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The Copyright Clearance Center developed Copyright Basics an educational video that promotes copyright awareness by explaining how it works. This animated video discusses U.S. copyright laws including material protected by copyright, the parameters of fair use, attribution, copyrighted material distribution, and more.
GeoCommons is a free, web-based service that allows you to create, customize and share interactive maps using your own data. Upload KML files, spreadsheets or utilize the vast amount of datasets already available on the website. The service is easy to use for anyone unfamiliar with more complicated mapping techniques.
Thursday, April 30th, the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy is hosting the Shaping the Energy Technology Transition workshop in the Santa Rita Room at the Texas Union. This workshop will discuss emerging energy technologies, measures to reduce the environmental and economic impact of a continuing dependence on carbon-based fuels, and policy options related to their adoption. Scheduled from 9-3:30, this workshop is open to the public.
The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities have partnered to create Chronicling America, a newspaper database that allows you to view newspaper pages from 10 different states and dating from 1880-1910. Chronicling America also includes a search directory with access to information about newspapers collected from as early as 1690.
PBS Video, now in beta, provides streaming video from such award-winning programs as Frontline, American Masters, Antique Roadshow and Nova. The video collection Be Green explores the environmental crisis and how we can work to reverse this course through policy, technology and ingenuity.
In 140 bytes or less, Twitter has moved into the social networking limelight. For those of us who are luddites, who just don’t get it, Lee LeFever has produced a brief instructional video that explains this micro-blogging quandary in Plain English. LeFever’s philosophy–if paper cutouts can do it, so can you.
LeFever’s video is also available on YouTube.
Create your own histories or chart the growth of a project using Timetoast, a free web-based software that generates interactive timelines that include pictures, links, descriptions, and comments. Users have already created timelines charting the the growth of the NASA space program, basketball sneaker technology, and the evolution of television.
The Green Energy Education Act, which passed in the house on April 22nd 2009 with a margin of 411-6 , will require the Department of Energy to partner with the National Science Foundation to award grants for undergraduate and graduate architecture and engineering programs in order to improve the energy efficiency of our nation’s buildings. Introduced by Congressman Mike McCaul (R-TX), the act will provide funding for the development of curricula, laboratory activities, training practicums, and design projects focusing on green buildings and green technologies. No funding amounts have been attached to the bill yet and it still needs to be passed by the Senate and signed into law by the President.
Read more from the American Society of Landscape Architect’s Advocacy Network and the American Institute of Architects.
Yesterday the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) along with participants from nations around the globe celebrated World Intellectual Property Day. This year’s focus on green innovation prompted a number of activities including legislative, initiatives, conferences and exhibitions in participating nations. In addition, the WIPO has published a special magazine issue that discusses topics in sustainability ranging from solar technology, efforts to eradicate hunger through agricultural innovation, and climate change legislation.
Click here for more information on World Intellectual Property Day.
iTunesU has created an Environment page devoted to programing that focuses on sustainable design, alternative energy, food sustainability, animal extinction, green business, global warming and more. With contributors including Yale, Cambridge, Open University, and Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, iTunesU provides a reliable resource for accurate information on the changing face of our environment.
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