Picture/Poems Featured Links:
Archive 2001 / 2011
Picture/Poems Featured Links:
Archive 2001 / 2011
III.31.2011
Dr. Lonnie Thompson & Climate Change
I.17.2011
The World's first webpage turns 20
XII.10.2010
Annie Leonard: The Story of Electronics
XI.20.2010
Dr. Hermann Scheer, leading German solar economist, dies . . .
II.10.10
MIT: Distributed Intelligence
XII.16.09
Helen Caldicott & IFYOULOVETHISPLANET.ORG
VIII.12.09
FOOD & WATER WATCH
II.2.09
SUDDEN ASPEN DEATH
III.22.2007
BLACKWATER:
THE RISE OF THE
WORLD'S MOST
POWERFUL
MERCENARY ARMY
II.3.2007
The Starker Lecture Series: Dr. David Orr
XI.1.2006
The Starker Lecture Series: John Perlin
100 Years of Forestry in the Pacific Northwest:
A Critical Look Back, A Fresh Look Forward
a series of eight lectures presented in onlinewebcasts in RealAudio
XI.1.2006
The New Scientist
V.1.2006
Cathy Berberian
IV.1.2006
The Wheel of Time
III.6.2006
Elliott Carter
I.9.2006
Arnold Schönberg Center
I.2.2006
Historic Recordings
XII.16.2005
Beyond Vietnam
XI.15.2004
Operation Truth
X.14.2004
Disappearing Glaciers . . .
VIII.9.2004
American Mavericks
VIII.2.2004
MSF Out of Afghanistan
VII.1.2004
Historic Recordings
Archived On Internet
VI.1.2004
The Falcon's Target
II.8.2004
Monarch and Ackerlof
VII.28.2003
Lawn Chemicals
IV.5.2003
Political Profiling
IV.28.2003
The Monk in the Lab
IV.21.2003
Arctic Oil
III.17.2003
Web Against War (5)
A Picture/Poem collection
of links to contemporary voices
of protest
II.3.2003
Web Against War (4)
A Picture/Poem collection
of links to contemporary voices
of protest
XII.2.2002
Security vs. Privacy
A Picture/Poem collection
of links to contemporary voices
of protest
XI.11.2002
Web Against War (3)
A Picture/Poem collection
of links to contemporary voices
of protest
X.7.2002
Web Against War (2)
A Picture/Poem collection
of links to contemporary voices
of protest
IX.30.2002
Web Against War (1)
A Picture/Poem collection
of links to contemporary voices
of protest
(full report)
VII.29.2002
Metaphor and War
An excerpt from a seminal essay
by the linguist, George Lakoff
"The use of a metaphor with a set of
definitions becomes pernicious when
it hides realities in a harmful way."
(full report)
VII.29.2002
Living Planet
Report 2002
Humans running up huge
'overdraft' with the planet
says new WWF report
"The Living Planet Report is
WWF's periodic update on the
state of the world's ecosystems."
(full report)
VII.8.2002
The Songbird
Foundation
A website devoted to Songbirds
and the protection of their habitats
by helping people make sustainable
choices to preserve them
"One of the greatest threats to migratory
songbirds is the surge in aggressive
sun-grown coffee."
(full report)
VII.1.2002
The Man Who Cracked
The Code to Everything ...
a recent article in Wired
magazine by Steven Levy
"But first it cracked him. The inside story
of how Stephen Wolfram went from boy
genius to recluse to science renegade."
(full report)
VI.3.2002
Amnesty International
report 2002
the yearly report on
human rights worldwide
"Amnesty International's message
throughout was "Justice not revenge".
(full report)
V.27.2002
India, Pakistan
and the BombA timely feature article from the
December issue of
Scientific American
"The Indian subcontinent is the
most likely place in the world
for a nuclear war"
(full report)
V.20.2002
An Interview with Permaculture
founder Bill Mollison:
[in two parts]
by Scott Vlaun and the Seeds
of Change eNewsletter
"conscious design and maintenance of
agriculturally productive ecosystems
which have the diversity, stability,
and resilience of natural ecosystems."
(full report)
V.13.2002
When Markets Go Mad
PHYSICISTS TRY TO PREDICT
WHEN STOCK PRICES WILL
CRASH by David Appell
featured at sciam.com
"About $4 trillion in market wealth
vanished between the April 2000
bursting of the Nasdaq bubble and
its recent stabilization
at lower levels."
