Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education - AASHE provides access to their reports and research to Furman-affiliates. Create a personal account using your Furman email address to obtain full-text access.
Census Bureau - This site provides web access to most of the data found in the 1990 census. It is searchable by keyword, or you can browse the subject listing. To find data on a state or county, click on "Access Tools" and then "Map Stats". Like most Government sites, this one can be slow to load.
Data.gov - Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.
Google Dataset Search - Searchable data from all over the web.
Energy Information Administration (EIA)- Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) Data - Provides typical energy consumption of buildings with various space types.
Environmental Sustainability - Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center - The SEDAC Thematic Portal on Environmental Sustainability provides access to the latest global data, documentation, and visualization and analysis tools for those interested in the subject of environmental sustainability.
Environmental Sustainability Indicators and Trends - NASA Socioeconomic Data & Applications Center (SEDAC)
EPA Open Data - This site is a single place to find a vast selection of EPA data sources, organized into topics such as air and water that are in easily downloadable formats.
Geography & Environment from the U.S. Statistical Abstract - This section presents a variety of information on the physical environment of the United States. The subjects covered are mostly concerned with environmental trends but include related subjects such as land use, water consumption, air pollutant emissions, toxic releases, oil spills, hazardous waste sites, municipal waste and recycling, threatened and endangered wildlife, and the environmental industry.
Google Dataset Search - Searchable data from all over the web.
International Financial Statistics Online - A source of international statistics on aspects of international and domestic finance. Users can download the data, but in order to use the download function, you need to first sign-in/create a free user account.
NationMaster - NationMaster is a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. You can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.