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Earth Policy Institute
1350 Connecticut Avenue NW-Suite 403, Washington, DC 20036, USA
tel:1-202 496 9290 fax:1-202 496 9325
e-mail:epi@earth-policy.org
URL:http://www.earth-policy.org
Organizational Status: Independent NGO, founded in 2001.
Background/Scope: The purpose of the institute is to provide a vision of what an environmentally sustainable economy will look like, a roadmap of how to get from here to there and an ongoing assessment of this effort-where progress is being made and where it is not.
Areas of Research: Natural resources, biological, agricultural and physical sciences, energy, population, health, gender, education, materials use/consumption, forestry, biodiversity, climate change.
Geographic Focus: International.
Funding Sources: Foundations (60%), private donations (15%), honoraria (15%), sales of publications (10%). Does not accept contract research. Budget (2001): USD 1,200 million.
Staff: 6 ( 2 male, 4 female ), including 3 research and 3 administrative.
Executive Officers:
Mr. BROWN Lester R. (President)
Ms. KAUFFMAN Reah-Janise (Vice President)
Chief Resrarchers:
Ms. LARSEN Janet L. (global environmental)
Research Findings: All accessible. Some recent titles include:
Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth; Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food Security; Wind Power; Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land (2001)
The Missing Link in the Bush Energy Plan; Dust Bowl Threatening China's Future; Falling Water Tables in China (2000)
World Kicking the Cigarette Habit (2000)
World Kicking the Cigarette Habit (2000)
US Farmers Double Cropping Corn and Wind Energy (2000)
Population Growth and Hydrological Poverty (2000)
HIV Epidemic Undermining Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa (2000)
The Rise and Fall of the Global Climate Coalition (2000)
Climate Change Has World Skating on Thin Ice (2000)
OPEC Has World Over a Barrel Again (2000)
Fish Farming May Soon Overtake Cattle Ranching as a Food Source (2000)
HIV Epidemic Restructuring Africa's Population (2000)
Periodicals:
NIRA Update: May 2002
Earth Policy Alerts (English/Japanese/others, online)
Eco-Economy Updates (English/Japanese/others, online)
Eco-Economy Successes and Failures (English, online)
Eco-Economy Indicators (English, online)