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August 29th, 2002

Growing Up Global
Resources

2002 World Summit News
http://www.un.org/events/wssd/
Follow the latest news at the UN’s official Web site for the World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002.

Development Data
http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr2003/
The World Bank, along with the IMF and WTO, promotes globalization by making loans to client countries. Its annual World Development Report is meant to facilitate international dialogue on sustainable development.

Environmental Portal
http://earthtrends.wri.org/
Maintained by the World Resources Institute (WRI), an environmental think tank, Earthtrends is an environmental information portal with many maps, databases and tables.

NOW: Earth Summit
http://www.pbs.org/now/science/unsummit.html
Join Bill Moyers for an in-depth analysis of the 2002 UN Earth Summit.

Sustainable Architecture
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/GreenAll.html
Learn how to lessen your impact on the earth at this directory of green architecture run by the library of the University of California, Berkeley.

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