Introductions
General
- Last Frontier Forests: Interactive Forest Maps
- Chapters of Global Economy - Human Society and the Global Economy. An online heterodox textbook for the survey course in economics. Kit Sims Taylor
- TVE's LIFE - The partner website for the environmental issues report on BBC World Earth Report.
- Understanding Globalization - Understanding Globalization, Particularly Global Economics: - A Moral Imperative by James Lippke. Discusses Friedman and Korten's books, contrasting their perspectives on globalization.
- EVA
- Globalization and Finland - Table of contents - Nice report
looking at the effects of globalization upon Finland. Covers
key topics in clear vocabulary.
- Kellner:
Globalization
- http://www.usatoday.com/2000/global/globe005.htm
- Walls to webs: Globalization takes shape By John Hanchette,
Gannett News Service WASHINGTON - In the middle of the 1980s, a Saudi Arabian astronaut on a space mission with a multinational crew returned to Earth and gave an offhand descri...
- The International Forum on
Globalization - The International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists,
researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
- GLOBALIZATION - Homeworld
- Globalization, peeling back the layers: New Internationalist magazine 296 - contents page
- Research Area /
Publications
- ODC
Guest Viewpoint - The U.S. Perspective on Globalization - ODC
guest editorial by Stuart Eizenstat giving US perspective on
globalization, suggesting it's entirely positive.
- [PIPA]
Americans on Globalization - Concerns for American Workers
- What
Real Globalization Would Mean - Strongly worded argument by David
Graeber from Yale arguing what "real" globalization
would mean.
- Asia
Society: Speeches -Dr. Nafis Sadik - Asia Society speeches on
globalization. This is actually quite useful, containing some
conversational discussion about both the promises and perils
of globalization from Asian and US perspectives.
- The Turning
Point Project - New York Times ads arguing the downside of globaliztion,
sponsored by numerous organizations.
- GLOBALIZATION:
KEY CONCEPTS - Fred Riggs, U of Hawaii, website
- Globalization
Excerpt - The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
- a new book by Thomas Friedman
- Unesco Links
- ALL
- http://www.oneworld.net/anydoc.cgi?url=http://www.idrc.ca/books/focus/889/05-chp04.html
- Chapter 4 of book from the International Development Research
Centre, "The Emerging Fractured Global Order" examines
some of the interpretations offered to account for the process
of globalization, proposes a characterization of the emerging
fractured global order, and focuses on the knowledge fracture
that is now creating a great divide between societies with the
capacity to generate and use knowledge and those without it.
- Global
Eyes - In Motion Magazine (no frames version)
- GLOBALIZATION
- The
Online Global Problems Reader
- The Global Compact
- UN Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan's Global Compact and it's
9 principles of practice for world business leaders
- Globalization
- by Kurt Loeb - Discussion paper on impact of globalization on Canadian society.
- Antiglobalization
- Is globalization really The Problem?
- Global Issues
That Affect Everyone - The GlobalIssues.org site is a unique
site that provides insights into global issues that may be misrepresented
but are all closely related. Topics include human rights, trade
and environment related issues.
Futures
- Ishmael Community
- Daniel Quinn's Ishmael website deal with alternative global
futures, also includes discussion questions and workshops. This
could be useful for exploring ideological aspects to globalization.
- Feature
- 1997 Wired article presents a rosy techtopica vision of the
future "The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980 - 2020"
- Heroes
for the Planet Gallery - TIME,TIME magazine,TIME.com,TIME WARNER,TIME Inc.,environment,heroes,planet,oceans,earth
- Nat'l
Academy Press, Environmentally Significant Consumption: (1997),
page 75, in chapter 4 EXAMINING THE DRIVING FORCES
Globalization is Good
- ODC
Guest Viewpoint - The U.S. Perspective on Globalization - US
Perspective on Globalization
- Merrill
Lynch Forum - The Merrill Lynch Forum is a "virtual"
think tank designed to explore issues of critical importance
in technology, economics and geopolitics affecting our clients,
shareholders, colleagues and society at large.
- U.S.
News: Mortimer Zuckerman on the opponents of globalization (7/3/00)
- Progressive
Policy Institute: Trade and Global Markets - The Progressive
Policy Institute is a public policy institute shaping the Third
Way agenda with progressive legislative solutions for environmental
policy (second generation environmentalism), education policy
(school choice, standards and accountability), work-based welfare
reform, federal budget strategies, trade policy, health care
reform, and New Economy policy.
