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HIGH FIVES Recommended Websites by Our Far-Flung Correspondents

 

Updated 19 Feb

We asked Net-savvy experts to make a list of the five most useful Websites for newcomers to their specialties. Here are their replies.

Some important topics -- agriculture and automobiles, for example -- are treated more than once. Four other topics -- population, climate, forests, and endocrine disrupters -- are so big that they're covered in a section of their own (In The Trenches).

AGRICULTURE	Hal Hamilton
AGRICULTURE	Chuck Hassebrook
AIR/ATMOSPHERE	Dan Lashoff
ANIMAL PROTECTION	Ron Kroese
ANTARCTICA	Kieran Mulvaney
ARCHITECTURE	Sim Van der Ryn Deirdre Holmes
ARCTIC	Adam Markham
ART	Katherine Kormendi
AUTOMOBILES (Alternative)	Amory Lovins Jonathan Fox Brett Williams
AUTOMOBILES (Electric)	Jeff Zeisger
AUTOMOBILES (Fuel Economy)	Dan Becker Steve Pedery
BIODIVERSITY	Marian Farrior and Anita Daley
BUILDINGS (Alternative Techniques)	Eric Craypo
BUILDINGS (and Developments)	Jen Uncapher
CLIMATE CHANGE	In the Trenches
CLOTHING/ DRY GOODS	Zette Emmons
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT	Victoria Dompka
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT	Kipchoge Spencer
CONSUMPTION	Betsy Taylor
CORAL REEFS	Mary K. Miller
DESIGN (Products)	William McDonough Joseph Rinkevich
ECO-LABELING	Mark Ritchie
ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS	In the Trenches
ENERGY (& Environment)	Victoria Chanse
ENERGY (Renewables)	Jeff Birkby
EUROPE	Marianne Ginsburg Jennifer Mitchell
FISH (Saltwater)	Connie Murtagh
FOOTBALL	D.J. LaChapelle
FORESTS	In the Trenches
GRASSROOTS	Marshall Mayer
HEALTH (and Global Change)	Paul R.Epstein, MD
INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS	Mark Dorfman
LAND USE	Keith Bartholomew
LAW	Bill Futrell
LITERATURE	Howard Junker
LIVING	Adam Markham
MAGAZINES (Enviro Organizations)	Tom Turner
MAGAZINES (Science Journals)	Stephen Hart
MAPS	Wendy Brawer
MATERIALS	John Young
MEXICO	Ruben Kraiem
MEXICO / US BORDER	Mary Kelly
OCEAN	Vikki Spruill
OZONE DEPLETION	Brandon MacGillis
PERMACULTURE	Eric Werbalowsky
POPULATION	In the Trenches
PREGNANCY/PARENTING	Susan Alexander
PROSTATE CANCER	Don Broderson
SOLAR	George Mokray
SPACE COLONIES	H. Hilliard Gastfriend
SUSTAINABILITY (in General)	Hunter Lovins Kipchoge Spencer
TAXES	J. Andrew Hoerner
TRADE	Mark Ritchie
TRAILS (Hike/Bike)	Hugh Morris
TRAINS (High-Speed)	Howard Learner
TRANSPORTATION	Stephanie Jensen
WATER (In General)	Peter H. Gleick
WATER (Drinking)	Brian F. Goetz
WATERSHEDS	Mark Ritchie
WILDERNESS	Susan Alexander
WISE USERS	Tom Turner
WOMEN'S HEALTH	Michelle Gottlieb