18 January 2008

Webliography

Web resources for the people and ideas in this edition of eJournal USA

Architecture

American Society of Landscape Architects
http://www.asla.org/

Sustainable Sites Network
A partnership to protect and enhance the ability of landscapes to provide services such as climate regulation, clean air and water, and improved quality of life.
http://www.sustainablesites.org/

Architecture for Humanity
A charitable organization that promotes architectural and design solutions to global, social, and humanitarian crises.

http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/

SmartWrap
A new building material that integrates the segregated functions of a conventional wall, such as shelter and insulation, and compresses them into one composite film that can be erected in a fraction of ordinary building time.

http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/past/smartwrap.php

Education

Angels’ Landing
A playground designed by architects with Utah State University’s Center for Persons With Disabilities to ensure accessibility by all people.
http://www.cpd.usu.edu/

Web Wise Kids
An organization that offers kids fun, challenging, and interactive Web simulations to promote Internet safety.
http://www.webwisekids.org/

The World Simulation
An experiment in learning — developed at Kansas State University — that harnesses the traditional concept of the world map to digital technology.
http://www.k-state.edu/

Health

Center for Aging Services Technology
An organization dedicated to the development, evaluation, and adoption of emerging technologies that can improve the aging experience.
http://www.agingtech.org/index.aspx

Home Guardian
A project of University of Virginia featuring a detector that uses floor sensors, rather than a device strapped to the body, to detect when someone falls.
http://www.virginia.edu

Music

Deep Listening Institute
An institute located in Kingston, New York, that is fostering a unique approach to music, literature, art, and meditation, and promoting innovation among artists and audiences in creating, performing, recording, and educating with a global perspective.
http://www.deeplistening.org/site/

Drake Music Project
A London-based project that provides opportunities for disabled musicians of all ages and abilities to explore, compose, and perform music.
http://www.drakemusicproject.org/makepage.asp?page=1

Hyperscore
A project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed to introduce children to musical composition and creativity in an intuitive and dynamic way.
http://www.media.mit.edu/hyperins/ToySymphony/musictoysscore.html

http://www.hyperscore.com/

Institute for Music and Neurological Function
A New York organization that restores, maintains, and improves people’s physical, emotional, and neurological functioning through the systematic use of music.
http://www.bethabe.org/Our_Mission212.html

Princeton Laptop Orchestra
An ensemble of computer-based musical meta-instruments (laptop, multi-channel hemispherical speaker, variety of control devices) at Princeton University in which the students who make up the ensemble act as performers, researchers, composers, and software developers.
http://plork.cs.princeton.edu/

Nanotechnology

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A premier U.S. government research and development institution for science and technology as they apply to national security.
http://www.llnl.gov/

Social Networking

Babajob and Babalife
A social networking and job site in India that matches those in need of employment with available jobs.
http://www.babajob.com/

iCare
An organization that directs disaster relief assistance to those most in need without going through a middleman or other organization.
http://icare.ieor.berkeley.edu/

iReuse
A business that facilitates the re-use of unwanted products and materials of one organization by another organization that is seeking such products and materials.
http://www.ireuse.com/

Sports

Forest Steward Council
An organization responsible for developing standards to guide forest management toward sustainable outcomes, including, for example, ensuring that the rubber used in sports balls comes from responsibly managed forests.
http://www.fscus.org

Mojo Kickball
A team sport that is a form of kickball combined with tag and dodgeball.
http://www.mojokickball.com/

Wiffle Hurling
A derivation of the Irish game of hurling, but as a relatively safe contact sport that retains many of the qualities of the original game.
http://art.rutgers.edu/~russotti/wifflehurling.htm

Travel

Amizade
An organization that encourages intercultural exploration and understanding through community-driven volunteer programs and service-learning programs.
http://www.amizade.org

Global Exchange
A membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic, and environmental justice around the world.
http://www.globalexchange.org

Global Volunteers
A worldwide network that provides “volunteer vacations” in which traveling individuals live and work with local people to meet identified needs.
http://www.globalvolunteers.org

Wilderness Volunteers
A nonprofit organization that organizes and promotes volunteer service to America’s wild lands, national parks, and forests.
http://www.wildernessvolunteers.org

World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
An international network that helps people share more sustainable ways of living, and, in return for volunteer help, offers food, accommodations, and opportunities to learn about organic lifestyles.
http://www.wwoof.org

The U.S. Department of State assumes no responsibility for the content and availability of the resources from other agencies and organizations. All Internet links were active as of January 2008.

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