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FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><IMG border=0 alt=News vspace=3 src="../images/t_5.gif" width=65 height=15><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 align=center height=0%><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usa_may30></A> <HR> <P><BR> <P><B class=title>Obituary for Vaclav Havel</B> <P> <DIV class=description>Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic and member of the Club of Rome, passed away on December 18 2011. The obituary is available for <A href="./sup2009/vaclavhavel.doc" target=blank><B>download</B></A>. <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usa_may30></A> <HR> <P> <P><IMG border=1 align=centre src="npc3a.jpg" width=250 height=310> <P><IMG border=1 align=centre src="npc4a.jpg" width=250 height=310> <P><IMG border=1 align=centre src="npc5a.jpg" width=250 height=310><BR> <P><B class=title>Luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. honoring Christine Whitman</B> <P> <DIV class=description>The USACOR held a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on Monday, November 14th 2011, at 1.30pm. Dr. Francesco Stipo, President of the USA Club of Rome, addressed the NPC on "Global Governance and the Reform of the International Institutions . </DIV> <DIV class=description>H.S.H. Prince Michael of Liechtenstein presented the  Geopolitical Information Service , a new think tank recently created in Europe. </DIV> <DIV class=description>Governor Christine Whitman, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and current Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, received the USA Club of Rome Lifetime Achievement Award and delivered a speech on  The Priorities for Environmental Protection . The program is available for <A href="./sup2009/NPC event1.doc" target=blank><B>download</B></A>. </DIV> <P class=description></P></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usa_may30></A> <HR> <P><IMG border=1 align=centre src="national academy of science1.jpg" width=360 height=230> <BR> <P><B class=title>USACOR invited to the National Academy of Sciences</B> <P> <DIV class=description>On Friday September 23 2011&nbsp;the United States Association for the Club of Rome has held a panel presentation of its 2010 report at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usa_may30></A> <HR> <P><BR> <P><B class=title>USACOR Annual Meeting</B> <P> <DIV class=description>The United States Association for the Club of Rome held its annual members' meeting on Saturday September 24 2011 in Washington D.C. The program is available for <A href="./sup2009/annual meeting.doc" target=blank><B>download</B></A>. <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usa_may30></A> <HR> <P><BR> <P><B class=title>USACOR Elections</B> <P> <DIV class=description>The United States Association for the Club of Rome elected the Board of Directors and the Officers for the period 2011-2014. The new Board can be found in <A href="http://usacor.org/organisation/index.html"><B>organization</B></A>. <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usa_may30></A> <HR> <P><BR> <P><IMG border=1 align=centre src="future of western hemisphere picture.jpg" width=360 height=230> <P><B class=title>The 2010 Report of the USA Club of Rome is now available</B> <P> <DIV class=description>In December 2010 the USA Club of Rome published the "The Future of the Western Hemisphere". The report is now for sale in <A href="http://www.amazon.com/Future-Western-Hemisphere-Anitra-Thorhaug/dp/0983156301/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1296594402&amp;sr=8-1"><B>Amazon</B></A>. <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usa_may30></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>Activities of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome</B> <P> <DIV class=description>For an overview of the history and activities of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome, <P>a brochure is available for <A href="./sup2009/canadian brochure.doc" target=blank><B>download</B></A>. <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usa_may30></A> <HR> <P><BR><IMG border=1 align=centre src="anitra thorhaug.jpg" width=360 height=230> <P><IMG border=1 align=centre src="andrew oerke.jpg" width=360 height=230> <P><B class=title>The Future of the Western Hemisphere</B> <P> <DIV class=description>September 9: The study "The Future of the Western Hemisphere" was presented in Vienna at an event organized by the European Support Centre and the USACOR. <P>A flyer is available for <A href="./sup2009/vienna program.pdf" target=blank><B>download</B></A>. <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usa_may30></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>John Jay Harris IV passed away</B> <P> <DIV class=description>The USA Club of Rome regrets to announce the death of an extremely valued member, John Jay Harris IV. <P>An obituary is available for <A href="./sup2009/jjharris.doc" target=blank><B>download</B></A>. <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usapell></A> <HR> <P><BR> <P><B class=title>Pro's and con's of "Limits to Growth"</B> <P> <DIV class=description>For independent evaluations of the "Limits to Growth" study, the USA Club of Rome suggests the following <A href="./sup2009/growth.doc" target=blank><B>list of publications</B>.