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Summary of a report by Jakob Nielsen's usability group about college students and how they use the web. Lots of good stuff here. Full report is $128.

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Slideshare presentation from JESS3

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Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you

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Includes words from titles of all publications produced by the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center

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Public version of a design tool Nike created to help its designers make better-informed decisions in the earliest stages of making products.

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Many business leaders recognize that the true value of sustainability is realized only when sustainability is embedded into their organizations’ cultures. The ability to identify opportunities and innovate new processes requires that every internal stakeh

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LibGuides that I developed while working as the ISTC Librarian.

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RefShare database of research articles on biochar. Developed for ISTC's biochar research. Regularly updated.

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RefShare database of research articles on sustainable electronics and electronic waste. Developed for ISTC's Sustainable Electronics Initiative. Regularly updated.

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Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering

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The Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) Pollutant Loading Tool is a new tool designed to help you determine who is discharging, what pollutants they are discharging and how much, and where they are discharging. The tool calculates pollutant loadings from pe

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Web icons are an underrated, yet very important part of any online news site. The small graphics help the reader quickly identify the type of content behind the link. They are especially useful for news sites who produces a variety of media, including pho

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Links to funding opportunities for energy, waste, water, and environmental education projects in Illinois. Also includes links to foundations and grant directories, including GLRPPR.

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Reg Stat is the EPA site of all the activity published by the Agency in the Federal Register covering the period between calendar years 2005-2009. The site offers summary statistics using statistical data in the form of charts, tables and brief summary ov

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Describes the results of an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) into the health, safety, and environmental
compliance practices of Federal Prison Industries’ (FPI) electronic waste (ewaste) recycling program.

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This second annual report builds on the findings of 2009’s inaugural survey by more deeply examining the trends, requirements, and sentiment of the global practitioner corps that is undertaking work to measure and manage climate-changing greenhouse gas em

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One of the great things about the web is how inexpensive it now is to reach a lot of people. Not so long ago you would have needed to have access to either a printing press, a movie or television studio, or a radio station. Now, anybody can create a websi

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In this report, we describe biochar production pathways, energy co-products resulting from biochar production and their potential uses, assess the key environmental risks associated with biochar production and utilization systems, discuss estimates of glo

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