General Resources on the Internet

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• CNN news
  http://www.cnn.com
  Create a specialized list of news.

• E magazine
  http://www.emagazine.com
  Access the current issue & in the archives there are many articles on a range of subjects, links to a WIDE variety of environmental and animal organizations (ie @ Brandeis!). Maybe not a lot of scientific data here, but cool info on projects, products, and developments in the green movement.

• Earth's Biggest Environmental Search Engine with Directory
  http://www.webdirectory.com/
  Categories in the directory: agriculture, energy, forestry, government, health, conservation, recycling, sustainable development, and water resources to name a few.
• Earth Island Press
  http:// www.islandpress.org/
  This non-profit publisher, concerned with environmental issues and education, has ads for books and lists a few websites on population, sustainable development, climate change, economics, communities, ecosystems and more. Also contains summaries of news and issues, job guides, and community activities.
  

• Geography World
  http://members.aol.com/bowermanb/101.html
  A fun site to explore. A high school teacher has compiled pages on 30 topics, including land, water, erosion, population, maps, and global regions. Links to personal pages and facts from organizations like the Population Reference Bureau.

• House of Respresentatives
  http://www.house.gov/Welcome.html
  Info on contacting your representative, searching the law library with 8900 links to law resources & the U.S. Code.

• Le Monde Diplomatique
  http://www.monde-diplomatique
  A global outlook on various issues.

• National Geographic
  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/index.html
  Features products & maps. Links to info on climate change, the population challenge & women's role in it.

• People and the Planet
  http://www.oneworld.org/patp/
  A British magazine touching on a host of topics. Contents listing of previous issues. PopNet http://www.popnet.org/ Annotated lists of international information (including statistics) on demography, economics, education, the environment, gender, policy and reproductive health. Direct links to governments worldwide, news update, search by keyword or region.

• Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG)
  http://www.pirg.org/
  Links to state and national offices. Reports, news updates, and congressional scorecards to see how members voted on topics of interest such as consumer rights & the environment.

• The Sierra Club
  http://www.sierraclub.org/
  Topics: Global warming, population, international environmental protection effort, human rights & the environment, responsible trade, conservation policies. Equipped with its own search feature.

• United States Senate
  http://www.senate.gov/index.html
  A Keyword Search, is available for information on Legislative Activities, Committees, Senators, Other Resources, What's New, Comments.

• The White House home page
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html
  Interactive Citizen's handbook, searchable, press briefings, radio addresses, Executive Orders, and all other publicly released White House publications, current news.

• World Bank
  http://www.worldbank.org/
  Download data with Acrobat on population, standard of living, health, life expectancy & mortality, employment, economics, urbanization, education, air & water pollution & land use. Projects info & working papers.

• World Watch Institute
  http://www.worldwatch.org/
  Good brief updates on significant global events especially those related to finance and the environment. Information on publications and speakers. Highlights from their magazine.