Local & Community Research Resources
TESC Library
2000-2001 Academic Year
Lin Nelson/ Liza Rognas  Reference faculty

Search The Evergreen State College Library CATALOG for resources. ** Hint** start with keyword unless you have a specific title or author in mind.   Use TESC's Government Documents page for State and Federal information online.

Web Links
Olympia, Thurston County & Washington State Resources

Access Olympia State of Washington Data Book
Environmental Education Association of Washington Sustainable Communities Network
Municipal Research and Services Center Pierce County Homepage
Mason County Homepage Thurston Co. Cooperative Extension
OFM--County & City Information--see esp.Population,  Economy & Research Link Thurston Co. Government Page
Olympia Consolidated Plan--HUD good demographic info., but not dated. Thurston Co. Econ. Dev. Council
Olympia Networking Services Thurston Regional Planning Council
Washington State Housing Finance Commission Timberland Public Library--see organizations
Washington State County Criminal Justice Data Book
1985-1995 online statistics
Seattle Community Network: great ideas about local internet community networking
Study Circles. Org--community groups discuss/examine issues Seattle--Community Coalition for Environmental Justice

Local, Regional and National Resources

CCD--Nat'l Public School locator, demographic data. Gold & Green Report--Inst. Southern Studies. See WA
At-Risk Youth--Art programs Institute for Policy Research: international focus
Childrens' Defense Fund--national organization dedicated to the health and wellbeing of children--founded by Marian Wright Edelman HUD --in Communities and basic data
Community Data Center--national-to-local info and resources Joint Center for Poverty Research (Northwestern University/ U Chicago)--first comes Illinois, but then check for more general/ national info.
In-Community Research-- Action Research promoting health, Education and Culture--Hartford, Ct. Neighborhoods, networks and support (local & region)
New Community Networks--online book by Doug Schuler The Right-to-Know Network--local environmental, housing
"Taking Nature Seriously"--U of Oregon Conference--Citizens, Science and Environment Scorecard. org--monitoring local environmental hazards
National Conference of Mayors--searchable database. Try "Olympia" or "transportation" Science & Environmental health Network
GreenMap.org: based in lower Manhattan--global links, map modeling LOKA Institute: Science/democracy and community-based research.
Native Maps: Native American sovereignty mapping Columbia Free Net:  mapping
World Vision--Tacoma/Seattle--Resources for At-Risk-Youth Groundwork.org--UK

Please look at these monograph sources and others available in Library Reference and in the stacks.

Harker, Donald F.   Where we live : a citizen's guide to conducting a community environmental inventory
                                          Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c1995        GE180. H37  1995

Novotny, Patrick.    Where we live, work, and play : the environmental justice movement and the struggle for
                                          a new environmentalism.   Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000        GE180. N68 2000

Thurston Regional Planning Council.  The Profile: For Thurston County and the Cities/Towns of:  Lacey, Olympia,
                                        Tumwater, Bucoda, Rainier, Tenino and Yelm.  REF HD5725.W2 P76 2000

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