Society

Funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, this US national organization promotes independent living.

A foundation dedicated to the study of monetary history, monetary theory and monetary reform.

Alan Greenspan, America's foremost central planner, on money supply and inflation.

Argument by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 for Congress to pass legislation capping prices to prevent unchecked inflation.

Activist organization in the Philippines working against privatization. Includes positions, members, and photo gallery showing events in 2000.

This high-quality magazine analyzes the effects of government regulation on businesses and private conduct.

Coalition of researchers and activists focused on the harmful impacts of tax avoidance, tax competition and tax havens. Provides news, research, activities and resources.

Students who do not speak English well or at all are increasingly enrolling in smaller, rural American school districts with little or no experience or resources to teach them. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.]

Site has tools and suggestions to put an end to intrusive advertising. Includes information for parents, teachers, and kids.

CERU, directed by Professor Alex Molnar, conducts research, disseminates information, and helps facilitate dialogue between the education community, policy makers, and the public at large about commercial activities in schools.

NCREST supports restructuring efforts by documenting successful initiatives, creating reform networks to share new research findings with practitioners, and linking policy to practice. Teachers College, Columbia University.

Offering different perspectives on education reform issues, including original essays, quotations, relevant links, and suggestions for student-driven reform.

The Fund encourages the education of Maasai girls in Kenya by covering all costs of education including boarding, travel, and books.

Covers experiences of change in the expectations of students.

Analyzes data from around the United States over time.

A family based web site discussing education and family issues.

Article by the conservative commentator proposing public school choice in the United States without vouchers.

Heritage Foundation Backgrounder criticizing current use of public education funds and offers public policy solutions.

The primary U.S. organization of measurement researchers and practitioners involved in educational testing.

As home schooling grows as a movement, there is increasing political pressure to legislate and control home schoolers.

The new Programme for International Student Assessment of the OECD, involves dozens of countries testing their 15 year olds' skills and knowledge as they approach the end of compulsory education.

A thorough site with varying perspectives on the right to die, public opinion polls, and religious beliefs about hastened dying.

Articles about end-of-life choice campaigns and individuals who have hastened their deaths.

Provides tools to campaign on critical environment issues all over the world from climate change to construction projects in protected areas.

Papers, projects, and general information on ecological debt.

Helps citizens take action on policies related to the environment, global warming, nuclear weapons, clean energy, clean vehicles, and biotechnology.

Official government site provides comprehensive information on the issue of climate change and global warming including climate change science, U.S. climate policy, greenhouse gas emissions, environmental effects, and what can be done.

The Climate Protection Partnership discusses the pollution and climactic effects of air traffic, and environmentally sustainable alternatives.

Offbeat look at shopping centers in America.

Statistics, compiled by the New Road Map Foundation, describing USA consumption patterns and their effects on personal lives and the environment. Advocates a cultural trend toward low-consumption lifestyles.

Dedicated to raising awareness and discussion of the impending and permanent decline of cheap oil and gas supplies. Includes contact and local group details, resources listing, events, news and a forum.

An alliance of organizations promoting renewable energy and conservation in the Pacific Northwest.

An online, alternate reality game that allows players to play out the events that could arise from the increasing scarcity of petroleum.

Advocacy organization site includes training manual, issues information, press releases and information on empowering those affected by environmental abuses to investigate, expose and combat those problems.

Information and resources from an advocacy organization that wants to protect the scenic qualities of communities and roadways.

A quick-study outline of sustainable development for planners and policy-makers, with extensive web references for more in-depth information on each topic. Written by Beryl Magilavy, past director of San Francisco's Department of the Environment.

Provides information on health effects of pesticides, news, campaigns and projects.

Up to date bibliography of research on light pollution and animal responses to light. Includes links to many journal articles.

Provides resources, archives, campaign and event information.

The magazine of spiritual ecology. Includes subscription information, articles from the current issue and a library of articles.

Features a wide variety of essays published in Independent Review which explore free market environmentalism and its policy suggestions.

A forum of thought on environmental and social issues including ecology, alternative education, sacred art, the economics of wellbeing, sustainability and holistic philosophy. In print and online.

United Kingdom and international environmental news, on-line journal, e-mail newsletter, annotated links and search.

Noise consulting services to municipalities, industry and impacted residents, including: sound studies; ordinance development; enforcement issues; acoustical modeling; planning and zoning; impact statements; private and public nuisance advocacy.

Franklin Institute Report.

Reviews of places without piped music. Includes restaurants, pubs, hotels, and places to relax, shop, and meet. Reviews submitted by members of the UK-based Pipedown campaign.

An inter-disciplinary international journal devoted to research on all aspects of noise and its effects on human health.

Militant movement in Los Angeles fighting noise of all kinds.

Education campaign of the US National Institutes of Health to increase awareness among parents about causes and prevention of noise-induced hearing loss; encourages children to adopt healthy hearing habits.

Working for the preservation of biodiversity, against monoculture agriculture, and for better ways for humans to live in harmony with their environment.