This page offers resources that may help when writing refections/essays associated with participation in service learning projects.
Topical resources
Topics
Combined sewer overflows (CSOs)
Ecosystem restoration
- Ecological Restoration - Journal
- Ecological Society of America
- NatureServe Explorer
- Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)
Environmental policy
- Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
- Hoosier Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society
- Division of Land Acquisition, Indiana DNR
- Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM)
- League of Conservation Voters
- Enforcement, U.S. EPA
Environmental sociology
Landscaping and natural lawn care
- Eartheasy Guides
- Home Landscapes for Environmental Sensitivity, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
- Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes
Non-native invasive species
- "Alien Invasion", PBS Online News Hour
- "Amur Honeysuckle, Its Fall From Grace"
- Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Invasive Species
- Indiana Native Plant Society, Invasive Plants
- Midwest Invasive Plant Network
- The Nature Conservancy, Invasive Species
- National Invasive Species Council, U.S. Department of the Interior
- National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC)
- United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database
- Indiana Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS)
Nonpoint source pollution
Ocean plastics, marine debris, and coastal clean-ups
- Microplastic marine debris fact sheet
- Marine Debris Program Accomplishments Report, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Mississippi Coastal Cleanup, Marine Debris Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Citizen’s Guide to Protecting the Mississippi Gulf Coast from Marine Debris, Mississippi State University
Oceanography, hypoxia, watersheds and water quality
- The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, Microbial Life Educational Resources
- Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Blue-Green Algae, Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM)
- CEES Algal Toxicology and Dynamics
- Drop By Drop: Protecting Indiana's Water Supply
- "Hiring in Hydrology Resists the Slump", New York Times
- Division of Water, Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
- Lake and River Enhancement, Indiana DNR
- National Ocean Service, NOAA
- Surf Your Watershed (EPA)
- Water Topics (EPA)
- U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy - Final Report
- Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone - The Last 150 Years
- Water Resources of the United States, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
- Water Sanitation and Health, World Health Organization (WHO)
Public health and greenspace
- Landscape and Human Health Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- American Lung Association
Recycling and waste reduction
- Recycle Indiana, IDEM
- Land, Waste, and Cleanup Topics (U.S. EPA)
- Energy Kids - Using and Saving Energy (U.S. Energy Information Administration)
Sustainability
- The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
- IU Indianapolis Office of Sustainability
- Cool Planet Blog (Clean Air, Cool Planet)
- Conservation International
- Earth 911
- Earthday.org
- Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
- Girl Effect
- Green Piece Indy
- Local Harvest - Indiana
- Sustainability (U.S. EPA)
- Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
- Use of Phosphate Rocks for Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Stormwater and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), U.S. EPA
- NPDES Stormwater Program, U.S. EPA
- Das Manufacturing (storm drain marking manufacturing)
Urban environments
- Bill Moyer's Earth on Edge: Urban Ecosystems (PBS)
- Environment Programme (United Nations)
- Greening America's Communities (U.S. EPA)
