One of my favorite web sites for certain kinds of information is World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Let me be up front here, I've been a contributor to this nonprofit organization for a long time and I like the work it does. Its web site was useful when I wanted to keep an eye on Indonesian forest fires in 1997. I also visit whenever I want information on the endangered species that WWF studies or supports with conservation measures, such as tigers and rhinos. The site is pleasantly designed, easy to navigate and I don't find it a slow load on my 31,200 bps connection. My only complaint is that I get the feeling the site is more advertisement oriented than content oriented. I'd prefer more educational and factual material, but then, the Web site mirrors WWF's paper newsletter.
One of WWFs current features is a section it calls Windows on the Wild (WOW!). Wow is its national environmental education program about biodiversity. The main WOW! page is nicely designed, and I don't give this praise lightly, trust me. It describes the program and hyperlinks to several related pages including a cute interactive map of U.S. ecoregions. You can click on a color-highlighted region to get more information. The only problem is, there isn't much more information and I found this a great disappointment. The same was true of a link to WWF's WOW! biodiversity magazine. You don't get much more than an advertisement for the time you take to make the jump. I much prefer WWF's informative news about its conservation plans and activities for tigers, the Galapagos, state of the climate, Latin America and the Caribbean. You can find some interesting information here about the subject and about what WWF is doing or wants to do.
The Ecomall site bills itself as "A Place to Help Save the Earth." It offers links to lists of resources and sometimes information on renewable energy, eco-investments, ecoquotes, activism, companies and products, ecorestaurants, communications and daily econews. I like some of the news links: CNN Environment Page, The Earth Times (newspaper), CNET Latest Environmental News, Yahoo Environmental News and Today's Greenlines. I won't embed the links here. You can go to Ecomall yourself.
Greenlines is from the GrassRoots Environment Effectiveness Network, a project of Defenders of Wildlife, a nonprofit organization. This
