Key concepts: websites, web surfing

Attention Conservation Notice: Incredibly time-consuming.

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com A lot of earnest, gung-ho, profit-centric green business going on here.

http://www.ebuild.com
Environmental Building News newsletter site. Serious construction people, some weird materials of the strawbale, fiberboard and unpainted fly-ash concrete variety.

http://energy.sourceguides.com/businesses/byN/byName.shtml Would appear to be every single renewable energy business in the entire world.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/fine-arts/sustain.html Terrifyingly huge list of sustainable design and policy resources.

http://www.rec.org/Default.shtml Regional Environmental Center for Eastern and Central Europe. Kind of a cheerful, schadenfreude thing to look at, because it's so improbably bad in Deep Europe. Gigantic cyanide spills, genocide, economic collapse, makes life elsewhere seem really upbeat.

http://www.slip.net/~ckent/earthship/ Building "homes" out of old tin cans, dead car tires and cement. So awful, it's cool.

http://wcufre.ucdavis.edu/sustaina.htm Sustainable Urban Ecosystems. Build solar-powered gardens in abandoned parking lots.

http://www.webring.org/cgi-
bin/webring?ring=sustainability;id=3;list A Sustainability Web Ring. Can cost you hours, even days of clicking.

http://www.ttcorp.com/upvg/pv_mem.htm Utility Photovoltaic Group. About a zillion US solar energy industry players, from Alabama Power to Wisconsin Public Service.

http://www.ttcorp.com/upvg/pv_othr.htm Huge number of solar photovoltaic websites.

http://209.21.219.20/upvg_sites_page.htm A guy's house in Austin that has pretty much the same solar set-up that mine does, only his is better- monitored.

http://www.AltEnergyStore.com/cart/ Alternative Energy Store. Point, click, and buy your own discount wind turbine. Don't forget the lightning arrestor.

http://www.greenpcs.com/
A solar-powered computer. Comes with big lead-acid batteries.

http://www.greenlinepaper.com/mp1.htm Recycled office supplies, including non-tree printer paper and recycled floppy disks.

http://www.usfcc.com/mem01.htm Heavy-duty, big-muscle, massively corporate fuel-cell companies.

http://www.newuses.org/BPD/index.html Vast bioproducts industrial directory of new things to do with soy, lactose, ethanol, etc. Watch conventional agriculture turn into a bio-dot.com before your very eyes.

http://www.ricestraw.com/coffin/ "Embrace Decay" in your own highly compostable strawboard coffin.

http://www.bio.org/aboutbio/biomembers.html Biotechnology Industry Organization. Why fret about scary "Frankenfoods" when you can cozy right up to all the major players through their Beltway lobbying website?

http://www.climate.org/misc/Sam_Wyly/Wyly_speech.html Sam Wyly is a Republican Texan millionaire environmentalist. Wyly caused a campaign finance scandal for George W. Bush when he bought ads attacking Senator McCain as a polluter. Wyly also runs greenmountain.com, a clean energy company, and explains why in this recent speech.

http://www.climateark.org
"The Premiere Climate Change News and Information Portal and Archive."
Kinda dusty and matter-of-fact, but some good stuff here about Antarctic icebergs, obstreperous US Senators and the like.

http://www.usgbc.org/aboutus/index.htm US Green Building Council.
Sponsors include companies, universities, even entire cities.

http://www.zeri.org
Zero-waste manufacturing from endearingly wacky green-biz guru and "social entrepreneur" Gunter Pauli. Fantastic architecture; don't step in the newage.

http://www.artcart.de/
Pay actual money for European net.art.

http://www.processtree.com/
Brilliantly decentralized, commercial computing initiative, or wacky Ponzi scheme? You make the decision!

http://www.jish.nu/webloggers/ Bloggers webring. Like being assaulted by hundreds of automated personal diaries.

http://beebo.org/metalog/ratings/ Wow! A "blog blog!" Can a "blog blog blog" be far behind?

http://www.jezebel.com/mirror/index.html Eight webloggers hanging out in my bathroom during SXSW 2000.

http://www.artnetwork.com/sculpture/Shasha/ With a name like "Sha Sha Higby," she's either a hippie artist, or insanely great, or, in this case, both.

http://neweraantiques.com/
Industrial design antiques. Let yesterday's tomorrow become your prized defunct gizmo.

http://www.cloudman.com/
Cloudman's gallery of huge, arty, impressive clouds.

http://www.disasterrelief.org/ Cyclone Hudah just drowned Mozambique yet again. That makes three massive weather catastrophes back-to- back.

http://www.kleinbottle.com/
Cliff Stoll stopped busting hacker KGB agents, and now he makes unidimensional Klein Bottle beer mugs. I don't care how hard they are to clean, I gotta get myself one of those things.

http://weathertools.com/
Web-order weather toys.

http://www.si.edu/ndm/
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. The new triennial design exhibit.