Global Communities / Resource Networks
Sites that provide mutliple collaborative project ideas
Global - Collaborative Projects
Worlds largest non-profit global network that enable teachers and youth to use the Internet and other technologies to collabortae on projects that enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
Project Ideas
Actual projects that can be joined
Collaborative project site
This buying guide features articles on fuel-efficient cars, alternative fuels and new technologies (such as biodiesel, electric, and compressed natural gas), hybrid vehicles, improving gas mileage (covering "hypermilers," who try to beat the EPA average fuel economy ratings), and oil and gas prices. From Edmunds, producers of consumer automotive information.
Special feature from 2008 concerning "recent runup in global food commodity prices [which] reflects both long-term trends and short-term events." Topics including the Consumer Price Index, food insecurity, agricultural supply and demand, and other economic and agricultural aspects of the increases. From the Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).