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A
Abatement
Abiotic Components
Abiotic Stress
Accretion
Acid Deposition
Acid Rain
Acidic Drainage
Acidic Emissions
Acidity
Activated Carbon
Activated Sludge
Active Solar
Acute Toxicity
Adaptive Reuse
Advanced Framing
Aerated Static Pile or ASP Composting
Aeration
Aerial Application
Aerial Topdressing
Aerosol Can Spray
Afterburner
Agricultural Runoff
Agricultural Waste
Agrifiber Board
Agritourism
Agronomy
Air Cleaning
Air Pollution
Aldehydes
Aldrin
Algae
Algae Biodiesel
Alkalinity
Allergens
Alternative Energy
Alternative Fuels
Alternative Natural Materials
American Tree Farm System or ATFS
Ammonia
Anaerobic
Anaerobic Decomposition
Ancient Forest
Anthropocene
Aquaculture
Aquifer
Arctic Shrinkage
Arsenic
Artificial Reefs
Asbestos
Asbestos Abatement
Asbestos Assessment
Asphalt Fumes
Asthma
Attainment Area
Autonomous Building
Avian Influenza Virus HPAI
B
Backyard Composting
Bacteriological Warfare
Bad Ozone
Beach Nourishment
Benzene
Binomial Nomenclature
Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage or BECCS
Bio-plastics
Bioaccumulative Toxins or PBTs
Bioassay
Biobutanol
Biocapacity
Biochemical Oxygen Demand or BOD
Biochemistry
Biocides
Bioconcentration
Biodegradable
Biodegradable Plastic
Biodegradable Sunscreen
Biodegradation
Biodiesel
Biodiversity
Biodiversity Action Plan or BAP
Biodiversity Buffer
Bioenergy
Bioerosion
Biofuels
Biogas
Biogenic Emissions
Biogeography
Bioindicator
Biological Contaminants
Biological Integrity
Biological Pesticides
Biological Shield
Biological Warfare
Biological Water Pollution
Biology
Bioluminescence
Biomagnification
Biomarkers
Biomass
Biomass Engineering
Biomass Heat Accelerator
Biome
Biomedical Waste
Biomimicry
Bionomics
Biophilia Hypothesis
Bioremediation
Biosecurity
Biosequestration
Biosphere
Biosphere Reserve
Bioswales
Biota
Biotic Components
Biotic Stress
Bioturbation
Bird Flu
Bisphenol-a or BPA
Blackwater
Blender Pumps
Blower Door Test
Botanical Pesticides
Botany
Bottle Bill
Bottom Trawling
BP Oil Spill
Brackish Water
Brine Disposal
Brownfields
Brush Fire
Brushland
Bulky Waste
Bushfire
Butadiene
Butane
Bycatch
Bycatch Reduction Device or BRD
Byproduct
C
California Proposition 65
Cancer Potency Estimate
Cancer Risk Score
Canopy
Carbon Capture and Storage or CCS
Carbon Credit
Carbon Dioxide
Carbon Emissions
Carbon Footprint
Carbon Monoxide
Carbon Neutral
Carbon Offsets
Carbon Sequestration
Carbon Sink
Carbon Tax
Carcinogens
Cardiovascular Toxicants
Catalysis
Catalytic Converter
Catch Limits
Catchment
Cell Phone Recycling
Cells
Centre for Ice and Climate
Chemical
Chemical Ripening
Chemical Water Pollution
Chernobyl
Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX)
Chimneys
Chlordane
Chlordecone
Chlorinated Hydrocarbon
Chlorine
Chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs
Chronic Toxicity
Chytrid
Clean Air Act
Clean Air Watch
Clean Energy
Clean Fuels
Clearcutting
Clearfelling
Climate
Climate Change
Climate Forcing
Climate-Dominated Building
Closed-Loop Recycling
Cloud Computing
Co-products
CO2 Scrubber
Coal
Coastal Erosion
Cogeneration
Combined Heat and Power Plant or CHP
Combustion
Commercial Extinction
Commercial Fishing
Commercial Waste
Community Supported Agriculture Movement or CSAs
Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL)
Compost
Compostable Packaging
Composting
Composting Facilities
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)
Computer Recycling
Computer Recycling
Concentrating Collectors
