groupes en action

Linked with Chalmers Johnson – USA, with AntiWar.com, with about Chalmers Johnson’s “Nemesis »-book, and with Iraqi Wars – (or how to end it?).

The Japan Policy Research Institute JPRI is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the promotion of understanding of Japan’s political and economic behavior and growing significance in world affairs.

Publications;
Members, friends in the medias;
Recommended reading;
Links;
Contact: JPRI, P.O. Box 235882 | Encinitas, CA 92023-5882, e-mail.

About: JPRI was founded in 1994 by Chalmers Johnson and Steven C. Clemons to promote public education about Japan, its then growing significance in world affairs, and trans-Pacific international relations. Despite our name, it was never our intent to focus exclusively on Japan, and over the years JPRI has published many articles about China, Korea, southeast Asia, and inner Asia. JPRI is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization and all donations to it are fully tax deductible in the U.S. Our board and officers all serve without pay, and our web site is maintained with the generous assistance of the University of San Francisco’s Center for the Pacific Rim …

… Starting in late 2003, JPRI ceased to mail monthly articles to its members and switched exclusively to internet publication. Since its web site is open to all, JPRI no longer requires memberships; however, donations are gratefully accepted and are fully tax deductible … (full text).

Building an Economy for the Earth

Linked with Lester Brown – USA, with Plan B 2.0, and with Search for an Eco-Economy.

Welcome to the Earth Policy Institute, … a Washington, D.C.-based independent environmental research organization … dedicated to planning a sustainable future as well as providing a roadmap of how to get from here to there. — Lester Brown, President.

Notice on the homepage: Look on EPI IN THE NEWS – HIGHLIGHTS, with many audio-, video- and text-links.

The Earth Policy Institute is a Partner in the Green Power Partnership, an EPA voluntary program working to reduce the emissions associated with conventional electricity generation by encouraging organizations to switch a specific percentage of their electricity to green power. Additional information is available at The Green Power Partnership.

PEOPLE ARE TALKING … ;
Who is using Plan B 2.0 … and how;
Upcoming lectures;
newsletter;
Contact: Earth Policy Institute, 1350 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington DC 20036, Ph: 202.496.9290, Fax: 202.496.9325, Email.

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Linked with Business as Usual or is WTO in Denial?

The deglobalisation paradigm forms the basis of Focus’s work which spans five thematic areas:Defending and Reclaiming the Commons; Trade; Peace and Peoples Security; Alternatives and China .

• Homepage;
• Focus on Trade is a regular electronic bulletin providing updates and analysis of trends in regional and world trade and finance, the political economy of globalisation and peoples resistance, and alternatives to global capitalism. Focus on Trade is translated into Spanish (Enfoque sobre comercio) and Bahasa Indonesian. Some articles are translated into French;
• More ‘Focus on’-sites;
• Alternatives (Crossroads do not always close roads);
• Trends and Analysis;
• Downloads;
• links;
• Contact.

About: Focus on the Global South (Focus) is a non-governmental organisation with twenty staff working in Thailand, the Philippines and India. Focus was established in Bangkok in 1995 and is affiliated with the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute.

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(in chinese, in english)

Linked with Xiaoxia Zhu – China.

Full name: The National Working Committee on Children and Women Under the State Council.

Documents;
Laws and Regulations;
Newsletter;
Contact: no indications on their website.

The National Working Committee on Children and Women (NWCCW) under the State Council was founded on February 22, 1990. It is a State Council organization in charge of women and children’s work. It is responsible for coordinating and promoting relevant government departments to implement laws and regulations and policy-related measures concerning women and children and to develop women and children’s cause.

Fundamental Functions:

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Linked with Thomas Stocker – Switzerland.

about;
science activities;
services/products;
calendar;
people;
Contact: Physikalisches Institut – Klima- und Umweltphysik, Universität Bern, Sidlerstr. 5, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland, Phone: +41 (0) 31 631 44 64, Fax: +41 (0) 31 631 87 42, E-mail, URL.

The laboratory for Climate and Environmental Physics: Research Focus of the Institute: Our overall focus is to understand the environment, its present and past and its evolution on time scales from decades to a few 100,000 years.

To reach this goal we use a broad palette of physically based methods which range from model simulation, the analysis of numerous paleoclimatic archives to the application and development of new ultra-sensitive measurement methods of constituent and isotope concentrations.

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