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- League of Minnesota Cities Provides links to all MN cities The League of Minnesota Cities is committed to "serving Minnesota's cities through effective advocacy, expert analysis, trusted guidance, and collective action." The League represents more than 800 Minnesota cities.
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- Minnesota Information Links. Links to Minnesota government offices; other state-related servers; legislative servers in other states.
- League of Minnesota Cities Provides links to all MN cities The League of Minnesota Cities is committed to "serving Minnesota's cities through effective advocacy, expert analysis, trusted guidance, and collective action." The League represents more than 800 Minnesota cities.
- State of Minnesota - North Star Options. Guide to Minnesota government departments and services.
- Mn/DOT. Minnesota Department of Transportation.
- Minnesota State Legislature. Searchable database of Minnesota legislature and its offices; links to other state legislative sites.
- Minnesota Planning. Minnesota State Planning Agency. Information about current planning issues, publications.
- Minnesota State Historical Society.Guide to Minnesota History Center and Minnesota historic sites.
- Minnesota Extension Service. The Minnesota Extension Service is the major educational outreach arm of the University of Minnesota, with offices in every county of the state.
- MFU. Minnesota Farmers Union. Information about Minnesota agriculture; links to related sites.
- Preservation Alliance of Minnesota. Information about the organization and its activities; links to other preservation organizations.
- The River Project. Minnesota Telecommunications Network. Directory of non-profit organizations operating in the state.
Other City Links
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Web Cities/Communities
Academic/Government Urban/Urban Environmental
- Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods. Sponsored by the University of Louisville
- Census Bureau
This site is a gateway to everything the U.S. Bureau of the Census posts on the World Wide Web, plus information about their printed publications and other resources.
- Census Bureau "Tiger File" map site:
At this site you can generate maps of your metro area at different scales, portraying different census variables (e.g., ethnicity, race, income). Toward the bottom of the page you can enter any city. When it comes up, set the parameters you want, and watch the map load. These can be printed out or saved to a floppy disk.
- Social Explorer Social Explorer helps people engage with society
- Congress for the New Urbanism
- H-Urban an online discussion group for scholars and practitioners
- 1996 Statistical Abstract of the United States
- STAT-USA/Internet Site Economic, Trade, Business Information
- Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities
- HUD
- Planners Network - online
- Planetizen
- Online Course: Town Planning in Post-Suburban America
- California, Bay Area Urban Programs: The Trust for Public Land
- H-Urban Links
- H-Urban
- US Urban Environmental Historiography
- Homes and Communities
- The Vertical Farm Project
- Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research
- Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota
- Municipal Code Corporation
- American Planning Association
- Congress for the New Urbanism
- Urban Land Institute
- Planning Commissioners Journal's PlannersWeb: City & Regional Planning Resources
- The Big Ten Conference
- National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership
- Cities/Buildings Database
- The Enterprise Foundation
- Planners Network
- National Housing Institute
- CityLimits
- Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
- Photography Collection
- National Register of Historic Places Publications
- Urban Affairs Association
- National Geographic | New Suburb?: Sprawl vs. "Smart Growth"
- Design Matters, Best Practices in Affordable Housing
- Penn—Mumford Bibliography D
- Project for Public Spaces
Urban/Environment
- Natural Resources Defense Council Nonprofit dedicated to protecting wildlife and wild places, ensuring a safe and healthy environment for all living things.
- Sierra Club Promotes the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources.
- The Nature Conservancy Working to preserve plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
- American Bald Eagle Information With information, photos, stories, and free greeting cards.
- American Rivers Aims to protect and restore North America's river systems and to foster a river stewardship ethic.
- Fish-Trees-Water Campaign Campaign by the Earthjustice Legal Defence Fund to safeguard and restore the Pacific Northwest.
- Invasive Weeds: A Growing Pain A weed by any other name...may be causing native plants to disappear. Learn about the damage they cause, and what can be done to prevent it.
- River Network - helping people organize to protect and restore rivers and watersheds.
- Raw Materials Use and the Environment A worldwatch institute on how consumers, businesses, and governments are finding ways to profit and prosper while slashing their use of raw materials.
- Cousteau Society Nonprofit organization founded by Captain Jacques Cousteau dedicated to exploring, observing, and protecting ecosystems. Features information on coral reefs, marine protected areas, whales, and fisheries.
- National Anxiety Center Alan Caruba looks at dubious news stories, takes issue with the "Green Genocide Agenda" of misinformation and distributes annual Chicken Little awards.
- Argo - project planning an array of 3000 temperature/salinity profiling floats as a major component of the global ocean observing system.
- Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Intended to be a permanent global system for observations, modelling and analysis of marine and ocean variables needed to support operational ocean services worldwide.
- WWF: Global Campaign to Reduce the Use of Toxic Chemicals
- Everglades National Park
- A Land Ethic Reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land.
- EdGateway Communities Offers educators and their organizations the ability to find, organize, and share events, discussions, organizational information, and documents.
- EPA Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water
- Sustainable Sources Environmental Solutions-based environmental website; sustainable building, indiginous materials. In English and Spanish.
- Traffic WWF monitoring program designed to ensure that wildlife trade is legal and at sustainable levels.
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Provides an integrative and interactive mechanism through which a large number of separate efforts by intergovernmental, non-governmental, national and regional bodies in the service of the environment are reinforced and interrelated.
- Visions of the 21st Century: Health and Environment After 100 years of unparalleled medical marvels and environmental disasters, what will the 21st century bring? From Time Magazine, November, 1999.
Energy
Environmental Justice
Water
Sustainable Development
Garbage/Waste
Databases
- EPA Envirofacts
- Bridges Environmental Information Search
- Datanet: Minnesota Land Use and Cover
- The Right-To-Know Network
- Environment, Biodiversity, Climate Change/Energy, Ecological News, Forests, Land Use/Sprawl, Oceans, Ozone Layer, Rainforests, Temperate Forests and Water Portals
- CERCLIS State List
- Pace University School of Law Environmental Law Library
- Scorecard
- The Right-To-Know Network
- Environmentalism in the 21st Century
- Free GIS, Free Data, Free maps, Environmental Resources
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Climate
Government
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