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''Challenges for Science and Engineering in the 21st Century''

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CONTENTS of WNII No. 14/2000

• Member Organisations' and Project Groups' News:
  • 2001 International Council Meeting
  • "INES Newsletter" No. 29 out now
  • New Zealand: Engineers for Social Responsibility (ESR)
  • "The SEU TIMES" No 3 (12) - April 2000
  • Russia: Ecodefense!, Anti-nuclear campaign of the Socio-Ecological Union
  • USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), "Waging Peace Worldwide"
  • USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), The Sunflower, No. 36, May 2000
  • Armin Tenner: Help! Save the Brazilian rain forests!
• Nuclear Weapons:
  • Two VERTIC reports for the NPT Review Conference
• INES Web- and Email Service
  • NEW: Two members of the INES Executive Committee
  • CHANGE: INESAP Website

MEMBER ORGANISATIONS' AND PROJECT GROUPS' NEWS

2001 International Council Meeting 

The 2001 International Council Meeting has been scheduled for Berlin, Germany, 25-27 May 2001 (More information on this year's International Council Meeting will follow)

"INES Newsletter" No. 29 out now

The "INES Newsletter" No. 29/May 2000 has the following contents:

• Africa - A Shaken Continent (Preview on the Conférence Africaine sur la Paix, Dakar/Senegal, October 2000)
• The Negative Consequences of Violence. The Region of the Great Lakes (C. Mputu)
• Peace in the World and in Africa (R. Burget)
• Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty (X. Hall, IPPNW Germany)
• Science and Responsibility, Political Requests to Science, Scientific Requests to Policy (R. Christian)
• INES Workshop: Regional Aspects of Sustainability and the Role of the Universities (Programme), Kaliningrad/Russia, 29 Sep-1 Oct 2000
• The "INES Newsletter" is edited by Armin Tenner, Buziaustraat 18, 1068 KN Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel/Fax: , e-mail:

A pure ASCII version is available for distribution by e-mail. Ask the "INES Newsletter" editor to put you on his distribution list. The "INES Newsletter" is also available at: http://inesglobal.org

New Zealand: Engineers for Social Responsibility (ESR)  http://www.esr.org.nz

At the last ESR Annual General Meeting on 16 March, new officers have been elected for the coming year:  -- President: John La Roche < > -- Secretary: David Roche <   > -- Treasurer: Sean Finnigan (for the report on this AGM see the ESR webpage indicated above)
The latest ESR Newsletter of May 2000 (Vol. 16 No. 2) carries the following main articles:

• The Invisible Hand, Money and the Universal Income (by Helen Marsh, guest speaker at the ESR AGM 2000)
• Positive Signs for Unemployed Immigrant Engineers (J. La Roche, President ESR)
• Musings from a very new president (J. La Roche, President ESR)
• Jack Woodward elected Honorary Life Member of ESR
• Earth Day Plus Thirty, as seen by the Earth (D. H. Meadows)

Also note the following web references made in this Newsletter issue regarding selected conferences in New Zealand:

• New Zealand Wind Energy Association Conference 2000, 25 May 2000: http://www.eeca.govt.nz
• Sustainable Energy Forum Conference 2000, 8-9 July 2000:  http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/sef2000

A small but very interesting information refers to the "2000 BBC Reith Lectures" whose theme this year is Respect for the Earth, looking at sustainable development from the angles of Governance, Biodiversity, Business, Health and Population, and Poverty and Globalisation. The BBC has provided scripts of the lectures, as well as downloadable audio and video at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/REITH2000
Newsletter Editor: Neil Mander

"The SEU TIMES" No 3 (12) - April 2000  

"The SEU TIMES" is the electronic newsletter of the "Socio-Ecological  Union", one of the Russian INES member organisations. The latest issue  has the following contents: 

• Goldman Prize (The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's largest prize program  honoring grassroots environmentalists) goes to 2 SEU members 
• Final victory of Alexander Nikitin
• Russia - The Country of Procurators
• Green Sail
• Children for Nuclear Free Future 
• Operation "Snowdrop-2000" 
• Apsabara - in Abkhazian: Nature 
• Green World" received "The Baltic Sea Prize"  

Editor: Sviatoslav Zabelin
Previous issues of "The SEU Times" may be found at "The Online Gadfly":  http://www.igc.org/gadfly

Russia: Ecodefense!, Anti-nuclear campaign of the Socio-Ecological  Union  http://www.ecoline.ru/antinuclear/eng/index.htm

From an Ecodefense! press release of May 24, 2000:   The national strategy for [Russia's] nuclear development includes 23 new   reactors to appear  before 2020.  Investment needed for implementing this strategy is US$ 32  billion.  According to [Minister for Atomic Power] Adamov's speech, the  expenses will be covered by increasing prices for electricity and by   importing nuclear waste from all over the world to Russia. [On 25 May,  the Russian government approved the new 50-years strategy for nuclear development prepared by Minatom (Ministry of Atomic Power); the editor]   "The new nuclear developments projected by Minatom include 23 new dangerous, expensive and unnecessary reactors," said Vladimir Slivyak,  antinuclear campaigner for Ecodefense! and Socio-Ecological Union.  "At  the same time, energy-efficiency technologies just don't exist on an industrial scale in Russia.  Development of renewable sources of energy  would provide Russia with a great amount of electricity as well.  But the  lobbyists for efficiency and renewables aren't as good as those for one of the richest corporations in the world - Minatom."   The amount of spent nuclear fuel accumulated in Russia is about 14,000  tons.  The new strategy allocates only about US$ 3,6 billion in 30 years for nuclear waste management - the lowest amount ever. 