</A> <P> <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usapell></A> <HR> <P><BR> <P><B class=title>USACOR invites to 54th United Nations Conference on the Status of Women</B> <P> <DIV class=description>The 54th Conference on the Status of Women will be held at the United Nations in New York on March 10, 2010 at 10:15. The Conference is hosted by the USACOR, UNIFEM and the Human Lactation Center. A luncheon is scheduled at 12:15 at Diplomats Lounge in United Nations Secretariat Building. All Club of Rome members are welcome to both presentations and luncheon. RSVP at bottom of attached program. Download the <A href="./sup2009/unifem.doc" target=blank><B>program</B>.</A> <P> <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usapell></A> <HR> <P><BR> <P><IMG border=1 align=centre src="georgemitchell.jpg" width=270 height=370> <P><B class=title>Obituary for Cynthia Woods Mitchell</B> <P> <DIV class=description>Cynthia Woods Mitchell, a longtime USACOR member and recipient of the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award, passed away on Dec. 27th, 2009. The obituary is available for <A href="./sup2009/cynthiamitchell.doc" target=blank><B>download</B>.</A> <P> <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usapell></A> <HR> <P><BR> <P>&nbsp;<IMG border=1 align=centre src="oerke.jpg" width=200 height=266> <P> <P><IMG border=1 align=centre src="francescostipo.jpg" width=200 height=310> <P><B class=title>Luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.</B> <P> <DIV class=description>The USACOR held a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, November 18th 2009, at 1.00pm. Dr. Francesco Stipo, an active member of the National Press Club, presented his book "<FONT color=#0066cc><A href="http://www.worldfederalistmanifesto.com" target=blank>World Federalist Manifesto. Guide to Political Globalization</A></FONT>". Professor Herman Daly and Professor Andrew Oerke received the USA Club of Rome Lifetime Achievement Award. The program is available for <A href="http://www.usacor.org/news/sup2009/npc2009.doc" target=blank><FONT color=#0066cc><B>download</B>.</FONT></A> </DIV> <DIV class=description>&nbsp;</DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usapell></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>USACOR invited to a summit on NAFTA with former Mexican President Vicente Fox and former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien in Toronto on October 15-16 2009. For the meeting agenda, <A href="http://www.usacor.org/news/sup2009/torontosummit.doc" target=blank><B>click here</B></A> <BR> <P><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --></P></B></FONT> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usapell></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>Ambassador John McDonald wins Peace Award</B> <P> <DIV class=description>The Association for Conflict Resolution will award the Peacemaker Award to Ambassador John W. McDonald at its 9th Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA, October 7-10, 2009. McDonald was nominated for the honor based on his work on peace-building projects around the world during his diplomatic career, his co-founding of an organization that focuses on conflict resolution in nation and international ethnic conflicts, and his diverse career achievements in supporting creative conflict-transformation projects. Established in 2001, The Peacemaker Award honors significant and sustained contributions by an individual or organization to the cause of peace. The award recognizes the efforts of an individual or organization to bring peace through various conflict resolution approaches to ethnic, religious and civil conflicts that have raged domestically and outside the United States. McDonald joins a notable group of Peacemaker Award recipients that includes Lee H. Hamilton, Sen. George Mitchell and Conflict Resolution Network Canada. McDonald spent 20 years of his diplomatic career in Western Europe and the Middle East, and worked for 16 years on United Nations missions around the world. A former senior adviser to George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and president of the Iowa Peace Institute, McDonald co-founded the "Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy" (IMTD) in Washington, D.C in 1992, focusing on national and international ethnic conflicts. Through IMTD, McDonald has worked on creative conflict transformation projects in Cyprus, Israel-Palestine, Georgia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, East