(full report)
V.6.2002
The grim toll of attacks
on press freedom
Three weeks of Israeli occupation
of Palestinian towns: a report from
RSF / RWB [Reporters Sans Frontières /
Reporters Without Borders]
" a massive, deliberate and conscious
violation of press freedom and an
unprecedented low in the history
of Israel."
(full report)
IV.15.2002
STATE OF THE WORLD:
MORE CONNECTED, LESS STABLE
summary of the Woldwatch's 19th
annual report: State of the World
2002
"Ten years after the Rio Earth Summit, we
are still far from ending the economic and
environmental marginalization that afflict
billions of people,"
(full report)
IV.8.2002
Television Addiction
Is No Mere Metaphor
a featured article in
Scientific American
"Perhaps the most ironic aspect
of the struggle for survival is how
easily organisms can be harmed by that
which they desire."
(full report)
II.25.2002
Deep Ecology
from NewDimensions.org"Deep Ecology has many roots, which
can be traced to the ecocentric religions
and ways of life of primal peoples around
the world and to many other ancient
and modern sources."
(full report)
I.28.2002
Selection From
On War and Peace
by Krishnamurti
a remarkable historic document
featured on the Krishnamurti
Foundation of America website
"Question: How can I as an individual meet,
overcome and resolve the growing tension
and war-fever between India and Pakistan?"
(Bombay, India: 1950)
(full report)
I.7.2002
The Failure of War
An essay by Wendell Berry
featured in the new issue of
Yes! Magazine
"How many deaths of other people's
children by bombing or starvation are
we willing to accept in order that we
may be free, affluent, and
(supposedly) at peace?"
(full report)
XII.31.2001
Economics of WasteA report from Lynn Landes
of Zero Waste America
"We are living in a false economy
where the price of goods and services does
not include the cost of waste and pollution."
(full report)
XII.17.2001
Weatherman Draw
featured on the Sacredland.org
website
"This isn't just some place on a hill;
this is a living spiritual center.
The church is alive here."
(full report)
XII.10.2001
ACTA launches the
Defense of Civilization
Fund
featured on the ACTA
website
...the state of freedom of speech
and expression in North America
anno 2001...
(full report)
XII.3.2001
Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge
featured onthe Sierra Club
website
"...the last place in North America where the
full spectrum of arctic life is protected in
one seamless expanse."
(full report)
XI.26.2001
India, Pakistan
and the BombA timely feature article from the
December issue of
Scientific American
"The Indian subcontinent is the most likely
place in the world for a nuclear war"
(full report)
XI.19.2001
A Just Cause,
Not a Just War
An essay by Howard Zinn
featured in the new issue of
The Progressive magazine
"We might examine the idea of pacifism
in the light of what is going on right now."
(full report)
XI.12.2001
Great Lakes
Radio Consortium
A special report: EPA WAVERS
OVER ONLINE INFORMATION
Producer: Lester Graham
"Some federal agencies
and laboratories have restricted access to
information. The government fears terrorists
could use some information to plan attacks
against the U.S. Following the terrorist attacks
on September 11th, the federal government
has been re-thinking its website policies."
(full report)
XI.5.2001
Code Red: Worm
Assault on the WebA recent feature in
Scientific American,
by Carolyn Meinel
"On July 19, 2001, the Code Red
worm infected hundreds of thousands
of computers in less than 14 hours,
overloading the Net's capacity."
(full report)
X.28.2001
Thoughts in the
Presence of Fear
by Wendell Berry"The time will soon come when we will not be
able to remember the horrors of September 11
without remembering also the unquestioning
technological and economic optimism that
ended on that day."
(full report)
X.15.2001
A New Marshall Plan?
By Dick Bell and Michael Renner
of The Worldwatch Institute
"...weapons alone cannot buy us a lasting
peace in a world of extreme inequality,
injustice, and deprivation for billions of
our fellow human beings."
(full report)
X.8.2001
Metaphor and War
An excerpt from a seminal essay
by the linguist, George Lakoff
"The use of a metaphor with a set of
definitions becomes pernicious when
it hides realities in a harmful way."
(full report)
X.1.2001
KRISHNAMURTI
ON WARAn excerpt from the text of
The First and Last Freedom"As long as each one of us is seeking
psychological security, the physiological
security we need—food, clothing and shelter
—is destroyed."
