The Internet as a Research Tool for Postgraduate Studies

Introduction Ed's tips on finding and storing links Virtual Libraries Anarchy Environmentalism (!?!) Life, the universe and everything Land, Soil, Agriculture and all that stuff Quantitative data sources (maybe some quality as well?) Conferences and Events Govt Publications/Sustainability Indicators Ethics and the Living World New links : not yet categorised

Introduction

This set of links is compiled from the "core list" email file and my own travels in cyberspace in a very partially ordered order. Anyone who wishes (Marie Ange, Carole, Conrad, or any of us) can provide a suggested classification system and I (or another) can implement it. The more the merrier? --ed

Beat the Drums! Send in a Link!

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan,
more uncertain of success, nor more dangerous to manage
than the creation of a new order of things.
For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit
by the preservation of the old institutions,
and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.

--Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)

Ed's tips on finding and storing links

First of all, we should have a good basic search routine.

I use the metacrawler, which combines a number of the best basic search engines, including altavista. You can add or subtract to configure your own (meta!) search. I just use their default at:

http://www.go2net.com/search.html

There are other metacrawlers, and no doubt metametacrawlers will emerge...

Those using Netscape (which I advocate strongly as a means of avoiding Bill Gates & Co, FREE from here) can create a folder in your bookmarks and drag a link to it when you are somewhere worth noting. Thus is created a file which can be copied and pasted into any sort of textfile (word, works, etc.) or straight into an email. as an example here is the contents of my folder called "Module Links" for want of a better name...first as a saved 'bookmark' file and second as cut&paste.

LINKS

Virtual Libraries

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: (an overview of subject areas)
http://conbio.rice.edu/vl/database/

The world wide web virtual library: Ecology & Biodiversity: -- Brendan in Module1 handbook
http://conbio.rice.edu/vl/

The world wide web virtual library: Forests & Forestry: --ed from long-time involvement
http://www.metla.fi/info/vlib/Forestry/

The EnviroLink Library : Categorized by types of resources (organizations, publications, etc.) and environmental topics. Extensive searching tools. You may suggest a resource if it does not already appear in the library.

http://www.envirolink.org/library/index2.htm

Carole's classified links (a virtual library themselves)  or Ed's

"Best environmental directories:"
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/cds.html

Interesting links:
http://vub.vub.ac.be/~gronsse/activities/links.html

Anarchy

TAO (The Anarchist Organisation); a site echoing Lao Tzu?
http://www.tao.ca/

Earth First! Simply the most RIGHT ON! (if you dare) -ed
http://www.enviroweb.org/ef/

Devoted to Ed Abbey and monkeywrenchers everywhere:
http://www.utsidan.se/abbey/

Adbusters was mentioned last weekend! -- Chris P.
http://www.adbusters.org/uncommercials/index2.htm

And a few words about property and the land reform debate from Andy Wightman and others: -ed
http://www.caledonia.org.uk/land/

and another land reform site for Scotland:
http://www.cali.co.uk/hif/l.htm

Al-QADHAFI speech to International Conference for Green-Alternative and Peace Movements
Sirte, 12-14 June 1992): http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jamahir/Qadhafi.htm
and here are a couple of links to a charismatic practitioner: (good or evil?) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8744/dsreview.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8744/escape.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8744/mqfacts.htm

Environmentalism (!?!) Life, the universe and everything

The Precautionary Principle & The Vancouver Statement on the Globalization and Industrialization of Agriculture: http://www.orionsociety.org/reinhabiting.html

Alliance for Bio-Integrity: "the hot stuff is the FDA's Internal Memoranda on the Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods" --Chris Pilley
http://www.bio-integrity.org/

"Daily Diffs" newswatch including weather analysis, biotechnology
http://www.dailydiffs.com/dop000af.htm

Schmacher College website:
http://www.gn.apc.org/schumachercollege/

Forests, Trees & People, UN based good papers about indigenous folk and their places
http://www-trees.slu.se/ -FREE print quarterly!

