Updated: 5 December, 2004 - many new links
http://www.ecofuture.org/pk/pkinfo.html

EcoFuture's Guide to
Information Sources

• Abbey's Web dedicated to the life and works of author Edward Abbey
• ActionBioScience.org provides educational information on bioscience
• ADEOS (ADvanced Earth Observing Satellite) scientific data on worldwide environmental changes such as such as disruption of the greenhouse effect, ozone layer depletion, tropical rain forest deforestation, and abnormal climatic conditions

• Agenda 21

  The final consensus document produced in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by the June 1992
  United Nations Conference on Environment Development (UNCED), also known as the "Earth Summit". This is the language international policymakers use to describe our present problems and their view of the solutions.
   
  • DOS hypertext version -- download agenda21.exe, a self-extracting, zip archive
  • gopherspace version

• Alternatives Information one of the largest free online libraries for social change, including environmental information.

• Art Galleries and More

  
  

  - B -

• Backyard Conservation ideas and fact sheets
• Beach Impact Statistics collected by SurfRider Foundation USA
• Bari, Judi radical environmental and social justice leader who fought for the preservation of ancient redwood forests

• Birth Control - see Family Planning

• Black Rhinoceros - use their links to act on green issues

• Book Sources - Ecology (Commercial)

  • Eco Books The environmental bookstore
  • SeasonedBooks.com specializes in new and used books on sustainability issues

  
  

  - C -

• Carrying Capacity

  • Carrying Capacity defined
  • Carrying Capacity terms in a short article
  • The Earth's Carrying Capacity - some literature reviews; a substantial collection of information and data
  • Global environment and population carrying capacity
  • Earth's Carrying Capacity - literature reviews
  • How Many Americans Can the Earth Support?; David Pimentel
  • How Many People Should the Earth Support?
  • Requiem, a comprehensive website on population, economics, energy, and sustainability issues

  
  

• Conflicts and Environmental Factors

  • Project on Environment, Population and Security by University of Toronto
  
  

• Consequences magazine reflecting concerns related to the national and international consequences of changes in the global environment

• Consumerism

  • Behind Consumption and Consumerism from GlobalIssues.org

• Contract with America undermines the very foundation of America's environmental protection, Sierra Club tells us why a more accurate name would be Polluter's Bill of Rights

• Corporations and Ethics

  • A Critical Decision encourages citizens around the world to study and question the insidious and dangerous influences large corporations have obtained over democracy, technology, society, population growth, and the environment
  • Adbusters The shining hope for a revolution in human consciousness lies in the actions of everyday people. Excellent articles on sustainability, economics, and other interesting topics.
  • BadAds exposes bad advertising
  • Corporate Watch
  • Corp-Focus is a moderated listserve which distributes the weekly column "Focus on the Corporation," co-authored the editors of Corporate Crime Reporter and Multinational Monitor magazine. To subscribe to Corp-Focus, send an e-mail message to listproc at essential dot org with the following in the message body: subscribe corp-focus <your name>
  • Ending Corporate Welfare As We Know It
  • Free Trade and Globalization from GlobalIssues.org
  • Integrity in Science seeks to safeguard science and the public welfare from the corruptive effects of industry's influence.
  
   
  
• Correcting Anti-Environmental Myths anti-environmental myths are spread in a variety of ways, including right wing think tanks, "wise use" groups, political extremists, and public misconceptions. Here are resources which identify and correct these myths.
• CPAWS Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - reference page with dozens of links
• Creation Spirituality integrates Western spirituality, global indigenous cultures, and emerging scientific understanding of the universe

  
  

  - D -

• Debunking Rush Limbaugh (an idiotic U.S. talk show host) on the environment. Also see The Way Things Aren't
  
• Planet Diary records the events and phenomena that affect Earth and its residents

  
  

  - E -

• E Magazine The Environmental Magazine
• Earth Action Network allows you to easily send letters to Congress on environmental issues
• Earth Crash - Earth Spirit - healing ourselves and a dying planet
• Earth facts
• Earth First! Journal WWW version and different articles from their earlier gopher version

• Earth Images

  • Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Caribou Maps - see Wildlife
  • Earth From Space a fine web site by Calvin J. Hamilton
  • Earth Observation Images from NASA, difficult to navigate but sometimes worth the struggle
  • Earth Observatory by NASA
  • NSSDC Photo Gallery: Earth National Space Science Data Center
  • Nine Planets a very impressive multimedia tour of the Solar System (including Earth)
  • Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection more than 230,000 maps
    covering every area of the world
  • Space.com has current images of Earth and space
  • Terrasaver.com has comprehensive satellite images
  • The Universe Within - view an image that zooms in from the universe 10 million light years from Earth down to subatomic particles

• EcoCity sustainability and lifestyle resources
• Eco-Compass is an online resource by Island Press, providing new information on environmental topics. Also see their Environmental Journalism page
• Eco Depth Guage - How deep is your ecology?

