Tampa Bay Y2K and Los
Angeles Y2K
American News Service
News Alert re 500 Days Event
A Year 2000 Better World
Celebration: The first global gathering of millennial organizers
(not directly related to Y2K-breakthrough but could be)
New book: AWAKENING:
The Upside of Y2K - 182 pages, $10.
A listserv on the particular
Y2K issues of institutions of higher education
Nancy Schimmel's
thoughts on grocery stores
New beginning to Y2K Breakthrough
Issues
Short discussion
of self-interest vs. community interest
Karen Nyhus' Y2K Letter
to Pacifica Radio (including her annotated
Y2K website links)
Get the AARP involved in Y2K
"Countdown
to Tomorrow" -- a free video aimed at businesses
Additions to Is It Real = new quotes and a
link to additional Y2K incidents.
Ed
Yourdon's response to President Clinton's mid-July Y2K speech
Model
cover letters to send to government officials by Roleigh Martin
An Open
Letter to State Legislators (and other politicians) by Victor
Porlier
Y2K and Our Big Bet
by Larry Shook (including urban
agriculture references and a powerful presentation of the
possibilities for decentralizing
energy and agriculture in the next year and half).
The Life and Death Clarity of Y2K
by Laura-Lea Cannon
Thoughts about Community Preparedness
Plans, Requirements, and Self-organization by Doug Carmichael,
Harlan Smith, Ian Wells and Tom Atlee
Y2K Awareness Days and Holidays
How to get a Mayor's or Governor's Proclamation about Y2K
Why Your Organization Should Educate
People about Y2K
Why
Are Year/2000 Projects so Difficult and Risky by Ed Yourdon
Additions to Global Y2K Awareness
Day AUG 19
Additions to Local Government Y2K
Resources
Among the new links this week are vendor compliance data at http://y2k.policyworks.gov/;
global Y2K data at Global
Millennium Foundation's site; a community site for Ottawa,
Canada; Alan
Lewis humorous, informative site; the zippy, ambitious Wild2K; and, perhaps most significantly,
the Citizens for
Y2K Recovery and their nascent Y2K Community Network.
Sample notices to engage others
in local Y2K community activities
Y2K Events, Conferences, etc.
Significant changes in the Y2K site's opening
page