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Topic: The Earth Institute


In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  Our Spaceship Earth | The Buckminster Fuller Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Our Spaceship Earth: The purpose of this section of the site is to provide access to resources and tools that will assist visitors in acquiring a comprehensive understanding and visual grasp of the status of our planet’s life support systems.
Spaceship Earth is a world view term usually expressing concern over the use of limited resources available on Earth.
Earth as A Lens: Global Collaboration, GeoCommunication, and The Birth of EcoSentience
bfi.org /taxonomy/term/37   (1562 words)

  
 Global Environment & Technology Foundation: Links Library
An international movement of individuals and organizations from around the world working together to elaborate and build consensus on a universal code of conduct for states and people, ensuring respect for human rights, peace, economic equity, and the environment.
The Earth Council is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) created in 1992 as a direct result of the Earth Summit.
All the information you need about the Earth Day to be held on 22 April in differents parts of the world.
www.gnet.org /links/linkslib.cfm?alpha=E   (172 words)

  
 Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
Learn how researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are working to preserve endangered whales, and what economists at the London School of Economics and Political Science have discovered about the environmental impact of tourism or enroll in a free seminar taught by University of Michigan biologist J. David Allan on current threats to biodiversity.
Evaluating the positive and negative influences humans have on their environment and the long-term effects of global development on earth's biodiversity.
Forsyth explains the difference between sustainable tourism and "eco-tourism," and shows that sustainable tourism is about the negotiation between tourism companies, local governments and communities in an effort to improve the impact of all types of tourism.
www.fathom.com /special/biodiversity   (690 words)

  
 Sustainable Living, Environmentally, Ecologically, Socially   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Their mission is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
The sun, the earth, and the forests are just as much features of your own body as your brain....
That we do not feel this to be obvious is the result of centuries of habituation to the idea that oneself is only the envelope of skin and its contents, the inside but not the outside.
www.yakrider.com /Resources/links.htm   (1139 words)

  
 Green Arts Web - Reference
Produced by the International Institute of Applied Aesthetics, LAMK/Institute of Design (Multimedia Department), The University of Helsinki (Department of Aesthetics) and Associates.
Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect.
They believe that the only hope is for us to change our ways, and have set out to teach us what they know about the balance of mankind, nature and the spiritual world.
www.greenarts.org /ref2.html   (4421 words)

  
 Links to Related Websites
Color Landform Atlas of the U.S. Desert Research Institute
Use Zip Code 93541 for the Mono Basin.
Terraserver (images of the Earth): map of Mono / photo mosaic of Mono
www.monolakecommittee.com /main/links.htm   (275 words)

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