Africa, Liberia, Nepal, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Jordan, Libya, India, Pakistan and Kashmir. Recognizing the strong link between access to water and peace, he also founded "Global Water" in 1982 to address international drinking water and sanitation issues. <P> <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usapell></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>USACOR will hold a joint meeting on Friday October 9th 2009 with the Canadian Club of Rome in Ottawa, Canada. </B> <P> <DIV class=description>All interested should contact athorhaug@msn.com so that sufficient room for seating and lunch will be available. The morning speakers "Progress Report to CaCOR on the Future of the Western hemisphere Project" tentatively are Dr. Anitra Thorhaug overview and population, food, and environment, Robert Hoffman, economic issues, Andrew Oerke, poverty alleviation, and language art and culture. </DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usapell></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>E. Jackson Allison, MD nominated for Shriver Award 2009</B> <P> <DIV class=description>E. Jackson Allison, MD member of USACOR, was nominated for Shriver Award 2009. Information available at the following <A href="http://www.afriendofmalawi.com/jackshriver2009.htm"><B>link</B>.</A> <P> <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --><!-- <tr><td valign="top"><img src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14 alt="" border=0 vspace=4></td> <td><font face="verdana,helvetica,sans-serif" size="-1" style="FONT-SIZE:12px;line-height:18px;"> <a name="usa_may30"></a><hr><p><br> <b class="title">World Future 2008: Seeing the Future Through New Eyes</b><p> <div class="description"> July, 26-29th, 2008: The conference of the World Future Society will take place in Washington D.C.<p> Preconference Courses: July 25<br> Professional Members' Forum: July 29<br><br> The programme is available for <a href="./sup2008/dl_wfs.pdf" target="blank"><b>download</b></a>. <p><p></td></tr> --><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usapell></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>USACOR Meeting with U.S. Congress Foreign Relations Committee in Washington D.C.</B> <P> <DIV class=description>Five members of USA COR met with the International Affairs Committee Ranking member of Congress Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Washington D.C. to discuss a series of FUTURES problems: Haiti and its poverty and infant mortality, flow of illegal peoples and substances among nations, the carbon-based energy shortages facing the Western Hemisphere and the realistic solutions available immediately in non-carbon based fuels, the growth of the population in Northern Central and Andean South America, impending fisheries collapse with factory ships poaching fish of the hemisphere with need for more mariculture in the Caribbean and South America, children's abuse and education especially in rural areas, language and culture diminution as an important source of present and upcoming ethnic conflict including our recent calculation of at least 50 million totally indigenous and more than 300 million partially indigenous peoples, and the international problems of governance in the hemisphere including corruption, lack of environmental governance, and deforestation, exacerbating the climate change. The US Congressional House priorities written for us by Ranking Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen for better governance in the American Hemisphere were discussed. <!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --></DIV></FONT> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usapell></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>MEX COR and USACOR Meeting in Mexico City </B> <P> <DIV class=description>In the Club Industriales, in Mexico City the USA CoR President, Professor Anitra Thorhaug and USA CoR member Andrew Oerke gave the overview of Future of the Western Hemisphere, a work in progress, including committee work by population, energy, environment, health, food, language art and culture, poverty alleviation, and legal issues. Presiding and organizing the meeting was Lic. Gerado Gil Valdivia, Director General de Planning and Analysis of the Mexican Human Rights Commission. Attending were Prof. Susanna Chacon, Antonio Alonso Concheiro, Ariel Buira Seira, Lic. Julio Faesler (former Mexican Ambassodor to India), Lic. Julio Millan B., Antonio Saldivar, Luis Manuel Orci Gandara, Prudencia Lopez Martinez, and Servando Lopez Jr. and Sr. <A href="./sup2009/dl_pell.pdf" target=blank><B>download</B>.</A> <P> <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=paradiso></A> <HR> <BR><BR><B class=title>USA: The Future of the American Hemisphere</B><BR><BR><BR><IMG alt=paradiso src="./sup2009/img_jan_usacor.jpg" width=400 height=200><BR><FONT color=#408080 size=1>image from NASA, changed pespective</FONT><BR><BR> <DIV class=description>Jan 31, Feb 1: The American Chapter of the Club of Rome will hold this conference in Miami to present its preliminary report on the future of the American Hemisphere in which it analyzes the social, economic, legal and environmental issues and projections for the next 50 years.