Financial, tax, and business
Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth
Michigan Chamber of Commerce
Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce
MI Economic Development and Travel
MI Small Biz & Tech Development Center
Grand Rapids Business Journal
Rapid Growth GR
West Michigan Business Update
Michigan property database
National Association for the Self-Employed
Entrepreneur.com
WSJ Startup Journal has franchising report
National Tax Association
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
Tax News has foreign info.
The Corporate Library
Corporate Board Member
Corporate Crime Reporter
Financial & tax frauds exposed
Bob Jensen's accounting web site
Brint's BizTech network
E-Commerce Times
Fortune Small Business
BusinessWeek
Forbes Best of the Web
Collaborative Efforts, Projects & Challenges
Slashdot article tells how NASA will crowdsource pictures taken on Mars
SeattlePI blog tells about another Martian crowdsourcing initiative from NASA
TechCrunch article about IdeaScale We're gonna need tools (when we crowdsource a Mars mission)
Wired article about future of monetary payment methods We will have to solicit donations and pledges (to fund the mission)
Crowdsourcing a Mars mission Get there together (or not)
Chad Rea has good suggestions and ideas (that he will share)
MarsDrive allows supporters to contribute their efforts.
new mars is part of the Mars Society.
Cambrian House does crowdsourcing.
InnoCentive
Red Lodge Clearinghouse enables natural resource collaboration
Masie's Learning CONSORTIUM
Science
Science Blogs
Science Daily
SciTech (& Business & Arts) Daily Review
Nature science update
New Scientist
Scientific American
Popular Science
Science Magazine
Discover Magazine
Wired
PC Magazine
Corante's technology news
National Science Foundation
Edge Foundation
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Encyclopedia of Life a collaborative biodiversity database
PaleoNet
The Paleontology Portal
California Earthquake Forecast Sooner or later ...
MakerBot
Industries calling Cory Doctorow
Print buildings (on the moon?)
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Astronomy board with a class, links to LearnOutLoud
James Oberg's space news
Space Politics
NASA Watch
Space Policy Institute
Houston Chron; we have a problem
Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans
NYT; Lets go to Mars!
New rocket technology. A new hope?
more from space.com
IEEE Special Report: Why Mars, Why now? Better read Bill Stone's article (and google his TED talk)
Bill Stone's expedition seeking investors
Oil/energy industry
Energy policy is set at Dept. of Interior
Overview of the 2005 Energy Policy Act. It took 4 years to finalize.
another energy bill started in '07. Special interests concerns: renewable biofuel requirements and CAFE mileage standards.
search The Hill for stories about energy
Yucca Mt. suitable for nuclear waste?
Yucca Mt. not an option, commission appointed
Harry Reid says, "This will not happen while I'm the Senate Majority Leader"
Harry Reid vs Yucca Mountain
Harry Reid lost his role as Majority Leader; Yucca Mt. environmental report finally released
Interesting recent off shore discovery
Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update
Bloomberg's current energy prices
Oil & Gas Investor
Energy futures market
Oil & Gas Journal
WorldOil
Platts
Cambridge Energy Research Associates
The Oil Drum discusses peak oil
Wall Street Journal interviews Wayland teacher about ‘peak oil’
WSJ debates ‘peak oil’
Yergin summarizes the oil industry in 2011
major recent shale o&g discovery in OH
Michigan oil & gas info
Michigan oil & gas online data
Grand Rapids Co. discovers oil
Covenant oil field geology
Illinois oil & gas info
Illinois shale o&g prospects
Illinois fracking political delay in 2014
That Illinois DNR report. Drill Logs available?
North Dakota oil & gas info
Recent Atlantic article; frac for oil
fracking chemicals didn't taint water
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: pro-drilling
ANWR: anti-drilling
The Washington Post opposes drilling in ANWR
USA Today supports exploring for oil in ANWR
UConn's special report presents both sides
The NY Times treks through ANWR
Arctic environment
Arctic Environmental Protection
NOAA Arctic info
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
An article from Dec. 2015 on drilling.An article from Dec. 2015 on drilling.
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look up that controversial issue
Local environment
W. MI Environmental Action Council
Michigan Land Use Institute
MSU Land Policy Institute
Heart of the Lakes Land Conservation
MI Center for Geographic Information
Michigan prairies
Michigan Clean Water Corps
Great Lakes Info Network links to http://www.great-lakes.net/lakes/michigan.html
The Lower Grand River Watershed
USGS Grand River data
EPA Muskegon Lake Area of Concern
Kalamazoo River Superfund Site
Save the Wild UP wants to stop proposed metallic sulfide mining.
National environment
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has this statement regarding the uncontrolled flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP's response to the oil spill
recent NYT article about BP drilling in Alaska
Environmental Working Group story about the increase in mining claims threatens National Parks.
