Other Links
- Adventure Cycling Association - Get maps for cross-country trips
- Allens Lane Art Center - Provides programs/activities that bring our diverse community together to experience & support the arts.
- The American Folk Life Center - A Library of Congress research center dedicated to recording everyday life.
- Annual Credit Report - for free.
- Astronomy Picture of the Day - from NASA.
- Campfire Cuisine - A book with gourmet recipes for the great outdoors.
- Charity Navigator - America's largest independent charity evaluator, provides financial evaluations of America's charities.
- Cheese Page of David B. Fankhauser - Many practical recipes for cheesemaking.
- Cheesemaking Supplies - New England Cheesemaking Supply Company.
- Civil War Recipes
- Civil War Food - contains recipes for hard tack and johnnie cake.
- Computer Info - See page on bcrenshaw.com.
- Co-op America - is a national nonprofit consumer organization, promoting environmental sustainability, social justice, and economic justice
- Cook's Thesaurus - a cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.
- Country Profiles on BBC Website - Useful descriptions, including overview, leadership and media.
- Dogbane - Description of plant from which Native Americans made twine and rope.
- Darwin Has a Posse! - A humorous approach to keeping science in our school's science curriculum, and keeping disingenuous fiction out.
- Darwin Online - A project to put all of Charles Darwin's work on-line.
- Emergency Preparedness - See page on bcrenshaw.com.
- Exercise - See page on bcrenshaw.com.
- Food - See page on bcrenshaw.com.
- Frank Lloyd Wright - Usonian architecture.
- Gaiam - For earth-friendly household items and cleaners.
- GFS Hotline
- Graffiti Research Lab - Dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication.
- Habitat for Humanity, Philadelphia
- Heinsohn's Country Store - Sausage-making supplies.
- How Things Work - Virginia.edu
- HSBC Direct Rewards card (800-975-4722) pays 5% cash back on gas, drugs and groceries, and 1% on all charges above $3,000.
- joe Coffee Bar - is an eclectic, casual coffeehouse in Center City Philadelphia that offers 100% Arabica coffee beans fair trade, shade grown, organic and estate coffees
- Kiva.org - Make a loan to an entrepreneur in the developing world for as little as $25.
- LED Mood Lamp - A DIY item for lighting your abode.
- Life Sciences Data Archive - Johnson Space Center
- Link TV Store - Free World Music on Tuesdays and Fridays.
- Maps - See page on bcrenshaw.com.
- Micro Compact Home - cube-shaped Micro Compact Homes, designed by British architect Richard Horden.
- NASA Satellite Siting Page - for Philadelphia.
- NOAA WEATHER RADIO County by County Coverage - Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) codes for National Weather Radio (NWR).
- Old City Coffee Online - Local source of organic and fair trade coffee beans.
- Opentable.com - Restaurant reviews (Philly page hyperlinked).
- Pennsylvania Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources - Info on PA State Parks, including maps, recreation, and campsite reservations.
- Philadelphia Canoe Club - Learn to enjoy the outdoors on the water.
- Philadelphia Inquirer - Local newspaper.
- Philadelphia, PA - Local tourism bureau gives information on my hometown.
- Photography and Video Tips - Trade secrets from CNN.com i–Report.
- Rightwingers...Yo, pay attention! - This cartoon sums up the reasons to vote the GOP out of office.
- Spaceweather.com - News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids.
- Specialty Bottle Company
- State Representative Kathy Manderino - Philadelphia and Montgomery County 194th District
- StoryCorps - A project sponsored by NPR and the American Folk Life Center at the Library of Congress to make audio recordings of the stories of "everyday people."
- weeHouses - "When you build smaller, you can put in a lot more quality than you can in a larger space," says Geoffrey Warner of Alchemy Architects in St. Paul, Minn. Warner's weeHouses, shaped something like shipping containers, start at $69,500 for a 364-sq.-ft. studio with bamboo flooring, built-in cabinetry and floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors.
- Wild Plant Recipes - Russ Cohen's recipes for plants commonly found in your local environment.
- Wood Sorrel, Yellow - Edible plant with lemony taste.
- WorldAtlas.com - a world atlas of facts flags and maps including every continent, country, dependency, exotic destination, island, major city, ocean, province, state & territory on the planet!
- Zymic.com - offers a large amount of quality free webpage templates, free tutorials, free resource downloads and much more!
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