Eco mediático

Durante todo el seminario hubo una muy buena cobertura mediática.


• Lunes, 23 de agosto, La Nueva España: Los Expertos auguran que la producción de petróleo dejará de ser rentable en un siglo
• Miércoles, 25 de agosto, La Nueva España: Expertos alertan del riesgo de especulación con los cupos de emisiones de CO2 de Kioto
• Miércoles 25 de agosto, La Nueva España: La asociación Escanda abrirá en Lena una cooperativa de energías renovables
• Jueves, 26 de agosto, La Nueva España: Expertos aplauden en Pajares la propuesta de Narbona de reducir los límites de velocidad
• Sábado 28 de agosto, La Nueva España: Lena idea una cooperativa local de energía renovable para adaptarse a Kioto

Participants List and Profiles

Una descripción de los colectivos participantes se encuentra en continuación (sólo en inglés):


International Network For Sustainable Energy

International Network for Sustainable Energy is a network of independent non-governmental organisations active for sustainable energy. It was formed on June 4, 1992 at the Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro.

INFORSE has more than 150 members worldwide. They are supporting the common vision of a "world where energy services, necessary for a just and human centred development, are provided in a sustainable way using renewable energy" (quote from INFORSE Charter). The activities of the network aims at increases in local renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions as well as the phasing-out of nuclear and fossil energy.

The basic structure in INFORSE is comprised of 7 regions, each with one or two co-ordinators. The co-ordinators are elected by the members of their region. Largest is the European regions with more than 60 members and two coordinators (from Denmark and Slovakia).

The international INFORSE activities are guided by the co-ordinators' meetings. An international secretariat is in charge of the day-to-day international activities with guidance from the regional co-ordinators. Currently, the international secretariat is hosted by the European co-ordinator in Denmark, elected at the regional INFORSE meeting 2004 in Bonn. The European region has an "acting board" with 5 members.

Membership is open to independent, non-profit organisations supporting the INFORSE strategy. If your organisation wishes to become member, please contact the INFORSE Secretariat, or the relevant regional coordinator. Membership is due to approval by the regional coordinator.

CONTACT

email: ove@inforse.org
Website: www.inforse.org/europe

WINDFANG e.G. - Germany

WINDFANG e.G. is the first co-operative society in Germany running renewable energy plants exclusively owned and managed by female actors. E. G. that means registered (eingetragene) co-operative (Genossenschaft). The company was founded in 1992 by women from different occupational backgrounds. We were fascinated with the idea of producing our own electricity using wind, water and sun and thereby improving our own skills and knowledge. Since then the company is planning and managing each plant by its own (wo)manpower.

Our objectives are multisided:

• to raise the use of renewable energy in line with the rational use of energy,
• to gain knowledge about technical and ecological facts,
• to develop new ideas and solutions for the decentralized supply of energy from a female perspective,
• to be a player in the energy supply system,
• to communicate our knowledge and experience to other women circles,
• to learn new skills useful for our professional life,
• to demonstrate that women can earn money with innovative energy production plants in an ecologically and socially sound market.

A co-operative society consist of three acting groups:

• the general assembly, a meeting of all members once a year at least,
• the board, the women executive officers, we have three
• the supervisory board, which controls the work of the board and communicates between board and general assembly

With one or several, but not more than 10 investments of 1.500 € each member has the right to participate in the general assembly. The decisions are done by the motto: one woman - one vote no matter how big her investment is.

In 1995 WINDFANG e.G. built its first wind energy turbine, an AN Bonus with a power of 450 kW. We named the plant OYA, after a Nigerian female Goddess, who takes care for storms, rivers and of course women. The wingtips are pink representing the company color and distinguishes it from other plants, which are generally white colored.

In 1997 and 1998 two plants followed, one of them is a 600 kW Vestas, the other one a 600 kW Micon. In Bonn, the former capital of Germany, the co-operative rented the roof of the Women's Museum from the municipality for the construction of a photovoltaic system with a power of 5 kWp. Since 1996 it brings together female art and female solar energy.

Our installations produce electricity of around 3.300.000kWh/year. Our members get a dividend of about 4 to 9% on their investment.

