An educational charity which aims to achieve the best cooperation between the natural, technological and human worlds, by testing, living with and displaying strategies and tools for doing this. There is an online tour of the Centre's 40 acre site near Machynlleth in mid-Wales, which has working examples of wind, water and solar power, energy conservation, environmentally sound buildings, organic growing and alternative sewage systems. Faces Challenges Report to US Congressional Committees reviewing the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. Concludes that unless there is sustained economic development the project will not have a lasting effect on relieving debt from developing countries. Discussion revolves around how this development may be achieved.
Countries cited include Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mauritania, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Includes publications and information about study groups and annual conference. Also considers issues of human and social development such as infant and maternal mortality rates, gender equality, and access to primary education. Contains information on current projects, links to other related resources and details of internships and volunteer opportunities. IISD's mission is to promote sustainable development in decision making internationally and within Canada, by contributing new knowledge and concepts, analysing policies, identifying and disseminating information about best practices, demonstrating how to measure progress, and building partnerships to amplify these messages. An organisation comprising 29 countries aiming to create a setting for governments to discuss and develop economic and social policy.