Facilities Design and Management
Managing pollution prevention associated with the design and management of buildings, DOD facilities, federal facilities, hospitals, college campus, schools or similar facilities.
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This guide provides an overview of waste generating processes and operations
which occur in educational or research institutions. The guide also presents options for minimizing waste generation through source reduction and recycling.
Guidance to prevent and solve, with minimal cost and involvement, the majority of indoor air problems. Presents a well-defined set of operations and maintenance activities for school staff to follow.
Nonpoint source (NPS) pollution from agricultural activities is the leading source of impairment to surveyed rivers and lakes, the third largest source of impairments to surveyed estuaries, and also a major contributor to ground water contamination and wetlands degradation. This is an overview of activities and causes.
The NAL serves as the national repository of agricultural information with a mission to acquire, organize, manage, preserve, and provide access to this unique collection. They operate under the belief that agricultural information is more accessible to more people through technology.
Intended as a source of general industrial hygiene information on several hundred chemicals/classes for workers, employers, and occupational health professionals. The information should help users recognize and control occupational chemical hazards.
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NRCS helps agricultural land owners conserve, maintain, and improve natural resources and environment through partnerships. This site gives local contacts all around the U.S.
Oil-based paint, thinners, strippers, and wood preservatives contain volatile hydrocarbons and other toxic chemicals. This fact sheet lists alternatives.
Overview, tip sheets, case studies, checklists and regulations pertaining to many teaching lab activities -- building trades, groundskeeping, ag business, health care (vet clinics), coating and painting, metal fabrication and machining, vehicle maintenance. Go to the "Detailed Table of Contents" to go directly to the section you want.
A series of fact sheets on best management practices (BMPs) for activities that are likely to impact drinking water sources. Topics include: agricultural fertilizers, storage tanks, vehicle washing, small scale application of pesticides and more. The fact sheets are also used in conjunction with a source water protection training course (contact information given).
A 160-page collection of in-depth interviews with farmers and ranchers describing their diverse operations, profitability, quality of life, and impact on the environment.
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Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program (USDA-SARE)
Describes trends in participation in secondary and postsecondary vocational education. Also presents findings about the academic preparation of high school students who participate in vocational education, relevant school reform efforts, and transitions after high school.
The 201-page primary US EPA manual on EMS, revised in 2001, is intended to provide a plain-English guide to organizations interested in implementing an EMS, using the basic Plan-Do-Check model.
Table of contents for a good on-line only implementation manual with many organizational tips, examples for SMEs (defined here as viable businesses with less than $5 milllion in assets)
This analysis involves identifying all the major costs involved in a current process and possible pollution prevention alternatives, and then comparing the costs and savings. Tables are included to assist in data collection.
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Washington State Department of Ecology, Hazardous Waste and Toxics Reduction Program
This chapter discusses Environmental Accounting - its history, precision in data collection, advice for practitioners, making EA systems work, and decision making using EA.
This booklet illustrates the efficiency-enhancing opportunities that arise when companies incorporate environmental costs and benefits into mainstream materials and supply chain management decision-making. It provides introductory guidance on how to identify these costs and benefits and how to adjust existing information systems and analysis techniques to better account for this significant category of costs.
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US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
The TNRCC Cost Accounting Software was developed by TNRCC and funded by TNRCC and EPA for use by the regulated community. The Pollution Prevention Cost Accounting Module will assist in conducting a cost analysis of industrial processes and practices.
"An action threshold is the point at which an IPM technician takes action to reduce a pest's numbers. Sometimes an action threshold is a number, sometimes it is qualitative." This document discovers factors to consider for establishing thresholds.
Administrator Information includes sample policy statements, organization directories, sample IPM training outlines, school IPM questionaires and surveys, as well as forms and regulatory information.
Effective managemet of pests requires knowledge of their biology, habits, and abilities.. Students take notes and learn about the characteristics, capabilities, and life cycles of insects.
Cornell University offers a resource to identify and understand the biology of parasitoids, predators, pathogens, and weed feeders; they offer tutorials on insect biology and ecology, IPM strategy and control tactics, and much more.
A variety of documents, Web links, and other resources related to the California Healthy Schools Act of 2000 are available. This site is designed for school administrators, IPM coordinators, maintenance and operations staff, parents, and teachers.
A first step in developing your integrated pest management (IPM) program is drafting an IPM policy. An IPM policy is a valuable way to clearly and concisely state the district's approach to pest management and pesticide use issues. An example IPM policy statement is provided.
