Why
This Compilation?
In The
Little Green Handbook, I discuss seven groups of critical global trends,
which threaten our future and the future of our children. We have to
find solutions to all of them or at least to as many as we can manage.
Many individuals, groups,
and organisations work on solutions to environmental and social problems. However,
it appears that they work in virtual isolation with little or no communication
between them, and that not many people see what they do. This directory, arranged
under the same headings as used in The Little Green Handbook, might
help in seeing global efforts in a more clear perspective.
The
focus of this compilation is on practical solutions.
Included are:
- Links to people offering
or using practical solutions
- Links to people discussing
and proposing practical solutions
- Links to outstanding
research aimed at finding practical solutions
The aim of this directory
is to show that we have expertise, technology, and good will to solve critical
problems. The aim is also to make these individuals and organisations visible,
and to create a better support for them.
| Solutions
to
Population
Explosion |
Controlling
population growth. |
| Solutions
to
Diminishing
Land Resources |
Includes
solutions to the loss of productive land areas, deforestation, food production,
and loss of biodiversity. |
| Solutions
to
Diminishing
Water Resources |
Includes
surface and groundwater freshwater resources, their use and availability,
and water-related conflicts |
| Solutions
to
The
Destruction of the Atmosphere |
Includes
global warming and climate change as well as other forms of atmospheric
pollution including the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer. |
| Solutions
to
The
Approaching Energy Crisis |
Includes
fossil fuels and alternative sources of energy |
Solutions
to
Social
Decline |
Includes
such issues as income inequality, poverty, urbanisation, and human health. |
- Aids Action
- Global Health Watch
- International
Society of Doctors for the Environment -- Linking
human health and the environment. The society has branches in Albania,
Argentina,
Australia, Austria,
Belgium, Benin,
Brazil, Canada,
China, Croatia,
Denmark, Egypt,
France, Georgia,
Germany,
Greece, Hungary,
India, Indonesia,
Ireland, Italy,
Ivory Coast,
Kenya, Latvia,
Macedonia,
Madagascar,
Moldavia,
Montenegro,
The Netherlands,
New Zealand,
Nigeria, Poland,
Serbia, Slovenia,
South Korea, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey,
UK, Ukraine,
USA and Uzbekistan.
- Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR)
- -Population Services International
-- a nonprofit organisation based in Washington, D.C. that addresses the health
problems of low-income and vulnerable populations in 70 developing countries.
- -Program for Appropriate
Technologies in Health (PATH) -- PATH improves the health of people around
the world by advancing technologies, strengthening systems, and encouraging
healthy behaviour.
- ReliefWeb
- United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR)
- United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)
- -United Nations Population
Fund (UNFPA)
- UN Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- -US Agency for International
Development (USAID)
- -World Health Organization (WHO)
- -The
Global Equity Gauge Alliance -- Promotes equity within and between societies.
- -Global Health Watch
-- Promotes equitable health for all.
- -International Health Exchange -- Improves
health care in the South by recruiting, training and informing health professionals
- -MedSIN - Student-led
organisation that promotes action for humanitarian and global health issues
locally and internationally.
- -People’s Health
Movement - Promotes equitable development with comprehensive primary health
care.
- -Save
Children UK - Care for children worldwide.
- -WEMOS - Promotes health
in developing countries.
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| Solutions
to
Conflicts
and Increasing Killing Power |
Includes
military budgets, interstate and intrastate conflicts, weapons of mass destruction,
conventional weapons, and terrorism. |
General
-- Sites working on a Wide-Range Solutions |
Includes
military budgets, interstate and intrastate conflicts, weapons of mass destruction,
conventional weapons, and terrorism. |