Conservation
Conservation Biology
Conservation Medicine
Construction Waste Management
Consumption Footprint
Container Gardening
Contaminant
Contamination
Contiguous Facility
Controlled Burn
Convention on Biological Diversity or CBD
Copenhagen Agreement
Coral Reefs
Cork Flooring
Corrosive
Cradle to Cradle
Cradle-to-Grave or Manifest System
Criteria Air Contaminants
Critical Load
Crop Dusting
Crude Oil
Cullet
D
Dam
Daughter Product
DDT
Decontamination
Deficit
Deforestation
Dengue Fever
Desalination
Desert
Desertification
Development Footprint
Developmental Toxicants
Diazinon
Dieldrin
Diesel Emissions
Diesel Fuel
Diesel Particulate Matter or DPM
Dimethylfumate or DMF
Dioxin
Dirty Dozen
Dispersion
Disposal
Distillers Grains
Dominant Species
Dose Response Assessment
Downcycling
Dredging
Dry Mill
Drylands
Duckweed
Dumpster Diving
Dust Pollution
Dustmites
E
E-10 Unleaded
E-85
Earth Day
Eco-label
Ecobags
Ecocity
Ecocity Builders
Ecodesign
Ecological Debt
Ecological Deficit/Reserve
Ecological Economics
Ecological Footprint
Ecological Health Ranking
Ecological Impact
Ecological Indicator
Ecological Overshoot
Ecological Risk Assessment
Ecological Sanitation
Ecological Zoning
Ecological/Environmental Sustainability
Ecology
Ecophysiology
Ecopsychology
Ecoregion
Ecosystem
Ecosystem Engineer
Ecosystem Services
Ecosystems Ecology
Ecotourism
Ecotoxic
Ecotoxicology
Ecozone
eCycling
Eemian
Effluents
El Niño
Electric and Magnetic Fields or EMFs
Electro-pollution
Electrostatic Charge
Electrostatic Precipitator
Embodied Energy
Emission
Emission Cap
Emission Factor of EF
Emissions Trading
End-of-the-pipe
Endangered Species
Endemic
Endocrine Disruptors
Endocrine Toxicant
Endrin
Energy Accounting
Energy Crops
Energy Economics
Energy Efficient
Energy Footprint
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
Energy Leak
Energy Recovery
Energy Star Program
Energy-Saving Lights
Entomology
Environment
Environment Agency
Environment Impact Assessment or EIA
Environmental Audit
Environmental Biosecurity
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental Economics
Environmental Effect Analysis EEA
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Fate
Environmental Indicators
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental Psychology
Environmental Statistics
Environmental Stewardship
Environmental Studies
Environmental Toxins
Environmentally Sensitive Areas or ESAs
Epidemic
Epidemiology
Equivalence Factor
Ergonomics
Erosion
Estuary
Ethane
Ethanol
Ethanol Diesel
Ethical Consumerism
Ethonomics
Ethyl Tertiary Butyl Ether or ETBE
Evolution
Exposure Assessment
Exposure Potential
Extinction
Extraction Rate
F
Fair Trade
Farm Stay US
Fate and Exposure Modeling
Fauna
Federal Insecticide and Fungicide Act or FIFA
Filter Feeders
Fisheries Management
Fishing Pressure
Fixed Dose Procedure
Flammable
Flat Roofs
Flex Fuel Vehicles of FFVs
Flora
Flue Gas Stacks
Flue Gases
Fluorocarbons or FCs
Fogging
Food Chain
Food Irradiation
Food Waste
Food Web
Footprint Intensity
Footprint Intensity Table
Footprint Neutral/Negative
Forest Canopy
Forest Fire
Forest Management
Formaldehyde
Fossil Fuels
Free Range
Freeganism
Freshwater Conservation
Fuel Cell
Fuel Combustion
Fugitive Emissions
Fumes
G
Garbage
Gasahol
Gasification
Gastrointestinal Toxicant
Gene-Environment Interaction or GxE
Genetic Epidemiology
Genetically Modified Organism or GMO
Genotoxins
Genus
Geodiversity
Geoengineering
Geology
Geothermal Energy
Glacier
Global Energy Balance