• Ecological Footprint

  • Ecological Footprint Calculator
  • Ecological Footprint of Nations answers the questions: How much nature do they use? -- How much nature do they have? Also see Ranking the ecological footprint of nations
  • Our Ecological Footprint, a book by Wackernagel and Rees, cuts through the talk about sustainability and introduces a revolutionary new way to determine humanity's impact on the Earth, and converts the seemingly complex concepts of carrying capacity, sustainability, resources use, waste disposal, and more into a graphic form that everyone can grasp and utilize.
  • Ecological Footprint Links - an extensive list from Best Foot Forward - a for-profit U.K. company that specializes in Ecological Footprint modelling. They also have an online discussion forum.
  • Ecological Footprint Quiz
  • Revisiting Carrying Capacity a paper on Area-Based Indicators of Sustainability, by William Rees
  • Redefining Progress - The Ecological Footprint provides information on Ecological Footprints
  • The Human Footprint by the Wildlife Conservation Society

• Economics

  • Earth Sharing there is an economic model which supports responsible economic and environmental action
  • Global Resource Bank is a global bank of earth shares

• Empowerment Resources a web site dedicated to personal growth, social change, and ecology, with an excellent collection of links.
• Ending Corporate Governance

• Energy Efficiency, Alternative Fuels and Conservation

  (Also see peak oil).
  • Energy And Environmental Online News brought to you by Common Purpose
  • Florida Solar Energy Center nationally recognized for comprehensive programs in solar energy and energy-efficiency
  • NREL Data and Documents on alternative fuels, renewable resources and energy efficiency from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the USA federal government -- includes a database of publications and photographs
  • Solstice energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable technology from CREST
  • Statistical Review of World Energy 2004 by BP
  
  

• Environmental Education information for teachers and students, compiled by the US EPA

• Environmental Journalism

  • Eco-Compass Environmental Journalism information
  • Environmental Journalism Home Page by the Society of Environmental Journalists
  • Living On Earth transcripts, broadcast on US National Public Radio
  
  

• Environmental Primer key facts about some of the most serious environmental threats from Canada's "National Capital FreeNet" (NCF)

  
  

  - F -

• Family Planning and Birth Control

  • Alan Guttmacher Institute
  • AVSC International access to voluntary and safe contraception
  • Birth control methods failure rates
  • Contraception Guide to birth control from the Barnard/Columbia
    Women's Handbook 1992
  • Emergency Contraception
  • International Planned Parenthood Federation
  • USAID Population, Health and Nutrition (PHN) programs focus on family planning, child survival, prevention of HIV/AIDS
  • US Planned Parenthood with online information
  • Also see Population information
  
  

  - G -

• Gardening Avant-Gardening - creative organic gardening
• Genetic Engineering campaign by Greenpeace's opposing the use of genetically modified foods.
• Global 2000 Revisited: What Shall We Do? a report on critical issues of the 21st century, emphasizing help needed from the world's religious leaders
• Gloria Mundi Press - essays, poetry, books, photographs

• Global Warming, Climate Change and Human Disruption of the "Greenhouse Effect"

  Global average surface temperatures were about 0.5° C (1° F) warmer in the 1990s than average temperatures in the 1800s
  • Climate Change and Ozone Depletion - Frequently Asked Questions from the Union of Concerned Scientists Climate Change articles at New Scientist
  • Climate Changes and Food Supply
  • Climate Observations Substantiate Global Warming Models by Bette Hileman, reporting for the Chemical and Engineering News
  • Greenhouse Gas Online
  • Pew Center on Global Climate Change - information and reports
  • The Heat is Online includes a multimedia presentation
  • United Nations' World Meteorological Organization reported that 1995 was the warmest year recorded... so far

