Contact Blue Planet Project The Council of Canadians:

c/o The Council of Canadians
700 - 170 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, ON K1P 5V5

Canada

phone: +1 613 233-2773
toll-free: +1-800-387-7177
fax: +1 613.233.4487
web: www.canadians.org

Founded in 1985, The Council of Canadians is Canada's pre-eminent citizens' watchdog organization, comprised of over 100,000 members and more than 70 Chapters across the country.

Strictly non-partisan, the Council lobbies Members of Parliament, conducts research, and runs national campaigns aimed at putting some of the country's most important issues into the spotlight: safeguarding our social programs, promoting economic justice, renewing our democracy, asserting Canadian sovereignty, advancing alternatives to corporate-style free trade, and preserving our environment.

The Council does not accept money from corporations or governments, and is sustained entirely by the volunteer energy and financial assistance of its members.

Our work at this political moment has three goals:

1. To help Canadians define ourselves and our understanding of sovereignty and democracy in relation to the rest of the world in an era of increased U.S-Canada tensions and increased pressure for deeper continental integration.
   
2. To work with Canadians and people around the world to reclaim the global and local commons which are the shared heritage of humanity and of the earth.
   
3. To create a compelling civil society movement in search of social justice both here in Canada and internationally whose core mandate is the creation of participatory , living democracy for all the peoples of the world.

    

Contact CEE Bankwatch Network:

Central Office
CEE Bankwatch Network
Na Rozcesti 6
Prague 9, 190 00
Czech Republic

phone: 420 274 81 65 71
fax: 420 2 74 81 65 71
email: main@bankwatch.org
web: www.bankwatch.org

The CEE Bankwatch Network was founded in 1995, official registration took place in November 1998.

Bankwatch is an international environmental organisation, whose mission is to prevent the environmentally and socially harmful impacts of international development finance, and to promote alternative solutions and public participation. We are a regional network, currently with member groups from 12 groups, that focuses specifically on the former communist states of central and eastern Europe, but with links to many NGOs all over the world. We monitor the financial flows and activities of the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank as well as the projects that are proposed for funding under the EU's cohesion and structural funds.

meet bankwatch : tomasz terlecki talks about tackling international financial institutions

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups. The CEO team consists of five members, based in The Netherlands and Spain.

Contact Corpwatch:

2958 24th Street

San Francisco, CA

94110

USA

phone: +1-415-641-1633
fax: +1 510-271-8083

web: www.corpwatch.org

CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism. We work to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization a diverse movement for human rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice.

For the past five years San Francisco Bay Area-based CorpWatch has been educating and mobilizing people through the CorpWatch.org website and various campaigns, including the Climate Justice Initiative and the UN and Corporations Project.

Initially we were known as TRAC--Transnational Resource & Action Center, and our website was called Corporate Watch. In March 2001 we simplified the situation by bringing TRAC together with our Internet presence under one name, one logo and a matching website address: CorpWatch.

In any case, with our website at the forefront of the movement against corporate-led globalization, we have repeatedly found that people know us best as CorpWatch.

In addition to the vast array of resources available on CorpWatch.org, the organization's accomplishments are many. They include playing a role in pressuring Nike to improve conditions at its overseas sweatshops by releasing a confidential independent audit that exposed the conditions at a Vietnamese sweatshop. The release of the audit garnered significant media attention, including a front-page story the New York Times 

We have also co-produced five live one-hour radio broadcasts from the WTO Ministerial meeting and protests in Seattle that aired on 135 stations. We broke the story of the UN's growing entanglement with corporations in 1999 and have campaigned on it ever since. And we are working hard to re-define the global warming issue as a question of local and global human rights and environmental justice.

Our staff currently consists of seven experienced and diverse people. The organization, a project of TRAC, which remains behind the scenes as the official entity and the Tides Center, is guided by a five-member Executive Committee of our Advisory Board. The diverse, San Francisco-based Executive Committee meets regularly and helps govern the board through programmatic and financial oversight.

Contact Earthlife africa:

c/o Earthlife eThekwini

P.O. Box 18722

Dalbridge, 4014

South Africa

phone: +27 82 652 1533
fax: +27 11 339 4584
email: bryan@earthlife.org.za

web: www.earthlife.org.za

Earthlife Africa was founded in Johannesburg in August 1988. It is a volunteer activist organization working for environmental and social justice, consisting of four autonomous branches Johannesburg, eThekwini (Durban),Cape Town in South Africa and Earthlife Africa Namibia.