OUR VISION OF THE FUTURE

• We can imagine installing 1 or 2 new projects maybe wind power plants or may be our first hydro pp. in the next year. We have got enough money left and our members are highly motivated to give even more.
• We can imagine building new plants outside Germany

We would like to continue working together with women, maybe you have an idea.

CONTACT

email: info@windfang.net
email: karen.mumm@agwa-gmbh.de
Website: www.windfang.net

Rising Tide

Rising Tide is a grassroots network of independent groups and individuals committed to taking action and building a movement against climate change. We do not have a formal membership structure- anyone who supports the political statement on our website can become a part of the network. Rising Tide in the UK is part of the international Rising Tide Network.

Rising Tide is diverse A wide range of groups are already involved in our network, including student groups, direct action activists, community groups, unions, church groups and energy advice centres. We encourage an ever more vibrant and diverse movement.

Rising Tide argues that climate change is an issue of social injustice. Climate change is a direct result of the economic domination of Northern interests and transnational corporations. We call for 'climate justice' through solutions that address structural inequalities and recognise the historical responsibility of the rich nations for the problem.

Rising Tide argues that the Kyoto Protocol will fail We support international cuts in emissions through means that are applied with equality and fairness The Kyoto Protocol fails this standard- the cuts are far too low and depend on flawed market mechanisms. These will not be effective, will reinforce existing inequalities, and will reward the greatest polluters. The science is clear: to prevent further climate change rich countries need to cut emissions by up to 90%.

Rising Tide calls for a just transition to a non-carbon society We call for an immediate end to oil exploration and a dismantling of the fossil fuel economy. We call for a rapid transition which does not fall hardest on low income communities, communities of colour or low income employees of fossil fuel industries.

CONTACT

email: info@risingtide.org.uk
Website: www.risingtide.org.uk

Can Masdeu - a rural/urban experiment

Can Masdeu is a squatted ex-leprosy hospital in the Sierra de Collserola in the north of Barcelona. The project started in December 2001 and managed to resist an eviction attempt in April 2002. Nevertheless the house is still under eviction treat with an upcoming court case in the next months. At the moment around 24 people inhabit the house. Our activity is directed towards social change - globally and locally.

The project includes:

• Community gardens (around 40 people from the neighbourhood grow their own food ecologically). Decisions are made in the monthly assembly and collective work organised in commissions.
• Environmental education project (day programs for school classes, youth groups, etc.)
• PIC - Interaction Point Collserola - including weekly activities (workshops, talks...), library, free shop,...
• Open collective space: the house is open for meetings and gatherings from other groups, networks, collectives.

A lot of our involvement also takes place outside the house - in anti-war protests, anti - GMO campaigns, defence of squatted places, anti-G8, work on repression, fighting speculation, defending the hills of Collserola, work within the neighbourhood...

The project is based on principles of sustainability.

We grow most of our own food, buy dry stuff from an organic cooperative, go by bike, shit in a compost toilet, shower with solar heated water, drink spring water, produce little rubbish and classify it, clean water with a grey water system... - aiming to keep out social and ecological impact as small as possible applying permaculture principles.

A fully equipped bike workshop, a clay bread oven, a clay ceramic oven, a bicycle powered sound system, as well as a parabolic solar cooker, a beer factory, a bicycle washing machine and 10 chickens form important parts of the house. We would like to intensify our work on energy issues and link to other related groups.

Our main interests are:

• Work on climate change
• Energy related education for kids
• Disconnecting Can Masdeu from the grid

CONTACT

email: canmasdeu@inventati.org
Website: www.canmasdeu.net

Platform - UK

PLATFORM has been described as many things - an arts group, a forum for political dialogue, an environmental campaign - but, in essence, it is an idea, a vision of using creativity to transform the society we live in; a belief in every individual's innate power to contribute to this process.

PLATFORM promotes creative processes of democratic engagement to advance social and ecological justice, through harnessing the power of art, the commitment of campaigning, and the imagination of education to unleash citizens' creative and democratic potential.

CONTACT

email: webinfo@platformlondon.org
Website: www.platformlondon.org

Zelena-Akcija | Green Action Croatia

ZA is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation registered in 1990. Based in Zagreb, ZA is actively involved in environmental issues of local, national and international significance. ZA is not affiliated with any political party and is based on the efforts of volunteerrs, supported by a professional team of around 10 persons.

