and students are harnessing their power to leverage change in corporate environmental behaviour. To identify and encourage companies to improve their environmental behaviour, you need to become an ecopledge.com signer. And pledge not to work for, purchase products from, or invest in companies that ecopledge.com identifies.

http://www.greenchannel.com/
This site promotes positive environmental change. Using better communication of environmental information, products, services and initiatives. There's a global forum. And a marketplace for commercial, professional and public interest organisations here.

www.eco-portal.com
This is a sustainability portal with full text searches of reviewed environmental internet content. You have also links to the best environment sites. For further exploration on the subject, you can zoom onto climate, ozone, pollution, biodiversity, coral reefs, fisheries, rivers and lakes.

http://www.automeet.com/environmentalissues.html
You probably have, and still are caught in traffic jams. Your eyes become red as you gasp for breath. This happens in most Indian metros. But you can protect yourself if you know about the environmental laws. Get the details on how to make your city breath easily. This Indian site highlights the issues on road to put brakes on environment pollution.

http://eco-web.com
This portal is a global directory for environmental technology. A practical reference source for government departments, utility companies, engineering consultants, development agencies, importers and traders, educational institutes, non-governmental organisations and individuals engaged in environmental activities.

Compiled by Hima Bindu
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