Subject:  Viridian Note 00012:  Web Links

Key concepts:  Web links, Viridian ranking

Attention Conservation Notice:  There is very little 
content in this Note.  It consists of a long list of links 
that may or may not be of interest, plus the second 
Viridian Ranking.

Links:  it's mostly links

Someday it may be useful and constructive to have a list 
of official Viridian-approved links.  Or will it?  People 
on the Internet link with such carefree abandon that it 
makes one wonder.  Links are perceived somehow as an 
unalloyed good.  This is a sign of danger in any 
technological development.  A link unaccompanied by 
critical assessment is a little attention-bomb.  For our 
successors, the novelty of links may fade; the kudzu-like 
mess of links may seem stale or even poisonous. Giving 
someone a list of hotlinks might be seen as vaguely 
passive-aggressive, as if you had crammed his doors and 
windows with endless stacks of free encyclopedias and 
giveaway floppy disks.

    Thanks to the kindness of alert correspondents, we 
have accumulated many Viridian-associated links.  But what 
do they all mean?  And how do they feel?  And what is 
their real context?  Are they really worth our while?  
What do they promise for the future?  Who will tell us 
about all this?  Investigate these links, if you will.  
Think about these questions.  Write us a careful and 
heartfelt assessment.  Be frank!  If your criticism makes 
the list, you will earn a star >*<.  You will vault toward 
the top of the Viridian ranks.

http://www.02.org

http://www.oecd.org/subject/sustdev/oecdwork.htm

www.carfree.com

www.biothinking.com

www.agewave.com

www.bridgedesign.com

http://www.hoechst-forum.uni-muenchen.de

http://www.va.com.au/photobots/PhotoBots.htm

http://environment.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa110198.htm

www.millennium.ru

www.gadget.co.za

www.media.mit.edu/~rhodes/RA

www.well.com/~mgoldh

http://slashdot.org

www.rprogress.org

http://www.users.interport.net/~jam/sld001.htm

 http://www.sirius.com/~schizo/demo/start.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/10/981030082447.
htm

http://www.nyu.edu/publicaffairs/newsreleases/b_NYU_S4.sht
ml

http://www.sunday-
times.co.uk:80/news/pages/Times/frontpage.html?1029057

http://www.nytimes.com/library/review/110198america-
energy-review.html

http://www.pnl.gov/news/1998/98mthf.htm

 http://www.scientificsales.com/balloons.htm
http://www.zamg.ac.at/~map-pbl/home.htm
http://www.fooledya.com/balloon/
http://www.af.mil/news/airman/0298/bombsb.htm

http://www.loe.org/html/headlines/coffins.html

www.realgoods.com

http://arch.virginia.edu/Dean/
http://www.virginia.edu/~sustain/

http://www.arsdigita.com/services.html

www.europeangreens.org

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/
19981104/wr/paper__1.html

www.seedsource.com

http://www.energy.rochester.edu/cogen_europe/
http://www.ad.ic.ac.uk/estates/projects/chp/descrip.htm

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/msad26oct98_1.ht
m

http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/global/global.html


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