The home page for the American Memory Historical Collections from the Library of Congress. American Memory provides free access to historical images, maps, sound recordings, and motion pictures that document the American experience. American Memory offers primary source materials that chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America.

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Shasta Cascade - Northern California Travel and Visitors Guide. Information on Northern California Tourism, Lakes, Mountains, rivers and area attractions for Shasta County, Butte County, Modoc County, Plumas County, Siskiyou County, Tehama County, Trinity County.

The U.S. Green Building Council - Northern California Chapter is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, voluntary organization that educates, motivates, provides resources and advocates for industry transformation to build and maintain sustainable communities. USGBC-NCC is part of a network of approximately 65 USGBC Chapters throughout the United States which represent USGBC in their respective regions. Located in a region which is equivalent to the 10th largest economy of the world*, NCC is one of the largest USGBC Chapters in the country, a recipient of several USGBC Excellence Awards, and the leading green building organization in Northern California. The Chapter is headquartered in San Francisco, and has branches in the Mount Diablo region of the East Bay , Monterey Bay, Sacramento, and Silicon Valley. The leadership team consists of the Board of Directors who oversee chapter policy, an executive director who manages operations and staff, and several volunteer committees that contribute to the development and operation of the chapter's activities., USGBC-NCC joined Governor Schwarzenegger and former Secretary of State George Shultz, on election night at a bi-partisan celebration of the stunning failure of Prop 23, The Dirty Energy Prop, by 61% to 39%., On Friday, October 29th, 2010, hundreds of industry leaders joined USGBC-NCC to celebrate Northern California green building’s best and brightest at the fourth annual Green Building Super Heroes Awards Gala at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The program featured The Honorable George P. Shultz and an awards program recognizing the Transamerica Pyramid; the Energy Foundation; GRID Alternatives; Architecture for Humanity Founders Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair; and Martha N. Johnson, Administrator to the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). Stephen Leeds, Senior Sustainability Officer for the GSA, accepted the award for Johnson and gave a keynote address.

Extensive on-line galleries of travel, adventure, landscape, and nature photography by QT Luong, featuring thousands of pictures, available as fine art prints or for image licencing.