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	EcoLogic Development Fund
		EcoLogic is partnered with The Sarstoon-Temash Institute for Indigenous Management (SATIIM) in Belize, and the Foundation for Eco-Development (FUNDAECO) in Guatemala to conserve the Sartstoon Temash River and coral reefs in the Amatique Bay, part of the Caribbean Sea.
		In Mexico EcoLogic and The Consejo Regional de la Sierra Guerro (CRESIG) are striving to reforest upland watersheds of the Filo Mayor in Guerro.
		EcoLogic has helped to strengthen communities' commitments to preserving their environments and instilled a new sense of value and opportunity with regards to conservation.
	www.ecologic.org /subpage.asp?P=approach&S=priorities (951 words)

	EcoLogic Finance
		Based in Cambridge, Mass., EcoLogic Finance’s mission is to provide affordable financial services to small- and medium-sized businesses operating in environmentally sensitive areas of the developing world, whose activities foster environmental conservation and grassroots economic development.
		EcoLogic Finance is one of 13 organizations receiving $7.3 million from the Skoll Foundation through an open competitive process that identifies social entrepreneurs who have piloted innovative programs and are ready to take the next steps toward systemic social change.
		The Skoll Foundation’s mission is to advance systemic change benefiting communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs, who are individuals dedicated to creating new solutions that result in lasting improvements to complex social problems.
	www.ecologicfinance.org /press_Skoll.html (669 words)

	Ecologic Transatlantic Fellowship
		The Ecologic Transatlantic Fellowship Program is intended for professionals working with similar institutes, with foundations or in academia in the US or Canada who wish to spend a period of time at Ecologic.
		Choony Kim, a native South Korean, is an Ecologic Transatlantic Fellow for the summer of 2006.
		Prior to her work at Ecologic she served as the Stream Restoration Manager of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and provided technical assistance to municipalities in the greater Philadelphia area on stream restoration and land management practices.
	www.ecologic.de /themen/transatlantic/fellowship.htm (950 words)

	Fair-Trade Coffee Boost: Calvert Foundation Distributes Starbucks Investment Aiding Nearly 25,000 Latin American Coffee ...
		Today, Calvert Foundation announced that, based on the success of the first and second round of investments, it is recycling another $650,000 in new investments in Fair Trade coffee cooperatives.
		The new third round of financing will enable Calvert Foundation to further extend the impact of the capital initially provided by Starbucks, using repaid funds from the first and second rounds to provide financing for coffee-producing cooperatives in Peru and bringing the total amount of recycled financing so far to $2.7 million.
		ABOUT CALVERT FOUNDATION The Calvert Foundation (http://www.CalvertFoundation.org) is an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that uses the power of investment to revitalize poor communities, reverse inequality and create hope and opportunity where it's most needed.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-21-2005/0003928227&EDATE= (1531 words)

	Farm To Table: A Project of Earth Pledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		While loans Starbucks previously made to EcoLogic Finance provided funds entirely for coffee farmers, $500,000 of the additional funding is earmarked for cocoa farmers, as they experience many of the same economic, environmental and social issues faced by coffee growers.
		EcoLogic Finance provides low-interest loans and financial training to help struggling farming communities in the developing world maintain their livelihoods in environmentally sustainable ways.
		Other EcoLogic Finance investors and funders include the Citigroup Foundation, the Flora Family Foundation, the Global Development Alliance of USAID, the Goldman Sachs Foundation, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, the Packard Foundation, and the Skoll Foundation.
	www.farmtotable.org /?cmd=F2TNews&method=view&id=287 (797 words)

	___// Partners for the Common Good \\___
		EcoLogic Finance, a nonprofit bank, announced today that Fast Company magazine and Monitor Group selected it as one of two "rising stars" in their 2006 Social Capitalist Award Competition.
		EcoLogic Finance was born from the idea that the greatest threat to the environment is massive human poverty.
		In the countries in which it operates, EcoLogic Finance is one of the only nonprofit development organizations with the financial strength, cultural expertise and on-the-ground relationships to effectively bridge the rural financing gap.
	www.pcgloanfund.org /main.cfm?page=100 (1136 words)

