What Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Cloning, Nanotechnology, High–Technology, and Related Technologies are missing

Collective Wisdom Initiative
Collective Wisdom Initiative: What Can Science Tell Us About Collective Consciousness? by Robert Kenny, MBA
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Institute, Kolkata
Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose: His Life and Speeches by Jagadis Chandra Bose at Project Gutenberg
Response in the Living and Non–Living by Jagadis Chandra Bose at Project Gutenberg
William A. Tiller Foundation for New Science
Rupert Sheldrake
Blinded By Science By Matthew Silverstone
The Buckminster Fuller Institute
The Buckminster Fuller Institute Definitions and Resources
DYMAXION: Buckminster Fuller's Dream Restored: A documentary by Noel Murphy
Dymaxion car: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Exploration on Fundamental Theoretical Physics
Science and Sustainability Resources
EcoC²S Sustainable Science Resources
PESWiki (Pure Energy Systems Wiki): The community–built resource that focuses on alternative, clean, practical, renewable energy solutions.
The SolaRoof Goal is to transform our homes, building a Solar Greenhouse in the backyard or creating new Garden Home concepts and Eco Village or urban Eco Habitat design through an Open Source initiative for Sustainable Living sponsored by and based on the work of Richard Nelson and other pioneers of the Liquid Bubble Insulation and Liquid Solar technologies.
Alternative Energy News: The latest alternative and renewable energy news headlines, syndicated by rss from a variety of clean energy news sources.
Zvanična prezentacija istraživača i pronalazača Veljka Milkovića (Serbian site)
Official presentation of the researcher and inventor Veljko Milkovic (English site)
World of Pendulum Power: Veljko Milkovic's Two–Stage Mechanical Oscillator
The Institute of Science In Society (ISIS)
Gaia (ISIS)
Biophysics (ISIS)
New Science of the Organism: Electro Magnetic Fields (ISIS)
Water in the Organism (ISIS)
Science and Food (ISIS)
Quantum Jazz Biology Interview with Dr. Mae–Wan Ho about her pioneering work in understanding life by David Riley, MD, editor in chief of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (ATHM); Rollin McCraty, MD, of the Institute of HeartMath; and Suzanne Snyder, managing editor of ATHM (ISIS)
New science of the organism – genetics (ISIS)
Synthetic Life? Not By a Long Shot Dr. Mae–Wan Ho exposes the hype that scientists have created life but is cautiously optimistic provided no patents are granted on life, synthetic or otherwise (ISIS)
Epigenetics and Beyond: Darwin's Pangenesis, the Hidden History of Genetics, & the Dangers of GMOs. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho uncovers a fascinating page in the history of genetics expurgated from the mainstream account that also tells us why genetic modification is so dangerous (ISIS)
Fluid Genome & Beyond: Invited lecture presented at The Precautionary Principle in Science and Politics, Federation of German Scientists Conference, 22–23 October 2004, Marie–Elisabeth–Luders Haus & Magnus Haus, Berlin (ISIS)
GM DNA Does Jump Species: Antibiotic Resistance not the Only Risk. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho corrects some misconceptions about the risks of horizontal gene transfer from GMOs and calls for an urgent review (ISIS)
Sense & Nonsense in Horizontal Gene Transfer What do most scientists do when faced with findings that threaten to topple the ruling paradigm? They describe the findings in detail, fail to interpret them correctly, and avoid discussing their practical implications, dismissing incriminating evidence. They try desperately to paper over the cracks of the crumbling edifice and engage in rampant speculations. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho challenges these scientists to tell the truth, to themselves and to the public. (ISIS)
Genes Don't Generate Body Patterns: Time to end the obsession with genes and pay more attention to dynamic processes that generate patterns and forms Dr. Mae–Wan (ISIS)
Electronic Induction Animates the Cell: How quantum coherent water in the liquid crystalline cell is really responsible for the membrane potential that determines its vital states, and is crucial for energy and signal transduction Dr. Mae–Wan (ISIS)
Liquid Crystalline Morphogenetic Field: The morphogenetic field that determines pattern in early embryogenesis may be written in liquid crystal phase alignments through electrodyamic patterning processes Dr. Mae–Wan (ISIS)
A Scientist's Earth Music Dr. Mae–Wan (ISIS)

Membrane Potential Rules: An electric property universal to all cells turns out to determine their vital states, from cell division and pattern formation to differentiation, regeneration, and cancer; lending support to the electrodynamics basis of life Dr. Mae–Wan (ISIS)
Quantum Jazz: “The meaning of life, the universe and everything” Dr. Mae–Wan (ISIS)
Organism and Psyche in a Participatory Universe Dr. Mae–Wan (ISIS)
The “Academic–Industrial–Military Complex” Engineering Life & Mind The “academic–industrial–military complex” is shaping every aspect of our lives, beginning with the kind of science and scientific research that gets done and gets reported. We are not only losing our right to self–determination and self–sufficiency, but most seriously of all, our right to think differently from the corporate establishment. The suppression of scientific dissent threatens the survival of science and endangers lives. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho and Jonathan Matthews call for open debate on the scientific evidence of hazards inherent to genetic engineering. The future of food security and the survival of our planet are at stake.
Quantum bio–physics in living organisms
Fluid genome – a paradigm shift by Debashis Banerji & Mihir Shah
GenØk – Senter for biosikkerhet (Norwegian) / GenØk – Centre for Biosafety (English)
Centre for Biosafety: The Biosafety Assessment Tool (BAT) is an online resource for those identifying potential hazards and evaluating the risks of Genetically Modified/Engineered Organisms (GMOs/GEOs). The text and figures of the BAT are free for public use.
The Centre for Integrated Research in Biosafety (INBI): School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Heinemann, J.A. and Billington, C. (2004). ‘How do genomes emerge from genes? Horizontal gene transfers can lead to critical differences between species when those genes begin reproducing vertically’. ASM News 70: 464–471.
Unintended Effects of Genetic Manipulation: A Project of The Nature Institute
The Nature Institute: Viewing Nature, Science, and Technology in Context
Ecosystem Management: The New Tool of Land Managers? (written to Boulder Open Space Personnel) by Tim Seastedt
Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers
Our Stolen Future: New scientific findings about endocrine disruption

rat haus reality: The Health Costs of Low-Level Ionizing Radiation: This site is dedicated to providing information about the health costs of man-made low-level ionizing radiation
Butterfly effect: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plant breeding: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ElectroMagnetism

Electromagnetic spectrum: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Electromagnetic field: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Electromagnetism: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Electromagnetic Radiation Field Memo
Electromagnetic wave Definition: GreenFacts® – Facts on Health and the Environment
International Institute for Bau–biologie® & Ecology (Healthy Building Environmental Learning Center)
EMR Network: Citizens and Professionals for the Responsible Use of Electromagnetic Radiation
The EMR Policy Institute
European BioElectromagnetics Association (EBEA)
Bioelectromagnetics Journal
Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, Informa Healthcare

Earth's Magnetic Field (including Geopathic Stress)

Earth's magnetic field: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Earth Rhythms: Global Coherence Monitoring System
The Earth's Magnetic Field: University of Tennessee Astronomy 161 course (The Solar System)
“Earth's Inconstant Magnetic Field: Our planet's magnetic field is in a constant state of change, say researchers who are beginning to understand how it behaves and why.”: NASA Science
“New clues to Earth's magnetic flip–flops” By Robert Roy Britt (SPACE.com)
“Earth's Magnetic Field Is Fading” By John Roach (for National Geographic News, September 9, 2004)
“Should You Protect Yourself From Earth Radiation?” By Dr. Mercola, June 12 2008
Geopathic Stress: Altenative Ways with Debbie Rye
Geopathic Stress: Feng Shui store
Care2.com: Geopathic stress by Suzy Chiazzari
Stress from Current Radiation – the “Sick” Bedroom and its Successful Treatment Lecture by Wolfgang Maes, Bau–biologist IBN, Journalist DVJ, Germany

Positive Applications of Magnetism and Electromagnetism Touber, Tijn. "Why good health begins with magnetism." Ode magazine, March 2005 (Issue: 21). http://www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=4046. Touber, Tijn. "Magnetism and the quantum field." Ode magazine, March 2005 (Issue: 21). http://www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=4047. Touber, Tijn. "Magnetic therapy and health." Ode magazine, March 2005 (Issue: 21). http://www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=4048.

Negative Effects of High–Technology (High Tech)

The Luddites: Spartacus Educational
Luddite: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neo–Luddism: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Upping the Stakes: High on Progress: What will be left when we finally come down? by Derrick Jensen, Published in the May/June 2010 issue of Orion magazine
Book Review of In The Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations (Sierra Club, 1991) by Jerry Mander
Book Review of The White Hole in Time: Our Future Evolution and the Meaning of Now (Harpercollins, 1993) by Peter Russell
When Technology Fails by Matthew Stein
Dirty Electricity
Understanding EMFs (Electric and Magnetic Fields): Dirty Electricity
Scientific Research: Dirty Electricity
What Causes Dirty Electricity?: Dirty Electricity
Four Components that Comprise Dirty Electricity and other EMFs in a Home: Dirty Electricity
The Health Implications of Dirty Electricity and EMF Exposure: Dirty Electricity
DirtyElectricity.org: Information and Resources
Health Effects of Electrical Pollution: DirtyElectricity.org
Electrical Pollution Solutions
Human Health Research: Electrical Pollution Solutions
Health Issues: Electrical Pollution Solutions
Environmental Effects of Electrical Pollution: Electrical Pollution Solutions
Technical Research: Electrical Pollution Solutions
Related Sites and News: Electrical Pollution Solutions
University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension For Your Information Network Midwest Rural Energy Council EMF Information Resources : Electrical Pollution Solutions
International Center for Technology Assessment
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
International Campaign for Responsible Technology (ICRT): Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
High–Tech Production: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Clean Computer Campaign: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Exporting Harm: Techno Trash: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Electronics Take It Back! Platform: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Resources on High–Tech Pollution: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
The Health Hazards Of Environmental And Occupational Exposure of High Tech: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
The Health Hazards Of Environmental And Occupational Exposure of High Tech: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
The Environmental Cost of Computers: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, February 10th, 1997
“Study tallies environmental cost of computer boom”: The newsletter of United Nations University and its international network of research and training centres/programmes: Issue 31: May–June 2004
The IT and Environment Initiative is a consortium engaging in research and dissemination activities to improve understanding and awareness of Information Technology as it affects environmental issues and sustainability. The research draws especially on Industrial Ecology, Life Cycle Assessment and Earth Systems Engineering and Management.
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 Pollution Prevention (P2) In The Computer And Electronics Sector
California Medical Association Resolution: Toxicity Of Computers And Electronics Waste
Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality Guidance Documents: Waste Computers, Monitors, and Electronics
Dirty Electricity Elevates Blood Sugar Among Electrically Sensitive Diabetics and May Explain Brittle Diabetes: By Magda Havas; Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, 2008, Volume 27, Number 2, pages 135–146
Effects of Weak, Low–Frequency Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields (BEMER Type) on Gene Expression of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Chondrocytes: An In Vitro Study: By Markus Walther, Florian Mayer, Wolf Kafka, and Norbert Schütze; Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, 2007, Volume 26, Number 3, pages 179–190 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
A review of studies of the biological effects of electromagnetic fields in the intermediate frequency range: By Tsukasa Shigemitsu, Kenichi Yamazaki, Satoshi Nakasono, Makiko Kakikawa; IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Volume 2, Issue 4, July 2007, pages 405–412 {Will require a subscription to access this document}

ElectroMagnetism and Adverse Health Effects

Electromagnetic radiation and health: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Radiation: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American Physical Society: New Research Raises Old Questions About Electromagnetic Fields
Exploration on Fundamental Theoretical Physics
New Science of the Organism: Electro Magnetic Fields (ISIS)
ISIS miniseries “Fields of Influence”
ISIS miniseries “Fields of Influence 2”
U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Safety and Health Topics Radiofrequency and Microwave Radiation
U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Safety and Health Topics Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Radiation
U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Electromagnetic Radiation Field Memo
U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Safety Hazard Information Bulletin on The Effects of Exposure to Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Electromagnetic Radiation
U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Safety Hazard Information Bulletin on Nonionizing radiation Standard 1910.97
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Workplace Safety and Health Topic EMF (Electric and Magnetic Fields)
World Health Organization: About electromagnetic fields
The California Electric and Magnetic Fields (EMF) Program
The EMR Policy Institute
Powerwatch
Pollution « Electromagnetic Frequencies
“Raising Awareness about Electromagnetic Pollution“: Posted By Dr. Mercola, February 16 2011
“How Dirty Electricity Causes Diseases“: Posted By Dr. Mercola, August 31 2010
“Electro Magnetic Field (EMF) – Hazardous to Our Health?“: Dr. Mercola
Electromagnetic Health: Cellphone & Wireless Safety: Education, and Interviews
Historical evidence that electrification caused the 20th century epidemic of “diseases of civilization” by S. Milham: Med Hypotheses. 2010 Feb; 74(2): 337–45. Epub 2009 Sep 11.
Where Does Electrosmog Come From? By Vicki Warren, July 23 2009
Scientists Believe Your Cell Phone Is a Death Trap By Dr. Mercola, December 01 2009
Bioelectromagnetics Journal
Mobile phones: safety problems: Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology (PSRAST)

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The Truth about Chernobyl: Senior Russian scientists document deaths and illnesses from Chernobyl 100 times those reported by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Prof. Peter Saunders (ISIS)

http://www.ratical.org/radiation/MissEssie.html Louisiana blacks win nuclear war Shannon, Sara. "An Overview: Hazards of low level radioactivity." (Winter 1998). . "The Health costs of low-level ionizing radiation: 50+ Years of lethal deception by what has become the International Nuclear Mafia." (2003). . http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1995/103-10/lang.html Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 103, Number 10, October 1995 Open Access Research Biokinetics of Nuclear Fuel Compounds and Biological Effects of Nonuniform Radiation Sakari Lang, 1 Kristina Servomaa, 2 Veli-Matti Kosma, 3 and Tapio Ryt�maa 2 (1) Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland (2) Department of Research, Finnish Centre for Radiation and Nuclear Safety, Helsinki, Finland (3) Department of Pathology, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland http://www.ratical.org/radiation/NRBE/index.html No Immediate Danger Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth by Dr Rosalie Bertell 1985 ISBN 0-913990-25-2 http://www.chemcases.com/2003version/nuclear/nc-14.htm Nuclear Chemistry The Biological Effects of Nuclear Radiation Dr. Frank Settle http://cryptome.sabotage.org/nuke-effects12/nuke-effects12.htm 4 November 2006 This is CHAPTER XII - Biological Effects of The Effects of Nuclear Weapons. Source: http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/effects/effects12.pdf (94 pages, 9.4MB) The full report: http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/effects/effects.shtml The Effects of Nuclear Weapons Compiled and edited by Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan Third Edition Prepared and published by the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE and the ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION 1977 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/effects.htm Nuclear Weapon Effects Mobile or Cell(ular) Phones and Health http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21771 The Cell Phone Trap: The Health Hazards Review of Devra Davis' book by Joel S. Hirschhorn http://www.ewg.org/cellphone-radiation Limit Your Exposure To Cell Phone Radiation http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34502456/ns/health-cancer/ Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning: Lawmaker wants label on devices; research unclear about health link http://www.alternativeculture.com/books/mander.htm Book Review of In The Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations (Sierra Club, 1991) by Jerry Mander http://www.alternativeculture.com/books/russell.htm Physics, Politics & Prophecy http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/luddite.html Luddism and the Neo–Luddite Reaction http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/tech_theory.html Theory of Technology http://www.care2.com/channels/solutions/healthy/108 Geopathic Stress Adapted from The Healing Home,by Suzy Chiazzari. http://www.imakenews.com/psla/e_article000131090.cfm Electromagnetic Radiation: A Cause for Concern? http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/e1/electrom-r.asp electromagnetic radiation http://www.alga.asn.au/links/emr.php Links to EMR resources

Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) Bulbs and Mercury

Environmental and Health Concerns Associated with Compact Fluorescent Lights: Environmental Petition submitted by Dr. Magda Havas and Dr. Thomas C. Hutchinson to the Auditor General of Canada, June 2008 — [Requires PDF Software]
Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) Request for an opinion on “Light Sensitivity” Health Concerns associated with Energy Efficient Lighting and their Electromagnetic Emissions by Dr. Magda Havas: June 5, 2008 — [Requires PDF Software]
Frequently Asked Questions Compact Fluorescent (CFL): General Electric (GE) Lighting North America
“Facts about Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs” By Obiora Embry
“Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs and Energy” By Obiora Embry
““Being green,” eco–consciousness, and quantum thought: A case of compact fluorescent lights” By Obiora Embry
Care2.com: “Are CFL Bulbs a Health Hazard?”
Directory: Compact Fluorescent Lighting (CFL) Downsides: PESWiki

Light Emitting Diode (LED) Light Bulbs

“Eco– friendly LED light bulbs contain hazardous substances, research shows” By Carmen Chai, Postmedia News, February 11, 2011

Agriculture

Industrial Agriculture and Factory–Farming (the “Green Revolution”)

Food, Inc.: Hungry for Change?
The Food, Inc. Horror Movie: A film that exposes how the corporate food industry sickens and enslaves the nation, but leaves many stones unturned. by Dr. Mae–Wan Ho

Factory farming and industrial agriculture: Sustainable Table

Factory Farms: The True Food Network

Industrial Agriculture

Challenging Industrial Agriculture and the Green Revolution: Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy

Voices From Africa: African Farmers & Environmentalists Speak Out Against a New Green Revolution in Africa: The Oakland Institute

http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/voicesfromafrica Voices from Africa: The Oakland Institute

Impacts of Industrial Agriculture: Union of Concerned Scientists

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/factory-farming-101.html Factory Farming 101 http://www.bio.org/foodag/wto.asp World Trade Organization

Biotechnology

Definition:

1. the use of living organisms (especially microorganisms) in industrial, agricultural, medical and other technological applications

2. the application of the principles and practices of engineering and technology to the life sciences

(Source: Wiktionary, the free dictionary, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/biotechnology: Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details.

Biotechnology : A Geneticist's Personal Perspective — [Requires PDF Software]
The Institute of Science in Society (ISIS) Biotechnolgy Articles
Biotechnology: Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology (PSRAST)
Plant Biotechnology for Food and Feed: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS): Biotechnology
Biotechnology Safety Assessments: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Glossary of biotechnology and genetic engineering: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture – A Revised and Augmented Edition of the Glossary of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering: FAO Research and Technology Paper by A. Zaid, H.G. Hughes, E. Porceddu, F. Nicholas
Biotechnology (GM food): FAO
Agricultural biotechnology: will it help?: FAO
EUROPA: Food Safety: Biotechnology: Introduction
Interim response to Emerging Biotechnologies and the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986

http://www.foe.org/genetic-technologies Genetic Technologies | Friends of the Earth USA http://www.cban.ca/ The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network

Genetic Engineering

Definition:

1. The deliberate modification of the genetic structure of an organism.

(Source: Wiktionary, the free dictionary, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genetic_engineering: Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details.

Life Sciences Companies/Corporations/Genetic Engineering

Biotechnology Companies
Partial List of GE Companies and Products
Drug Company Owns Monsanto and Their Weed Killer is What Funds GMO Crops
The Groundup Website is the genetics section of the A SEED (Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment, and Diversity) Europe website
“Genetic Engineering and the Privatization of Seeds” by Anuradha Mittal and Peter Rosset in Dollars and Sense magazine, March–April 2001 issue
Genetics resources
The Biosafety Information Centre is a website set up and managed by the Third World Network
The Council for Responsible Genetics
The Center for Genetics and Society
International Forum for Genetic Engineering
Global aspects: Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology (PSRAST)
Genetic Engineering: Greenpeace International
Say no to genetic engineering
Genetic Engineering: Greenpeace USA
Genetic Engineering (PANNA)
Genetic Modification
Genetic Engineering Action Network (GEAN)
GM & Biological Weapons, Scientists Call for International Watchdog: ISIS
SARS and Genetic Engineering?: ISIS
Direct–to–Consumer DNA Testing and the Myth of Personalized Medicine: Spit Kits, SNP Chips and Human Genomics (ETC Group publication)

“PharmaCrops”

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/DRGSSTFC.php Drug Trial Catastrophe & Safety of Secretly Tested Pharm Crops A monoclonal antibody drug tested in a clinical trial made all six healthy volunteers violently ill, yet transgenic crop plants with similar drugs are being tested in secret locations and the unsuspecting public are being exposed without their knowledge or consent. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae–Wan Ho

‘Pharmageddon’/Risks of Edible Transgenic Vaccines: ISIS

Dow Plant Biopharmaceuticals Home: Growing Pharmaceuticals in Plants

The Biopharmaceuticals

http://www.mindfully.org/GE/GE4/Pharm-Phresh-Frankenfoods7oct02.htm Pharm Phresh Frankenfoods MARGARET WERTHEIM / LA Weekly 7oct02 E.g. a number of articles cited in Traavik, T. (1999). An orphan in science: Environmental risks of genetically engineered vaccines. Research Report for the Directorate for Nature Management, Norway, No. 1999–6, www.naturforvaltning.no/archive/attachments/01/05/Vacci006.pdf Wolff et al. (1990). ‘Direct gene transfer into mouse muscle in vivo’. Science 247: 1465; Jones et al. (1997). ‘Oral delivery of poly(lactide–co–glycolide) encapsulated vaccines’. Behring Inst Mitt. Feb (98): 220–8. Twyman, R.M. et al. (2003). ‘Molecular pharming in plants: host systems and expression technology’. Trends in Biotechnology 21: 570–578. Traavik, T. (2002). ‘Environmental risks of genetically engineered vaccines’. In: DK Letourneau and BE Burrows (eds): Genetically Engineered Organisms: Assessing Environmental and Health Effects. CRC Books, La Boca, Florida (ISBN 0849304393).

RNAi–Technology

the new nanobiotechnology approachesand the applications of small double-stranded (ds)RNAs (which can cause RNAi) for a number of medical purposes51. Furthermore, we have the 'questions not yet asked', and we have the problem of whether Hannon, G.J. and Rossi, J.J. (2004). 'Unlocking the potential of the human genome with RNA interference'. Nature 431: 371-378. E.g. Jackson, A.L. et al. (2003). 'Expression profiling reveals off-target gene regulation by RNAi'. Nat Biotechnol 21: 635–637, and a number of other recent articles.

Genetic Pollution/Gene Flow

Sense & Nonsense in Horizontal Gene Transfer What do most scientists do when faced with findings that threaten to topple the ruling paradigm? They describe the findings in detail, fail to interpret them correctly, and avoid discussing their practical implications, dismissing incriminating evidence. They try desperately to paper over the cracks of the crumbling edifice and engage in rampant speculations. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho challenges these scientists to tell the truth, to themselves and to the public.
GM DNA Does Jump Species: Antibiotic Resistance not the Only Risk. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho corrects some misconceptions about the risks of horizontal gene transfer from GMOs and calls for an urgent review (ISIS)
Genetic pollution: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Introgression: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GE agriculture and genetic pollution
Monsanto, Genetic Pollution and Monopolism
Growing evidence of widespread GMO contamination, From the journal: Environmental Science and Technology
Genetic Pollution: Biotech Corn Invades Mexico
Genetics resources by Carmelo Ruiz–Marrero, Special to CorpWatch, March 20th, 2002
Genetic Pollution in Mexico's Center of Maize Diversity

Genetically Engineered (GE) “Foods,” Genetically Modified (GM) “Food crops,” Genetically Engineered (GE) Trees, and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)/Transgenic Organisms

Seed Industry Structure by Philip H. Howard, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Beginning Farmers: An Online Resource for Farmers, Researchers, and Policy Makers: Competition in the Transgenic Seed Industry — GMO's, Monsanto, and Possible Antitrust Violations
Biotechnology and GMO: The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG)
Emergency! Pathogen New to Science Found in Roundup Ready GM Crops?: USDA senior scientist sends “emergency” warning to US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on a new plant pathogen in Roundup Ready GM soybean and corn that may be responsible for high rates of infertility and spontaneous abortions in livestock Dr. Mae–Wan Ho (ISIS)
5 Crazy and New Genetically Modified Foods: Care2.com
Stop Global Food Security Act Promoting GMOs Biotech corporations and mega–charities are promoting the GMO agenda as US foreign policy, and it must be stopped. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho (ISIS)
GM Crops Increase Herbicide Use in the United States The use of toxic herbicides on the rise due to the spread of herbicide tolerant crops. Brett Cherry (ISIS)
A 12–Year Saga of Farm Suicides in India In 2006–08, Maharastra saw 12 493 farm suicides, 85 percent higher than the 6 745 suicides it recorded during 1997–1999, and the worst three year period for any State at any time despite huge government debt relief packages. P. Sainath (ISIS)
Farmer Suicides and Bt Cotton Nightmare Unfolding in India The largest wave of farmer suicides and ecological nightmare unfolding around Bt cotton. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho exposes the “fudged” data and false claims of ‘successes’ that have perpetrated the humanitarian disaster (ISIS)
From Seeds of Suicide to Seeds of Hope: Why Are Indian Farmers Committing Suicide and How Can We Stop This Tragedy?
Genetically Engineered Crops and Foods October 2001
List of Completed Consultations on Bioengineered Foods
Products already approved
Food
Genetically Engineered Food
genetically modified food and crops briefings
Say No to GMOs!
GMWatch
GMWatch: Portal: SpinProfiles
STOP Genetically Engineered (GE) Trees Campaign
Take action to ban GM foods
portland imc: genetic engineering
Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (NW RAGE)
Food Standards Australia New Zealand: GM Foods
Hip Organic Mama: Alphabet Soup: GMO

Impacts of Genetic Engineering (GE)

“Wikileaks reveal U.S. conspired to retaliate against European nations if they resisted GMOs” by Mike Adams
“Biopiracy and GMOs: The Fate of Iraq's Agriculture” by Ghali Hassan
Unintended Effects of Genetic Manipulation: A Project of The Nature Institute
Impacts of Genetic Engineering: Union of Concerned Scientists
Terminator: The Sequel (ETC Group publication)
Patenting the “Climate Genes” … and Capturing the Climate Agenda (ETC Group publication)

Seeds of Deception

Genetic Engineering, GMO: The Issues: Sustainable Table
Genetically engineered food: Safety Problems: Written so that everybody can understand the essential problems without prior knowledge about genetics: Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology (PSRAST)
The Case for A GM–Free Sustainable World
Genetically Modified Foods: Are They a Risk to Human/Animal Health? by Arpad Pusztai: An ActionBioscience.org original article
Why Concerns About Health Risks Of Genetically Engineered Food Are Scientifically Justified by Steven M. Druker, Executive Director of Alliance For Bio–Integrity
50 Harmful Effects Of Genetically Modified (GM) Foods
The Health Risks of GM Foods: Summary and Debate
The Effects of Genetically Modified Foods By Dr. Edward F. Group III
The American Academy Of Environmental Medicine Calls For Immediate Moratorium On Genetically Modified Foods
Genetically Modified Foods Position Paper: The American Academy Of Environmental Medicine (AAEM)
Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food By Jeffrey M. Smith
Science & Environmental Health Network: Ecological Medicine: Biotechnology
Statement by Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. on the Public Health Hazards of GE Milk and Food