• GreaterVoice.org identifies U.S. lack of Constitutionally Appropriate Representation
• GreenWire an environmental news daily

  
  

  - H -

• Hazardous Waste, by U.S. EPA

• Health

  • Earthsave promotes healthy and life-sustaining food choices
  • Pure Food information on food safety and the degradation of our food supply, including food irradiation and pesticides, and public relations ploys
  • Rodale Institute

• Housing and Construction

  • Green Building A Primer for Consumers, Builders and Realtors. Their links section also contains good references.
  • Enertia Environmental homes innovative new environmental homes and offices which are sustainable, and are energy producers rather than energy users. Although a commercial site, it addresses the emerging new practice of Environmental (sometimes called Sustainable) Architecture. A recommended site.
  • Oikos a wealth of information on efficient and environmentally responsible construction
  • Strawbale construction for high-insulation buildings that recycle straw

  
  

  - I -

• If Not Now - electronic democracy in action. Helps you follow U.S. environmental and progressive issues, send letters, monitor results, and make a difference!

  
  

  - J -

• Junk Mail - How to Get Rid of Junk Mail, Telemarketers, and Spam - how to save paper and your peace of mind!

  
  

  - L -

• Letters to the Editor - writing effective letters
• Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update update the original World3 systems dynamics model for the 21st century. Environmental degradation is produced by the daily habits of billions of people living their lives. Therefore, to fight it, we must develop new habits and behaviors.

  
  

  - M -

• Mining - Wetlands for Treatment of Mine Drainage
  

• Movies and Films

  • Mindwalk "Life on Earth is ... hopelessly out of balance. ... to address this at its roots will require more than public policy, regulation or legislation."
  
  

• The Multinational Monitor tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.
• Mystical World Wide Web a collection and discussion of topics that are related to phenomena that science as yet cannot fully explain

  
  

  - N -

• Native Peoples

  • Aboriginal Studies from the WWW Virtual Library
  • Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples
  • Fourth World Documentation Project indigenous peoples' information
  • Hopi Way - Cloud Dancing communicating over the "Cobwebs in the Sky" as prophesied by Hopi Elders
  • Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
  • NativeTech Native American technology, arts, and crafts -- particularly strong on tribes of the Eastern Woodlands
  • NativeWeb an easy-to-use database on indigenous issues around the world
  • Oceania peoples - Documents from Melanesia, Polynesia and the Pacific

• Naturescaping - a plan for turning your backyard into a beneficial and sustaining place for wildlife

• News Sources, Media, Magazines, and 'Zines

  • Atlantic Unbound Environmental articles from The Atlantic Monthly's archive, and related links
  • E The Environmental Magazine
  • E Zine List a list of electronic 'zines around the world
  • Earth Island Journal
  • EcoWorld
  • EnviroNet news stories and issues
  • Environmental News Service
  • Earth Times
  • EarthVision sustainability pages containing daily news clips
  • EarthWeek Diary of the Planet
  • Ecology.com offers news stories
  • Electronic Green Journal is a professional, refereed publication devoted to disseminating information concerning sources on international environmental topics.
  • Environmental News Network
  • Global Response newsletters and letter writing network, including Young Environmentalists' Actions.
  • Lycos Environmental News Service
  • Nature an international weekly journal of science
  • Opinion Pages brings you Op/Ed pages from on-line newspapers and magazines in the US and around the world
  • PlanetArk, based in Australia, is home of Reuters Daily Environmental News
  • PlanetWire - a reporter's guide to international family planning issues
  • Sustainability Digest, a publication of Berea College, is a weekly compilation of current news items related to the sustainability of human communities at scales from local to global. To subscribe, send an email to richard_olson@berea.edu asking to be placed on the mailing list
  • Ratville Times past-imperfect, present-intensive, and future-possible
  • San Diego Earth Times

  
  

  - O -

• Organic Farming

  • Northeast Organic Farming Association
  
  