Green Earth Journal (reports from the environmental front)
http://www.greenjournal.com/

Dominic Ashmoles links from the Wildwood pages:
http://www.scotweb.co.uk/environment/wildwood/links.htm

The Menominee Sustainable Development site -
A First Nation tribe who have managed a forest for 140 years and have harvested more wood than was there when they began, and there's still (a little) more than there was...--ed
http://www.menominee.com/sdi/homepage.htm and
Wendell Berry visited them and wrote about it

Taiga Rescue Network - watching out for our hemisphere's northern oldgrowth:
http://www.snf.se/TRN/

Forest Action Network (Canada)
http://www.fanweb.org

You might subscribe to this; it comes three to four times a week and is a quick, informative read...Jamie
All stories on the web at: http://www.envirolink.org/environews/

Natural Capitalism, (Hawken, Lovins, Lovins) which includes reviews, etc. relating to the book, including the current Resurgence interview with Lovins by Satish Kumar... --ed
http://www.naturalcapital.org/

And then there's the sustainability webring CHE is in the ring!

Re-defining Progress: Lots of good socio-economic papers on current changes -- ed
http://www.rprogress.org

Alan Watts may be dead, but he's on the reading list! Started as an "uptight English theologian, became one of the most lucid interpreters of zen, buddhism, taoism...sadly, Nature Man & Woman is out of print, but there's lots else, including one of my alltime favourites, TAO, the watercourse way -- ed
http://www.alanwatts.com/
http://www.alanwatts.com/ac_lectures.html

Preservenet; an assembly of stuff which is hard to find elsewhwere, including Illich--ed
http://www.preservenet.com/

of which Political (?) theory on the net:
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/TheoryIntro.htm

Wherein we find Ivan Illich from the reading list module2: Shadow Economics, and Illich on Energy & Equity:
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ira/illich/texts/energy_and_equity/node2.html#SECTION00002000000000000000
(those of you who know how to deconstruct a URL will deduce that there is a directory at:
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ira/illich/texts/ or thereabouts, and it's Edin Uni! I wonder what's at cogsci.ed.ac.uk/...? Your starter for 10 --ed

and then there's "Brain Food" from Jay Hanson at:
http://dieoff.com/

A most interesting assembly of very serious papers, including Garret Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons"
and many papers following on from it, with direct bearing on Module1.
e.g.: Vitousek, Ehrlich, Ehrlich & Matson's "Human Appropriation of the Products of Photosynthesis." Ehrlich and Simon, et al are referred to more than once by Ulrich & Brendan!
http://www.208.240.253.224/page83.htm

or See the webmaster's occasional brainfood newsletter: for a real hit: -- ed
http://dieoff.com/page185.htm

Various reviews from 'whole earth review' issues by Howard Rheingold
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/reviews/index2.htm

A review of "Out of Control" - rheingold on kevin kelly...the emergent properties of modern knowlege systems.... :
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/reviews/outcontrol.htm

And for those who would like to see the (wholly online) book: references to lovelock, margulies, dawkins, stewart brand (who was behind Whole Earth Catalog, Coevolution Quarterly, etc), and much else, all pretty relevant and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED (worth buying the paperback!) -- ed
http://www.well.com/user/kk/OutOfControl/index2.htm

In Context, mentioned by Nick with the amoeba game we played:
http://www.context.org

Care2.com "homebase for people who care about the environment." --jamie
http://www.care2.com

Land, Soil, Agriculture and all that stuff

Aldo Leopold's LAND ETHIC: I think Aldo leopold wouldn't mind me violating his copyright, It's from A sand County Almanac, and the ink-on-paper version is available and highly commended. --ed
landethic.html

Wendell Berry on Farming, Private Property, Conserving Communities & Forests:
Another Turn of the Crank (with apologies to E F Schumacher)

An Agricultural testament: Sir Albert Howard (one of the founders of organic farming)
http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010105howard/030104howardtoc.html

Steve Solomon (soil & health web host) is interested in publishing appropriate stuff you may have,
if it's out of print & copyright, e.g. Farmers of 40 Centuries? and you wanna share it, get in touch with him (address on website)
http://www.soilandhealth.org

Lady Eve Balfour's (who did found the Soil Association) address: The living Soil 1977:
http://www.netspeed.com.au/cogs/cogbal.htm

Playing God in the Garden, by Michael Pollan, New York Times 25/10/98
http://www.organics.org/features/god_garden.htm

Rachel's environment & health weekly (honor Ms Carson and read Silent Spring!)
http://www.rachel.org

Quantitative data sources (maybe some quality as well?)