</DIV><BR>Members of the scientific, academic, forensic, business and political communities are invited to offer their views on current concerns that may affect the continent in the future.<BR><BR>Please download the <A href="./sup2009/dl_jan_usacor.pdf" target=blank><B>invitation</B></A> and the <A href="./sup2009/dl_jan_usacor2.pdf" target=blank><B>programme</B></A>. <BR><BR><BR></FONT></TD></TR> <DIV></DIV><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usapell></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>Obituary for Claiborne Pell</B> <P> <DIV class=description>USACOR Founding Member Senator Claiborne Pell passed away on Jan 1st, 2009. Please read the obituary by Anitra Thorhaug, President of the US Association for the Club of Rome. The document is available for <A href="./sup2009/dl_pell.pdf" target=blank><B>download</B>.</A> <P> <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usa_may30></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>USA: Mid Atlantic Regional Meeting</B> <P> <DIV class=description>July, 26th, 2008: The US Association for the Club of Rome invited to a meeting which was introduced by Ambassador John W. McDonald. Among the speakers, there were</DIV> <UL> <LI>Pierre Armand: Poverty in Haiti and solutions underway <LI>Pavel Novacek (President of the Czech Association for the Club of Rome): A Global Marshall Plan for Haiti <LI>Francesco Stipo: Political Globalization and Solutions. </LI></UL>A short documentation is available for <A href="./sup2008/dl_aug_usacor_midatlantic.pdf" target=blank><B>download</B></A> <P> <P></P></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usa_may30></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>John Jacob Weaver passed away</B> <P> <DIV class=description>July 5th, 2008: The US Association for the Club of Rome regrets to announce the death of an extremely valued member of USACOR, John Jacob Weaver. <P>An obituary is available for <A href="./sup2008/dl_jul_weaver.pdf" target=blank><B>download</B></A>. <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usa_may30></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>Harlan Cleveland passed away</B> <P> <DIV class=description>May, 30th, 2008: The US Association for the Club of Rome regrets to announce the death of an extremely valued member of USACOR, Harlan Cleveland. He worked tirelessly to understand the future and stem the tide of chaos of the human condition. Harlan Cleveland was also Honorary Member of the Club of Rome International</DIV> <P>An obituary from Anitra Thorhaug, President of USACOR, including quotes from Harlan Cleveland is available for <A href="./sup2008/dl_may_cleveland.pdf" target=blank><B>download</B></A>. <P></P></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=usa_may30></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>Awards for USACOR Members Marty Talbot and Lee M. Talbot</B> <P>May, 27th, 2008: At the International Society of Woman Geographers Triennial Meeting in Chicago, Marty Talbot received the Societys Outstanding Achievement Award. Marty is an internationally distinguished ecologist and conservationist who has made pioneering and lasting contributions to the science of ecology, to geographic knowledge, to environmental conservation in many countries, and to conservation education. She has an extraordinary and continuing 50 year record of exploration and other field work in over 50 countries. She is Co-Founder and Honorary Director of the Student Conservation Association, the leading provider of student conservation service with over 50,000 participants in its 50 year history. Marty also was elected President of the Society and she was installed at the Triennial Meeting in Chicago <P>April 5th, 2008: The University of California 2008 Excellence in Achievement award was presented to Ecologist and Geographer, Dr. Lee M. Talbot, World-Renowned Environmentalist for pioneering work in developing ecosystem science, shaping national and international environmental policies and principles, establishing an ecosystem basis for conservation, and conducting environmental work in 131 countries. The award was presented on at a black-tie U.C. Gala in San Francisco attended by over 1,100. <P> <P></P></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT --> <TR> <TD vAlign=top><IMG border=0 alt="" vspace=4 src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14></TD> <TD><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><A name=mcdonald></A> <HR> <P><BR><B class=title>USA: Video - Ambassador John W. McDonald<BR>UN Water Day</B> <P><IMG alt="John McDonald" src="./sup2008/img_johnmcdonald.jpg" width=300 