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General EMS Information
Case Studies
Federal Links
State and Other Links
Education
Agriculture
Small Business
Sustainability Links
National PEER Center
List of Local Resource Centers

General EMS Information

• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - distributes copies of the ISO 14000 standards
• ANSI-Registrar's Accreditation Board Website
• Public Entity Environmental Management System Resource Center
• Third-Party Auditing of Environmental Management Systems: National Academy of Public Administration (PDF)

Case Studies, Examples and Models

• Jefferson County, Alabama (Word Document)
• Tri-Met Case Study (Word Document)
• City of Scottsdale EMS
• State of Oregon Publishing and Distribution EMS
• Model EMS for Commonwealth Agencies
• City of San Diego Refuse Disposal Division

Federal Links

• EPA Environmental Management Systems Clearinghouse
• EPA Office of Wastewater - Environmental Management Systems/ISO 14001
• EPAís EMS: An Implementation Guide for Small and Medium-Sized Organizations
• EPA National Environmental Performance Track
• Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Management Systems (MSWG)
• National Database on Environmental Management Systems - protocols, data, public reports and other information
• Presidential Executive Order for the Greening of Government through Leadership in Environmental Management
• Integrated Environmental Management Systems (IEMS) Implementation Guide - OPPT

State and Other Links

• Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Green Permits Program
• NGO Working Group on ISO 14000
• Claremont McKenna College - The ISO 14000 Source
• ISO14000 Information Center
• ISO 14001 EMS Self Assessment Checklist, March 1996 (rev. 11/00) - GEMI
• Ford Motor Company EMS Implementation Manual
• Measuring Environmental Performance: Primer on Metrics by GEMI (PDF)

Education

• EPA's EMS Guide for Colleges and Universities

Agriculture

• Paper on ISO-14001 in Agriculture - Inst. for Agriculture Trade Policy
• Developing an EMS for Agriculture - P2 Pays

Small Businesses

• Practical Guide to Environmental Management for Small Businesses (EPA)
• EMS Implementation Guide for Small and Medium-size Organizations - NSF Jan 2001
• NSF International's Environmental Management Systems, An Implementation Guide for Small and Medium Sized Organizations (PDF)
• Design for the Environment's Integrated Environmental Management System - A Company Manual Template for Small Businesses
• Strategic Goals Program's EMS: A Guide for Metal Finishers
• EPA Performance Track EMS for Small Business Page

Sustainability

•  The Natural Step
  • Defines sustainability in four system conditions
  • Provides training for a shared mental model for effective teamwork
• Ecological Footprint
  • Provides an easily understood conceptual understanding of our individual impacts
• Conservation Economy:
  • Tackles the difficult task of describing a sustainable society
  • The site that documents best practices for social, economic and environmental practices
• Natural Capitalism
  • Provides four key strategies to work toward becoming more sustainable
• CERES Principles
  • 10 criteria to assess the environmental performance of companies
  • Created in response to the Exxon Valdez disaster
• Bellagio Principles
  • 10 principles to guide an organization to work toward sustainability
• Sustainable Process Index
  • Four criteria for sustainability applied to processes, products and regions considering human mass, natural and energy flows
• Environmental Sustainability Index
  • Criteria to measure national progress towards environmental sustainability
• USEPA Sustainable Industry Program
  • This site helps industry sectors improve environmental performance.
• Zero Waste
  • A vision of a future when our society models nature's waste free cyclical systems
  • Zero Waste supports sustainability by reducing extraction from, and eliminating waste to nature, improving economic efficiency and making more resources available to all

National PEER Center

Contact:  Nick Martin
Global Environment & Technology Foundation
2900 S. Quincy Street, Suite 410
Arlington, VA  22206
Tel:  (703) 379-2713, ext. 290
Fax: (703) 820-6168 
nmartin@getf.org 

Local Resource Centers

EcoVenture
Sustainable Earth Foundation
5512 Thomas Avenue
Oakland, California  94618
Contact: Gary Lucks or Sue Sakaki
Phone: (510) 601-8906 
garylucks@beyondcompliance.net; or
sakaki@esgcon.com 
www.beyondcompliance.net 
 

Georgia Tech Economic Development Institute
Economic Development Building - Technology Square
760 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia  30332-0640
Contact: Deann Desai
Phone: (770) 605-4474 
deann.desai@edi.gatech.edu 
www.edi.gatech.edu/environment 

Kansas State University
Pollution Prevention Institute
13480 S. Arapaho Drive
Olathe, Kansas  66062-1553
Contact: Steve Travis
Phone: (913) 764-6300, ext. 101
steve.travis@jocogov.org 
www.sbeap.org

Purdue University
Indiana Clean Manufacturing Technology and Safe Materials Institute (CMTI)
2655 Yeager Road, Suite 103
West Lafayette, Indiana  47906
Contact:  Lynn Corson
Phone: (765) 463-4749
corson@purdue.edu 
www.ecn.purdue.edu/CMTI/EMS/EMS

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Small Business and Environmental Assistance Division
12100 Park 35 Circle
Austin, Texas  78753
Contact: Ken Zarker
Phone: (512) 239-3145
kzarker@tnrcc.state.tx.us 
http://www.tceq.state.tx.us 
http://www.abouttexasems.org/

University of Colorado
Colorado Environmental Business Alliance
420 UCB
Boulder, Colorado  80009-0420
Contact:  Bud McGrath
Phone: (303) 492-3307 
bud.mcgrath@colorado.edu 
http://www.ceba.org 

University of Florida
Center for Training, Research, and Education for Environmental Occupations (TREEO)
3900 SW 63^rd Boulevard
Gainesville, Florida 32608
Contact: Dr. William (Bill) Engel or Carol Hinton
Phone: (352) 392-9570
Fax:     (352) 392-6910
bengel@treeo.doce.ufl.edu; or
chinton@treeo.doce.ufl.edu 
www.treeo.ufl.edu/ems  

University of Massachusetts-Lowell
EMS Service Center
One University Avenue
Lowell, Massachusetts  01854
Contact: Madeline Snow or Matthew Donahue
Phone: (978) 934-4875 
madelinesnow@rcn.com; or
matthew_donahue@uml.edu 
www.uml.edu/ems 

University of Missouri-Rolla
Institute for Environmental Excellence
246 Schrenk Hall
1870 Miner Circle
Rolla, Missouri  65401
Contact: Dr. Harvest L. Collier or Amy Gillman
Phone: (573) 341-7600 
hcollier@umr.edu; or
gillman@umr.edu 
http://campus.umr.edu/iee/ 

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement (COTA)
110 Shenandoah Avenue
Roanoke, Virginia 24016
Contact: Robert Herbert
Phone: (540) 853-8276
Fax:     (540) 853-8290 
bherbert@vt.edu 
http://www.cota.vt.edu/

The Zero Waste Alliance
One World Trade Center
121 SW Salmon Street. Suite 210
Portland, Oregon 97204
Contact: Larry Chalfan or Dorothy Atwood
Phone: (503) 279-9383
Fax:     (503) 279-9381 
lchalfan@zerowaste.org; or
datwood99@comcast.net 
http://www.zerowaste.org/lrc