	Citigroup Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Ecologic Finance supports enterprises that respect the environmental sensitivity of the location where they do business in sectors such as shade-grown and eco-friendly agriculture, wild-harvested products, certified wood, sustainable fisheries, and eco-tourism.
		To date, Ecologic Finance’s programs have helped more than 11,000 family farmers in nine Latin American countries address their financial needs while building businesses that are healthy and sustainable.
		Through this grant from the Citigroup Foundation, Ecologic Finance will be able to expand its successful lending activities in Brazil, Guatemala, and Peru; establish new operations in Colombia; and implement a pilot financial management-training program for Financial Capacity Building in Guatemala.
	www.citigroup.com /citigroup/corporate/foundation/ef_usla.htm (194 words)

	Ecologic - Institute for International and European Environmental Policy - History of Ecologic - Institute for ...
		In 1995, the IEUP in Bonn closed and Ecologic opened in Berlin, in parallel to the moving of the main seat of government after German unification in 1990.
		From the beginning, Ecologic was officially recognized as a non-profit entity and to be in the public interest.
		From 1995 to 1999, Ecologic supported and operated out of the Haus der Demokratie in the political heart of Berlin, a symbol of citizen’s peaceful resistance to the former East German regime and a melting pot for civil society organizations from East and West.
	www.ecologic.de /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1504 (569 words)

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		Founded in 1999, EcoLogic Finance (formerly EcoLogic Enterprise Ventures) is a nonprofit organization that operates as a "green" loan fund, offering affordable financing to eco-enterprises located in environmentally sensitive areas of Latin America and the Caribbean.
		Preference is given to businesses that are located in and around protected terrestrial, coastal and marine habitats and are unable to secure financing from conventional commercial sources due to their small size, lack of collateral and/or operating history.
		EcoLogic Finance restricts its lending to groups with established market linkages to international trading companies that are undertaking commercial pursuits for conservation purposes.
	www.vkrf.org /grant2D_2.html (226 words)

	Social Capitalists: Scojo Foundation
		Scojo Foundation uses market-based solutions to address this immense development problem, employing a scalable "microfranchise" model that provides a crucial public health service while generating income for people in the developing world.
		Scojo Foundation identifies, equips, and trains motivated people as "vision entrepreneurs" to conduct vision screenings in their communities, sell affordable reading glasses, and refer those requiring advanced eye care to reputable clinics.
		Scojo Foundation forms strategic Franchise Partnerships with organizations, both for-profit and not-for-profit, that share in its goals and principles and have an existing distribution infrastructure that can be leveraged to integrate Scojo's microfranchise model.
	fastcompany.com /social/2007/profiles/profile35.html (597 words)

	Sambazon News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		EcoLogic's repayment rate is 98 percent, in large part because it follows a strict lending model that requires borrowers to have an existing sales relationship with an international buyer like Sambazon.
		EcoLogic, whose backers include church groups and nonprofit organizations, as well as multinational corporations like the Starbucks Coffee Company, delivers the money against signed contracts with the importers.
		EcoLogic has been supporting the aÃ§aÃ co-ops in the Amazon since November 2003, when it lent Sambazon $175,000 for last season's harvest.
	www.sambazon.com /NewsStory.aspx?storyid=46 (1453 words)

	PARQUE ECOLOGICO CHIPINQUE - Administración - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In order to achieve the aforementioned, a Foundation was established by the State Government and private enterprises in the year 1992 in order to protect and preserve “forever and exclusively for preservation” one of the most important ecologic areas that the metropolitan area in Monterrey has.
		Chipinque Ecologic Park was a private property until 1989, year when Congress received a proposal for the expropriation project, being used as State Park until 1992.
		Under the suggestion of the State Government of Nuevo León and Private Enterprises, the Administrative Foundation was formalized establishing Parque Ecológico Chipinque A.C., which, within a legal and financial framework, guarantees viability in the future.
	www.chipinque.org.mx /webchipinque/ingles/admonc.htm (212 words)

	He Minenga Whakatu Hua o Te Ao
		In 2001/2002 the Foundation is reinvesting $596k pa aligned to the culture and governance objectives of the Mäori Development and Advancement SPO.
		The Foundation is not seeking responsiveness to Mäori in all proposals.
		The Foundation encourages end user participation to be clearly shown in every step of the execution of a research programme from inception to planning (including mechanisms for handling Mäori cultural property issues, and any intellectual property that is developed), implementation, monitoring, assessment, training and the delivery of benefits.
	www.otago.ac.nz /Zoology/hui/Main/Talks2/Kape.htm (3416 words)