For more information and copies of documents contact:  Vladimir Slivyak  

USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), "Waging Peace Worldwide"  http://www.wagingpeace.org

The Spring 2000 issue (Vol. 10, No. 1) of NAPF's print magazine "Waging  Peace Worldwide" carries the following main articles:  

• The 2000 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference  (D.Krieger/J.Granoff) 
• An Open Letter To The Leaders Of All Non-Nuclear Weapons States 
• The Common Heritage of All of Us and Our Descendants. The Parallels  Between Ocean Law and Nuclear Disarmament Law (E. Mann Borgese) 
• Nobel Peace Laureate Statements for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons  
• A Proposal for Achieving Zero Nuclear Weapons (Admiral N. Gayler USN  ret.)
• Abolition 2000 Responding to the Challenges of the New Century (C.  Ong) 
• Abolition 2000 Statement to the UN Millenium Forum  
• Peace Retreat, "The Great Turning" To Be Lead by Joanna Macy (F.K. Kelly)
• The Foundation's Renewable Energy Project. Modeling for a  Sustainable Future (C. Ong) 
• "A Message of Peace". Hiroshima/Nagasaki International Exhibition,  Santa Barbara CA/USA, Sep 2000

USA: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF), The Sunflower, No. 36, May  2000 
Back issues: http://www.wagingpeace.org/sf/index.html

The May issue of The Sunflower covers the following: 

• NPT Review Conference:
  • NPT Faces Harsh Realities
  • NAC Jumps to Forefront at NPT
  • Abolition 2000 Presents 13,408,035 Signatures
  • Appeal to End the Nuclear Threat to Humanity
  • The Nuclear Five Pledge Abolition, Ultimately   
• Nuclear Tests: Another US Subcritical Test   
• Nuclear Disarmament:
  • Russia Ratifies CTBT and START II
  • Britain  Urges India to Sign CTBT   
• Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems:
  • ABM System Would Cost $59.1 Billion 
  • US-Russia ABM Talks Could Support Launch-on-Warning
  • 100 Missiles  Now, 200 Later  
• Protests:
  • Citizen-Inspectors Enter Belgium NATO Nuclear Site
  • DU  Protestors Convicted in Minnesota
  • Vieques Protesters Face Eviction by FBI   
• Nuclear Matter:
  • Clinton Vetoes Mobile Chernobyl
  • Truck Stopped  While Taking Radioactive Material Through Iran
  • Exposed US Nuclear  Workers To Get $$
  • GE asks US To Insure North Korea Nuclear Power Plant
  • Chernobyl Kills and Cripples 14 Years Later
  • Second  Tokaimura Accident Victim Dies   
• Foundation News:
  • Foundation Honors King Hussein and Queen Noor
  • Latest Waging Peace Worldwide Journal Available   
• Action Alert: Time's Up For Nuclear Weapons   
• Nuclear Insanity 

Armin Tenner: Help! Save the Brazilian rain forests!  

I seldom send petitions, but we have been asked to do so by our Brazilian friends, who might just be able to deter their politicians from this mad venture by showing the huge international concern for its impact on the fate of the planet.   "I am deeply concerned about the deforestation of our Planet. The loss of habitat especially of the indigenous forests is of the gravest   concern.   "Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that will reduce the Amazon forest to 50% of its size. The area to be deforested is 4 times the size of Portugal and would be mainly used for agriculture and pastures for live stock. All the wood is to be sold to international markets in the form of wood chips, by multinational companies. The truth is that the soil in the Amazon forest is useless without the forest itself. Its quality is very acidic and the region is prone to constant floods. At this time more than 160.000 square kilometers deforested with the same purpose, are abandoned and in the process of becoming deserts.   "We cannot let this happen. Copy the text into a new email, put your complete name in the list below, and send to everyone you know."   (Don't just forward it 'cause then it will end up with rows of 's )  If you are the 100th person to sign please send a copy to    Thank you.  

01- Hamish Brookes-Lockie, Albany, West Australia.  02- Marla Mollicone, Windsor, Ontario, Canada  03- Gerald Tetreault, Guelph, Ontario, Canada  04- Adrienne Bartlett, Dundas, Ontario, Canada  05- Justin Harper, London, Ontario, Canada  06- Eric Fawcett, Toronto, Ontario, Canada   07- Guenter Emde, Pittenhart, Germany  08- Armin Tenner, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Abolition 2000 homepage: http://www.abolition2000.org

Grassroots News: http://www.napf.org/abolition2000/news/  

Two VERTIC reports for the NPT Review Conference  

The London-based Verification Research, Training and Information Centre  (VERTIC) has published two reports for the NPT Review Conference. The  reports, "Fulfilling the NPT: Strengthened Nuclear Safeguards"  and  "Fulfilling the NPT: A Verifiable Test Ban,"   can be found on VERTIC's website at:  http://www.vertic.org/current/issue.html     Copies are available from VERTIC through     Executive Summaries can be obtained from the WNII editor upon request. 

INES WEB AND E-MAIL SERVICE

All INES e-mail addresses and homepages are available upon request from:  

NEW: Two members of the INES Executive Committee  

• Åse Richard (student), Sweden:
• Dr Claus Montonen, Finland:     (Prof. Lars Rydén, Sweden, has left the EC)

INESAP Website  

The International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP) has the following new website address:    http://www.inesap.org
NOTE: New postings include the INESAP Annual Report 1999 and the INESAP Briefing Paper No. 7: "Has the time come for the Nuclear Weapons Convention?" by Martin B. Kalinowski, Wolfgang Liebert, and Jurgen Scheffran  

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