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 Chapter 2: Technology and the Environment
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Eartheasy - it's about sustainable living: "information, products, activities and ideas which help us live more simply, efficiently and with less impact on the environment." |
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EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal (World Resources Institute) |
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UNO report on the state of our planet "five years after Rio". |
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Johannesburg Summit 2002: "What Will Change?" (The United Nations' official website, containing links to official documents, articles on details, summary of Kofi Annan's concluding speech) |
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International Institute for Sustainable Development: "policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and indicators, and natural resource management to make development sustainable" |
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United Nations Environment Programme: Global Environment Outlook 3 (State of the Environment and Policy Retrospective: 1972–2002) |
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Terminal Planet: Man, nature and the 21st century (an MSNBC special report); among the topics: "Brazil - Earth's Laboratory" and "Surviving the Greenhouse" |
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Disposable Planet? - "Can we provide food, water, energy – and televisions, cars and holidays - for everyone, and leave future generations more than a planet-sized rubbish tip?" (BBC) |
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Greenpeace UK |
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Greenpeace U.S.A. |
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World Wildlife Fund |
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Friends of the Earth |
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Earth Island Institute |
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The Nature Conservancy |
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European Centre for Nature Conservation |
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World Resources Institute |
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Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century |
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100 Years of Flight - created by Time.com. A tribute to the men, women, and planes that have contributed to the technological innovation that has transformed transportation. |
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HubbleSite - NASA's orbiting Hubble Space Telescope: News of Hubble's science and discoveries, facts about the telescope, pictures of stars, galaxies, nebulae |
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Life on Mars? NASA has made a startling discovery ... |
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2001: Destination Space |
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HighLift Systems is studying the technical aspects of building a space elevator: "a ribbon extending from Earth to space that can be ascended by mechanical means"; reports from NASA and HighLift Systems (free download) |
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"The NEXT Industrial Revolution," The Atlantic Monthly, October 1998 |
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Get a Grip On Robotics |
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Genetic Engineering and Its Dangers - collection of numerous essays (eg, "What is genetic engineering?", "Ethical dangers of g.e.") |
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Human Cloning: Comments by individuals, political groups and religious authorities (contains links to other web resources) |
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Stephen Hawking's Universe - ideas, discoveries, answers, and questions of the universe and beyond (a PBS online site) |
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NASA historical archive of manned missions |
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The Life of Henry Ford (chronology, quick facts, the engineer) |
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"We Have Contact" - In this special report, TIME asks: Is interactive technology uniting the world, or pushing us apart? |
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Privacy Foundation: The Extent of Systematic Monitoring of Employee E-mail and Internet Use |
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Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse |
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Timeline of Computer History (five decades, searchable by year or topic: "Each year features illustrated descriptions of significant innovations in hardware and software technology, as well as milestones in areas such as commercial applications and artificial intelligence") |
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