  - P -

• Peak oil

  
  • The End Of Suburbia DVD - well worth viewing
  • Dieoff.org - peak oil and sustainability resources
  • Dry Dipstick - a Peak Oil metadirectory
  • ASPO - Assosiation for the Stury of Peak Oil and Gas
  • Eating Fossil Fuels - Your biggest problem is not that your SUV might go hungry, it's that you and your children might go hungry. The US and Canada will soon no longer be the world's breadbasket.
  • Global Public Media - public service broadcasting for a post carbon world
  • How long will the world's oil last?, article by MSNBC News
  • Hubbert Peak of Oil Production
  • Life After the Oil Crash
  • OilCrash.com"
  • Peak Oil: an Outlook on Crude Oil Depletion, C.J.Campbell, October 2000. Well worth reading, especially the conclusion.
  • The End of Fossil Fuels - How Long the Twilight?, article by Lindsey Grant, published by NPG
  • The Big Rollover - graph of oil peak
  • The Post Carbon Institute - learning to live in a low energy world
  • Running on Empty what to do when the World's oil and gas wells run empty
  • The Oil Crash and You provides facts and perspective on our diminishing petroleum supplies
  • The Prosperous Way Down, a book by Howard T. Odum, discusses the concept of Emergy. Accessible for the general reader, though still highly technical.
  • Will The End of Oil Mean The End of America?, article my Robert Freeman, Published on Monday, March 1, 2004 by CommonDreams.org

• Philosophy

  • Atheist Alliance including numerous links

• Polluter Locator provides pollution information by location, a complete map, and search capability
  

• Population / Overpopulation

  There are now over 6 billion people on Earth. If you want a more precise estimate, check the World Population Clock from the International Programs Center of the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Also see the running clock at EcoFuture.
   
  • A Modest Proposal to Change the World - Jay Hanson's superb population site
  • FFAQ list Frequent Falsely Answered Questions
  • Facing the Future dedicated to informing young people about the problems of increasing world population.
  • Global Population Trends by New Scientist
  • Is Humanity Suicidal? a readable essay by Edward O. Wilson, New York Times Magazine
  • Malthusian Truths About Today's World, short article by Georgie Anne Geyer
  • EcoFuture Population and Sustainability contains a comprehensive collections of links to other sites, reference material, books and videos.
  • Population, Migration, and Globalization, article by By Herman E. Daly, World Watch
  • Taboo Breaker - interesting and readable
  • Population - Six billion and counting from the Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Who will feed China? a review of the potential impact on the world's grain supplies
  • World Odometers - running counters on population, food, energy

  
  

• Preparing for the 21st Century

  
  

  - Q -

  
  

  - R -

• Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly an excellent source for news and resources dealing with environmental justice
• Radiation from rathaus reality -- the health costs of man-made radiation

• References

  • Ecology References by Colorado University Denver
  • references by JayHanson

  
  

  - S -

• Science Online the global weekly of research, is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Solar Cooking Archive - anyone can build a solar cooking box
• State of the World Indicators ten numbers that summarize scope and severity of global problems -- this page answers questions like:
  • "How many species are going extinct each day?"
  • "How many years will it take for the number of people to exceed the food supply?"
  • "How many years until crude oil is gone?"
• Sustainable Earth Electronic Library of ways to preserve and restore our natural environment
• Sustainable Lifestyle and Community (Australia) to assist in adopting new attitudes and a new way of life by providing links to information

• Sustainability and Sustainable Development

  Development may be sustainable, but can there be sustainable growth?
  
  • Affluenza US Television programs
  • Allocating finite resources on a finite planet, article by John Cairns, Jr. presents a wealth of information on ecology, energy, and economy for a sustainable environment. This site is well worth a visit.
  • Communications for a Sustainable Future - links and resources
  • Conventional versus Emergent Alternative Wisdom
  • Demographic, Environmental, and Security Issues Project presents information which will help illuminate connections between environmental scarcity and political conflict
  • Enough already! - nothing can grow forever in a finite world
  • The Global Trajectorydiscusses global environmental change unfolding at an ever increasing pace
  • Northwest Earth Institute - self-facilitated discussion courses are taken informally by small groups
  • Opt Out America - The premise of the American Dream is unlimited growth in the consumption of energy and resources. However, growth cannot be sustained in the real world of limits. Consider what will happen when oil, natural gas, fresh water and topsoil all become scarce. The result is a recipe for the collapse of complex social systems. The question is not if, but when.
  • People Centered Development Forum news and reviews
  • Sustainability - A Choice to Consider contends that sustainability should be the value upon which public decisions are based
  • Sustainable Engineering
  • Unsustainability: a Consensus
  • Valuing the Earth sustainable growth: an impossibility

  
  

  - T -

• Tragedy of the Commons

  • Commons Web Page
  • Garrett Hardin Society
  • Managing the Commons book review and links
  • The Tragedy of the Commons original (Garret Hardin, 1968), and discussion by Jay Hanson
  • A General Statement of the Tragedy of the Commons by Herschel Elliott
  • Tragedy of the Commons Re-stated showing deficits in our political mechanisms
  • Trajegy of the Commons - various links
  • The Tragedy of the Coastal Commons
  • Problems with the Use of Nontimber Tropical Forest Products in Ecodevelopment - Graduate paper with references on the commons

  Tree Biology an organic approach to tree planting and care.

