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STRATEGIC SITES - Agenda 21

or Hot - that is the question :

• The Global Warming Conference Official Site in Kyoto
• Biodiversity - Latest international conference [COP4] proceedings
• Earth Summit 2 - Text and photos from the Commission on Sustainable Development - most of the world's Heads of State are negotiating - the Non Govenernmental Organisations are advising.
• Earth Summit 2 - - here are the source documents at the NGO site - spot the difference in language and approach!
• United Nations Rio Cluster of summits and world conferences- a resource for human development and the environment - the texts of a world agreed agenda for sustainable development.
  
• Agenda 21 - the original documents (to save going through the Rio Cluster gateway)
• One World Online- the ultimate agenda 21 / NGO forum
• Bahá'ís - building a better world - Magherafelt Bahá'í Community Homepage- Our local Baha'i Community Homepage - with links to the most widespread religious community on earth after Christianity - a blueprint for a global society. Check this out!
  
• One Country - magazine of the Baha'i International Community - the latest on social and economic development, sustainable agriculture, microfinance, and Agenda 21 projects
• Noble-Creation, Social and Economic Development, sustainable agriculture and Agenda 21 email list operated by Baha'i community.
• Friends of the Earth - current environmental concerns (UK based - global and local concerns)
  
• WWF - 15,000 pages from the world wide fund for nature
• ITDG (Intermediate Technology Development Group.) "..sustainable development is achieved only if the participants in the process are its architects".
  
• Global Warming - the USA Environment Protection Agency GW site.
• Earth Online - wonderful images of earth from space with links to many strategic sites.

DIGESTERS , BIOGAS, BIOMASS, COMBINED HEAT AND POWER

• Digester Mailing List - CREST's anaerobic digester mailing list
• Biomass Mailing List - CREST''s excellent general bio-energy discussion group, well moderated and very active at times.
  
• Water Environment Federation - Sewage Works Digester Operators Help Page. Put your bio-solids and solids management problems to the world's practitioners.
  
• British Biogen - the UK's Association for Biogas, Biomass and waste to energy projects.
• Co-Generation of Heat and Power Association - UK based association for the promotion of CHP - saves the earth 60% CO2 production at a stroke.
  
• Centre for Alternative Technology - together with the Danish Folkecentre form the spiritual heart of alternative (to oil) energy production and 'green' technologies.
• Danish Folkecenter - the spirit of the Danish environmental movement - promoting farm scale digesters.
• ETSU - The UK's vast (Alternative) Energy Technology Support Unit at Harwell.
  
• ISAT (small scale) Digesters and biogas plants - Small scale and low tech designs for family and village applications
  
• Landfill Issues - The environmental Protection Agency (USA) outreach programme.
  
• EPA Methods and Guidelines for Analysis of Water on CD-ROM - big resource for anyone measuring biological system performance.

SOLAR POWERED AND 'GREEN' BUILDING

• Maine Solar House - looks big and expensive! Has some nice features and a good web site.
  
• Passive Solar - Case Study :Kristinsson- Hoofddorp (NL)
  
• Straw Bale Building Mailing List - " Not all huff and puff and I'll blow your house down" once you have seen one of these structures you might better call them 'anisotropic ligno-cellulose fibre reinforced ceramic structures.'
  
• Our Solar Powered Office - Solar House - performance record updated every 2 months.

TRANSPORT AND MOBILE FUN

BOOKS AND DATABASES (SEE ALSO OUR READING ROOM - SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE)

• Caddett - big database of Renewable Energy Projects.
  
• Environmental Books - AMAZON probably the biggest bookstore in the world?.
  
• GEM, the Global Energy Marketplace. A database of energy efficiency and renewable energy information sponsored by the US EPA to promote a more sustainable energy future and mitigate global climate change that results from energy use.
  
• Green Pages - Global Database of Environmental Companies
• One of the largest environmental databases in the world
• Plant Encyclopedia from TIME LIFE - select a garden plant- Use Frost Zone 8 for most of the UK.
• US Patent Office - searchable database of most patents in the US - fabulous!
• World directory of renewable energy organisations
  
• Web Directory - alternative energy section - big database.

MAGAZINES , MARKET REPORTS, NEWSLETTERS & CAMPAIGN SITES

• CNN - global and local news
• Independent Radio News - live sound - latest news headlines 24 hours a day.
• Earth Times -Environment and Development Newspaper - great read!
  
• MacLibel Case - the web site -two environmentalists take on the might of MacDonalds this is the longest libel case in the history of the British courts.
  
• New Scientist weekly science magazine online
  
• News + (expensive?) market reports about Alternative fuels for transport, hydrogen fuels, energy from wastes, global warming and conventional energy sources. - updated daily by the Financial Times
  
• Home Power Magazine - great resource for anyone interested in alternative energy
• Practically Green News - Digester, Biogas, CHP and waste to energy news from Practically Green Environmental Services.

INTERNET AND SYSTEM

• Internet Hoaxes: PKZ300, Irina, Good Times, Deeyenda, Ghost - the golden rule is unless you have been hit with a virus warn no-one - the warning messages are the 'VIRUS'. Many security issues are highlighted at http://www.ciac.org/
• Metacrawler - Search for anything on the web robot that searches the search robots - fast :-)
  
• Free Fonts for web pages from Microsoft
• Net Mechanic - get an automatic check on your web page links- amazingly useful!

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