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Y2K Web Links
INDEX
Favorite Y2K-breakthrough sites
Community preparedness sites
Local Y2K community groups sites
Community resources sites
Sites about community sustainability,
self-reliance and resilience
Personal preparedness sites
Humor and songs
General Y2K sites
Y2K Email update services
Community prep/sustainability listservs
Higher education Y2K listserv
Online discussion groups
The sites I've found that are
most relevant to Y2K breakthrough issues are:
Wild2K, produced by NewHeavenNewEarth is an excellent
general-Y2K-from-a-transformational-perspective site. Lots of
hot Y2K news and quotes, contact information, links, discussions,
preparation lists and resources, as well as intro descriptions
of Y2K. They want people to help one another pass through this
challenging situation in a calm, kind, informed, mutually-supportive
fashion. (I am encouraging all my friends and contacts to
use Wild2K's
"daily picks" as a primary news service for Y2K
developments, since they're much more qualified than I am
to provide that service. This co-intelligence Y2K-breakthrough
site will be focusing increasingly on transformational issues.)
Robert Theobald's
website on community resilience.
The Institute
of Noetic Sciences has an excellent overview of Y2K and people's
responses to it, including the transformational response (which
we share).
A
lengthy, thorough analysis of "the Y2K movement"
that takes seriously the task of midwifing a new, sustainable
post-Y2K civilization is on Laurence
Victor's site.
For interesting analysis of the psychological and social dynamics
and some intense scenarios check out scenario-spinner Douglass
Carmichael's site -- especially his analysis
of Y2K scenarios. You can request Doug Carmichael's insightful,
free Y2K weekly news-and-thinkletter by
email.
Y2KO: the Year
2000 Computer Crash -- Knock Out for Industrial Society Or Merely
a Global Depression? is a long progressive/environmental
Y2K article by Mark Robinowitz peppered with links and quotes.
One of my favorite socially responsible sites is that of Computer Professionals
for Social Responsibility. They are recruiting programmers
for small businesses and non-profits and trying to assume real
responsibility for this side-effect of their profession. Check
out their scenario for the utility industry.
David Sunfellow just completed the nation's first Y2K grassroots
community preparedness survey. The complete report can be found
at http://www.nhne.com/y2kgrassrootssurvey/index.html.
The best community preparedness-oriented
sites
The
Millennium Salon is a great, really easy to use information
resource where visitors can get questions answered quickly by
experts (and each other) and find links to many useful things
they will need to know and obtain. The site is divided into the
incredible tools
you can use and the unique participatory millennium
forum. Click here
for some introductory notes about the salon (thanks to Cynthia
Beal).
Excellent national Y2K community organizing work is being done
on The Cassandra
Project site. If you want to start or be part of a community
Y2K group, here's were to network. Plus there are stories of
people on the front lines of community Y2K work and tons of information
on Y2K and preparedness.
Y2K Community provides
tools, articles and links for Y2K community-builders worldwide.
Includes a group process page the Co-Intelligence Institute is
helping build. A unique site.
Coalition 2000 will
profile the efforts of our growing number of member organizations
and other initiatives to provide the most trustworthy and credible
information on Y2K-related issues.
The excellent 120 page Utne Reader Y2K
Citizens Action Guide is available on line free or in a lovely
orange booklet for purchase ($4.95 each at bookstores or 50 copies
for $57.50 ppd. from Utne)
Bruce Beach's Y2K Personal Preparedness site offers a list of
over 140 Survival Communities
and Y2K Preparedness Groups and a brief statement of what
he knows about them (or what they say about themselves). Beach
support the efforts of those wanting to stay in cities and
those wanting to leave -- as long as they are building community
in the process -- and offers what help he can in other parts
of his site.
Citizens for Y2K Recovery
is a grassroots membership organization attempting to provide
a rallying point for Y2K efforts in communities, and "to
minimize the wasteful reinventing process that is happening in
a fragmented way all across this country." They want to
establish a nation-wide Y2K Community Network which develops
and applies shared, effective, standardized tools for community
organizing and preparedness.
Cynthia Beal runs a natural grocery in Eugene, Oregon, and a
very informative and homey
Y2K site oriented to small businesses and communities.
For community preparedness from a Unitarian minister's viewpoint,
see Rev. Dacia Reid's Y2K site.
Two evangelical Christian sites that stress community service
as well as evangelism in the coming hard times are: http://www.hebronministries.org/samaritan2000.htm
and http://www.christiany2k.com/action.shtml.
For personal/family preparedness, see below.
Local Y2K community preparation
group sites
Some Y2K "community" sites are more local survivalist
networks than community preparedness sites. And not all genuine
community groups have web sites (although some have email addresses
which can be found on The
Cassandra Project site.). Here are some of the genuine community
preparedness web sites I find interesting. Each of them offers
a somewhat different approach to organizing local community involvement
in preparing for Y2K. Study them for inspiration or as models
for your own community work.