  
  

  - U -

• Urban Agriculture Notes 17 years of tips for the city farmer
• U.S. Geological Survey
• Use Less Stuff! Reports an excellent bi-monthly newsletter that helps people reduce waste and prevent pollution

  
  

  - V -

• Vegetarianism from AARS, see especially their article, A Beginner's Guide to Vegetarianism

  
  

  - W -

• War: Key findings of the Pentagon, article, Guardian, UK
   
  
• Water report by the United Nations Environment Programme

• Wilderness, Wildlife and Biological Diversity

  • Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Caribou Maps - the revealing maps that got consultant Ian Thomas fired for publishing them. Also see Getting Drilled in a Pristine Area and Maptricks
  • Arid Lands Newsletter - conserving biodiversity.
  • Bermuda Biological Station for Research research from the special perspective of a mid-ocean island
  • Biodiversity and Its Value from a unit of the Australian government's "Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories"
  • Biodiversity Hot Spots Endanger Ecosystems
  • Biodiversity Baloney: Some Popular Myths Undone from the Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Chez Marco's Botany and Fieldwork Pages
  • Dollars for Death Gene Greer asks exactly how much a species is worth
  • End of the Wild. The extinction crisis is over. We lost. - article by Stephen M. Meyer, MIT
  • Endangered Species Act letter by Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Extinction and Depletion from Over-Exploitation, from the hypertext book Biodiversity and Conservation by Peter J. Bryant
  • Amazonia Gaia Forest Archives - info on world's forests, biodiversity and indigenous cultures, emphasis on Papau, New Guinea
  • Gap Analysis conservation biologists explain a geographic approach to protection of biological diversity
  • Global Biodiversity Assessment this comprehensive, peer-reviewed, scientific report confirms the expanding human populations are driving species to extinction at a rate unprecedented in human history and "hundreds or thousands of times the estimated average background extinction rate"
  • Grand Canyon Photographs
  • Great Ape Project
  • John Muir Exhibit USA's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist.
  • Man and Biosphere
  • Rainforest Action Network timely information from a worthy cause and a solid organization -- find out who is profiting from rainforest destruction
  • Species Accounts Indexes (sic) from the National Wildlife Refuge System
  • NetVet's Electronic Zoo - Animal Resources
  • Park Search of information on nearly 900 national parks and forests, state parks and other outdoor locales in the USA, sponsored by L.L. Bean
  • Tree of Life - A distributed Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service the federal government agency whose mission includes the National Wildlife Refuge System
  • USGS Releases Assessment of Nation's Biological Resources will be posted in full on the USGS website. order information.
  • Understanding Biodiversity
  • WCMC - World Conservation Monitoring Centre's Animal and Plant Species Databases (access during off-peak hours)
  • Web of Life: Exploring Biodiversity info related to the WQED public television special
  • Whale-Watching Web
  • Wild Things ...disappearing? by Elva A. Adams
  • The Wilderness within
  • Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits To Humans!
  • World Species List the world's first comprehensive index of flora, fauna, and microbes, painstakingly compiled by Richard Stafursky
  
   
  
• World Odometers - running counters on population, food, energy

  
  

  - X -

  
  

  - Y -

• Youth Resources and Web Pages

  • Ecological Footprint for Kids lets kids have some fun learning about footprints
  • The Imagination Factory an award-winning art/recycling site for kids - one of the best arts and crafts pages for kids
  • Kids' Action to help save rainforests
  • Ranger Rick from the National Wildlife Federation
  • Rainforest Action Network materials for teachers and students
  • World Wildlife Fund how to make a difference
  • Also see: Youth Organizations

• Zero Waste America focuses on maximizing waste reduction and recycling

"We must learn to think not only logically but biologically." - Ed Abbey
 

 
Top    o    Directories    o    Organizations
 
Home