EcoLinking and the Net


Environmental Resources in Cyberspace
by Don Rittner
4/12/95

Since the publisher of my book EcoLinking - Everyone's Guide to Online Environmental Information (Peachpit Press, 1992) refuses to let me revise the book, I am combining my Errata sheet with a monthly compilation of new environmental resources that can be found on the Net. Hopefully this will somewhat satisfy my desire to keep the book updated. Please send me updates, errors and corrections, and other information to drittner@aol.com. I have refrained from any editorializing on any of the material. I have simply just cut and paste from various sources. I have edited some material out where necessary. You can also find this and other information on my WWW site:

http://www.albany.globalone.net/theMESH/

Special thanks to Gleason Sackman (another netsurfer who likes to bring new net info to the online community) for letting me use parts of his labor. Copyrights apply where necessary. Permission granted for electronic use in non-profit efforts.

I plan on updating this monthly and posting it in the news.answers newsgroups and other places that I can find that will make a good repository (suggestions welcome).

Part One - New Resources
I. WWW Resources
A.Water Management Research Laboratory
B. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Information Superhighway
C. Free Environmental/Earth Science Resources
D. Environmental Travel Site
E. Environment Canada Atlantic Infoserver
F. Natural History Museum, Switzerland
G. Iowa Geology WWW, Environment & Science
H. Solar Cooking Archive
I. Ask A Paleontologist
J. Earth Day Groceries
K. Outdoor Recreation and Travel
M. Intelligent Health - America's Natural Health Source
N. SciEd: Science and Mathematics Education Resources
O. Global Recycling Network
P. Information Center For The Environment
Q. MEERC Web Server
R. 1994 National Environmental Scorecard
S. AVIRUS (Airborne Visible InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer)
T. CRSSA Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis)
U. Environmental Resource Center
V. Western Canada Wilderness Committee
W. Earth Day 25
X. Texas Natural History
Y. International Environmental Liability Management Association
Z. "The ABCs of AFVs


II. Mailing Lists
A. KNFORESTRY
B. BIZ-BIOTECH
C. Austral-EcoPolitics-L
D. DOM_BIRD
E. Oceans Online
F. GEOSCI-JOBS
G. HAZMATMED
H. Industrial Pollution Prevention
I. EnviroEthics
J. Environmental Impact Assessment
K. Environmental Jobs
L. Integrated Bio-Systems
M. The Abbey List
N. Arachnology List
O. Dutch Agriculture List
P. Arctic Archeology List
Q. Contemporary Agriculture and Rural Land Use
R Tenure

III. Notices of Interest
A. College Course
B. Population Film/Video Festival

IV. Bulletin Boards
A. Water Talk
B. Food And Consumer Service BBS

V. Multiple Access Sites
A. Firenet
B. Buckminister Fuller

VI. Electronic Magazines and Newsletters
A. RACHEL
B. Greenclips
C. The New South Polar Times

Part Two - EcoLinking Errata


I. WORLD WIDE WEB RESOURCES

A. WATER MANAGEMENT RESEARCH LABORATORY

http://asset.arsusda.gov/wmrl.html

The Water Management Research Laboratory in Fresno, CA started
last week their own worldwide Web pages. The WorldWide Web (WWW)
is one of the latest features of the Internet. It allows us to
prepare documents where text and images are both available for
people who visit our site.

The pages that have been developed for the Water Management site
will make research, done at the WMRL, more accessible to others.
Another aim of the pages is to support discussions held at the
TRICKLE-L discussion list.

Currently there is information about the research sites of the WMRL,
a start of a bibliography by topic concerning drip-related articles
and books (we will build this out in the coming months), a list of
articles written by WMRL staff (articles are available on request in
the old-fashioned on-paper style) and a collection of drip-related
research descriptions from the progress report '93 of the WMRL.

A rough version of the FAQ for Trickle-l is scheduled to appear
somewhere end next week, and the progress report of 1994 is also
coming soon. By the way, the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) will
contain a summary of discussions held since the beginning of Trickle-l
sorted by topic.

For the experienced WWW-users: The URL to start is
http://asset.arsusda.gov/wmrl.html

The less experienced users who don't have access to the fancy browsers can still access the information. However, they have to use a mailserver (like the listserver, but then for WWW. The difference is that you cannot subscribe to this service). To use the mailserver, send an email to Agora@mail.w3.org and write in the message
http://asset.arsusda.gov/wmrl.html

To follow links (you'll find out what that is when you see it), reply to
the message you'll receive with the numbers in the text you received. For more information about this server, send mail to the same address, but write WWW in the message. Help will return soon (all automated).

The bad news is that the mailserver does not allow images to be transferred.

And when you are experimenting with the e-mail server, don't forget to check out the Virtual Library (maintained by Thomas-M. Stein). The URL (address) for the Virtual Library for Irrigation is:
http://www.wiz.unikassel.de/kww/projekte/irrig/irrig_i.html

For questions or comments you can contact either me or Richard Mead

Richard Soppe
RSOPPE@CATI.CSUFRESNO.EDU
RSOPPE@ASRR.ARSUSDA.GOV

B. U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE ON INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

Fish and Wildlife Service

For release February 27, 1995 Craig L. Rieben 202-208-5634

U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE ON INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

http://www.fws.gov/

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering computer users
cruising the information highway a wealth of data on the
conservation and management of this Nation's fish and wildlife
resources and their habitat.

The information available on the Service's Internet server is as
diverse as the agency itself. The new World Wide We