Columbia Univ Center for international earth science information network: access to DATA --ed
http://www.ciesin.org/wdc/

metadata is data about data..... http://www.ciesin.org/metadata/TOC/overview.html
socio economic data http://sedac.ciesin.org/
Gateway to Data search 'build query' system http://www.gateway.ciesin.org/wdc/

World Data Center system front page
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/wdcmain.html
International Council of Scientific Unions: World Data Center system guide
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/guide/wdcguide.html

For a truly "top down" view of things, you can't do better than:
Earth Observation NASA http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eospso_homepage.html
NASA's earth observation proj 'handbook' 5MB pdf file available (BIG DOWNLOAD!) --ed
http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/misc_html/refbook.html

From the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/discovery/
and "one Planet", etc:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/oneplanet/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/science/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml

European Commission Directorate-General for Research
Web: http://www.cordis.lu/improving

You will also find all the guides, work programmes, application forms on the UKRO web site:
URL: http://www.ukro.ac.uk

An interesting source? National Research Council (USA)
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309064201/html/1.html#pagetop

Conferences and Events

CONFERENCE: 'Environmental Values' being held at University College Cork on 23rd-25th June;
The event is being organised by Dr Mark Rowlands of the Philosophy Department and Dr Sylvia Ross of the Italian Department.
http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/italian/environmental_values.html

Big Biotech seminar in Edinburgh...28 Feb-1Mar 2000
http://www.oecd.org/subject/biotech/edinburgh.htm

Current and Furture EVENTS at CHE

World Scientists' statement: moratorium on GMO/GE releases
http://www.twnside.org.sg/souths/twn/title/world-cn.htm

ASSOCIATION OF INTERNET RESEARCHERS -- Conference Website:
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/

Informatics Colloquium, a forum for prestigious talks with broad appeal across Informatics.
http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/events/colloquium/

E-GOVERNMENT BULLETIN The Email Newsletter On Electronic Government, UK And Worldwide.
http://www.headstar.com/egb/

Govt. Publications/Sustainability Indicators

Scottish Parliament website:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk

The transcript of sustainable development debate in the Scottish Parliament is to be found at:-
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/official_report/session99-00/or040805.htm#Col781

Scottish Executive:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk

Cycling by Design; Bicycle strategy
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library2/cbd/cbd-00.asp

Climate Change Scoping Study, (ed has prepared a critique of the document): critique
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/cru/kd01/ccsi-01.htm

Scottish office "modulation" consultation (eurofunding to keep folk on the land? why and how?)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/modulation.asp

Cost Effective Landscape: learning from Nature:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library/docs-l/ld-00.htm

Trunk Road Biodiversity Action Programme:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library2/doc11/tbap-00.asp

DETR: Department of Environment, Transport & Regions (an interesting combo! -ed)
http://www.detr.gov.uk/

Our beloved government's take on Sustainability - as they think that (1997, web site) :"Sustainable development means reconciling two basic aspirations of society: to achieve economic development to secure rising standards of living both now and for future generations; and to protect and enhance the environment now and for the future. "...(as long as we can still afford it and GROW)...Carole

DETR: A Better Quality of Life - A strategy for sustainable development for the UK (May 99)
http://www.environment.detr.gov.uk/sustainable/quality/index.htm

DETR: Quality of Life Counts - Indicators for a strategy for sustainable development for the UK : a baseline assessment (Dec 99) (Available for download in pdf format)
http://www.environment.detr.gov.uk//sustainable/quality99/

The Government Panel on Sustainable Development was established by the Government in January 1994.
http://www.open.gov.uk/panel-sd/homesd.htm

Ethics and the Living World

Partial readinglist Search results for Module2.7 & 2.8:
Two references on Peter Singer: Ethics in the age of Evolutionary Psychology & "How are we to Live?"
http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/Debate/SingerPM.html
http://www.hutch.demon.co.uk/prom/tolive.htm

