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What you can find on the Internet
The Internet can give you access to a wide range of information resources: databases, mailing lists, interactive discussion areas, important documents. Your Internet services provider (usually, the computer services department at your university, or a commercial service) can help you access the following resources oriented to youth issues and sustainable development action.
SEAC-L
This is a "listserv": a regular bulletin of information e-mailed regularly to your own e-mail address. This list is for members of local chapters of the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) in the United States, and for students interested in forming chapters of SEAC on their campuses. Topics include action as taken by local chapters, coordination of national efforts, and bulletins of scientific interest on environmental topics. To receive a listserv, send an e-mail message to the address: LISTSERV@UGA.BITNET. Leave the subject line blank and write 'subscribe seac-1 [Your Name]' (without quotes or square brackets) in your message.
nln.news; unep.nyu.youth; dev.youth
These three resources are computer conferences, accessible on Econet, the US node of the APC electronic network. Internet users can access Econet through the IGC "gopher": gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org.
nlns.news: The New Liberation News Service (NLNS) is an independent, youth-oriented, progressive newswire serving over 200 community media outlets in 40 states in the USA, four Canadian provinces and a variety of international locales.
unep.nyu.youth: This is a forum for youth and educators to participate in discussions of the world's environmental future.
dev.youth: Discussions about the youth program Beyond UNCED.
Campus Earth Summit Home Page
"Home Pages"(or World Wide Web, or W3) are sites on the Internet which provide access to information using "hypertext": a way of organizing documents in a very user friendly manner, combined with graphics, and links to other resources.
This Home Page posts the information about the first Campus Earth Summit, held at Yale University during February 18-20, 1994 which gathered students, faculty and administrators from campuses in 50 states and 20 countries to draft a Campus Blueprint for a Sustainable Future. You will find in this Home Page: Campus Blueprint for a Sustainable Future (the outcome document of the Summit); speakers at the Summit; the "Brown is Green" Program on the campus of Brown University; Environmental Studies mailing list hosted by Brown University; Recycle mailing list hosted by University of Maryland; and Internet Environmental Resources. Provider: Brown University (RI,USA).
Access: http://netspace.students.brown.edu./environ/earthnet/earthsum.html
Campus EarthNet World Wide Web Server
Campus EarthNet promotes sound environmental practices and education on college and university campuses across the world. EarthNet began as a follow-up effort to the Campus Earth Summit. EarthNet is a joint project of the Center for Environmental Citizenship and the "Brown is Green" Program at Brown University, and is sponsored by the Heinz Family Foundation. As of February 1995, EarthNet is in an early pilot phase. Provider: Brown University (RI, U.S.A.). Access:http://netspace.students.brown.edu./environ/earthnet
UN Voices of Youth
The UN Voices of Youth Web Site was established for youth from around the world to voice their opinions on the World Summit for Social Development. Sponsored by UNICEF, and supported by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, this World Wide Web site gave an opportunity for young people worldwide to send their views to the world leaders who attended the March 1995 World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen. At this site you will find information on the Social Summit; how young people have become involved; you can read messages from youth around the world sent to world leaders, and view the responses of the leaders.
Access: http://www.mbnet.mb.ca:80/linkages/un/youth.html
IISDnet
The International Institute for Sustainable Development has created a "hub" for sustainable development information on the Internet, using the World Wide Web. Through this hub, IISD is delivering the principles and practices of sustainability which should underlay our daily lives. On IISDnet you will find information on what's new in sustainable development; Linkages - global negotiations on environment and development, which includes the Earth Negotiations Bulletin; the Sourcebase on Sustainable Development - a database of key information resources to use in sustainable development research, planning, and action; reports and summaries of IISD's work and the work of its partners; and connections to the best sustainable development sites on the information highway.
Access: http:/iisd1.iisd.ca/