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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-17-06 12:39 AM
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New Reference on the Environment
The motivation behind the Encyclopedia of Earth is simple. Go to Google™ and type in climate change, pesticides, nuclear power, sustainable development, or any other important environmental issue. Doing so returns millions of results, some fraction of which are authoritative. The remainder is of poor or unknown quality.

This illustrates a stark reality of the Web: digital information on the environment is characterized by an abundance of "great piles of content" and a dearth of "piles of great content." In other words, there are many resources for environmental content, but there is no central repository of authoritative information that meets the needs of diverse user communities. Our goal is to make the Encyclopedia of Earth the largest reliable information resource on the environment in history.


To see the variety of articles, click "Browse" (by author, topic, alphabet) at the top.

http://www.eoearth.org/




Cher

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