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Environment And Ecosystems LinksAlterNet
AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a
nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and
supporting independent and alternative journalism.
This part of Alternet's online magazine provides a
mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on subjects relating to globalization.
The AlterNet article database includes more than 7,000
stories from over 200 sources.
Chemicals Policy Initiative
The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production’s Chemicals Policy Initiative aims to inform and stimulate discussions leading to implementation of long term integrated government and industry chemicals management policy at the local, state, regional, and federal levels in the United States as well as internationally. Such chemicals policies must be viewed in a holistic and integrated context — to protect worker, community, and consumer health, while stimulating development of safer and cleaner production systems, materials, and products.
Choike
Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs from the South. It serves as a platform where NGOs can disseminate their work and at the same time enrich it with information from diverse sources, organized in line with the perspective of Southern civil society.
Choike at the World Social Forum
The fifth edition of the World Social Forum took place once again in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from January 26 to 31, 2005.
It was opened to organisations and individuals and a new perspective and methodological approach was adopted to increase collaboration and dialogue during the event. The goal was to avoid repetitive activities on similar issues that were developed independently of each other. This initiative started from the premise that it is not possible to build another world without combining efforts, building alternatives and interlinking common actions and campaigns.
Those who participated in the previous WSFs have contributed to create a new type of organisation, which is more a process than an institution. While being extraordinarily ambitious in its diversity, in the wide range of topics it deals with and in the activities it holds, the Forum is also consciously modest with regard to its role: its Charter of Principles clearly specifies that it is not the only space of convergence.
This is just one more space within a broader process of global struggles and its function is to offer a way by means of which people who share common concerns and believe that "another world is possible" could jump over geographic, cultural and political differences and could freely develop new plans, strategies, initiatives and organisations.
It is a space for democratic debate of ideas, reflective thinking, formulation of proposals, exchange of experiences and interlinking of social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organisations. After the first world meeting held in 2001, it became a permanent process of seeking and building alternatives to neoliberal policies.
The International Council of the Forum has decided that next year's editon will be realized in a spread out manner, in different places in the world. With this, the WSF ensures it's commitment with it's Letter of Priciples, seeking for a permanet process of searching and building new alternatives, which are not limited to the events proposed.
In [the reports at this link] we offer articles, discussions from previous regional forums, news, debates and background information on the World Social Forum 2005. Coverage was also provided during the development of this event.
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
CEO is an Amsterdam-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
CorpWatch
CorpWatch
CorpWatch counters corporate led globalization with organizing, information and networking. We work to hold corporations acountable on human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.
Friends of the Earth International
Friends of the Earth is the largest grassroots environmental federation in the world aiming to protect the environment and to create sustainable societies.
Global Issues in a Changing World
A new series from Zed Books of short, accessible think pieces deals with leading global issues of relevance to humanity.
Global Policy Forum
The Global Policy Forum was founded in 1993 to monitor global policy making at the United Nations. GPF has a large web site with dozens of publications on global policy issues, and thousands of pages of documents and data. GPF works in partnership with citizen organizations (NGOs) around the world and has actively sought to broaden citizen voices within the UN system. It works cooperatively with scholars, experts and research institutes in a number of countries, to produce high quality analysis and data.
Globalization, Environment and Communities
In 2002, the World Resources Institute (WRI) launched a 3 year project entitled “Global Environment and Development Processes: Maximizing Global, National and Local Synergies for the Benefit of Communities”. The long-term goal of this project is to ensure that global processes on environment and development serve as a catalyst for meeting the priority needs and interests of communities worldwide. In particular, global trends and processes related to international trade and multilateral environmental agreements and how they affect communities will be emphasized in this project.
WRI, in support of this project, is pleased to announce a new resource available on its website, entitled: Globalization, Environment, and Communities. This resource provides working papers and special bulletins on global environment and development processes.
Support for developing and making available this resource is made possible by the Ford Foundation as a part of their Initiative on Globalization, Environment, and Communities which has “the long term goal of changing the nature and functioning of key global institutions, such as the WTO and the institutions that manage the global environmental agreements, especially as they relate to the field of environment and development, so that they serve more equitably the interests of impoverished communities around the world.” This Initiative seeks to respond to the emerging set of challenges brought by globalization for the alleviation of poverty and injustice worldwide, especially as it affects communities.
Grassroots Globalization Network
Grassroots Globalization Network (GGN) promotes democratic ways for people to create healthier local economies, safer communities, and a cleaner environment. A project of Earth Island Institute.
India Resource Center
India Resource Center coordinates the International Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable for its crimes in India and Colombia
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
information, analysis, sources and links to empower stakeholders in trade policy to influence the international trade system such that it advnaces the goal of sustainable development
Jubilee Research @ the New Economics Foundation
Jubilee Research is an official successor to the UK Jubilee 2000 campaign, and is led by Ann Pettifor, co-founder and director of Jubilee 2000. We are based at the New Economics Foundation, which helped launch Jubilee 2000, and which has promoted new economics for 15 years now. Jubilee Research monitors and evaluates the debt cancellation promised by the G7 during the Jubilee 2000 campaign; but has deepened and extended its work to broader international finance and governance issues. We have played a key role in placing on the global political agenda, the need for a just international insolvency framework for sovereign debtors; and are critiquing the framework (the SDRM) developed by the IMF over the past year. We work with campaigners in Argentina, Indonesia, Pakistan, as well as those in HIPC countries to promote greater justice in international financial governance.
We are currently working on a major project: the publication of an annual report, shadowing the IMF's World Economic Outlook. The report will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in September, 2003, and is entitled "The Real World Economic Outlook (RWEO)". Contributors include Joseph Stiglitz, Danni Rodrik, Gita Sen, Zo Randriamo, Jomo K.S., Andrew Simms and Oscar Ocampo, to name but a few. RWEO will measure and include those sectors of the global economy ignored by the IMF and mainstream economists, in particular climate change, the hidden subsidy of women's work etc.; will challenge economic orthodoxy; and present alternatives.
Planet Ark
Today's World Environment News from the Reuters news agency.
Rethinking Globalization
This comprehensive new book from Rethinking Schools -- more than 400 pages -- helps teachers raise critical issues with students in grades 4 - 12 about the increasing globalization of the world's economies and infrastructures, and the many different impacts this trend has on our planet and those who live here.
SEEN
The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, DC) and the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam), works in partnership with citizens groups nationally and globally on environment, human rights and development issues with a particular focus on energy, climate change, environmental justice, gender equity, and economic issues, particularly as these play out in North/South relations.
Social Criticism Review
An outstanding selection of 1,000 online readings on the crisis of modernity: progress, science for sale, megatechnology, third world debt, counterproductive economy, globalization, corporate rule, anti-democratic media, advertising consumerism, environmental destruction, genetic manipulation, sustainable development, human rights, ethics, responsibility, citizenship, community building, arms race, war on terrorism, and much more. A useful resource for a unified protest movement.
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excellent references for SCR: www.socialcritic.org/ref.htm
Third World Network
The Third World Network is an independent non-profit
international network of organizations and individuals involved
in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-
South issues.
Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social
and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish
books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars;
and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern
interests and perspectives at international fora such as the
UN conferences and processes.
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