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[an error occurred while processing this directive] Civil society must participate in governance, Zarsky argues in Asian Development Bank report
Zarsky's Background Paper, commissioned by the Asian Development Bank and appended to the report, argues that a more hopeful environmental future lies in the ability of Asia's increasingly vocal and organized civil society to demand accountability from government and business. Sandy Buffett, Senior Program Officer, also contributed to the paper. Read the Background
Paper ... Cross-sector cooperation needed to solve DPRK energy problems, Savage argues Solving North Korea's energy problems will require concerted efforts by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), governments, and businesses, argued Timothy Savage, Nautilus Senior Program Officer for Northeast Asian Security, at the Third Annual NGO Conference on Humanitarian Aid to North Korea, held June 17-20 at Yongin, South Korea. Savage presented the Nautilus Institute's ongoing cooperative
engagement project with the DPRK on renewable energy as an example
of how small-scale NGO projects can help inform larger political and
humanitarian questions on the Korean Peninsula. France modernizing its nuclear forces, report says France is modernizing its nuclear forces across the board, according to a report co-authored by Nautilus Senior Program Officer Hans M. Kristensen. The report, published in the July-August 2001 issue of the Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists, shows that although the overall number
of nuclear warheads in the French arsenal has been reduced somewhat,
production is underway on a new long-range missile for strategic submarines,
a new air-launched cruise missile, and submarines and aircraft to deliver
the new weapons. US-Japan relations key to peace and security in Japan-US security arrangements remain indispensable to the security of Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, and the relationship is expected to widen, according to paper released by the Nautilus Institute on June 21, 2001. Satoshi Morimoto, Professor of International Development at Takusyoku University and former official in Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, examines the challenges and positive factors for maintaining peace and stability in East Asia, emphasizing the growing contributions of Japan's security role in the region. The paper was presented at the March 3-4, 2001 East Asia Regional Security
Futures Collaborative Workshop,
co-sponsored by the Nautilus Institute and the Center for American Studies at China's Fudan University.
The Greenville Foundation has awarded $20,000 to the Nautilus Institute for its renewable energy work in North Korea. Greenville's grant, awarded June 4, 2001, will support the installation of water-pumping windmills and ultraviolet water purification systems at Unhari village in the DPRK. The project, also funded by the W. Alton Jones Foundation, the Compton Foundation, and the Ploughshares Fund, will deepen and expand the delivery of renewable energy services to Unhari villagers. Chevron should allow independent review of Nigeria operations, report says
Drilling fields in the Caspian region. Courtesy NHI Chevron Corporation should open its Nigerian operations to independent assessors, according to a groundbreaking evaluation of the California-based oil corporation's performance on environment, human rights, and labor in the West African country. The report and another focusing on corporate accountability in the Caspian Sea region were released recently by the California Global Corporate Accountability Project, a joint undertaking between the Nautilus Institute's Globalization and Governance Program, the Natural Heritage Institute, and Human Rights Advocates. Based on interviews with government officials, affected local groups, and corporate representatives in the oil industry, the reports will become part of a global public policy publication to be released later in 2001. Chevron-Nigeria report... Caspian Sea report... Big nuclear powers have 19,000+ bombs, notes report Proliferating countries such as Iraq and North Korea receive the most attention in the public debate about weapons of mass destruction, but the world's existing nuclear powers maintain more than 19,000 operational nuclear weapons. That's one finding in an overview of the world's nuclear weapon arsenals in the latest edition of the Swedish International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Yearbook, released in Sweden on June 13, 2001. The overview, co-authored by Nautilus Institute Senior Program Officer Hans M. Kristensen with Joshua Handler of Princeton University, notes that all seven declared nuclear weapon states have nuclear weapon modernization and maintenance programs underway and appear committed to retaining such weapons for the foreseeable future. SIPRI
news release... Table:
19,000+ nuclear weapons... U.S.-China futures report featured in online journal
The report resulted from a two-year project involving all of the Nautilus Institute's programs. The project convened Chinese and American specialists from various fields to collaboratively examine the future of the U.S.-China relationship. Several important steps to improve ties between the two nations, such as environmental cooperation, were evaluated. Go to the report... Multilateralism with Asian characteristics key to peace and security in region, paper argues Multilateral security cooperation in East Asia -- the key to maintaining regional security -- should be established in line with the characteristics of the region not by copying systems or values from Western countries, according to a paper released by the Nautilus Institute on May 31, 2001. Xia Liping, General-Secretary and Professor at the Shanghai Institute for International Strategic Studies (SIISS), explores the principles necessary for establishing a unique form of multilateral security cooperation in East Asia emphasizing mutual respect, dialog, and gradual advancement. The paper was presented at the March 3-4, 2001 East Asia Regional Security
Futures Collaborative Workshop,
co-sponsored by the Nautilus Institute and the Center for American Studies at China's Fudan University. Ocean View students sail aboard Pegasus Two groups of students from Ocean View Elementary School (Albany, CA), accompanied by teacher Bridget Priest, completed a voyage aboard Pegasus on May 22, 2001. The voyage was organized with Pegasus Project partner Shorebird Nature Center. Thanks to all the captains and crew who pulled off these cruises. Great kids and teacher. Great sailing weather -- lots of wind!