- Surprise:
Protests at Econ Confab - overview of protests at the World Economic
Forum, the writer comments observes protesters use cell phones,
the internet, etc, all products of increased globalization. Also
notes that those who show for the summit are also likely to attend
the Olympics.
- 11/17/97
THE NEW ECONOMY: WHAT IT REALLY MEANS - Business Week puts a
positive spin on global economy
- Gates:
Globalization Is Good - Dicussion of World Economic Forum meeting
in Australia " The Big Picture: Asia and IT Revolution".
Features comments of Bill Gates regarding globalization. This
meeting included a 10,000 strong protest, seen as a contiunation
of the Seattle protests.
References
Dictionaries
- Infonation:
Choose Countries - Excellent source of comparative data for countries.
Categories include geography, economy, population and social
indicators.
- CGRER
NetSurfing: Environmental Information/Topics - includes a host
of sites related to environmental education
- Library
of Congress Research Tools (Library of Congress) - The Library
of Congress (LC) offers a wide variety of onlinedatabases and
Internet resources. In addition, LC provides an easy-to-use gateway
for searchingother institutions' online catalogs and extensive
links to resources on the Internet.
- FindArticles.com
- Internet
Oracle Search Engines
- Freeality
Online Encyclopedias - Electronic Reference and Research - Access
and Search Dozens of Online Enclopedias. Complete reference and
research site. Homework helpers. Religion, history, people, events.
- WorldFactbook2000
- The Official Central Intelligence Agency Web site for The World
Factbook
- FirstGov.gov - Official
website for searching the U.S. Government - Homepage for the
FirstGov Website, the first-ever government website to provide
the public with easy, one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal
Government resources.
- CGRER
NetSurfing: GeoData Information Sources - incredible collection
of links to geographic and cartographic data sets
- CGRER
NetSurfing: Maps and References - - includes many interactive
maps, maps of eco-tourism, species occurance, animated maps (mpegs
files,quicktime movies), also includes atlases and many information
reference sources including searchable bibliographies, wow!
- Researching
Corporations - Corporate Watch provides hands-on activist tools
as an on-line magazine that produces regular features about the
role of corporations in social, political and economic and environmental
issues.
- Researching
Corporations | Glossary - Corporate Watch provides hands-on activist
tools as an on-line magazine that produces regular features about
the role of corporations in social, political and economic and
environmental issues.
- The International
Forum on Globalization
- ZNet
-- World Trade Crisis - Definitely worth checking out, ZNet offers
this Global Economics Crisis site as a source for understanding
global economics and trade issues and particularly in preparation
for ongoing demonstrations about economic justice.
- The Congressional
Institute - Globalization
- Homepage Prof. Drs. Ruud
Lubbers - Lubbers provides an interesting text map of globalization
at the site
- oneworld.net
- Search page for One World links. This link includes 214 recent
documents on globalization.
Archives
Clip Art
- Microsoft¨
Clip Gallery Live
- Globe Categories
at WWW.ADINET.NET/GGG - The Galloping Globe Gallery at adinet.net
is a well-organized collection of animated GIF - world globes
for free download - rotating earths, revolving planets, hollow
worlds, globe pictures, earth photos are all - in our archives
for free download
- Animated
GIFs Page 11 - dog, globe, floppy disk, CD, compact disk, fireplace,
mailbox, toilet, businessman - Free animated GIFs. A large selection
of clipart and an index to other animated GIF sites on the web.
- A-Z Free Clipart
Graphics - 10,000 Free Images - Over 10,000 free clipart images
and the net's best clipart sites. Icons, balls, backgrounds,
bars, graphics, animated gifs, clip art, and more! This site
is updated every 30 minutes, bookmark us now!
- Free
Photos and Graphics - free photos and graphics, photo libraries,
icommerce, actinic catalog. - Free Photos and Graphics, Photo
Libraries, advice and help from Actinic Catalog, ICommerce.
- ArtToday Members
- Barry's
Clip Art Server - Barry's Clip Art Server is an Award Winning,
FREE resource for all types of clip art. Your one and only One
Stop Shop for FREE Clipart.
