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Robert Gilman - Sustainability: The State Of The Movement
Soviet Union; tracking the deterioration in the natural environment; and drawing up plans for redesigned communities, cities, and entire economies. Today their perspectives and innovations are becoming ...
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Diane Gilman
She also: was responsible for much of the Institute's international networking and liaison, particularly with Europe, Scandinavia and the former Soviet Union. was, from March 1992 to September 1995, the western coordinator for the development of an ecologically sustainable community outside of St. Petersburg, Russia. helped with the initial ...
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Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Russian one never recovered from the economic turmoil following the collapse of the Soviet Union. And yet, while uncomfortable, the Russian intensity deterioration of around 15 per cent pales into insignificance relative to the more than 230 per cent experienced by Sierra Leone during the 1990s. Sierra Leone, one of ...
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Permaculture Association (Britain) - Designing for Sustainability
UK to share Cuba’s experience of adapting when its oil supply dried up following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It’s an experience we can learn from as we respond to climate change and oil scarcity. Urban food growing using permaculture techniques which follow nature’s patterns was a key part of increasing Cuba’s food security, ...
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Books from the Earth Policy Institute
China, $42 billion; and Iran, Iraq, and North Korea combined spend $12 billion. As the late U.S. Admiral Eugene Carroll astutely observed, "For 45 years of the cold war, we were in an arms race with the Soviet Union; now it appears we are in an arms race with ourselves." The urgency facing the world today is at least as great as that which ...
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PEACE PLEDGE UNION
The justification for both Polaris and Trident was that we faced in the Soviet Union a great, hostile bear bristling with nuclear claws. The missiles were put on submarines precisely because the ... end of Britain's futile and costly obsession with nuclear-weapon status. The Guardian   Peace Pledge Union, 1 Peace Passage, London N7 0BT. Tel +44 (0)20 7424 9444   contact    ...
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PEACE PLEDGE UNION
The US arms industry grew prodigiously, supplying Britain, France, and the Soviet Union with huge quantities of armaments to fight the Second World War. When that war was over, former allies engaged in a `cold war' between Western capitalist countries and the communist Soviet Union. The Cold War did not officially end until 1991. The USA supplied weapons to any ...
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Stallone explores Soviet roots with vodka deal | Entertainment | People | Reuters
Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters Stallone explores Soviet roots with vodka deal Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:53pm EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | ... , from the Ukrainian town of Odessa. The Rambo and Rocky movies were banned in the Soviet Union, but were hot property in the country's underground VHS market. A host of ...
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Stallone explores Soviet roots with vodka deal | Oddly Enough | Reuters
Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters Stallone explores Soviet roots with vodka deal Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:53pm EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | ... , from the Ukrainian town of Odessa. The Rambo and Rocky movies were banned in the Soviet Union, but were hot property in the country's underground VHS market. A host of ...
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European Union and Russia press for energy efficiency - EnergyPortal.eu
Mauri Pekkarinen recognized that there was a "huge mutual challenge" as well as potential. The European Union, as well as some member states, has earlier announced energy efficiency measures, but so far these ... top oil producer in recent months. But domestic industry, much of it born under an inefficient Soviet economy that did little to ration energy use, is among the most inefficient in the world ...
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