Rockefeller awards grant to International Investment Rules Project The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded a two-year, $210,000 grant to the Globalization and Governance Program for its project on international investment rules. The project, which aims to develop
a framework for global capital flows based on investor social and environmental
responsibility, is a collaboration between the Nautilus Institute, the
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD),
the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA),
and Fundación
ECOS, Uruguay. It will research current international investment
regulation, transparency and disclosure, and the potential for individual
and community rights within investor/state dispute settlement mechanisms,
such as the World Bank's ICSID.
U.S. military dominated nuclear arms control priorities, new Nautilus report shows A new report published May 30, 2001 by the Nautilus Institute shows that the U.S. military had a predominant influence on the outcome of all major reviews of nuclear forces conducted by the former Bush and Clinton administrations in the 1990s. As a result, many of the principles that guided nuclear planning during the Cold War were continued, and now threaten to undercut the nuclear posture review underway in the new Bush administration. "It is striking to see in these documents just how much of STRATCOM's analysis and recommendations actually became national policy," said author Hans M. Kristensen. "This raises questions about how much the current administration's review will be able to change fundamental nuclear planning principles." The report, "The Matrix of Deterrence," is based on analysis of six force structure studies and briefings conducted between 1991 and 1996 by the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), the unified command with overall responsibility for maintaining U.S. nuclear war plans. The documents were partially declassified and released under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. Read the report... Concrete measures needed to ensure stability in Korean Peninsula, paper argues The inter-Korean summit in June 2000 revived contact between the two countries, but failed to resolve security problems in the Korean Peninsula, according to paper released by the Nautilus Institute on May 31, 2001. A participant at the historic inter-Korean summit, Chung-in Moon, offers his unique perspective in this paper. Moon, Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies and Professor of Political Science at Yonsei University, argues that until the two Koreas are actively engaged in negotiations on security issues and the armistice treaty is transformed into a viable inter-Korean peace treaty, the Peninsula will likely continue to face insecurity. The paper was presented at the March 3-4, 2001 East Asia Regional Security
Futures Collaborative Workshop,
co-sponsored by the Nautilus Institute and the Center for American Studies at China's Fudan University. Pegasus places third in Master Mariners' Regatta A crew of eleven plus three passengers sailed Pegasus to a third-place finish in the annual Master Mariners' Regatta May 26, 2001. The crew were: Paul Kassatkin; Paul Marbury; Christine Albertsen; Peter Hayes; Chris Zekos; Morgan Ashton; Ken Stehr; Inka Petersen; Otis Finley; Tom Jeremiason; and Jim Gaebe. "Overall," said Captain Hayes, "we have never sailed such a fine race. The crew team\work was seamless; the helming was great; the tactical navigation was spot-on; the weather was perfect." Pegasus came in five-and-a-half minutes behind Moise Estelle, the winner of the Marconi 1 Division. Many obstacles to connecting NE Asian electric grids, experts say While Europe has successfully integrated much of its electric power grid, accomplishing the same in Northeast Asia is a formidable task, concluded a group of experts who attended a Nautilus Institute workshop in Beijing.
