This handbook guides the user to hundreds of technologies, practices, partnership opportunities, and funding resources. Presented in non-technical language, it covers hundreds of publicly available resources for pollution prevention, control, remediation, and assessment.
Environmental Technology Resources Handbook will help you:
- REDUCE-time, effort, and money to search for innovative technologies
- LOCATE-federal dollars to support development of innovative technologies
- ANTICIPATE-environmental compliance problems by early adoption of technology
- UNDERSTAND-the process of forming partnerships to develop or market your "green" products or solutions
- PARTICIPATE-in verifying technologies under development
The Handbook is a highly cost-effective tool for environmental policymakers, corporate EHS personnel, engineers, consultants, governmental program managers, technology vendors, international development assistance professionals, and academics teaching environmental courses.
Environmental Technology Resources Handbook indexes information by key words, 12 technology and environmental media areas, 15 types of resources offered, and major industry and government sectors.
Contacts, including URLs, e-mail addresses, and phone and fax numbers allow you to access more detailed information.
Contents
- Forces Driving Environmental Technology
- Public Awareness
- Regulation
- Green Consumerism and Investment
- Environmental Leadership
- Voluntary Standards
- Technology Verification and User Consortiums
- How to Find TFES Resources
- Focusing the Search
- Selecting the Source
- Identifying the Assistance Categories
- Evaluating the Information
- Mapping the Environmental Technology Jungle
- The Selection Process
- Refining Terms for Searches
- The Technology Development Process
- Interagency Programs
- Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
- White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
- Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC)
- Federal Remediation Technology Roundtable (FRTR)
- Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR)
- U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
- The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
- Federal Agencies
- Department of Defense
- Department of Energy
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Energy Star
- Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP)
- Environmental Technology Commercialization Center (ETC2)
- Small Business Gateway
- Office of the Chief Financial Officer
- Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation (OPEI)
- Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
- Office of Research and Development
- Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER)
- Office of Wastewater Management (OWM)
- Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds (OWOW)
- Transportation Air Quality Center(TRAQ)
- Other Federal Agencies
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- United States Department of the Interior (DOI)
- Department of Transportation (DOT)
- Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank)
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- International Agencies
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
- Global Environment Facility
- World Bank
- Asian Development Bank
- Regional, State and Local Agencies
- Environmental Council of the States
- Interstate Technology & Regulatory Cooperation (ITRC)
- Local Government Organizations
- NGOs, Nonprofits and Professional Societies
- Engineering Societies
- Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI)
- Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- Restore America's Estuaries
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
- World Conservation Union (IUCN)
- World Resources Institute (WRI)
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