Computer services, namely, dissemination of advertising for others via the internet; providing on-line web directory services featuring hyperlinks to the websites of others; providing on-line web directory services featuring listings of third parties certified using nature-inspired intellectual property technology and solutions; promoting the goods and services of others by providing hypertext links to the web sites of others; promoting the goods and services of others by preparing and placing advertisements in an electronic catalog accessed through a global computer network; providing a web site on the internet whereby buyers of goods or services locate and receive quotations from multiple competitive sources and sellers of goods or services identify and bid on multiple new sales opportunities,; providing a web site on the internet which features advertisements for the goods and services of others,; providing space at a web site for the advertisement of the goods and services of others; providing an on-line shopping web site with links to the retail web sites of others for third parties to showcase their products and services that promote nature-inspired technology and solutions; business services, namely, providing computer databases regarding the purchase and sale of a wide variety of products and services of others; providing an on-line computer database featuring trade information in the field of construction, architecture, interior design, building, manufacturing, facilities management and furnishings, all for promoting nature-inspired technology and solutions by third parties; providing a web site featuring consumer product information in the field of home building materials and home furnishings for sharing and exchanging information between third parties on nature-inspired intellectual property technology.; promoting the goods and services of third parties which incorporate nature-inspired technology and solutions; association services, namely, promoting the interests of marketing agencies and companies that promote nature-inspired technology and solutions; advertising and directory services, namely, promoting the services of others by providing an on-line web page featuring hyperlinks to the websites of others; advertising and directory services, namely, promoting the services of others by providing an on-line web page featuring listings of third parties certified using nature-inspired intellectual property technology and solutions; providing internet web sites whereby buyers of goods or services locate and receive quotations from multiple competitive sources and sellers of goods or services identify and bid on multiple new sales opportunities,; providing internet web sites which features advertisements for the goods and services of others,; providing space at a website for the advertisement of the goods and services of others; providing an in-person promotional forum for companies to showcase their products and services that promote nature-inspired technology and solutions in the field of construction, architecture, interior design, building, manufacturing, facilities management and furnishings;, providing computer databases regarding the purchase and sale of a wide variety of products and services of others