	Archived Articles
		However, in urban watersheds the ecological benefits of riparian forest may be diminished and there may be a danger of wasting effort or unsuitable restoration techniques.
		EcoLogic restored the 1040 linear feet of stream that had problems such as areas with exposed, failing banks, beaver damage, and planform and cross sectional geometry instabilities.
		EcoLogic's Louise Slate is the Secretary of the Urban Stream Restoration Task Subcommittee of the River Restoration Committee in the Hydraulics and Waterways Council of EWRI and a member of the four person Planning and Steering Committee for the Symposium.
	www.ecologic-nc.com /archived-news.html (3636 words)

	Ecologic - Institute for International and European Environmental Policy
		Countdown 2010 is a pan-European initiative to halt the loss of biodiversity, hosted by the World Conservation Union (IUCN).Thus far, more than 100 European organisations from all sectors and levels working in one or more pan-European countries expressed and demonstrated their commitment to the 2010 biodiversity target.
		Ecologic contributes to the initiative’s objectives through its research and consultancy, encouraging policy decision makers to implement the 2010 targets and to take further steps to achieve these targets.
		In the framework of the project, Ecologic drew up a report on public interest litigation in Germany, which was subsequently presented at a workshop organised by the GTZ in Beijing in the fall of 2006.
	www.ecologic.de /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1415 (697 words)

	Ecologic » Home
		At Ecologic, we conduct research, consulting and advocacy on the management of natural resources to help find pathways to sustainable development.
		Our basic premise is that lasting solutions – sustainable solutions – to environmental challenges can only be found by working with people, including those who have different values and interests.
		Ecologic is the environmental group that believes economic development is important – we want New Zealand to do better.
	www.ecologic.org.nz (133 words)

	Costalegre Tomatlán Jalisco English
		The UNAM (Autonomous University of Mexico) biology unit and the Cuixmala Ecologic Foundation are located in a surface area of approximately 12,000 hectares.
		Besides the Cuixmala Ecologic Foundation there is a Biosphere reserve at Sierra de Manantlán, with a surface area of 159,577 hectares.
		An ecologic reserve that is unique in the state, where the goal is to preserve and highlight the beauty of miles of unequaled nature while protecting endangered species, is part of what we will find at La Huerta.
	www.tomatlan.com /costalegreenglish.html (3741 words)

	Ecologic Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ecologic Foundation is based in Nelson, New Zealand.
		The Foundation has its origins in the 1975 Beech Forest Action Council, then the Native Forest Action Council, and the Maruia Society.
		The group describes itself as a think tank and advertises themselves as ‘responsible’ environmentalists, but their market oriented policies are politically far to the right of the mainstream of environmental groups in New Zealand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ecologic_Foundation (154 words)

	"Rachel Carson Leadership Award goes to Theo Colborn"
		Instead we have taken their work, analysed it, repackaged it, and presented it from a global perspective.
		And now as we face the realization that not only pesticides but plastics and plastic components, the foundation of our econonmy and modern society, may be threatening our future, we can no longer ignore the problem.
		A well coordinated entity must be establish immediately that is dedicated to long-term research and is solely devoid of political and economic control.
	www.ecologic-ipm.com /rtct_2.html (1524 words)

	Calvert Foundation Fair-Trade Coffee Investment Nears $5 Million in Loans to 30,000 Coffee Growers in Central, South ...
		Today, Calvert Foundation's pipeline of loans to coffee farmer cooperatives stands at $2 million, the highest level ever achieved for the program.
		ABOUT CALVERT FOUNDATION In addition to Community Investment Notes, the Calvert Foundation (http://www.calvertfoundation.org) makes available a wide range of other innovative financial instruments and services, including the Community Investment Profile Database, the Calvert Giving Fund, and Community GiftShares.
		In 2005 alone, the Foundation disbursed $12.89 million to borrowers ranging from coffee cooperatives, affordable housing developers, and small business support centers to international microfinance intermediaries.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-17-2006/0004453305&EDATE= (608 words)

