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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about egovernment activities which are being adopted by environmental organisations.
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- An inside look at the Department of Sustainability and Environment - DSE
- YouTube video promoting the diverse range of functions provided by the Victorian government's Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE); including efforts to sustainably manage water resources and catchments, climate change, bushfires, parks and other public land, forests, biodiversity and ecosystem conservation.
Added: 9 June 2011
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- Climate Change Interactive Map
- The UK government's Met Office has produced an interactive map which shows the impact on land mass of a global termperature rise of 4 degrees celsius.
Added: 30 October 2009
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- Environment - Australia
- Articles and resources about Australian government initiatives relating to environment issues.
Added: 9 December 2005
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- Environment - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about egovernment initiatives relating to environment in the United Kingdom.
Added: 16 December 2005
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- New Smart Electricity Meters on Show
- New smart electricity meters to cut power bills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions would be trialled and rolled out across Victoria.
Added: 10 July 2006
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- App to prevent littering to be released in Australia
- By Sumedha Jalote. FutureGov, 21 March 2013. "The State Government of Queensland is funding the development of a smartphone application to encourage residents to stop littering. A government grant of AU$50,000 is being awarded to Keep Queensland Beautiful, a community-based, environmental organisation motivating people to enhance the quality of their local environment. The organisation will be developing this app..."
Added: 21 March 2013;
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- Mobile App Simplifies Recycling in Canada
- By Sumedha Jalote. FutureGov, 3 January 2013. "The government of the province of Manitoba, Canada, launched a website and a smartphone app in December to help residents find recycling depots near their homes easily. The web portal, Manitoba Eco-Depot, allows visitors to enter their location and the items they would like to recycle (such as cell phones, pharmaceuticals or plastic bags). The website then generates a list of the closest recycling centres and displays their locations on an imbedded map..."
Added: 31 January 2013;
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- EPA Victoria deploys SAP CRM
- Written by Renai LeMay. Delimiter, Monday, September 10, 2012. "German software giant SAP this morning revealed that version 7.0 of its customer relationship management platform was being deployed at the Victorian Government’s Environmental Protection Authority, along with a number of other components of SAP’s broader software suite. The EPA’s role is to protect the state’s environment through regulation, particularly when it comes to construction works, for example, or manufacturing plants. It grants licences for industrial activity, conducts environmental audits, monitors the environment and sets standards. Most large government bodies have similar regulators to ensure large corporations do not run roughshod over the environment..."
Added: 10 September 2012;
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- Website 'erosion' worries insiders
- by Josh Gordon. The Age, August 28, 2012. "... The Department of Sustainability and Environment is set to purge its website of hundreds of pages of information, potentially including research papers and fact sheets on endangered plant and animal species, weeds and pests and studies of biodiversity and habitat loss. It is unclear what will be retained, but insiders are concerned the purge reflects a broader agenda to wind back a focus on conservation, with staff cuts also blamed for eroding the department's ability to provide updated information..."
Added: 30 August 2012;
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- Houston Clean Air Network
- The Houston Clean Air Network is a collaboration between local non-profits, businesses, researchers, and government agencies who share the goal of protecting public health from air pollution. CAN members are working together to reduce emissions by providing tools for understanding Houston's air pollution challenges. It uses Google Maps to show ozone levels in the City of Houston - level indicators range from good to hazardous.
Added: 23 August 2012;
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- Air Resources Board adds Google Earth maps to show major sources of greenhouse gases
- Californians can now locate major emitters in their communities. California Environmental Protection Agency, Air Resources Board. News release #:12-36, 7 August 2012. "Sacramento - Californians can now locate the major sources of greenhouse gases and easily examine the emissions of each facility with a new mapping tool introduced today by the Air Resources Board. 'Knowing the exact quantity of greenhouse gas every major source pumps into the atmosphere is the foundation of an effective cap-and-trade program,' said Mary D. Nichols, ARB Chairman. 'Thanks to our rigorous reporting program we know the amount of greenhouse gases each source emits down to the ton. This new application provides an easy way to pinpoint those sources on a map, and allows everyone to see at a glance how it compares to other facilities in the same county, or throughout the state.'..."