Health Hazards of Genetically–Manipulated Foods
“How Subchronic and Chronic Health Effects can be Neglected for GMOs, Pesticides or Chemicals” by Gilles–Eric Séralini, Joël Spiroux de Vendômois, Dominique Cellier, Charles Sultan, Marcello Buiatti, Lou Gallagher, Michael Antoniou, Krishna R. Dronamraju in the International Journal of Biological Sciences 2009; 5:438–443
“Genetic Engineering (GE) and Omitted Health Research: Still No Answers to Ageing Questions”
Genetically Engineered Food
Go behind the label and get the facts on genetically engineered foods
GMO Crops Are An Accident Waiting to Happen
Genetically–Engineered Food Dangers
The covert biotech war: The battle to put a corporate GM padlock on our foodchain is being fought on the net
African Scientists Condemn advertisement campaign for Genetically Engineered Food. Call for European Support: Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology (PSRAST)
No Patents on Rice! No Patents on Life!: Statement from peoples' movements and NGOs across Asia

Genetically Engineered (GE) Animals

US Scientists Warn of Dangers of GE Animals
Genetically Engineered Animals: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
GE Animals: The True Food Network
GE Fish: The True Food Network

Synthetic Biology (Extreme Genetic Engineering)

Synthetic Biology: An Overview and Recommendations for Anticipating and Addressing Emerging Risks
Synthetic biology: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ETC Group
ETC (Group) Blog
Extreme Genetic Engineering: An Introduction to Synthetic Biology (ETC Group publication)
The G(e)nomes of Zurich: Civil Society Calls for Urgent Controls on Synthetic Life (ETC Group publication)
The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology by Jonathan B. Tucker, Raymond A. Zilinskas
Americas Program Report: Fueling the Debate: Agrofuels, Biodiversity, and Our Energy Future (#12) Synthetic Biology's Role in Agrofuels
Biofuels 2.0: Synthetic Biology: FOE–USA
Online Ethics Center (OEC) for Engineering and Research: Synthetic Biology Points of View
Global Justice Ecology Project's First Civil Society Forum on Synthetic Biology: Stakeholders weigh in on UCB (University of California Berkeley) GMO complex

Nano(bio)technology

New Science of the Organism – Nanotechnology: The Institute of Science in Society (ISIS)
Nanotox: ISIS
Metal Nanoshells, Cure or Curse?: ISIS
Nanotubes Highly Toxic: ISIS
Nanotechnology, a Hard Pill to Swallow: ISIS
“Nanoparticles destroy soil and the environment, study finds” Wednesday, April 20, 2011 by Ethan A. Huff, NaturalNews.com staff writer
Nanotechnology Campaign: FOE–USA
Nanotechnology Campaign Resources and Links: FOE–USA
“Tiny Troubles: How Nanoparticles Are Changing Everything From Our Sunscreen to Our Supplements” By Carole Bass, E/The Environmental Magazine
Nanotechnology and Health: Getting nanotechnology right (Environmental Defense Fund)
“Legal Problems of Nanotechnology: An Overview”
Implications of Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology and the Environment
Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology: Some Preliminary Observations — [Requires PDF Software]
A Tiny Primer on Nano–scale Technologies… and The Little BANG Theory (ETC Group publication)
Report Prepared for the South Centre – The Potential Impacts of Nano–Scale Technologies on Commodity Markets: The Implications for Commodity Dependent Developing Countries (ETC Group publication)
Down on the Farm: The Impact of Nano–scale Technologies on Food and Agriculture (ETC Group publication)
Nanotech Rx–Medical applications of Nano–scale technologies: What Impact on Marginalized communities? (ETC Group publication)
Food Standards Australia New Zealand: Small Particles, Nanotechnology and Food

Cloning (Human Animal and Non–Human Animal)

Cloned Food: Friends of the Earth (FOE) USA
Human–Animal Hybrids: Dangerous to Human Health and the Environment: FOE–USA
“Cloned& rdquo; Food Animals Not True Clones: Commercial release of “cloned” food animals illegal as well as unethical and unsafe.&nbsb;Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae–Wan Ho (ISIS)

(Bio)Pesticides

US EPA Pesticides
Regulating Biopesticides: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has established a monitoring network to sample ambient air for multiple pesticides in three communities on a regular schedule, for two or more years.&nbsb;Monitoring began in February 2011.&nbsb;DPR will use the data gathered to evaluate and improve protective measures against pesticide exposure.
Environmental Working Group (EWG)'s 2010 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides
CHECK OUT THIS MOVIE!: A Chemical Reaction: The Story of a True Green Revolution
Transforming Government's Approach to Regulating Pesticides to Protect Public Health and the Environment: Beyond Pesticides, Pesticide Action Network North America, et al.
Beyond Pesticides
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
Resource Library (PANNA)
The Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Pesticide Database
Pesticides: The Issues: Sustainable Table
Pesticides: ORGANIC (Ltd)
Pesticides
Herbicide causing frog sex changes?: Scientists see link with atrazine found in water
Roundup: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
““Where Are Pesticides Made? Perhaps Inside Your Belly””: Modified genes in our food supply may be modifying us, says Jeffrey M. Smith.
“Homeopathic preparations replace pesticides in Uttar Pradesh (India)”

http://www.coopdirectory.org/ The Coop Directory Service (CDS) http://www.communitygarden.org/ American Community Garden Association

Vegetarian Journal'sGuide To Food Ingredients

“12 Dangerous and Hidden Food Ingredients in Seemingly Healthy Foods” by Vivian Goldschmidt, MA

Altering the chemical structure of food

Food Chemistry

Food chemistry From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American Chemical Society Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division
The Food Chemistry Division of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)

Synthetic Food

The End of Food: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Food Supply––And What We Can Do About It
Chemicals in Food
The Beginner's Guide to Natural Living: The ultimate guide on how to prevent disease, lose weight, improve energy and live vibrantly [Chapter 2: “Avoid Synthetic Food”]

Chemical Substances in Food (Additives)

“Where Do Chemicals in Our Food Come From?”
Food Ingredients & Packaging: US FDA
The Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organisation (WHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)
US FDA/CFSAN: EAFUS List: A Food Additive Database This information is generated from a database maintained by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) under an ongoing program known as the Priority–based Assessment of Food Additives (PAFA)
The “Codex General Standard for Food Additives” (GSFA, Codex STAN 192–1995) online database
Food additives and flavourings: European Union (EU) legislation of food additives
Food Standards Australia New Zealand: Food additives
GrokFood: Food additives database
BrainBody.com: A unique resource for information regarding food additives, cosmetic ingredients, nutrition, medicines and health news
Food additive: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Food Additives: Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
Food Dyes: A Rainbow of Risks: Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
CSPI Says Food Dyes Pose Rainbow of Risks: Cancer, Hyperactivity, Allergic Reactions
Food Additives: ORGANIC (Ltd)
Food: Artificial sweeteners and Toxic Substances
“Study finds food–wrapper chemicals in blood: A new scientific study has for the first time found a group of chemicals used in coatings on food wrappers in human blood.” By Ken Ward Jr.
Chemical Food Additive Exposure During Pregnancy: Links to Learning Disabilities, ADD and Behavior Disorders
Consumption of soft drinks and high–fructose corn syrup linked to obesity and diabetes
Food Additives — [Requires PDF Software]
Preservatives and Additives (Excerpt from North American Diet)
Food additives: Wellness.com
“Food Trade's Juicy Secrets” by John Triggs in the Daily Express July 17 2007
Food Additives to Avoid
HealthNews Dozen: “Top 12 Food Additives to Remove From Your Diet” By Jennifer Newell, Published: Monday, 29 June 2009
“9 Ingredients to avoid in processed foods”
“Brett's Blog: 5 Ingredients to Avoid”

Food Processing

http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2010/11/how-ultra-processed-foods-are- killing-us/65614/ “How Ultra–Processed Foods Are Killing Us” http://www.wphna.org/wn_commentary_ultraprocessing_nov2010.asp “The big issue is ultra–processing”

Food Irradiation

Positive Agricultural Paradigms (Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture and its major units: Genetically Engineering, Biotechnology, and Industrial/Factory Farming)

Comparisons: BioIntensive, American Intensive, Square–Foot, Permaculture, Organic, Regenerative Agriculture, Nauture Farming (Kyusei and MOA) and Ecological Synergy methods and systems
Alternatives to genetic engineering of food

Permaculture

Beginning Farmers: An Online Resource for Farmers, Researchers, and Policy Makers: A comprehensive list of permaculture resources on the web
Open Source Ecology is a movement dedicated to the collaborative development of tools for replicable, open source, modern off–grid “resilient communities.”
Earth Activist Training
Permaculture Activist
Introduction to Permaculture: Concepts and Resources
Permaculture The Earth
the Permaculture Research Institute
Permaculture
PermaWiki
Permaculture Online
Permaculture.net
Permaculture Institute
Green Living Design
Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute was established to address the needs of indigenous communities around the globe. In essence our “four bridges” reach out in all directions to establish a network of people to address global issues in all of our communities. We are accomplishing this by first addressing the poverty, and lack of healthy sustainable living practices in these communities.
Sustainable Living on a Small Farm the Permaculture Way

Magnetism and Plant Growth

Adaptation of the Magnetoreceptive Mechanism of Mud–Snails to Geomagnetic Strength: By Frank A. Brown, Jr., Franklin H. Barnwell, and H. Marguerite Webb; The Biological Bulletin, October 1, 1964, Volume 127, Number 2, pages 221–231 — [Requires PDF Software]
The Effects of Different Musical Elements on Root Growth and Mitosis in Onion (Allium cepa) Root Apical Meristem (Musical and Biological Experimental Study): By Nuran Ekici, Feruzan Dane, Leyla Mamedova, Isin Metin and Murad Huseyinov; Asian Journal of Plant Sciences, 2007, Volume 6, pages 369–373
Germination of grass seeds subjected to stationary magnetic field: By Mercedes Flórez García, Elvira Martínez Ramírez, María Victoria Carbonell Padrino; Ingeniería de Recursos Naturales y del Ambiente, 2008, Volume 7, Number 7, pages 12–17 — [Requires PDF Software]
The Effect of Magnetic Field on Growth, Development and Yield of Safflower and Its Comparison with Others Treatments: By Faride Faqenabi, Mehdi Tajbakhsh, Iraj Bernoosi, Maryam Saber–Rezaii, Fatmeh Tahri, Simin Parvizi, Musa Izadkhah, Abdollah Hasanzadeh Gorttapeh and Hasan Sedqi; Research Journal of Biological Sciences, 2009, Volume 4, issue 2, pages 174–178
Effect of Magnetic Field on Seed Germination of Two Wheat Cultivars: By Ahmad Gholami, Saeed Sharafi, and and Hamid Abbasdokht; World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2010, Volume 68, pages 946–948 — [Requires PDF Software]
Measuring effects of music, noise, and healing energy using a seed germination bioassay: By K Creath and G E Schwartz; Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, February 2004, Volume 10, issue 1, pages 113–122
A Unified Hypothesis of Mechanoperception in Plants: By Frank W. Telewski; American Journal of Botany, 1 October 2006, Volume 93, Number 10, pages 1466–1476
Bio–communication of Plants: By Guenther Witzany; Nature Precedings, 20 December 2007
Effect of Static Electric Fields in Root Cells of Vicia faba (Fabaceae): By H. Demiray; Molecular Breeding, 2006, Volume 25, Number 1, pages 53-60 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Plant gene responses to frequency-specific sound signals: By Mi–Jeong Jeong, Chang–Ki Shim, Jin–Ohk Lee, Hawk–Bin Kwon, Yang–Han Kim, Seong–Kon Lee, Myeong–Ok Byun and Soo–Chul Park; Molecular Breeding, 2008, Volume 21, Number 2, pages 217–226 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Effects of the intensity of audible sound on the growth and development of Rideau winter wheat: By Pearl Weinberger, Mary Measures; Canadian Journal of Botany, 1979, Volume 57, Issue 9, pages 1036–1039 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Ultrasonic pre-irradiation effect upon aqueous enzymatic oil extraction from almond and apricot seeds: By Aparna Sharma, M.N. Gupta; Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, Volume 13, Issue 6, September 2006, pages 529–534 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Biochemical and physiological changes in plants as a result of different sonic exposures: By Yu–Chuan Qin, Won–Chu Lee, Young–Cheol Choi, and Tae–Wan Kim; Ultrasonics, Volume 41, Issue 5, July 2003, pages 407–411 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Effect of alternating magnetic field on the composition and level of lipids in radish seedlings: By G. V. Novitskaya, O. A. Tserenova, T. K. Kocheshkova, and Yu. I. Novitskii; Russian Journal of Plant Physiology, Volume 53, Number 1, 2006, pages 75–84 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Effects of sound field on the growth of Chrysanthemum callus: By Liu Yiyao, Bochu Wang, Long Xuefeng, Duan Chuanren, A Sakanishi; Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, Volume 24, Issue 3–4, April 2002, pages 321–326 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Effect of sound wave on the synthesis of nucleic acid and protein in chrysanthemum: By Wang Xiujuan, Wang Bochu, Jia Yi, Duan Chuanren, and Akio Sakanishi; Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, Volume 29, Issue 2–3, 1 June 2003, pages 99–102 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Effects of sound stimulation on energy metabolism of Actinidia chinensis callus: By Yang Xiaocheng, Wang Bochu, and Duan Chuanren; Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, Volume 30, Issue 1–2, 1 July 2003, pages 67–72 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Optimal designs for sound wave stimulation on the growth conditions of Chrysanthemum callus: By Shao Jiping, Wang Bochu, Liu Meisheng, Zhang Hongyang, Chen Xin, Duan Chuanren; Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, Volume 30, Issue 1–2, 1 July 2003, pages 93–98 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Effects of sound stimulation on protective enzyme activities and peroxidase isoenzymes of chrysanthemum: By Wang Xiujuan, Wang Bochu, Jia Yi, Liu Defang, Duan Chuanren, Yang Xiaocheng, and Akio Sakanishi; Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, Volume 27, Issue 1, 1 January 2003, pages 59–63 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Biological effect of sound field stimulation on paddy rice seeds: By Wang Bochu, Chen Xin, Wang Zhen, Fu Qizhong, Zhou Hao, and Ran Liang; Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1 October 2003, pages 29–34 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Excitation of plant growth in dormant temperature by steady magnetic field: By Majid Vaezzadeh, Ehsan Noruzifar, Ghanati Faezeh, Mohsen Salehkotahi, Reza Mehdian; Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, July 2006, Volume 302, Issue 1, pages 105–108 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Exposure of seeds to static magnetic field enhances germination and early growth characteristics in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.): By Ananta Vashisth and Shantha Nagarajan; Bioelectromagnetics, October 2008, Volume 29, Issue 7, page 571–578 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Extremely low frequency weak magnetic fields enhance resistance of NN tobacco plants to tobacco mosaic virus and elicit stress–related biochemical activities: By Grazia Trebbi, Francesco Borghini, Lisa Lazzarato, Patrizia Torrigiani, G. Lorenzo Calzoni, Lucietta Betti1; Bioelectromagnetics, April 2007, Volume 28, Issue 3, page 214–223 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Effects of a 60 Hz magnetic field on photosynthetic CO₂ uptake and early growth of radish seedlings: By Akira Yano, Yoshiaki Ohashi, Tomoyuki Hirasaki, and Kazuhiro Fujiwara; Bioelectromagnetics, December 2004, Volume 25, Issue 8, page 572–581 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Influence of 400, 900, and 1900 MHz electromagnetic fields on Lemna minor growth and peroxidase activity: By Mirta Tkalec, Krešimir Malarić, Branka Pevalek–Kozlina; Bioelectromagnetics, April 2005, Volume 26, Issue 3, pages 185–193 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Induction of primary root curvature in radish seedlings in a static magnetic field: By Akira Yano, Eiko Hidaka, Kazuhiro Fujiwara, and Mitsuo Iimoto; Bioelectromagnetics, April 2001, Volume 22, Issue 3, pages 194–199 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
The effects of inverter magnetic fields on early seed germination of mung beans: By Hsin–Hsiung Huang and Show–Ran Wang; Bioelectromagnetics, December 2008, Volume 29, Issue 8, pages 649–657 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Pre–sowing magnetic treatments of tomato seeds increase the growth and yield of plants: By A. De Souza, D. Garcí, L. Sueiro, F. Gilart, E. Porras and L. Licea; Bioelectromagnetics, May 2006, Volume 27, Issue 4, pages 247–257 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Effects of high intensity pulsed electric field processing conditions on vitamin C and antioxidant capacity of orange juice and gazpacho, a cold vegetable soup: By Pedro Elez–Martínez and Olga Martín–Belloso; Food Chemistry, 2007, Volume 102, Issue 1, pages 201–209 {Will require a subscription to access this document}
Exposure of maize seeds to stationary magnetic fields: Effects on germination and early growth: By Mercedes Flórez, Maria Victoria Carbonell, Elvira Martínez; Environmental and Experimental Botany, January 2007, Volume 59, Issue 1, pages 68–75 {Will require a subscription to access this document}

Pollination & Pollinators

Pollination: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pollination syndrome: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pollinate: Answers.com
Pollinator: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blowing In The Wind: Seeds & Fruits Dispersed By Wind
The Xerces Society is a nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitat. For forty years, the Society has been at the forefront of invertebrate protection worldwide, harnessing the knowledge of scientists and the enthusiasm of citizens to implement conservation programs.
The Xerces Society: Pollinator Conservation Resource Center
The Xerces Society: Pollinator Conservation
The Xerces Society: Managing Habitat for Pollinators
The Xerces Society: Bring Back The Pollinators
The Xerces Society: Attracting Native Pollinators
Alternative Pollinators: Native Bees By Eric Mader, Mace Vaughan, Matthew Shepherd, Scott Hoffman Black: The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Published 2010, ATTRA Publication #IP126
The Xerces Society: Bumble Bee Conservation
The Xerces Society: Increasing the Availability of Native Milkweed Seed
The Xerces Society: Are Neonicotinoids Killing Bees?: A Review of Research into the Effects of Neonicotinoid Insecticides on Bees, with Recommendations for Action By Jennifer Hopwood, Mace Vaughan, Matthew Shepherd, David Biddinger, Eric Mader, Scott Hoffman Black, Celeste Mazzacano
The Xerces Society: Red List of Bees
The Great Sunflower Project: The Backyard Bee Count
Improving Forage for Native Bee Crop Pollinators — [Requires PDF Software]
Native Pollinators in Agriculture Project
ATTRA Publication #IP126: Alternative Pollinators: Native Bees By Eric Mader, Mace Vaughan, Matthew Shepherd, Scott Hoffman Black
Pollinators: USDA Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers
Resources on Pollinators: Earth & Life Sciences at the National Academies
The Pollination Home Page: Your portal to pollination information and images
Angiosperm pollination syndromes
“Pollination, The Forgotten Agricultural Input” by Dr. Malcolm Sanford (http://apis.shorturl.com): Originally published in Proceedings of the Florida Agricultural Conference and Trade Show, Lakeland, FL, September 29–30, 1998, J. Ferguson, et al eds., pp. 45–47.
Hydroponic Pollination with Blue Bottle flies: Hydroponics Blog – Hydroponics Articles – Hydroponics Online
Pollination & Human Livelihoods: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Pollinators
The Pollinator Partnership (P2) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Plants and Critters on the Pollination Equation Poster: The Pollinator Partnership
Useful Resources: The Pollinator Partnership
Useful Resources for Home Gardens: The Pollinator Partnership
Ecoregional Guides for Pollination: The Pollinator Partnership
North American Pollinator Protection Campaign: Working to protect the pollinators of the North American continent
butterflies and other pollinators
Mother Earth News Gardening in the Southeast: Attracting Beneficial Insects to Your Garden By Ira Wallace, 3/15/2012
Guide To Bee–Friendly Gardens
Beekeeping/Apiculture
The Barefoot Beekeeper: natural beekeeping in top bar hives
Bee Culture: The Magazine of American Beekeeping
Beesource Beekeeping
GoBeekeeping.com
Beekeeping: The Appropriate Technology (AT) Library
Beekeeping: The Beekeeper's Home Page
John's Beekeeping Notebook
Mother Earth News: Honeybees and Beekeeping: Experienced beekeepers share their stories about beekeeping, bee hives, honey, colony collapse disorder and bee products.
“Distracted by a mysterious rash of dying bees, researchers may be overlooking a more insidious pollinator crisis. It has little to do with bees and everything to do with booming markets for raspberries, pears, and chocolate.”
“Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe: The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of US bee colonies did not survive the winter”
Honeybees and the Symbiotic Significance of Formic and Oxalic Acid by Gunther Hauk
ISIS Science and the Environment: Disappearing Bees
Ban Neonicotinoid Pesticides to Save the Honeybee Fresh evidence links neonicotinoid pesticides to death of the honeybee spurs calls for banning the pesticides Dr. Mae–Wan Ho (ISIS)
The Plight of the Bumblebee: Major pollinators apart from the honeybee are suffering steep decline worldwide, chief among them the bumblebee, and neonicotinoid pesticides are a major culprit that should be banned Prof. Joe Cummins (ISIS)
Environmental Risk Assessment Of Transgenic Plants Using Honey Bee Larvae by Henrik F. Brødsgaard, Camilla J. Brødsgaard, Henrik Hansen and Gábor L. Lövei, Research Group Entomology, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences — [Requires PDF Software]

Seed Exchange & Preservation (Seed saving, Seed sharing/swapping)

International Seed Saving Institute is dedicated to saving seeds, seed–saving education and permaculture. Free online seed saving instructions.
VintageVeggies.com™ is an informational resource of the Victory Seed Company. This site is intended as an tool for all of our gardening friends and supporters. Its focus is on gardening with heirloom seeds, seed saving, and historical horticulture.
The Seed Site: Information about collecting seeds, storing seeds, sowing seeds, germinating seeds and exchanging seeds, with pictures of seeds, seedpods and seedlings (and a bit of botany!)
Native Seeds/SEARCH conserves, distributes and documents the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seeds, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwest and northwest Mexico. We promote the use of these ancient crops and their wild relatives by gathering, safeguarding, and distributing their seeds to farming and gardening communities.
Native Seeds/SEARCH Seed Saving Instructions
Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center Inc.: Saving Yesterday's Seeds for Today and Tomorrow
Organic Seed Alliance
Seed Savers Exchange
Seed Savers Exchange Planting & Seed Saving Instructions
Navdanya is a network of seed keepers and organic producers spread across 16 states in India.
Irish Seed Savers Association
Garden Organic Heritage Seed Library
Garden Organic Heritage Seed Library: Seed Guardian
Garden Organic Heritage Seed Library: Useful Links
United Plant Savers
One Seed At A Time Project
The Seed Ambassadors Project
SOS: Save Our Seeds. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho warns of new dangers posed by genetic engineering to the world's gene banks, already in jeopardy from years of under–funding, and stresses the importance of in situ conservation and seed saving in local communities for sustainable food systems and food security
International Seed Saving Institute: Basic Seed Saving describes useful terms and concepts central to seed saving.
Seeds of Change: Completing the Cycle: Saving Seeds Edited by Jordan Rainwater and Scott Vlaun
Saving Garden Seeds By Eric Vinje, Planet Natural
Save Your Seeds!: How–To Directions. Adapted from Seed to Seed, by Suzanne Ashworth (Seed Savers Exchange, 2002)
Mother Earth News Gardening in the Southeast: Seed Swaps, Seed Saving and Abundant Winter Veg By Ira Wallace, 1/28/2012

Biointensive, Biodynamic, Natural & Organic Seed Suppliers [Non–GMO, Open–Pollinated, Heirloom, Traditional, Rare, Hybrid, Non–Hybrid, etc.]

The Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies (AOSCA) is dedicated to assisting clients in the production, identification, distribution and promotion of certified classes of seed and other crop propagation materials.
The Safe Seed Resource List: Your Resource for GM–free Seeds: The companies listed on this page have signed the Safe Seed Pledge for 2012. We encourage you to support them in their efforts to preserve the integrity of our seed supply.
Beginning Farmers: An Online Resource for Farmers, Researchers, and Policy Makers: Organic Seed Sources: Finding, Choosing, Ordering, Saving, & Planting Heirloom, Organic, Open Pollinated & Non GMO Varieties
National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: Directory of Organic Seed Suppliers by Katherine L. Adam, NCAT Agriculture Specialist
Native Seeds/SEARCH seed store
Organic and Bio–dynamic Seeds and more
Fork & Bottle: Organic, Biodynamic, Heirloom & Heritage Seed Sources
Organic Seed Alliance Organic Seed Suppliers
Organic Trust: Suppliers of Organic Seeds
Siskiyou Seeds
Seed Savers Exchange Online store
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Saving the Past for the Future
Marianna's Heirloom seeds: Heirloom Seeds – Open Pollinated Heirloom Tomato Seeds and Heirloom Vegetable Seed
Adaptive Seeds: The Seeds of The Seed Ambassadors Project
High Mowing Organic Seeds
Seeds of Change
HomeHarvestSeeds.com
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds: Open–Pollinated, Pure, Natural, and Non–GMO seeds
Bountiful Gardens
Sustainable Seed Company
Burpee Seeds and Plants
Victory Seed Company: Rare, Open-pollinated & Heirloom Garden Seeds
Annie's Heirloom Seeds
Heirloom Acres Seeds
Wood Prairie Farm: Certified Organic Farm in Northern Maine offering both Seeds and Food
Potato Garden
New Hope Seed Company – Non–Hybrid, Heirloom and Open Pollinated Seeds and Plants
Abundant Acres: open–pollinated (non–hybrid) and heirloom varieties

Native Vegetation Information & Plant Sources (Seeds and Plant Nurseries)

USDA PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
USDA PLANTS Database Image Gallery
The USDA National Agricultural Library (NAL): Learn to Identify Plants
Plant Encyclopedia: Plant & Flower Names, Pictures, Plant Identification: Better Homes and Gardens
PlantFiles: The Largest Plant Identification Reference Guide – Dave's Garden
Buzzle: Ways to Identify Native American Plants
Southeastern Flora: Southeastern US Plant Identification Resource
Native American Seed – Wildflowers and Native Prairie Grasses
PlantNative: Native Plant Nursery Directory
PlantNative: PlantNative: Native Plants, Lawn Alternatives, Landscape Design and Landscaping
Southeastern Native Plant Nursery
PlantNative: Nearly Native Nursery: Nursery specializing in growing and selling southeastern native plants for all landscaping needs
Gardening with Native Plants of Tennessee: Native Plants, Lawn Alternatives, Landscape Design and Landscaping
Gardening with Native Plants of Tennessee Links
US EPA Great Lakes Greenacres: Landscaping with Native Plants
US EPA Great Lakes Greenacres: Landscaping with Native Plants: Weedlaws: The John Marshall Law Review
Virginia Tech Weed Identification Guide: Wildflowers
Celebrating Wildflowers: Native Gardening: USDA Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers
Celebrating Wildflowers – Native Gardening: Native Plant Alternatives: USDA Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers
Celebrating Wildflowers: Rare Plants: USDA Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers
NRCS National Plant Data Center
NRCS PLANTS Database: The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references. This information primarily promotes land conservation in the United States and its territories, but academic, educational, and general use is encouraged. PLANTS reduces government spending by minimizing duplication and making information exchange possible across agencies and disciplines.
NRCS PLANTS Database Image Gallery
Mistaken Identity?: Invasive Plants and their Native Look–alikes an Identification Guide for the Mid–Atlantic — [Requires PDF Software]
Southeastern Flora
Kentucky Grown Landscape Plant Availability Guide searchable database
KY Proud Nursery Search Results
Kentucky Flora
How to Identify Kentucky Trees: University of Kentucky
Kentucky Trees
The Kentucky Native Plant Society
The Kentucky Native Plant Society Links
Kentucky Native Plants / Xeriscaping
Wildflower Information.org
Wildflower Identification
Commonwealth of Kentucky Bio Indicators
University of Kentucky Entomology: Insects of Kentucky

Food Not Lawns

Food Not Lawns International
San Diego Food Not Lawns
Santa Barbara Food Not Lawns
Orange County Food Not Lawns
Food Not Lawns, Humboldt County, coordinated by Community Agriculture Network
Tri–state Food Not Lawns (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut)
Food Not Lawns – Kansas City
Claremont Food Not Lawns
Food Not Lawns Tampa
Food Not Lawns – Laurel Manor
Care2.com: “Get Off Your Grass and Create an Edible Lawn” By Brigitte Mars
Sacramento, Chico and Reno News & Review: “Kill your lawn: Sacramento homeowners love their lush green front yards—but why?” By Ted Cox
Mother Earth News: “Edible Landscaping: Fall is the perfect time to plan a yard redesign — think food! Get inspired to turn your grassy lawn into a bountiful edible garden.” By Betsy Model, October 21, 2010
Mother Earth News: “Turn Your Yard Into a Luscious Landscape: You can dramatically improve the look of your yard with fruiting trees, shrubs and vines. Here's how to choose the right plants for your location.” By Lee Reich, December 30, 2009
City of Vancouver Social Planning Department: “Edible Landscaping Project Final Report By Niki Strutynski, University of British Columbia Masters of Landscape Architecture Candidate; December 20, 2005 — [Requires PDF Software]

Edible Perennials

Try these Edible Perennials in Your Garden
Edible Landscaping & Gardening
Perennials.com: Table of Edible Perennial Plants
Dr. Leonard Perry's Perennial Pages
The Land Institute
Wes Jackson: A Perennial Revolution in Agriculture: The YES! Breakthrough 15: Revolutionizing agriculture with crops that grow like a prairie. by Ken Meter, posted Nov 30, 2011 on the Web site of YES! Magazine
Ideas for a Better Food System :: Soil: Researchers at the Land Institute are working to breed grains that build soil and to create crops that don't require tilling, tending or spraying. Posted Feb 13, 2009 on the Web site of YES! Magazine

Edible & Medicinal Plants

Please see the disclaimer above

The “Wild Edible Plants: Promoting Dietary Diversity in Poor Communities of Lebanon” project
Foraged Feasts by Leslie Taylor, May 16, 2012 (NPR Science Friday blog)
Wilderness Survival: Poisonous Plants
Wilderness Survival: Poisonous Plants Pictures
Wilderness Survival: Survival use of Plants: Edibility of Plants
Wilderness Survival: Edible and Medicinal Plants Pictures
Wildcrafting.net: Foraging Database, Edible & Medicinal Plants
Wildcrafting.net: Edible & Medicinal Foraging Guide
Wild Mountain Herbs of Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia
Montana Plant Life: Flora and Identification of Edible, Medicinal and Poisonous Plants
Gardening From The Ground Up: Edible wild plants
Eat The Weeds by Green Deane, the most watched forager in the world
Edible Wild Food, Recipes: Edible Weeds: Identification, Pictures, Foraging
Discovery Channel: Guide to Common Edible Wild Plants
Old Fashioned Living: Wonderful World of Weeds By Lynn Smythe
Alternative Nature Online Herbal: Herbs, Medicinal Plants, Finding and using wild herbs
What Makes Wild Plants Special?: From The Wild Vegan Cookbook by “Wildman” Steve Brill
International Rewilding Discussion Forum
Takinogawa Gobo; a Common Weed or Valuable Edible

Heritage, Heirloom and Traditional Breeds (Vegetation and Non Human Animals)

Heritage, Heirloom and Traditional Breeds: The Issues: Sustainable Table
The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity
The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity: Slow Food Presidia: The Presidia sustain quality production at risk of extinction, protect unique regions and ecosystems, recover traditional processing methods, safeguard native breeds and local plant varieties.
The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity: The Ark of Taste: The Ark of Taste travels the world collecting small–scale quality productions threatened by industrial agriculture, environmental degradation and homogenization. The Ark of Taste searches out, catalogues and describes forgotten flavors from all around the planet: products at risk of extinction but surviving, that could be rediscovered and returned to the market.
The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity: Earth Markets: A worldwide network of farmers' markets respecting the Slow Food philosophy.
The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity: A Thousand Gardens in Africa
Regional Biodiversity: Slow Food USA
Slow Food USA: US Ark of Taste
Trees of Antiquity
The Heritage Breeds Conservancy
Breeds of Livestock: Department of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University
The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds: Poultry

Food Security & Sovereignty

“We Already Grow Enough Food for 10 Billion People… and Still Can't End Hunger” by Eric Holt–Giménez: Published on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 by Common Dreams
Food security: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Science and Food: The Institute of Science in Society (ISIS)
The Global Crisis: Food, Water and Fuel. Three Fundamental Necessities of Life in Jeopardy by Michel Chossudovsky
Raj Patel: Website and Blog of writer, activist and academic
Democracy Now!: Stuffed and Starved: As Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe, Raj Patel Details “The Hidden Battle for the World Food System” Part I
Democracy Now!: Stuffed and Starved: As Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe, Raj Patel Details “The Hidden Battle for the World Food System” Part II
Grassroots International: Nicaragua's Peasant Movement achieves milestone on the road towards Food Sovereignty By Saulo Araujo, July 16th, 2009
Stop Global Food Security Act Promoting GMOs Biotech corporations and mega–charities are promoting the GMO agenda as US foreign policy, and it must be stopped. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho (ISIS)
Center for Food Safety
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Food and Water Security under Global Change (IFPRI)
The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First
Farmageddon: The Unseen War on American Family Farms Film
WhyHunger is a leader in building the movement to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots solutions that inspire self-reliance and community empowerment.
The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) works to end poverty, rebuild local food economies, and assert democratic control over the food system.
Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative (GFJI) is an initiative aimed at dismantling racism and empowering low-income and communities of color through sustainable and local agriculture.
WhyHunger: Race and the Food System
Garden Writers Association: Plant a Row for the Hungry
Global Advocates for Justice is a group of individuals of African descent and organizations with constituencies of predominantly Afro–descendants, and others, from all socio–economic backgrounds, committed to grassroots community organizing to strengthen their collective power, coming together, to explore the formation of, and interest in, the creation of local, national and global alliances to represent and promote the interests of Afro–descendants on issues of peace and security, food and agriculture, and environmental, economic and social justice.
The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund
The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association (BFAA)
National Black Farmers Association
Growing Power, Inc. is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high&ndashquality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities.

Freeing and Opening Cooking

NUT Nutrition Software
Krecipes
Gourmet Recipe Manager is a recipe–organizer available for Linux and Windows that allows you to collect, search, organize, and browse your recipes
ReciPants Recipe Manager: Web–based recipe manager in Perl
LargoRecipes is a free, GPL–licensed Java/Swing application for managing recipes
PHPRecipeBook is a web based cookbook with the ability to create shopping lists
Recipe Converter
J2ME cookbook
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Nutrient Data Laboratory: The Mission of the Nutrient Data Laboratory is “To develop authoritative food composition databases and state of the art methods to acquire, evaluate, compile and disseminate composition data on foods and dietary supplements available in the United States.”

Freeing and Opening Gardeners and Farmers

The SolaRoof Goal is to transform our homes, building a Solar Greenhouse in the backyard or creating new Garden Home concepts and Eco Village or urban Eco Habitat design through an Open Source initiative for Sustainable Living sponsored by and based on the work of Richard Nelson and other pioneers of the Liquid Bubble Insulation and Liquid Solar technologies.
Crop Planning Software for small farmers and serious gardeners. Plan for and manage the myriad crops, varieties and plantings required to keep a modern, intensive market garden producing throughout the growing season. This is a cross–platform (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc) desktop application that allows small farmers and gardeners to: Create, duplicate and delete crops and plantings; inherit data from other plantings and crops; key in a few data and let the program calculate the rest for you; sort and filter your plantings. These are all possible and new features are being added all the time. The software has been released as open source, free software and therefore is and will always be available free of charge. Those who donate, however, will have access to priority email support.
Kitchen Garden Aid is a planning tool for kitchen garden growers. It will help you practice crop rotation, companion planting and other growing methods.
GardenCal is a basic command line horticultural utility. The user enters a list of plants they intend to grow and then GardenCal will remind them of upcoming things like plantings or harvests.
“Growmanager – Greenhouse Control System“ is a free open source framework that is managing a computer controlled greenhouse. “Growmanager” is capable of switching plant grow lights, read out temperature controllers, watering soil or hydroponics grow systems and managing heating and ventilation in your greenhouse. With the right hardware setup it is even possible to mix individual hydroponics nutrients and supply your plants with those nutrients in regular intervals. “Growmanager” provides an easy to use grapical user interface which can be controlled intuitively. The goal is to provide a modularised framework where every user can pick and install the modules he needs (or reinstall and upgrade later when needed). With a fully documented library of developer resources, Growmanager allows the customisation of every aspect of the framework.
PlantMinder is a very simple application that acts as a replacement for a couple of the logs that any good indoor gardener keeps. Plantminder allows you to log notes, write in a journal, schedule tasks, and record pictures for plants, plant varieties, and rooms that you create. Plantminder also allows you to define attributes for the plants, plant varieties, and rooms such as “Date germinated” and “Total Wattage”. You can set limits on the attributes, like “Yes/No”, or leave them free text. Any changes in attributes are logged with the date changed. The “Views” that the rest of the manual refer to are selected by clicking the buttons at the top of the window.
Automatic Irrigation System for own garden in Hungary. I develop using a PIC MCU for controlling the system.
PmC Design aims to help people designing permaculture projects from apartments, homes & gardens, streets & suburbs, towns, villages, farms, states, countries in order to pre–visualize the changes they might do in the future to theses different environments.
Green Garden is software for monitoring a greenhouse.
agrisquare is source code, electronic and mechanical designs for indoor automated gardening systems. The goal is to provide building blocks for creating, with minimal human intervention, indoor vegetable gardens at small scale and all year long.
Hydroponic Meter and Controller: This project is a combination of hardware and software used to monitor and control a hydroponic garden. Measures, logs, and charts: pH, EC, Temp, Res Depth, Light. Controls pumps, lamps, and fill/flush. It can contact the user via email or pager.
GardenDB: The most functional garden database in the world. Starting with the seed, the program will allow keen gardeners to plan & track their gardening requirements, irrespective of their location or the time of the year. Plans are in place for multi–lang support
Garden Manager is a database system for tracking plants and planting information for “square foot” gardening. Written in GAMBAS. Requires SQLite database backend.
Raindrops is a software for controlling and automation of a irrigation system in your garden. There are two parts: a script to control magnetic valves and a PHP–frontend to control the script.
AutoGreen is a open source project devoted to bringing automated gardens, greenhouses and hydroponic systems to people of interest. Interface between separate modules is controlled by an independent or computer dependent Arduino board.
BioDivMap: This software uses data gathered from published biodiversity inventories, together with physical and vegetational maps, to build a biodiversity map (darkening geographical landscape according with the richness/diversity of species).
MAPSTEDI: The University of Colorado Museum (UCM), Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS), and Denver Botanic Gardens (DBG) are collaborating to convert their separate collections into one distributed biodiversity database and research toolkit for the southern and central Rockies and adjacent plains. Once complete, this biodiversity database will include over 285,000 biological specimens accessible via a map–centric graphical user interface (GUI). The system will be developed using a combination of Commercial–Off–the–Shelf (COTS) software such as ESRI's ArcIMS and ArcSDE, and Open Source software such as ArgoUML, Eclipse, Apache, and Tomcat.
GrowLog is the web based system specially suited to manage the plants growth with a friendly blog–like interface. Organized and flexible statistics views, well organized database gathers together and develops the experience in gardening and horticulture.
Garden Log: Record progress and work done to plants, vegetables or anything in your garden. Track the history of a plant from sowing through to harvesting and pruning, and log success or failure of different types and methods. Multi–user, multi–garden. PHP and MySQL
ExoticCAD is a simple garden designing program, where you arrange plants on a map and then see it realised as a 2D plant border or a 3D walkthrough. To add new plants, just import a 2D image of it.
jardin3d is a java application for quickly choosing and placing plants on a garden 2D plan drawn by the end-user, with a final 3D preview.

Companion Planting

Companion planting: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of companion plants: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Companion Planting: Gardens Ablaze
Companion Plants for Better Yield: Gardens Ablaze
Companions for Attracting Specific Beneficial Insects: Gardens Ablaze
Companion Plants for Pest Control: Gardens Ablaze
Companion Planting: Basic Concept and Resources: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
Companion Plant Spacing: Kentucky State University's Organic Agriculture Working Group
Online companion plant spacing calculator: Kentucky State University's Organic Agriculture Working Group
Common Sense Companion Planting By Kate Gardner, Planet Natural
Companion Planting 101: The Greenest Dollar
Companion Plants in the Descanso Rose Garden
Companion Planting: ghorganics.com
Companion Planting: Off-Grid.net
My Vegetable Garden Layout with Companion Planting Combination: Sustainable Gardening Tips
Companion Planting: Cornell gardening resources: Cornell University, Ecogardening Factsheet #10, Winter 1994
The Gardener's Calendar.co.uk: Companion planting guide
The Gardener's Calendar.co.uk: Companion Planting Table
Do Tomatoes Love Basil but Hate Brussels Sprouts? Competition and Land–Use Efficiency of Popularly Recommended and Discouraged Crop Mixtures in Biointensive Agriculture Systems, Author: M. K. Bomforda
Carrots Love Tomatoes: A guide to companion planting for healthier plants and bigger harvests from the garden.: Mother Earth News
Companion planting: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Companion Planting
Companion planting: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Companion Planting

Bio(logical)diversity

The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Agricultural biodiversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity
Biodiversity: SciDev.Net (the Science and Development Network)
The Biodiversity Support Program (BSP)
Scientific Definitions of Biodiversity: From The California Biodiversity Council (CBC)
What is Biodiversity?: CBC
Global Issues: Biodiversity
Biodiversity: From Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)
Biodiversity: From Earth Portal: The Encyclopedia of Earth
Biodiversity: Sustainable Table
The Environmental Literacy Council: Biodiversity
Biodiversity: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Agriculture Certifications

The Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies (AOSCA) is dedicated to assisting clients in the production, identification, distribution and promotion of certified classes of seed and other crop propagation materials.
The Demeter Biodynamic Trade Association
Certified Naturally Grown
Food Justice Certified
The Organic Standard (TOS): The Organic Certification Directory 2011 (international listing of organic certification organisations)
Organic Trust
Organic Certifiers
Guide to US Organic Certifiers: Rodale Institute
USDA Organic Certification
Organic Farm Certification & the National Organic Program: ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
Quality Certification Services (QCS)
Pro–Cert Organic Systems Ltd. (Pro–Cert)

Agroforestry

Agroforestry Combines Trees and Traditional Farm Enterprises By Terri McLean: University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture, Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service
Agroforestry: Forest Farming by Deborah Hill
Kentucky Division of Forestry: Agroforestry Practices
The Center for Agroforestry at the University of Missouri
The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service: Agroforestry Overview
The Overstory Home Page: A free international journal for agroforestry
The USDA National Agroforestry Center (NAC)
The USDA National Agroforestry Center (NAC) Working Trees brochures
Agroforestry: The Encyclopedia of Earth
Agroforestry: Forests and Forestry in the Americas: An Encyclopedia
World Agroforestry Centre
The Agroforestry Research Trust

Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable Food
National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
Sustainable Agriculture: The Institute of Science in Society (ISIS)
“Sustainable Agriculture: Critical Ecological, Social & Economic Issues”: The Institute of Science in Society
“Circular Economy of the Dyke–Pond System”: The Institute of Science in Society
“Dream Farms”: The Institute of Science in Society
“Dream Farm 2 – Story So Far”: The Institute of Science in Society
Why sustainable agriculture: The Institute of Science in Society
Sustainable Agriculture Pushing Back the Desert: The Institute of Science in Society
ISIS Lecture: Food Without Fossil Fuels Now: The Institute of Science in Society
Science and Food: The Institute of Science in Society
What is Sustainable Agriculture?: University of California, Davis Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program
Lifesciences Breakthrough for Sustainable Health and Agriculture
Promoting Sustainable Agriculture
Winrock International
ANGOC
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
ORGANIC (Ltd) is a non–profit organisation, promoting organic and sustainable agriculture in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
“Towards a Sustainable Agriculture: Steve Diver explains why a low–input, sustainable form of agriculture is needed to preserve the environment and to serve true human needs”
The Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Farming Associations

Organic & Natural Farming

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service is managed by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)
The Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC)
National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)
The Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Books on Eco–Agriculture
The Ecological Synergy Website (farming)
Food and agriculture project
Sustainable Food: Change.org

Biodynamic & Homeodynamic Agriculture/Agro Homeopathy

One Man, One Cow,
One Planet - DVD OUT NOW

One Man, One Cow, One Planet Resources
Demeter-International e. V.
The Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics
homœodynamic agriculture
Agro Homeopathy: Homeopathy for plants, farms, crops and gardening
Mark Moodie Publications: Homeopathy, Biodynamic, Real Science, etc.
Biodynamic and Organic Gardening Resource Site: The history, mystery and science of agriculture for the backyard gardener
Considera – Developing Agriculture (Biodynamic)
Biodynamic Agriculture Association and Demeter in the UK
The Garuda Biodynamic Institute (GBI)
Organic and Biodynamic Farming
Organic and Biodynamic Agriculture
Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
What is Biodynamics?: The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
Biodynamics Journal: The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
Community Supported Agriculture: An Introduction to CSA:: The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
Resources: The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
The Biodynamic Agricultural Association
Biodynamic Farming
Biodynamic Food and Farming
Biodynamic Farming & Compost Preparation: Alternative Farming Systems Guide
Biodynamic Gardening – Planting by the Phases of the Moon
Rudolf Steiner College
Biodynamic Gardening: Rudolf Steiner College
Recommended Reading List for learning more about Biodynamics: Rudolf Steiner College
McKean County Biodynamics featuring Master Gardener L. A. Rotheraine – Blue Ribbon Vegetables, Tomato Seeds, Angels, and Atlantis
Grow Better Veggies: Biodynamic Gardening
Backyard Biodynamics
Books on Biodynamic Farming
Saving the World with Biodynamic Farming
Natura Agrotechnologies
Biodynamic agriculture: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Genetic Engineering (GE) versus Organic Agriculture

An Alternative to Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: OTA
Genetic Engineering vs. Organic Farming: IFOAM
Is Genetic Engineering Affecting Organic Farming?: IFOAM
The Case Against GM Crops & for Organic Sustainable Agriculture. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho Invited Workshop Presentation at National Justice and Peace Conference, 16–18 July 2010, Swanick, UK
GM–Free Organic Agriculture to Feed the World

Organic Agriculture

“Organic matters: Organic farming just as productive as conventional, and better at building soil, Rodale finds” by Tom Philpott in Grist magazine on 25 Mar 2011 7:07 PM
The Organic Standard (TOS)
The FAO Glossary on Organic Agriculture — [Requires PDF Software]
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
IFOAM: Women in Organic Agriculture: The IFOAM Study on Organic Agriculture and Women's Empowerment and the IFOAM: Training Module on Gender in Organic Agriculture

Organic Directory Online

IFOAM: Building Sustainable Organic Sectors
IFOAM: Organic Agriculture and Biodiversity
IFOAM: Growing Organic: Information and Resources for Developing Sustainable Organic Sectors
IFOAM: Arguments in Favor of Organic Agriculture
The Organic World Foundation/a>

ORGANIC (Ltd) is a non–profit organisation, promoting organic and sustainable agriculture in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Canadian Organic Growers (COG)
The Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada (OACC)
Organic Trade Association (OTA)
Questions and Answers About Organic: OTA
Definition of Organic: OTA
National Organic Coalition
The Organic & Non–GMO Report
Rodale Institute
Rodale Institute New Farm For Farmers
Garden Organic
The Organic Center
Organics: The True Food Network
US Organic Standards: OTA
The National Organic Program (NOP)
Organic Production: The Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC)
Kentucky State University's Organic Agriculture Working Group
Tennessee Organic Growers Association
Organic Consumers Association (OCA) Tennessee News & Action Alert Center
Soil Association: Promoting sustainable, organic farming and championing human health
Organic Agriculture and Soil Biodiversity by Nadia El–Hage Scialabba
Organic horticulture: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Organic Issues — Point/Counterpoint
Organic Food
Beyond Pesticides – Organic Food program page
Organic Agriculture – P2P Foundation
Organic: The Issues: Sustainable Table
Organic News & Information
Organic & Natural Farming
Organic and Beyond
Acres U.S.A. magazine: A Voice for Eco–Agriculture
Mother Earth News: Organic Gardening: Learn how to use natural organic gardening methods to grow the freshest food
Organic Gardening: Why Eat Organic Food by Paul Goettlich (with French translation)
Michigan State University Department of Crop and Soil Sciences: Soil Ecology & Management: Organic Farming
Hip Organic Mama
Organic Agriculture for Biodiversity and Pest Control. Scientists find organic fields have more even distribution of natural enemy species, thereby providing significantly better pest control than conventional fields and promoting plant growth. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho
Mitigating Climate Change through Organic Agriculture and Localized Food Systems. Organic, sustainable agriculture that localize food systems has the potential to mitigate nearly thirty percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and save one–sixth of global energy use. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho and Lim Li Ching
Cool Foods Campaign
The Climate–Friendly Gardener: A Guide to Combating Global Warming from the Ground Up
Are you a climate–friendly gardener? Quiz
The Gardener's Guide to Global Warming: Challenges and Solutions: National Wildlife Federation, April 2007 — [Requires PDF Software]
The New Victory Gardens: Fight Oil Addiction in Your Backyard
Earthwatch – Saving the Planet One Meal at a Time
The Best Tomatoes to Grow Where You Live: Enjoy bumper harvests by growing varieties recommended by organic gardeners in your region. By Barbara Pleasant
Organic food | Organic products
USDA Certified Organic = Pure Organic Products
Stem Farmers' Suicides With Organic Farming
GM–Free Organic Agriculture to Feed the World
The Xerces Society: Pollinator Conservation: Organic Farms

Beyond Organic Agriculture to Authentic Organic Agriculture

Organic Processing Industry Structure by Philip H. Howard, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
The Cornucopia Institute: Promoting Economic Justice for Family Scale Farming
Who Owns Organic: The Cornucopia Institute
USDA Report Indicates American Organic Farmers Being Sold Out: The Cornucopia Institute
Wal–Mart: The Nation's Largest Grocer Rolls–out Organic Products — Market Expansion or Market Delusion?: The Cornucopia Institute
Organic Soy Report and Scorecard: The Cornucopia Institute
Organic Egg Report and Scorecard: The Cornucopia Institute
Organic Dairy Report and Scorecard: The Cornucopia Institute
Replacing Mother: Infant Formula Report: The Cornucopia Institute
Open Letter to the Organic Community: Why is the Organic Trade Association Controlled by Representatives of the “Natural” Products Industry? By Jason Freeman – Comfood Listserv, Posted Feb 22, 2011
Charges of Corruption Taint Organic Trade Association (video) by Jeff Nield, Vancouver, British Columbia on 06. 2.11
Organic & Beyond: Rodale Institute
Beyond Organic By Eliot Coleman
Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch Four – Season Farm By Eliot Coleman
Organic Food Authentication
Beyond the Pale Green: Activists and small–scale farmers are going “beyond organic” to push local foods

Vedic Organic Agriculture

Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture
Vedic Agriculture
Natural Law–Based Institute Now Certifies USDA Organic and Vedic Organic Food: Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture Institute Promotes Organic and Vedic Organic Agriculture to Improve Health and Alleviate Poverty Worldwide

Japanese system (one farm using technique in Tennessee)

Mamushi Nature Farm

Irrigation

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Irrigation Page
Water Quality, Conservation, Drought and Irrigation: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service

Soil Ecology & Composting

Misunderstanding Soil Ecosystems: How flawed conceptions of soil have lead to flawed U. S. land, water and climate policies. A thesis submitted by Janice S. Snow In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University (November 2009)
The Environmental Literacy Council: Soil Ecosystems
Shawnee County Conservation District: Soil Ecosystem
Michigan State University Department of Crop and Soil Sciences: Soil Ecology & Management: Soil Ecology
Soil and Water Conservation Society
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation: Soil and Water Conservation Society
Gardening From the Ground Up: Composting
Resources
BioCycle Magazine: Advancing Composting, Organics Recycling & Renewable Energy: The JG Press, Inc.
Compost Science & Utilization Magazine: Complete scientific data on compost process control and end product quality: The JG Press, Inc.
Composting: Gardens Ablaze
Experiencing the Wonders of Composting by Mary Steenhoek, Master Gardener
How to Start a Compost Pile: Making nutrient–rich organic compost is fun and easy.
Supereasy Compost Bin Plans: Check Out This How–To Video
Compost and Fertile Soil Building
Build a Compost Heap
Compost Gardening
Home Composting
Backyard Composting
Composting Association of Vermont
Michigan State University Department of Crop and Soil Sciences: Soil Ecology & Management: Compost

Greening the Earth

Find organic food, farmers markets, natural food stores, coops, organic farms, seeds, CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture)
Local Harvest
Locavores

Green Tennessee and Middle Tennessee

The Food Education Affirming Sustainable Traditions (FEAST) Community Supported Kitchen (CSK)
Transition Tennessee: Bringing communities together to make the transition to sustainability, self–reliance and a life beyond oil
Net Impact Nashville: Making a difference beyond Middle Tennessee
Slow Food Nashville
Slow Food Nashville Links
Recycle Rutherford
Tennessee Organic Growers Association
Tennessee Master Gardener
Rutherford County Master Gardeners
Greener Nashville

What to Plant Now
Growing Power
Garden Girl TV
Wiser Earth: Connecting You to Communities of Action
Natural Awakenings
Mother Earth News: The Original Guide to Living Wisely
Net Impact is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to make a positive impact on society by growing and strengthening a community of leaders who use business to improve the world.

