For what it's worth here is how I make use of this terrific toolset. In a phrase, I treat it as my morning World Sustainabilty Newspaper. I grab a cup of coffee, click up the latest news and have a look at what has transpired on this small planet in the last 24 hours.

For the hardy, you might also check out the Google Groups disucssions on SD, but recommended only if you are a fast scanner of lots of stuff that is more static than signals.

1. English Language News Alerts
   This newsfeed organized through Google News calls up related items from the print press in English drawn from the web and covering more than four thousand news sources. Roughly 90% of the entries relate to our topic, with the items stocked for one month after appearing.

2. French
   This web search looks for all web references to the phrase "developpement durable" over the last three months. It is pretty huge, awkward but if you look at the leading 50 or so items you will have a good feel for the date of play of sustianble development in France and in other French language coutnries.
   
   • Click here for a rough machine translation into 'English'.
   
   
3. German
   This engine searches the web for the last three months for the keywords "nachhaltige Entwicklung".
   
   • And here for rough translation into 'English' of these sites.
   
   
   
4. Italian (as yet less definitive)
   This engine seaches the web for references over the last three months to "sviluppo sostenibile" and "sviluppo durabile".
   • Italian to 'English'.
   
   
5. Spanish
   This search looks for dessarrollo-sostenible or dessarrollo-durable. Though once again putatively limted ot items appearing in the last three montyhs, it is huge.
   • And here for Spanish to 'English'.
   
   
6. Google Groups on SD
   This search races through all the communications logged in Google Groups containing our key phrase. Quite a hodge podge, but nonetheless food for the thoughtful.
   
   
7. Questia On-Line Labrary of SD
   This search identifies more than 3000 books, articles, and reports on our topic. The database is fully searchable.

   Note 1: You have one click access to rough machine 'translations' of several of these language groups into 'English'. Used with wit and energy they can be very helpful. But please do have a quick look at out Translation Help page here before you do.

   Note 2: The members of our informal consortium are invited to lend a hand to help us do a better job yet with this. Take a look at the search in your language/operatng area. Can you help us do better? Good idea. Do it! After all it's for all of us who are devoted to this terrific concept.

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