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FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><IMG border=0 alt=Activities vspace=3 src="../images/t_3.gif" width=109 height=15><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD height=20 width=400 colSpan=2></TD></TR>Our Mission is to encourage both thinking and action toward a sustainable earth. In so doing, we recognize that all phenomena and problems are interrelated. Based upon research, investigation, experience, and innovation from within our group as well as from around the world, we will present findings to leaders, governments, civil society, and the general public in hopes of creating paradigm shifts that will promote altering actions and policies toward the planet as well as sustainability of life on earth. In our individual work, lives and writings, we enact these insights into a better future for the human race. <P>Our past and current projects are: <UL> <LI><A href="#hemisphere"><B>The future of the American Hemisphere (USA Cub of Rome Report 2011)</B></A> <LI><A href="#arctic"><B>The Future of the Arctic. A Key to Global Sustainability (current USA Club of Rome Report to be released in 2012). </B></A></LI></UL><BR> <HR> <BR><A name=hemisphere></A><B>The Future of The Western Hemisphere Report.</B> <P>The USA Club of Rome Report published in&nbsp;January 2011. The data base and world model is a fifth generation model International Futures by Barry Hughes (1996) of University of Denver, who has kindly made available to us this data for regions, the hemisphere and each of the 38 nations. The data examined in detail by 15 committees of experts with extensive field experience in their subjects: governance, economics, social issues, health and drinking water, environment, education, food and agriculture, population, poverty alleviation, arts-language-culture, security, religion, legal issues, and several others. Priorities of critical problems making the hemisphere or nations unsustainable were decided on for each committee. Then potential solutions to these problems were presented. The Report was presented to Stakeholders to activate these solutions. The national Club of Rome associations were consulted and involved by the committees (Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina). <P><A name=arctic></A><STRONG>The Future of the Arctic. A Key to Global Sustainability Project.</STRONG> <P>The 50 year future of all the nations in the Arctic both as a whole and as regions is currently being examined. Three Committees were formed to analyze current and future issues: <P>a) Legal and Political Commitee. This Committee is studying the relevant political issues, such as the progressive independence of Greenland from Denmark and the legal issues related to the application of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 to the mineral exloitation in the Arctic Sea. <P>b) Energy and Resources Commitee. This Committee is analyzing the prospectives for discovery of new mineral resorces in the Arctic, in particular oil, natural gas, rare earth minerals, uranium and water; <P>c) Population and Health Committee. This Commitee was formed to study the current heath condition of local populations in the Arctic, their access to healthcare and the migration of ethnic groups in the region. <P></P> <TR> <TD height=5 colSpan=2></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR>&nbsp;</FONT></TD> <TD vAlign=bottom width=50 noWrap align=right><!-- <a href="#start" onmouseover="MarkPlay('p_1','p_1x');" onmouseout="MarkPlay('p_1','p_1');"><img name="p_1" src="../images/pfeil.gif" width=13 height=11 alt="top of the page" border=0 hspace=15></a> --></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- Ende Tabelle haupt --></TD></TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=bottom><!-- Footer --> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=606 align=center> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width=15 noWrap></TD> <TD noWrap><BR><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT-SIZE: 10px" color=gray size=-2 face=arial,geneva,helvetica,sans-serif><BR>contact: Francesco Stipo, Chairman <BR>E-Mail:<A href="mailto:fstipo@hotmail.com">fstipo@hotmail.com</A> </FONT><BR>&nbsp;</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV><MAP name=head><AREA title="The Club of Rome" href="http://www.clubofrome.org" shape=circle alt="The Club of Rome" target=_blank coords=566,26,32><AREA title="The Club of Rome" href="http://www.clubofrome.org" shape=rect alt="The Club of Rome" target=_blank coords=21,24,124,36><AREA title="European Support Centre" href="../index.html" shape=rect alt="European Support Centre" coords=27,45,370,62><AREA shape=default></MAP></BODY></HTML>