Ethical Shopping

Buying Organics: The True Food Network
How to be an ethical consumer: There are no easy answers – but here are some questions that can help point the way. November 2006 New Internationalist
Cradle to Cradle Certification
Real Goods
LabourStart
Union Network International (UNI)
Global Unions
No Sweat
Shop Union Made
The Union Label and Service Trades Department, AFL–CIO
America at Work2006
Organic Consumers Association's Breaking the Chains Campaign

Responsible Shopper
Ecobaby
EcoMall
World's largest directory of eco–friendly products
World Centric
World Centric Fair Trade & Eco Store
Fresh Food Co
the Brenmar Company
Earthware Biodegradables
Green Earth Office Supply online store
Green Earth Office Supply online store: Kitchen/ Cafeteria Supplies
Green Home Environmental Products
Treecycle Recycled Paper and Environmentally Friendly Cleaning
Green Earth Office Supply online store

Fair Trade

Fair trade risks losing its soul to big business. Albert Tucker wants you to join the fightback. November 2006 New Internationalist
Have your say… on the future of fair trade. Posted by New Internationalist

The people, the ideas, the action in the fight for global justice: New Internationalist
War on Want
Sustainable Business, Green Business, Renewable Energy, Organic & Green Investing, Green Capital

Health & Wellness

Complementary and “Alternative” (Non–Traditional Western, Orthodoxy) Medicine:

Alternative Medicine Center
Holistic Health
Health E–Living News
Health & Wellness News
Natural News: Independent news on natural health, nutrution and more
The Health Research Group (HRG)
The Healthy Person's Guide to Personal Care Ingredients

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (ATHM)

ATHM

The Natural Solutions Foundation

Water in the Organism

Holistic Health

World of Water

Dr. Mercola

Tetrahedron Publishing Group

What Is Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Acupuncture

Questions and Answers About Homeopathy

A Homeopathic Perspective on Infectious Disease

Homeopathic Educational Services

Stormwater

Project WET: Worldwide Water Education
Project WET Tennessee: Water Education for Teachers
Metro (Nashville, TN) Water Services Stormwater Program
Murfreesboro, TN Water and Sewer Department: Stormwater Department
Stormwater Planning & Low Impact Design Guide: City of Murfreesboro, TN — [Requires PDF Software]
Storm Water Design Manuals: City of Murfreesboro, TN
Storm Water Links
City of Franklin, Tennessee Stormwater page
Seattle, Washington: Street Edge Alternatives (SEA Streets) Project
Puget Sound Partnership (Washington State) Stormwater Resources
Low Imapct Development Technical Guidance Manual for Puget Sound — [Requires PDF Software]
Pierce County Washington: Low Impact Development: Researching and implementing new strategies for stormwater management
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Economic Development: Sustainable Development Guide: Introduction
Conservation Design for Stormwater Management: A Design Approach To Reduce Stormwater Impacts from Land Development and Achieve Multiple Objectives Related to Land Use — [Requires PDF Software]
The Ecological Planning and Design Directory: Resources for Developers, Local Officials, and Stakeholders: Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission
Low Impact Development (LID) Urban Design Tools Website
Tools for Stormwater Management: Lake Superior Duluth
Site Design Toolkit: Lake Superior Duluth
Mimicking Nature to Solve a Water–Pollution Problem: Communities across America are cleaning up their water –– and saving money –– with “low-impact development.”: The Natural Resources Defense Council(NRDC)
Blair County, Pennsylvania Conservation District Stormwater Best Management Practices
Prince George's County, Maryland Bioretention Manual — [Requires PDF Software]
Prince George's County, Maryland Low–Impact Development Hydrologic Analysis — [Requires PDF Software]
Prince George's County, Maryland Low& ndash;Impact Development Design Strategies: An Integrated Design Approach — [Requires PDF Software]
Multiple Systems for Stormwater Management: (City of Franklin, Tennessee) — [Requires PDF Software]

Rain Barrels and Rain Gardens

What is a HUC 12 and what does it mean to you?
How Can I Make a Rain Barrel?: information from the EPA — [Requires PDF Software]
What is a Rain Barrel?: Water conservation at home – benefits, FAQs, and how to make your own rain barrel by MWSD — [Requires PDF Software]
MWSD Rain Barrels and Rain Gardens
Rain Barrels
Rain Gardens 101: The Groundwater Foundation
Rain Gardens
How Does Your Garden Grow?: A Reference Guide to Enhancing your Rain Garden — [Requires PDF Software]
Rain Garden Design Templates
Metro Nashville Water Services Stormwater Program LID Resources & Rain Garden Information
Residential Rain Gardens
Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council (TN–EPPC) Native Plant Landscaping Resource Page
City of Lincoln, Nebraska Watershed Management: Education: Rain Barrels
City of Lincoln, Nebraska Watershed Management: Education: Rain Gardens

Freeing and Opening Information, Knowledge, Society, Software, and the World

Free/Libre Software

The Free Software Definition: The GNU Operating System
Software License List: The GNU Operating System
Links to Other Free Software Sites: The GNU Operating System
Get a Free Software PDF Reader!
Making PDFs with free software
Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa
Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
Fellowship of Free Software Foundation Europe (FFSFE)
FSF France
Free Software Foundation of India
Free Software Foundation Latin America
The GNU Project: GNU Operating System: GNU is free software
Philosophy of the GNU Project
About the GNU Operating System
GNU Development Resources
The Free Software Directory: Free Software Foundation
Free Software Resources: Free Software Foundation
GNU General Public License
Free software license: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Take Action (for Free Software)
Selling Free Software
Savannah (Development, Distribution and Maintenance of GNU Software)
Hardware Devices that Support GNU/Linux
Recommended Complete GNU/Linux Systems: Free Software Foundation
Software Freedom Day
Advogato: the free software developer's advocate. Since 1999, our goal has been to be a resource for free software developers around the world, and a research testbed for group trust metrics and other social networking technologies. Advogato is devoted to the public good through its support of free software.
History of free software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gratis versus Libre: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GNU/Linux naming controversy: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Free software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WikiProject Free Software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Portal: Free software Portal: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Free Software replacements for proprietary applications on the Microsoft Windows OS
Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software

Open Source Software

Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Definition: Open Source Initiative
Open Source Licenses: Open Source Initiative
Open Standards Requirement: Open Source Initiative
The International Open Source Network (IOSN)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)–Asia–Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP): Regional Centre Bangkok: The International Open Source Network (IOSN)
Open Source Software: Why Aren't You Using It? by Jay Pfaffman — [Requires PDF Software]
ZYTRAX Open Source
OSDir.com
Enterprise Open Source Directory
Open Source Directory
Open Source Network
Open Source Scripts
“ Ten Myths about Open Source Software” by Tim O'Reilly
“10 Myths About Open Source Software Answered” by Carlo Daffara
The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows!
List of open source software packages: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Open source software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Open source: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Free/Libre & Open Source Software (FLOSS)

Free Software Magazine: articles on free software
The LibrePlanet project is a global network of free software activists organized into teams working together to help further the ideals of software freedom by advocating and contributing to free software.
Free/Libre & Open Source Software WWW Resources: Concepts, Practices & the Future — from eIT.in: a comprehensive WWW database for IT, software and related industries
The International Free and Open Source Science Foundation (iFOSSF)
Free / Open Source Research Community at MIT
FLOSS@Syracuse
CFP: Open Movements: FLOSS, Open Contents, Open Access and Open Communities
The Apache Software Foundation: Projects
Software in the Public Interest (SPI)
Strike a blow for freedom – get rid of Windows, Word, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and the rest, says Bruce Byfield. November 2006 New Internationalist
The Evolution of free/libre open source software by Lorenzo Benussi — [Requires PDF Software]
Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres (AFUL) — French speaking Libre Software Users' Association
Racketiciel.info: AFUL
Racketware.info: AFUL
FOSS Wiki
AdCiv.org: Free and open–source software
SourceForge.net is your location to download and develop free open source software.
OpenUsability is an initiative that promotes usability in Free/Libre/Open–Source Software (FLOSS) development. Today, OpenUsability is a group of people who share the same mindset of an “Open Usability”: Make usability transparent, share methods and best practices, and support open source software.
Free Open Source Software (FOSS)
List of formerly proprietary software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of free and open source software packages: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Free Software and Open Source Software News – News from every free and open source software community
eIFL–FOSS: Free and Open Source Software
Free/Open Source Research Community
FLOSS Manuals
FLOSS–CD
OpenSourceList.org: Open Source Software for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
Open Source Mac – Free Mac Software, all open–source, all OS X
GnuWin provides ports of tools with a GNU or similar open source license, to modern MS–Windows (Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7)
The KDE on Windows Initiative
The Cygwin GNOME project aims to port the GNOME desktop to Windows OS, using Cygwin as a porting tool and user environment
Cygwin is a collection of tools which provide a Linux look and feel environment for Windows. * a DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.
MinGW.org: Home of the MinGW, MSYS and mingwPORT Projects
MinGW: A native Windows port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), with freely distributable import libraries and header files for building native Windows applications; includes extensions to the MSVC runtime to support C99 functionality.
Open Source Windows: From Downloadpedia – The Software Encyclopedia
OpenSourceList.org: Open Source Software for Windows
OpenDisc: High Quality Open Source Software for Windows
List of Open–source Programs (LOOP) for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
List of free and open source software for Windows
The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows!
Free Software replacements for proprietary applications on the Microsoft Windows OS
AdCiv.org: Free and Open Source Examples of free and open–source software for Windows
Free and Open Source Open Source Windows – Free, Open–Source Software for Windows XP and Vista
Free and Open Source Educational Software for Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux: Centre for OpenSource Development at CQUniversity Australia
Free and Open Source Software: Sun Microsystems
Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers!
Breaking Barriers: The Potential of Free and Open Source Software for Sustainable Human Development: A Compilation of Case Studies from Across the World by Nah Soo Hoe, UNDP–APDIP ICT4D Series — [Requires PDF Software]
UNESCO promotes use of free software in Latin America and the Caribbean
Free & Open Source Software Portal: A gateway to resources related to Free Software and Open Source Technology movement: UNESCO
Free Software and Human Rights From P2P Foundation by GianMarco Schiesaro. For the International Congress Free Software and the Democratization of Knowledge, Quito, 23 October 2008
Freestyle – FLOSS In Design: Submitted by mute on Sunday, 20 June, 2004 – 23:00, Mute magazine
Using FLOSS towards Building Environmental Information Systems — [Requires PDF Software]
Free/Libre Open Source Software Metrics (FLOSSMetrics)
European Working Group on Libre Software
Portal: Free software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Category: FLOSS: From Wikinews, the free news source you can write
Category: Free software: From Wikisource, the free library that anyone can improve
Category: FOSS Books: From Wikibooks, the open–content textbooks collection
Category: Free software: From Wikimedia Commons, A database of 4,364,789 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute
Free software community: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of free software project directories: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study
Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study: FLOSS Final Report

Operating Systems

Freebyte's Guide to Free and Non–Free Operating Systems
List of operating systems: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Operating system: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Free Operating Systems

Recommended Complete GNU/Linux Systems: Free Software Foundation
Trisquel GNU/Linux is a 100% free operating system. It comes with a complete selection of programs that can be easily extended using a graphical installer. There are several editions available, including the "mini" edition for netbooks and old computers and the network based installer for custom and server installations.
gNewSense is a fully free software GNU/Linux distribution. Free software is software that respects your freedom. You can use it without restrictive licenses, make copies for your friends, school or business. To use free software is to make a political and ethical choice asserting your rights to learn and to share what you learn with others. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community. We are open and anyone is welcome to join.
The GNU–Darwin Distribution aims to be the most free software distribution. Our mission is two–fold: Focus on projects that leverage our unique combination of Darwin and GNU, and help users to enjoy the benefits of software freedom. (founded November 2000)
JNode.org, the website of the Java New Operating System Design Effort. JNode is a simple to use & install Java operating system for personal use. It runs on modern devices. Any java application will run on it, fast & secure! JNode is open source and uses the LGPL license.
ReactOS® is a free, modern operating system based on the design of Windows® XP/2003
Category: Free software operating systems: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Free & Open Source Operating Systems

Comparison of open source operating systems: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Free Operating Systems: Free and Open Source Platforms for your computer
Open Source Operating Systems
InformationWeek: “Free Operating Systems That Aren't Linux: We look beyond the traditional open source OS of choice to other free options such BSD, OpenSolaris, HaikuOS, ReactOS, and PureDarwin.” By Serdar Yegulalp, July 11, 2009
Haiku is a new open–source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.

Free Desktop Environment (DE)

freedesktop.org
KDE (K Desktop Environment)
GNOME: The Free Software Desktop Project
The Desktop Summit 2011 is a joint conference organised by the GNOME and KDE communities, in Berlin, Germany from the 6th August 2011 to the 12th August 2011 at the Humboldt University.
The Tango Desktop Project exists to help create a consistent graphical user interface experience for free and Open Source software. While the look and feel of an application is determined by many individual components, some organization is necessary in order to unify the appearance and structure of individual icon sets used within those components. The Tango Desktop Project defines an icon style guideline to which artists and designers can adhere. A sample implementation of the style is available as an icon theme based upon a standardized icon naming specification. In addition, the project provides transitional utilities to assist in creating icon themes for existing desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE.
Desktop environment: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Free & Open Source Music

Play Ogg
NoDRM: For musicians who respect their fans
Libre.fm actively supports the creation of music by independent artists, and only plays music that has been licensed freely.
Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses
GNU FM is free software for running music community websites. It was created for the music community site, Libre.fm — run by Foo Communications.
The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others. A team of volunteers are involved in typesetting the music by computer using the LilyPond software. Why not join them?! See the page on how to contribute for more information. We also host a growing number of modern editions, arrangements and new music. The respective editors, arrangers and composers have chosen to make these works freely available.

Free & Open Source Movies

Open source film: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
20 Open Source Movies You Can Edit and Redistribute for Free
Two free open-source movies: From the Free Software Magazine

Free & Open Source electronic books (ebooks)

: the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks)

Partners, Affiliates and Resources: From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free ebooks.
Project Gutenberg Australia
Tampa Bay Library Consortium Public Domain E–book library (a collection of over 34,000 titles)
calibre: It is free and cross–platform in design. calibre is meant to be a complete e–library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e–book reader sync features and an integrated e–book viewer.
FBReader: e–book reader for Unix/Windows computers
The eBook Writer
The Right to Read by Richard Stallman. This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2). (from “The Road To Tycho”, a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096)

Free & Open Source Software Fonts

The Open Font Library
FontForge
Free Font Manifesto
SIL Open Font License (OFL)
Free software Unicode typefaces: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Free Font Resources for Free Open Source Operating Systems
Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems
Existing Free Fonts
freedesktop.org – Software/Fonts: Lists of Free/Libre and Open Unicode fonts
Open Source Fonts
unifont.org
The Unicode Consortium
GNU FreeFont
Libertine Open Fonts Project
Liberation Fonts
Gentium Font Home
Doulos SIL Font Home
Charis SIL Font Home
Tiresias family of fonts
The Dark Garden Font
Rufscript, new font released
osifont: Free TrueType font for European CAD projects

Free & Open Source Software and Public Domain Images

Category: Free image galleries: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Public domain image resources: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Open Clip Art Library
GNUArt.org
Copyright–Free Photo Archive: Public Domain Photos and Images
PD Photo: Free Photos And Pictures (public domain, stock pictures, wallpaper, royalty free, clip art, etc.)
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Photo Library
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Featured Images and Galleries

Freeing and Opening the Globe

Open Everything Wiki is a global conversation web page about the art, science and spirit of ‘open’. It gathers people using openness to create and improve software, education, media, philanthropy, architecture, neighbourhoods, workplaces and the society we live in: everything. It's about thinking, doing and being open.

Freeing and Opening Educational and Learning Institutions

Freeing and Opening Educational and Learning Institutions: Organizations

Teachers Without Borders (TWB)
The National Center for Open Source and Education
Open Source Schools
SchoolForge
Schoolforge–UK
Open Schools Alliance
The One Laptop per Child association develops a low–cost laptop—the “XO Laptop”—to revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Our mission is “to provide educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low–cost, low–power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self–empowered learning.”
Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching (OFSET)

Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Learning Institutions

Open Source Software — Open Education
Sugar Labs: learning software for children
The KDE Education Project: Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults, you can freely use our software, copy it, modify it to your needs and enjoy learning!
Edubuntu's objective is to create an integrated and usable experience for educational users by enhancing Ubuntu with educational applications, tools, content, and themes.
Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.
GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10
GNU Edu project Home Page: OFSET
GNU Edu indexing system: OFSET
The OFSET collaborative portal: OFSET
Education Software: SchoolForge
Free Software, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS): SchoolForge
Free, Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS): Schoolforge–UK
Free Education software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Free Software in Education: The GNU Project
Free and Open Source Educational Software for Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux: Centre for OpenSource Development at CQUniversity Australia
OpenDisc: Education: High Quality Open Source Software for Windows
Educational Free Software and Savannah Projects
Free Learning Resources

Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Learning Institutions: Articles

Libre knowledge: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Why schools should exclusively use free software by Richard Stallman
Why give precedence to Free Software at school?: Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
Free Knowledge requires Free Software and Free File Formats
“Ubuntu breathes new life into school's abandoned hardware: Repurposed PCs use Kubuntu to run school's Web based student library system”: ComputerWorld
“School districts serve up lessons in Linux: School districts in the US and Canada find Linux and open source offers better support, cheaper setup costs, and improved educational value”: ComputerWorld
Why Open Source is Failing in Education
FLOSS and education, From Wikiversity
Schools and FLOSS, From Wikiversity
Schools and FLOSS/Australian schools and FLOSS, From Wikiversity
Composing free and open online educational resources, From Wikiversity
The Advancement of Tertiary Teaching and Learning/Free Knowledge Communities and FLOSS in Education, From Wikiversity
Education Case Studies: Case studies on how Free Software and Open Source have enhanced educational software environments: SchoolForge
Free/Open Source Software Education by Tan Wooi Tong: Asia–Pacific Development Information Programme — [Requires PDF Software]
FLOSSCom: Using the principles of informal learning environments of FLOSS communities to improve Information Communication Technology (ICT) supported formal education
ccLearn: Creative Commons Learn
Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons
Open Educational Resources (OER) Projects
Open Educational Resources (OER) Recommender
WikiEducator, free elearning content
Say Libre, From WikiEducator
Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
FreeReading is a high–quality, open–source, free reading intervention program for grades K–3
K–12 Open Minds Conference
K–12 Open Minds Wiki
CoSN K–12 Open Technologies Leadership Initiative The initiative is sponsored by IBM, Cisco, Pearson Education, and SAS to support the adoption and utilization of open technologies in K–12 education around the world
K12OpenSource.com
Greater Houlton Christian Academy's Linux–based Computer Network
Open Source Solutions: The Journal – Transforming Education through Technology
Digital Education: Exploring Open–Source for Schools
Open Source Scripts: Python: Education
Improving Education – Linux and Open Source
Softpanorama (slightly skeptical) Open Source Software Educational Society

Freeing and Opening Textbooks

Open Administration for Schools

Freeing and Opening College and University Courses Courses [OpenCourseWare (OCW)]

Open Administration for Schools

Notre Dame OCW

OCW Universidad de Cantabria

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
The Open Knowledge Foundation: Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age
The Open Knowledge Definition: Defining the Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Information
Open Content Alliance (OCA)

Green and Healthy Schools

“Launching Zero Waste Schools” (BioCycle March 2010, Vol. 51, No. 3, p. 35)
Letter to Editor: What Green Schools Can Teach: Washington Post, Tuesday, September 9, 2008; Page A22
U.S. Green Building Council: Build Green Schools
Washington Green Schools
The Green Schools Initiative
Greening Schools was a joint project between the Illinois EPA and the Waste Management Research Center.
greenschools
Virginia Beach City Public Schools Green Schools Web Page
Green in Schools (United Kingdom)
Healthy Schools Campaign
Promote Healthy Schools Campaign with a widget
Green Clean Schools: Healthy Schools Campaign
Green Clean Schools National Summit: September 15, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
Slow Food In Schools
Slow Food On Campus
Center for Ecoliteracy
Green Teacher magazine
Green Teacher — ENVIS website for Environment Education
Making A Difference Colleges, The Green College Guide

Freeing and Opening Libraries

Copyright for Librarians is a joint project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL), a consortium of libraries from 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe.
eIFL.net: Electronic Information for Libraries
The eIFL.net knowledge sharing network
eIFL–OA: Open Access
eIFL–FOSS: Free and Open Source Software
eIFL–IP: Intellectual Property
OA Librarian: Open access resources by and for librarians
Useful information for libraries
The Open Library Blog
The Open Library
The Open Library
Planning for Success: Free and Open–Source Software in Libraries
Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki: Open Source Software
Open Source Systems for Libraries
Koha is the first open–source Integrated Library System (ILS)
LibLime, the leader in open–source solutions for libraries

Freeing and Opening the Nonprofit Sectors

Social Source Commons
The Nonprofit Open Source Initiative (NOSI)
Penguin Days: Exploring Free and Open Source Software for Non–Profits (NOSI)
Choosing and Using Free and Open Source Software: A primer for nonprofits
Creative licensing can help non–profits protect and share content
Aspiration

Freeing and Opening Small and Medium Enterprises

Free/Libre Open Source Software: a guide for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
OpenTTT: Open source Partnership for Enterprises and Network of developers aiming at Transnational Technology Transfer
Management Guidelines on Migrating to Open Source/OpenData Standards Software by Carlo Daffara
Open Source Case for Business
Business Open Source Software
Free Business software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Free Business and productivity software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Business & Enterprise Software on SourceForge.net
Office/Business Projects on Freecode
Business Software: Free and Open Source Educational Software: Centre for OpenSource Development at CQUniversity Australia
Office Tools: Free and Open Source Educational Software: Centre for OpenSource Development at CQUniversity Australia
Open Workbench: Open–Source Project Scheduling for Windows is an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality.
OpenProj is a free, open source desktop alternative to Microsoft Project. OpenProj has been downloaded over 1,250,000 times in over 142 countries and has quickly become one of the most popular open source applications. If you are managing a group project we recommend Projects On Demand. If you want a free replacement to commercial desktop software, then OpenProj is perfect. OpenProj is also now included with Star Office in Europe. It's available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows, and it's free.
GanttProject: free tool for project scheduling and management
OpenRPT: Free Open Source SQL Report Writer
GnuCash is personal and small–business financial–accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
TurboCASH: Open Source Accounting Software
PBooks: Free Bookkeeping Software
Apache OFBiz (The Apache Open For Business Project) is an open source enterprise automation software project licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0. By open source enterprise automation we mean: Open Source ERP, Open Source CRM, Open Source E–Business / E–Commerce, Open Source SCM, Open Source MRP, Open Source CMMS/EAM, and so on.
webERP is an open–source web–based ERP system.
Estimation Reporting: It's a pure Java Reporting Library and Reportdesigner for viewing, printing, exporting (xls, pdf, html, rtf) of professional looking reports. Supports Text–, Image– and Chart–Fields, multiple Grouping, XML–Templates and different Datasources.

Digital/Internet Freedom

Copyleft: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What is Copyleft?
Copy Left
Copying and Sharing in Self Defense by Alexandre Oliva
Union for the Public Domain

The Digital Tipping Point

`Trusted Computing' Frequently Asked Questions – TC / TCG / LaGrande / NGSCB / Longhorn / Palladium / TCPA
Piratpartiet (The Pirate Party), a Swedish political party fronting free culture and free knowledge
The Open Rights Group
End Software Patents
End Software Patents Wiki: The goal of swpat.org is to catalog and organise information about software patents from around the world to provide a base for campaigns against software patents. This wiki can be edited by you.
No Software Patents!
Negative effects of patents on software
DefectivebyDesign.org: The Campaign to Eliminate DRM (Digital Restrictions Management)
DRM.info
Digital Rights Management: Digital Rights Management and Copy Protection Schemes: the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Can You Trust Your Computer? by Richard Stallman
Save the Internet: Fighting for Internet Freedom
Digital Freedom: Protect Your Digital Rights
Public Knowledge
It's Our Web: Free Speech TV Community
The Xiph.Org Foundation is a non–profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests. Our purpose is to support and develop free, open protocols and software to serve the public, developer and business markets.
Licenses
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics
BadVista
The Linux Foundation

http://www.arl.org/sparc/openaccess/index.shtml Open Access (SPARC) http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.shtml SPARC - The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition http://www.arl.org/sparc/oer/ Open Educational Resources (SPARC) http://www.soros.org/openaccess Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.arl.org/sparc/opendata/ Open Data (SPARC) http://pantonprinciples.org/ Panton Principles: Principles for Open Data in Science

Open Information

Open Access

Open Access From P2P Foundation
Open access and open source in chemistry by Matthew H Todd. School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Sydney, Australia. Chemistry Central Journal 2007, 1:3doi:10.1186/1752–153X–1–3. Published: 19 February 2007
The Public Knowledge Project
eIFL-OA: Open Access
Open Students: Students for open access to research
The Right to Research Coalition
Open Digital Village Wiki
oneVillage Foundation
The open–access.net platform
Open access: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Peter Suber, Open Access News: News from the open access movement
Open Access Overview: Focusing on open access to peer–reviewed research articles and their preprints
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC®)
SPARC Europe
SPARC Japan
Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS): Practical steps for implementing Open Access
Directory of Open Access Journals
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories
The Open Access Directory (OAD)
Open Access Week – 18–24 October 2010 To broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access
Events celebrating Open Access Week (October 19–23, 2009)
Open Access Day
Spread the word – downloadables, creatables, educational resources Open Access Day

http://www.academicjournals.org/index.htm Academic Journals: Open Access Journals http://www.bentham.org/open/index.htm Welcome to Bentham Open Access BENTHAM OPEN publish over 250 peer–reviewed open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, technology, and medicine. The Open Agriculture Journal is an Open Access online journal, which publishes research articles, reviews, and letters in all areas of agricultural science. Topics covered include, agronomy; crop protection; breeding; genetics; soil science; statistical methods; and sustainable systems. The Open Agriculture Journal, a peer-reviewed journal, aims to provide the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments in the field. The emphasis will be on publishing quality papers rapidly and freely available to researchers worldwide. http://www.issuelab.org/home IssueLab: Brining Nonprofit Research into Focus http://scoap3.org/index.html SCOAP³ - Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics: Towards Open Access publishing in High Energy Physics http://www.whitehouse.gov/open Open Government Initiative: the White House

Open Standards

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS): Advancing open standards for the global information society
FSFE: Open Standards Overview
FSFE: Open Standards Definition
Open Standards and PDF
An Economic Basis for Open Standards — [Requires PDF Software]

Open Formats (Documents, Images, etc.)

