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Australian Environment On-line - Environmental Resources Information Network, Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories
Australian Heritage Commission - Commonwealth Government statutory authority responsible to the Minister for the Environment, Sport and Territories for the National Estate (our significant heritage places).
Greenhouse Challenge Australian Government Department of Primary Industries and Energy is interested in minerals, agriculture, forestry, energy and fuel, quarantine, geoscience, fisheries.
OSG Geodesy - Information, publications and software relating to Geodesy in Victoria, Australia
Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area - Parks and Wildlife Service, Tasmania
Western Australian Local Government Environmental Information - Peak Local Government Organisation in Western Australia

Santa Barbara

Discover the city of Santa Barbara, California, the birthplace of Earth Day. A 1969 oil platform blowout off the coast of Santa Barbara led to a wave of environmental laws nationwide. That gave impetus to what we consider now the cornerstones to the modern environmental movement. A year later, the first Earth Day was held followed by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. A succession of other laws protecting water, marine life and endangered species followed.