Global Footprint Network
Global Hectare or GHA
Global Warming
Good Neighbor Agreement or GNA
Good Ozone
Great Barrier Reef
Great London Smog
Green Building
Green Chemistry
Green Data Center
Green Home
Green IT
Green Key Eco-Rating Program
Green Roofs
Green Schools
Green Tags
Green Washing
GREENGUARD Environmental Institute or GEI
Greenhouse Effect
Greenhouse Gas
Greenhouse Gases (GHGs)
Greenpeace
Grey Water
Ground Level Ozone
Ground Water
H
H1N1 Flu Virus
Habitat
Habitat Destruction
Hair Booms
Hair Mats
Half-life of a Pollutant
Half-life of a Radioactive Element
Halocarbons
Haloforms
Halogen
Halogenated Biphenyls
Halogenated Pollutant
Halomethanes
Hammer Mill
Hard Water
Harmful Algae Blooms or HABs
Hazard
Hazard Area
Hazard Quotient
Hazard Ratio
Hazardous Air Pollutants
Hazardous Chemical
Hazardous Landfill
Hazardous Ranking System or HRS
Hazardous Waste
Haze
Heat Capture Technology
Heptachlor
Hexabromobiphenyl
Hexachlorobenzene
Holocene
Hopenhagen
Horticulture
Hybrid Car
Hydrocarbons
Hydroelectric Power
Hydrogen
Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Hydrologic Cycle
Hydrology
Hydronic Heating
I
Ice Age
Ice Caps
Immunotoxic
In-vessel Composting
Incineration
Indicator Species
Indigenous
Indoor Air Pollution
Indoor Air Quality or IAQ
Industrial Chimneys
Industrial Dust Collector
Industrial Ecology
Industrial Metabolism
Industrial Plumes
Industrial Revolution
Industrial Waste
Industrialization
Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis or IHN
Infiltration
Injection Wells
Insulated Concrete Forms or ICF
Insulating Blanket
Insulation
Integrated Design
Integrated Waste Management
Intensive Farming
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC
International Programme on Chemical Safety or IPCS
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources or ICUN
Invasive Plants
Invasive Species
Ionizer
Irradiation
Irritants
Ixtoc Oil Spill
K
Keystone Species
Kinetic Energy
Kluane
Kyoto Protocol
L
La Niña
Land Application
Land Farming (of Waste)
Land Pollution
Land Reclamation
Land Treatment
Landfills
Landslide
Leachate
Lead
Lead Poisoning
LEED
Lichens
Life cycle
Life Cycle Analysis or LCA
Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
Liming
Lindane
Lipophilic
Liquid Petroleum
Logging
Love Canal New York
C
Low Carbon Building or LCB
L
Low-flow toilets
LPG or Liquefied Petroleum Gas
M
Magnetic Separation
Malaria
Managed Growth
Mandatory Recycling
Mangrove
Manifest
Marine Conservation
Marine Protected Area or MPA
Marine Reserve
Marsh
Mass Burn Facility
Material Data Safety Sheet or MSDS
Material Flow Analysis
Materials Recovery Facility (MRF)
Matter of Trust
Median Lethal Dose or LD50
Medical Waste
Megalopolis
Megawatt
Mercury
Metabolites
Methane
Methanol
Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether or MTBE
Microbiota
Microclimate
Micropollutants
Mining
Mirex
Mixed Metals
Mixed Municipal Waste
Mixed Paper
Mold Spores
Molds
Mulching
Municipal Solid Waste
Municipal Solid Waste or MSW
Mutation
Mycotoxin
N
NAIC Code
Nanotechnology
National Ambient Air Quality Standards or NAAQS
National Estuary Program
National Footprint Accounts
National Green Building Standard
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health or NIOSH
National Institute of Environmental Health Services or NIEHS
National Parks
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
National Pollutant Release Inventory or NPRI
National Priorities List or NPL
National Toxicology Program or NTP
National Wildlife Refuge System