height=207> <P> <DIV class=description>March 22, 2008, UN Water Day - Ambassador John W. McDonald made a presentation at Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) on Global Clean Water Initiatives. Ambassador John W. McDonald spoke about the precarious issues raised by the world water supply and what led to the UN resolution for the First UN Decade for Clean Drinking Water and Sanitation from 1981-1991 as well as how much was accomplished during that decade. He then focused on the Second Decade (2005-2015), The 'Water for Life' Decade, which was launched on 22nd March 2005 by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. In addition, he talked about the Millennium Goals in this area. Ambassador McDonald also referred to the Water for the Poor Act, a Bill which was signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 1, 2005, and which enhances the role of global water and sanitation programs in U.S. foreign policy by authorizing the provision of foreign aid for promoting these efforts, and also by directing the secretary of state to create a comprehensive strategy for the development of international programs that increase safe water and sanitation access. <A href="http://www.globalwater.org" target=blank>"Global Water"</A> and the Institute for <A href="http://www.imtd.org" target=blank>Multi-Track Diplomacy"</A> are both working on future projects in Latin America and Africa. <P>The video is available on the <A href="http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&amp;record=562700108" target=blank><B>external website.</B></A> Questions can be addressed to jmcdonald (at) imtd.org. <P></P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR><!-- NEUE NACHRICHT <tr> <td height="19%" valign="top"><img src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14 alt="" border=0 vspace=4></td> <td valign="top"><a name="tt30_rio"></a> <hr> <div align="center"><strong><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">30th Anniversary Celebration in Washington, DC</font></strong> </div> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">On April 27th in Washington, DC the USACOR held its&#8217; 30th Anniversary. The occasion brought many old and new members to attend the awarding of George P. and Cynthia Mitchell with the USACOR Aurelio Peccei Lifetime Achievement Award. Roberto Peccei, son of the late Aurelio Peccei, co-founder and Leader of the Club of Rome until his untimely death in the 1990s, presented this award to the Mitchell&#8217;s. Mr. Mitchell shared his concept of the need for futures thinking about sustainability in business and finance. He also related his many efforts of the Mitchell Conferences and his other industrial and philanthropic activities through the Houston Center for Advanced Research, University of Texas and Texas A&amp;M systems, and the National Academy of Sciences to bring a consciousness of sustainability to the peoples of the United States. The forward thinking persons who had influenced him such as Harlan Cleveland and Dennis Meadows (USACOR Members), Aurelio Peccei and Buckminster Fuller were graciously recognized by Mitchell.</font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Ambassador John W. McDonald was awarded the USACOR Donella Meadows Award for lifetime of achievement through the Peace Institute and his efforts toward multiethnic conflict resolution around the world (Chechnya, Nepal, Kashmir, India, Pakistan, Bolivia and others) and sustainable environment through his efforts for the U.S. Government from the Stockholm Conference on Environment Onward. He particularly informed the group about his efforts toward safe drinking water around the world and the International Decade of Drinking Water.</font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dr. John Richardson, author of &#8220;Making it Happen&#8221; a USACOR book in the 1990s, and author of &#8220;Groping in the Dark&#8221; with Donella Meadows, remembered the early days of the Club of Rome and Donella Meadows and others such as Mike Mesorovic, Talbot and Peccei in Cleveland starting the first group while Forrester, the Meadows and Jorgen Randers did the &#8220;Limits to Growth&#8221; project.</font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">USACOR President Professor Anitra Thorhaug gave a brief history of the achievements of the USACOR. More than 50 participants then celebrated with cake and refreshments at The Friends Meeting House, a historical building.