Despite the storm clouds over dot-com land, some wonderful things are happening in cyberspace these days. The real action is no longer in the corporate suites and New Media sweatshops. It’s in the world of the dot-orgs—the Web sites of artists, activists, social observers, and journalists who are using the Internet not to make a quick buck, but rather to build a positive future. Here are a few sites worth scrolling through (including some dot-coms of note):

Action Network

www.actionnetwork.org

A project of the Environmental Defense Fund, this simple site helps you send faxes and e-mails to members of Congress and other decision makers on behalf of dozens of national and local environmental groups.

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Alternative Medicine

www.alternativemedicine.com

This companion Web site to Alternative Medicine magazine has a directory of more than 19,000 alternative medicine practitioners in the United States and Canada—searchable by zip and area code.

Arts and Letters Daily

www.cybereditions.com/aldaily

The preeminent literary Web log, Arts and Letters Daily consistently turns up unexpected gems from out-of-the-ordinary sources among its daily offerings of articles, book reviews, and editorials.