The goal of ZA is to promote environmentally sound and sustainable development.. Oour key priority is to encourage and facilitate public tparticipation in decision-making processes relevant to the environment and improvement of quality of life in Croatia. ZA catalyses change through projects, campaigns and non-violent direct actions. We also provide eexpretise, advice and information on a wide range of environmental issues to individuals, communities, schools and other NGOs in Croatia.

CONTACT

email: zelena-akcija@zg.htnet.hr
Website: www.zelena-akcija.hr

West Wales ECO Centre

West Wales ECO Centre was established in 1980 as the West Wales Energy Group. Its remit has always been promottion of the issues surrounding energy use and the environment. It's charitable objectives are:

1. The advancement of public education in all aspects of energy conservation and energy use;
2. The relief of fuel povertyy in the local population;
3. The advancement of public education in matters relating to the environment, insofar as they relate to energy conservation and energy use

Primarily we seek to reduce society's impact on the environment, in particular its contribution to global warming and unnecessary climate change, throught our work,. This is noly possible by taking steps to reduce our demand on the environment, because of our energy use, and making changes to the way we live our lives so that we reduce our reliance on fossil fuel based energy.

It meets these objectives in a number of ways and by workin with a very wide cross section of society.

Energy Advice

The ECO Centre has been providing energy advice for more than twenty years. The Mid and Southh West Wales Energy Efficiency Advice Centre (EEAAC) was the first in Wales in 1993. And the ECO Centre now has responsibility for advice provision in all but the industrial south east of Wales, as it also rruns the North Wales EEAC.

The EEACs proviide free and impartcial advice and guidance on domestic eenregy efficiency and renewable energy advice throughout rural Wales.

The EEACs then follow up the advice and promotion work with projects that seek to deliver real savings through both energy efficiency and renewable energy installations. That is, turn advice into action that will make a difference.

In addition to the promotion of advice and development of projects athat get householders improving their energy efficiency, the EEAC works closely with the most vulnerable groups in society to try and lift the fuel poor out of fuel poverty.

Renewable Energy

The ECO Centre is proud to boast that it was working to promote consideration of renewable energy, and the take up of the technologies, long before the issues became mainstream. It is very heartening to know that nearly everyone is aware of the global consequencess of over reliance of fossil fuels and that renewables can provide an answer to some problems.

The project team is very active and contains a degree of expertise and experience rarely found in not-for-profit organisations sucha s the ECO Centre. The ECO Centre has one of only a very few completely self sufficient (in heat and power) exhibition units in tthe UK. THis is uses in the increasing amount of outreach work that is taking place to promote all the issues we are concerned with.

Environmental Education

There is a long tradition of educcation based activities here. The ECO Centre is currently in the middle of a large scale project that aims to suppot fully its work with schools and community groups. In the meant time it continues to play a part in the 'Sustainable Schools' scheme in Pembrokeshire.

CONTACT

email: westwales@ecocentre.org.uk
Website: www.ecocentre.org.uk

Mediterranean SOS - Greece

The Mediterranean SOS Network is an environmental and social non-governmental, not-for-profit organization, active since 1990 for:

• The protection of the natural and cultural environment of the Mediterranean region,
• the co-existence and dialogue between cultures,
• the promotion of sustainability on local, national, Mediterranean and European level, the Euro-Mediterranean co-operation on a basis of equality and multiculturalism.

Aims of MEDITERRANEAN S.O.S. Network

• Information and awareness-raising campaigns for sustainable development at a Mediterranean level through a multisectoral approach
• coordinated mobilisation and networking concerning Mediterranean environmental protection
• co-operation with other national, Mediterranean, European or international organisations, NGOs, as well as with European, national and local authorities
• promotion of dialogue and co-operation among social partners
• encouragement of change in the behavior and policy-making of enterprises, national, local and regional authorities and citizens lifestyle

MEDSOS activities include:

• Volunteering initiatives or European and national programmes on sustainable development and co-operation on a local, national and Mediterranean level,
• Campaigns aiming to raise awareness of the public in the Greek region with wooden boats, touring exhibitions, theatre and musical events, environmental games etc,
• Common activities on a Mediterranean level and creation of networks between non governmental organizations, social organizations, research centers, initiatives on sustainable development
• Activities aiming to protect areas, adoption and protection of ecologically sensitive areas,
• Production of educational and informative material (publications, cd-roms, videotapes)
• Organization of conferences, seminars, international meetings, workshops, events and concerts.
• Environmental education activities (slides projections, environmental games, beach clean-up) in various schools, educational institutes and summer camps are being held every year throughout the country by members of the Network.