Earthlife Africa's activities include campaigning on gmos, toxic waste, dams, timberwatch, and clean energy, with a focus on capacity building and networking.

contact ecopeace:

Mira Edelstein
Friends of the Earth Middle East
PO Box 840252
Amman, Jordan 11181

tel: +962 6-5866602/3
fax: +962 6-5866604
email: info@foeme.org
web: www.foeme.org

Ecopeace is a unique organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists. Our primary objective is the promotion of cooperative efforts to protect our shared environmental heritage. In so doing, we seek to advance both sustainable regional development and the creation of necessary conditions for lasting peace in our region. Ecopeace has offices in Amman, Bethlehem, and Tel-Aviv. Ecopeace is an affiliate of Friends of the Earth International, the largest grassroots environmental organization in the world.

history
Originally founded as "EcoPeace" on December 7, 1994 at an historic meeting held in Taba, Egypt, FoEME came about as environmental non-governmental organizations from the Middle East met with the common goal of furthering sustainable development and peace in their region. For the first time ever, Egyptian, Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmentalists agreed to join forces in an effort to promote the integration of environmental considerations into the regional development agenda.

rationale
The people and wildlife of our region are dependent on many of the same natural resources. Shared surface and sub-surface freshwater basins, shared seas, common flora and fauna species and a shared air-shed are some of the characteristics that necessitate regional cooperation. The Jordan River Basin, a major source of freshwater in a water scarce region, the Gulf of Aqaba, a highly sensitive eco-system giving life to arguably the world's most beautiful coral reef, and the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth and the world's saltiest non-shallow body of water, are all examples of unique shared eco-systems in the region which necessitate regional cooperation if they are to be preserved.

Contact Mineral Policy Institute:

PO Box 6043
Girrawheen
WA 6064
Australia

tel: +61 (0)8 9343 0151
mob: +61 (0)450 901 714
email: charles.roche[at]mpi.org.au
web: http://mpi.org.au/

The Mineral Policy Institute works to ensure that mining projects in the Asia-Pacific comply with the principles of ecological sustainability and social justice, prevent undesirable mining projects which threaten environments, social welfare and human rights, and promote mineral use efficiency and reduced resource consumption to limit the number and impact of mining projects.

The MPI undertakes research and advocacy for better social and environmental practice in the minerals industry, and for mineral use efficiency and conservation. MPI uniquely specializes in monitoring and campaigning on the extensive environmental and social impacts of the minerals industry in the Asia-Pacific region. The Mineral Policy Institute also monitors the activities of Australian-based mining companies wherever they operate in the world.

The Peaceboat is a Japan-based organization seeking to establish a global network among people, grassroots movements and NGOs working on issues such as peace, human rights development and the environment. In the past 15 years it has chartered passenger ships to make 25 voyages and taken over 10,000 people to more than 80 ports.

Through personal exchange and co-operation with people in other countries, particularly in areas of conflict and former conflict, it works to increase mutual understanding and bridge the gap between peoples, countries and cultures. By inviting guests from all over the world to join the voyage and participate in conferences on board it offers a global perspective on events and issues.

Contact Rainforest Action Network:

Randall Hayes

221 Pine Street, Suite 500

San Francisco, Ca 94104

USA

phone: +1 415 3984404
fax: +1 415 3982732
email: rainforest@ran.org
web: http://www.ran.org/

The Rainforest Action Network works to protect tropical rainforests and the human rights of those living in and around those forests. It plays a key role in strengthening the worldwide rainforest conservation movement through supporting activists in tropical countries as well as organizing and mobilizing consumers and community action groups throughout the United States. RAN places an emphasis on grassroots education and action, with strong networking capabilities and a commitment to mobilizing citizen activists to respond rapidly and directly to the forces that threaten the rainforests

Contact World Information Service on energy (wise):

PO Box 59636,
1040 LC Amsterdam
Ketelhuisplein 43,
1054 RD, Amsterdam

The Netherlands

phone: +31 20 6126368 

fax: +31 20 6892179
email: wiseamster@antenna.nl
web: www.antenna.nl/wise/

The WISE network was set up in Amsterdam in 1978 at one of the first international meetings of the anti-nuclear movement. Since then, WISE has provided thousands of groups with independent, reliable and useful information. They co-operate with large environmental organizations but are particularly keen on working with small grassroots groups. Their mission is a world without nuclear energy. They initiate and are involved in campaigns but the main role of WISE Amsterdam is to serve other groups fighting against nukes.