No Microsoft OOXML
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is an open, extensible image format with lossless compression
openformats.org
OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
OpenDocument XML.org: This is the official community gathering place and information resource for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300)
OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance
OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance India
OpenDocument Fellowship
Application support for the OpenDocument format
OpenDocument Viewer: Cross–platform viewer for OpenDocument files
OpenDocument: The truly open XML document file format
OpenDocument: Free Software Foundation
OpenDocument: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Open Documents and Democracy: A Political Basis for Open Document Standards
Document Freedom Day
ODF Olympiad: Towards a Computer Literate Society
Information Society Project: Yale Law School
Free content: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of free file formats: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Open Translations

Open Translation Tools 2009
Open Translation Tools
Translate.org.za, a non–profit organisation focused on the localisation, or translation, of Open Source software into South Africa's 11 official languages

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ The Software Freedom Law Center

Creative Commons

Creative Commons
ccLearn: Creative Commons Learn
Science Commons
Health Commons
Scholar's Copyright Project
Biological Materials Transfer Project
The Neurocommons
GreenXchange
The Public Library of Science (PLoS)
(The Public Library of Science) PLoS ONE
everyONE – the PLoS ONE community blog
BioMed Central: The Open Access Publisher
Energy Efficiency in Buildings: World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Water: World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Sustainable Value Chain: World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Wiki

Category: Free wiki software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Meta–Wiki
Wiktionary, Dictionary and thesaurus
Wikibooks, Free textbooks and manuals
Wikiquote, Collection of quotations
Wikisource, Free source documents
Wikimedia Commons, Shared media repository
Wikinews, Free content news source
Wikipedia, Free encyclopedia
Wikiversity, Free learning tools
Wikispecies, Directory of species

Free and Open Culture

Students for Free Culture
Free culture movement, From Wikiversity

Freeing and Opening Architects, Computer Programmers/Developers, Designers, Engineers, Mathematicians, Scientists, and Statisticians with Ethics and Integrity

EcoC²S Opening and Liberating Knowledge Resources
Open Source Free Energy Tech: on PESWiki (Pure Energy Systems Wiki): The community–built resource that focuses on alternative, clean, practical, renewable energy solutions.
Open Sourcing Projects at Pure Energy Systems
The SolaRoof Goal is to transform our homes, building a Solar Greenhouse in the backyard or creating new Garden Home concepts and Eco Village or urban Eco Habitat design through an Open Source initiative for Sustainable Living sponsored by and based on the work of Richard Nelson and other pioneers of the Liquid Bubble Insulation and Liquid Solar technologies.
AdCiv.org: Open Source Scientific Research
AdCiv.org: Open collaborative design
Category: Open: From P2P Foundation. This section is dedicated to the question: what is common to openness in these various domains, and what is different?
Commons– based peer production: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Open Source Innovation Community – Open Innovation Projects
Instructables is a web–based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others.
OpenMaterials is a research group dedicated to open investigation and experimentation with DIY production methods and uses of materials. In the spirit of the open source software and hardware movements, we hope to promote materials to be researched and developed in a public, collaborative manner. We see materials as an open resource, and wish to establish an open process for exploring and sharing knowledge, techniques and applications related to materials science.
Open Source House (OS–House) is a non–profit organization that aims to provide better, more sustainable housing in low–income countries. 8 Design principles are utilized by OS–House to guarantee standards of sustainability, and meet the challenge of flexibility, ensuring that all designs can be locally embedded.
Architecture for Humanity
Open Architecture Network: Community–focused design and construction
Open Engineering: Environment and Development: A Proposal for a Shared Technology Database
Open Source Engineering
Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that has been imagining and creating the Global Village Construction Set, an open source, low–cost, high performance technological platform. These DIY–fabricated industrial machines can be used to build a sustainable civilization with modern comforts. The GVCS lowers the barriers to entry into farming, building, and manufacturing. It is a life–size lego–like set of modular tools that can create entire economies.
Open design is the application of Open Source methods to the creation of physical products, machines and systems: From P2P Foundation
Open Peer–to–Peer Design: Design for Complexity
The Eco–Patent Commons, launched by IBM, Nokia, Pitney Bowes and Sony in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Open Invention Network LLC
Opennovation: Engineering Consulting with Open Source Tools

Ethics & Integrity (Engineering, Scientific, and Social)

Los Alamos Study Group (LASG): Scientists' and Engineers' Pledge To Renounce Weapons of Mass Destruction
Combating Corruption in Engineering and Construction online petition
This site is dedicated to socially responsible engineering. It is designed to complement the book Citizen Engineer with more dynamic content, including news, forums, and feedback.
InformIT: “Towards Socially Responsible Innovation: An Interview with the Authors of Citizen Engineer” By Diann Daniel, David Douglas, John Boutelle, Greg Papadopoulos, Oct 29, 2009
Online Ethics Center (OEC) for Engineering and Research
Online Ethics Center (OEC) for Engineering and Research: Environment, Safety & Sustainability
Online Ethics Center (OEC) for Engineering and Research: Ethics Codes and Guidelines
Panton Principles: Principles for Open Data in Science
American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) Codes of Ethics
Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) Executive Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Sustainability Task Committee
Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) Executive Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Sustainability Task Committee: Sustainable Design Resources
Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) Executive Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Sustainability Task Committee: Ethics and Sustainable Business Resources
Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) Executive Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Sustainability Task Committee: Science and Sustainability Resources
EcoC²S Sustainable Science Resources
EcoC²S Book Resources page
EcoC²S Hydrology and Hydrology–Related Resources page
Corporate Accountability International
Challenging Corporate Abuse of Our Food: Corporate Accountability International
Challenge Corporate Control of Water: Corporate Accountability International
Collective Wisdom Initiative
Collective Wisdom Initiative: What Can Science Tell Us About Collective Consciousness? by Robert Kenny, MBA
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Institute, Kolkata
Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose: His Life and Speeches by Jagadis Chandra Bose at Project Gutenberg
Response in the Living and Non–Living by Jagadis Chandra Bose at Project Gutenberg
William A. Tiller Foundation for New Science
Rupert Sheldrake
Blinded By Science By Matthew Silverstone
The Buckminster Fuller Institute
The Buckminster Fuller Institute Definitions and Resources
Exploration on Fundamental Theoretical Physics
Quantum bio–physics in living organisms
Ecosystem Management: The New Tool of Land Managers? (written to Boulder Open Space Personnel) by Tim Seastedt
The Elegant Universe, NOVA (PBS), 25 March 2012: Resonance in Strings: Brian Greene
the Institute of Science in Society (ISIS)
“To Science with Love: How science and scientists can contribute to the sustainability agenda” by Dr. Mae–Wan Ho
Who Owns Scientific Knowledge? Professor Peter Saunders calls on all scientists to resist the privatisation of scientific knowledge by refusing to publish in journals belonging to publishers profiteering from closing off free access to scientific archives.
The “Academic–Industrial–Military Complex” Engineering Life & Mind The “academic–industrial–military complex” is shaping every aspect of our lives, beginning with the kind of science and scientific research that gets done and gets reported. We are not only losing our right to self–determination and self–sufficiency, but most seriously of all, our right to think differently from the corporate establishment. The suppression of scientific dissent threatens the survival of science and endangers lives. Dr. Mae–Wan Ho and Jonathan Matthews call for open debate on the scientific evidence of hazards inherent to genetic engineering. The future of food security and the survival of our planet are at stake.
Science and Ethics
Science and Society
Towards a Biospheric Ethic: Modern moral philosophers have tended to study ethics in a void, ignoring the insights of the natural and human sciences. Some eminent scholars have sought to put this right; but based their ethical principles on a grossly distorted view of nature and human society, resulting in a ‘technospheric’ ethic that seeks to equate progress and the moral good with economic expansion and the dominance of man over nature. A new ‘biospheric’ ethic is required to mediate sustainable human behaviour in relationship to society, the ecosystem, the biosphere and the cosmos itself.
Edward Goldsmith (In fond memory)
Bioethics: A Third World Issue
Science Advisors Abusing Public Trust
Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)
The European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER)
Research Foundation For Science, Technology And Ecology (RFSTE)
The Independent Science Panel (ISP) is a panel of scientists from many disciplines, committed to the Promotion of Science for the Public Good.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI): The Integrity in Science Project Internet Database
EcoNexus: a not–for–profit public interest research organisation and science watchdog
William A. Tiller Foundation for New Science
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Scientific Integrity Program
UCS Call to Action: Scientists Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking
UCS Call to Action: Integrity In Science Working Group
The European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER)
Corporate Junk Science: Corporate Influence at International Science Organizations
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research: Where Science and Democracy Meet
Home page of Navdanya
The Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency (EPEA)
Engineers in Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities of Service (ETHOS)
The International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES)
Engineers Against Poverty (EAP)
Engineers Without Borders: International
Engineers Without Borders: USA
Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology (PSRAST)
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
A SEED (Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment, and Diversity)
The Green Belt Movement is a grassroots Non–Governmental Organization (NGO) – based in Kenya – that focuses on environmental conservation and community development
Bioneers a/k/a Collective Heritage Institute: Visionary and Practical Solutions for Restoring the Earth
Uncaged Campaigns
New Scientist
Center for Ecoliteracy
Natural Path
EcoGeek: Clean Technology
Green Chemistry Institute
Quantum bio–physics in living organisms
French Physicist Creates New Melodies – Plant Songs
Stuart Hameroff's Home Page (Quantum Consciousness)
The Gaia Foundation
Global Green
Global Green: Water
Global Green: Climate Change and Energy
Global Green: Green Building Resource Center
Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: “Healthy Homes and Smart Neighborhoods Response Team”
Reduce Waste

Computer Programming & Scripting Languages: Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Libraries (including Mathematical and Scientific), Tools, and other Resources

League for Programming Freedom
thefreecountry.com: Free Programmers' Resources, Free Webmasters' Resources, Free Security Resources
Revitalizing Computing Education Through Free and Open Source Software for Humanity by Ralph Morelli, Allen Tucker, Norman Danner, Trishan R. de Lanerolle, Heidi J.C. Ellis, Ozgur Izmirli, Danny Krizanc, and Gary Parker — [Requires PDF Software]
Software Carpentry is an intensive introduction to basic software development practices for scientists and engineers. All of the material is open source: it may be used freely by anyone for educational or commercial purposes.
Free development software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Development Software on SourceForge.net
Computer Science Software: The OpenScience Project Software Directory
List of programming languages: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Comparison of programming languages: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of open–source programming languages: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of compilers: This page is intended to list all current compilers, compiler generators, interpreters, translators, tool foundations, etc.: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Programming Software: Free and Open Source Educational Software: Centre for OpenSource Development at CQUniversity Australia
The Perl Programming Language
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
Learning Perl: Resources and references for learning Perl
Perl.com
Perl programming documentation
Tutorials — Perl, etc.
Perl, etc. Tutorials
PDL (“Perl Data Language”) gives standard Perl the ability to compactly store and speedily manipulate the large N–dimensional data arrays which are the bread and butter of scientific computing. PDL turns Perl in to a free, array–oriented, numerical language similar to (but, we believe, better than) such commerical packages as IDL and MatLab. One can write simple perl expressions to manipulate entire numerical arrays all at once. A simple interactive shell (perldl) is provided for use from the command line and a module (PDL) for use in Perl scripts.
PerlMol: Perl Modules for Molecular Chemistry
Python Programming Language
The Python Wiki
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5: Fortran Standards
GFortran Standards Documents
GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective–C, Fortran, Java, Ada, and Go, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,…). GCC was originally written as the compiler for the GNU operating system. The GNU system was developed to be 100% free software, free in the sense that it respects the user's freedom.
GCC Wiki
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14: C Standards
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21: The C++ Standards Committee
C programming.com: Your Resource for C and C++ Programming
Boost provides free peer–reviewed portable C++ source libraries. We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non–commercial use. We aim to establish “existing practice” and provide reference implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual standardization. Ten Boost libraries are already included in the C++ Standards Committee's Library Technical Report (TR1) and will be in the new C++0x Standard now being finalized. C++0x will also include several more Boost libraries in addition to those from TR1. More Boost libraries are proposed for TR2.
CINT is an interpreter for C and C++ code. It is useful e.g. for situations where rapid development is more important than execution time. Using an interpreter the compile and link cycle is dramatically reduced facilitating rapid development. CINT makes C/C++ programming enjoyable even for part–time programmers. CINT is written in C++ itself, with slightly less than 400,000 lines of code. It is used in production by several companies in the banking, integrated devices, and even gaming environment, and of course by ROOT, making it the default interpreter for a large number of high energy physicists all over the world.
The C# Language Specification is the Standard ECMA–334 C# Language Specification.
C# (Sharp) Programming: From Wikibooks, open books for an open world
QCL (Quantum Computation Language) is a high level, architecture independent programming language for quantum computers, with a syntax derived from classical procedural languages like C or Pascal. This allows for the complete implementation and simulation of quantum algorithms (including classical components) in one consistent formalism.
Pascal (programming language): From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Object Pascal: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ANSI–ISO Pascal: the ISO 7185 Standard Pascal Page
The Pascal Programming Language by Bill Catambay, Pascal Developer
Pascal Central: Created for the Pascal community, Pascal Central is the one place to obtain all things Pascal: Pascal technical information, tools, references, source code, internet links, and more.
Free Pascal (aka FPK Pascal) is a 32 and 64 bit professional Pascal compiler. It is available for different processors: Intel x86, Amd64/x86_64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, Sparc, ARM. The discontinued 1.0 version also supports the Motorola 680x0. The following operating systems are supported: Linux, FreeBSD, Haiku, Mac OS X/Darwin, DOS, Win32, Win64, WinCE, OS/2, Netware (libc and classic) and MorphOS.
Free Pascal links
GNU Pascal, the free 32/64–bit Pascal compiler
Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language that provides a natural coordinate–based framework for technical drawing. Labels and equations are typeset with LaTeX, for high–quality PostScript output. A major advantage of Asymptote over other graphics packages is that it is a programming language, as opposed to just a graphics program.
Common Gateway Interface (CGI): From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CGI Module: perldoc.perl.org
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PHPlot is a graph library for dynamic scientific, business, and stock–market charts. PHPlot allows PHP developers to create pie charts, bar graphs, line graphs, point graphs, etc. from a PHP application.
The jsMath package provides a method of including mathematics in HTML pages that works across multiple browsers under Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux and other flavors of unix. It overcomes a number of the shortcomings of the traditional method of using images to represent mathematics: jsMath uses native fonts, so they resize when you change the size of the text in your browser, they print at the full resolution of your printer, and you don't have to wait for dozens of images to be downloaded in order to see the mathematics in a web page. There are also advantages for web–page authors, as there is no need to preprocess your web pages to generate any images, and the mathematics is entered in TeX form, so it is easy to create and maintain your web pages. Although it works best with the TeX fonts installed, jsMath will fall back on a collection of image–based fonts (which can still be scaled or printed at high resolution) or unicode fonts when the TeX fonts are not available. There is a control panel connected to a small floating button that lets the user select which fallback method to use or change some other settings like a scaling factor to use for the mathematics compared to the other text on the page.
GTK+ is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces which boasts cross platform compatibility and an easy to use API. GTK+ it is written in C, but has bindings to many other popular programming languages such as C++, Python and C# among others. GTK+ is licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 allowing development of both free and proprietary software with GTK+ without any license fees or royalties.
Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, the official extension language for the GNU operating system. Guile is a library designed to help programmers create flexible applications. Using Guile in an application allows the application's functionality to be extended by users or other programmers with plug–ins, modules, or scripts. Guile provides what might be described as “practical software freedom,” making it possible for users to customize an application to meet their needs without digging into the application's internals.
Gambas Almost Means BASIC is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, a bit like Visual Basic™ (but it is Not a clone!).
QuickSharp is a streamlined integrated development environment for Microsoft's .NET platform. It provides a simple, uncluttered development approach that lets you get programming in an instant. QuickSharp doesn't use solutions or projects, programs and libraries are developed as individual files making development a breeze. With QuickSharp you can work closer to the .NET Framework development tools and get to grips with the most advanced development platform for Windows from the ground up. QuickSharp is not just a development environment, it's also a lightweight application framework which can be easily modified and extended using a simple plugin-based architecture. The QuickSharp IDE is developed entirely using this framework and you can use it to create your own highly customized development environments.
Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. The Eclipse Foundation is a not–for–profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services.
NetBeans IDE
Open Source Content Management Systems
Web CMS Software: Free and Open Source Educational Software: Centre for OpenSource Development at CQUniversity Australia
FileZilla, the free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Unified Modeling Language: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for GNU/Linux, MacOS X, Unix, and Windows, and is released under the GPL license. Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program ‘Visio,’ though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape. It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format (gzipped by default, to save space), can export diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF and PNG, and can print diagrams (including ones that span multiple pages).
StarUML is an open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freely–available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal of the StarUML project is to build a software modeling tool and also platform that is a compelling replacement of commercial UML tools such as Rational Rose, Together and so on.
ArgoUML is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages.
PlantUML is a component that allows to quickly write: sequence diagram, use case diagram, class diagram, activity diagram, component diagram, state diagram, and object diagram. Diagrams are defined using a simple and intuitive language. They can be generated in PNG or SVG format. It is also possible to generate ASCII art diagrams (only for sequence diagrams).
Free Works with text software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.
GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content (text, graphics, mathematics, interactive content, etc.). The rendering engine uses high–quality typesetting algorithms so as to produce professionally looking documents, which can either be printed out or presented from a laptop. The software includes a text editor with support for mathematical formulas, a small technical picture editor and a tool for making presentations from a laptop. Moreover, TeXmacs can be used as an interface for many external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, statistics, etc. New presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using the Scheme extension language. TeXmacs runs on all major Unix platforms and Windows. Documents can be saved in TeXmacs, Xml or Scheme format and printed as Postscript or Pdf files. Converters exist for TeX/LaTeX and Html/Mathml.
Crimson Editor is a professional source code editor for Windows. (It is no longer developed, but it is still very useful.)
Emerald Editor is (being) designed to be an open-source multi–purpose, functional text editor, inspired heavily by Crimson Editor. It is available under the GNU General Public License.
“There is currently no active development for this project due to lack of people who meet two mandatory requirements to be qualified as a Crimson Editor Developer:
“C/C++ programming skills.
“Time and desire to work on the project.
“This is pretty much it. So anyone willing to work on it is more than welcome to dive into the code and try to make the program better.”
Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
Kate is a multi document editor
gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.
ROOT is a framework for data processing, born at CERN, at the heart of the research on high–energy physics. Every day, thousands of physicists use ROOT applications to analyze their data or to perform simulations.
GSL: GNU Scientific Library
oonumerics.org: Scientific Computing in Object–Oriented Languages
The Template Numerical Toolkit (TNT): An interface for scientific computing in C++
SciJar: Best free Java programs for scientists
Jlab: A scientific open–source programming environment coded in Java
The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There is no practical limit to the precision except the ones implied by the available memory in the machine GMP runs on. GMP has a rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface. The main target applications for GMP are cryptography applications and research, Internet security applications, algebra systems, computational algebra research, etc. GMP is carefully designed to be as fast as possible, both for small operands and for huge operands. The speed is achieved by using fullwords as the basic arithmetic type, by using fast algorithms, with highly optimised assembly code for the most common inner loops for a lot of CPUs, and by a general emphasis on speed. GMP is faster than any other bignum library. The advantage for GMP increases with the operand sizes for many operations, since GMP uses asymptotically faster algorithms.
Project LinBox: Exact computational linear algebra. LinBox is a C++ template library for exact, high–performance linear algebra computation with dense, sparse, and structured matrices over the integers and over finite fields.
The core of PolyBoRi is a C++ library, which provides high–level data types for Boolean polynomials and monomials, exponent vectors, as well as for the underlying polynomial rings and subsets of the powerset of the Boolean variables. As a unique approach, binary decision diagrams are used as internal storage type for polynomial structures. On top of this C++–library we provide a Python interface. This allows parsing of complex polynomial systems, as well as sophisticated and extendable strategies for Gröbner base computation. PolyBoRi features a powerful reference implementation for Gröbner basis computation.
M4RI is a library for fast arithmetic with dense matrices over F₂. It was started by Gregory Bard, is maintained by Martin Albrecht. Several people contributed to it. The name M4RIcomes from the first implemented algorithm: The “Method of the Four Russians” inversion algorithm published by Gregory Bard. This algorithm in turn is named after the “Method of the Four Russians” multiplication algorithm which is probably better referred to as Kronrod's method. M4RI is used by the Sage mathematics software and the PolyBoRi library. M4RI is available under the General Public License Version 2 or later (GPLv2+). M4RIE is a library for fast arithmetic with dense matrices over F_2^e for 2 ≤ e ≤ 10. It was started and is currently maintained by Martin Albrecht. The name stems from the fact that is relies heavily on M4RI. M4RI is will be included in the Sage mathematics software in the near future. M4RIE is available under the General Public License Version 2 or later (GPLv2+).
GiNaC is a C++ library. It is designed to allow the creation of integrated systems that embed symbolic manipulations together with more established areas of computer science (like computation–intense numeric applications, graphical interfaces, etc.) under one roof. It is distributed under the terms and conditions of the GNU general public license (GPL). GiNaC is an iterated and recursive acronym for GiNaC is Not a CAS, where CAS stands for Computer Algebra System.
PyGiNaC is a Python package that provides an interface to the C++ library GiNaC, which is an open framework for symbolic computation within C++. PyGiNaC is implemented with the help of the Boost.Python library. At the moment, the package is more or less in an “alpha” state, i.e. the GiNaC classes are only partially exposed, parts of regression test suite are unconverted and no actual documentation exists. However, all of this is supposed to change in the future.
Boost.Python is a C++ library which enables seamless interoperability between C++ and the Python programming language.
Giac/Xcas is a free computer algebra system for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux/Unix (license GPL3). Xcas is an interface to perform computer algebra, function graphs, interactive geometry (2–d and 3–d), spreadsheet and statistics, programmation. It may be used as a replacement for high end graphic calculators for example on netbooks (for about the same price as a calculator but with much more performances). Giac is a free (GPL) C++ library, it is the computation kernel, it may be used inside other C++ programs. Giac/Xcas has a compatibility mode for people used to the Maple or Mupad CAS as well as for users of TI calculators (TI89, Voyage 200, TI Nspire CAS).
The nestedsums library can be used for the symbolic expansion of a certain class of transcendental functions. The library is described in: S. Weinzierl, "Symbolic Expansion of Transcendental Functions", Comp. Phys. Comm. 145, (2002), 357, http://arXiv.org/abs/math-ph/0201011
CLN is a C++ library for efficient computations with all kinds of numbers in arbitrary precision. It is distributed under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License GPL.
NTL (Library for doing Number Theory) is a high–performance, portable C++ library providing data structures and algorithms for manipulating signed, arbitrary length integers, and for vectors, matrices, and polynomials over the integers and over finite fields.

Freeing and Opening BIOS

The Free Software Foundation's Campaign for Free BIOS
coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers. It performs just a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes what is called a payload. With this separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot can scale from specialized applications run directly from firmware, operating systems in flash, and custom bootloaders to implementations of firmware standards like PCBIOS and EFI without having to carry features not necessary in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space required.
The OpenBIOS project provides you with most free and open source Open Firmware implementations available. Here you find several implementations of IEEE 1275–1994 (Referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware. Among its features, Open Firmware provides an instruction set independent device interface. This can be used to boot the operating system from expansion cards without native initialization code. It is Open Firmware's goal to work on all common platforms, like x86, AMD64, PowerPC, ARM, Sparc and Mips. With its flexible and modular design, Open Firmware targets servers, workstations and embedded systems, where a sane and unified firmware is a crucial design goal and reduces porting efforts noticably.
BIOS: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Freeing and Opening Bootloaders

Das U–Boot –– the Universal Boot Loader
GAG (initials, in Spanish, of Graphical Boot Manager) is a Boot Manager program. It's loaded when the computer is turned on and allows you to choose the operating system you want to use.
GNU GRUB is a Multiboot boot loader. It was derived from GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, which was originally designed and implemented by Erich Stefan Boleyn. Briefly, a boot loader is the first software program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for loading and transferring control to the operating system kernel software (such as the Hurd or Linux). The kernel, in turn, initializes the rest of the operating system (e.g. GNU).
GRUB4DOS is an universal boot loader based on GNU GRUB. It can boot off DOS/LINUX, or via Windows boot manager/syslinux/lilo, or from MBR/CD. It also has builtin BIOS disk emulation, ATAPI CDROM driver, etc.
FreeLoader (Sometimes FreeLdr) is the ReactOS boot loader. It can also function as a boot manager for multiple operating systems. FreeLoader is composed of two files, an executable (freeldr.sys) and a configuration file in Windows INI format (freeldr.ini), and a boot sector to load the files. The two files are copied to the root directory (:\ or / depending on the path notation of the operating system) of the active partition.
Comparison of boot loaders: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Booting: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Free and Open Source Hardware

Hardware Devices that Support GNU/Linux: Free Software Foundation (FSF)
The h–node project aims at the construction of a hardware database in order to identify what devices work with a fully free operating system. The h–node.org website is structured like a wiki in which all the users can modify or insert new contents. The h–node project is developed in collaboration and as an activity of the FSF.
Group:Hardware/Freest: LibrePlanet
Group:LibrePlanet Italia/Progetti/hardware database: LibrePlanet
OpenEC (Embedded Controller): The One Laptop per Child association
Laptop and Netbook Guide: gNewSense GNU/Linux
“Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?” by Clive Thompson in Wired Magazine
Product Hacking: Open Hardware Directory From P2P Foundation
OpenCores is the world's largest site/community for development of hardware IP cores as open source. OpenCores.org host the source code for different digital HW projects (IP–cores, SoC, boards, etc) and support the users with different tools, platforms, forums and other useful information.
Free Model Foundry (FMF) advances the development and free distribution of open source VHDL and Verilog models of electronic components for system and IC design around the world. Our Open Source Model Warehouse promotes widespread sharing of functional and timing simulation models to help solve one of the biggest problems in chip and system design: finding accurate, usable component models. The availability of these models allows system designers to design and verify new digital electronic products more quickly and at lower cost than the previous methodology of build, test, debug, and build again. The result is faster time to market and more revenue for the systems house. It also means earlier component sales for the IC manufacturers. Models found on this site are written in a uniform style to make them easy to read. They are at the behavior level of abstraction so they will execute quickly and efficiently. Timing values are external to the models allowing them to represnt multiple technologies and speed grades without being modified or recompiled. FMF specializes in models for board level design and verification, providing modeling development services to IC vendors, EDA consulting groups, and product design teams. In addition to providing simulation models of off–the–shelf components and behavioral IP, FMF is a source of consulting services to systems houses for CAE component library architecture and integration. As such we can improve the efficiency of your board design workflow.
Free Hardware Foundation (FHF)
Open design: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Open–source hardware: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OScar: Reinvent Mobility: It is the goal of the OScar Project to develop a car according to Open Source principles. In our opinion, a car is not a vehicle full of high–tech gadgets. Instead, we are looking for a simple and functional concept to spread mobility. Form follows function. Apart from that, OScar is not just a car. It is about new ways of mobility and the spreading of the Open Source idea in the real (physical) world. On this website, you will find a great community of developers and drivers who want to invent mobility anew and together. The project started in 1999. In December 2005, it reached release 0.2. Starting in 2006, everyone is welcome to participate.