CONTACT

email: medsos@medsos.gr
Website: www.medsos.gr

Engage! Tactical Media The Netherlands

Engage! Tactical Media is a political and cultural medialab.

We develop innovative media productions, we stream video, we consult progressive organizations on media strategies, and we collaborate on technologically savvy cultural events. We work a lot with non-profit organizations, such as environmental organizations, cultural centers, community media centers, as well as national broadcasters and festivals. We're also media.

Our events and media productions take place on the edge of culture, political activism, technology and media. We like to use cutting edge media technology for idealistic goals, and we are empowered by the conviction that new media, if used creatively and innovatively, have the power to reach the people and cause change.

CONTACT

email: info@tacticalmedia.org
Website: www.engagetacticalmedia.org

Prietenii Pamantului - Rumania

Prietenii Pamantului ('Earth Friends') is a Romanian environmental association founded in 1991 by 20 individuals. It is based in the industrial city of Galati, on the Danube river and close to the Danube Delta. The group, which originally focused on direct action, has since grown and developed into a local and regional force in environmental policy and advocacy. The current membership is 70, with some 300 supporters.

Prietenii Pamantului aims to promote sustainable development through public involvement in the decision- making process at local, regional and national level.

PP has taken the initiative in forming collaborations with government, business and non-profit leaders at the local and national level. It provides support for smaller groups and the community at large; it runs a resource centre in Galati where these activities are supported with voluntary work; it has developed educational materials for other NGOs and organised numerous workshops and training events. Operating with limited physical and financial resources, the association has a long and diverse track record in the Romanian environmental movement.

It works closely with local groups and key institutions involved in community development, public education and or environmental regulation.

Improving Access to Information & Communication

Our projects primarily are concerned with raising public awareness of important environmental issues and building capacity in the community by improving communication and the availability of good quality information. We are deeply involved in the efforts of adopting the environmental legislation of the EU. We try always to respect local knowledge, culture and concerns, and build on local experience and expertise. Our approach is one of local consultation, community involvement and personal empowerment.

CONTACT

email: earthfriends@rdslink.ro
Website: www.eco-web.com/register/02360.html

Carbon Trade Watch - UK, Spain, Amsterdam

Carbon Trade Watch was conceived at the end of 2001 and born in 2002, becoming the newest project of the Transnational Institute. With a focus on the emerging greenhouse gas markets, Carbon Trade Watch monitors the impact of pollution trading upon environmental, social and economic justice.

The inclusion of pollution trading in the Kyoto Protocol signals an historic proliferation of the free market principle into the environmental sphere. Through research and analysis, Carbon Trade Watch seeks to challenge the assumption that a liberalised marketplace is the only arena in which environmental problems can be resolved.

Carbon Trade Watch also pools the work of others and acts as a meeting point for researchers, campaigners and communities opposing the negative impacts of pollution trading. The aim is to facilitate effective opposition to environmentally and socially destructive economic policy and create space for bottom-up solutions and alternatives to emerge.

The Carbon Trade Watch group is organised non-hierarchically and is committed to challenging prejudice in all its forms. This is actively pursued in perspectives explored in the work, as well as being a constant part of the internal organisation of the project structure. The group believes that challenging domination is a vital part of the process of achieving a diverse spectrum of just and sustainable societies.

The Sky is Not the Limit - The Emerging Market in Greenhouse Gases - the CTW briefing on emissions trading and the Kyoto protocol can be downloaded from www.tni.org/reports/ctw/sky.pdf or in castellano from www.tni.org/reports/ctw/sky-s.pdf

CONTACT

email: www.tni.org/ctw
Website: www.tni.org/ctw>

The Centre for Alternative Technology [CAT] - Wales

CAT is an environmental charity aiming to 'inspire, inform, and enable' people to live more sustainably. A solutions driven organisation, offering practical solutions to environmental problems, our key areas of work are renewable energy, environmental building, energy efficiency, organic growing and alternative sewage systems. We have been in existence for nearly 30 years.

