With 142 member nations already signed on, the new International Renewable Energy Agency is promoting a fast, global transition to clean, safe, and renewable energy.

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES IN IRENA (137 nations)
http://www.irena.org/downloads/Foundconf/Signatory_States_20091006.pdf
COUNTRIES NOT YET SIGNATORY STATES OF IRENA, 11/09 (55 nations)

(Geneva, July 2009, 172pp)
Geneva, August 5, 2009. Tomorrow August 6 a whole range of actions will be organised around the world to mark the 64th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima by atomic weapons. For 64 years people from all walks of life in all parts of the planet have mobilised to bring about their [...]

By ALICE SLATER

The welcome news that US intelligence agencies have disavowed earlier reports that Iran was hell-bent on making nuclear weapons has given the world a breather. Rational people can now fortify the case against the Bush Administration’s plans to unilaterally and pre-emptively attack Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities.  It would be sheer folly to start [...]

In Memoriam…

Janet Bloomfield, 1953 – 2007 
In 2005, Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat asked, “Are we going to base our world on a culture of peace or on a culture of violence?” in his message to the 7th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. 
That message was carried by the Atomic Mirror, for which Janet [...]