HIGH FIVES
I asked Ema Tibbets, our computer person, to search the Internet for
interesting sites, and give me a list of the 20 or so best places. She
started in Excite (www.excite.com).
Using the keyword "sustainability"
she found about 200 possibilities. During this
search, she also found a Web directory with a specific page of
Websites for sustainable development:
(www.webdirectory.com/Sustainable_Development).
Here we found links to
some of the best sites on the Internet.
In general, sites are not well labeled and are hard to find. A typical site consists of
descriptions of the organization and catalogues
of its publications. But the best ones do have substantive material
and links to other sites. Not found: a description of the state of the
field--who's doing good work, what is needed to keep this little planet
from going to hell in a peach basket.
In any case, here are five sites we liked:
You hear a lot of grousing out in the field about insensitive know-it-alls
inside the Beltway. Well, maybe, but here are five DC Websites that offer good
tools for local theorists and local activists.
This website, maintained by the Pacific Northwest Labs, offers a very wide
range of links to diverse governmental, non-governmental, university, and
corporate Internet water resources. It is updated regularly,
comprehensive, and easy to read.
For those interested in water conservation and efficiency, this site is for
you. It includes a wide range of cross-linked water sites, lists of
water-related listservers, and access to both information and people
working on water efficiency issues. It even includes a link to Toiletology
101 and Xeriscaping, for those who want to pursue some of the more elite
water discussions.
This site offers information on more commercial aspects of the water
problem, including links to the water technology community, software,
publications, libraries, and water databases.
This university site provides strong references and interconnections and
maintains a set of chat-type fora on a wide range of water-related issues.
While not designed all that well, it nonetheless offers resources other
water sites don't have.
(www.state.ma.us/bigdig)
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