Sustainability

Alternative Cleanup Technologies (for Underground Storage Tanks). These alternatives to pump-and-treat technologies for groundwater and excavate-and-dispose technologies for soil are not as widely used but have been proven to be effective.

Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources (BASINS). This multipurpose environmental analysis system is use by regional, state, and local agencies in performing studies on watershed and water quality.

Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES) brings to your fingertips a powerful technique for selecting cost-effective, environmentally preferable building products.

Children and their Environment. This site examines vulnerabilities of children to environmental contaminants.

Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT). This World Resources Institute tool provides a comprehensive and comparable database of greenhouse gases and other climate-related indicators.

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP). This EPA research program is developing the tools necessary to monitor and assess the status and trends of ecological resources.

Environmental Technology Opportunities Portal (ETOP) links you to programs that help fund development of new environmental technologies and offers information on existing environmental technologies.

Environmental Technology Verification develops testing protocols and verifies the performance of innovative technologies that have the potential to improve protection of human health and the environment.

Forest Products: Industry of the Future. This is one of nine energy- and waste-intensive industries that are collaborating with the Department of Energy in its "Industries of the Future" research and development program.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS includes Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources (BASINS), Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, Spatial Data and Applications.

Global Change Research Program. The primary emphasis of this assessment-oriented program is on understanding the potential consequences of climate variability and change on human health, ecosystems, and socioeconomic systems in the U.S.

Green Construction. This site describes pollution prevention initiatives that must be considered in all plans, drawings, work statements, specifications, or other product descriptions in construction of federal facilities.

Green Engineering Outreach. Extensive EPA outreach programs promote green engineering and disseminate supplemental materials.

Impervious Land Cover. Nonpoint pollution from impervious cover - on roads, buildings, parking lots, and turf grass - can seriously impact associated bodies of water.

Regional Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (REMAP). This EPA program tests the applicability of the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program approach to answering questions about ecological conditions at regional and local scales.

Regional Vulnerability Assessment (ReVA). EPA's Office of Research and Development is developing this approach to regional-scale, priority-setting assessment.

SEQL: Sustainable Environment for Quality of Life. This integrated environmental initiative is working to improve the regional environment in the 15-county Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill region in North and South Carolina.

Sustainability (FedCenter). The federal site provides guidance, examples, and information resources to aid federal facilities in developing and maintaining sustainable facilities and helping to develop and promote sustainable practices within their environmental programs or activities.

Technology Innovation Program. This site provides information about characterization and treatment technologies for the hazardous waste remediation community.

Tools of Watershed Protection in Developing Areas. This EPA Watershed Academy online module outlines a watershed protection approach that applies eight tools to protect or restore aquatic resources in an urbanized or developing watershed.