Our services include a visitor centre open 7 days a week, practical and informative publications, a mail-order service of 'green' books and products, educational services for schools, consultancy for individuals and businesses, residential courses, membership and a free information service.

Mission Statement

CAT is concerned with the search for globally sustainable, whole and ecologically sound technologies and ways of life.

Within this search the role of CAT is to explore and demonstrate a wide range of alternatives, communicating to other people the options for them to achieve positive change in their own lives.

This communication involves:

• Inspiring - instilling the desire to change by practical example
• Informing - feeding the desire to change by providing the most appropriate information
• Enabling - providing effective and continuing support to put the change into practice.

CAT has a holistic approach to its work, integrating ideas and practice relating to land use, shelter, energy conservation and use, diet and health, waste management and recycling. Through its resident community and work organisation, CAT is also committed to the implementation of co-operative principles and best achievable environmental practices.

CONTACT

email: info@cat.org.uk
Website: www.cat.org.uk

LHUMP - National Students Platform for Sustainable Development - The Netherlands

LHUMP is a national network of student groups that are taking action to increase the sustainability of Dutch higher education. The activities of the student groups that make up the LHUMP network focus mainly on the sustainability of education facilities and the curriculum. Also they try to increase the knowledge of students and employees about sustainable development, to influence their choices in daily life. LHUMP was created in 1993.

The network

You can get active in a local platform in your city, or start one yourself. Local groups organize excursions, lectures, and debates. They lobby with other students, members of staff or the board of universities. Occasionally they organize actions.

To become a member of a local group is also a lot of fun. We have informative and entertaining weekends three times a year, for all of the students to meet and exchange ideas.

CONTACT

• email: info@lhump.nl
• Website: www.lhump.nl

Trojan TV - Netherlands

Trojan tv is a collective of video activists from Germany and the Netherlands and part of the Organic Chaos Network. With its videos, trojan tv contributes to actual political discussions, e.g. about migration, security and environment. Video activism means not only making videos to inform people, but also to motivate and activate them. trojan tv works on a non-commercial basis and distributes its videos under copy-left. This means that they can be copied freely for non-commercial purpose.

CONTACT

email: trojan@nadir.org
Website: www.organicchaos.org

Infoespai- Barcelona

A project of construction of a self-managed tools net and resources to produce, to recollect, to spread and to transform the information. A node of communication and encouragment of the widely extended net of social movements. A project of free circulation of information and ideas. In view of the authoritarian social order, unfair and unequal in the present-day, which has been imposed to us, in Infoespai we collect and spread critical information, which offers social, political and economical transforming alternatives. A project of alternative economy and mutual cooperative association - By means of cooperative economical relations, which are based on the collective benefit, getting resources and material goods and putting the at the disposal of the people who want to contribute in its maintenance and management. An assembly project - To carry out this task, our highest decisive command is a fortnight meeting, in which all the persons who are implied in the project have the right to participate on the same conditions. In short, a definite strategical project of alternative information and economics to promote here and now a new society, on the way of dreaming a better world.

CONTACT

email: infoespai@infoespai.org
Website: www.infoespai.org

Hnuti Duha (Friends of the Earth, Czech Republic)

For 14 years, Hnutí DUHA has sought not only environmental improvement, but also a change in the attitude of Czech citizenry toward environment issues. This work involves an array of methods: negotiation with decision makers, creation of legislative proposals, public awareness campaigns, consumer advocacy and education groups, campaigns against specific environmentally harmful projects and general research. Approximately 30 employees and numerous volunteers work in the central office in Brno and its satellite office in Prague. They work closely with Hnutí DUHA's 15 local groups, based throughout the Czech Republic. In 1994, Hnutí DUHA became the Czech chapter of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), the largest association of environmental groups in the world.

Hnuti Duha works on several environmental programs: Energy Policy and Renewables, Forestry, Waste management, Agriculture, Bankwatch activities, also issues Last Generation monthly magazine.

