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The internet gives us unprecedented opportunities to stay abreast of latest sustainability developments world wide. This section of the site provides one click overviews of latest developments in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. As youi know the Google robots sort results with the most often accessed sites up top. Each site is continuously updated by Google. Check it out from time to time. You may be surprised at how much is going on in this patently unsustainable world.
For what it's worth here is how I make use of this terrific toolset. In a phrase, I treat it as my morning World Sustainability Newspaper. I grab a cup of coffee, click up the latest news and have a look at what has transpired on this small planet in the last 24 hours. And when in a given language group there may be no current group, it is always useful to have a look at the glocal web report on our topic in question.
Research notes: There is also an important option or two that you might wish to keep in mind, not least when your full web search turns up a couple of thousand or more references -- and this is the Search within results window that you will see at the bottom of each Google page. This allows you to do some creative narrowing. Let's take a Spanish search for example, which using our three keyword sets here will turn up on the order of some 2 million global references in Spanish (but incidentally as of this date there is nothing under the News rubric). We then narrow via the Search within Results box, zeroing in on sources that contain the words Peru and water: which yields a bit fewer than one hundred sources. Now this is something we can work with. (And for the rest it goes like this, irrespective of language and our narrowing keywords.)
For the hardy, you might also check out the Google Groups discussions on SD, but recommended only if you are a fast scanner of lots of stuff that is more static than signals.
Note 2: The members of our informal consortium are invited to lend a hand to help us do a better job yet with this. Take a look at the search in your language/operating area. Can you help us do better? Good idea. Do it! After all it's for all of us who are devoted to this terrific concept.
This newsfeed organized through Google News calls up related items from the print press in English drawn from the web and covering more than four thousand news sources. Roughly 90% of the entries relate to our topic, with the items stocked for one month after appearing.
This web search looks for all web references to the phrase "developpement durable" over the last three months. It is pretty huge, awkward but if you look at the leading 50 or so items you will have a good feel for the date of play of sustainble development in France and in other French language countries.
This engine searches the web for the last three months for the keywords "nachhaltige Entwicklung".
This engine searches the web for references over the last three months to "sviluppo sostenibile" and "sviluppo durabile".
This search looks for dessarrollo-sostenible or desarrollo-sostentable or dessarrollo-durable. Though once again putatively limited to items appearing in the last three months, it is huge (See Research Hints above).
This search races through all the communications logged in Google Groups containing our key phrase. Quite a hodge podge, but nonetheless food for the thoughtful.
This search identifies more than 3000 books, articles, and reports on our topic. The database is fully searchable.
Note 1: You have one click access to rough machine 'translations' of several of these language groups into 'English'. Used with wit and energy they can be very helpful. But please do have a quick look at out Translation Help page here before you do.
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