If the political, technical, and economic barriers can be overcome, regional grid interconnection could have enormous positive effects on the regional energy supply, security, and environment, according to experts from China, South Korea, North Korea, Russia, Japan, the United States, and Europe who attended the three-day seminar May 14-16, 2001. The gathering was hosted by the State Power International Service Company
and the Electric Power Research Institute of China. Participants agreed
that a working group should be constituted to implement the next steps.
The workshop was funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. Buffett calls on global financiers to require corporate social responsibility International financial institutions (IFIs) should integrate "corporate social responsibility" into their private-sector strategies, concluded Nautilus Senior Program Officer Sandy Buffett in a presentation to the US-Japan Forum May 22, 2001. Buffett asserted that environment, labor, and human rights standards should be required in a company's business model in order to gain access to IFI financing mechanisms. She challenged IFIs to convene strategic dialogs between their corporate clients and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in preparation for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. The Forum, hosted by the Interaction P3 Initiative and the East-West Center in Honolulu, brought together NGOs and IFIs to build US-Japan partnerships for sustainable development. Download Buffett's presentation [156K, requires Microsoft PowerPoint]
Changes evident in Bush security policy toward Northeast Asia, two papers argue The obvious shift in the Bush administration's security policy toward Northeast Asia from that of President Clinton means change for the region, according to two papers released by the Nautilus Institute May 25, 2001. Derek Mitchell, Senior Fellow of Asia Projects, International Security Program, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies argues that the Bush administration's less idealistic, more "results-oriented" approach will both benefit and challenge countries in Northeast Asia. Masahiro Matsumura, Professor of International Politics at St. Andrew's University in Osaka, Japan, asserts that the Bush administration will continue its troubled path with China and North Korea while strengthening the US-Japan alliance in order to preserve its dominance and leadership in the region. The papers were presented March 3-4, 2001 at the East Asia Regional
Security Futures Collaborative Workshop,
co-sponsored by the Nautilus Institute and the Center for American Studies at China's Fudan University. National Missile Defense offers little protection to U.S., Jane Wales writes
In an op-ed article originally published in the San Jose Mercury News on May 6, 2001, Wales cautions that U.S. President George W. Bush's call for scrapping the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty in order to pursue unproven missile-defense technologies might inadvertently do exactly what he's trying to avoid -- make the United States less safe. Ballistic missile defense can destabilize Northeast Asia, two papers argue Plans for ballistic missile defense systems led by the U.S., whether Theater (TMD) or National Missile Defense (NMD), can cause instability in the East Asian region, according to two papers released May 18, 2001, by the Nautilus Institute. Alexander Pikayev, a Scholar-in-Residence and Co-Chair of the Non-Proliferation Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, examines the rationale behind U.S. commitments to missile defense and implications for individual countries as well as the security of the region. Hideshi Takesada, Professor of the National Institute for Defense Studies in Japan, explores the meaning of missile defense for Japan's strategic future and its impact on Japan's relationship with other countries in the region. The papers were presented March 3-4, 2001 at the East Asia
Regional Security
Futures Collaborative
Workshop, co-sponsored by the Nautilus Institute and the Center for American Studies at China's Fudan
University.
