The most popular way to see Solstice is by World Wide Web, the graphical interface to the Internet. The World Wide Web allows users to see pictures and other graphics, or even to hear sound and see movies, from sites all over the world. Gopher, named after the mascot of the American university at which it was developed, is a text-only menu of choices that works better for people with modems slower than 14.4 kilobits. FTP allows files to be retrieved from one computer to another, also a good choice for slower modems or areas with a lot of server traffic. A message with a listing of available information and how to get it will be sent automatically.
Solstice is also the home of many other organizations on the Internet.
The US solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass trade associations have company directories and publications online. Other energy organizations include the Rocky Mountain Institute, GreenSeal, Iris Communications, and the Solar Electric Light Fund. In this issue we dedicated our list of publications to informations available on Internet. There are literally thousands of sites on the Internet of interest to sustainable energy NGOs. It spans countries and continents, and aims to unite researchers with workers in applied solar energy in the search for better applications and technologies.