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	Population Media Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Population Media Center (PMC) uses entertainment programming on radio and television to encourage delayed parenthood, the consistent use of effective methods of contraception, and safer sexual behaviors, as well as to empower women to play equal roles in family decisions and in society.
		Population Media Center is an international non-profit organization headquartered in Shelburne, Vermont, USA.
		Among its strategies, PMC uses a specific methodology of social-change communications developed by Miguel Sabido of Mexico, in which character in long-running radio and television soap operas evolve to become role models for the adoption of health and social development goals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Population_Media_Center (173 words)

	Japanese media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Media and Communication in Japan, discussion paper by Barbara Gatzen in the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies, 17 April 2001.
		Media Intimidation in Japan, discussion paper by David McNeill in the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies, 27 March 2001.
		The communications media of Japan include numerous television and radio networks as well as newspapers and magazines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_media (1046 words)

	Media bias: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		The center for media and democracy (cmd) is an american-based media research group founded in 1993 by environmentalist writer and political activist...
		Those who accuse the media of liberal bias also point to polls that consistently show that journalists are overwhelmingly not members of a church or synagogue and hold views to the left of the general public.
		Mass media is the term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/media_bias.htm (5288 words)

	Global Health Council - Global Health News from around the World
		Population Media Center, which supplied the strategy to undertake this project, is a U.S. based, international, non-profit organization, which specializes in research-based media programs to address population, family planning, low status of women and HIV/AIDS issues.
		For the first time, the mass media of Ethiopia are using a "whole society strategy" through the work of Population Media Center in Ethiopia to systematically bring about social and health development through behavior-change communications.
		Shelburne, Vt., USA -November 13, 2002---The Population Media Center (PMC) launched two new behavior changing radio dramas in Ethiopia on June 2, 2002 on Radio Ethiopia and Harrar Radio.
	www.globalhealth.org /news/printview-news.php3?id=2479 (527 words)

	Population Resource Center
		Bill Ryerson, founder and President of the Population Media Center, also discussed the use of media in developing countries to encourage the adoption of small family norms, the use of family planning and the elevation of women’s status.
		Center for Environment and Population and Union of Concerned Scientists
		April 19, 2000, Boston, MA - This program discussed the impacts of population growth on the environment both globally and locally, reviewed trends in energy consumption in the U.S. and around the world, and addressed efforts to stabilize human population at a level that can be sustained by the world’s resources.
	www.prcdc.org /programs/boston/boston.html (429 words)

	Population Centers & Donor Agencies
		The Population Media Center (PMC) is a non-profit, nongovernmental organization that works worldwide with broadcast and print media to motivate people to use family planning and effective measures to prevent AIDS and to respect equal rights for women.
		Action Canada for Population and Development was formed in 1997 with a mission to promote the commitment of Canadians to population and development issues in order to enhance the quality of life of children and subsequent generations in Canada and around the world.
		The Centre for Development and Population Activities is a NGO founded in 1975 to provide services to millions of women through partnerships with 138 organizations in 40 countries.
	www.escwa.org.lb /popin/organizations/international/centers.html (1132 words)

	Population Media Center - Using The Media To Sustain The Earth
		Population Media Center (PMC) strives to improve the health and well being of people around the world through the use of entertainment-education strategies, like serialized dramas on radio and television, in which characters evolve into role models for the audience for positive behavior change.
		Our mission is to collaborate with the mass media and other organizations worldwide to (1) bring about stabilization of human population numbers at a level that can be sustained by the world's natural resources and to (2) lessen the harmful impact of humanity on the earth's environment.
		Population Media Center - Using The Media To Sustain The Earth
	www.populationmedia.org (313 words)

	Links for more Information - Global Issues
		Center for Media and Democracy has some interesting information about the state of the media and public relations.
		Indymedia, or, the Independent Media Center, is "a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.
		The Canadian-based Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS) is "a non-profit organization based in Vancouver committed to the expansion and protection of democracy and the strengthening of civil society." They have a number of articles worth looking at.
	www.globalissues.org /HumanRights/Media/Links.asp (1291 words)

	Network for Good :: Global Population
		Global population growth is a global challenge, affecting us here even in the United States as we feel the repercussions of explosive growth in poor countries around the world.
		And every day that increasing population brings with it new challenges to ensure every human born on the planet is well-fed, has access to clean water, and can live a peaceful, prosperous life.
		Population issues that are in the news right now.
	www.networkforgood.org /topics/humanserv/population (305 words)

	Media Center
		Students entering the center must sign in and state their name, the time they entered the center, the teacher who sent them and the assigned work.
		During class hours, the computers in the media center are to be used for educational purposes only.
		Students may use the center during their lunch period providing they have a pass from their second block teacher.
	www.mmmm-music.com /GWHSOTA/media.htm (331 words)