Photos
- The Image Works -
Stock and Assignment Photography - The Image Works a stock and
asignment photography agency offering world-wide coverage that
licenses rights to documentary photographs by photojournalists
of social issues, diversity, travel, politics, personalities,
history, family, children, health care, education, humor, environment,
and recreation for editorial and advertising.
- Corbis
- Top25 - Hmong
- PHOTOVAULT- A celebration
of the Great Mystery - Excellent site for a great deal of photos,
all thumbnails.
- Squall -
Excellent source for protest photos.
- Cornflakes from Around the World
- The
Week in Pictures: 2000
- World
Bank Photographs - contact info regarding obtaining World Bank
photos. They charge a small fee, which may be better than other
services.
- Independent
Media Center - search - 9 pages of photos relating to WTO Seattle
protests as well as many other protests relating to various aspects
of globalization
- Earth
Crash - Gallery - a photographic gallery of deforestation, whaling,
mining, and more.
- www.undercurrents.org,
activism, films, news, training, - Videos, Undercurrents, videos,
camcorders, activism, films, news, training, screenings, environment,
animal rights, police, media, television, cameras,
- environmental
disasters
- Piet den Blanken,
photojournalist - Homepage of Dutch photojournalist with lots
ofpictures
- Photojournalism
> Exhibits - list of various photo journalist websites from
Yahoo
- United Nations Photo
- This page was prepared by the United Nations, Department of
Public Information, News and Media Division for the Multimedia
output of the United Nations Department of Public Information.
Here you will find selected radio programmes, video clips, and
information on the work of the United Nations in Arabic, Chinese,
English, French, Russian, Spanish among other languages
- Greenpeace Images
- Greenpeace image library, video and stills, must be requested,
search available, $40 per order, online delivery.
- Still Pictures
- Development oriented, online delivery of pictures, negotiable
price, seemingly good customer service
- Panos
Pictures Search - extensive collection, must order individually
by request, delivered online
- BAPLA
- Image Search - Search - 3d BAPLA - largest trade association
for picture/stock libraries and agencies 400+ members, access
to over...
- BAPLA - - BAPLA
British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies. Over 380
agencies on one site. Locate the picture source. Subscribe to
Light Box magazine. Directory or job seekers service.
- NSSDC
Photo Gallery: Earth - NSSDC Photo Gallery: Earth - A collection
of images of the Earth as seen by NASA's planetary missions
- The
Associated Press Photo Archive - the ap photo archive is an electronic
library containing the ap's current - photos and a selection
of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library
- Environmental
Research Foundation - Rachel's Weekly - phthalates (pronounced
tha-lates) in food and water may be interfering with development
of the reproductive system in both boys and girls in Puerto Rico
- TimePix
- Great Photographs and images from Time, Life, People, Sports
Illustrated, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, In Style, Time Life
Books, and other Time Inc. publications
- Detroit
Free Press - Photo gallery - Photojournalism and photography
by staff of The Detroit Free Press. This is the site for some
of the most outstanding photojournalistic images you will find
on the web.
- Photographic
Information Exchange Menu Search Page - great site for geting
pics on energy related issues.
- viewimages.com
- FAO
PhotoFile Archive
- Millennium
@ nationalgeographic.com - Flintstones in backdrop of Kenyan
school.
Sounds
- WTO
Internet Broadcasting Service - Links to video files of the High
Level Symposium on Trade and the Environment and Trade and Developmen
on March 15, 1999 WTO Seattle. Very good sound quality.
- TappedIntoTheEarth.com
- link to the video Global Village or Global Pillage, Ed Asner
hosts.
- TappedIntoTheEarth.com
- collection of audio/video files relating to WTO Seattle round
activities and protests. These are good quality files. These
could serve as a great resource for getting an actual feeling
for policy formation and discourse.
- World
Bank Group | Radio Press Releases - Debt Relief For The World's
Poorest Countries Report reviews the progress so far with soundbites
from Ugandans, Mozambicans and World Bank staff.
- ICPD
+ 5 - This page was prepared by the United Nations, Department
of Public Information, Media Division for the United Nations
Special General Assembly Session on Population and Development.
