Links

Climate Change Crisis
Sharon Begley. Climate Change Calculus. Newsweek. July 24, 2009 describes new findings that suggest that sea level rise will be double previous estimates.

David Biello. Risks of Global Warming Rising: Is It Too Late to Reverse Course? Scientific American. February 27, 2009. The negative impacts of climate change are beginning to appear — and we may soon cross a threshold of significant damage.

Report released on May 29, 2009 by the Global Humanitarian Forum, a think tank run by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan claims that global warming cost $125 Billion this past year and claimed 300,000 lives.

Scientific American Special Report on Climate Change. November 26, 2007.

Carbon Footprint Calculator
Climate Project
Climate Group
Clinton Foundation
Global Footprint Network
Smart 2020

Collaborative IQ & Wiki Links
Concept Maps
Dotnet Junkies — Knowledge Mgt + Collaboration
Connective Intelligence
Drupal Platform for Open Source Content Management
Enterprise Innovation — Spigit
Enterprise Social Media — Awareness Networks
Envisioning Information — Edward Tuffte
Envisioning Information — Many Eyes (IBM)
Google Sites Groupscope Visual Network Analysis
Groupware — TikiWiki Jive Software
Learning Network — Collaboration Tools
MediaWiki, SW of wikipedia
Moodle for online learning communities
Neighborhood America Network World
Wikia
WikkaWiki — a PHP/MySQL wiki engine

Decision Support
CQUEST Decision Support for Carbon Accounting

Disaster Preparedness
ESRI GEO Portal (Global Disaster Alert & Coordination System)
National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC) is a modeling, simulation, and analysis program that prepares and shares analyses of critical infrastructure and key resources including their interdependencies, vulnerabilities, consequences of disruption, and other complexities. NISAC is under the direction of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Infrastructure Protection (OIP).
United Nations Portal for Disaster Risk Management

Earth Observation & Eco-Forecasting
Ecological Forecasting Laboratory
using the Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS), NASA Ames Research Center ESA FedEO Clearinghouse for Satellite Based EO Data
GEO Portal using Compusult's Web Enterprise Suite
GEO/GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems)
NASA-CASA Project (Carnegie Mellon-Ames-Stanford)
United Nations Geo-Data Portal

ECO-sustainability
Earth Policy Institute
National Center for Smart Growth
Post Carbon Institute
Smart Growth Toolkit  

Environment — Green Tech
Environmentalism — Sierra Club’s Carl Pope
Green TechnoLog
Green Tech Forum
Green Tech Org
Green Tech World
Integrated Farming & Waste Management
Khosla Ventures
The PAX Group
TMCnet Green

Environment — Information & Action
Al Gore — The Climate Project
Carbon Fund
Conservation International
David Suzuki Foundation
Earthjustice
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth International
Google Earth
Google.org
Greenpeace Millennium Campaign
National Audubon Society
National Resources Defense Council
The Natural Step
Nature Conservancy
Ogle Earth Links on Google Earth
PlaNetwork
Sierra Club
Trust for Public Land
Whole Planet Foundation
Wiser Earth Web Portal
World Changing
World Wildlife Fund

Environment — Research    
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Desert Research Institute
The Earth Institute,
Columbia University
Geotimes: Earth Science News
Genomic Research & the Environment — J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB): Coastal and Marine Digital Library Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
NASA Goddard Earth Science Data & Information Center
National Biological Information Infrastructure
Natural Capital Institute
Nature, Journal
NOAA Satellite Information — National Geophysical Data Center
National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
USGS NOAA Satelllite Information Service
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

Science Blogs
Biocurious Cosmic Variance – Random Samplings from the Universe of Ideas Nature Network Bloggers
Science & its political implications

Spaceviews of Earth
Gateway to Astronaut Photography

Synergetics & Design Science
Buckminster Fuller Challenge
Design Science Lab
Buckminster Fuller on Guinea Pig B
frog design
IDEO
Mind Mapping SW
Siggraph
SMARTlab Digital Media Institute

Transportation
Embedding smart traffic light technology into systems that include supply chain management of all delivery systems, not only of manufactured products, but also of food, water etc. through focus on
1) Interfaces between sea, rail and road – removing bottlenecks, and
2) Optimizing cross-systems flows of vehicles and goods.

Background • Hybrids & Smart Transport
Better Place
California Metropolitan Transportation Commission 2030 Plan
California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT)
Electric Vehicles — evworld
Stanford Car Lab
Tesla
TOPIS (Transport Operation Information System), Seoul Metropolitan Government
Transportation Research Board
Wolfram Alpha — Transportation
Zapworld

Recommended talks on Smart Transport
Pravin Varaiya — Better Technology
Elizabeth MacDonald — Better Design

Water
Water (distributed storage, adaptable systems, intelligent meters) is the big, untapped opportunity where smart systems can make a huge contribution. The critical link between water shortage and fire hazards needs to be coupled.
CNN: The Business of Water
Global Water Tool — World Business Council on Sustainable Development
Indian Water Portal Blog & Water Summit 2009
Kinrot Incubator (Israeli model)
Rural – Urban water priority
US Drought Monitor, released May 26, 2009

Links to pdf files of papers coming soon.
If you don't have the Acrobat Reader you can download it for free here.

Zann Gill speaks at
SAP Labs Future Salon on
smart systems • smart citizens

Recommended Articles & Talks
Paul Ehrlich,"The Evolution of the Dominant Animal. Commonwealth Club, April 15, 2009 maintains that our traffic and city planning paradigm must change if the human race aims to survive.

Dr. James Hansen, NASA Climate Change Scientist on the urgency of climate change response

Garrett Hardin. "The Tragedy
of the Commons." Science.
December 13, 1968. vol. 162.
p. 1243-1248.

Energy and Security
Ken Berlin. A Framework for Achieving Energy Security and Arresting Global Warming. American Progress.
December 4, 2008.

Steve Connor. A Warning: Global Oil Supplies are Running Out Fast. The Independent. August 3, 2009.

Bracken Hendricks. Wired for Progress: Building a National Clean-Energy Smart Grid. American Progress. February 23, 2009.

Problem-mapping toward
collaboration & visualization:
Gapminder
Green Map System
NCDC Imaging (Native Communities Development Corporation)
Planetary Skin
San Francisco ECOmap
Visible Strategies

Social Network
for ECO-knowledge-sharing
Wiser Earth