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Living (Day-to-Day) by Adam Markham |
1. Ecomall
A huge and much acclaimed mix of activism and green consumerism. In the mall sections you can quickly and easily locate your nearest purveyor of organic food, learn about green investments or source a mail order solar panel. Invaluable too for its links to dozens of activist environmental groups. Also a daily digest of environmental news and regular action alerts.
2. International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
If you are looking to find out how cities around the world are going green, then ICLEI's site is simply the best. Their "Local Initiatives Clearing House" provides scads of well-edited information about some of the most innovative environment initiatives from places as diverse as Ankara, Heidelberg and Houston. Don't leave without taking the carbon emissions test.
Deep ecology wears cyber-sandals. Holistic living as practiced in long-standing alternative communities such as Scotland's "Findhorn" and "The Farm" here in the US. A chance too, to audit your own community for enviromental, cultural and social sustainability.
4. Solstice
A soup to nuts site which demonstrates that greener energy technologies are out there if you only knew where to look and what to look for. Good links and plenty of hard-core tech-speak if thats the way you like it.
5. TransNet
Just like a real road project, this excellent site appears to still be under construction. TransNet is strong on policy and analysis, with a database on federal and state road funding promised soon. Already this site is a goldmine for those who think America needs a real intermodal transport policy.
Also see...World Resources Institute for global environmental data, the Telecommuting Advisory Council to learn about the future of work, and for pure misinformation take a peak into Pat Michael's World Climate Report : Laugh? I could have cried.
Adam Markham is Director of the Climate Change Campaign of the World Wildlife Fund.