Conferences & Symposiums
Environmental
Communication in the Information Society
16 th International Symposium Environmental Informatics 2002, September
25 - 27, Technical University of Vienna, Austria. The upcoming conference
ENVIROINFO VIENNA 2002 will cover the complete field of environmental
communication, including computer networks, the Internet, the media,
mediation and face-to-face interaction.
Links, Articles & Literature
Katharine
Mieszkowski: Turn Off the Internet
Is the global computer network to blame for the current electricity
crisis? Lackeys of the power industry want us to think so. (in Salon.com).
Tom
Horan: Digital Places
A New Book by Tom Horan undertitled "Building our Cities of Bits".
The author, a well-known expert on the applications of digital technology,
analyzes its impact on the physical design of housing, stores, offices,
libraries, and schools. He also examines the effect on regions and cities,
including the hard and soft infrastructures essential to attracting
high-wage technology companies.
SPRU:
Science and Technology Policiy Research
At the SPRU Website you can download the report E-topia? Contextual
Scenarios for Digital Futures, a on the future of the digital economy.
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pdf-file 168kB]
Jeremy
Rifkin: A Rifkin Reader
This Reader has gatherd essential information about Rifkin's ideas and
his book "The End of Work" (in a Special Workshop Edition
of The Jobs
Letter 1999).
Charles
Leadbetter: Living on Thin Air
New book by Charles Leadbetter undertitled "A Manifesto for
the New Economy". You can read some of the chapters online.
Nevin
Cohen : Greening the Internet
As the Internet burgeons, electronic commerce is becoming ever more
important. The future of the environment may be profoundly affected
- for better and for worse. Nevin Cohen describes Ten Ways by which
"E-Commerce Could Affect the Environment and What We Can Do!"
(in iMP - The Magazine
on Information Impacts).
Richer
and Greener
Tony Blairs (Prime Minisister, UK) Speech to the CBI-Green Alliance
Conference on the Environment.
Katharine
Mieszkowski: It's not easy being green
Is online shopping good for the environment or just a better way to
be as wasteful as we want to be? (in Salon.com).
The
Cluetrain Manifesto
"A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet,
people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge
with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter�and
getting smarter faster than most companies."
Forums & Projects
Green-eCommerce
The Website emerged as an Forum for Information exchange after the Joint
Symposium on E-Commerce and the Environment held in New
York by the Academy of Sciences and the Tellus
Institute in October 2000. (You can find a summary here).
Green-eCommerce wants to link the people and organizations around
the world who are working on the environmental impacts of the networked
economy. Its goal is to foster the research, policies, and programs
that can lead to a sustainable digital future.
Cyberatlas
The site provides readers with valuable statistics and Web marketing
information. CyberAtlas gathers online research from the best data resources
to provide a complete review of the latest surveys and technologies
available. (Don't forget to take a look at the "Stats Toolbox"
with interesting statistics about the information society.)
Forum
for the Future
This is an environmental charity working with business to achieve sustainable
development.
Digital
Futures
The Digital Futures Project aims to explore the social and environmental
impacts of e-commerce, and assess whether the digital economy could
evolve into a powerful ally of sustainable development.
Magazines
iMP
- The Magazine on Information Impacts
Forbes ASAP
Brand
Eins
Wired
News / Wired
Magazine
Red
Herring
The Jobs Letter