Related links
Biodiversity
The Consortium for the Barcode of Life
The Consortium for the Barcode of Life based at the Smithsonian Institute.
Paul Hebert's Barcoding laboratory at the Univerity of Guelph
The Census of Marine Life
The International Secretariat (HQ) of the Census of Marine Life
These websites offer documents and links connected to Census
of Marine Life.
Energy, Sustainability, and Global Change
NASA's Global Change Master Directory
A comprehensive directory about Earth science and global change
data.
The Great Restoration
Purpose: To examine the potential for concentrating production
of forest products into a small area of the world's forests,
leaving the rest for other purposes such as preservation of
biodiversity, carbon sequestration and protection of water
catchments.
John McCarthy's "Progress and its Sustainability" Site
This Web page and its satellites are aimed at showing that
human material progress is desirable and sustainable. With the
development of nuclear energy, it became possible to show that
there are no apparent obstacles even to billion year
sustainability.
The Journal of Industrial Ecology
The Journal of Industrial Ecology is an international,
multi-disciplinary quarterly designed to foster both understanding
and practice in the emerging field of industrial ecology.
Industrial ecology is a rapidly-growing field that systematically
examines local, regional and global materials and energy uses and
flows in products, processes, industrial sectors and
economies.
Resources for the Future
Resources for the Future (RFF) is an independent, nonprofit
research organization that aims to help people make better
decisions about the conservation and use of their natural resources
and the environment. RFF strives to provide accurate, objective
information to policy makers, legislators, public opinion leaders,
and environmentalists to help them responsibly meet the
nation's and the world's long-term environmental and
economic needs.
EPRI
The Electric Power Research Institute is funded by a consortium
of electric power producers, and as such, conducts and funds
research into improved methods for electrical power generation and
distribution. They also support a wide array of environmental
research.
The Continental Supergrid site
The Continental Supergrid is a project of our colleague, Paul Grant.
The National Academy Press
The publishers for the National Academy of Sciences, the
National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the
National Research Council. You can buy our new book
Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment here,
as well as many older books edited and written by our staff and
colleagues.
Libraries and the Academy
The Internet Archive
The quest for universal access to all recorded human knowledge.
The Exploring and Collecting History On-Line (ECHO) Project
The project about the science, technology, and industry
is run by
Roy Rosenzweig and
company at George Mason University.
David Kirsch's Business Plan Archive
The Statistical Abstract of the United States
The standard reference for US statistics. Now available online
in PDF format.
CIESIN
The Consortium for International Earth Science Information
Network web site is an ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive
gateway to the worlds environmental research and data.
Virtual U is a fun computer simulation tool for university
administrators and other interested users who want to simulate and
practice managing certain scenarios, graduate students who aspire
to be administrators, and anyone intersted in a fun and challenging
interactive experience.
Virtual U has helped create the Serious
Games Initiative, which encourages applications of gaming to problems
relating from fear of spiders to peace in the Middle East.
CPST
Sheila Tobias' site about the Professional Science Master's degree.
The CPST site about all Science Master's degrees:
Affiliations and Collaborators
Cesare Marchetti Web Archive
A collection of works by our esteemed colleague Cesare
Marchetti.
IIASA
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (in
Laxenburg, Austria) brings together researchers from many nations
to work on environmental questions that bridge countries and
interests. We work closely with
Arnulf
Gruebler and Nebojsa Nakicenovic.
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
As the nation's first state agricultural experiment station
founded in 1875, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
investigates insects, ticks, forests, plant diseases, fruit,
vegetable and neekeepers and nurseries and inspects for pest
insects and plant diseases.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The ocean covers more than 70 percent of Earth, yet it is the
least understood ecosystem on the planet -- and it remains largely
unexplored. Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
(WHOI), a world leader in the field of oceanography, have been
probing the mysteries of the oceans for more than 65 years.
The Richard Lounsbery Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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