Global environment
Global Business Network links to the DoD's abrupt climate change report
The Pew Oceans Commission's report
New ocean commission grades policies
Think tanks & organizations
Council on Foreign Relations
The Wilson Center
RAND has put together a Terrorism Incident Database
American Enterprise Institute
AEI Center for Regulatory and Market Studies
Brookings Institution and their Great Lakes states Economic Initiative
Tax Policy Center
National Taxpayers Union
Acton Institute has a blog
Cato Institute includes a column about Grand Rapids and jobs
Manhattan Institute
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Center for Democracy and Technology
Electronic Privacy Information Center and their links to privacy tools.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defense
Liberal media does investigative journalism, humorous security risk revealed at Iowa casino!
FindLaw's terrorism section has a lot of information and also includes the 9/11 report
Defense Strategy Review Page
NYPD's radicalization report
MilitaryCity.com map with military forces in the Middle East.
GlobalSecurity.org
Center for Defense Information
Federation of American Scientists
Center For Strategic & International Studies
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
multi-expert counterterrorism blog
Threatswatch.org daily briefings
Arms Control Association
Jane's Information
Parameters US Army's Journal
National Security Archive
DEBKAfile
Future Conflict Studies
DARPA
Lawrence Livermore Lab
U.S. Department of Defense news
DHS Daily Infrastructure Report
Government
Defense Department's Defend America news from the front
Department of Homeland Security
Federal Consumer Information Center
DoD Data & Analysis Center
Department Of Energy
State Department
White House's tech issues
Intelligence Community
MI crime rates. An estimated 17,034 persons were murdered nationwide in 2006,
an increase of 1.8 percent from the 2005 estimate, which increased 3.4 percent from the 2004 figure.
US Debt Reports The National Debt is in the headlines these days
Congressional Budget Office
Social Security Administration
Federal Trade Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
House Committee on Financial Services
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
House Budget Committee
Joint Committee on Taxation
searchable database of federal government spending
THOMAS Congressional Information
Small Business Admin has a blog
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
USGS
US Patent Office
Government Computer News
FCW IT
Data dot gov
MI Dept. of IT
Michigan Sec. of State's Voter Info Center
United Nations
UN Security Council
European Institute
Politics
Real Clear Politics has columns, magazine articles, and web pieces.
US News & World Report's Bulletin
Congressional newspaper: The Hill
Want to read the Senate's health care reform bill?
Annenberg Political Fact Check
The Center for Public Integrity and their Great Lakes public health report
The Concord Coalition
Carnegie Council article on internet politics.
Iowa Election Markets
Michigan Messenger
Citizens Research Council of Michigan
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
The Center for Michigan
Report of the Emergency Financial Advisory Panel: Michigan’s Defining Moment
Dome magazine
Can Detroit learn from GR?
Education Centers etc.
Calvin College's January Series is simulcast online.
Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute
Vanderbilt University's eLab
Knowledge at Wharton
MIT's government information project
MIT's OpenCourseWare course materials for self-study
MIT's Technology Review
World Association of International Studies
Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Harvard Business School
Princeton's interactive map of the Middle East
YaleGlobal Online
U of M Digital Library
U of M gov't documents
MSU Criminal Justice reference page
LSU Libraries
U of Wisconsin's Internet Scout Project
other online classes
free computer books
Research articles & journals, databases
Stanford's HighWire lists journals
Cornell's arXiv open access to scientific e-prints
CompletePlanet's searchable databases
Law
U of Pittsburgh's JURIST
Stanford Law's Center for Internet and Society
Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
U of Denver's Advanced Legal Research
Legal Information Institute
FindLaw
lexisONE
'Lectric Law Library
Nolo legal self-help
GigaLaw Internet law
Law Library of Congress
Tech Law Journal
Electronic Discovery resources
Michigan Law Library's Laws by Category
Michigan Lawyers Weekly
MI legal links
GR 61st District Court
Kent Co. 17th Circuit Court
Legal Affairs also hosts the How Appealing blog
Religion
Words to remember
Facing fear
Gospelcom
Christianity Today
BeliefNet
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Institute for Global Engagement
The Arts & History
ArtsJournal
Art Daily
Art News
Essential Vermeer
EDSITEment for the classroom.
HyperHistory Online
The History Net
Hanover Historical Texts Project
Michigan's Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
WWI
After WW2 pictures
Sports
Division II Women's Basketball
Cornerstone University Women's Basketball
2014 Winter Olympics
Going for a bike ride
Book talk
Cory Doctorow's blog
What else is on Cory Doctorow's mind (at Boing Boing)
About Philip K. Dick
Scott Timberg's blog has that series about PKD
An excerpt of Game Change concerning John Edwards
Book reviews
Library Journal
Archive.org has open content
OpenLibrary also has open content
Other lists of links
Law and technology resources
Time's Best Websites 2011