	Ecologic - Institute for International and European Environmental Policy - Transatlantic Environmental Cooperation on ...
		As state and local authorities on both continents work to respond to environmental challenges such as urban sprawl, brownfield redevelopment and energy efficiency, they are looking across the Atlantic for models of innovative policies and projects.
		Thanks to a scholarship from the American Council on Germany Ecologic Fellow Markus Knigge investigated the creation, maintenance and impacts of transatlantic environmental cooperation at the subnational level in the US.
		The transatlantic partnership suffers by differences on a number of international environmental policies, such as climate change, trade in genetically modified organisms or the application of the precautionary principle.
	www.ecologic.de /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1415 (388 words)

	Environmental socially responsible investing - Greenplan Forestry Investments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Maunsell says that the terms of Ecologic’s environmental audit were stringent, with Greenplan first having to agree upfront that all findings were to be published irrespective of the results.
		The Ecological Foundation is a foundation that works with the private sector to help companies improve their green practices.
		The foundation has prepared independent environmental impact reports for the likes of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Ministry of Fisheries, Westland District Council and Waste Management New Zealand.
	www.greenplan.co.nz /greenplan_news.asp?ID=7 (757 words)

	eco•logic
		Both your water supply and indoor air quality have improved since you stopped throwing trash down your well, and started venting the smoke from your wood stove to the outside.
		Although you have improved your water and air, you have also been using your wooden roof shingles, siding, and foundation joists as fuel for heat.
		Ann Hancock, a founding member of Sustainable Sonoma County, is dedicated to preserving our irreplaceable natural heritage by helping forge a sustainable economy.
	www.awakenedwoman.com /ecologic_ford.htm (548 words)

	KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. -- Socially Responsible Investing and Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Based in Cambridge, MA, EcoLogic FinanceÂ’s mission is to provide affordable financial services to small- and medium-sized businesses operating in environmentally sensitive areas of the developing world, whose activities foster environmental conservation and grassroots economic development.
		EcoLogic Finance is one of 13 organizations receiving $7.3 million from the Skoll Foundation through an open competitive process that identifies social entrepreneurs who have piloted innovative programs and are ready to take the next steps toward systemic social change.
		Its mission is to advance systemic change in communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs, who are individuals dedicated to pioneering new solutions that result in lasting improvements to complex social problems.
	www.kld.com /release.cgi?id=3645 (723 words)

	Cushman Foundation Journal of Foraminiferal Research Instructions for Authors
		It also welcomes those manuscripts which may only secondarily involve foraminifera as part of stratigraphic or ecologic studies with allied organisms.
		Most tables should be double-spaced, each on a separate sheet that is labeled with the author's name and the table number in the upper right corner.
		Manuscripts, prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Contributors, should be addressed to the editor: Dr. Charlotte Brunner, Department of Marine Science, The University of Southern Mississippi, 1020 Balch Blvd. (Rm 130), John C. Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 USA, jfr@cushmanfoundation.org
	www.cushmanfoundation.org /jfr/instructions.html (1284 words)

	Court scuttles pollution permits for farmers - 23 Jun 2005 - National News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Ecologic Foundation and Fish and Game New Zealand had appealed against Environment Waikato's regional plan, which does not specify any limits on nitrogen use by farmers.
		Their appeal called for farmers in much of the Waikato catchment who spread more than 60kg/ha of nitrogen a year to have to apply for resource consent, a similar scenario to what is proposed around Lake Taupo.
		Carter Holt Harvey lawyer Robert Fardell said the move to bring in resource consent applications was a huge departure from self-management plans that the foundation and Fish and Game had proposed in submissions to the regional plan.
	www.nzherald.co.nz /index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332179 (460 words)

	E. F. Schumacher Resources at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
		In the process of articulating his view of life, Schumacher proceeds to knock the foundation from under much of what science has been about these past few centuries, and then to bring into synthesis the definitive tenets of the world's major religions.
		Our programs demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues.
		Building on a rich tradition often known as decentralism, the Society initiates practical measures that lead to community revitalization and further the transition toward an economically and ecologically sustainable society.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~ecologic/html/schumacher.htm (608 words)

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