Free and Open Source Software for Architects, Designers, Engineers, Mathematicians, Scientists, and Statisticians

Free and Open Source Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Software

CFD–Wiki, the free CFD reference
CFD Free codes: This section lists codes that are in the public domain, and codes that are available under GPL, BSD or similar licenses.
Free CFD: an open source computational fluid dynamics code initiative
OpenFLUID: Software Environment for Modelling Fluxes in Landscapes
MHYDAS: Distributed Hydrological Modelling for Agrosystems
OpenFLUID community
ghydraulic: Open Source Hydraulic Network Analysis Software. A plug–in for Quantum GIS that allows to calculate economic pipe diameters.
OpenFlower
Gerris Flow Solver
Channelflow
High Performance Finite Elements: The software packages FEAT/FEAST/FEATFLOW: Index: Fluid Motion
ISAAC (Integrated Solution Algorithm for Arbitrary Configurations): CFD code
MOUSE, an object oriented framework for numerical simulations: CFD
online center for Computational Fluid Dynamics Software Links: Free, Open Source, and Proprietary Software
The OpenFOAM® (Open Field Operation and Manipulation) computational fluid dynamics (CFD) Toolbox from OpenCFD Ltd

Free and Open Source Finite Elements (FEM) and Partial Differentiation Equation Solver Libraries & Software

Internet Finite Element Resources (IFER): This document describes and provides access to finite element analysis software via the Internet. The main index follows this introduction. We list all public domain and shareware programs which have come to our notice, and a selection of pointers to commercial packages. We also include references to useful URL's, ftp sites, newsgroups, listservers, bulletin boards etc, and to some books which contain source code.
List of finite element programs: Internet Finite Element Resources (IFER)
List of finite element software packages: This is a list of software packages that implement the finite element method for solving partial differential equations or aid in the pre– and post–processing of finite element models. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The Finite Element ToolKit (FETK) is a collaboratively developed, evolving collection of adaptive finite element method (AFEM) software libraries and tools for solving coupled systems of nonlinear geometric partial differential equations (PDE). The FETK libraries and tools are written in an object–oriented form of ANSI–C and in C++, and include a common portability layer (MALOC) for all of FETK, a collection of standard numerical libraries (PUNC), a stand–alone high–quality surface and volume simplex mesh generator (GAMer), a stand–alone networked polygon display tool (SG), a general nonlinear finite element modeling kernel (MC), and a MATLAB toolkit (MCLite) for protyping finite element methods and examining simplex meshes using MATLAB. The entire FETK Suite of tools is highly portable (from iPhone to Blue Gene/L), thanks to use of a small abstraction layer (MALOC) and heavy use of the GNU Autoconf infrastructure. The FETK libraries and tools are developed collaboratively by a number of people, and are released freely under open source licenses for maximal benefit to the mathematics, science, and engineering communities. The FETK project lead is Professor Michael Holst at the Center for Computational Mathematics at UC San Diego.
OFELI (Object Finite Element Library) is an object oriented library of C++ classes for development of finite element codes.
FEM3D_PACK is a C++ library which contains utility routines for 3D finite element calculations.
The libMesh library provides a framework for the numerical simulation of partial differential equations using arbitrary unstructured discretizations on serial and parallel platforms. A major goal of the library is to provide support for adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) computations in parallel while allowing a research scientist to focus on the physics they are modeling. libMesh currently supports 1D, 2D, and 3D steady and transient simulations on a variety of popular geometric and finite element types. The library makes use of high–quality, existing software whenever possible. PETSc is used for the solution of linear systems on both serial and parallel platforms, and LASPack is included with the library to provide linear solver support on serial machines. An optional interface to SLEPc is also provided for solving both standard and generalized eigenvalue problems. The libMesh library was first created at The University of Texas at Austin in the CFDLab since March 2002. Major contributions have come from developers at the Technische Universität Hamburg–Harburg Institute of Modelling and Computation, and recent contributions have been made by CFDLab associates at the PECOS Center at UT–Austin, the Computational Frameworks Group at Idaho National Laboratory, NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, and MIT.
PETSc (Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation) is a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It supports MPI, shared memory pthreads, and NVIDIA GPUs, as well as hybrid MPI–shared memory pthreads or MPI–GPU parallelism.
SLEPc (the Scalable Library for Eigenvalue Problem Computations) is a software library for the solution of large scale sparse eigenvalue problems on parallel computers. It is an extension of PETSc and can be used for either standard or generalized eigenproblems, with real or complex arithmetic. It can also be used for computing a partial SVD of a large, sparse, rectangular matrix, and to solve quadratic eigenvalue problems.
CalculiX: A Free Software Three–Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program
Code_Aster is a finite elements solver
DUNE, the Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment is a modular toolbox for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) with grid–based methods. It supports the easy implementation of methods like Finite Elements (FE), Finite Volumes (FV), and also Finite Differences (FD).
Traglast, a free finite–element–solver for 2D–static problems
Gmsh is a 3D finite element grid generator with a built–in CAD engine and post–processor.
Elmer is an open source multiphysical simulation software mainly developed by CSC – IT Center for Science (CSC). Elmer development was started 1995 in collaboration with Finnish Universities, research institutes and industry. After it's open source publication in 2005, the use and development of Elmer has become international. Elmer includes physical models of fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, heat transfer and acoustics, for example. These are described by partial differential equations which Elmer solves by the Finite Element Method (FEM)
Z88 is a fast, powerful and compact Finite Elements Analysis Program
Impact Finite Element Program: This program was designed to be a free and SIMPLE alternative to the advanced commercial Finite Element codes available today.
Open Finite Element Analysis: Develop finite element stress analysis programs, that work with free cad systems (Maybe QCad). Right now there's only a 2d gridded structure analysis program with a crappy interface, written mainly in Octave.
freeFEM family of software: freeFEM++: the current version (2d and 3d), which contains many improvements over previous versions & freeFEM3D: the 3D version based on ficticious domain.
The FEniCS Project is a collection of free software with an extensive list of features for automated, efficient solution of differential equations.
Clawpack (Conservation Laws Package) is a software package designed to compute numerical solutions to hyperbolic partial differential equations using a wave propagation approach.
GeoPDEs is a suite of software tools for research on Isogeometric Analysis of PDEs. It provides a common and flexible framework for implementing and testing new isogeometric methods in different application areas. GeoPDEs is written in Octave and fully compatible with Matlab. The suite consists of a set of interrelated packages. The main package, geopdes_base, defines the basic data–structures and methods, and should also serve as an entry point for understanding the implementation of an Isogeometric Analysis code. Other packages deal with applications in linear elasticity, fluid mechanics and electromagnetism. A package specifically meant to allow handling multipatch NURBS geometries is also available.
Calc4fem is the open source basic template for static calculations, it is a spreadsheet for Structural Engineering (FEM Analysis for beams, trusses, 2D–frames) for use with OpenOffice.org Calc and/or LibreOffice Calc.

Free and Open Source Computer Aided Design (CAD)/Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)/Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)/Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)/Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Resources and Software

Free Computer–aided technologies (CADD/CAM/CAE) Open Source Software on SourceForge.net
CAx Resource Index: The wiki about CAD/CAM/CAE that anyone can edit
CAx Resource Index: CADSoftware [Computer–aided Design (CAD)]
CAx Resource Index: CAMSoftware [Computer–aided Manufacturing (CAM)]
CAx Resource Index: CAESoftware [Computer–aided Engineering (CAE)]
CAELinux: the Computer Aided Engineering Linux distribution
CAELinux Community Portal
Enhanced Machine Controller project (or simply EMC)
EMC Documentation Wiki: EmcKnowledgeBase
EMC Documentation Wiki: CAM
pycam – Open Source CAM – Toolpath Generation for 3–Axis CNC machining

Free and Open Source CAD Software

Free Works with cad software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
GNU LibreDWG is a free C library to handle DWG files. It aims to be a free replacement for the OpenDWG libraries. DWG is the native file format of AutoCAD. GNU LibreDWG is based on LibDWG, originally written by Felipe Castro.
Category: Free computer–aided design software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Category: List of computer–aided design editors: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Open Design Alliance is a non–profit, membership–based consortium of software companies, developers and users committed to provide the ODA Technology Platform to its members, giving them the tools to create a wide range of technical graphics applications, including custom data access and editing utilities, visualization tools, and even full–scale CAD systems
AdCiv.org: Free and open–source computer–aided design
3D – CADCAM: Software für Linux und MS–Windows (German site)
3D – CADCAM: software for MS–Windows and Linux (English site)
BRL–CAD is a powerful cross–platform open source solid modeling system that includes interactive geometry editing, high–performance ray–tracing for rendering and geometric analysis, image and signal–processing tools, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, libraries for robust geometric representation, with more than 20 years of active development.
QCAD Community Edition (GPL Licensed) is an application for computer aided drafting in two dimensions (2d).
QCad binary for Windows: This project brings your the binary + compile instructions for win32, using mingw–5.1.4 and qt–3.3.x–p8.
ThanCad: 2dimensional cad for engineers
FREEdraft2D libre cad
CollabCAD
VARKON is a free CAD system and high level development tool for Engineering, Computer Aided Design and Product Modeling applications. Varkon is a very powerful parametric 2D/3D CAD, modeling and application development tool for engineering, design, architecture, etc. It does 2D drafting, 2D and 3D modeling, sculptured surface modeling, and even animations.
CADOO.o: Draw module of OpenOffice.org makes it possible to make technical drawing. CADOO.o adds some functions that one can find in other CAD applications
JCad is a 2D CAD program of Pure Java
FreeCAD is an OpenSource CAD/CAE, based on OpenCascade, QT and Python and general purpose 3D CAD modeler
CADEMIA: Das Open Source CAD System (German) [The Open Source CAD System (English)]
Wildcat CAD: modern 3D solid modeling kernel and associated applications for CAD and all types of related engineering
PythonCAD
HeeksCAD: Free CAD based on Open CASCADE
OpenSCAD: The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
NaroCAD is a fully fledged and extensible 3D parametric modeling CAD application. It is based on OpenCascade. A CAD software to help you with your work. The goal of this project is to develop a fully fledged and extensible 3D CAD software based on the concept of parametric modeling of solids, comparable to well known solutions. These functionalities are interrelated through Model Associativity and are exposed through a GUI. The general usability specifications like saving, importing are described in General functionality specifications. The software can be extended through Plugins and programming interface.
SagCAD: Linux 2D CAD/CAM
Fandango, formerly and internally know as elcad, python scripted 3d CAD application
Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview
lignumCAD is a tool for designing furniture
Archimedes is a free and open source CAD (Computer Aided Design) software for architects
The Building Information Modelserver enables you to centralize the information of a building. It is open source (GPL) and uses open standards (IFC).
avoCADo, the open source 3D CAD program for engineers and artists alike
Sketchboard™: simple sketch recognition (Sketch Oriented CAD)
Ferma is a free educational CAD software for truss units analysis. It is grounded on the construction conception and designed for finite element calculation and optimization of 2D truss structural units.

Free and Open Source Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Electrical CAD Software

Free Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Open Source Software on SourceForge.net
Category: Free electronic design automation software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Comparison of EDA software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Open–Source EDA (Electronic Design Automation) on EE Times
EDA Resources on
OpenSPARC™ (Scalable Processor ARchitecture)
The gEDA project is a GPL'd suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools
Electric is a sophisticated electrical CAD system that can handle many forms of circuit design
Kicad is an open source (GPL) software for the creation of electronic schematic diagrams and printed circuit board artwork
TinyCAD is a program to help you draw circuit diagrams

Free and Open Source Office Software

Comparison of office suites: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Comparison of word processors: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Comparison of spreadsheet software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Free Text creation software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Office/Business projects on Freecode
Office Tools: Free and Open Source Educational Software: Centre for OpenSource Development at CQUniversity Australia
The Document Foundation is proud to be the home of LibreOffice. LibreOffice is the power–packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature–rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers. You, too, can get involved!
LibreOffice Extensions are tools that can be added or removed independently from your installation of the main program. Extensions may add new functionality to your copy of LibreOffice, or may make existing functionality easier to use. LibreOffice remains committed to providing users with quality software authored under free software licenses, and, as such, our catalogue of extensions and templates are published under free software licenses.
Group: OpenOfficeExtensions/List: This is an all–free–software list of extensions for both OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice applications from the LibrePlanet project
LibreOffice Templates offer you a way to avoid duplicating repetitive actions when creating new text documents, spreadsheets, or presentations. They also offer a way to maintain consistency of document layout and standard content, and may, for example, be used to maintain consistent branding elements when used in a work place. LibreOffice remains committed to providing users with quality software authored under free software licenses, and, as such, our catalogue of templates are published under free software licenses.
OpenTemplate.org: The OpenTemplate Community
Apache OpenOffice: The OpenTemplate Community
Calligra Suite is Words (an intuitive word processor application with desktop publishing features. With it, you can create informative and attractive documents with ease.); Sheets (a fully–featured spreadsheet application. Use it to quickly create spreadsheets with formulas and charts, to calculate and organize your data.); Stage (powerful and easy to use presentation application. You can dazzle your audience with stunning slides containing images, videos, animation and more.); Kexi (for integrated data management); Flow (for diagramming and flowcharting); Karbon (for drawing vector graphics); Plan (for project planning); and Krita (for painting and image editing).
KOffice is KWord (an intuitive word processor application with desktop publishing features. With it, you can create informative and attractive documents with ease); KCells (a fully–featured spreadsheet application. Use it to quickly create spreadsheets with formulas and charts, to calculate and organize your data); Showcase (a powerful and easy to use presentation application. You can dazzle your audience with stunning slides containing images, videos, animation and more); Kivio (for diagramming and flowcharting); and Artwork (for drawing vector graphics).
GNOME/Gtk Office applications
Free Works with text software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Comparison of text editors: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.
GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content (text, graphics, mathematics, interactive content, etc.). The rendering engine uses high–quality typesetting algorithms so as to produce professionally looking documents, which can either be printed out or presented from a laptop. The software includes a text editor with support for mathematical formulas, a small technical picture editor and a tool for making presentations from a laptop. Moreover, TeXmacs can be used as an interface for many external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, statistics, etc. New presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using the Scheme extension language. TeXmacs runs on all major Unix platforms and Windows. Documents can be saved in TeXmacs, Xml or Scheme format and printed as Postscript or Pdf files. Converters exist for TeX/LaTeX and Html/Mathml.
Crimson Editor is a professional source code editor for Windows. (It is no longer developed, but it is still very useful.)
Emerald Editor is (being) designed to be an open-source multi–purpose, functional text editor, inspired heavily by Crimson Editor. It is available under the GNU General Public License.
“There is currently no active development for this project due to lack of people who meet two mandatory requirements to be qualified as a Crimson Editor Developer:
“C/C++ programming skills.
“Time and desire to work on the project.
“This is pretty much it. So anyone willing to work on it is more than welcome to dive into the code and try to make the program better.”
Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
Kate is a multi document editor
gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.

Free and Open Source Graphics Software

Free Graphics software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Category: Free graphics software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Comparison of vector graphics editors: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Graphics Software: Free and Open Source Educational Software: Centre for OpenSource Development at CQUniversity Australia
Graphics Software on SourceForge.net
Graphic Applications: Open Source Alternative – osalt.com
Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for GNU/Linux, MacOS X, Unix, and Windows, and is released under the GPL license. Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program ‘Visio,’ though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape. It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format (gzipped by default, to save space), can export diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF and PNG, and can print diagrams (including ones that span multiple pages).
Context Free is a program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar. The program follows the instructions in a few seconds to create images that can contain millions of shapes.
K–3D is free–as–in–freedom 3D modeling and animation software. It combines flexible plugins with a visualization pipeline architecture, making K–3D a versatile and powerful tool for artists.
Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.
Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. Many of its capabilities rival those found in commercial programs. Highlights include subdivision surface based modelling tools, skeleton based animation, and a graphical language for designing procedural textures and materials.
YafaRay is a free open–source raytracing engine. Raytracing is a rendering technique for generating realistic images by tracing the path of light through a 3D scene.
DjVuLibre: DjVu is a web–centric format and software platform for distributing documents and images. DjVu can advantageously replace PDF, PS, TIFF, JPEG, and GIF for distributing scanned documents, digital documents, or high–resolution pictures. DjVu content downloads faster, displays and renders faster, looks nicer on a screen, and consume less client resources than competing formats. DjVu images display instantly and can be smoothly zoomed and panned with no lengthy re–rendering. DjVu is used by hundreds of academic, commercial, governmental, and non–commercial web sites around the world.
minidjvu (bitonal DjVu encoder/decoder) is a command line utility which encodes and decodes single page black–and–white DjVu files, and can compress multiple pages, taking advantage from similarities between pages.
pdf2djvu (PDF to DjVu converter) creates DjVu files from PDF files
djvu2pdf is a small tool to convert Djvu files to PDF files. Works on Linux, BSD and MacOS. Windows users need to install cygwin.
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

Libre Graphics projects (non–exhaustive list of main projects involved in the Libre Graphics Meeting)

The 7th Libre Graphics Meeting will take place in Vienna from Wednesday May 2nd to Saturday May 5th 2012 at the UAS Technikum.
Scribus is an open–source DTP [Desktop Publisher] application with a modern and user–friendly interface. The program's main goal is to provide flexible layout and typesetting together with ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment.
KOffice Project: Krita — a program named with a Swedish word denoting “pencil” or “chalk” — is a very promising bitmap graphics editor. Designed to be both a painting application and a photo editor, it is free software distributed under GNU General Public License and a part of KDesktop Environment and its KOffice suite.
Inkscape: An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community–oriented development.
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug–ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
Shotwell is a free photo manager for GNOME that is fast and easy to use. Shotwell lets you edit photos non–destructively, organize them by date or tag, and publish them to popular photo sites such as Flickr and Facebook.
Create: We catalyze communication and sharing between Free and Open Source creative software communities like Inkscape, Gimp, Scribus, Open Clip Art library, Open Font Library and more. We do Libre Graphics Meeting and share Specifications.
Fontmatrix is a free/libre font manager for GNU/Linux, Windows and OS X. It allows its users to find, choose and classify fonts according to the characteristics of the project they have in mind, to enable and disable fonts on the fly, and to pack the font files to easily distribute them.
GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) is a graph based image processing framework. GEGL's original design was made to scratch GIMP's itches for a new compositing and processing core. This core is being designed to have minimal dependencies and a simple well defined API.
hugin Panorama photo stitcher: With hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.
Open Clip Art Library: This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use. There are over 12,000 clips from more than 700 artists available for download. The Open Clip Art Library uses open standard SVG files for vector format files and places all content into the public domain. The Open Clip Art Library is transitioning to the Creative Commons sponsored Open Source project, cHost, to host content and implement ideas of the community over the last couple of years. Of specific importance at this conference is to meet with developers, coordinate with other projects, and get some time with the community for hacking.
Open Font Library: Typefaces we can all share: The Open Font Library is a sister project of the Open Clip Art Library. The goal of this project is to collect free software fonts – those that may be used, changed and shared freely.
Oyranos is an operating system level Colour Management System (CMS). It allows applications and users to obtain a consistent colour match from supporting applications and workflows. Oyranos is intented to coordinate device specific informations (ICC colour profiles), configure their system wide settings. Oyranos will in the future be able to convert colours across devices on various platforms.
Rawstudio is an open–source program to read and manipulate RAW images from most digital cameras. Rawstudio will convert your RAW files into JPEG, PNG or TIF images which you can then print or send to friends and clients. It has a graphical user interface, so you can simply open a RAW file and experiment with the controls to see how they effect the image. Rawstudio has a very simple architecture which is optimized for ease of use and therefore should be intuitive to most photographers.
sK1 is an open source vector graphics editor similar to CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, or Freehand. First of all sK1 is oriented for PostScript processing. UniConvertor is a universal vector graphics translator. It uses sK1 engine to convert one format to another. Development of the import/export modules for this program goes through different stages, quality and feature coverage are different among formats.
SwatchBooker is a swatch book viewer, convertor and editor. It currently reads color swatches from Adobe aco, QuarkXpress qcl or Scribus xml among more than a dozen other formats. Swatchbooker is able to write in the Adobe ase, Gimp gpl, HTML, OpenOffice.org soc and Scribus xml formats.
The Tango Desktop Project exists to help create a consistent graphical user interface experience for free and Open Source software. While the look and feel of an application is determined by many individual components, some organization is necessary in order to unify the appearance and structure of individual icon sets used within those components. The Tango Desktop Project defines an icon style guideline to which artists and designers can adhere. A sample implementation of the style is available as an icon theme based upon a standardized icon naming specification. In addition, the project provides transitional utilities to assist in creating icon themes for existing desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE.
GNOME: The Free Software Desktop Project
KDE (K Desktop Environment)
digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac–OSX. The people who inspired digiKam's design are the photographers like you who want to view, manage, edit, enhance, organize, tag, and share photographs under Linux systems.
Blender is a free/open 3D animation program that can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulating, non–linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications. The most noticeable examples of Blender employment were probably Spider–Man 2 movie and Elephant Dreams –– world's first “open movie.”
Phatch is a user–friendly, cross–platform Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interface. Phatch handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply shadows, perspective, rounded corners… and do much more actions in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually.
CODE:FREE Magazine « Chrisdesign blog: A pdf magazine/art book for the open source scene. It contains only pictures made with free (not freeware!) software like Xara, Glips, Krita, K–3D, 3D Canvas, Gogh; most of it are made in Inkscape, Gimp or Blender. The magazine itself is made with Scribus.
Luminance HDR (previously known as Qtpfsgui) is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging (High Dynamic Range imaging).
News – Libre Graphics World: News ticker and in–depth articles about the libre graphics world.
MyPaint is a fast and easy open–source graphics application for digital painters. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it.
Aiki Framework is a flexible free and open source web 2.0 platform that allows programmers to easily create and work with content management systems. Aiki Framework saves all the controllers and output templates in a database or any other storage system.
LaTeX is a high–quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. LaTeX is available as free software.
PiTiVi is a free, intuitive and featureful movie editor for the Linux desktop.

Free and Open Source Data and Image Processing Libraries, Resources, and Software

Free Works with images software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Open CASCADE Technology is software development platform freely available in open source. It includes components for 3D surface and solid modeling, visualization, data exchange and rapid application development. Open CASCADE Technology can be best applied in development of numerical simulation software including CAD/CAM/CAE, AEC and GIS, as well as PDM applications.
SALOME is an open–source software that provides a generic platform for Pre– and Post–Processing for numerical simulation. It is based on an open and flexible architecture made of reusable components. SALOME can be used as standalone application for generation of CAD models, their preparation for numerical calculations and post–processing of the calculation results. SALOME can also be used as a platform for integration of the external third–party numerical codes to produce a new application for the full life–cycle management of CAD models.
ParaView is an open–source, multi–platform data analysis and visualization application. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The data exploration can be done interactively in 3D or programmatically using ParaView's batch processing capabilities.
OpenDX: The Open Source Software Project based on IBM's Visualization Data Explorer
The MayaVi Data Visualizer
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open–source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization.
Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) [pronounced “fulltick”] is a cross–platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX®/Linux® (X11), Microsoft® Windows®, and MacOS® X. FLTK provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL® and its built–in GLUT emulation. FLTK is designed to be small and modular enough to be statically linked, but works fine as a shared library. FLTK also includes an excellent UI builder called FLUID that can be used to create applications in minutes.
The B–processor will renew the digital building model by implementing the B–model based on subdividing the project–space in connected functional and constructional spaces — a model with dynamic abilities and possibilities for effective 3D detailing.
GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) is a graph based image processing framework. GEGL's original design was made to scratch GIMP's itches for a new compositing and processing core. This core is being designed to have minimal dependencies and a simple well defined API.
QwtPlot3D is not a program, but a feature–rich Qt/OpenGL–based C++ programming library, providing essentially a bunch of 3D–widgets for programmers. The library is zlib licensed.
FreeImage is an Open Source library project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by today's multimedia applications. FreeImage is easy to use, fast, multithreading safe, compatible with all 32–bit versions of Windows, and cross–platform (works both with Linux and Mac OS X).
Cinefx is a suite of open source, cross platform media playback, encoding, visual effects and editing digital content creation tools.
The OpenSceneGraph is an open source high performance 3D graphics toolkit, used by application developers in fields such as visual simulation, games, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modelling. Written entirely in Standard C++ and OpenGL it runs on all Windows platforms, OSX, GNU/Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP–Ux, AIX and FreeBSD operating systems. The OpenSceneGraph is now well established as the world leading scene graph technology, used widely in the vis–sim, space, scientific, oil–gas, games and virtual reality industries.
Comparison of screencasting software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Open Source Flash wiki: We're a wiki to index the best open–source flash libraries in ActionScript 3 and ActionScript 2.
gameswf (pronounced “game swiff”) is an open source Public Domain library for parsing and rendering SWF movies, using 3D hardware APIs for rendering. It is designed to be used as a UI library for computer and console games. It is written in C++, and compiles under Windows, Mac OSX and Linux, using GCC and MSVC. It includes code for rendering with OpenGL. The rendering module is factored out so that you can port to other APIs.
MTASC (Motion–Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler)
SWFTools
Gnash Project
Ming library
EIDORS (electrical impedance and diffuse optical tomography reconstruction software) provides software, algorithms and reference data for image reconstruction and modelling.

