• BUEC The Bucknell Environmental Center supports faculty, staff, and students dedicated to environmental and nature-related learning, teaching, scholarship, service, and action at local, regional, national, and international levels.
  • PASA Since 1992, the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture has worked to create healthy and safe food systems.  The association includes a diverse group of people interested in the agricultural industry from “farm to fork.”
  • Search for information on many topics on ipl2, the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library and the Librarians’ Internet Index.
  • The Rutgers Libraries have quite a few fact sheets and articles about gardening and other topics.
  • The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offers tips on how to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
  • The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s site includes information about crops, food, nutrition, research and regulations.
  • Reusablebags.com is a site that includes facts about plastic bags and hints about how to reduce their use.
  • The Green Guide, a website hosted by NationalGeographic.com, offers information about how to make small changes that add up to big benefits for consumers’ wallets, for their health, and for the health of the planet.
  • Classroomearth.org, a National Environmental Education Foundation program, provides information about environmental topics for teachers.
  • Where does it all come from and where does it go? In this 20-minute online documentary, Annie Leonard explores the lives of things we buy.
  • Catalog Choice Reduce unwanted mail and choose companies from which you want to receive catalogs.
  • Recycled Card Program Send your used greeting cards to St. Jude’s Ranch for Children to be recycled into a new card or purchase copies of the “green” cards made by the children.
  • The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency maintains Reduce.org, and although some of the information is specific to Minnesota, there are tips almost anyone can use on cutting waste.
  • The National Garden Bureau’s stated purpose is to educate, to inspire and motivate consumers to increase their use of plants in homes, gardens and workplaces.
  • The Garden Watchdog, a feature of Dave’s Garden online gardening community, includes ratings of mail-order plant sellers.
  • The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map used to determine which plants will grow where you live.  Includes a GIS tool to search for your specific zone.
  • Find plants ideal for our area in the iConservePA’s Native Plant Database.  Then plan your native plant garden with their helpful garden templates.
  • Skin Deep, the Environmental Working Group’s cosmetic safety database, rates the hazards in nearly 30,000 products.
  • Bon Apetit Management Company Foundation developed an online calculator as a public service to help people make informed food decisions.
  • The Freecycle Network is a grassroots nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.
  • The Low Impact Living site aims to be a “one-stop green shop” and a comprehensive source for U.S. environmental service providers available on the Internet.
  • The National Resources Defense Council is an environmental action organization.
  • The online organic pet supply company Paw Luxury is based in north central Pennsylvania.