A review by Joseph Baldacchino of 'Sources of the Self' by Charles Taylor
http://www.nhumanities.org/Pub-or.htm

"Universality and History"
http://www.nhumanities.org/Uh.htm

Robin Attfield `Future generations' leads to:
International Society for Environmental Ethics http://www.cep.unt.edu/ISEE.html
An interesting paper by Robin Attfield on Preferences, Health, Interests and Value
http://www.phil.indiana.edu/ejap/1995.spring/attfield.1995.spring.html
Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A. 10-15 August 1998
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/

Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic:
landethic.html

John Muir's First Summer in the Sierra: (And the rest of Muir's writings as well)
http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/

Bill McKibben, Hope, Human and Wild; Profile of mckibben:
http://www.wooster.edu/fys96/hkreuzman/McKibben.html

Environmental Ethics and Public Policy Program http://www.hds.harvard.edu/ee/

An archive of selected Thomas Berry Papers http://ecoethics.net/ops/berrybio.htm
A profile of Thomas Berry from Earthlight http://www.earthlight.org/mfoxontberry.html

New links (not yet categorised)

From the walls of the world's Greasy Spoon Cafes: Quotations Appear.... and cycle randomly.
quoter3.html

Google

Yahoo! UK & Ireland

AltaVista

Excite

Environmental Businesses

Association of Environmentally Conscious Builders

B9 Energy

Best Foot Forward

CIRIA

Environmental Industry Marketplace - Internet RÉ

FactorTen

erpenvironment

Scottish Environmental Industries Association

SustainableBusiness.com

SustainAbility

thirdwave - The Business Case for Sustainability

Trademouse

Corporate Sites

British Energy

Food for Our Future (Food & Drink Federation-GMs)

KPMG United Kingdom

Memory Corporation

P&G Sustainability Center

RISC

Scottish Hydro Electric

Shell UK

UK Business Net - Home Page

Government sites

ATLAS (Action Towards Local Sustainability)

BRE - Constructing the future

Enterprise Ayrshire

Environment Canada's Green Lane

Europe

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living & Working Conditions

Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Scotland

Intl Council for Local Environmental Initiatives

Midlothian Enterprise Trust

SNH

SEPA

UNEP

Scottish Parliament Website

British Council

Academic

Caledonia Centre for Social Development

California Institute of Integral Studies

Centre for Env. Change & Sustainability

College of the Atlantic - an education in human ecology

CSEAR

Energy Systems Research Unit

National Library of Scotland

Scottish Centre for Social and Economic Research

International Consortium for Alternative Academic Publications

Wuppertal Institute

NGOs - Business/Auditing/Sustainability

AccountAbility/ISEA

Applying Sustainable Development

The Beacon Project

The Centre for Sustainable Design

CERES (Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies)

Corporate Watch

DEMOS

Environ

The Environment Council

Forum for the Future

Global Action Plan: the UK environment charity

Global Ideas Bank

Global Reporting Initiative

HE Business Curriculum Audit

International Institute for Sustainable Development

National Centre for Business & Ecology

The New Economics Foundation

The Natural Step/US

Noyes Foundation (Bus & Sustain Article)

PCDF (People Centred Development)

Redefining Progress

Scottish Borders Forum on Sustainable DevelopmeÉ

Sustainable Communities Network

UK Centre for Economic & Environmental Development

UK Social Investment Forum

NGOs - Environmental Protection

Greenpeace UK

Friends of the Earth E&W

Race for the Rain Forest

Rainforest Information Centre

Scottish Environmental LINK

WWF-UK Home Page

SERA

NGOs - Professional

Institution of Civil Engineers

Engineering Council

Engineers' & Managers' Association

Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management

Media/Publications

Croner Publications

Environmental Data Services Ltd (ENDS)

Journal of Environmental Management

Monitor Press Ltd - Legal & Business Publications

oneworld.net

TOMORROW Magazine

YES! A Journal of Positive Futures

SCENES - Scottish Environment News

Transport

MapQuest

Railtrack Travel Timetable

TheTrainline

Sustrans

Population

The Day of 6 Billion - Main Page

Consumerism/Advertising

Overcoming Consumerism

Training/PD/Events

BOLA : Business Open-Learning Archive

Earls Court Olympia

Environmental Training Organisation (ETO)