</font></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="27%" valign="top"><img src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14 alt="" border=0 vspace=4></td> <td valign="top"><a name="tt30_rio"></a> <hr> <p align="center"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong>Ambassador John W. McDonald receives the The USA COR Donnella Meadows Award </strong></font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The USA Club of Rome will celebrate its 30th anniversary on April 27 at which time Ambassador John W. McDonald will receive the coveted Donnella Meadows USA COR award. This celebration of the US Association for the Club of Rome, a multidisciplinary Futures think tank, which includes 200 members around the USA, will take place in Washington, D.C. and includes a second award named after the founder of the Club Aurelio Peccei presented to George P. Mitchell as a Lifetime Achievement award. </font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br> The Donnella Meadows award is given by USA Club of Rome to an individual who has demonstrated unusual dedication to help create the sustainable world which Donnella Meadows along with coauthors Dennis Meadows, and Jorgen Randers found was necessary for the future of humankind in their three &#8220;Limits to Growth&#8221; books ( Limits to Growth, Limits to Growth Revisited and Limits to Growth -30 years Out). </font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The 2006 award will be presented to Ambassador John W. McDonald. </font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The lifeworks of Ambassador John W. McDonald fall into several categories of works which have created excellent models for peaceful global change in the Meadows criteria:</font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Ambassador McDonald has made a profound contribution to conflict resolution which came from his depth and breadth of diplomatic experience, his legal capacities, his brilliant capacity for analysis and an extraordinarily caring spirit. The concept of Multitrack diplomacy was written by himself and Dr. Louise Diamond &#8220;Multitrack Diplomacy: a Systems Approach to Peace&#8221; and he co-founded the Institute for Multitrack Diplomacy, which now carries this out under his leadership. The premise is that a new type of conflict resolution was needed since most armed conflicts in the world are intra-state conflicts within national boundaries which the United Nations and other nations do not intervene. The humanitarian and economic aid which the United Nations and nations offer do not resolve the root causes of these internal conflicts. In this philosophy of conflict resolution, Track One is Government to Government diplomacy. These efforts frequently fail. Track Two is unofficial nongovernmental analytical, policy-oriented problem- solving by educated, experienced, private citizens. TRACK THREE is business-man to business-man, private sector, and multinational corporate interactions. Track Four is citizen to citizen exchange of scientific, cultural, academic, and art or sport exchanges. TRACK FIVE is media to media exchanges to expose sectors of citizens to the group with whom they are in conflict. John has engaged in facilitating a dazzling array of conflict- resolutions and transformations in Cyprus, Israel-Palestine, Georgia, Bosnia &#8211;Herzegovina, East Africa, Liberia, Nepal, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Jordan, Libya, India-Pakistan and Kashmir, Bolivia, and other nations. He continually travels to create these resolutions with his special talents for Peace-making. </font></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="54%" valign="top"><img src="../images/punkt.gif" width=20 height=14 alt="" border=0 vspace=4></td> <td valign="top"><a name="tt30_rio"></a> <hr> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><strong>USA COR Aurelio Peccei Lifetime-<br> Achievement Award to<br> George and <font size="-1">C</font>ynthia Mitchell </strong></font> <p><br> <font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Aurelio Peccei predicted critical elements to solving the earth&#8217;s pressing problems of lack of a sustainable pattern of development and future. Aurelio Peccei was known to all of us as a visionary, a global thinker, a brilliant generalist and our leader and founder because he made us go beyond ourselves, but he was a practical-minded business man, coming from the automotive industry. He was well-seasoned by the world of reality.</font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">He would have been happy to be here today to award this medal (named in his honor) to George and Cynthia Mitchell. This husband and wife team of effective visionary thinkers as well as &#8220;doers&#8221; have embodied within their life work the principles and philosophy that Aurelio taught the world. </font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br> The Peccei Principles embodied in the lives of the George and Cynthia Mitchell team have occurred in several phases: </font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">1.) The vision of the future and intuition to move forward on this vision was seen in George Mitchell&#8217;s early achievements in the Gas and Oil business. He recognized the importance of producing a more environmentally friendly energy source ( natural gas), and he created the technological skills to add substantial amounts of environmental safeguards to the extraction and transshipment of the natural gas. The advances in the USA&#8217;s use of gas rather than oil are of known importance globally. </font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">2.) George and Cynthia Mitchell were able to listen and hear what others like Aurelio Peccei, Buckminster Fuller and Harland Cleveland were visioning. In their unique transcultural method they brought critical parts of the industrial and financial community to focus on the capacity to recognize these visions, particularly the concept of sustainability for human and environmental needs.