Proliferation threat not really growing, Graham says Contrary to conventional wisdom, the threat of proliferating weapons of mass destruction is not growing and may in fact be shrinking, Tom Graham argued at a Nautilus brown-bag luncheon May 7, 2001. Graham previously worked at the Rockefeller
Foundation and the U.S.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (now part of
the State Dept.). Corporate
accountability benchmarks needed, Corporations need to incorporate ethics into their investment strategies and set both substantive and procedural benchmarks for their human rights and environmental performance, Lyuba Zarsky, Director of the Nautilus Institute's Globalization and Governance Program, stressed in her opening address to a forum at the University of Washington May 5, 2001. Also in attendance were: Christina Fink, author of Living Silence: Burma Under Military Rule and Mike Thacher, General Manager of Public Relations and Communications at Unocal. "The
New World of Corporate Accountability: The Case of UNOCAL
in Burma"
was organized by the Global Source Network. Co-sponsors included the
Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of
Washington and
the Center for Human Rights and Justice. Bush Administration could achieve breakthrough with North Korea, Hayes says in NPR interview The Bush Administration may be able to break through in relations with the DPRK in ways the preceding Clinton Administration could not, Nautilus Executive Director Peter Hayes suggested in an interview on National Public Radio's Morning Edition May 8, 2001. A Bush Administration pursuing National Missile Defense against China would be able to stave off domestic attacks from the Republican right on dealing with the DPRK, Hayes said. This would require the United States to promote Japan to take the lead on bringing about DRPK economic recovery and stabilizing the Korean Peninsula and the US-ROK alliance. To do otherwise, Hayes suggested, would cede leadership
over the Korea
issue to China. Prospects for peace and security in the Korean Peninsula are positive, two papers argue The historic inter-Korean summit last June has opened an unprecedented opportunity for long-term peace, but this promise can be achieved only with the cooperation of other nations in the region and the world, according to two papers released May 11, 2001, by the Nautilus Institute. Chung Oknim, a fellow at the Sejong Institute in Seoul, advocates establishment of a multilateral security regime involving all the countries of the region, de-emphasizing the dominant role of the United States. Jin Guangyao, Professor of History and Deputy Director of Center for Korean Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, urges the United States to seize this opportunity to resolve the missile issue with North Korea, as this issue will be decisive in determining the future of the region. The papers were presented March 3-4, 2001 at the East Asia Regional
Security Futures Collaborative
Workshop, co-sponsored by the Nautilus Institute and
the Center
for American Studies at China's Fudan University. Nautilus awarded New Voices Fellowship The Nautilus Institute's Globalization and Governance Program has been awarded a New Voices Fellowship grant by the Academy for Educational Development (AED). In a joint effort, Nautilus and the Fellow, Christine Ahn, were selected for one of fifteen fellowships out of nearly 300 applicants. Christine will work on the programs related to promoting ethics in
global market governance, and will be mentored by Globalization and
Governance Program Director Lyuba Zarsky.
Hayes: EU should expand economic cooperation with North Korea The European Union (EU) delegation in Pyongyang, headed by the Swedish Prime Minister, should expand the role of European private non-governmental agencies (for-profit and non-profit) in the DPRK, Nautilus Executive Director Peter Hayes told Swedish Radio's Godmorgon, Världen! (Good Morning World!) in an interview broadcast April 29, 2001. Kirsten Broftrand interviewed Peter on prospects for peace
in the DPRK.
He suggested that the EU offer training for DPRK managers
and policymakers,
with a focus on small- and medium-scale enterprise in the DPRK, which
can enhance flexibility and accelerate change in its ailing economy.
East Timor crisis shows regional security shortcomings, Nautilus analysts say The 1999 crisis in East Timor revealed the inadequacy of existing Asia-Pacific security arrangements to cope with regional crises, and highlighted the increasing importance of the relationship of international security and human rights in the post-Cold War world. Wade Huntley, Director of the Global Peace and Security Program, and Peter Hayes, Executive Director, offer this conclusion in a recently published book chapter, "East Timor and Asian Security." The chapter appears in Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia, and the World Community, published by Rowman & Littlefield. The chapter first appeared in the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. Go to East Timor
Special Reports ... U.S.-China relations can benefit from careful management, two papers argue Progress is possible if U.S.-China relations are carefully managed in the face of mounting difficulties, according to two papers released May 4, 2001 by the Nautilus Institute. Chu Shulong, senior fellow at China Institute of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing, warns against growing misunderstanding and miscalculation in both Washington and Beijing, and urges greater commitment to a more cooperative relationship. Bonnie Glaser, a consultant to the U.S. Defense and State Departments, defines the principal challenges in Sino-American relations with the advent of the new Bush administration and offers an agenda for potential progress in the coming year. The papers were presented March 3-4, 2001 at the East Asia Regional
Security Futures Collaborative
Workshop, co-sponsored by the Nautilus Institute and
the Center
for American Studies at China's Fudan University. Partners tackle international investment rules An innovative research agenda was developed at the first Partners Meeting of the International Sustainable Development Investment Rules Project, hosted by the Nautilus Globalization & Governance Program in Berkeley April 22-25, 2001. The Project aims to develop a framework to govern global capital flows based on investor social and environmental responsibility. The Partners also created a list of potential advisors from nongovernmental organizations, business, and government. They will meet again in November 2001. The Investment Rules Project is a collaboration between the Nautilus Institute, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), and Fundación ECOS, Uruguay. The Project is supported in part by the Wallace Global Fund. Article co-authored by Kristensen sparks Belgian debate on nuclear weapons Belgian parliamentarians on April 12, 2001 pledged to begin debate on phasing out nuclear weapons in their country, according to an article in the daily De Morgen. Belgian interest was sparked by a Nuclear Notebook article co-authored by Nautilus program officer Hans M. Kristensen. The article reported in March, 2001 that the U.S. Air Force plans to keep nuclear weapon storage sites in Belgium and eight other NATO countries until at least 2018. The information was uncovered in a document
[2.3MB, requires Acrobat Reader] obtained
under the U.S.