Lowell, MA offers
some broadly useful documents on their site:
Alaska
Tucson, AZ
San Diego, CA
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Oakland, CA
Napa Valley, CA
Sonoma County, CA
Washington, DC
Tampa Bay FL
Kauai, HI
Chicago, IL
Missoula,
MT
New York, NY
Medford, OR
Rhode Island
Texas
Ogden, UT
Fairfax, VA
Western Washington State
Y2K Community Project site affiliated with the Whidbey Island
Institute. Includes a bulletin board.
Newport, OR
Newport shows how a community can get a Y2K web page up and
running overnight by using another page (like Napa Valley's)
as the informational background and then starting immediately
to post local Y2K news and actions in the foreground. This is
part of Newport's effort to get
Y2K groups going in their entire county -- a brilliant, readily
expandable, exportable model.
Montgomery
County, TX
This preparedness site follows the same pattern as Newport's,
except they're a county with links wherever there are active
groups which encourages visitors to join or start a preparedness
group in their county, and referring them to the Cassandra Project
site for guidance. Great bottom-up organizing! (if interested,
you can find a listing of all Texas
counties)
Ottawa, Canada
British Columbia
We have a regular column which runs in 41 papers, the BC Community
Readiness Survey, and we are home to the Millennium Care, our
local readiness group. We also host the e-mail list: BC Y2K
South African Year 2000 Decision
Support Centre
Some other sites useful to communities
preparing for Y2K-breakthrough:
Community
impact of the Year 2000 problem
Vendor compliance information is available from http://y2k.policyworks.gov/
Sites having to do with government and politics:
For information on what the role of government should be in
reducing Y2K risks, check these sites:
http://www.erols.com/steve451/whatgov.htm#What
(local government)
http://www.erols.com/steve451/nation.htm
(overall)
http://www.scotsystems.com/harlany2k.htmlhttp://www.year2000.unt.edu/kappelma/Gov-y2k.htm
http://www.uuy2k.org/uuy2k/gore-04-24-98.htm
Info Tech Assn of
America testimony to Congress 5/7/98
For a guide to official federal Y2K web sites, see
http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/mks/yr2000/us.htm
To see the Republican's estimate of the federal government agencies'
Y2K compliance see House Majority Leader Dick Armey's site: http://freedom.house.gov/y2k/grades/grades.asp
For official state and county Y2K web sites, see
http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/mks/yr2000/state.htm
For information on global Y2K status, check the Global
Millennium Foundation's site.
Click here for other Y2K links
of transformational or community interest
To get a sense of what's needed by small businesses and organizations
who want to try getting their computer systems ready for Y2K,
check out http://www.computerpro.com/~phystad/csy2kfaq.html
or the Small Business Administration web site at http://www.sba.gov/y2k/
Sites that can help you understand
more about community sustainability, self-reliance and resilience:
www.gaia.org deals with
the global eco-village network of conscious eco-living experiments
around the world. People interested in intentional communities
will find the Fellowship of Intentional
Communities site fascinating; it, too, has great links to
sustainability subjects. John
Curl provides compelling history about how people have worked
together for mutual aid, including an inspiring story of Oakland,
CA, in the 1930s ("Living in the UXA"). And the Simple Living Network provides
"tools and living examples for those who are serious about
learning to live a more conscious, simple, healthy and restorative
lifestyle."
TraNet, In Context, Grassroots
Economic Organizing, and Yes!
are all magazines that provide inspiring, educational and practical
articles about building a sustainable, humane, positive future.
Many useful articles are on-line, and they can lead you to more
resources. Listserv archives are another good source of information.
Check out the Ecobalance
archives or some of the
other archives compiled by Communications for a Sustainable
Future.
Among my favorite sites which offer link-lists to other community
and sustainability websites are Empowerment
Resources, People
in Action for a Better World, One
Earth, Motherheart
(especially the community section), Sustainable
Development and Communications
for a Sustainable Future (which has a permaculture
and sustainable living page and a self-sufficient
sustainable village page, neither of which are easily accessible
from the home page). Many of these provide interesting online
articles, as well as links. The
Alliance for a Paving Moratorium provides ideas to revive
the Y2K economy, including depaving many roads for food gardens,
pedal-power transport, and restoration of local food supply/distribution
for "sustainable village economics."
Resilient Communities
Project: "We believe that there are large numbers of
folks in the U.S., Canada, Australia and other parts of the world
who are looking for new ways to talk with each other about things
that matter -- and to begin to make changes in our lives."
Among the community-building organizations with web sites, you
might find The Institute for Local
Self-Reliance and The Center
for Neighborhood Technology interesting. Some others without
web sites are listed on the "community-building
organizations" page of this site.
Meg Wheatley articles.
