Colonie's Mohawk Riverfront
See how one community is working with the Countryside Exchange to initiate a unique process to plan for the 10 miles of shoreline along the Mohawk River.
http://www.colonie.org/mohawk/

The Heritage Development Institute
The new Heritage Development Institute is being created by the Alliance of National Heritage Areas to provide training opportunities for practitioners of heritage development. Glynwood Center is working in partnership with the Alliance, the College of Charleston, SC and others to develop the inaugural January 2002 program.
http://www.cofc.edu/~heritage/heritage_development_institute.htm

The Orton Family Foundation
The Orton Family Foundation seeks to help citizens of rural America define the future, shape the growth and preserve the heritage of their communities.
http://www.orton.org/

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
Learn about the efforts of this diverse regional coalition to preserve and restore the resources of the Chesapeake Bay through education and involvement. Web headings include: projects and programs; information resources; citizen involvement and contact information.
http://www.acb-online.org/

The Spring Creek Watershed Educational Web Site
The Spring Creek Watershed Educational Web Site is a web site created to increase awareness of watershed issues through education and outreach. It provides research tools such as a Searchable Annotated Bibliographic Database and links to relevant sources of information (such as Watershed Stresses, Unique Characteristics, Karst Topography, projects around the watershed, and other resources). In addition, a searchable database is available from their Water Resources Monitoring Project, which provides water quality data from monitoring stations around the watershed.
http://www.springcreekwatershed.org

Center for Rural Pennsylania
This sites introduces this non-partisan, legislative agency and some of it efforts to promote and sustain the vitality of Pennsylvania's rural and small communities. Read the Center's newsletter online and look for the Center's other publications in the near future. distribution in the near future.
http://www.ruralpa.org/

Chesapeake Bay Program
This site provides information about the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and the efforts of the Bay Program to protect it, as well the latest research results and opportunities to help at home and in your community.
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/bayprogram/index.htm

Environmental Protection Agency
This site provides general information about the EPA, upcoming news and events, and provides links to regional office websites as well as other sites concerned with environmental protection and community stewardship.
http://www.epa.gov

Farm to Table
Connect to great New York State farmers and vintners, find out who they are, what growing practices they use, and how and where you can buy their products.
http://www.farmtotable.org

Office of Sustainable Ecosystems and Communities
This site provides a variety information about integrated approaches to environmental protection related to topics such the economics of sustainability, understanding ecosystem science and indicators of sustainability. The information often combines case studies with practical information such as other Internet resources, reading materials and the names of organizations and people to contact for additional information.
http://www.nps.gov/ecocommunity

Economy and Environment Division
Geared primarily to professionals, this site concentrates on research and analyses of environmental economics with an emphasis on cost-benefit analysis, environmental pollution controls, the use of economic incentives for pollution control and the relationships between economic growth and pollution control.
http://www.nps.gov/docs/oppe/eaed/eedhmpg.htm

National Park Service
The home page for the National Park Service generally describes its programs and services as well as providing links to the web pages of some of its specific programs.
http://www.nps.gov/

Internet Resources for Heritage Conservation, Historic Preservation, and Archaeology
Maintained by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, this site provides a guide to resources on the internet such as listserves, newsgroups, databases, World Wide Web and FTP sites. It assumes the user has a basic knowledge of Internet commands.
http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/

National Parks and Conservation Association
Learn about the efforts of this land conservancy that is dedicated exclusively to America's national parks. It includes information on campaigns, publications, NPCA programs, the Park Activist Network as well as feature articles on a variety of conservation and park related topics.
http://www.npca.org/home/npca/