Natural Capital
Natural Gas
Nature Conservancy
Navigable Waters
Necrosis
Net Energy Balance
Neurotixicity
Neurotoxicant
Newsprint
Nitrate Vulnerable Zone
Nitrates
Nitrogen
Nitrogen Oxides or NOx
No Till
Noise Pollution
Non Renewable Resources
Non-Attainment Cities
Non-Hazardous Solid Waste
Non-Point Sources
Non-potable Water
Nonpoint Source Pollution
North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling
Northeast Greenland National Park
NPRI Chemicals
NPRI Facilities
Nuclear Disarmament
Nuclear Footprint
Nuclear Fuel
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Reactor
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Nuclear Waste
Nurdles
Nutrient Water Pollution
O
Occupational Exposure
Occupational Health
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
Occupational Safety and Health Administration or OSHA
Ocean Wave Energy
Octane Rating
Off-site Transfers
Office Paper
Offsets
Offshore Drilling
Offshore Fish Farms
Oil Refineries
Oil Spill
Oil Spill Hair Booms
Oncogenic
Open Sources
Optimum Value Engineering or OVE
Organic
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or OECD
Organochlorines
Organophoshate Compounds
Overfishing
Overpopulation
Oxygen
Oxygen Depletion
Oxygenated Fuels
Ozone
Ozone Depleting Substance
Ozone Depletion
Ozone Layer
P
Pandemic
Parasite
Parent Product
Partial Zero Emission Vehicles or PZEVs
Particulate Matter or PM
Parts Per Million or ppm
Passive Smoking
Passive Solar Design
Pathogen
Pay-As-You-Throw/Unit-Based Pricing
Peat
Pedogenesis
Pedology
Pelamis Wave
Perennial Plant
Permaculture
Permafrost
Persistence
Persistent Organic Pollutants or POPs
Pesticide
Pests
PETE (Polyethylene Terepthalate)
Petroleum
pH
Phagocyte
Phenols
Phosphates
Photosynthesis
Photovoltaic Shingles
Photovoltaic System
Phtalates
Phylogenic Tree
Phylum
Phytoestrogens
Phytogeography
Phytotoxic
Phytotreatment
Pipeline Installation
Pit
Plant Tissue Testing
Plasma Arc Reactors
Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles or PHEVs
Plutonium
Point Source Pollution
Polar Ice Caps
Pollination
Pollution
Pollution Indicator Species
Polybrominated Biphenyls or PBBs
Polychlorinated Biphenyls or PCBs
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons or PAHs
Polymer Fuel Cells
Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons or PAHs
Polystyrene
Polyvinyl Chloride or PVC
Population
Population Dynamics
Population Ecology
Post Consumer Waste
Prairie Restoration
Precautionary Principle
Precycle
Precycling
Product Service System
Programmable Thermostat
Propane
Protected Areas
Published Emission Factor
Pyrolysis
Q
Quality Assurance/Quality Control
Quarantine
Quarrying
Quench Tank
R
R-Value or Resistance Value
Radiation
Radioactive Fallout
Radioactive Waste
Radioactive Waste Management
Radioactivity
Radon
Rainforest
RDF Combustion Facility
Reactive
Reclaimer
Reclamation
Recognized Human Health Hazard
Recycled Aggregates
Recycled Glass Countertops
Recycled Hair
Recycling
Recycling and Reuse Business Assistance Centers or RBACs
Recycling Economic Development Advocates or REDAs
Recycling Mill
Recycling Rate
Red Bag Waste
Red Tide
Redemption Program
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reforestation
Reformulated Gasoline or RFG
Refuse-Derived Fuel or RDF
Regenerative Agriculture
REGREEN
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)
Renewable Fuels Standard or RFS
Renewable Resources
Reproductive Toxicant
Repurposing
Residue Ash
Resource Depletion
Respiratory Toxicants