For years, Meg Wheatley has been studying and writing about systems
thinking, technology, and human behavior in organizations and
in times of crisis. In Y2K she sees many of the issues that had
engaged her in her earlier work.
Y2K-relevant Sustainable Technologies
Personal Y2K Preparedness
Of all the sites on Y2K personal/family preparedness, I'd
recommend a great
site "just for women," which includes recommendations
on how to get to know your neighbors. It provides welcome relief
from the Rambo-esque tenor of so many survivalist sites. Although
it has little to say about community preparedness, as such, it
is a superlative site for accessible -- even delightful -- Y2K
information and places personal preparedness in a community context.
Another excellent preparedness site is Scott
Olmstead's, with extensive links to other preparedness sites.
He also describes the psychological stages people go through
with Y2K and debunks some common misconceptions that prevent
people from taking in the reality of the problem.
There's another
good, quiet personal/family preparedness site, located in
Dallas TX. And in San Deigo CA there's Conniry's
Native Skills & Wilderness School, who wants to train
people to survive Y2K.
The excellent 120 page Utne Reader Y2K
Citizens Action Guide is available on line free or in a lovely
orange booklet for purchase ($4.95 each at bookstores or 50 copies
for $57.50 ppd. from Utne)
How the Year 2000 Problem Impacts
Children By William M. Ulrich
Year2000kids.org:
sunflower growing project, song and stories for kids. Resources
for parents and teachers. Includes a calm, positive explanation
of Y2K written for kids.
Jay Earley's
excellent, well-organized Y2K site on social, spiritual, emotional
and personal aspects includes Y2K workshops and classes in the
Bay Area and over the internet.
See also Y2K Psychological Preparedness
Websites
Want to know if your electronic equipment is Y2K compliant?
Brand new web site supposedly surveyed over 1000 companies, asking
for reports on their product lines: http://y2kbase.com
The US
Government's General Services Agency (GSA) now has community
Y2K site: "This site serves to help the public evaluate
their Year 2000 (Y2K) readiness. The potential for Y2K computer
related disruptions to our daily lives is unknown. However, the
possibility of future Y2K related service disruptions make personal
and community planning important in order to minimize any impact
of the Y2K problem."
Y2K humor and songs
http://www.doit.state.ct.us/y2k/humor.htm
http://lowellonline.org/bna/y2k/related-links.html
my friend Nancy Schimmel's Y2K
songs
http://members.aol.com/PanicYr00/SongContext.html
Gilligan
Meets Y2K, a clear Y2K summation, to the Gilligan's Island
theme
Lloyd Ferris Song
Upbeat general sites on Y2K
Alan Lewis'
Y2K Pages: Y2-KO or Y2-OK? - A fascinating, informative and
delightful site, done with clarity and humor. An excellent source
of remarkable quotes.
If you're looking for zippy graphics in a socially-conscious
Y2K site that aims to identify the "best of the best"
in Y2K resources, check out Wild2K.
Y2K Hysteria
Free Y2K Grass Roots
Action Plan
Registry site
helping interested individuals to find like minded folks in their
geographical area
Daily links to
and intelligent summaries of 6-10 top
news stories about Y2K. Archived. For more information write
Larry Sanger at sanger@cruxnet.com.
For general education on Y2K and how it is being addressed,
there are scores of sites. Some of the more popular and famous
are:
The sponsors of Y2Ktoday
say they will have a daily newsfeed of around 500 stories created
by their own team of writers and newswire reports from around
the world. "The site is expected to be the most comprehensive
repository of Y2K information as the potential crisis unfolds
in the months ahead. In addition, the site will draw on many
of the world's leading experts to provide technology solutions
to the problem, help communities and people with contingency
planning, and advise on how lessons learned can be applied for
the future."
SF Bay
2000 User Group Awareness information page. Very good
list of articles and links.
An annotated index of dozens of Year 2000 sites
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roleigh_martin/y2klinks.htm
A comprehensive list of links for those actually trying to solve
the technical Y2K computer problem
http://pw1.netcom.com/~ggirod/bookmark.html
Netscape's
official Y2K page with links to sites dealing with the federal
government; state and local government; international; small
business; and consumer issues
Ed Yardeni, Chief Economist, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell
http://www.yardeni.com/cyber.html
yardeni.com/y2kbook.html#B4
is an excellent 86 page on-line text book re Y2K
Ed Yourdon, Author, Time Bomb 2000 - Updates on book & Discussion
Groups
http://www.yourdon.com/index.htm
Peter de Jager, World renown Year 2000 Expert
http://www.year2000.com/
has an excellent Y2K online clipping service at
http://www.year2000.com/articles
Gary North
http://www.garynorth.com
You might not like his editorializing, but his up-date-articles
and documents are exceptional. He has a survivalist, Christian
orientation. Discussion groups for many topics. Among Y2K sites,
I've seen more references to his site than to anyone else's.