Contents include a pesticide overview, pesticide safety, evaluating your pesticide risk, pesticide labels, food and pesticides, environment and pesticides, pets, wildlife and pesticides, waste disposal, and fact sheets.
Insecticides, herbicides, fungicides commonly used in schools are identified along with known health effects (cancer, reproductive effects, neurotoxicity, kidney/liver damage, sensitizer/irritants).
In the two years since this manual was first published, legislation has been passed requiring each Pennsylvania school district, intermediate unit, and area vocational/technical school to develop an integrated pest management (IPM) plan (Act 35 of 2003), and to notify parents and guardians 72 hours prior to any pesticide applications and post warning signs 72 hours prior to and 48 hours after any pesticide applications in school buildings or on school grounds (Act 36 of 2002). Therefore, this edition has several important changes, as well as some minor editorial revisions.
Topics including insects, weeds, vertebrates, soil ecosystems, biological control and tactics, pesticides, natural areas (invasive plants), buildings and schools, and more help students understand principles of IPM.
Guidelines for understanding IPM and for adapting the process into the school are offered, complete with a general overview, suggestions for monitoring, indentifying target pests, making management decisions, and control methods.
Included is a summary of state laws requiring IPM and notification, IPM sample policies, IPM forms (including monitoring, sighting logs, notification forms), and guidelines for pest tolerance levels.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the University of Minnesota, because of the interest being expressed concerning IPM in K-12 schools, jointly established a voluntary IPM in K-12 Schools Working Group. This provides a comprehensive review of IPM in schools, complete with policies fact sheets, PowerPoint presentations, educator material, and additional links.
During the evolution of IPM in schools, many states have taken many different approaches. Some states have passed mandates, while others push the initiative on a purely voluntary basis. This provides a clickable map to locate information on the status of school IPM in your state.
Comprehensive source of information for schools that includes standards for school buildings and grounds, pest control options, fact sheets, policy, and more.
The IPM Learning Modules from Nebraska include an introduction to integrated pest management, assessment/evaluation, asthma triggers in schools, IPM treatment strategies and mold and indoor air quality in schools; school ground pest modules (birds, spiders, stinging insects, snakes, rabbits, rodents and a few other mammalian pests); structural pest modules (ants, bats, birds, cockroaches, flies, head lice, silverfish, spiders, stinging insects, stored product pests, mice and rats, and snakes); and site specific modules (school grounds/landscape and school turfgrass). These are offered in both low and high resolution.
Their mission is to promote IMP and provide technical support and IPM resources to schools and child care facilities throughout the US, but especially in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Resources include forms, list of products, IPM Inspections, Federal Laws & Regulations, Pest control information, and management plans
The Midwest Technical Resource Center for IPM in schools and day cares offers information on improved pest management practices that enable schools to employ better techniques for maintaining safe and pest-free learning environments.
Search various material safety data sheet (MSDS) databases: Cornell University, Vermont SIRI, Conform-Action Data Systems, Seaton Compliance Resource Center, Oxford University, University of Akron, National Library of Medicine Household Products Database, and many others that includes several foreign language MSDS databases.
National trade association for the professional pest control industry. The Web site serves as a resource for their memberhsip, consumers, media, and teachers/students.
The North American Native Plant Society fosters native plant initiatives across the country. This Web site provides links to native plant society associations throughout the Great Lakes as well as across the country.
This 147-page document resulted from a study on Pesticides - Use, Effects, and Alternatives to Pesticides in Schools. Included are detailed findings on demographics, current policies (1999), current services (1999), pesticide applications, most troublesome pests and increasing IPM use.
This is a cooperative effort of University of California-Davis, Oregon State University, Michigan State University, Cornell University, and the University of Idaho. It provides specific pesticide information relating to health and environmental effects.
This report discusses many aspects of toxic chemicals in schools, and included is pesticides, developing IPM programs and the Gold Standard School IPM Policy.
Before a pesticide can be marketed and used in the United States, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) requires that EPA evaluate the proposed pesticide to assure that its use will not pose unreasonable risks of harm to human health and the environment. This regulation involves an extensive review of health and safety information. This site includes biopesticide active ingredient fact sheets, lasws, international issues, storage and disposal, adverse effects reporting, restricted and cancelled uses, pesticide tolerances, and registration information sources.
Table of Contents for this 60-page PDF includes an Introduction, Children's Exposure to Toxic Pesticides, School Pest Management, An In-Depth Look at IPM and the SAix IPM Program Essentials as well as case studies from across the country.
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