Here you will find selected radio programmes, video clips, and
information on the work of the United Nations in the filed of
population and development in Arabic, Chinese, English, French,
Russian, Spanish among other languages
- UN Multimedia - This page
was prepared by the United Nations, Department of Public Information,
News and Media Division for the Multimedia output of the United
Nations Department of Public Information. Here you will find
selected radio programmes, video clips, and information on the
work of the United Nations in Arabic, Chinese, English, French,
Russian, Spanish among other languages
- The
A-infos Radio Project: Program Details: A16 - IFG Panel 5 - April
2000 International Forum on Globalization speeches. 145 min of
audio files featuring Vandana Shiva, Ralph Nader, Maude Barlow
(moderator). Lori Wallach, Oronto Douglas from
- The
A-infos Radio Project: Program Details: Ralph Nader: Alternative
VS Corporate Technology
- TUC Radio: Newest
Programs - Independent Radio and Audio Tapes on the untold story
- the impact of big corporations on society.
- Thomas
Friedman Speaks - Audio - The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding
Globalization - a new book by Thomas Friedman
Economics
Corporations
- No Logo - list of anti-corporate websites,culture jammers, anti-sweatshop sites, etc.
- Corporate Accountability Project
- The Meme Machine - Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbuster's thinks we're on the verge of a global mindshift. The Meme machine utilizes Dawkin's
"meme" to explain what is happening regarding the anti-corporate movement.
- NDOL:
Idea of the Week: A Global Clearinghouse on Corporate Responsibility - New Democrats Online (NDOL) is the Democratic Leadership Council's
online community for political leaders at the forefront of the New Democrat movement and Third Way politics; features progressive policy analysis and legislative solutions.
- 11/17/97
THE NEW ECONOMY: WHAT IT REALLY MEANS - Business Week puts a positive spin on global economy
- CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY IN A GLOBALISING WORLD
- Globalization
and Corporate Rule | What is Neo-Liberalism? - A SHORT HISTORY OF NEO-LIBERALISM: TWENTY YEARS OF ELITE ECONOMICS AND EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STRUCTURAL CHANGE BY SUSAN GEORGE
- Corporate Watch --- www.corpwatch.org - Corporate Watch provides hands-on activist tools as an on-line in social, political and economic and environmental issues.
- TRAC
-- The Transnational Resource and Action Center - Corporate Watch provides hands-on activist tools as an on-line magazine that produces regular features about the role of corporations in social, political and economic and environmental issues.
- The
State New Economy Index - The State New Economy Index ranks states' progress toward the new economy on a number of economic indicators. Published by the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI).
- 11/17/97 THE NEW ECONOMY: WHAT IT REALLY MEANS - Business Week puts a positive spin on global economy
- The New Economy
Index - The New Economy Index illustrates what's new about the so-called New Economy, from industrial and occupational change to globalization, competition, and the information technology revolution.
- Guardian
Unlimited | Special reports | Cartels: the new scourge of the world economy
- Nat'l
Academy Press, Global Economy, Global Technology, Global Corporations:
(1998), 1 Summary - National Academy Press online publication
"Global Economy, Global Technology, Global Corporations:
Reports of a Joint Task Force of the National Research Council
and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science on The Rights
and Responsibilities of Multinational Corporations in an Age
of Technological Interdependence (1998)".
- CSAB - Center for the study
of American business produces reports that extoll the positive
benefits of private enterprise.CSAB's Mission: "To improve
public understanding of the private enterprise system in a global
context, thereby fostering a public policy environment in which
the U.S. market economy can prosper."
- Britannica.com
- Global Policy Forum website. This page keeps track of the argument:
how much power do TNCs have? What are the areas where they exercise
their power? And, most importantly, how can citizens gain democratic
control over these institutions?
- Visit
the World of Chevron - Project Underground
- Shell-Shocked
The environmental and social costs of living with Shell in Nigeria
Greenpeace International - Greenpeace position on Shell's presence
in Nigeria
- Welcome to Shell Nigeria
- Shell Nigeria
- Baobab's
Corporate Power Information Center - Business Ethics, Corporate
Welfare, the Global Economy, and More! - web resources that explore,
expose, and critique the domination of global business, politics
and culture by large corporations.
- Women
in the Global Economy
- Transnational
Corporations: Impediments or Catalysts of Social Development?
- UN Research Institute for Social Development's article: Transnational
Corporations: Impediments or Catalysts of Social Development?
