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Here are some of the websites we like. Please click the logo if you'd like to check one out. | | Good Deeds | | | Your click on the "Give Free Food" button funds food for people in need around the world, paid for by site sponsors whose ads appear after you click. | | | Your click on the red "Fund Books For Kids" button at The Literacy Site generates books for children in need, funded by site sponsors and provided through our award-winning charity partner, First Book, that has distributed more than 40 million books to children in hundreds of communities. | | | Land preservation, made possible by funds raised at The Rainforest Site, is paid for by site sponsors and carried out by The Nature Conservancy, The Rainforest Conservation Fund, The World Parks Endowment, and The Friends of Calakmul in Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay and other locations worldwide. A portion of funding also goes to preserve old-growth forest in the state of Washington, U.S.A. | | | The Child Health Site combines The Child Survival Site, The Kids AIDS Site, and The Landmine Site. Over 200,000 children die every week from preventable causes, and many millions more suffer from preventable disease, curable blindness, landmines, and other crippling accidents. Click on the "Help a Child - Click Here" button and save young lives and help children stay healthy at no cost to you. | | | Words & Writing | | | The magic of words. We are a community of more than 600,000 linguaphiles in at least 200 countries. You too can join us. Come, explore the world of words, share it with other wordlovers, and delight in the joy of words. | | | The Editors' Association of Canada/Association canadienne des réviseurs (EAC) promotes professional editing as key in producing effective communication. Our 1600 members, both salaried and freelance, work with individuals in the corporate, technical, government, non-profit and publishing sectors.
| | | Thesaurus.com: Dictionary, reference, language resources | | | World Wide Words: Articles; Questions & Answers; Reviews; Topical Words; Turns Of Phrase; Weird Words | | What's that word that means the urge to travel?...grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing?...organize into a list?
OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. Just type it into the box above and hit the "Find words" button. Keep it short to get the best results. | |
Sustainability | | This is one of the most professional and interesting websites that you could possibly bookmark on your browser; almost every day they describe a new technology or technique for environmentalists. There are short features on a thousand cool ideas: slow food, urban farming, hydrogen cars, and messenger bags made from recycled truck tarps. There are how-to guides on how to etch your own circuit board, how to break in your hybrid car so as to maximize mileage, how to organize a "smart mob" (a brief gathering of strangers in a public place). If we face an unprecedented planetary crisis, we also find ourselves in a moment of innovation unlike any that has come before...We live in an era when the number of people working to make the world better is exploding. | | | Media | | | The Dominion: Canada's Grassroots Newspaper | | | Straight Goods is a watchdog working for Canadian consumers and citizens. The purpose of Straight Goods is to help you save money, protect your rights, and untangle spin with investigative reports, features, forums, archives, and links to many others who share our values. | | | The nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy strengthens participatory democracy by investigating and exposing public relations spin and propaganda, and by promoting media literacy and citizen journalism, media "of, by and for the people." | | | AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of dozens of other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire citizen action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, and health care issues. Our editorial mix underscores a commitment to fairness, equity, and global stewardship, and making connections across generational, ethnic, and issue lines. | | | Common Dreams is a U.S.-based non-profit citizens' organization working to promote progressive visions for the future. Founded in 1997, we are committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the internet as a political organizing tool - and creating new models for internet activism. We are funded exclusively by our members and supporters - no corporate money, no advertising, no hidden agendas. | | | Orion explores an emerging alternative world view. Informed by a growing ecological awareness and the need for cultural change, it is a forum for thoughtful and creative ideas and practical examples of how we might live justly, wisely, and artfully on Earth. Since 1982, Orion has worked to reconnect human culture with the natural world, blending scientific thinking with the arts, engaging the heart and mind, and striving to make clear what we all have in common. | | Reference | | The Atlas of Canada provides authoritative, current, and accessible geographic information products at a national level. Working with partners, the Atlas facilitates the integration and analysis of diverse data in order to increase overall knowledge about Canada. | | | Worldmapper is a collection of world maps where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. Food, Manufacturers, Resources, Fuel, Work, Disease, Pollution, etc. | | | Geology.com: Meteor Impact Structures, What Causes a Tsunami?, Geology Dictionary, Plate Tectonics Map, , World Countries-Satellite Images & MapsGlobal Warming Charts, Graphs & Maps. Every day Geology.com is visited by thousands of geologists, earth scientists, students, teachers and others who are interested in geology or searching for geological information. | | | NASA's Planetary Photojournal will aid you in finding your desired image by using a number of search mechanisms. In addition to the photographic images, the actual data used to create these images are also available. Unless otherwise noted, images and video on JPL public web sites (public sites ending with a jpl.nasa.gov address) may be used for any purpose without prior permission. | |
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