The page begins with a info about Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisc.), "considered one of the leaders of the modern environmental movement, developed the idea for Earth Day after being inspired by the anti-Vietnam-War "teach-ins" that were taking place on college campuses around the United States."
A much MORE in-depth bio compared to the one listed above. Facts and more facts from this very useful text-based biographical database. It's worth a look now for future research. Also (and this is very cool), in the upper-left corner look for top gray box with the name, "Gaylord Nelson." Click it. A Java app should open and you'll be able to visualize relationships between Sen. Nelson and others. Don't be afraid to click around and use the "drop down" boxes to change the visualization. Cool. Over 30,000 people in the database. Bottom Line? VERY COOL!!!
EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
Sections include:
+ General
+ Living and working sustainably
+ Ecosystems: climatology and weather
+ Ecosystems: flora and fauna
+ Geography and geology
+ For Students
and Much More
Note: On a somewhat related note, LC recently released a new Science Tracer Bullet (aka guide) that focuses on resources for science fair projects.
A selection of images of Earth taken space by NASA over the years. We've limited this collection to only images of Earth from space. However, you can easily focus the results or change the collection by making selections from the left column. These images come from from the NASAimages.org database which comes from a partnership between NASA and the Internet Archive. This image was taken on August 23, 1966. We've also included several images from the labeled "Earthrise." We could look at these for hours.
DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility and federal incentives and policies that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. Established in 1995 and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, DSIRE is an ongoing project of the N.C. Solar Center and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council.
National Geographic and the international polling firm GlobeScan have just conducted their second annual study measuring and monitoring consumer progress toward environmentally sustainable consumption in 17 countries around the world.
This quantitative consumer study of 17,000 consumers in a total of 17 countries (14 in 2008) asked about such behavior as energy use and conservation, transportation choices, food sources, the relative use of green products versus traditional products, attitudes towards the environment and sustainability, and knowledge of environmental issues.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