- A
Second Chance - Fortune magazine article A Second Chance, argues
that "Globalization and its many benefits are not just latter-day
blessings. In fact, the century was born in free trade and rising
prosperity--until we blew it all to pieces in World War I"
-
multinational corporation - Britannica.com - Basic
definition of Multi/transnational Corporation
- dtcindex
- TNC geographical index. Quite useful for getting a handle on
just who's is where.
- UWEC
geog111 Vogeler -- U.S. Multinational Corporations in Indonesia
- Nice punchy piece from The Progressive dealing with cheap labor
in Indonesia at Nike, Reebok, and Levi-Strauss.
- Globalization:
Threat or Opportunity? An IMF Issues Brief - Offers an overview
of some aspects of globalization and aims to identify ways in
which countries can tap the gains of this process, while remaining
realistic about its potential and its risks.
- Just
Shoppers' Guide No. 2
- Nike
| Index Page - Corporate Watch provides hands-on activist tools
as an on-line magazine that produces regular features about the
role of corporations in social, political and economic and environmental
issues.
- At
Last NIKE is Naked
- TIME:
Taking A Look Inside Nike's Factories
- Maquila Solidarity
Network
- Case
Study
- maquiladora maquiladoras
Mexico manufacturing NAFTA consulting - maquiladora maquiladoras
Mexico manufacturing NAFTA consulting
- Maquiladora
Program
- PERSPECTIVE
ON THE ENVIRONMENT-LA Times essay 1996
Labor
- Nat'l
Academy Press, Beyond Six Billion: (2000), Executive Summary
- National Academy Press publications "Beyond Six Billion:
Forecasting the World's Population (2000)".
- Nat'l
Academy Press, The Immigration Debate: (1998), 6 Immigrants and
Natives in General Equilibrium Trade Models - National Academy
Press publication "The Immigration Debate: Studies on the
Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration (1998)".
Chapter 6 examines why all Mexicans aren't immigrating to the
US for higher wages and why all US manufactures haven't moved
to Mexico because of lower wages. The article of course is argued
from a US policy perspective.
- Immigration
in the New Economy - Fall 2000 article from The Public Interest
Journal explores aspects of immigration in the new economy.
- brief34
- May 1999 Panos briefing paper on globalization and employment
with an emphasis upon export zones and the varying degrees of
the impact of globalization.
- Social
Capital for Development-Home Page - from PovertyNet
- Social
Capital in Economics, Trade and Migration (2) - World Trade Poverty
Net site discusses the relationship between economics, migration
and the social fabric, termed "social capital". The
site also contains links to other articles discussing social
capital and how it can be affected by globalization and economic
change.
- http://opr.princeton.edu/papers/cmd0002d.pdf
- Stephen Castles, director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Social
Transformation Studies, conference paper on migration and development
from May 2000.
- NLC -
Wages Around The World
- ICFTU Web site - The ICFTU
is a confederation of 215 national trade union centres, representing
125 million trade union members in 145 countries and territories,
which campaigns to defend workers' rights worldwide.
- Sweatshop.org
- Sweatshop.org's site contents
- Corporate
Codes of Conduct and Labour Standards - Link to main International
Labor Organization site. Nice overview of the issues of labor in the global economy.
Society
Technology
- The
A-infos Radio Project: Program Details: Ralph Nader: Alternative
VS Corporate Technology
- Nat'l
Academy Press, National Interests in an Age of Global Technology
(1991), 2.
- OPPORTUNITIES
AND CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION - Link to the online publication
the National Academy of Sciences publication " National
Interests in an Age of Global Technology". From this link
you can access other books published online.
- TIME
Digital Magazine: A Global Village --PAGE 1-- DECEMBER 2000 -
A Global Village: EBay has a plan to transform the lives of rural
Guatemalans: get them wired, then help them sell their crafts
online
- Internet
Indicators | The Global Internet
- Internet Indicators
- The development of the Internet Economy Indicatorsú,
created by the University of Texas, and sponsored by Cisco Systems,
provides a foundation for conceptualizing and measuring the various
components of the Internet Economy.
- Culture,
Society and Advanced Information Technology - Discusses the National
Information Infrastructure (NII) and looks at ways in which it
is changing America culture and society. This report is the result
of a workshop in 1995 between the American Anthropological Association
and the Computing Research Association.
