"Soft energy Europe", an NGO newsletter on renewable energy and sustainable energy planning, published by OVE (Danish Organization for Renewable Energy. Since 1975, OVE has worked for renewable energy in Denmark and has been deeply involved in the Danish development of windpower, solar systems and other kinds of renewable energy. Since then, they have expanded the aims of their work to further renewable energy and energy savings, development of energy plans for a sustainable future and to make energy questions into questions of public concern worldwide. Their Number 2 issue (March 1991) includes a directory of Energy Contacts in Europe, a list of about 300 East, West and Central European organizations working with renewable energy, conservation, etc., including address, phone and fax number, contact person and a short description. Contact: OVE, Willemoesgade 14, 2100 Copenhagen 0, Denmark, tel: +45- 3142 9091, fax: +45-3135 6545.
"Renewable energy for development", a newsletter of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), is distributed free of charge. SEI is an international research organization with offices in Stockholm, Sweden; Boston, Massachusetts, US; and York, England. The main themes of activities are presently global energy futures, climate change, biotechnology in agriculture and food security, and environmental ethics and economics. A major com-ponent of SEI's energy program is related to energy utilization and technologies in the Third World. Source and contact: SEI, Box 2142, S-103 14 Stockholm, Sweden, tel: +46-8-723 02 60, fax: +46-8-723 03 48.
Events Calendar
PAST...
March 27-29: Commemoration of the 12th Anniversary of the Three Mile Island Accident, CzechoSlovakia. Activities organized around the anniversary of the 1979 accident in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA by the Rainbow Movement together with Children of the Earth in four cities (Prague, Brno, Ceske Budejovice and Olomouc) to protest against nuclear waste dumping as well as nuclear energy in general, and to remind people that Chernobyl was not an exception. Actions included poster displays and signature campaigns. Contact: Rainbow Movement, do Jan V. Beranek, Vymazalova 19, 615 00 Brno, Czechoslovakia. Children of the Earth, P.O. Box 70, 161 00 Praha 6, Czechoslovakia.
...and FUTURE
April 22-27: "Chernobyl Week" will be observed throughout the Ukraine. Organized by Zeleny Swit (Green World), the Foundation for Help to Victims of Environmental Disasters, the Kiev City Executive Committee, Green Help, the Ukrainian Red Cross Society arid the "Art-Press" Show Company. The program includes a roundtable discussion on "European Future and Environmental Problems of the Present" with the participation of politicians, parliamentarians, scientists, and representatives of public and non-governmental organizations; an Exhibition of Chernobyl Children's Art; a benefit concert; and an international conference on renewable energy titled: "Solar Energetics: European experience and the Ukraine". The aims of the conference are to organize collaboration on the use of clean energy systems and spread the information on renewable energy, energy efficient measures and technology. Also included will be a visit to the 30 km zone and Chernobyl nuclear plant and the opportunity to speak to current personnel (almost all are new, having replaced the workers new, having replaced the workers from the time of the accident). For more information and the necessary invitation to get a visa, contact: Sergey Kurykin, Zeleny Swit, ul. Kirov 5a, 252021 Kieve, Ukraine, fax: 7044 228 6992 (Zeleny Swit).
April 26-29: "Conference for a Nuclear Free 1990s", Washington, DC, USA. To stimulate the creation of a national grassroots safe energy strategy for the US. Sponsors are the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), Safe Energy Communication Council (SECC), and Greenpeace. Speakers include Lois Gibbs, Ralph Nadar, Amory Lovins, and Robert Pollard, to name a few. Workshops will be held on such issues as radioactive waste, weapons proliferation, reactors in space, the global reactor industry, renewable energy and efficiency, the media, and much more. The pro-gram also includes a Chernobyl Commemoration Ceremony, plenary sessions, a ceremony to honor past achievements, sustainable living exhibits and presentations, and Monday, 29 April, includes Lobby Day and a press conference. American Airlines is the official carrier for the conference. Phone 1-800-433-1790 and give the conventions order file number: S11417V. Amtrak is offering limited discount train fares. Phone 1-800-USA-RAIL. Amtrak's convention fare order file number is X-464-451. Conference participants must pay for their own meals. Registration cost: US$45 (student/senior fee: $25; limited scholarships available). Discount rates available at the Hyatt Regency hotel. Call 1-800-228-9000 and identify yourself as a Conference participant. Contact: NIRS, 1424 16th St. NW, Suite 601, Washington, DC, 20036, USA, tel: (202) 328-0002.