Added: 13 August 2012;
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- California Green house Gas Facilities and Emissions Visualization Tool
- California Environmental Protection Agency, Air Resources Board. "The new application links ARB's database of the state's largest sources of greenhouse gases with Google's mapping technology, including satellite photography that shows details of each facility. The Google Earth module features a graphic representation of the relative size of each facility’s annual greenhouse gas emissions in relation to others throughout the state. The application allows viewers to choose which sources they wish to see by sector (such as only choosing cement manufacturers, refineries, or power stations) and also displays specific counties, air basins and air districts. The application also shows six out-of-state facilities that provide some of the electricity imported into California..."
Added: 13 August 2012;
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- Google Earth-government data mashup lets you see emissions
- By Kirsten Korosec. Smart Planet, August 10, 2012. "The California Air Resources Board has taken three years of clunky, complex greenhouse gas emissions data from the state's 625 biggest polluters and turned it into something people can “see” and interact with. The interactive greenhouse gas map — a mashup of emissions data from state regulators and Google Earth's mapping technology — allows users to see GHGs by facility, year, and location. Users can pinpoint sources of emissions on a map and see at a glance how a particular facility compares to others in the same county, zip code or throughout the state..."
Added: 13 August 2012;
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- EPA plugs into new website
- PS News, Edition 274, 1 August 2012. "The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has officially launched its new, updated website. The EPA announced the launch saying that as well as an updated new look, the new website also featured a better structure through which the Authority could present information. It said the new structure made it easier for visitors to understand the EPA’s wide range of information and enforcement activities..."
Added: 2 August 2012;
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- WA's wildlife to benefit from citizen's 'smart phone surveys'
- Science Network Western Australia, Tuesday, 12 June 2012. "Volunteers with smart phones will soon be invited to participate in a massive and continuous survey of Western Australia's wildlife. Marine Biologist Associate Professor Lars Bejder says the automatic date, time and GPS stamping of smart phone photographs will make casual contributions by 'citizen scientists' valuable to science..."
Added: 13 June 2012;
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- Should I Respond Online On EPA's Behalf? in pdf format (116kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Questions to guide my decision – Use with 'Representing EPA Online Using Social Media' Procedure. US Environmental Protection Agency, 06/2011. Adapted from the Air Force Web Posting Response Assessment, Air Force Public Affairs Agency - Emerging Technology Division.
Added: 17 May 2012;
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- EPA offers Twitter response cheat sheet
- By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, May 16, 2012. "One of the tricky issues for federal agencies on Twitter is how to decide consistently whether to respond, or not respond, to a tweeted question or comment. Now there is some help with that dilemma. The Environmental Protection Agency has distributed a one-page flow chart that serves as a "cheat sheet" decision tool for indicating when agency representatives should respond to a tweet..."
Added: 17 May 2012;
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- e-Fish data system a KIRA Awards finalist
- Government of New Brunswick, News Release, Department of Natural Resources, 26 April 2012. "Fredericton (GNB) – An electronic system developed by the Department of Natural Resources to collect and improve the use of fisheries-related data is a finalist for the 2012 KIRA Awards. "The e-Fish system allows us to use technology to improve collecting and storing fisheries data and to use that data for better fisheries management,'' said Natural Resources Minister Bruce Northrup. "The department has always generated large amounts of fisheries-related data, but now we have a system that can more easily turn raw data into information that will better inform our decision-making.''..."
Added: 3 May 2012;
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- Australian smart grid project demonstrates savings
- By Chris King. eMeter, April 12, 2012. "Recently Western Power of Australia released results from its comprehensive research program into energy efficiency. The numbers show that smart meters, the smart grid, and solar power can help households cut their electricity bills — by half! For instance, in the Perth Solar City program, Western Power ran a series of energy efficiency trials which demonstrated that even with measures that cost the householder nothing, electricity bills can drop by nearly 10%. This program is managed by Western Power on behalf of the Australian Government..."
Added: 19 April 2012;
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- Here's the Future of Open Government, Courtesy of ... The Environmental Protection Agency?
- By Sarah Lai Stirland. Tech President, Monday, March 26, 2012. "Several members of Congress got a tantalizing glimpse of one possible model of the future of open government recently, and it didn't come from the Justice Department, the agency at the federal level that is primarily in charge of ensuring agencies' compliance with Freedom of Information Act. Instead, the model came from the Environmental Protection Agency. If everything goes according to schedule, by October 1 members of the public should be able to file FOIA requests through a single portal simultaneously to several different federal agencies, and be able to track the progress of their requests online. Once made available, those documents would also be stored in the system and would be searchable online for the wider public, and not just to the requester. .."
Added: 28 March 2012;
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