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Letters from the Field
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EarthCAT and LASER Training in South Africa
Read some notes and reflections about the
training we are doing from October 18th to
November 8th, 2006 in six provinces around
South Africa.
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Walking for a Change
Read a short reflection on the recent walk
from Ripton to Burlington, Vermont to raise
awareness and political action about climate
change. Bill McKibben and John Elder led
the walk, which took five days. In his
invitation, Bill writes:
This is not a partisan effort, nor is
concern about global warming confined
to "environmentalists." This march will
include hunters, fishermen, and farmers;
hikers, bikers and birdwatchers. We are
students and businesspeople, sugarmakers and
ski-lift operators. We are parents and
grandparents, and young people facing
lifetimes on a warming planet. We are people
of faith, and secular people devoted to the
common good. Indeed, we have all been moved
in recent weeks by the efforts of our
retiring independent Senator Jim Jeffords,
who has introduced legislation on global
warming that goes further than any previous
effort to really grapple with this problem.
One of our aims is to make sure that his
principles—an 80 percent reduction in carbon
emissions by 2050, 20 percent renewable
power by 2020, and cars that get at least 40
miles per gallon—prevail on Capitol Hill.
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Some Irreverent Notes from the World Urban Forum
GCI had a lot of fun attending the World
Urban Forum in Vancouver this
June. We also had some amusing encounters
with various levels of
officialdom. You can read the stories we
have to tell in the attached
file.
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20th Anniversary of Chernobyl: April 26, 2006
April 26, 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of
the Chernobyl accident in Ukraine, an event
that changed the world. It was a key reason
that the Soviet Union changed so
dramatically, as the citizens of the eastern
bloc started demanding better access to
environmental information. It also ended
the incessant growth of the nuclear power
industry. We have yet to learn all the
lessons of this disaster, however, and
nuclear power is now being advertised as the
solution to global climate change. It
is not. Read the attached articles for
more information.
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South Africa: April, 2006
The Global Community Initiatives Youth
Employment and
Training project in South Africa had a visit
from one of
our major funders - the Rockefeller Brothers
Fund.
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Sweden: March, 2006
Gwendolyn was invited to Sweden by Green
Cross
International to speak to local community
leaders about
how to use the Earth Charter for local
planning.
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Serbia: December, 2005
Americas Development Foundation needed a
staff training
on local economic development techniques, so
Gwendolyn,
Hunter Lovins, and Christopher Juniper
traveled to Novi
Sad in December to deliver a four day
training.
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