Free and Open Source High Performance Computing Software

Computer cluster: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Supercomputer: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC): is an International Forum within the IEEE, aimed at fostering research and education in Scalable Computing. TCSC is interested in all areas of scalable computing, including but not limited to, high performance computing systems, Cloud computing systems, Grid, algorithms, applications, scheduling and workflows, and various others.
Parawiki: This is a wiki dedicated to provide a single online resource for all questions regarding parallel computing. Its target audience are the creators and users of parallel programming systems, as well as everyone interested in parallel computing in general. While a neutral point of view is encouraged, the Parawiki is also a place where actual user experiences with parallel programming systems are described (which cannot be neutral by definition).
Parallel computing: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Introduction to Parallel Computing by Blaise Barney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
MIT OpenCourseWare | Mathematics | 18.337J Applied Parallel Computing (SMA 5505), Spring 2005 | Lecture Notes
Parallel and distributed programming: Scipy
Parallel Programming with numpy and scipy
Open Directory – Computers: Parallel Computing
Open Directory – Computers: Parallel Computing: Beowulf
Open Directory – Computers: Parallel Computing: Programming
Open Directory – Computers: Parallel Computing: Programming: Libraries
Open Directory – Computers: Parallel Computing: Programming: Libraries: MPI (Message Passing Interface)
Message Passing Interface Forum: This location contains the official MPI (Message Passing Interface) standards documents, errata, and archives of the MPI Forum. The MPI Forum is an open group with representatives from many organizations that define and maintain the MPI standard.
MPI documents: The official version of the MPI documents are the English postscript versions. In several cases, a translation or HTML version is also available for convenience. The HTML version was made with automated tools. In case of a difference between these two sources, the postscript version of MPI standard documents are always considered the official version.
The Open MPI Project is an open source MPI–2 implementation that is developed and maintained by a consortium of academic, research, and industry partners. Open MPI is therefore able to combine the expertise, technologies, and resources from all across the High Performance Computing community in order to build the best MPI library available. Open MPI offers advantages for system and software vendors, application developers and computer science researchers.
MPI Toolbox for Octave (MPITB): Octave Parallel Computing with LAM/MPI and Open–MPI
MPICH2 is a high–performance and widely portable implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard (both MPI–1 and MPI–2). The goals of MPICH2 are: (1) to provide an MPI implementation that efficiently supports different computation and communication platforms including commodity clusters (desktop systems, shared–memory systems, multicore architectures), high–speed networks (10 Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand, Myrinet, Quadrics) and proprietary high–end computing systems (Blue Gene, Cray, SiCortex) and (2) to enable cutting–edge research in MPI through an easy–to–extend modular framework for other derived implementations. MPICH2 replaces MPICH1 and should be used instead of MPICH1 except for the case of clusters with heterogeneous data representations (e.g., different lengths for integers or different byte ordering). MPICH2 does not yet support those systems. MPICH2 is distributed as source (with an open–source, freely available license). It has been tested on several platforms, including Linux (on IA32 and x86–64), Mac OS/X (PowerPC and Intel), Solaris (32– and 64–bit), and Windows. Please see the README, CHANGES, and RELEASE_NOTES files in the distribution for more details.
PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that permits a heterogeneous collection of Unix and/or Windows computers hooked together by a network to be used as a single large parallel computer. Thus large computational problems can be solved more cost effectively by using the aggregate power and memory of many computers. The software is very portable. The source, which is available free thru netlib, has been compiled on everything from laptops to CRAYs. PVM enables users to exploit their existing computer hardware to solve much larger problems at minimal additional cost. Hundreds of sites around the world are using PVM to solve important scientific, industrial, and medical problems in addition to PVM's use as an educational tool to teach parallel programming. With tens of thousands of users, PVM has become the de facto standard for distributed computing world–wide.
PVM++ is a C++–Library for PVM. This library provides an easy way to program the widely used parallel programming library PVM, which works in homogenous and heterogenous network environments.
Parallel Virtual Machine: From Parawiki, which is a wiki dedicated to provide a single online resource for all questions regarding parallel computing
ProActive Parallel Suite is an innovative Open Source solution (OW2) for acceleration and orchestration of applications, seamlessly integrated with the management of high–performance Clouds (Private and Public with bursting capabilities). ProActive platform features High–Performance Workflows and Application Parallelization, together with enterprise Scheduling and Orchestration coupled with the dynamic management of private Heterogeneous Grids and Clouds. With a ProActive platform, our users tackle at once the acceleration and orchestration of all demanding enterprise applications, and the management of their own Enterprise Cloud.
OSCAR allows users, regardless of their experience level with a *nix environment, to install a Beowulf type high performance computing cluster. It also contains everything needed to administer and program this type of HPC cluster. OSCAR's flexible package management system has a rich set of pre-packaged applications and utilities which means you can get up and running without laboriously installing and configuring complex cluster administration and communication packages. It also lets administrators create customized packages for any kind of distributed application or utility, and to distribute those packages from an online package repository, either on or off site.
LinuxPMI is a set of Linux kernel patches implementing process “migration” over a network. its goal is to allow you to move a program from your machine to another machine, run it there for a while, and return it without it ever knowing it was gone. LinuxPMI is derived from the failed, now dead OpenMosix 2.6 branch.
Kerrighed is a Single System Image operating system for clusters. Kerrighed offers the view of a unique SMP machine on top of a cluster of standard PCs. The goals of Kerrighed are ease of use, high performance of applications, high availability of the cluster, efficient resources management, and high customizability of the operating system. Kerrighed is implemented as an extension to the Linux operating system (a set of modules and a patch to the kernel).
The libMesh library provides a framework for the numerical simulation of partial differential equations using arbitrary unstructured discretizations on serial and parallel platforms. A major goal of the library is to provide support for adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) computations in parallel while allowing a research scientist to focus on the physics they are modeling. libMesh currently supports 1D, 2D, and 3D steady and transient simulations on a variety of popular geometric and finite element types. The library makes use of high–quality, existing software whenever possible. PETSc is used for the solution of linear systems on both serial and parallel platforms, and LASPack is included with the library to provide linear solver support on serial machines. An optional interface to SLEPc is also provided for solving both standard and generalized eigenvalue problems. The libMesh library was first created at The University of Texas at Austin in the CFDLab since March 2002. Major contributions have come from developers at the Technische Universität Hamburg–Harburg Institute of Modelling and Computation, and recent contributions have been made by CFDLab associates at the PECOS Center at UT–Austin, the Computational Frameworks Group at Idaho National Laboratory, NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, and MIT.
PETSc (Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation) is a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It supports MPI, shared memory pthreads, and NVIDIA GPUs, as well as hybrid MPI–shared memory pthreads or MPI–GPU parallelism.
SLEPc (the Scalable Library for Eigenvalue Problem Computations) is a software library for the solution of large scale sparse eigenvalue problems on parallel computers. It is an extension of PETSc and can be used for either standard or generalized eigenproblems, with real or complex arithmetic. It can also be used for computing a partial SVD of a large, sparse, rectangular matrix, and to solve quadratic eigenvalue problems.
SCOTCH and PT–SCOTCH: Software package and libraries for sequential and parallel graph partitioning, static mapping, and sparse matrix block ordering, and sequential mesh and hypergraph partitioning.
The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. Despite its name, LLVM has little to do with traditional virtual machines, though it does provide helpful libraries that can be used to build them.

Free and Open Source Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, and the Sciences Software

Free/Open source software: An alternative for engineering students by Paulo S. Motta Pires, David A. Rogers — [Requires PDF Software]
Open Source Engineering = open engineering resources: From P2P Foundation
Free Science/engineering software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Engineering Software: The OpenScience Project Software Directory
Engineering Software: Free and Open Source Educational Software: Centre for OpenSource Development at CQUniversity Australia
Debian Science: Provide to researchers and scientists better experience when using Debian.
Debian Science Other Links
Free Science & Engineering Open Source Software on SourceForge.net
Scientific/Engineering Projects on Freecode
Free Mechanical and Civil Engineering Open Source Software on SourceForge.net
The Civil Engineering Portal: Open Source Software
opensource.cheme.info: Open Source Chemical Engineering Software Forum
Actual Open Source Chemical Engineering–related software: Open Source Chemical Engineering Software Forum
cantera is an object–oriented software toolkit for chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport processes.
Open Source Engineering Tools on the DevelopSpace Wiki
Tigris.org: Open Source Software Engineering Tools
Open Source Computational Engineering Tools
Opennovation: Open Source Engineering Software Portal
engineeringsuite (eSuite) is a program for solving non–linear, and linear, equation systems in which you write the equations and the program solves them numerically. It includes a data base with thermodynamical properties and also a symbolic engine. Basically the program is an open source clone of the EES (Engineering Equation Solver) but written in Java and open source.
OpenOpt focuses on scientific/engineering software development using RAD (Rapid application development) abilities of Python language, accompanied with free scientific libraries such as NumPy and SciPy.
Python(x,y) is a free scientific and engineering development software for numerical computations, data analysis and data visualization based on Python programming language, Qt graphical user interfaces, Eclipse integrated development environment and Spyder interactive scientific development environment.
pfcalc stands for pipe friction calculator and is a CLI program that computes pressure drop in piping systems using the Darcy–Weisbach equation. The program is capable of computing minor and major pressure losses (pipe friction losses) for flow in pipes and ducts. The aim is to provide an open source alternative to similar proprietary software. The intended user base is made of those people working in the fields of mechanical and civil engineering, who need to estimate pressure drop in new or existing piping systems. Since the program and it's GUI front–ends are open source software, the users can study the inner workings and decide for themselves if the calculations made with pfcalc are accurate. Also, the software is free, as in beer and as in speech, and can be used, modified and distributed according to the GNU General Public License... The program is written in the C programing language and can be compiled on all POSIX operating systems (Linux/BSD/Unix–like OSes) and also on 32–bit / 64 bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP/Vista/7). Also it has been reported to compile and run on OS/2. Data can be fed through command line arguments or can be read from a comma separated values file (csv). This is a text file that contains values separated by commas and can be exported from various spreadsheet programs. Every line is a data set that contains the following values, in this order: diameter, length, roughness, elevation, flow–rate, minor loss coefficient (K–factor), temperature. The program will read the file, make a calculation for every data set and print the result. Calculation results can be exported to a csv file that will contain a result per line, with values in this order: diameter, length, roughness, flow, temperature, velocity, Reynolds number, Darcy factor, hydrostatic pressure loss, minor pressure loss, major pressure loss. The formulae used by pfcalc can be downloaded in pdf and odf formats.
OpenSees, a software framework for developing applications to simulate the performance of structural and geotechnical systems subjected to earthquakes. The goal of the OpenSees development is to improve the modeling and computational simulation in earthquake engineering through open–source development. …The development and application of OpenSees is sponsored by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center through the National Science Foundation engineering and education centers program. OpenSees has been selected as the simulation component for the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation and has being sponsored by NEESit since 2004. Ongoing work to integrate OpenSees into the NEESit framework includes a web–based portal for simulation services, access to the NEESit data repository, and a visualization tool.
Free Mathematics software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Mathematics Software: Free and Open Source Educational Software: Centre for OpenSource Development at CQUniversity Australia
GnomeFiles :: Science & Math
Category: Free mathematics software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Public Domain Mathematical Software and Miscellaneous Items: Internet Finite Element Resources
SciPy (Scientific Tools for Python) is open–source software for mathematics, science, and engineering
PyMathProg is a Python reincarnation of AMPL and GNU MathProg modeling language, implemented in pure Python, connecting to GLPK via PyGLPK.
W3C Math Home: MathML
A Free Mathematical and Computational Software Directory
math–linux is for maintaining a linux system that concentrates on math, logic, and geometry related software.
The Quantian Scientific Computing Environment: A Knoppix / Debian variant tailored to numerical and quantitative analysis.
The KDE Education Project: Mathematics
GNOME Mathematical Interface
STACK (System for Teaching and Assessment using a Computer algebra Kernel) is an open–source system for computer–aided assessment in Mathematics and related disciplines, with emphasis on formative assessment
Journal of Statistical Software: Open Access Journal
Free Mathematics/statistics software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Mathematics Software: The OpenScience Project Software Directory
Category: Free statistical software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Comparison of statistical packages: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The R Project for Statistical Computing [R is ‘GNU S,’ a freely available language and environment for statistical computing and graphics which provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques: linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering, etc.]
The Comprehensive R Archive Network
R–Forge offers a central platform for the development of R packages, R–related software and further projects.
R Project Wiki: R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. This R Wiki is dedicated to the collaborative writing of R documentation.
R GUI Projects
Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) provides an intelligent, consistent interface between the user and the software. ESS interfaces with SAS, S–PLUS, R, BUGS/JAGS and other statistical analysis packages on Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows. ESS is itself a package within the emacs text editor and uses emacs features to streamline the creation and use of statistical software. ESS knows the syntax and grammar of statistical analysis packages and provides consistent display and editing features based on that knowledge. ESS assists in interactive and batch execution of statements written in these statistical analysis languages.
RStudio™ is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE) for R. You can run it on your desktop (Windows, Mac, or Linux) or even over the web using RStudio Server.
RKWard is meant to become an easy to use, transparent frontend to the R–language. R is a very powerful, yet hard–to–get–into scripting–language with a strong focus on statistical functions. RKWard makes R programming easier and faster, by providing a graphical frontend that can be used by unexperienced users (thanks to easy–to–use dialog boxes) as well as experts (which are attracted by the integrated development environement proposed by RKWard).
SciViews–R, a R GUI API writen in S language, and (2) SciViews–K, an extension for the code editor Komodo Edit.
A Basic–Statistics GUI for R
Statistics Functions using LibreOffice Calc: LibreOffice Help
Introduction to Statistics Using LibreOffice.org Calc: Fourth edition by Dana Lee Ling, College of Micronesia–FSM, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
LibreOffice Calc Extension: CorelPolyGUI plots extra trend lines such as linear and polynomial with forced intercept option, or moving average.
Statistics using GNU Octave
The ‘statistics’ Package on Octave–Forge
Stixbox, developed by Anders Holtsberg, is a statistics toolbox for Matlab, Octave, and Matcom/Mideva. See the Contents–file for the contents and the remarks in the README–file. The collection of routines is in the tar–file stixbox.tar.
GNU PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a Free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS, and appears very similar to it with a few exceptions. The most important of these exceptions are, that there are no “time bombs”; your copy of PSPP will not “expire” or deliberately stop working in the future. Neither are there any artificial limits on the number of cases or variables which you can use. There are no additional packages to purchase in order to get “advanced” functions; all functionality that PSPP currently supports is in the core package. PSPP can perform descriptive statistics, T–tests, linear regression and non–parametric tests. Its backend is designed to perform its analyses as fast as possible, regardless of the size of the input data. You can use PSPP with its graphical interface or the more traditional syntax commands.
SOFA (Statistics Open For All) is a user–friendly statistics, analysis, & reporting program. It is free, with an emphasis on ease of use, learn as you go, and beautiful output. SOFA lets you display results in an attractive format ready to share. And SOFA will help you learn as you go.
MacAnova is a free, open source, interactive statistical analysis program for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux written by Gary W. Oehlert and Christopher Bingham, both of the School of Statistics, University of Minnesota. In spite of its name, MacAnova is not just for Macintosh computers and not just for doing Analysis of Variance. MacAnova has many capabilities but its strengths are analysis of variance and related models, matrix algebra, time series analysis (time and frequency domain), and (to a lesser extent) uni– and multi–variate exploratory statistics. … Core MacAnova has a functional/command oriented interface, but an increasing number of capabilities are available through a menu/dialog/mouse type interface. Although the language and syntax are S–like (for those of you familiar with S, S–Plus or R), MacAnova is not S or R.
gretl (Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time–series Library) is a cross–platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language. It is free, open–source software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation.
OpenTURNS is an Open source initiative to Treat Uncertainties, Risks‘N Statistics in a structured industrial approach.
Mondrian is a general purpose statistical data–visualization system. It features outstanding interactive visualization techniques for data of almost any kind, and has particular strengths, compared to other tools, for working with Categorical Data, Geographical Data and Large Data. All plots in Mondrian are fully linked, and offer many interactions and queries. Any case selected in a plot in Mondrian is highlighted in all other plots. Currently implemented plots comprise Histograms, Boxplots y by x, Scatterplots, Barcharts, Mosaicplots, Missing Value Plots, Parallel Coordinates/Boxplots, SPLOMs and Maps.
NIST Dataplot is a free, public–domain, multi–platform (Unix, VMS, Linux, Windows 95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000, etc.) software system for scientific visualization, statistical analysis, and non–linear modeling. The target Dataplot user is the researcher and analyst engaged in the characterization, modeling, visualization, analysis, monitoring, and optimization of scientific and engineering processes.
Math, Statistics, and Computational Science: This server provides information about activities and services at NIST related to applied mathematics, statistics, and computational science. [Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory. NIST is an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department.]
The Guide to Available Mathematical Software is a service of the Mathematical and Computational Science Division within the Information Technology Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. (Free, Open Source, and Proprietary Software)
Mathematics Archives WWW Server – Includes Public domain and shareware software for Macintosh, Windows (2000, ME, 98, 95, 3.1 and MSDOS) computers and for multi–platforms (incl. UNIX) in addition to links to other software sites.
Qalculate! is a multi–purpose desktop calculator for GNU/Linux. It is small and simple to use but with much power and versatility underneath. Features include customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting, and a user–friendly interface (KDE or GTK+).
Dmaths is addressed to people who regularly use the formula editor of OpenOffice.org, StarOffice (maths students, teachers…) and NeoOffice. It is free (under GPL licence) and available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It runs in english, french or german. It is supplied with installation file in english, french and german. The user guide in english user_guide_en.odt, although from Dmaths version 3.3 and showing the former symbol design, is still useable as a start to working with Dmaths. Dmaths version 3.4 runs with OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice >= 3.3
CompPad is an OpenOffice / LibreOffice extension for performing units–aware engineering calculations within a Writer document, allowing calculations to be documented using all of the resources of Writer. It has functionality similar to Mathcad®, but is not intended to be a Mathcad® clone. Rather, I hope it might prove more flexible and extensible, and that it might encourage other free / open–source alternatives to a proprietary engineering “Killer App.” CompPad allows you to create technical calculations in the form of conventional–looking mathematical expressions using the LibreOffice equation editor. This editor has a simple text syntax that some consider to be faster and more intuitive than other equation editors. Then, with the click of a toolbar icon, CompPad will evaluate the expressions and display the results, embedded in your document. All of the features of Writer are available for documenting and formatting your document so that it can be presented with pride to co–workers, customers, professors, etc.
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The iMath extension to Openoffice.org enables numeric and symbolic calculations inside a Writer document. iMath makes use of the EQC library. This dependency does not affect the Windows port, but Linux users will have to install libeqc. Windows users might have to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package. The development of iMath was prompted by a problem which I often encountered doing calculations in my profession as a mechanical engineer. I would first begin writing out the problem on paper, putting together the necessary equations, and then turn to a spreadsheet to do the actual calculations. iMath is meant to integrate this process in a single OOo Writer document.
The LaTeX Equation Compiler (EQC library) is a preprocessor for LaTeX files that enables numeric and symbolic calculations. It reads equations specified by special keywords in the LaTeX file and uses them to calculate the numeric value of variables. Symbolic calculation capabilities are also implemented, for example, adding two equations or substituting a variable with a numerical or symbolic value into an equation. EQC makes use of the GiNaC library.
CmathOOoCAS is a Libre Office / OpenOffice.org extension a computer algebra system (CAS) that facilitates symbolic mathematics. It allow the manipulation of mathematical expressions in symbolic form in OOo Calc (and Writer with my extension CmathOOo). For example, you can operate on fraction, complex numbers, polynoms, in cells of Calc. CmathOOoCAS is an “Addin” written in C++ and compiled for windows 32bits, Linux 32bits, Linux 64bits and Mac OSX Intel. Many functions are available: all usual functions such as addition, multiplication, division, power, exponential, logarithm, etc.… and CAS functions such as “solve”, “integrate”, “series”, etc.… You can define your own symbolic function with many syntaxes: xcas, maple, mupad, TI89. I also provide for developers a way to use these functions inside a program in OOo–Basic. It is free under GPL licence. Two languages are supported: french and english (for non–french OOo).
Laeqed (lā'kĕd') is a LaTeX equation editor specifically targeted at producing PNG images of math equations for use on web pages. It runs wherever Java and LaTeX runs, i.e. Linux, Windows, Mac… Laeqed stores the LaTeX equation into the PNG image, so it can be reopened later for further editing.
TexMaths is an addon designed to provide LaTeX support into LibreOffice. LaTeX equations can be inserted as images (SVG or PNG formats) and the LaTeX code is saved into the image attribute for further editing. To insert your first equation into a document, simply type a LaTex math instruction in the text field of the TexMaths Equations window and then click on the LaTeX button.
XMDS is a code generator that integrates equations. You write them down in human readable form in a XML file, and it goes away and writes and compiles a C++ program that integrates those equations as fast as it can possibly be done in your architecture.
Genius Mathematics Tool and the GEL (Genius Extension Language)
The FEniCS Project is a collection of free software with an extensive list of features for automated, efficient solution of differential equations.
Clawpack (Conservation Laws Package) is a software package designed to compute numerical solutions to hyperbolic partial differential equations using a wave propagation approach.
IODE (University of Illinois Ordinary Differential Equations)
ODEToolkit is a Java program that helps users calculate, visualize, and explore solutions to ordinary differential equations. It is made freely available for non-commercial download and use by Harvey Mudd College.
Optimal Designs Enterprise: Increasing Productivity Seminars 4 Management, Engineer & Sci. (Includes software with source code)
This page contains the source code and other downloadable material for the VODE_F90 ordinary differential equation (ode) solver. VODE_F90 is a Fortran 90 version of the well–known VODE ode solver by Brown, Byrne, and Hindmarsh.
DESSolver Java–Applet: (ODE) Ordinary Differential Equation System Solver
ARPACK is a collection of Fortran77 subroutines designed to solve large scale eigenvalue problems. The package is designed to compute a few eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors of a general n by n matrix A. It is most appropriate for large sparse or structured matrices A where structured means that a matrix–vector product w <– Av requires order n rather than the usual order n² floating point operations. This software is based upon an algorithmic variant of the Arnoldi process called the Implicitly Restarted Arnoldi Method (IRAM). When the matrix A is symmetric it reduces to a variant of the Lanczos process called the Implicitly Restarted Lanczos Method (IRLM). These variants may be viewed as a synthesis of the Arnoldi/Lanczos process with the Implicitly Shifted QR technique that is suitable for large scale problems. For many standard problems, a matrix factorization is not required. Only the action of the matrix on a vector is needed. ARPACK software is capable of solving large scale symmetric, nonsymmetric, and generalized eigenproblems from significant application areas. The software is designed to compute a few (k) eigenvalues with user specified features such as those of largest real part or largest magnitude. Storage requirements are on the order of n*k locations. No auxiliary storage is required. A set of Schur basis vectors for the desired k–dimensional eigen–space is computed which is numerically orthogonal to working precision. Numerically accurate eigenvectors are available on request.
FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, and of both real and complex data (as well as of even/odd data, i.e. the discrete cosine/sine transforms or DCT/DST). We believe that FFTW, which is free software, should become the FFT library of choice for most applications.
TANGO (Trustable Algorithms for Nonlinear General Optimization) is a set of Fortran routines for Optimization developed at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the State University of Campinas and at the Department of Computer Science of the University of São Paulo, under the coordination of Professor J. M. Martínez.
Sage is the “Open source software package takes aim at high–cost math programs”
Sage is a free open–source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open–source packages into a common Python–based interface.
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Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and variable precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions.
The Euler Mathematical Toolbox is a powerful, versatile, mature software for numerical and symbolic computations. Symbolic mathematics is supported in Euler using the open algebra system Maxima.
Mathomatic is a portable, command–line CAS and calculator software, written entirely in the C programming language. It is free and open source software (FOSS), published under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL version 2.1). The software can symbolically solve, simplify, combine, and compare algebraic equations, simultaneously performing standard, complex number, modular, and polynomial arithmetic, as needed. It does some calculus and is very easy to compile/install, learn, and use. Mathomatic consists of a text–mode symbolic math application and library suitable for desktops, servers, handhelds, and embedded systems. It compiles and runs under any operating system with a C compiler, including Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and MS–Windows. An operating system is not required for using the symbolic math library, and there are no dependencies other than the standard C libraries. The mathematical results should always be correct, simple, and beautiful; if not, please report it to the developers.
FuncDesigner is a computer algebra system (CAS) written in Python + NumPy as an ordinary Python module (thus making it free to combine with any other Python or Python–connected code). That makes it cross–platform (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X etc), with completely free license: BSD. It can be used like just a language of mathematics, possibly with recursive import of variables/formulas from other files. Enhances RAD abilities of Python language for developing scientific software, especially for numerical optimization, integration and interpolation, solving systems of linear, non–linear, ordinary differential equations. Perfectly stacks with NumPy arrays and other Python functions and code, thus you can connect parts of code written in C, Fortran, MATLAB etc and import/export data in formats of text, HDF5, xml/xls, weka arff, mtx, netcdf, MATLAB mat files etc (via numpy.io and scipy.io modules). Key feature of the framework is Automatic differentiation (AD) (not to be confused with Numerical differentiation via finite–differences derivatives approximation and symbolic differentiation provided by Maxima, SymPy etc). It seriously benefits some numerical optimization solvers and is capable of using sparse matrices (requires SciPy installed). BTW, commercial tool TOMLAB / MAD for automatic differentiation costs over 4000$.
Yacas is an easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System, a program for symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions. It uses its own programming language designed for symbolic as well as arbitrary–precision numerical computations. The system has a library of scripts that implement many of the symbolic algebra operations; new algorithms can be easily added to the library. YACAS comes with extensive documentation (hundreds of pages) covering the scripting language, the functionality that is already implemented in the system, and the algorithms we used.
Freely Available Software For Linear Algebra On The Web (April 2009)
Axiom is a general purpose Computer Algebra system. It is useful for research and development of mathematical algorithms. It defines a strongly typed, mathematically correct type hierarchy. It has a programming language and a built–in compiler.
Cadabra is a computer algebra system (CAS) designed specifically for the solution of problems encountered in field theory. It has extensive functionality for tensor computer algebra, tensor polynomial simplification including multi–term symmetries, fermions and anti–commuting variables, Clifford algebras and Fierz transformations, implicit coordinate dependence, multiple index types and many more. The input format is a subset of TeX. Both a command–line and a graphical interface are available.
gTybalt is a free computer algebra system. It is distributed under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL). gTybalt allows symbolic calculations within the C++ programming language. Solutions developed with gTybalt can be compiled with a C++ compiler and executed independently of gTybalt. This is particular important for computer–extensive problems and a major weakness of commercial computer algebra systems. gTybalt can interpret C++ and execute C++ scripts. Solutions can be developed quickly for small-scale problems, either interactively or through scripts, and once debugged, the solutions can be compiled and scaled up to large–scale problems. Mathematical formulae are visualized using TeX fonts and can easily be converted to LaTeX on a what–you–see–is–what–you–get basis.
PARI/GP is a widely used computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory (factorizations, algebraic number theory, elliptic curves…), but also contains a large number of other useful functions to compute with mathematical entities such as matrices, polynomials, power series, algebraic numbers etc., and a lot of transcendental functions. PARI is also available as a C library to allow for faster computations.
Giac/Xcas is a free computer algebra system for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux/Unix (license GPL3). Xcas is an interface to perform computer algebra, function graphs, interactive geometry (2–d and 3–d), spreadsheet and statistics, programmation. It may be used as a replacement for high end graphic calculators for example on netbooks (for about the same price as a calculator but with much more performances). Giac is a free (GPL) C++ library, it is the computation kernel, it may be used inside other C++ programs. Giac/Xcas has a compatibility mode for people used to the Maple or Mupad CAS as well as for users of TI calculators (TI89, Voyage 200, TI Nspire CAS).
Singular is a computer algebra system for polynomial computations, with special emphasis on commutative and non–commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and singularity theory. It is free and open–source under the GNU General Public Licence.
Other Open Source Computer Algebra Systems and Other Open Source Mathematical Software
wxMaxima is a document based interface for the computer algebra system Maxima. wxMaxima uses wxWidgets and runs natively on Windows, X11 and Mac OS X. wxMaxima provides menus and dialogs for many common maxima commands, autocompletion, inline plots and simple animations. wxMaxima is distributed under the GPL license.
Imaxima provides a graphical user interface front–end for the computer algebra system Maxima in an Emacs buffer. Imaxima processes the output from Maxima with LaTeX to beautifully render the mathematical formula. It inserts the rendered math formula image in the buffer. Also, graphs generated by gnuplot are inserted as well. Imaxima can also be hooked in to the Maxima mode provided by maxima.el which is included in the Maxima distribution. Maxima mode provides more key bindings and other conveniences.
Symaxx/2: a graphical frontend for the Maxima computer algebra system
Kayali is a Qt based Computer Algebra System (CAS) that can also be used as an advanced replacement for KDE KCalc. It is essentially a front end GUI for Maxima (and is easily extended to other CAS back–ends) and Gnuplot.
Scilab: The Free Software for Numerical Computation
Scicos is a graphical dynamical system modeler and simulator developed in the Metalau project at INRIA, Paris–Rocquencourt center. With Scicos, user can create block diagrams to model and simulate the dynamics of hybrid dynamical systems and compile models into executable code. Scicos is used for signal processing, systems control, queuing systems, and to study physical and biological systems. New extensions allow generation of component based modeling of electrical and hydraulic circuits using the Modelica language.
FreeMat is a free environment for rapid engineering and scientific prototyping and data processing. It is similar to commercial systems such as MATLAB from Mathworks, and IDL from Research Systems, but is Open Source. FreeMat is available under the GPL license.
The www.freemat.info website provides a set of free tutorials that can be used in Matlab or Freemat environments. The software Matlab (or Matrix Laboratory) has revolutionised the analysis of data for scientists and engineers. In many ways Matlab/Freemat has succeeded Fortran as the most popular programming language in the science annd engineering communities. Freemat is an open source software that is similar to Matlab, but with less functionality.
GNU Octave is a high–level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch–oriented language.
Octave–Forge is a central location for the collaborative development of packages for GNU Octave.
GNU Octave Wiki
OctaveForWindows
Octave for Mac or, How to Minimalistically GNUify Mac OS X For Building Octave From Scratch
Installing MacOS X Bundle
“Perl and Inline Octave Code” By Andy Adler, March 01, 2004: Perl makes it quite easy to integrate an interpreter into a Perl script by controlling its input and output filehandles
Inline–Octave: Inline octave code into your perl
Octave–Forge: Pytave: Octave Module for Python: Embeds the Octave language interpreter as an extension to Python, enabling existing m–files (Matlab scripts) for numerical calculations to be used from Python.
QtOctave: a front–end for Octave/un Front–End para Octave
QOcTerm (Octave GUI Qt 4): This is open source simple GUI project for Octave
GUI Octave is a Graphical User Interface for the GNU Octave high–level language. GNU Octave is a pretty strong interpreted language to solve linear and non–liner problems. However, the biggest drawback is that it has a command line version only. This problem is solved by GUI Octave. It provides a free GUI for GNU Octave that lets you easily work with GNU Octave in a familiar UI, without worrying about the command line interface. GUI Octave is totally free. It runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7.
Octclipse: Octave development environment built upon Eclipse's Dynamic Languages Toolkit (http://www.eclipse.org/dltk/). Supports search, autocompletion, launching scripts, interactive console, debug and integrated plotting on Octave versions 3.2.4, 3.4.3 and 3.6.0. Previously, to use some of features users were forced to compile some code. The goal is to make it running out–of–box on multiple platforms. Currently only Linux OS is supported, but Windows and MacOS support is planned.
OctaveGUI is a(nother) GUI frontend for GNU Octave written fully in FreePascal with Lazarus IDE, with the following feature goals: – Cross platform (CPU, OS, and widgetset) – Portable – Small size – Fast execution & low memory consumption – Close interface to MATLAB
octavede is a development environment for the Octave mathematical software package. Octave normally is run in a terminal. Octavede provides an GTK/X11 application that provides functionality similar to other mathematical software packages.
Octave GTK+ is a Octave binding for GTK+, to help develop GUI programs from Octave, with GTK+. It aims to aid fast creation of scientific programs that need GUI's as well as number crunching power.
Kalculus is intended to be a GUI front–end to the multiple mathematic computational system available on linux. For instance yacas or octave. Those tools provide a basic console command line, and the goal of Kalculus is to provide a better user experience.
Octaviz is a visualization system for Octave. It is a wrapper that makes all VTK classes accessible from within Octave using the same object–oriented syntax as in C++ or Python. Octaviz also provides high–level functions for 2D and 3D visualization. Using those functions, most common visualization tasks (3D surface plots, contour plots, meshes etc) can be accomplished without any knowledge about VTK.
Octivate is a front end to GNU Octave written using C#, Mono, and the GTK. The software uses a C/C++ library (liboctivate) to interface GNU Octave. The solution also implements an Octave namespace in C#.
OctPlot is free open source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). OctPlot is a handle graphics package for Octave, the free alternative to MATLAB(TM). OctPlot provides quality postscript(TM) and screen graphics.
octawrap: This is a wrapper for Octave and Wish, that emulates the behavior of Matlab (mathematical tool) using these two programs.
Mastrave is a free software library written to perform vectorized computation and to be as compatible as possible with both GNU Octave and Matlab computing frameworks, offering general purpose, portable and freely available features for the scientific community. Mastrave is mostly oriented to ease complex modeling tasks such as those typically needed within environmental models, even when involving irregular and heterogeneous data series. The Mastrave project attempts to allow a more effective, quick interoperability between GNU Octave and Matlab users by using a reasonably well documented wrap around the main incompatibilities between those computing environments and by promoting a reasonably general idiom based on their common, stable syntagms. There are a couple of underlying ideas: library design is language design and vice versa (Bell labs); language notation is definitely a “tool of thought” (Iverson), in the sense that there is a feedback between programming/mathematical notation and the ability to think new scientific insights. And perhaps ethic ones.
quantum–octave is a set of GNU Octave functions for simulating quantum computers.
GD–Octave is a library glue for exporting GD library functions into Octave. It features string and text rendering to the PNG, JPEG, GIF, and WBMP image formats. Line, Point, Arc, Polygon, and Fill are supported as primitives.
GeoPDEs is a suite of software tools for research on Isogeometric Analysis of PDEs. It provides a common and flexible framework for implementing and testing new isogeometric methods in different application areas. GeoPDEs is written in Octave and fully compatible with Matlab. The suite consists of a set of interrelated packages. The main package, geopdes_base, defines the basic data–structures and methods, and should also serve as an entry point for understanding the implementation of an Isogeometric Analysis code. Other packages deal with applications in linear elasticity, fluid mechanics and electromagnetism. A package specifically meant to allow handling multipatch NURBS geometries is also available.
Nellip is a set of functions for designing Elliptic digital filters in GNU–Octave.
lp_solve is a free (LGP) linear (integer) programming solver based on the revised simplex method and the Branch–and–bound method for the integers.
LIPSOL is a Matlab–based package for solving linear programs by interior–Point methods. For computational efficiency it uses a Fortran package by Esmond Ng and Barry Peyton at ORNL to solve large sparse linear systems. LIPSOL has been tested on the Netlib set of linear programs and has effectively solved all 95 Netlib problems.
The Time–Frequency Toolbox (TFTB) is a collection of about 100 scripts for GNU Octave and Matlab (R) developed for the analysis of non–stationary signals using time–frequency distributions. It is primary intended for researchers, engineers and students with some basic knowledge in signal processing. The toolbox contains numerous algorithms which implements various kind of time–frequency analysis with a special emphasis on quadratic energy distributions of the Cohen and affine classes, along with their version enhanced by the reassignment method. The toolbox also includes signal generation procedures, processing/post–processing routines (with display utilities) and a number of demonstrations.
The Matrix Computation Toolbox is a collection of MATLAB M–files containing functions for constructing test matrices, computing matrix factorizations, visualizing matrices, and carrying out direct search optimization. Various other miscellaneous functions are also included.
SeDuMi is a great piece of software for optimization over symmetric cones. (works with MATLAB, but can be configured to work with GNU Octave)
SOSTOOLS, a free MATLAB toolbox for formulating and solving sums of squares (SOS) optimization programs. SOSTOOLS can be used to specify and solve sum of squares polynomial problems using a very simple, flexible, and intuitive high–level notation. Currently, the SOS programs are solved using SeDuMi or SDPT3, both well–known semidefinite programming solver, with SOSTOOLS handling internally all the necessary reformulations and data conversion.
CVX is a Matlab–based modeling system for convex optimization. CVX turns Matlab into a modeling language, allowing constraints and objectives to be specified using standard Matlab expression syntax.
SDPT3 is a MATLAB software for semidefinite-quadratic–linear programming.
EIDORS (Electrical Impedance Tomography and Diffuse Optical Tomography Reconstruction Software) are free software algorithms for forward and inverse modelling for Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) and Diffusion based Optical Tomography.
iso2mesh: is a free matlab/octave–based mesh generation and processing toolbox. It can create 3D tetrahedral finite element (FE) mesh from surfaces, 3D binary and gray–scale volumetric images such as segmented MRI/CT scans. iso2mesh is an open–source software developed by Qianqian Fang at the Optics Division, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
metch is an open–source software developed by Qianqian Fang at the Optics Division, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard Medical School). This toolbox can be used to register the surface mesh created from iso2mesh toolbox developed by the same author.
Neuroimaging Analysis Kit (NIAK) for Matlab and Octave is a library of functions dedicated to process neuroimaging data within Octave or Matlab(r), with an emphasis on functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI). Tools have been implemented in a modular fashion following consistent coding guidelines, such that they would integrate easily into new projects. A generic pipeline system is available to handle complex multi-stage processing and support distributed computing.
BioSig is a software library for processing of biomedical signals (EEG, ECG, etc.) with Matlab, Octave, C/C++ and Python. A standalone signal viewer supporting more than 30 different data formats is also provided.
DEB laboratory: This electronic laboratory for work on the Dynamic Energy Budget theory is a site where you can download software that may be useful for research and education purposes. It aims to facilitate the application of the theory, and to stimulate collaboration.
DEBtool is a software package written in Octave 3.2.4 and Matlab 7.3.0 that can be used to illustrate some implications of the Dynamic Energy Budget theory and to apply this theory in the analysis of eco–physiological data.
DEBtoxM in Matlab
SegyMAT is a set of Matlab/Octave m–files to read and write SEG Y data following SEG Y Revision 0 and 1.
MFFM implementation of silhouette extraction algorithm
WaveLab is a collection of Matlab functions that have been used by the authors and collaborators to implement a variety of algorithms related to wavelet analysis.
Model Transformation Tools: A set of tools for modelling dynamic physical systems using the bond–graph methodology and transforming these models into representations suitable for analysis, control and simulation. These tools use, and generate m files for, GNU Octave.
MPI Toolbox for Octave (MPITB): Octave Parallel Computing with LAM/MPI and Open–MPI
Octave IPC (Inter–process communication) Module realizes an Octave module and a C++ API that allows client applicaions to start Octave as background process to exchange data with it and execute Octave commands using IPC.
Concurrent Modules for GNU Octave, CMO for short, is a library to help developing concurrent modules for GNU Octave. These modules are run in a separate thread or process and they communicate with GNU Octave via an IPC channel. Each module can create objects that represent a module–specific object and that can be managed by the user from within GNU Octave's interpreter using an object–oriented syntax. CMO also implements an event queue within GNU Octave. These events are able to execute user–defined callback functions.
CISM_DX is a community–developed suite of integrated data, models, and data and model explorers, for research and education. The data and model explorers are based on code written for OpenDX and Octave. CISM_DX leverages and integrates many existing software packages. To use it, some study knowledge of OpenDX and/or Octave is involved. However, there are many things you can do without having to be familiar with Octave or OpenDX.
multimat: This program will give the user a shell that is able to connect to different mathematical engines (at least Octave and Scilab) and distribute the work among them.
JMathLib: A Java Clone of Octave, SciLab, Freemat and Matlab.
GAP is a system for computational discrete algebra, with particular emphasis on Computational Group Theory. GAP provides a programming language, a library of thousands of functions implementing algebraic algorithms written in the GAP language as well as large data libraries of algebraic objects. … GAP is used in research and teaching for studying groups and their representations, rings, vector spaces, algebras, combinatorial structures, and more. The system, including source, is distributed freely. You can study and easily modify or extend it for your special use.
Macaulay2 is a software system devoted to supporting research in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, whose creation has been funded by the National Science Foundation since 1992. Macaulay2 includes core algorithms for computing Gröbner bases and graded or multi–graded free resolutions of modules over quotient rings of graded or multi–graded polynomial rings with a monomial ordering. The core algorithms are accessible through a versatile high level interpreted user language with a powerful debugger supporting the creation of new classes of mathematical objects and the installation of methods for computing specifically with them. Macaulay2 can compute Betti numbers, Ext, cohomology of coherent sheaves on projective varieties, primary decomposition of ideals, integral closure of rings, and more.
CUDD: CU Decision Diagram Package The CUDD package provides functions to manipulate Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs), Algebraic Decision Diagrams (ADDs), and Zero–suppressed Binary Decision Diagrams (ZDDs).
The ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) project is an ongoing research effort focusing on applying empirical techniques in order to provide portable performance. At present, it provides C and Fortran77 interfaces to a portably efficient BLAS implementation, as well as a few routines from LAPACK.
Eukleides is a computer language devoted to elementary plane geometry. It aims to be a fairly comprehensive system to create geometric figures, either static or dynamic. Eukleides allows to handle basic types of data: numbers and strings, as well as geometric types of data: points, vectors, sets (of points), lines, circles and conics. A Eukleides script usually consists in a declarative part where objects are defined, and a descriptive part where objects are drawn. Nevertheless, Eukleides is also a full featured programming language, providing conditional and iterative structures, user defined functions, modules, etc. Hence, it can easily be extended. The Eukleides distribution mainly provides two interpreters: eukleides and euktopst. The former produces Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files. It can also, using a converter, yield animated GIFs. The later produces PSTricks macros. It enables to include Eukleides figures into LaTeX documents.
Dr. Geo is a winning award interactive geometry software for Linux, XO laptop, Windows and Mac OS X. Written entirely in Pharo Smalltalk, Dr. Geo allows one to create geometric figure plus the interactive manipulation of such figure in respect with their geometric constraints. It is usable in teaching situation with students from primary or secondary level. It is simple and effective with some unique features as Smalltalk scripting and programming.
Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language that provides a natural coordinate–based framework for technical drawing. Labels and equations are typeset with LaTeX, for high–quality PostScript output. A major advantage of Asymptote over other graphics packages is that it is a programming language, as opposed to just a graphics program.
Free Science/scientific visualization software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Free Visualization Open Source Software on SourceForge.net
Free Mathematics/plotting software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Category: Free plotting software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MathGL: library for scientific graphics
Gnuplot is a portable command–line driven graphing utility for linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms.
LabPlot is a free software data analysis and visualization application built on the KDE Platform. It integrates well into a KDE workspace but can just as well be used in another desktop environment. You can use LabPlot to produce publication quality plots of your data in addition to modeling mathematical functions. LabPlot allows you to import Origin data files and export plots to many different formats. LabPlot is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
SciDAVis is a free application for Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization. SciDAVis is a free interactive application aimed at data analysis and publication–quality plotting. It combines a shallow learning curve and an intuitive, easy–to–use graphical user interface with powerful features such as scriptability and extensibility. SciDAVis runs on GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS X; possibly also on other platforms like *BSD, although this is untested. SciDAVis is similar in its field of application to proprietary Windows applications like Origin and SigmaPlot as well as free applications like QtiPlot, Labplot and Gnuplot. What sets SciDAVis apart from the above is its emphasis on providing a friendly and open environment (in the software as well as the project) for new and experienced users alike. Particularly, this means that we will try to provide good documentation on all levels, ranging from user's manual over tutorials down to and including documentation of the internal APIs. We encourage users to share their experiences on our forums and on our mailing lists.
GGobi is an open source visualization program for exploring high–dimensional data. It provides highly dynamic and interactive graphics such as tours, as well as familiar graphics such as the scatterplot, barchart and parallel coordinates plots. Plots are interactive and linked with brushing and identification.
Mondrian is a general purpose statistical data–visualization system. It features outstanding interactive visualization techniques for data of almost any kind, and has particular strengths, compared to other tools, for working with Categorical Data, Geographical Data and Large Data. All plots in Mondrian are fully linked, and offer many interactions and queries. Any case selected in a plot in Mondrian is highlighted in all other plots. Currently implemented plots comprise Histograms, Boxplots y by x, Scatterplots, Barcharts, Mosaicplots, Missing Value Plots, Parallel Coordinates/Boxplots, SPLOMs and Maps.
Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis – Principles and Examples Web Resource page for the bok
QtiPlot is a professional scientific data analysis and visualisation solution. Thanks to its price defying all competition, QtiPlot is ideal for student computer labs and offers a complete alternative solution to extremely expensive proprietary software like Origin, SigmaPlot, SPSS, Regressi or Igor Pro. QtiPlot is used for teaching as well as for complex data analysis and visualisation in companies, high schools, universities and research institutes all over the world.
PLplot is a cross–platform software package for creating scientific plots. To help accomplish that task it is organized as a core C library, language bindings for that library, and device drivers which control how the plots are presented in non-interactive and interactive plotting contexts. The PLplot core library can be used to create standard x–y plots, semi–log plots, log–log plots, contour plots, 3D surface plots, mesh plots, bar charts and pie charts. Multiple graphs (of the same or different sizes) may be placed on a single page, and multiple pages are allowed for those device formats that support them.
PLplotWiki
RLPlot is a plotting program to create high quality graphs from data. Based on values stored in a spreadsheet several menus help you to create graphs of your choice. The Graphs are displayed as you get them (wysiwyg). Double click any element of the graph (or a single click with the right mouse button) to modify its properties. RLPlot is a cross platform development for Linux and Windows. Mac OsX users can find some useful information how to install RLPlot at http://naranja.umh.es/~atg/.
Fityk [fi:tik] is a program for data processing and nonlinear curve fitting.
UDAV (universal data array visualization) cross–platform program for data arrays visualization based on MathGL library. It support wide spectrum of graphics, simple script language and visual data handling and editing. It has window interface for data viewing, changing and plotting. Also it can execute MGL scripts, setup and rotate graphics and so on.
Ploticus is a free, GPL, non–interactive software package for producing plots, charts, and graphics from data. It was developed in a Unix/C environment and runs on various Unix, Linux, and win32 systems. ploticus is good for automated or just–in–time graph generation, handles date and time data nicely, and has basic statistical capabilities. It allows significant user control over colors, styles, options and details. Ploticus is a mature package, available since 1999, and version 2.40 has more than 12,000 downloads to date.
Grace is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System and M*tif. Grace runs on practically any version of Unix–like OS. As well, it has been successfully ported to VMS, OS/2, and Win9*/NT/2000/XP (some minor functionality may be missing, though).
matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. matplotlib can be used in python scripts, the python and ipython shell (ala matlab or mathematica), web application servers, and six graphical user interface toolkits.
K3DSurf is a program to visualize and manipulate Mathematical models in three, four, five and six dimensions. K3DSurf supports Parametric equations and Isosurfaces.
3D–XplorMath is a Mathematical Visualization program. The older original version, written in Pascal, runs only on on Macintosh computers, but there is also a newer cross–platform Java version, called 3D–XplorMath–J, that while it still has fewer features and Exhibits, we hope eventually to give it all the functionality of the Pascal version.
ATG: free software for research & teaching
ATG Web Links – no frames
Free Science software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
FSF France – Free Software and science
Science Software: Free and Open Source Educational Software: Centre for OpenSource Development at CQUniversity Australia
Category: Free science software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The OpenScience Project Blog
The OpenScience Project Software Directory: Open source scientific software
FreeScience Software
The KDE Education Project: Science
Debian Science: Provide to researchers and scientists better experience when using Debian.
Debian Science Other Links
Scibuntu is Ubuntu Linux for scientists and science students. Scibuntu is a script that adds scientific programs and other convenient tools to the plain desktop Ubuntu.
Ubuntu^sci is a remix of Ubuntu Linux for use by scientists. The vision of the project is that Ubuntu^sci (and thus Ubuntu) will become the premier choice of desktop operating system for researchers and scientists. Ubuntu^sci is being developed as an Ubuntu remix and all work is released as OSS. Ubuntu^sci differs from the standard Ubuntu desktop in that it directly support scientists by providing applications to assist them in conducting research.
Ubuntu Science/Alternatives to Proprietary Software
Free Science/physics software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Free Physics Open Source Software on SourceForge.net
Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata specification developed by the ecology discipline and for the ecology discipline.
Free Science/chemistry software on the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Free Chemistry Open Source Software on SourceForge.net
Chemistry Software: The OpenScience Project Software Directory
OpenSource Site for CML (Chemical Markup Language)
GNOME Chemistry Utils
Open Babel: The Open Source Chemistry Toolbox
The Chemical Structures Project
Kalzium – Periodic Table of Elements
Kalzium: Other Chemistry–Applications
Institute for Health and Consumer Protection — (JRC–IHCP), European Commission: QSAR Tools: The Computational Toxicology Group supports the development of QSAR and statistical analysis software tools that are potentially useful for regulatory purposes.
Institute for Health and Consumer Protection — (JRC–IHCP), European Commission: Toxmatch is a flexible and user–friendly open–source software application that encodes several chemical similarity indices to facilitate the grouping of chemicals into categories and read–across. The core functionalities include the ability to compare datasets based on various structural and descriptor–based similarity indices as well as the means to calculate pair wise similarity between compounds or aggregated similarity of a compound to a set.
Institute for Health and Consumer Protection — (JRC–IHCP), European Commission: Toxtree is a flexible and user–friendly open–source application that places chemicals into categories and predicts various kinds of toxic effect by applying decision tree approaches. Toxtree was developed by Ideaconsult Ltd (Sofia, Bulgaria) under the terms of a JRC contract. The software is made freely available as a service to scientific researchers and anyone with an interest in the application of computer–based estimation methods in the assessment of chemical toxicity.
OpenToxipedia
OpenTox community site
AMBIT2 is the current version and a complete redesign of AMBIT software, includes more features and better performance. Last but not least, all the functionality is available via REST web services. AMBIT2 consists of multiple modules with well defined dependencies, which can be used in a stand alone mode or embedded in other applications. AMBIT2 modules and applications can run on any platform, supported by Java 1.6 or higher.
ChemSpider links together compound information across the web, providing free text and structure search access of millions of chemical structures.

