Cary Conference VIII Convened: April 27 - 29, 1999 Institute of Ecosystem Studies Millbrook, NY
Links

• American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Project 2061. An effort to create an Atlas for Science Literacy with "strand maps" that diagram the developmental progression of key ideas. A color "strand map" (in Adobe Acrobat format) of concepts relating to the flow of matter and energy as discussed in Jo Ellen Roseman’s presentation during the Conference can be found at: http://project2061.aaas.org/tools/atlas/matter.pdf
  
• Baltimore Ecosystem Study
  
• Berlin Environment / Berlin Digital Environmental Atlas
  This a very extensive database on Berlin, Germany. Vegetation maps, air quality, biotope maps, bird population density are included. The site also has information on ordering maps and reprints.
  
• Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme (BLP)
  A decentralized global network of capacity building and professional associations organisations. The BLP's objective is to improve decision making at all levels through the analysis and dissemination of lessons learned from Best Practices.
  
• Central Arizona-Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research Project
  
• Centre for Sustainable Design
  * managing eco-design
  * sustainable product development and design
  * design aspects of environmental communications
  * journal of sustainable product design
  
• Chicago River Demonstration Project
  
• City Farmer Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture
  
• Community Future Forum
  A two-year project that will enable us to identify the opportunities and threats associated with our growing communities, consider future implications, and develop strategies to address them. This project will provide an opportunity to discuss and share thoughts and ideas on natural resources in urban and community areas. The Forum will allow a diverse group of people to work together to create a natural resources agenda for the 21st Century.
  
• Detroit Public Schools - Academy of Geospatial Sciences and Technologies
  
• Environmental Justice Research Center at Clark Atlanta University
  
• EPA's Real-Time Air quality site: AirNow
  
• ESRI's "US Community Atlas"
  This project asks teachers and students to work together to create a vision of "their community" using text and maps, and post these on ESRI's web server. The result will be a searchable database of "community presentations." To complete the project, students and teachers can use existing GIS software, or they can request free "ArcVoyager Special Edition" software (built especially for school use), or they can use online mapping engines and a web browser. Schools submitting complete entries earn free GIS software to complement tools they may already have.
  
• European Academy for the Urban Environment
  
• Global Urban Observatory (GUO)
  An integrated set of capacity building programmes and a global network of resources to help all partner groups monitor progress in implementing the Habitat Agenda and to expand the base of knowledge for better urban policies and practices.
  
• NAAEE - North American Association for Environmental Education
  A network of professionals working in the field of EE throughout North America and in over 50 countries around the world. The web site contains information about programs, conferences, publications and
  membership.
  
• NAAEE's Volunteer-led Investigations In Neighborhood Ecology (VINE) Network
  Provides professional development and colleagial support for leaders of local urban ecology programs in cities across the country. The site contains information about VINE Programs and the large collection of guided inquiries and allied materials that NAAEE distributes to aid volunteers in leading 8 to 11 year-olds in discovering the diverse array or organisms and ecological relationships that exist right in their own neighborhoods.
  
• Nine Mile Run Greenway Project - College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University
  Linking Art and Post-Industrial Restoration via urban-riparian restoration of open space, in a community setting.
  
• NSIP - NASA Student Involvement Program
  A national program of five competitions that links students directly with NASA's diverse and exciting mission of research, exploration and discovery. Educator Resource Guides for all the competitions are available on the web site. Deadline: February 1, 2000.
  Students are invited to participate in:
  - Earth Systems in My Neighborhood (grades 3-4)
  - Watching Earth Change (grades 5-8, 9-12)
  - Design A Mission to Mars (grades 5-8, 9-12)
  - Aeronautics and Space Science Journalism (grades 3-4, 5-8, 9-12)
  
• Our Town is the newest initiative of the Computer Learning Foundation
  A resource, developed by students, on towns throughout North America that will be accessible through the Foundation's Web site. As part of their classroom and extracurricular activities, students research information about their community, develop Web pages, and create a Web site for their town. Students work with others outside their school--local businesses, community organizations, government offices--to develop or encourage them to develop Web pages for their town's Web Site.
  
• Anne Whiston Spirn's courses, including the past several years of academically-based community service courses related to the middle school and the Mill Creek Project
  
• Anne Whiston Spirn's website for her new book, The Language of Landscape
  
• Sustainable development
  This is an information center that utilizes the latest in Internet Web technology to provide a community-center atmosphere for the storing, searching and disseminating of sustainable development information.
  
• University of Houston-Downtown (UHD)
  Undergraduate education program in the integrated field of urban science and ecology.
  
• Urban Nature Magazine
  Intelligence and information on urban ecology and ecosystems. The Magazine is a 44-page (176 pages in
  total) quarterly journal, now in its fourth volume.
  
• Urban Wildlife Management course taught by Dr. Charlie Nilon
  
• USDA Forest Service
  
• USDA Forest Service, Urban Forest Research
  
• West Philadelphia Landscape Project
  The work with middle school students in the West Philadelphia Landscape Project in environmental education and community development (including web pages authored by the kids about the environment of their neighborhhod) is at: http://www.upenn.edu/wplp/sms/index.html
  
  

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