Information for Industry

Good Event Guide

Investors in People UK

People Management (IPD)

Royal Institute of International Affairs

Strategic Planning Society

ET Exhibition Homepage

GLOBE 2000

Safety

HSE

UK Health and Safety Network - uksafety.net

Spirituality

National Religious Partnership for the EnvironmÉ

Sacred Space

University of Creation Spirituality

EnviroArts: Orion Online.

The Heart of the Universe

Misc/Net

The Big Number

The Edinburgh Solicitors Property Centre

ITC (International Teledemocracy Centre)

Free4All

NetMind Home

Apple

Apple Computer

Apple Customer Support

Apple Design and Publishing

Apple Developer Connection

Apple Product Information

Apple Software Updates

The Apple Store

Contacting Apple

Macintosh Products Guide

Macintosh Publications

Other Online Resellers

Other Support sources

Where To Buy Apple Products

Hardware Developers

CH Products

Gravis

Iomega

Thrustmaster

Multimedia

QuickTime Guide

Shockwave Guide

Internet Explorer

Where to go for Microsoft Explorer Updates.

Live Home Page

MSN

Office for Macintosh

Office for Macintosh product information, news and support.

Channels

Internet Explorer for Macintosh Channel

Internet Explorer Home Page

Get the latest information!

Internet Explorer Monthly Column

Get the Inside Scoop from the Internet Explorer team!

Internet Explorer 4 Mac Update Channel

See if you have the latest version of Internet Explorer.

Links

BOLA: Ethics and Business Web Links

Business Ethics Links

European Environmental Sites

POEM Links - Product-Oriented Environmental ManÉ

Some Ethical Accounting Sites

Sustainability Web Ring

ATLAS links

Directory of CERES Coalition Members

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module links

added during searches on reading lists, and saved as a 'bookmark' file, then pasted direct onto this page (Studentlinks)

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Ecology and Biodiversity

Alan Watts

Preservation Institute

The Ivan Illich Archive -- Energy and Equity

Howard Rheingold Selected Articles and Reviews

The WELL

Quiet Americans Table of Contents

NISS Campus Gateway

Edinburgh University Library: Library Online

ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form

OneLook Dictionaries

http://192.171.148.40/bgs/w3/libr/licoll.html

COPAC: University Research Library Catalogue

Edinburgh University Library: Resources By Subject: Geology and Geophysics

ICAPB - Institute of Cell, Animal & Population Biology

Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, Schools of Agriculture, Ecological Sciences, Forestry & Resource Economics

Some Facts about Mu`ammar al-Qadhafi

Escape to Hell

Natural Capitalism-Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

Redefining Progress

Agricultural Biodiversity: Sustainable Use for Food Security: UKabc Home Page

Global Change Home Page

The Environmental Ethics & Public Policy (EE&PP) Program

Earth Summit Documents

About the Earth Council

Alan Watts

CIEL Home Page

MetaCrawler

And, as promised (threatened?), a copy and paste from my bookmarks file:

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module links http://conbio.rice.edu/vl/ http://www.alanwatts.com/ http://www.preservenet.com/index2.htm http://www.rheingold.com/texts/reviews/index2.htm http://www.well.com/ http://www.well.com/user/rbr/qa/toc.htm module links file:///C|/msworks/chemsc/Vernacular.html http://www.niss.ac.uk/ http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/ http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html http://www.onelook.com/ http://192.171.148.40/bgs/w3/libr/licoll.html http://copac.ac.uk/ http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/lib/resbysub/geolo.shtml http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/ierm/ http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/icapb/ http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/ierm/ http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8744/mqfacts.htm http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8744/escape.htm http://www.naturalcapital.org/ http://www.rprogress.org/ http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ukfg/ukabc.htm#Top http://www.globalchange.org/

If these had been pasted into an email blank set up under netscape (as mine is) they would appear as clickable links to the recipient...
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