Westergaard, up-to-date news on banking, stockmarket, utilities,
etc
http://www.y2ktimebomb.com
C.K. HOUSTON: Impact on Infrastructure
Embedded Systems - transportation, utilities, telecoms, manufacturing
http://www.techstocks.com/~wsapi/investor/Subject-18990
Y2K Impact on Stock Market & Society
http://www.techstocks.com/~wsapi/investor/Subject-16203
Another investor site: http://www.y2kinvestor.com/intro.html
Health Care industry Y2K impact
http://www.rx2000.org
http://ww.russkelly.com
Has a number of unique features including a survey of experts
about how serious the Y2K problem is.
Other sites:
Y2K Users
Groups
http://www.survivey2k.com
Electric Utility Y2K site
http://www.erols.com/steve451/impact.htm
-- includes good papers on Y2K and government
http://www.coos.or.us/~signal/y2klinks.htm
Karen Nyhus has an excellent annotated
list of links, including many of the above.
Gordon's Y2K Sifter http://www.pond.net/~nodrog/sifter.html
- one person's intelligent attempt to pick the best pieces of
info about whether Y2K is a problem and how to prepare.
Y2K email updates
Wild2K has an annotated,
rated list of Y2K email mailing lists.
NewHeavenNewEarth (NHNE) --
the force behind wild2k
-- sends out regular updates to the members of its mailing list.
These updates contain Y2K-oriented news, interviews, special
reports, conference updates, preparation lists, links, and other
important Y2K information. They are particularly interested in
the personal growth/planetary transformation components of Y2K.
To subscribe to their mailing list, send a blank message to nhnelist-on@mail-list.com.
Past Y2K mailings are available on their website.
You can follow "the Y2K Weatherman" Dennis Elenberg
available at y2kwatch.com
or by subscribing to regular email updates: send mail to y2k-news-request@y2kwatch.com
with no subject and a single body line: subscribe. Reports are
coming out every few days.
A more technically-oriented service is available from de Jager
at his year2000.com. This
report comes out every few weeks.
Gary North evidently has a service for Y2K preparation of churches
you can subscribe to by email request to icetyler@juno.com.
You can request Doug Carmichael's insightful, free Y2K weekly
news-and-thinkletter by emailing doug@tmn.com.
Year 2000 Community Preparedness and Sustainability
Listservs
Here are two community preparedness listservs hosted by
Oregon Public Networking in Eugene, Oregon. These lists discuss
community preparedness issues resulting from potential century-date-change
(CDC) complications impacting the nationally and internationally
shared infrastructures of power, fuel, food, telecommunications,
currency, and community services through several means. There
has been quite a bit of traffic (30 messages/day in early June)
on the unmoderated one. Try them both and see which serves your
needs. They're free, of course.
UNMODERATED: HOW TO SUBSCRIBE to the Regional Preparedness
Listserv:
Send email To: listproc@efn.org
Message: subscribe year2000 [type your name in here] ----end
MODERATED: HOW TO SUBSCRIBE to the Northwest Year 2000
Regional Preparedness Listserv:
Send email To: listproc@efn.org
Message: subscribe y2kforum [type your name in here - no brackets]
Although the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
listserv is not specifically about community preparedness,
it often has information useful to people working with organizations
in their communities. To subscribe send a message to listserv@cpsr.org.
In the body of the message, write: subscribe cpsr-y2k yourfirstname
yourlastname
The Ecobalance
list (http://csf.Colorado.EDU/mail/ecobalance/)
is dedicated to the creation and maintenance of self-sufficient,
sustainable communities, in which people live in harmony with
each other and nature. You may want to review the Ecobalance
archives before subscribing. To subscribe to the list's current
individual messages, send the message:
message: subscribe ecobalance
to: requests@gaia.org
To receive each day's messages packaged in a digest, send
the message:
message: subscribe ecobalance digest
to: requests@gaia.org
Dozens
of other discussion lists are available on sustainability topics
A listserv on the particular Y2K
issues of institutions of higher education
Higher-ed-y2k is a subscription only list. Send a one line "subscribe
higher-ed-y2k" message to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu.
Send messages to the list at higher-ed-y2k@lists.stanford.edu.
Bill Bauriedel is the list administrator and he can be reached
at BillB@Stanford.EDU.
Online discussion groups
Wild2K has an annotated
and rated list of bulletin boards and discussion groups dealing
with Y2K. They also have their own.
The Global Ideas Bank
has an online
discussion group where people can discuss Y2K problems --
and mutual aid and other responses to it. People can rate each
other's contributions for their interest values.
Those interested in thinking together about how to rebuild after
2000 -- especially in creative, transformational ways -- may
enjoy the Beyond
2000 Discuss Board .
The Year2000 Citizen's Dialog
