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© Kenneth Friedman

With the abundance of excellent search engines these days and the overabundance of information on the web in general, it's hard to find new sites that I don't expect you to find yourself. Then again, I'm supposed to assume you're nuts enough to to sit around surfing for the same environmental sites I run into. I don't think so. Here are some of my latest finds.

Back in '94, I began trying to keep lists of enviornmental web sites. It was easy because there were so few. Fast forward a year or two and I soon fell behind people who had no lives--they spent all their time making lists. In addition, Yahoo was born. Add a new web site collector to the lists of good collections: The Journalist's Toolbox environmental links. Although the site is meant to help journalists, anyone else can find some good links here as well. It might be worth bookmarking or adding to your favorites list.

In a past article, I wrote about scientists' worries about the effect of sonar tests on whales. Since then new sites have popped up. Do your own Google search for "whales and sonar." But as if whales don't face enough trouble from whalers, fishing nets, pollution and sonar, now they may be suffering from starvation and poisoning.

In Toronto, The Green Tourism Association has issued "the world's first known urban green tourism guide book and companion green map, The OTHER Guide to Toronto: Opening the Door to Green Tourism, about the city's 20,000 acres of greenspace. The book covers community gardens, inner-city trails, streams, marsh wetlands, and 200-year-old graveyards. The book calls these green places "a city within the city." The non-profit Green Tourism Association works with businesses, community organizations, government agencies, and individuals to develop Toronto's urban green tourism industry. (The OTHER Guide to Toronto: Opening the Door to Green Tourism ISBN: 0968760104 $16.95 Cdn / $12.50 US, 216 pgs / 10 illustrations / 54 photos / 8 maps.)

A site with nothing to do with environment but one that is interesting in an environmental way, The Carvings of New York treats you to, well, carvings on buildings, without you having to strain your neck to look up--or buy a plane ticket to get there.

Far from urban Toronto and New York, other people are worrying about Invasive Species in Sonoran Desert Riparian Ecosystems. Here's a page with a write-up but no title.

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