	Media Center
		A drop-in book exchange visit to the Media Center should generally be limited to a maximum of 10 minutes long, once a day, to allow other students time in the Media Center.
		A collection of teaching materials for professionals is housed in the workroom of the Media Center.
		The Media Center is provided as a resource for information technologies, books, materials, equipment, and ideas that gives support to all patrons involved in the learning process at Clearspring Elementary School.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /schools/clearspringes/gradelevel/mediacenter.htm (1960 words)

	Media - Women's Center - California State University, Chico
		The changing face of media and technology in the home and its effect on children have been an on going area of research for the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
		Over the years, the Center has examined the educational content of children's television programming and the impact of federal policy on family's television viewing habits - including the role of television ratings and the V-chip.
		The Center also examines the role new media play in the life of the developing child.
	www.csuchico.edu /womyn/media (853 words)

	National Population Cartoon Contest
		Run by the non-profit organization, Population Media Center (PMC), the contest called for cartoonists to publish cartoons depicting the relationship between overpopulation and its effects on the quality of life.
		Bennett likened the work of Population Media Center to the job of editorial cartoonists.
		Here is a press release from the Populations Media Center followed by winning cartoons by Clay Bennett, Jeff Parker and Eric Lewis.
	cagle.msnbc.com /news/NationalPopulation/winners.asp (389 words)

	PMC 2005 Cartoon Contest
		PMC would like to thank all the cartoonists who submitted entries to this year's contest as well as the members of the distinguished judging panel who gave their time and effort to participate in this year's contest.
		PMC intends to announce the 2006 Population Cartoon Contest soon.
		Telnaes received a $7,000 cash prize and was honored at an awards ceremony held on October 25, 2005 at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.
	www.populationmedia.org /cartooncontest/2005 (300 words)

	Volunteer Centers > The Volunteer Center National Network
		Volunteer Centers across the country assisted in the development of a framework that includes the vision that Volunteer Centers mobilize people and resources to deliver creative solutions to community problems.
		In addition to the work of the Council, approximately 90 Volunteer Center leaders are engaged in advisory work through various task forces.
		Every member of the Volunteer Center National Network endorses, promotes, and implements this vision at their local Volunteer Center.
	www.pointsoflight.org /centers (332 words)

	EcoFuture (TM) Population and Sustainability - Organizations
		Population Council, U.S., is a nonprofit research organization seeking to improve well being and reproductive health, and to help achieve a sustainable balance between people and resources.
		Population Environment Balance, U.S., works to educate and impress upon the American public and policymakers the adverse effects of population growth on the environment.
		Population Services International, U.S. Population Stabilization Project is an educational effort designed to promote discussion and debate of the issues related to global population growth.
	www.ecofuture.org /pop/orgs.html (1718 words)

	Network for Good :: Global Population :: Learn More
		Population statistics and more for the United States of America.
		This informative brochure covers the whole range of population issues in a light and easy-to-follow style.
		Despite progress, the world population is still growing by millions each year.
	www.networkforgood.org /topics/humanserv/population/add_resources.aspx (148 words)

	The Communication Initiative - Experiences - Population Media Center Radio Soap Operas - Ethiopia
		PMC was motivated to initiate this project on the basis of estimates that there are three million HIV/AIDS carriers in Ethiopia; several hundred thousand are reported to have died.
		PMC claims that half a million children have become orphans due to HIV/AIDS, and 50% of the hospital beds in urban areas are occupied by people with HIV/AIDS.
		During this workshop, PMC shared the results of its formative research and created settings and scenes in partnership with the creative team.
	www.comminit.com /experiences/pdskdv82002/experiences-1565.html (828 words)

	What's To Be Done About Global Population Growth?
		Population Media Center is one of only a handful of organizations that are using this strategy.
		In Cairo, the world community embraced the importance of elevating the role and status of women in the family and in the community as an essential element in addressing population growth issues and, independent of population issues, important as a basic human right.
		As a nonprofit, charitable organization, PMC works with health authorities and broadcasters in developing countries to enable them to create popular programs that provide entertainment value and simultaneously educate the audience about behaviors that will improve their health and well being.
	www.rmc.sierraclub.org /pandp/1999-08/p07-1.htm (901 words)

	Center for Environment and Population (CEP): About Us
		The Center fills this gap by partnering with leading organizations (such as the National Wildlife Federation, Communications Consortium Media Center, Population Resource Center, Yale University, local community organizations, and others (see Partners) to form a critical triangle from science, to policy, to outreach, on the population and environmental relationship.
		About Us The Center for Environment and Population (CEP) was founded in 1999 to ensure that the best available science-based knowledge on human population's environmental impacts is actively integrated into policies and public outreach at the community to international levels.
		Developing ways to understand and address the American population's environmental impacts, from the local community level, to state, regional and national levels, to the U.S. role within the global context.
	www.cepnet.org /about_us.php (360 words)