- oneworld.net
- Link to essay "Governing the Global Knowledge Society",
discussion of the "digital divide" and speaks directly
to the emerging inequalities in information technology arguing
that technological and economic globalization imposes a political
and legal globalization
- OneWorld.net
campaigns: Digital divide - Excellent source for links to various
discussions regarding the emerging "digital divide"
brought about by globalization.
- http://www.oneworld.org/panos/briefing/itindex.htm
- Index to Panos information technology briefing papers. These
papers address the relationships being ICT relationships being
established in LCD's, with an emphasis upon who is benefiting.
- Panos
Media Briefings Contents - Development and the market: The promises
and the problems. Pano 1997 media briefing paper. Well referenced
with lots of facts
- http://www.yorku.ca/research/dkproj/crit-ict/ek1.htm
- 1998 article by Ellen Kole "Whose Empowerment? NGOs between
grassroots and netizens".
- GK-AIMS:
Global Knowledge-Activity Information Management System - Forum
Stresses Partnerships and Local Control As Keys to Closing the
International Digital Divide
- Innovations
in Technology and Globalization part 5 - Contents of Making Career
Sense of Labour Market Information
- Innovations
in Technology and Globalization part 1 - Contents of Making Career
Sense of Labour Market Information
- http://zobell.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/TTEC/TTECSH.html
- Technology Policy, Environmental Conservation and Sustainable
Development in the Asia-Pacific Region
- The 2B1 Mission
- advocates of reducing and preventing the digital divide, apparently
related to MIT.
- Prometheus
Revisited - "Prometheus Revisited" Inaugural address
by John M. Eger to the Institute for Humanistic Studies at Tokyo
Institute of Technology, October 7, 1991. Very good speech reprenting
a rather utopian vision of the future, certainly illustrating
the role of technology in the process of globalization.
- \Technology,
ICT and the digital divide\knowledge workers Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Local News - April 15, 1999 Honolulu Star Bullentin, examines
effects of brain drain on Hawaii.
- http://rbd.nstda.or.th/
- The Reverse Brain Drain Project website. This site utilizes
Thai's living overseas for the development of Thai science and
technology.
- The
migration of knowledge workers into and out of Canada
- 'Brain-drain
is not asset lost' - brief article from India World examines
arguments made in book "the migration of knowledge workers-second
generation effect of India's brain drain" by Indian academician
Binod Khadria.
Indigenous Peoples
- NGO Indigenous
People
- Center For World Indigenous
Studies Home Page - An indigenous peoples founded non-profit
US 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting the sovereignty
and self-determination of indigenous peoples worldwide.
- Oneida Indian Nation
- Very impressive website that includes a multimedia slideshow.
- The
Internet and Indigenous Groups - Cultural Survival Quarterly
focus upon indigenous culture and the internet as a tool for
self determination.
- Bill's
Aboriginal Links: Arts and Culture
- NativeWeb - an Internet
Community
- Bill's
Aboriginal Links
- Fourth World
Documentation Project Home Page - The Center For World IndigenousStudies
has moved to www.cwis.org
- Fulbright
Symposium Abstracts
- HAWAI`I - INDEPENDENT
and SOVEREIGN NATION-STATE
- Hawaii Public Access Media
Main Page - PBS, PBS/ACCESS Merger, merger, PBS merger, Access
merger, Hawaii, Television, Video Production, Entertainment,
Education, Community, Hawaii Public Access Media, News, Bills, Resolutions, Legislature, Free Speech, Programs, Olelo
- NLCC
- 1997
Minority Report to Congress
- Native American Public
Telecommunication - Native American Public Telecommunciations
(NAPT) Home Page: Empowering, Educating, and Entertaining Through
Native Media
- NAATA/CrossCurrent Media
- Founded in 1980, the National Asian American Telecommunications
Association (NAATA) is at the forefront in creating opportunities
for Asian American media through production funding, national
public television broadcasts, educational distribution, and the
annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
- Pacific
Islanders in Communications - Old URL: http://planet-hawaii.com/~pacislanders/
- Aboriginal
Media ....DEVCOMM
- INDIGENOUS CONTEMPORARY
- David Robie's
Cafe Pacific: Front Page
- Institute for Community
Networking
- History -
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Indigenous Television Program
Unit
Environment
General
- http://www.oneworld.org/panos/briefing/envindex.htm
- index to Panos briefing papers on the environment and development
- Environmentalists'
dark vision of 21st century - On the threshold of a new century
and new millennium, global environmentalists continue to see
human aspirations for a better life as the enemy of the environment.
