GJEP E-Newsletter Spring 2008
Global Justice Ecology Project’s E-Newsletter Spring 2008It has been a long and busy winter for the staff at Global Justice Ecology project. In this e-newsletter you will find some brief updates on our work from the last few months, to keep you up to date on the progress of our work.• GJEP Community Potluck: We organized our January community potluck with a presentation about our work at the UN Climate Convention. We showed a powerpoint ... posted: 04/28/2008 09:19:21 Read More |
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Download our 2006 Annual Report PDF
You can also view our 2006 accomplishments listed seperately on the Accomplishments page. GJEPannualreport_2006.pdf
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GJEP E-Newsletter Fall 2007
Global Justice Ecology Project's E-Newsletter Fall 2007• North American Stop GE Trees Strategy Retreat: In August GJEP hosted a national strategy retreat with members of the STOP Genetically Engineered Trees Campaign. Scientists and experts from the U.S. and Canada met to plan campaign strategies to ban the development and commercialization of genetically engineered trees. Members from the STOP GE Trees Campaign analyzed the latest information on the dangers of genetically engineered trees including contamination of ...posted: 10/18/2007 10:16:11 Read More |
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GJEP E-Newsletter Summer 2007
Global Justice Ecology Project's E-Newsletter Summer 2007Welcome to the bi-monthly email update from Global Justice Ecology Project. In this e-newsletter you will find some brief updates on our work from the last few months, to keep you up to date on the progress of our work. • USDA Approves 1st Flowering GE Tree (Eucalyptus): As published in the GJEP April-May E-Newsletter, we issued an urgent action alert against ArborGen's request for a USDA permit for a ...posted: 10/18/2007 10:09:08 Read More |
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GJEP E-Newsletter Spring 2007
Since Global Justice Ecology Project's last E-Newsletter we have been extremely busy. These short blurbs should paint the the picture.• Heartwood Annual Forest Council Keynote: Over Memorial Day weekend, GJEP Co-director Anne Petermann was the keynote presenter at the annual Forest Council of Heartwood, a network of forest protection organizations in the "heartland" of the U.S.--Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and Kentucky. Her talk was titled, "Zapatismo, the Art of Acting Locally to ...posted: 10/18/2007 10:09:55 Read More |
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GJEP E-Newsletter, April 6, 2007
E-Newsletter #1 April 6, 2007Updates from the Global Justice Ecology Project:* The cover (attached) of the April issue of Z Magazine was photographedby GJEP Co-Director Orin Langelle. He also has several photos on theinside accompanying an article by Norman Stockwell on the World SocialForum. The link is: http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Apr2007/stockwell0407.html* GJEP's other Co-Director, Anne Petermann, accepted an officialinvitation from Via Campesina to attend a meeting on eucalyptusplantations in Brazil this month. Anne will also represent Global ForestCoalition ... posted: 07/26/2007 04:06:10 Read More |
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From the Co-Directors: GJEP Accomplishments in 2006
The fiscal year 2006 of Global Justice Ecology Project was extremely eventful. Two things stand out in particular: we became the North American Focal Point of the Global Forest Coalition (based in Paraguay and The Netherlands, with Focal Points in regions all around the world); and World Rainforest Movement (based in Uruguay) agreed to become the Southern Hub of the STOP GE Trees Campaign.Both of these important affiliations enable us to ...posted: 07/24/2007 03:52:21 Read More |
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GJEP at the World Social Forum, January 2007
Global Justice Ecology Project at the World Social ForumNairobi, Kenya January 20-25, 2007Global Justice Ecology Project Co-director Orin Langelle traveled to the World Social Forum in Nairobi as part of a Global Forest Coalition delegation tasked with raising awareness about global warming and proposed false solutions to global warming (including GE trees) by highlighting their impacts on forests and indigenous peoples. Presentations with which GJEP was involved included:• "Environmental Justice or Environmental Markets 2: Biofuels, a ...posted: 07/24/2007 03:51:47 Read More |
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STOP GE Trees Campaign in 2006
STOP GE Trees Campaign AccomplishmentsActions Against ArborGen in the Southeast US The STOP GE Trees Campaign launched a major organizing drive in the Southeast US in September and October 2006. The Southeast US is a global hub for research and development (R&D) of genetically engineered trees. It is home to the headquarters of ArborGen, the world's leader in GE tree R&D, and there are hundreds of outdoor field trials ...posted: 07/24/2007 03:01:19 Read More |
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GE Trees Campaign International in 2006
Global Justice Ecology Project Becomes North American Focal Point of Global Forest Coalition In November of last year, Global Justice Ecology Project began negotiations with Global Forest Coalition regarding the formalization of the relationship between Global Justice Ecology Project and GFC. Through this meeting and a follow up meeting at the World Social Forum, Global Justice Ecology Project agreed to become the North American Focal Point for ...posted: 07/24/2007 03:00:45 Read More |
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Connections Program in 2006
Connecting the Dots Program AccomplishmentsCommunity PotlucksFrom April 2006 through March 2007 we organized seven monthly Hinesburg Community Potlucks. We now have close to 100 people from our local community on our potluck mailing list. The potlucks addressed numerous timely issues such as the growing movement of soldiers against war and the rising anti-war movement in Vermont; the campaign to shut down the School of the Americas in Fort Benning ...posted: 07/25/2007 08:38:22 Read More |
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