	Presentation
		He called the media center an important vehicle for helping local journalists when covering the issue.
		He noted part of the website is closed for credentialed media professionals and is used for items such as embargoed reports.
		He called upon the global media to hold donors, governments and themselves accountable to their respective responsibilities.
	info.worldbank.org /etools/bspan/PresentationView.asp?PID=1343&EID=664 (1050 words)

	Lexington School District Three - Lexington Home
		The Fine Arts Center is the only one of its kind in Lexington County.
		The district also completed a new 1,000 seat state-of-the-art Fine Arts Center in February 2000.
		The Fine Arts Center is used by all schools in the district and is also available for rent to civic groups and businesses.
	lex3.groupfusion.net (441 words)

	Population in Kenya
		In the rest of this paper we describe a practical, non-coercive approach to influencing population, one that moreover takes into account the culture and viewpoint of the people to be reached and draws upon the creative and commercial resources of the nations involved.
		Finally, we present a culturally sound, media-based strategy for influencing family size, one successfully deployed by Population Media Center, where Kriss Barker works and William Ryerson is founder and president.
		The most extensive evaluation of the effects of a social content serial drama occurred from 1993 to 1997 when Radio Tanzania broadcast a serial melodrama that attracted 58 percent of the relevant population (aged 15 to 45) in areas of the broadcast.
	cs.gmu.edu /~henryh/population (3313 words)

	Sixteen Myths About Population (Part 7 - References) by By William N. Ryerson
		"The media and family planning in Kenya." Presented at the annual meeting of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
		"Population growth, resource consumption and a sustainable world." U.S. National Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society of London.
		"Population and water resources: a delicate balance." Population Bulletin 47(3).
	www.popco.org /irc/essays/essay-myths7.html (342 words)

	Population Report Edition II: 2004 - Reports and Factsheets - Global Population and Environment - Sierra Club
		Wendy Balazik of Sierra Club's media team, collaborated with National Wildlife Federation and Population Connection, training activists on grassroots activism and how to talk about population and environment issues in the media.
		Global Population and Environment Program Staff Annette Souder and Sarah Fairchild and National Population Committee chair, Ned Grossnickle, were invited to give a presentation on our program's Ecuador Field Study Tour to USAID's Population and Reproductive Health Program in March.
		She ran a population table and talked to folks about the Global Population and Environment Program and the 34 Million Friends Campaign.
	www.sierraclub.org /population/reports/editionII_04/active.asp (2597 words)

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		Teachers, Media Specialist or staff who are using the Internet with a class in a lab, Library Media Center or classroom environment can allow a student to navigate the Internet as long as school personnel can visually monitor the screen 90% of the time.
		Library media materials should be available in a variety of formats, e.g., print, nonprint, electronic, multimedia, to meet the needs and learning styles of a diverse student population.
		White Media Center Passes are to be used from 8:00 until the end of the school day.
	www.lexington1.net /rbe/handbook/media.htm (7569 words)

	USS3P - U.S. Sustainable Population Policy Project - EcoFuture Population and Sustainability
		VP, Population Communications International; Jane De Lung, Dir., Population Resource Center, Princeton; Beth Curry Thomas, Founder, Planned Parenthood of Hilton Head, SC; and Bill Ryerson, President, Population Media Center, who most recently joined the team in March1998.
		The goal of an optimal population will require addressing, for the first time, the full range of processes that lock together the economy and the environment, the national interest and the global commons, the welfare of the present generation with that of future generations.
		Despite efforts begun in 1970, with the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, and participation in three international population conferences, the United States has failed to adopt an official policy identifying population stabilization as a national goal.
	www.ecofuture.org /pop/uss3p.html (1932 words)

	McKibben Lane Media Center
		Students have been encouraged to use the media center on a regular basis as a source of information and pleasure.
		provision of leadership in both instructional technology and the intellectual and physical access to information for a diverse population.
		There are computers in every classroom and in the media center, as well as in the computer lab.
	www.bibb.k12.ga.us /Lane/media.htm (107 words)

	People - welcome to Us Population
		Population Media Center, Inc. (PMC) is a non-profit, nongovernmental organization that works worldwide with broadcast and print media to motivate people to use family planning and effective measures to prevent AIDS and to respect equal rights for women.
		The Population Coalition believes that population stabilization, social justice, and environmental protection are the most significant issues facing the human race today. Our mission is to educate Americans about the benefits of population stabilization and sustainable consumption, both at home and abroad.
		Population Media Center - Using The Media To Sustain The Earth
	www.rlpeople.com /uspopulation (1829 words)

	Population Page of Roger J. Wendell
		The burgeoning population of our country, and that of other countries around the planet, is the biggest threat against the environment, freedom, and everything we hold dear.
		Nevertheless, U.S. population is out of control and is taking its toll on the rest of the planet.
		Click Here for the United Nations Exponential Chart of World Population Growth
	www.rogerwendell.com /population.html (670 words)

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