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Websites
- Hack A Day
- Technological gadgets.
- Metcheck
- A company supplying meteorological, hydrological and marine instruments
- Google
- The worlds most famous search engine
- CERN
- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works
- MAKE
- Blogspot about making things
- Global Voices Online
- A research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society.
- I like
- Blogspot about things ‘I like’
- Kevin Kelly: Cool Tools
- a review site for tools, gadgets, trends, films and more
- EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH
- EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH in Hamburg is a scientific consultancy that focusses on improving product design, quality, utility, and environmental performance via eco-effectiveness.
- MaterialConnexion
- Material ConneXion is the leading global platform for material solutions and innovations
- Earth As Art
- View our planet through the beautiful images taken by the Landsat-7 satellite
- CUIL
- A new age of search engines
- C2C Community Forum
- MBDC is a product and process design firm dedicated to revolutionizing the design of products and services worldwide
Books
- A Prosperous Way Down
- Author: Howard T. Odum & Elisabeth C. Odum
Description: How can the future be peaceful and prosperous with less fuel?
ISBN: 978-0-87081-908-7 - Heat: How We Can Stop the Planet Burning
- Author: George Monbiot
Description: How can we stop the planet burning? One of the best books out there looking at the reality of climate change and what we can actually do about it
ISBN: 0141026626 - English Bread & Yeast Cookery
- Author: Elizabeth David
Description: This book looks into all aspects dealing with bread – flour milling, yeast and bread ovens.
ISBN: 0140299742 - The Bread Builders
- Author: Daniel Wing and Alan Scott
Description: Bakers are finding new ways to link traditions with a sophisticated new understating of natural leavens, baking science and over construction
ISBN: 1890132055 - Material ConneXion
- Author: George Beylerian and Andrew Dent
Description: A resource of new and innovative materials for designers
ISBN: 10500512442 - Design for the Real World
- Author: Victor Papanek
Description: An early edition to discussing socially responsible design
ISBN: 0500273588 - Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
- Author: William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Description: This book explains how products can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful lives, they will provide nourishment for something new
ISBN: 10865475873
Organisations
- Long Now Foundation
- The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years
- Creative Commons
- About copyright
- My Society
- Teaching people how to use the internet charitable project and work
- Global Voices Online
- A research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society
- Open Rights Group
- The Open Rights Group is a grassroots technology organization, which exists to protect civil liberties wherever they are threatened by the poor implementation and regulation of digital technology. We call these rights our “digital rights”
- MechE: Institute of Mechanical Engineers
- Working on engineering in alignment with key event and technological advances in the world
- Royal Society
- Is the independent scientific academy of the UK and the Commonwealth dedicated to promoting excellence in science.
- Carbon Rationing Action Groups
- Is a group of people who have decided to act together to reduce their individual and collective carbon footprints
- Centre for Alternative Technology
- Offer solutions to some of the most serious challenges facing our planet and the human race, such as climate change, pollution and the waste of precious resources.
- Centre for Alternative Technology
- Offer solutions to some of the most serious challenges facing our planet and the human race, such as climate change, pollution and the waste of precious resources.