- Environmental
Defense Home Page
- General
Motors - Emissions - General Motors website listing actions they've
taken to reduce emissions
- Pollution
and waste increasing in five countries despite more efficient
use of resources
- The Global Environment Information
Centre
- Heroes
for the Planet - TIME,TIME magazine,TIME.com,TIME WARNER,TIME
Inc.,environment,heroes,planet,oceans,earth
- Internet Resources,
Hot Environmental Links
- World Resources
Institute (WRI)
- Environmental
Treaty Texts (alphabetical order)
- CIESIN Center for International
Earth Science Information Network
- Welcome to
Soulutions - survival of earth, life and the human race via global,
inclusive spiritual, environmental, social, political, economic
ethical renewal and re-creation
- Trade
and Environment: WTO Internet Broadcasting Service - Links to
video files of the High Level Symposium on Trade and the Environment
and Trade and Developmen on March 15, 1999 WTO Seattle. Very
good sound quality.
- Taiwan
Struggles to Clean Polluted RiversÊ@ nationalgeographic.com
- Global
forest fires
- Welcome to Project Underground
Global Warming
- Nat'l
Academy Press, Global Environmental Change: (1999), 7 Human Dimensions
of Global Environmental Change - National Academy Press publication
"Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the
Next Decade (1999)". Chapter 7 deals with human dimensions
of environmental change.
- Global Warming: Early
Warning Signs - Includes global warming hotspots map. This site
is a co-operative venture between leading environmental groups
and institutions.
- EPA
Global Warming Site
- GCC: Global
Climate Coalition - The GCC Global Warming Site focuses on the
science and economic impacts of global warming or climate change,
and on actions by governments, corporations, and individuals
that help address global warming issues. The site also features
climate change related news, publications, reports, presentations,
and links to other sites.
- Wired
8.11: Dumping Iron - Wired article about Michael Markels attempt
to reduce global warming by dumping iron into the ocean.
- PPI:
Reframing the Climate Change Debate - The Progressive Policy
Institute is a public policy institute shaping the Third Way
agenda with progressive legislative solutions for environmental
policy (second generation environmentalism), education policy
(school choice, standards and accountability), work-based welfare
reform, federal budget strategies, trade policy, health care
reform, and New Economy policy.
- Grist
| Heat Beat | This Just In | 03 Nov 2000 - earth, day, earthday,
2000, environment, environmental, events, energy, worldwide,
calendar, resources, clean, news, education, magazine, store,
renewable, solar, power, international, green, grassroots, global,
network, Hayes
- Pollution
Adds To Global Warming - Oct.26 2000 press release regarding
the most recent and first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) report since 1995, suggesting global warming is
occuring faster than thought.
- Debate
Rises Over a Quick(er) Climate Fix - October 2000 NY Times article
"Debate Rises Over a Quick(er) Climate Fix", presents
recent arguments.
- PNAS
-- Hansen et al. 97 (18): 9875 - August 2000 article published
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences "Global
warming in the twenty-first century: An alternative scenario
". Presents argument that rapid warming in recent decades
has been driven mainly by non-CO2 greenhouse gases (GHGs), such
as chlorofluorocarbons, CH4, and N2O, not by the products of
fossil fuel burning, CO2 and aerosols, the positive and negative
climate forcings of which are partially offsetting
- JUST
A LOT OF HOT AIR - Between November 13-24, the world's governments
meet in The Hague to negotiate the climate change convention.
This briefing highlights the key areas of controversy and includes
the views of people from developing countries, who will be hardest
hit by the impact of global warming
- Global
Climate Change
- A Current
View of the Kyoto Climate Change Treaty - A Current View of the
- Tidepool's Climate
Change News
- Auto
Air Conditioners and the Ozone Layer- Background
- The
Ozone Depletion Phenomenon - All About Ozone - article describes
basic research led to knowledge of stratospheric ozone, role
in Earth's atmosphere, consequences of its depletion.
- The
Ozone Hole Tour - Home Page
- Philip Stott's Myth-Challenging
Tropical Ecology Site. - A critical look at tropical ecology,
especially rain forests, savannas, biodiversity and global warming
by a world authority, Professor Philip Stott of the University
of London.