April 26-28: "Nuclear Activity in the North Eastern Coast of the Pacific", Canada. Sponsored by the North Coast Tribal Council, Contact: Micheal NicoIl Yahgulanaas, Box 189, Massett, Haida Gwaii, Canada VOT 1MO.
April 27-28: International Meeting on Nuclear Energy and March to the Temelin Nuclear Station in Czechoslovakia. Activists from Austria, Germany and Poland will meet with Czech and Slovakian activists at a site near the Temelin reactors. Following a visit to an exhibition on alternatives to nu-clear power, they will march to the Temelin reactors where a protest against nuclear power will be held. Contact: See March 27 entry.
April 27: "Chernobyl Five Years Later: the Medical Consequences", Rhenen, Netherlands. A congress organized by the Dutch Organization of Medical Polemology (Physicians Against Nuclear Weapons). Contact: Ad van Rijckevorsel, N,VMP, +31- 080 515902.
May 13-17: Conference on Energy and Ecology, Riga, Latvia. Contact: Latvian Energetic Society, Sverdlova Str. 12, 226810 Riga, Latvia, USSR, tel: 328309 or 328308.
June 14-17: "Energy in Central and Eastern Europe: Nuclear Power and Energy Efficiency - Two Options" Celakovice (near Prague), Czecho-Slovakia. A 4-day international conference for 100 environmentalists from the central and eastern European countries and from western countries involved in the energy policies of Central and Eastern Europe. Organizers include: Brontosaurus (Prague); European Coordination Friends of the Earth/CEAT (Brussels/Bratislava); Greenway (Bratislava); Milieukontakt (Amsterdam); Panos Hungary (Budapest); The Ecologist (Dorset); Greenpeace International (Amsterdam). Contact: John Hontelez, Minister Elandstraat 27, 6523 CS Nijmegen, Netherlands, tel: +31-80 236512, fax: +31-80 604361.
June 23-28: Baltics-91, Leningrad, USSR. Sponsored by the Leningrad Green Party to bring together representatives of the Green movement, ecological organizations, individuals, and parliamentarians concerned about the fate of the Baltic region. In addition to the conference session, participants will be offered a social program including a visits to the notorious Leningrad dam, polluting industrial enterprises, and some nature monuments. If you would like to deliver a report or give a short oral presentation, please send the title and, if you wish to have it published with the conference materials, send a typed abstract of up to three pages. The working language at the conference will be English. Accommodations and meals are free for visitors from Eastern European countries and for those who have financial problems, but as we have small incomes we are asking for a fee equivalent to 20-40 Finnish Marks per day (covering accommodation and meals). Before April, please confirm your participation and send information for visas (full name, birthdate, home address, workplace and position, and the city with the Soviet consulate or embassy where you intend to get your visa). Since letters take three months to get here, we ask you to use telegraph or telephone. Contact: Green Party, 198013, Leningrad, Box 146, USSR; telephone (812)292 5779 from 9-10 AM, (812)312 4408 from 7-8 PM, Monday; Telex 121345 ECOLOGIA for BLOKOV.
August 18-24: Seminar on Energy for NGOs. Contacts: OVE, Wil-lemoesgade 14, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark, tel: +45-3142 9091, fax: +45-3135 6545. 5 April 1991
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