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close this bookSustainable Energy News - No. 22 - Newsletter for International Network for Sustainable Energy - INFORSE Achieved UN Consultative Status - Climate Change - theme (INFORSE, 1998, 32 pages)
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View the documentActivities planned for UNFCCC COP4 Buenos Aires, November 2-13, 1998
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View the documentCommon declaration from environmentalists and workers
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Publications

Gaviotas: The Village to Reinvent the World


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A hopeful environmental success story in a challenging environment in the war-raged Colombian savanna. A village sustain itself by introducing several inventions: wind generators that converts the light savanna winds into electricity, super-efficient pumps to provide freshwater, solar boilers to heat and sterilize water and many others. An inspirational book. By Alan Weisman. 240 pages, maps, illustrations, photos, 22.95$ +5$ shipping.

Contact: Chelsea Green Publishing Co., PO Box 428, White River Junction, Vermont, VT 05001, USA. Ph: +1-802-295-6300, fax: +1-603-448-22576.
Order toll free: +1-800-639-4099, http://www.cheseagreen.com/

Agenda 2000

Will it increase nuclear safety in Eastern Europe? Will Eastern Europe remain a nuclear time-bomb?

EU's enlargement program "Agenda 2000" 1997, EU's history, nuclear power history, nuclear aid, EUROATOM agency. What needs to be done? Close of the high risk reactors.

Special edition of the WISE Biweekly Publication. WISE is an Anti-nuclear NGO. 1998. 33 pages.

Info: WISE, World Information Service on Energy, PO Box 59636, 1040 LC Amsterdam. The Netherlands. Ph: +31-20-612-6368. fax: +31-20-689-2179, e-mail: wiseamster@antenna.nl, http://antenna.nl/~wise.

Climate Action Network International NGO Directory 1998

4th Edition, 263 NGO Members in 74 countries.

Contact: Climate Network Europe, 44 rue Taciturne, 1000 Brussels Belgium.
Ph: +32-2-231-0180, fax:-2-230-5713, e-mail: canron@gn.apc.org, http://www.climatenetwork.org.

Energy Efficiency Initiative - Europe

· Volume 1: Policy Analysis
· Volume 2: 54 Country Profiles and 47 Case Studies

Prepared for the European Environmental Ministers Meeting in Aarhus 1998. Published by OECD/IEA, International Energy Agency with the Danish Energy Agency of the Ministry of Environment and Energy. 678 pages.

Info: IEA Publications, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9LL, UK.
Ph: +44-01718962241,
fax: +44-0171-8962275.
Copies from the Danish Ministry are available in a limited number.

Sustainable Energy Successes in Central & Eastern Europe

20 Sustainable energy project described each on 1 page with a photo, contact address. Collected by NGOs from the INFORSE network in cooperation with the European ECO Forum Energy and Climate Group. 32 pages, 1998.

Contact: INFORSE-Europe/OVE, Organisation for Renewable Energy, Gl.Kirkevej 56, DK-8530 Hjortshøj
Ph: +45-86-227000, fax: -86-227096, e-mail: ove@inforse.dk., http://www.inforse.dk/

Periodicals

Renewable Energy World

A magazine from the publisher of the Annual World Directory of Renewable Energy Suppliers and Services. Vol.1, Nr.1. July 1998, pages 64. Gratis for professionals.

Contact: Edward Milford, James & James Science Publisher Ltd., 35-37 William road, London NW1 3ER. UK.
Ph: +44-171-387-8558,
fax: +44-171-387-8998,
e-mail: rew@jxj.com,
http://www.jxj.com.

CSE Briefing Paper and Statement

No. 1 The Kyoto Protocol, What it says?
No. 2 Politics in the Post-Kyoto World
Statement: The Atmospheric Rights of all People on Earth.

Why is it necessary to move towards the 'ultimate objective' of the Framework Convention on Climate Change?

Contact: Centre for Science and Environment, 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi -110062, India.
Ph: +91-11-6981110,
fax: +91-11-6985879,
e-mail: cse@sdalt.ernet.in,
http://www.oneworld.org/cse.


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