Perspectives & Further Reading

Environmental Impacts outlined by energy source

• "Natural Gas," EPA http://epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-and-you/affect/natural-gas.html
• "Coal" EPA http://epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-and-you/affect/coal.html"
• "Oil" EPA http://epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-and-you/affect/oil.html
• "Nuclear Energy" EPA http://epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-and-you/affect/nuclear.html
• "Hyrdoelectricity" EPA http://epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-and-you/affect/hydro.html
• "Nonhydroelectric Renewable Energy" http://epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-and-you/affect/non-hydro.html

Air

• United Nations Environment Program, Urban Environment Unit, http://www.unep.org/urban_environment/key_programmes/index.asp
• "2007 World Development Indicators: Air Pollution" World Bank, 2007 http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/table3_13.pdf

Water And Biodiversity

• "Estimating Freshwater Needs to Meet 2025 Electricity Generating Capacity Forecasts" Jeffrey Hoffmann, Sarah Forbes, and Thomas Feeley U.S. Department of Energy/National Energy Technology Laboratory, June 2004 http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/coalpower/ewr/pubs/Estimating%20Freshwater%20Needs%20to%202025.pdf
• "World Water Resources and Their Use: a Joint SHI/UNESCO product" Prof. Igor A. Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute (SHI), St. Petersburg, 1999 http://webworld.unesco.org/water/ihp/db/shiklomanov/

Land And Biodiversity

• "Energy and Biodiversity Initiative (EBI) Report" EBI, http://www.theebi.org/products.html
• Biodiversity Working Group, IPIECA http://www.ipieca.org/activities/biodiversity/bio_issue.php
• The Convention on Biological Diversity, http://www.cbd.int/