Free and Open Source GIS/GPS/Geosciences Software

GML: the Geography Markup Language
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC)
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
The FreeGIS Project provides software overview on Free Geographic Information Systems (our web site) & communication on developments, plans, infos on Free GIS Software and Free Geo–Data (our mailing list)
Open Source GIS
Free Mapping Open Source Software on SourceForge.net
Geography Software: The OpenScience Project Software Directory
List of GIS software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Category: Free GIS software: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Open GIS on GIS Lounge
Open Source GIS Applications on GIS Lounge
The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) is an open source collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x–y plots via contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3–D perspective views. GMT supports ~30 map projections and transformations and comes with support data such as GSHHS coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries.
The GIS and Python Software Laboratory
OGDI is the Open Geographic Datastore Interface
The GISToolkit is a free java based mapping toolkit, it has the ability to read geographical data from a variety of data sources and display that information to the user. It can directly edit geographic features stored in databases to which it has access.
GIS Knoppix
GRASS, this is free Geographic Information System (GIS) software used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization.
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Quantum GIS Python Plugins
ghydraulic: Open Source Hydraulic Network Analysis Software. A plug–in for Quantum GIS that allows to calculate economic pipe diameters.
The KDE Education Project: Marble
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap Wiki
OpenLayers: Free Maps for the Web
USGS Global Visualization Viewer
World Wind SDK for Java
WorldWind Central: official knowledge base and support site for NASA WorldWind

Free and Open Source Earth (Environment–related) Software

Free Ecosystem Sciences Open Source Software on SourceForge.net
Free Earth Sciences Open Source Software on SourceForge.net
Earth Sciences Software: The OpenScience Project Software Directory
openLCA Framework: Software for sustainability assessment, highly modular; initially focused on Life Cycle Assessments
Life Cycle Assessment Spreadsheet: The Life Cycle Assessment Spreadsheet allows you to calculate carbon footprints and other environmental impacts for given product systems. Use requires basic skills in LCA and matrix algebra, but rewards effort with professional analytical tools.
Seneca Software & Solar, Inc.
Nonlineum is a Python module providing tools for dynamic simulation and analysis of wastewater treatment plants.
Catchment Modelling Toolkit
GHP: MAGS Model Strategy
The distributed hydrologic model WATFLOOD
The Bulk Meter Flow and Operations is a web–based application to manage water meter readings
pfcalc stands for pipe friction calculator and is a CLI program that computes pressure drop in piping systems using the Darcy–Weisbach equation. The program is capable of computing minor and major pressure losses (pipe friction losses) for flow in pipes and ducts. The aim is to provide an open source alternative to similar proprietary software. The intended user base is made of those people working in the fields of mechanical and civil engineering, who need to estimate pressure drop in new or existing piping systems. Since the program and it's GUI front–ends are open source software, the users can study the inner workings and decide for themselves if the calculations made with pfcalc are accurate. Also, the software is free, as in beer and as in speech, and can be used, modified and distributed according to the GNU General Public License... The program is written in the C programing language and can be compiled on all POSIX operating systems (Linux/BSD/Unix–like OSes) and also on 32–bit / 64 bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP/Vista/7). Also it has been reported to compile and run on OS/2. Data can be fed through command line arguments or can be read from a comma separated values file (csv). This is a text file that contains values separated by commas and can be exported from various spreadsheet programs. Every line is a data set that contains the following values, in this order: diameter, length, roughness, elevation, flow–rate, minor loss coefficient (K–factor), temperature. The program will read the file, make a calculation for every data set and print the result. Calculation results can be exported to a csv file that will contain a result per line, with values in this order: diameter, length, roughness, flow, temperature, velocity, Reynolds number, Darcy factor, hydrostatic pressure loss, minor pressure loss, major pressure loss. The formulae used by pfcalc can be downloaded in pdf and odf formats.
DC Water Design Extension toolsuite
Dorsch Consult Wasser und Umwelt GmbH (DC Water and Environment)
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Runoff Management Models
Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a public domain model actively supported by the USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory in Temple, Texas, USA.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Resources Applications Software
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Resources Groundwater Software
US EPA Data and Information Technology: Applications & Databases
US EPA Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling (CEAM)
US EPA: BASINS (Better Assessment Science Integrating point & Non–point Sources) is a multi–purpose environmental analysis system that integrates a geographical information system (GIS), national watershed data, and state–of–the–art environmental assessment and modeling tools into one convenient package.
US EPA: Storm Water Management Model (SWMM)
US EPA: EPANET Software That Models the Hydraulic and Water Quality Behavior of Water Distribution Piping Systems
EPANET Toolkit for GNU/Linux
i–Tree is a state–of–the–art, peer–reviewed software suite from the USDA Forest Service that provides urban forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. The i–Tree Tools help communities of all sizes to strengthen their urban forest management and advocacy efforts by quantifying the structure of community trees and the environmental services that trees provide. Since the initial release of the i–Tree Tools in August 2006, numerous communities, non–profit organizations, consultants, volunteers and students have used i–Tree to report on individual trees, parcels, neighborhoods, cities, and even entire states. By understanding the local, tangible ecosystem services that trees provide, i–Tree users can link urban forest management activities with environmental quality and community livability. Whether your interest is a single tree or an entire forest, i–Tree provides baseline data that you can use to demonstrate value and set priorities for more effective decision–making. i–Tree Tools are in the public domain and are freely accessible. We invite you to explore this site to learn more about how i–Tree can make a difference in your community.

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