Freedom
of Information Act. Nautilus adopts living income for employees Nautilus proudly announces that it has made a commitment to providing its employees a "living income." Sandy Buffett, chair of the Institute's Organizational Development Team, unveiled the plan April 27, 2001. It reflects the values of the Institute by establishing a housing benefit for employees whose base pay falls below the living income. "The Institute will utilize an annually updated cost-of-housing index to set a minimum entry-level salary, this year starting at $33,360," she said. "This policy recognizes the high cost of living in the San Francisco
Bay Area," she added. "Nautilus believes that its employees are its
most important resource, and owes its success to everyone who works
as part of the Nautilus Team." Newly released papers discuss U.S., Chinese views of East Asian security Two papers released April 27, 2001 by the Nautilus Institute convey current Chinese and U.S. views on East Asian regional security and missile-defense implications. Zhu Chenghu (Institute for Strategic Studies, PRC National Defense University) discusses positive and negative factors in recent trends and emphasizes the future need for regional collective security mechanisms. David Finkelstein (Center for Naval Analysis) discusses U.S. rationales for deploying theater missile defenses in East Asia, and offers responses to concerns often voiced by Chinese representatives. Both papers were presented at the East Asia Regional
Security Futures
Collaborative Workshop
co-sponsored by the Nautilus Institute and the Center for
American Studies
at China's Fudan University March 3-4, 2001. All workshop papers are
being distributed through the Nuclear Policy
Project network. Schurmann: U.S. policy on China won't change drastically Despite incidents like the recent spy-plane collision, U.S. policy toward China will continue to be guided by past policy, interests, and threats. Schurmann also said that the real threat to U.S. interests comes not from China, but from a re-emerging Russia. Schurmann's recently wrote "Intricate Mix of Forces Shapes U.S.-China
Policy," published on
the PNS Web site and as a Special
Report of the Nautilus Northeast Asia Peace and Security
Network. Two more East Asian Regional Security papers released The Nautilus Institute Peace and Security Program on April 20, 2001 released two new papers examining the implications of missile defenses in Asia and practical steps to possible nuclear disarmament. U.S. Ballistic Missile Defenses: Implications for Asia by Brad Roberts, and Practical Steps for Nuclear Disarmament by Mitsuru Kurosawa, were presented March 3-4, 2001 at the East Asia Regional Security Futures Collaborative Workshop co-sponsored by Nautilus and the Center for American Studies at China's Fudan University. Go to the workshop papers
...
Navy cites research co-authored by Nautilus's Kristensen The latest review of U.S. strategic nuclear forces in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings references nuclear weapons research co-authored by Nautilus Security Program Officer Hans M. Kristensen. The review is written by Norman Polmar, an esteemed naval expert and author of The Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet. Polmar references the Nuclear
Notebook on U.S. nuclear forces in the March 2001 issue
of the Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists, which Kristensen co-authored
with Robert
Norris and William Arkin of the Natural
Resources Defense Council and Joshua
Handler of Princeton
University.