The Energy Program is the biggest and it deals with issues as Energy policy and Renewables, New law on Renewables, Energy Efficiency and International Energy Brigades, Export of electricity, Climate change, NPPTemelin, Radioactive waste, Radiation Monitoring Systém (Ramos). Hnutí DUHA pays close attention to the environmental impacts of loans and grants that come to the Czech Republic from various international financial institutions and from European Union funds. Hnuti Duha is an active member of the CEE Bankwatch Network, which aim is to "make greener" the flow of money from European Union funds and other IFIs.

CONTACT

email: skupiny@hnutiduha.cz
Website: www.hnutiduha.cz

Folkecenter - Denmark

The Folkecenter for Renewable Energy is a non-profit, independent, organization that provides research, development of technology, training and information for the manufacture, industrial innovation and implementation of renewable energy technologies in Denmark and throughout the world. Folkecenter intends to achieve measurable increases in the utilization of renewable energy technologies and thereby significant reductions in environmental pollution associated with energy use in Denmark and elsewhere. It obtains support from local authorities, national and international agencies, and the industry. The ultimate long term purpose is a complete replacement of fossil fuels and atomic power with renewable energies.

Folkecenter works on four major fronts:

1. Development and implementation of renewable energy systems: small scale wind power innovation and design; advanced generator construction; farm biogas design, and demonstration; CO2 neutral transportation with hydrogen and plant oil; solar architecture and integration of solar cells in buildings; wave energy testing.
2. As consultant to manufacturers, local consumer groups, and relevant initiators within renewable energy.
3. Disseminating information on renewable energy in Denmark and elsewhere, to trainees; concerned citizen groups; and political decision makers focusing on decentralized solutions.
4. The Village for Green Research, where Folkecenter is situated, demonstrates practical examples of integration of several energy solutions, solar housing, water recycling systems etc. as an experimental and functional example of a future ecological society.

CONTACT

email: energy@folkecenter.dk
Website: www.folkecenter.net

Dissent! Network Dissent!

A Network of Resistance Against the G8 was formed in the autumn of 2003. The Network is calling for groups and individuals to converge on Scotland in July 2005 to shut down the G8 Summit to be held at Gleneagles, Perthshire in Scotland

Dissent! consists of a network of autonomous local and working groups committed to building resistance not just to the G8 but to capitalism in general. The Network has no central office, no membership list, no paid staff and no spokesperson. It is open to everyone who agrees to work within the People s Global Action (PGA) hallmarks.

There are groups and individuals active within the Dissent! network who want to promote climate change and energy issues within the context of the G8 summit.

CONTACT

email: infog82005@yahoo.com
Website: www.dissent.org.uk

Towards Carfree Cities

Towards Carfree Cities is an occasional international seminar that brings together groups an individuals with the shared goal of promoting alternatives to car dependence and car culture, including alternative modes such as cycling, walking and public transport Previous conferences have taken place in France, Romania and Czech Republic, while the conference took place this year in Berlin in July. There will be another conference taking place next year in Budapest. Almost 200 people participated in our fourth carfree conference in Berlin, and the local media covered the event positively. Many of the conference presentations are being put online at www.worldcarfree.net

CONTACT

email: info@worldcarfree.net
Website: www.worldcarfree.net

World Wind Energy Association

1. Wind energy shall serve as one cornerstone and driving force for the immediate implementation of the world energy system driven by renewable energies to completely substitute fossil and nuclear sources.
2. Global dissemination of grid connected and stand alone wind energy solutions should rely on experience gained from the most successful implementation strategies, based on favourable legal, political and social framework conditions as initiated by national associations. Local and rural communities and people should be involved and should benefit directly.
3. WWEA shall stimulate and back the foundation of national and regional wind energy associations and encourage national governments to set ambitious targets and political frameworks for priority strategies in favour of a fast and sustainable development of all renewable energies.
4. WWEA will organise together with continental, national and regional wind energy associations World Wind Energy Conferences and further international events for mobilising a wide range of the different wind energy applications. 5. WWEA will play an active role in the World Council for Renewable Energies and will cooperate with further international renewable energy organisations in order to work for a full substitution of all polluting and hazardous waste causing energies.

