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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 05:43:49 -0800 (PST)
From: The Green Disk Journal <greendisk@igc.org>
Subject: 100's of New EnvComputing Resources
HUNDREDS OF NEW ENVIRONMENTAL COMPUTING RESOURCES IN 1996
Did you know that hundreds of new computer-related resources for
environmental learning, research, and activism were released or
came online over the past year? If you're like most folks that
use the Internet, you probably did not. How could someone
interested in environmental issues who regularly uses the
Internet miss all that's out there?
There are some basic problems with relying on the Internet to
provide you with all the information relevant to your area of
professional and personal interest:
o The only way to know when new software programs, Web sites and
discussion lists come online or are updated is by chance --
you see it in a newsgroup or happen to receive an email.
o WWW searches can be frustrating and time consuming, as you
slog through reams of often outdated or irrelevant sites.
o How can you know about non-Internet resources like software,
CD-roms, conferences, courses, etc.?
o Your ability to store and index potentially important
resources you may have seen can be problematic.
The Green Disk GUIDE TO ENVIRONMENTAL COMPUTING v1.2 contains 387
new listings for the last twelve months alone. Over 1100
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 12:44:27 -0600
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 08:04:18 -0800 (PST)
From: "David A. Kirkpatrick" <dkirkwks@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Orgs./Publications Tracking Anti-Enviro Campaign Contributions
MONEY IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
ORGANIZATIONS, WEB SITES, PUBLICATIONS
CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS
A post-election analysis by the Center for Responsive
Politics (http://www.crp.org/paying/spendrel.html) revealed
that nine out of every 10 House candidates who spent more
than their opponents won election.
CITIZEN ACTION
Advocates full public financing of elections.
(202)775-1580.
COMMON CAUSE
Common Cause advocates a system of incentives including some public
funding for electoral campaigns to encourage the best
and brightest citizens to run for public office coupled with
voluntary spending limits.
CC Texas web site: www.ccsi.com/~comcause/position/pp_cfr.html
E MAGAZINE
Sept/Oct 96 Issue cover story "Dirty Money-Big Bucks Fuel
An Anti-Green Congress" produced with assistance from
Center for Responsive Politics. E Magazine (203)854-5559.
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION
The Winter 1996 Environmental Action magazine highlighted
"Money, Politics and the Environment" (301)891-1100.
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP
EWG's web site Campaign Finance Page shows
how much money Senate, House and Presidential
candidates took from polluting industries at the
site. <http://www.ewg.org>
EWG and U.S. PIRG released a report
"Contributing to Extinction." The report analyzes PAC contributions and the
Republican push to rewrite the Endangered Species Act. The report examines
176 Political Action Committees (PACs) associated with two industry
coalitions -- the Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition and the
Endangered Species Coordinating Council -- behind the rewrite effort.
EWG also released "Swamped With Cash,"
a report that analyzes political campaign contributions and the assault on
America's wetlands laws. Opponents of wetlands regulations donated $4
million in the last two years to members of the House of Representatives
who voted in favor of relaxing current wetlands protection.
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS
League of Conservation Voters. LCV's web site, http://www.loc.org/,
contains current information on the voting records of lawmakers, a list
of LCV endorsed candidates, and profiles of LCV's Dirty Dozen.
SIERRA CLUB
The Sierra Club analyzed the role of money in
environmental politics in its report, Take the Money & Run
(http://www.sierraclub.org/politics/pac$$$.html).
STATE CAMPAIGN FINANCE GROUPS
State groups are drawing the connections, as well. For example,
The North Carolina Alliance for Democracy helped research the
Pollution Lobby report in the Independent Weekly "Big Grins,
Dirty Money - Will Political Donations Decide North Carolina's
Environmental Future." NCAD/Democracy South (888)OURVOTE.
US PIRG
Published the report "Cashing In: Political Contributions and the National
Bottle Bill Debate, October 1996". The report notes, for example, that when
the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted against a national
bottle bill in 1992 by a vote of 10-6, the Senators voting against the bill
received
75 times more contributions, on average, from anti-bottle bill interests
than those
Senator that voted for the bill. US PIRG (202)546-9707
Some of the listings above were excerpted from:
GREENLines, Tues. Nov. 12, 1996 from GREEN,
the Grassroots Environmental Effectiveness Network,
A project of Defenders of Wildlife.
(202)789-2844x288 or email rfeather@clark.net
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KNOW OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, WEB SITES, OR PUBLICATIONS TRACKING CAMPAIGN
CONTRIBUTIONS AS THEY RELATE TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND RECYCLING? PLEASE EMAIL
THEM TO ME AT DKIRKWKS@IGC.APC.ORG AND I WILL RETRANSMIT AN EXPANDED LIST.
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