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NEW YORK (April 20, 2005) – Mikhail Gorbachev, Ted Turner and Jane Goodall held a press conference today to discuss global peace, nuclear weapons and sustainable development. Oddly enough (or within its usual populist context), most questions from the media focused on off-topic, non-issues such the long-term friendship between Messrs. Gorbachev and Turner, and their [...] |
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Quiet Moments at the UN CSD |
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NEW YORK (April 20, 2005) – I ran into Ron Sawyer in the hallway near the UN’s mini-cafe in the lower hallways outside the General Assembly. Ron runs EcoSan in Tepotzlan, Mexico. Our Wilson Center water working group spent two days on the ground viewing his “dry sanitation” project, an innovative approach to improving the [...] |
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