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Moon
Time
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Science & Astronomy
Arts
Human Interest & Environment
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Moon
www.crescentmoonwatch.org
Scanning the sky for the new Crescent Moon
www.lpi.usra.edu/research/cla
Lunar & Planetary Institutes Consolidated Lunar Atlas
aa.usno.navy.mil
Sun and Moon rise and set times, Moon phases, eclipses, seasons, positions
of solar system objects, and other data.
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-earthmoon.html
NASA photo gallery archive various missions to the Moon.
www.moonsighting.com
Moonsighting, Ramadan, Eid and astronomy for Islam.
home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon
Keith's Moon Page: facts, phases, photos and folklore.
www.mreclipse.com
Fred Espenaks Ultimate Eclipse Resource
www.astrocal.co.uk
Follow the Sun and Moon's daily movements with this full colour wall chart.
www.predictweather.com
Ken Ring's Home of Long Range Weather: predictions that have been unusually
generated only by calculating the orbits of the Moon.
Time
www.longplayer.org
Longplayer, a 1000 year long piece of music which started to play on the
01.01.2000 and will continue without repetition, until the 31.12.2999.
www.longnow.org
The Clock of The Long Now, providing counterpoint to todays "faster/cheaper"
mind set and promoting "slower/better" thinking for the next
10,000 years.
www.digitalsouls.com/2001/Brian_Eno_Big_Here.html
The Long Now by Brian Eno, part of the Long Now Foundation's series of
Seminars About Long Term Thinking.
www.inpraiseofslow.com
Carl Honoré (Author "In Praise of Slow") continues his
quest for slowness around the globe.
www.john-cage.halberstadt.de
A 639-year long performance of John Cages organ piece "Organ2/ASLSP:
As Slow As Possible".
www.slowfood.com
Slow Food, promoting a slower way of living and protecting agricultural
biodiversity and traditional foods from the homogenisation of fast food
and fast living.
www.slowlondon.com
An invitation for us to start reclaiming time as a friend, because faster
isn't always better!
www.slowlab.net a laboratory for the advancement of slow design thinking and practice, envisioning environmental sustainability, social harmony and individual well-being as processes and products of good design
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Tides & Tidal Energy Projects
www.pol.ac.uk
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, world leaders in tidal prediciton.
www.severn-bore.co.uk
The Severn Bore tidal surge wave, one of Britain's few truly spectacular
natural phenomena
www.swarming.org.uk/recl.htm
Reclaim the Beach: like-minded Londoners reclaiming the Thames beaches
as valuable public leisure space
www.thames-explorer.org.uk
Thames Exporer Trust, working with the community towards a healthy future
for the river.
www.riverocean.org.uk
Dedicated to increasing awareness and encouraging care for our water environments,
because we all live downstream. Anglo-French LowTide Festival every May
for beachcombers, mudlarkers & environmentalists. Great lunar calendars.
www.evans-engineering.co.uk
Evans Engineering, promoting the practical use of small scale waterpower.
www.thehobb.tv/wow
World of Water, a charity campaigning for clean water and better water
education and awareness about our beautiful blue planet. Also a great
resource of water-related projects around the globe. Join the campaign!
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Science & Astronomy
www.rog.nmm.ac.uk
Royal Observatory Greenwich
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
Science Museum London
www.britastro.org/main
British Astronomical Association
www.dark-skies.org
Campaign against inefficient lighting in order to preserve the beauty
of the night sky.
www.heavens-above.com
Find out your locations longitude and latitude, as well as other
info on space flight and astronomy.
www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight
BBCs Sky at Night with Sir Patrick Moore
www.woodenbooks.com
John Martineau's Mathemagical Ancient Wizdom series, including "Sun,
Moon & Earth" by Robin Heath.
Arts
www.platformlondon.org/index.htm
Promoting creative processes of democratic engagement to advance social
and ecological justice.
www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/eliasson
The Weather Project, Olafur Eliassons Turbine Hall installation
at the Tate Modern, 2003-2004.
www.solarpyramid.co.uk
The Solar Pyramid, landmark centrepiece for Poolsbrook Country Park near
Sheffield, UK.
www.1giantleap.tv
Sound, image and spoken word from some of the world's most happening musicians,
authors, scientists and thinkers exploring 'The Unity in the Diversity'.
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Human Interest & Environment
www.tairona.org
Gonawindu Tayrona Organization: learn more about the Kogi, Arhuaco, and
Wiwa of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the threats to their environment.
www.taironatrust.org
Tayrona Heritage Trust: website created in part by BBC producer Alan Ereira
who made a documentary with the Kogi in 1990, "From The Heart of
The World".
www.clubofbudapest.org
Club of Budapest, an independent organisation working toward a better
future for all, founded by Prof Dr Ervin Laszlo.
www.positivenews.org.uk
Positive News reports on issues rarely covered by the mainstream media
and promotes the many enterprises that are working for a sustainable future.
www.etheco.com
A free ethical and eco-friendly shopping engine that takes the effort
out of ethical living.
www.resurgence.org
Online forum for ecological and spiritual thinking.
www.entheosmagazine.com
An online forum for enthusiasm.
www.greenspec.co.uk
Helping you to design and build better buildings.
www.greenfutures.org.uk
News, information and debate on sustainable development, founded by Jonathan
Porritt.
www.lsx.org.uk
London Sustainability Exchange - providing organisations and networks
of individuals with the motivation, knowledge, and connections they need
to put sustainability into practice.
www.mountain-trust.org
The Mountain Trust - working to improve the lives of people in some of the hardest hit parts of Nepal - the third poorest country on the planet.
www.cambridge-music-project.org
Cambridge Music Project - an innovative and not-for-profit organisation working to extend stakeholdings to talented and currently disconnected young people in British society.
www.itsnotwhatyouthink.org
A useful reference for socially, environmentally and ethically responsible living.
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