- Global Warming -
Entire site devoted to oppostion to the UN's Framework Convention
on Climate Change, particularly in the US
- Global
Warming Student Research Page - An in-depth resource on global
climate change science, politics, and economic issues.
- SEDAC- Stratospheric
Ozone and Human Health Project Home Page - SEDAC's Stratospheric
Ozone and Human Health Project home page. The purpose of this
project is to provide data and resources in the areas of ultraviolet
(UV) radiation, ozone, and human health impacts of UV exposure
for use by researchers, educators, government officials, health
providers, students, and the general public.
- \Env\Satellite
images and maps of environmental change Maps tracking environmental
impacts - TIME,TIME magazine,TIME.com,TIME WARNER,TIME Inc.,environment,heroes,planet,oceans,earth
- Earthshots-
Satellite Images of Environmental Change- Table of Contents -
Earthshots is a collection of Landsat images and text, designed
to show environmental changes and to introduce remote sensing.
From the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center, the world's
largest archive of earth science data.
- Global Warming: Early
Warning Signs
- The
Heartland Institute: The Heidelberg Appeal - Argument that seems
to be directed toward and against thinkers like Hannes.
- The
Earth Times/PROFILE: Inuit activist puts human face to global
warming. By Tamar Hahn - Earthtimes Nov.20 "Inuit activist
puts human face to global warming".
- Pollution
Adds To Global Warming - Oct.26 2000 press release regarding
the most recent and first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) report since 1995, suggesting global warming is
occuring faster than thought.
- New Internationalist
magazine on-line : Homepage - 1990 New Internationalist editorial.
Well written easily readable argument on global warming.
Endangered Species & Habitats
- WWF
- US: World Wildlife Fund - Explore World Wildlife Fund Online
to learn more about endangered species like tigers, rhinos, whales,
and pandas, the places where they live, threats to their survival,
and how WWF is helping to save them. Take action online, shop
our site, and download free postcards, screensavers, and fun
wildlife stuff for kids and adults
- Earth
Crash / Koyannisqatsi
- Monarch
Habitat Could Disappear From MexicoÊ@ nationalgeographic.com
- Australia's
Coral PerilsÊ@ nationalgeographic.com
- Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk
project homepage - The goal of the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk
(HEAR) project is to provide resources (technology, methods,
and information) to resource managers statewide to aid in the
fight against invasive alien species statewide.
Politics
Morality
- http://www.ethical-junction.org
- Ethical Junction is a gateway/shopping center to the ethical
sector for people in the UK and Ireland, giving a focal point
for a broad range of ethical issues and trading.
- Christian
Science Monitor - Christian Science Monitor article describing
"cultural creatives", those people who are embracing
new ways of living that include ethical shopping.
- Shoppers'
Guide Introduction - Ethical guide to shopping, considerations
of sweatshops, etc.
- Social
and Ethical Reporting Clearinghouse
- http://www.bsr.org/ - BSR is
the world leader in corporate social responsibility (CSR) research
and consulting. In-depth reports, news summaries, best practices
and links are available from our online resource center. Topic
areas include: community involvement, environment, human rights,
workplace and corporate governance.
- WRI PowerPoint
slides, presentations - Viewable and downloadable powerpoint
presentations on global environmental trends, forests, coral
reefs, climate change, and business.
- Network of Educators
on the Americas/Teaching for Change Multicultural Resources -
NECA provides resources for promoting social and economic justice
in public education. Materials provided by NECA challenge dominant
views of the social order. They seem to be interested in peeling
away layers of misrepresentation in the media.
- New
Internationalist Magazine - for teachers and students of global
issues - Global issues, poverty and environment - resources for
teachers and students from New Internationalist Magazine
- Chapters
of Global Economy - Human Society and the Global Economy. An
online heterodox textbook for the survey course in economics.
Kit Sims Taylor
- TVE's
LIFE
- Television Trust
for the Environment - An independent, non-profit organisation,
TVE's mission is to act as a catalyst for the production and
distribution of films on environment, development, health and
human rights issues.
- Bullfrog Films: 1-800-543-3764:
Environmental and Educational Videos - Leading source of videos
about the environment, ecology, sustainable development, indigenous
people, cultural diversity, and performing arts, music and dance.
- UN
CyberSchoolBus: Resource Source
- Film
Archive: Technology - films on technology and the digital divide
- Welcome
to the WBI Global Links Television Website