Reverse Osmosis
Risk Management
S
Sanitary Survey
Savannah
Scientific Certification System or SCS
Scrap
Screening Information Data Set or SIDS
Seasonal Erosion
Second Growth Forest
Secondhand Smoke
Sedimentation
Sediments
Selective Pesticides
Septic System
Serengeti National Park
Sewage
Sick Building Syndrome
Silviculture
Sinkholes
Sintering
Site-specific Emission Factors
Skin or Sense Organ Toxicants
Slash and Burn Farming
Slow Food
Sludge
Sludge Digester
Slurry
Smelter
Smog
Smoke
Smolder
Soil Contamination
Soil Nitrate Test
Soil Testing
Solar Air Conditioning
Solar Cooking
Solar Energy
Solar Panels
Solid Waste
Source Reduction
Source Reduction Credit System
Source Separation
Species
Spent Nuclear Fuel or SNF
Spray Drift
Stabilization Wedges
Static Fields
Static Kill
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Stormwater Runoff
Stream Morphology
Structurally Insulated Panel or SIP
Styrofoam
Sub-Irrigated Planter
Subtropical
Sulfur Dioxide or SO2
Superfund
Superfund Sites
Surface Runoff
Surface Water
Suspected Human Health Hazard
Sustainability
Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Chemistry
Sustainable Communities
Sustainable Design
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Fisheries Act
Sustainable Forestry Initiative or SFI
Swamp
Swine Flu
Symbiosis
Syngas
T
T-8 Lighting
Tailpipe Standards
Tankless Water Heaters
Teratogens
Teratology
C
The Carbon Trust
E
The Earth Charter
The Earth Day Network
N
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health or NIOSH
S
The Stern Review
T
Thermal Pollution
Thermal-based Plastic
Thin Film Technology
Threatened Species
Three Mile Island
Threshold Limit Value or TLV
Tobacco Smoke Condensate
Topography
Toxaphene
Toxic
Toxic Waters
Toxicant
Toxicology
Toxics Release Inventory or TRI
Toxins
Traffic Calming
Transboundary Pollution
Transfer Station
Trash
Trash-to-Energy Plants
Triple Bottom Line
Tropical
Troposphere
Tsunami
Tundra
Turbidity
Turbine
U
Ultra Clean Coal or UCC
Ultraviolet Rays
Unconfined Aquifer
Underground Injection
Underground Storage Tank (UST)
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO
United Nations Environment Program or UNEP
Unreasonable Risk
Unsaturated Zone
Upcycling
Upper Detection Limit
Uranium
Urban Planning
Urban Runoff
Urban Sprawl
Urbanization
G
US Green Building Council or USGBC
U
USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program or SARE
O
Used Oil
U
Utility Load
V
Valued Environmental Attributes
Vapor Dispersion
Vehicle Emissions
Ventilation Rate
Venturi Scrubber
Vermicomposting
Vinyl Chloride
Virgin Forest
Virgin Materials
Viticulture
Volatile Organic Compounds
Vulcanization / Vulcanized Rubber
Vulnerable Zone or VZ
W
Walk-off Mat
Waste
Waste Minimization
Waste Recycling
Waste Reduction
Waste Stream
Waste Treatment
Waste Wood
Waste-to-Energy Facility/Municipal-Waste Combustor
Water Cycle
Water Filtration
Water Pollution
Water Testing
Watershed
Wave Dragon
Wave Energy
Wave Star Energy
Weed
Wet Mill
Wetlands
White Roofs
White Spot Virus
Wilderness
Wilderness Area
Wildfire
Wildlife
Wildlife Refuge
Wind Farm
Wind Turbine
Windrow Composting
World Commission on Protected Areas or WCPA
World Heritage Site
World Wildlife Fund or WWF
Worm Bin
X
Xenobiotic
Xenoestrogens
Xeriscaping
Y
Yard Waste
Yellowstone National Park
Yield Factor
Z
Zeolites
Zero Emission Vehicles or ZEVs
Zero Energy Building or ZEB
Zero Waste
Zone of Saturation
Zoonosis

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