(full report)
IX.24.2001
JUSTICE NOT WAR
The Hague Appeal for Peace urges the US
administration to use the greatest possible
restraint
"It is dangerous to call terrorism by non state
actors, no matter how horrendous, an act
of war that triggers a war like reaction,"
(full report)
VIII.13.2001
Virtually ThereA recent article by Jaron Lanier
published in Scientific American"Three-dimensional tele-immersion may
eventually bring the world to your desk"
(full report)
VII.29.2001
Star Wars is Back
A report by Gar Smith
Earth Island Journal
"The Bush-Cheney team has made it clear
that they consider the National Missile
Defense (NMD) "an essential part of our
strategic system."
(full report)
VII.16.2001
The G8 Genoa summit—
time for a New Deal
on Debt
Information on the upcoming
summit in Italy
"Welcome to the Drop the Debt
in Genoa webpage!
...check this page for the latest
news, stories, pictures and analysis
from Genoa and around the world."
(full report)
VII.9.2001
50th Anniversary
First Commercial
Computer
Three new interesting Computer
History reports from wired.com
"Little did Unisys know how much fear
and loathing the Universal Automatic
Computer would generate half a century
later."
(full report)
VI.11.2001
The Semantic
Web
An Internet report from
sciam.com, the website of
Scientific American
"By augmenting Web pages with data
targeted at computers and by adding
documents solely for computers, we will
transform the Web into the Semantic Web. "
(full report)
V.21.2001
LIFESAVERS FOR
PRESIDENT BUSH
An announcement from
the Friends of the Earth
"Friends of the Earth Netherlands
calls on US to stick to its climate
promises"
(full report)
IV.16.2001
Earth Day 2001:
Saturday, April 22
An announcement from
the Earth Day Net
"Earth Day, which occurs annually on
April 22, involves tens of thousands of
events, from rallies and teach-outs to
concerts and earth fairs. You'll find
them everywhere..."
(full report)
IV.2.2001
Cuba Not So
Libre
With the Net
A news report from
wired.com
"Internet and e-mail access in Cuba
is as jealously guarded as Fidel Castro's
chokehold on power. But that hasn't
stopped enterprising Cubans from finding
ways to flout government restrictions."
(full report)
III.26.2001
PBS airs trade
secrets of chemical
industry
A news report from ENN,
the Environmental News
Network
"On March 26 PBS will air "Trade Secrets,"
a report on the chemical industry produced
by the Peabody Award-winning duo of
Bill Moyers and Sherry Jones."
(full report)
III.12.2001
While no one
was looking
A new report from the March/April
issue of the Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists
"...how the United States should renew
its supply of tritium, the radioactive
isotope [...] needed to turn an A-bomb
into an H-bomb."
(full report)
II.26.2001
The Quiet Campaign
for Genetically
Engineered Humans
A new report from the
Spring 2001 Journal of the
Earth Island Institute
"There is little public awareness of the
full implications of the new human
genetic engineering (HGE) technologies
or of the campaign to promote them."
(full report)
II.12.2001
COMMENTARY: THE
DISPOSAL
OF PUBLIC OPINION
A new report from the
Great Lakes Radio
Consortium
"The production of toxic waste
has been an unwanted by-product
of the Industrial Revolution"
(full report)
II.5.2001
Population and the
Environment: The
Global Challenge
An important new report from
the Johns Hopkins School
of Public Health
"As we humans exploit nature to
meet present needs, are we
destroying resources needed
for the future?"
(full report)
I.29.2001
Global Environment
Reaches Dangerous
Crossroads
The yearly report from the
World Watch Institute,
online at worldwatch.org
"Global environmental trends have
reached a dangerous crossroads
as the new century begins, according
to State of the World 2001..."
(full report)
I.22.2001
INTERNET_ANONYMITY
Speech without Accountability
A CyberView report from
sciam.com, the website of
Scientific American
"New software makes it nearly
impossible to remove illegal
material from the Web--or to
find out who put it there."
(full report)
I.15.2001
"US/EU clash over
environment"
A report from ENN, the
Environmental News Network
"...a clarion call to save the environment,
including a threat to extend the
controversial "precautionary
principle" to the chemical industry..."
(full report)
I.8.2001
"Echoes of
Vietnam"
By Rachel's Environment and
Health News
"...Glyphosate, they said, kills more
than drug crops -- it also kills food 5df
crops that many rural Colombians
depend on for survival."
(full report)
I.1.2001Oldest lunar
calendar identified
By BBC News Online
"What could be the oldest lunar
calendar ever created has been
identified on the walls of the famous,
prehistoric caves at Lascaux in France."