Online publications

Better World.  Online publication "for building a better world"

- Better World 'Zine (BWZ).  "The Better World" online magazine

NI Global Issues for Learners of English.  New Internationalist online magazine that brings global issues to your classroom

OneWorld.net.  Online magazine on the world development issues

Appropriate technology (適正技術) - Practical applications of natural energies

足利工業大学, 機械工学科, 牛山泉研究室.　社会のニーズに応える自然エネルギーの実用化

エコロジーオンライン, 「エコロジカルな衣食住をもとめて」, ペットボトルが太陽熱温水器に変わる!

麗澤瑞浪中学高等学校, 「それいけエコロジー」.

Hydraulic Ram Collector.  "Hydraulic water rams are an inexpensive, creative way to pump water."

National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT).  "Championing sustainable technologies and community-based approaches that protect natural resources and assist people, especially the economically disadvantaged, in becoming more self-reliant"

Ever thought of what growth, progress and development really are?

Affluenza on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), USA.  "one-hour television special that explores the high social and environmental costs of materialism and overconsumption . . . . [G]et an Affluenza diagnosis and check out resources for treatment."

Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University, Canada.   "Sustaining communities through cooperation and partnership"

E. F. Schumacher Society.  Named after E. F. Schumacher, the author of Small Is Beautiful, "the Society initiates practical measures that lead to community revitalization and further the transition toward an economically and ecologically sustainable society"

Global Ideas Bank.  Your ideas are wanted!  Awards for most socially innovative ideas and projects too!

Redefining Progress.  Non-profit thinktank that promotes redefinition of growth and presents 'Genuine Progress Indicator' as an alternative index to GDP

For balanced views on development and international assistance

Developing World.  「地域開発・国際協力メーリングリスト　メールマガジン」

Bits and pieces

Chun, J. (1998, Jan.). Happiness is...: We're getting richer, but we're not getting happier. Entrepreneur magazine.  (at Entrepreneur.com)

Oswald, A. (1999, Dec.). A non-technical introduction to the economics of happiness (pdf file).  (at University of Warwick, UK)