June 2000 here's a list that John sent his sister in order to help her company getting started on the internet

Max Kisman's Critical Eye and Hand
Dutch designer Max Kisman (of VPRO & HotWired fame - to name just two of his projects) has been doodling again during the lesson! We stole his portraits of speakers and organisers to illuminate these web pages. Make sure to check out the MaxK Home Pages at the VPRO W3 site. He has more to offer!

Eindhoven Technical University
Check 'em out, those fanatics at The Eindhoven Technical University! On their world famous LAVA Forum WebSite they present interesting reactions on Doors 2.

Interactive Media Festival
Some of the Speakers of both Doors of Perception conferences and our prize-winning Doors of Perception 1 CDrom are also on the fancy WebSite of The Interactive Media Festival

Greenpeace International
www.greenpeace.org Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organisation whose goal is to ensure the ability of the earth to nurture life in all its diversity.

Internetwork, Inc.
www.in-media.com Payson Stevens, one of the speakers at Doors 3, is president of InterNetwork, Inc. (INI), California. InterNetwork's core mission is to further Earth awareness and the issues related to global change: "understanding the Earth System requires not only a knowledge of science, but an all-encompassing view of the world and how we humans have become a force of nature."

Rainforest Action Network
www.ran.org/ran Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organising, and non-violent direct action.

Whole Systems
newciv.org/worldtrans/whole.html This is a website that is devoted to the study of 'whole systems'. It offers pointers to books, people, periodicals, organisations, projects, models and tools, newsgroups, mailing lists, essays, and related websites.

Yahoo's environment and nature hotlist
www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature This is a good starting point for eco-explorers with lots of pointers to other sites.

Amazing Environmental Organisation Web Directory!
www.webdirectory.com Amazing Environmental Organisation Web Directory! is now one of the world's largest web site directories dedicated to providing a free service to the environmental community. It includes sites from over 100 countries.

ACM
info.acm.org ACM (founded in 1947) is an international scientific and educational organisation dedicated to advancing the art, science, engineering, and application of information technology, serving both professional and public interests by fostering the open interchange of information and by promoting the highest professional and ethical standards. Their Special Interest Group on Graphics (SIGGRAPH) is perhaps best known, but they cover a true multitude of disciplines related to computing. This site offers information about ACM Publications, Special Interest Groups, Conferences and Events, Chapters and local activities, etc.

City of Bits
www-mitpress.mit.edu/City_of_Bits/index.html Bill Mitchell (Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT) argues in his book City of Bits that the crucial issue before us is not one of putting in place the digital plumbing of telecommunications links and associated electronic appliances, nor even of producing content for electronic delivery, but rather one of creating electronically mediated environments for the kinds of lives that we want to lead. This website is a companion to the book.

Tom Ray's Tierra project
www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray Tom Ray's Tierra is an advanced platform for the study of the evolution of artificial organisms at the level of the genome. Tierra aims to provide an environment in which Darwinian evolution can proceed within a computer, without explicit direction or intervention from a human operator.

Howard Rheingold's resources for virtual communities
www.well.com/user/hlr/vircom/index.html Howard Rheingold, author of the book Virtual Communities, maintains a list of resources about virtual communities. It offers meta-sources, articles, papers, answers to frequently asked questions, information about places, communities and virtual reality.

HREF="http://newciv.org/GIB/index.html">newciv.org/GIB/index.html Hundreds of ideas for social innovation collected from all over the world by the non-profit charity Institute for Social Inventions, London, UK. You can rate how you like the ideas. The site also includes a number of published books on-line: The Book of Visions (1992), Social Innovations - a Compendium (1993), Best Ideas - A Compendium of Social Innovations (1995), Natural Death Handbook (1994), Before and After (1995).

The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog
www.well.net/mwec/home.html If you want to maintain independence in the era of large institutions and mass media, you are going to need good tools. Most of the tools and ideas we need for independence in the 1990s are different from anything we forecast a quarter of a century ago. The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog integrates the best tools from the past twenty-five years with the best tools for the next twenty-five years, from old Whole Earth Catalog standards such as land use, community-building, whole systems, and medical self-care to new resources such as electronic mail, ecotourism, and green investing.

The Utne Lens
www.utne.com The Utne Lens website is a companion to the Utne Reader magazine: "As the industrial era grinds and whimpers to a close and the information age begins to restructure society, change is felt in every area of human endeavour. In the same way that the industrial age gradually transformed almost every aspect of individual and community life, the information era redefines us. Our aim is to become a base camp on the Web for people interested in ideas and culture."

The World Game Institute
www.pacificrim.net/~wginwrep/WorldGame/WGI.html The WGI is a non-profit, non-partisan global research and education organisation founded in 1972 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Inspired by the pioneering insights and work of Buckminster Fuller, the Institute today is an officially sanctioned United Nations Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), whose mission is to provide the perspective and information needed to solve the critical problems facing global society as we enter the twenty-first century.

Bionomics Institute
csf.colorado.edu/ecolecon/index.html"> This includes a mailing list with discussions about ecological economics that features mailing lists, archives and downloadable essays.

Resource Renewal Institute
www.rri.org The RRI promotes Green Plans as the path to a sustainable environment and economy. Green Plans are dynamic programs by which all elements of society agree on long-term environmental goals and take responsibility for achieving them.

The First Festival of Independent Audio/Visual Arts Online
www.fivaonline.com/fivaE.html From their site: "It's not a trade show. It's not a conference. Nor a film festival. FIVA ONLINE 95 is a non-profit media arts festival -- the first of its kind -- online. The festival is a celebration of art. Many artists are exploring new forms of expression and finding new methods within the digital landscape. No entry fees, no parking problems, just the best digital art -- online."

Waxweb
bug.village.virginia.edu WAXweb is the hypermedia version of David Blair's feature-length independent film, "WAX or the Discovery of Television among the Bees" (85:00, 1991). It combines one of the largest hypermedia narrative databases on the Internet with an authoring interface which allows users to collaboratively add to the story.

ART+COM
www.artcom.de At the Doors 3 conference, Joachim Sauter will present ART+COM's TerraVision project. ART+COM is a Berlin-based studio and consultancy that Joachim co-founded. It is an interdisciplinary group concerned with the integration of computer technology, communication and design.

GALERIA VIRTUAL
www.iua.upf.es:80/~gvirtual "Virtual Gallery" is a project which combines art and science, co-ordinating new aesthetic motivations with high technology. The goal is to reach the production of new meanings, outside the limitations of what we know as reality, and

the perception and transforming capacity that we have of it.

ARC - The Interactive Media Festival
spark.com Arc, The Interactive Media Festival, makes a pilgrimage once a year to Los Angeles: "This year, we assembled a gallery of interactive art and projects that best represented interactive media in its most advanced and newest forms." The Doors of Perception 1 CD-Rom received an award there.