CONTACT

email: secretariat@indea.org
Website: www.windea.org

TERRA Milenui III - Romania TERRATERRA Milenui III - Romania TERRA

Milenui III is a well-known Romanian environmental NGO which has a long history (since 1998) in the climate prevention field, being specialised in the climate-related issues like: public awareness raising, attending the international negociations under the UN FCCC, being the only Romanian organisation legitimated by the United Nations to follow the negociations under the UN FCCC and the Kyoto Protocol. - as the CAN CEE coordinator. TERRA Mileniul III is the regional co-ordinator of CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK CENTRAL and EASTERN EUROPE (CAN CEE), network that consists of 28 environmental organisations from 16 countries and which is the regional branch of the international network: Climate Action Network, having strong relations with its sister branch in Europe: Climate Network Europe.

The organisation TERRA Mileniul III has as mission to develop ecological programmes for raising public awareness on climate change issues and to promote programmes for sustainable development on a national, regional and global level. Among its developed projects, a lot of key themes have been touched, such as: ecological education, building reliable co-operation with the business sector in the field of environmental protection, public participation on climate-related issues, raising the capacity in all cross-sectors regarding climate change mitigation, influencing the national policies in the field, strengthening the capacity of NGOs, governments and private sector in the region for analysis and contribution to the climate debate, improving the co-ordination of CANCEE and building up closer links between the CANCEE activities and those of its sister network Climate Network Europe (CNE), building up a co-operative relationship between environmental NGOs and the mass-media representatives, in order to promote the public participation process in environment-related decision making from the point of view of transposition and implementation of the "acquis communautaire" in environmental-related sectors, supporting the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol in Romania, lobby and advocacy campaign for the local,central authorities and the potential investors and taking a definite standing against attitude in what regards a disastruous mining operation at Rosia Montana in Apuseni Mountains; increasing the energy efficiency and conservation by providing assistance for policy implementation at the municipal level, strengthening the capacity in the mitigation of the transport sector contribution in Romania, providing the general and specialised public informations concerning the negociation process of Romania's integration in the European Union and the adoption and implementation of the environmental acquis communautaire.

CONTACT

email: claudia.terra@newsys.ro
Website: http://terraiii.ngo.ro

Moviment Graffitti - Malta

Moviment Graffitti is active against oppression and exploitation of people, environment and animals; with a vision of freedom and radical democracy. Moviment Graffitti's activism consists primarily of two strategies:

1. Direct Action. Moviment Graffitti is active in various areas such as social justice and protection of the environment. This includes the years-long activism in local community struggles such as the Front Against the Hilton, Front Against the Golf Course, Save Kalkara Valley Front and for the closure of the Marsa power station and the introduction of renewable energy. This also include activities for the emancipation of the working class (such as participation in demonstrations by progressive trade unions); peace and neutrality (such as activities against the visit of warships); civil rights (such as divorce and anti-sexism); human rights (such as the rights of asylum seekers); and animal rights (such as anti-furcoat protests and dolphinarium). Moviment Graffitti has organised various activities that were concurrently taking place around the world. These include Workers' Day, Peace Marches, the World Anti McDonalds Day, as well as various activities against capitalist globalisation and in favour of global social justice.
2. Ideological Action. Moviment Graffitti considers ideology as having a vital role in order that leftitst and progressive visions may be proposed within social formations. Through public statements, articles, the publication of 'Graffitti' pamphlet as well as other methods of public relations, Moviment Graffitti expresses its ideology. Moviment Graffitti organises and also participates in seminars, discussions and civil society meetings.The Movement also organises cultural activities such as music, exhibitions, films and theatre.

Moviment Graffitti is autonomous from any political, economic and social force and practices radical democracy within its structures. It believes in the role of progressive alliances in order that the left may be strengthened.

CONTACT

email: info@movimentgraffitti.org
Website: www.movimentgraffitti.org

EMERGE Recycling - Manchester

EMERGE Recycling are Manchester's original community recyclers and have been helping Manchester to become a greener city since 1996. We specialise in recycling collections for household and office waste throughout Manchester. We also promote the 3Rs of sustainable waste management: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. EMERGE is a not-for-profit community business. We aim to reduce Manchester's environmental impact and improve social and economic conditions in Manchester and beyond.

CONTACT

email: office@emergemanchester.co.uk
Website: www.emergemanchester.co.uk