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Links of interest on the Internet

 

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Global Warming and Energy Kilowatt Ours Grown your own energy: points to consider Refuse to Energy (Tampa, FL) Economic Opportunity in Addressing GlobalWarming Once and Future Carbohydrate Economy (from American Prospect, April 2006. Others articles in this issue are also pertinent to the Green Economy.)	Read the national League's collection of articles and other information about Electronic Voting Machines. http://www.lwv.org/join/elections/hava_resources.html
There are many informative web pages about the environment. Those pages will be collected and annotated in this section. Friends of the Earth is a national environmental organization dedicated to preserving the health and diversity of the planet for future generations. As the largest international environmental network in the world with affiliates in 63 countries, Friends of the Earth empowers citizens to have an influential voice in decisions affecting their environment. The Rain Forest Action Network is a beautiful site for just looking at pictures BUT its real work is saving the world's rain forests. This site has a children's section.  There's more to the National Audubon Society than birds, but the bird pictures are a nice bonus from this environmentally oriented group.	Learn about the NC General Assembly. Calendars, email addresses, information about bills are available. You may inform the General Assembly of your preference on a current topic using "On-Line Democracy". You may also learn who your representatives are or the representatives of any county in North Carolina. This information is provided by a Geographical Information System.
Learn about federal legislation on the World Wide Web. You can follow legislation and read the text of bills. What is the Electoral College?	The League of Women Voters and the Political Science Department at UNCG sponsored  a panel on Nation Building April 21,  2004.Background links are posted here.  January 2004 Atlantic Monthly Rand Corporation book (available to purchase or in downloadable PDF files ) Many articles are available on the Internet. Please do a Google search to read more.
Teachers, check out the Digital Classroom about goverment. Students, learn all about government.  Let Ben Franklin be your guide. Want to know about people who serve or have served in Congress? All of the inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States are available on-line at the Bartleby Library.	Voters read the newsletter of the Center for Defense Information on line. Read and study The National Security Strategy of the United States of America.  Parents find out about parents who support public schools.
Read about  USA for the International Criminal Court. Follow the links provided for more information.	The League of Women Voters of North Carolina has a home page where you will find The ABCs of Voting and Registration, a listing of the local Leagues in North Carolina, and links to sites of interest to citizens and voters. The national League of Women Voters has a home page where you may read the latest issues of the National Voter find home pages of state and local leagues, and link to other sites of interest.
National Women's History Museum has a cyber museum on Women's History and other pages of interest.	Recommendations of the NC Smart Growth Commission. North Carolina's standards and testing. Education Week's "Quality Counts 2001". North Carolina Peace and Justice Community Development Center.
www.aboutpolitics.com is sponsored by Kessler Freedman, Inc, a website management company. Link to a variety of sites from here, including the political site of the day.  The Foreign Policy Research Institute is devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests. We add perspective to events by fitting them into the larger historical and cultural context of international politics. Ben Cohen of the Ben and Jerry group is the leader of  "Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities". Information can be found at www.truemajority.com .	For International information, including information and statements about terrorism, visit the United Nations. www.cunr.org/involved  is a balanced group  working (within the US) on a proposal to reform the UN. www.cunr.org/involved   is an action oriented outfit in favor of US signature to the Treaty to establish the International Court.  It offers information on the facts of the treaty and its many subdivisions. The US Association for the United Nations is a composite of national bodies interested in accurate understanding of the US role in the UN and the role of the UN.
Immigration Law	David Walker of G.A.O. on Saving Our Future

 

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