&nbsp;They did this through several venues directly conceived and executed by the Mitchell&#8217;s. A few of the Mitchell&#8217;s highlights are:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <br> 1.) The Mitchell &#8216;s Conferences on Sustainability , which opened the concepts of critical need for sustainability of resources and environmental accounting of degradation by bringing together leaders from both industrial /financial and the Peccei world of sustainable global thinking to debate and educate one another about these issues; <br> 2.) The Houston Advanced Research Center ( HARC) with its Center for Global Studies sponsoring conferences on problems of sustainability and bringing together many Texas Universities with their intellectual talent to this subject; <br> 3.) the Mitchell award which goes to creative technical innovation. </font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">3.) The Mitchell&#8217;s had a vision of sustainable communities and an ability to recognize cultural change and were able to carry this out within the present system. This created an important addition to Texas real estate development in the 1960&#8217;s (when &#8220;green&#8221; in real estate meant a golf course). The Mitchells&#8217; &#8220;The Woodlands&#8221; development concept, which community used sustainable energy sources, nature among dwellings and businesses, used bike paths for local transport, and introduced to Texas an array of sustainable living techniques in a superb setting, leading the way to sustainability in real estate development in Texas. It also was the top new home sales leader in Texas for 7 straight years.</font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">4.) In the philanthropic work of George and Cynthia Mitchell, they foresaw the future and recognized that their concept of the future could be used for the common good for a wide variety of peoples. They acted locally, but totally transculturally as their genius produced important results over a range of disciplines and institutions, but totally adding up to a more sustainable world for the future. Notable among these are the following:</font></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">1.) Restoration of cultural and social values in historically important Texas communities such as Galveston where both historic building restoration along &#8220;the Strand&#8221; as well as the historic revivals of festivals such as Mardi Gras were directly begun by the Mitchells ; <br> 2.) Grants for researching medical solutions for critical medical problems determining life quality in the future such as Alzheimer, cancer, and optical research; <br> 3.) Contributions to critical scientific work such as in astronomy, engineering, marine science, biophysical medical optics, fundamental physics at the University of Texas and Texas A&amp; M ; <br> 4.) Creating charter Schools for the University of Texas; and <br> 5.) The endowment to the National Academy of Sciences to create a program of Sustainable Futures programs, which has turned the focus of some of the most effective minds in the USA toward the problems of future sustainability. </font></p> </blockquote> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">A small mention of the particular actions of Cynthia Mitchell in establishing the Global Children&#8217;s Foundation which provides safe havens for young victims of war and tyranny, the Cynthia Mitchell chair of Theater at the University of Houston and her distinguished authors series, and her work with the Houston Youth Symphony and Ballet, and Texas Music Festival deserves comment as part of her vision of the future, especially for children.</font></p> <p><font size="-1" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br> The husband and wife team of George and Cynthia Mitchell have over their lifetimes shown a quest for a global vision for a world sustaining itself. This quest has resulted in innumerable important actions which have created a more sustainable world.</font></p></td> </tr> NEUE NACHRICHT --></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR>&nbsp;</FONT></TD> <TD vAlign=bottom width=50 align=right></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- Ende Tabelle haupt --></TD></TR> <TR> <TD height="1%" 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>