CONTACT:
Glen Barry
President
Ecological Enterprises, Inc.
Phone: 608 288 0697
grbarry@students.wisc.edu
http://www.Eco-Portal.com/
MADISON, WI - May 15, 2000 - The Internet's first ecological search engine just got better. Ecological Enterprises, Inc., this week announces that their "Eco-Portal" at http://www.Eco-Portal.com/ now includes an omnibus search engine that allows users to search the entire content of thousands of the best environmental Internet sites. This is in addition to the ability to search more narrowly on specific environmental topics, which has been operational for some time.

The Eco-portal is the first of its kind ecological search tool. It indexes thousands of reviewed environmental Internet sources to allow full-text searching of their combined content. Sites have been carefully chosen for inclusion, and are constantly being added. This assures that pertinent, high quality information is returned as search results. You can extensively customize your search, and instantly jump to the pages that meet your search criteria.

The Eco-Portal now allows you to search all the sites at one time, or restrict your search to a specific topic for even better results. Portal searches are currently available for the topics of biodiversity, climate/energy, eco-news, forests, land use/sprawl, oceans, ozone layer, rainforests, temperate forests, and water. Sustainable business and safe food portals will be unveiled soon.

Glen Barry of Ecological Enterprises conceived and designed this "ecological search space". "The Eco-Portal is dedicated to making the Internet useful for the pursuit of ecological sustainability, and more than a home shopping experience," he explains. Environmental organizations are asked to link this important environmental resource; and they and the public are urged to use it for their work, and suggest useful additions. The service is free.

Ecological Enterprises, Inc. is a consulting company specializing in applying information technologies to conservation and environmental issues, and incubating new projects to do so. It was founded several years ago by Mr. Barry, and is run by students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Other innovative environmental sites by Mr. Barry include the "Climate Ark" at http://www.climateark.org/ , also by Ecological Enterprises, and "Gaia's Forest Conservation Archives & Portal", by Forests.org, Inc. at http://forests.org/ .

-- Anonymous, May 17, 2000

Answers

Ah Hallyx, my favorite turing test, How are the furry little creatures huddling in the cave? Good jam session?

Thought I'd screw with context and just respond to you here, rather than the appropriate thread. 1 watt for 7 sounds like a great deal! Better than anything your industry ever delivered. Its a better return on investment than most of my efforts produce. And it sure as hell is a lot better than the performance (perversion) delivered by Industrial agriculture.

We are as god's but have not got good at it,yet. 700 years of technology and energy demand growing at current rates would require that we capture all the energy radiating omnidierctionallly from the sun. I'd guess that such an operation looks like a black hole from a few 100.000 light years away.

There is so much slop in the system, such monumnental waste of time, energy, resouces, effort, work that we can probably cut energy use by 75=90% and not suffer if the proper groundwork is laid. On my list of things we do not need (in addition to 6 billion people) are fully 50% of the contemporary "recreations and entertainments", fully half the crap in the stores, etc. etc. If we'd redesign the remaining 50% that has real utililty so that it also had quality/efficiency another big savings can be had.

No easy outs offered. Everything pivots on demographics, as it has since we started walking out of Africa. "Are there enough of us?" "Are there too many of us?" These are eternal questions. And always normative, situational.

Are there enough of us to kill that big beast? other tribe? Lift this rock? push that elephant up the stairs? etc.

Are there too many of us to fit in this boat? Share the loot? Keep the urbus under 25,000 citizens? etc.

1 for 7 sounds good, 1 for 4 sounds better---can I expect the technology to get to 1/5th?

Got to go spin a room full of straw. It stores so much more compactly as Au.

(save your fingers Hal, I just like to tease you.)

dave

-- Anonymous, May 21, 2000