From asuwa@lynx.dac.neu.eduTue Feb 7 09:16:50 1995 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 22:46:38 -0500 (EST) From: Akihiko Suwa To: Amy Sprague , Rachael Mammane , "Colleen N. Carden" , Yuko Okazaki , Yuko Fujita , Laura Thacker , Edward J , gopher A , Robert Matthews , Karen Moutin , Rebecca Tamar Patterson , Tamara Schwarz , Kara Mooney , Jessica Owley , Anna Breen , Berkeley Danelski , Amy Endo , Leslie Krasin , Anne Moyer , Scott Brown , LathleenP@lynx.dac.neu.edu, Swati Prakash , J Coate , S Kaplan , Stuler A , A Spandian , K Lacy , Wheaton <95klo@wheatonma.edu> Subject: Earth Day and Telecom (fwd) Here are some sources of environmental information on internet. I received it from George Mokray of Earth Day Greater Boston. I thought you might find it useful... > Glad to see the recent Earth Day posting in alt.save.the.earth. > Here's a list of other newsgroups that might be interested in Earth Day > information. > > Environmental Newsgroups > > alt.activism > alt.architecture > alt.bbs - computer bulletin board systems and software > alt.bbs.internet - Internet connected BBS's > alt.co-evolution - Whole Earth REview > alt.co-ops > alt.culture.internet > alt.cyberpunk > alt.education.distance - learning over the net > alt.energy.renewable > alt.housing.nontrad - communes, cohousing, alternate living systems > alt.memetics - evolution of ideas in society > comp.org.cpsr.talk - Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility > comp.org.cpsr.announce > comp.org.eff.news - Electronic Frontier Foundation > comp.org.eff.talk > misc.activism.progressive > misc.health.alternative > news.announce.newgroups > news.future - future technology of network news systems > news.newusers,questions - Q and A for new users > rec.bicycles.soc > sci.agriculture > sci.bio.ecoogy > sci.bio.ethology > sci.edu > sci.energy > sci.energy.hydrogen > sci.engr.civil - civil engineering > sci.environment - given to "flaming" or heated argument > sci.virtual-worlds - virtual reality > soc.politics > talk.environment > > ED local chapters might want to contact the local chapters of Computer > Professionals for Social Responsibility to help them use computers and > telecommunications to the greatest degree possible. > > Jim Grant > 806 Martin LUther King Dr > Abbeville, LA 70510 > (318)231-5226 > jag@swamp.cacs.usl.edu > > Dave Kadlecek > PO Box 28562 > Oakland, CA 94604 > (510)272-7042 > dkadlecek@igc.apc.org > > Don Goldhamer > 528 S. Humphrey > Oak Park, IL 60304 > (312)702-7166 > d-goldhamer@uchicago.edu > > David Black > 3121 Seventh St > Boulder, CO 80304 > (303)440-4462 x21 > david@bvt.com > > Rodney Hoffman > PO Box 66039 > Los Angeles, CA 90066 > (213)222-6618 > rodney@oxy.edu > > Judith Wester > 6041-B Laurel St > New Orleans, LA 70118 > (504)895-3613 > by02jrw@music.loyno.edu > > Sam Bates > 1406 Drake St #1 > Madison WI 53711 > (608)244-7122 x260 > samuel@cs.wsie.edu > > E Kent Gordon > 46 High Bluff Road > Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107 > (207)799-8236 > ekg@cfg.com > > Dave Rasmussen > 2015 E Kenwood Boulevard > Milwaukee, WI 53211-3310 > (414)229-5133 > dave@uwm.edu > > Clyde Cutting > 2314 31st Ave S Apt 2 > Minneapolis, MN 55406 > (612)724-1854 > > Larry Wright > 1 Brook Hill Road > Hamden CT 06514 > (203)248-7664 > wright-lawrence@cs.yale.edu > > David Friedlander > 1781 Riverside Dr > New York, NY 10034 > (212)942-1156 > friedd@pipeline.com > > Al Whaley > PO Box 60 > Palo Alto, CA 94302 > (415)322-5411 > al@sunnyside.com > > Dale Larsen > 828 Ormond Ave > Drexel Hill, PA 19026-2604 > (610)853-4406 > dale@iam.com > > Susan Finger > Civil Engineering, CMU > 5000 Forbes Ave > Pittsburgh, PA 15213 > (412)268-8828 > sfinger@cs.cmu.edu > > Steve Biederman > 8086 SW 66th AVe > Portland, OR 97223 > (503)293-1633 > steve_biederman@mentorg.com > > Dacid Noelle > PO Bos 948436 > La Jolla, CA 92037-9402 > dnoelle@cs.ucsd.edu > > Alan Schlenger > 419 Rigg St > Santa Cruz, CA 95060 > (408)459-4641 > Alan@cats.ucsc.edu > > Eric Rehm > 7306 19th Ave NW > Seattle, WA 98117 > (206)865-8904 > rehm@rust.zso.dec.com > > Larry Hunter > 2921 Terrace Dr > Chevy Chase, MD 20815 > (301)496-9300 > hunter@nlm.nih.gov > > > Another great resource is "The Guide to Environmental Resources on > Internet", which was updated in October, 1994. > Access to this guide is available via the "Clearinghouse for > Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides", a joint project of > the University (of Michigan) Library and the School of > Information and Library Studies. Access points: > > anonymous FTP: > host: una.hh.lib.umich.edu > path: /inetdirsstacks > file: environment:murphybriggs > > Gopher: North America > USA > Michigan > Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented... > Guides on the Sciences > Environment > > URL for WWW/Mosaic: > gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/inetdirsstacks > /environment%3amurphybriggs > > Econet (igc.apc.org) has an Earth Day conference already set up and ready > to be used. > > Envirolink Network is also a resource that could be put to use. > > There are some great bibliographies, statistical > resources and other documents relevant for > researchers and environmentalists at this site. > This site has seen tremendous growth in volume > over the course of research for this guide. > > URL:telnet://envirolink.org > login: gopher > > URL:http://envirolink.org > > And there is EnviroFreenet, too. > > Provides e-mail accounts, environmental > bulletin boards, chat conferences, and > access to EnviroGopher and EnviroWeb > through EnviroLink. Also available > via gopher. > > URL: telnet://envirolink.org > Follow the directions when connected. > > URL: gopher://envirolink.org/EnviroFreenet > > > Some of the ways in which computers could be used to advance Earth Day > are to use them at public events to build a dtabase of volunteers and > their interests and match them with local environmental organizations and > projects; > to provide a public access Internet search list of the best enviro > addresses online; > to develop and play a local version of SimCity with real information > about your city or town with sustainability as a focus; > to build a public access BBS for labor/resource exchange and begin a > local barter economy that provides goods and services without money; > to replicate the First Night "New Year's Eve on Internet Cyberfoo Party" > that folks from around the world participated in last December 31, 1994; > in this centennial year of R Buckminster Fuller's birth organize a > world-wide Internet World Game. > > I don't know if any of those things will happen, but that's what I've > been thinking about. If Earth Day is to be successful it should use all > the resources available. Internet, computers, telecommunications are > tools that can speed up our communications and reactions and deliver our > messages to larger groups of people than we can even realize. If we use > them effectively. I'd like to be involved in doing so. >