New East Asian Regional Security
papers released Two papers just released by the Nautilus Institute examine current Chinese and Russian views on arms control and disarmament. Russia's Nonproliferation Policy and the Situation in East Asia by Vladimir Orlov and U.S. BMD Program Under Bush Administration by Zhu Mingquan were presented March 3-4, 2001 at the East Asia Regional Security Futures Collaborative Workshop co-sponsored by the Nautilus Institute and the Center for American Studies at China's Fudan University. Additional papers by Japanese, South Korean, US, and other Chinese and Russian participants will be distributed by the Nuclear Policy Project in the coming weeks, addressing issues such as US-China relations, missile defense, and implications of the new Bush administration. Go to the workshop
papers ...
Hayes
urges Canadians to engage North Korea Hayes attended a workshop sponsored by the Canadian
North-South Institute on "The DPRK: Where From? Where
To?" in Ottawa
on April 9-10. He also attended a "DPRK Relations
Roundtable" convened
by Joseph Caron, Assistant Deputy Minister (Asia Pacific and Africa)
of the Canadian
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
Buffet discusses "Precautionary Principle" in
international investment
Globalization and Governance Program Officer Sandy Buffett discussed ways to bring the "Precautionary Principle" into new international investment regimes at the CERES 2001 conference, "What is Global Citizenship?" in Atlanta April 5-6, 2001. The Precautionary Principle states, "Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation." CERES, the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, comprises environmental, investor, and advocacy groups working for a sustainable future. The CERES Principles are a well-known ten-point code of environmental conduct for corporations. Buffet recently joined the subcommittee on financial services of the
CERES-affiliated Global
Reporting Initiative (GRI). GRI and CERES are significant tools
for promoting global corporate social
responsibility
through disclosure of environmental information and
engagement of stakeholders.
Hayes spells out how to cooperate with DPRK on energy Nautilus Executive Director Peter Hayes outlined an agenda for cooperative engagement of the DPRK on energy at an "Experts' Discussion on the North Korea Issue" convened by the Preventive Defense Project on March 30, 2001. At the discussion, held at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, Peter suggested that instead of providing heavy fuel oil, the United States might deliver useful assistance in refurbishing coal-fired power plants, coal mines, energy efficiency, renewable energy, meeting rural energy needs, and introducing independent power producing companies to open up export-oriented mines that currently lack electric power. He also discussed the Nautilus Institute's US-DPRK Village Wind Power Project. The meeting was convened by former Defense Secretary William Perry
and Harvard Professor Ash Carter, and was attended by about 50 senior
American policymakers. Zarsky: U.S., Asian companies should adopt environmentally responsible policies U.S. and Asian companies should adopt "environmentally responsible" management tools and investment critieria to promote a "clean revolution" in Asia, Lyuba Zarsky, Director of the Globalization and Governance Program, said in a U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership Roundtable presentation on April 4, 2001. The Roundtable was to help design a study on investment and environment in Asia. The study will focus on the electronics, food processing, and chemical industries in Taiwan and the Philippines. Nautilus welcomes Joan Diamond as COO 
 The Nautilus Institute welcomes Joan
Diamond, AB Honors, MBA as Chief Operating Officer. Joan brings over
20 years' experience as an executive in the electric utility,
telecommunications,
and software industries. Her expertise is in building systems in organizations
experiencing rapid growth or other major changes.
With over 15 years of experience as a Trustee and Board member of nonprofit organizations, Joan brings both perspective and hands-on discipline to our operations in areas including finance, human resources, organization strategy, and administration. Joan joined the Institute on April 2, 2001. Pegasus completes rescue training voyage, two school sails On April 3, two groups of students from City of Franklin Elementary School accompanied by teacher Rita Franklin completed a voyage aboard Pegasus. This was followed by another voyage on April 5 of students from Marin Elementary School. Both voyages were organized with Pegasus Project partner Shorebird Nature Center. Thanks to all the captains and crew who pulled off these two cruises (photo #1 below). Great kids and teachers. Great weather -- not enough wind! On March 31 (photo #2 below), in a strong westerly wind, the Pegasus crew completed training on person-overboard recovery. Crew members retrieved the adult-size mannequin known as "Bob" from overboard. They also completed maneuvers designed to bring the vessel back to a person in the water. The training is to increase safety in voyages conducted with students and youth. [an error occurred while processing this directive]
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"No
single initiative is of greater importance than that of strengthening
the participation of civil society in environmental governance," claims
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