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In the News (Tue 2 Dec 08)

  
  Newsroom
WRI is one of six organizations that will receive grants to deliver analysis and recommendations on different approaches to tackling climate change.
WRI President Jonathan Lash Briefs Journalists on Environmental Trends for 2007.
WRI cuts through the clutter with essential information for financial institutions; real estate, retail, law, and publishing firms; universities; non-profit organizations; and many others to understand the basics of how they can go green.
newsroom.wri.org   (949 words)

  
  Welfare Rights Initiative
WRI affords an opportunity for them to study the history of social welfare policy and become equipped as organizers, trainers and agents of empowerment in their own communities and on college campuses.
Students accessing WRI legal services are peer supported to shed the stigma of being on welfare, add their articulate voices to the debates, and become informed and practiced organizers.
WRI encourages teenage students to perceive their opportunity to pursue college as a route out of poverty, and to recognize and pursue pathways to community leadership.
www.wri-ny.org /programs.html   (286 words)

  
 First-Year Seminar-Writing Proficiency
WRi teachers are expected to give students more detailed evaluations of their writing skills than they might receive in other courses, as well as comments on the content of their papers.
WR and WRi courses are expected to give students an opportunity to show that they can write analytical prose that fulfills a clearly defined purpose, with a strong sense of their audience's needs for clarity and consistent use of such writing conventions as spelling, punctuation, grammar, form, and structure.
Instructors of WR or WRi courses can tell which students need writing proficiency credit by noting the Writing Certification symbol by their names on the class sheets at the beginning of the semester and the grade sheets at the end of the term.
www.oberlin.edu /fysfac/Writing.html   (1165 words)

  
 [SafeClimate] solutions | success stories
WRI's emissions are indirect, originating not from onsite combustion of fossil fuels, but mostly from use of electricity generated from fossil fuels at power plants and air miles traveled by WRI staff.
WRI is also looking to technology for such innovations as web-based event marketing that could not only expand its connectivity capabilities, but also lessen WRI's dependency on paper.
WRI is learning as it goes and is generating the changes necessary to make CO2 reduction efforts part of its everyday operations.
www.safeclimate.net /business/solutions/stories_wri.php   (1140 words)

  
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This agreement extends from the former agreement signed in June 2002 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests and WRI, which was designed to support MINEF in the elaboration and updating of cartographic and statistical databases on forest resources use and management in Cameroon.
Among the numerous WRI initiatives, Global Forest Watch, an international network of partners, aims to promote sustainable forest management by providing the local, national and international stakeholders with means (data and tools) to facilitate the access to relevant information on the state of forest exploitation.
WRI will carry out these activities without international subcontracting, but, according to the needs, by working with partners in Cameroon, such as filed projects with GIS and/or remote sensing capacities, and other institutions within the forest sector.
www.globalforestwatch.org /english/centralafrica/pdfs/MINFOF_WRI_MOU_2005.doc   (1847 words)

  
 Western Research Institute-Working With WRI
WRI conducts such projects on a "strictly confidential and proprietary" basis, with the results becoming the property of the industrial sponsor.
WRI has capabilities and facilities to scale up and demonstrate new technologies and processes, and, working closely with our industrial partners, to commercialize them.
WRI is always looking to invest in cooperative projects with commercial partners to bring new technologies and processes to the marketplace.
wri.uwyo.edu /content/working/index.shtml   (485 words)

  
 CIESIN Information Cooperative - Organizational Guide - WRI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
WRI's work is carried out by an interdisciplinary staff of scientists and experts augmented by a network of formal advisors, collaborators, and cooperating institutions in 50 countries.
WRI is funded by private foundations, United Nations and governmental agencies, corporations, and concerned individuals.
WRI's World Resources report is a definitive reference on the global environment with the latest information on essential economic, population, and natural resource conditions and trends for nearly every country in the world.
www.ciesin.org /IC/wri/wrihome.html   (349 words)

  
 Notes from the WRI office
Objeción de Conciencia en Colombia is a new website by WRI activists working on the CO issue in Colombia.
The photo left shows the WRI banner at a protest during the "Stop the Merchants of Death" conference in Minneapolis in late September.
There are also two brief reports from WRI's recent "Globalising Nonviolence" conference.
wri-irg.org /from-off.htm   (486 words)

  
 Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
WRI is a "state-of-the-art" facility permitted by the Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA) for Wastewater and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) for Used Oil Processing and Petroleum Contact Water (PCW).
WRI team members taught student the basics of industrial wastewater treatment by performing live demonstrations of chemical precipitation and dissolved air flotation.
Students were mesmerized as WRI team members used a few chemicals and a modified cream whipper to transform fl, petroleum-smelling water into crystal clear water with a thin layer of floating sludge.
www.wrijax.com /default.htm   (369 words)

  
 Weyerhaeuser Realty Investors - About WRI
As such, WRI provides builders and developers with not only a stable funding source through all market cycles, but a source for expertise in solving problems and overcoming obstacles.
WRI currently funds approximately 55 to 65 new deals a year.
WRI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company (WRECO), itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser Company.
www.wri-online.com /about   (201 words)

  
 Extron Electronics - Extron Gray Helps the WRI Stay Green
WRI has two goals: to promote biological resource management and climate protection, as well as environmentally friendly development and enterprise on a global basis.
Videoconferencing plays an important role in keeping the world informed on the organization's research in these areas, while at the same time allowing the WRI to "walk the talk," by avoiding unnecessary travel, and the pollution generated by it.
To best facilitate effective communications by the organization's members, it was determined that a local venue for presentations and press briefings, as well as audio and videoconferencing was necessary.
www.extron.com /company/article.aspx?id=wrigrey   (1119 words)

  
 WRI - who we are
The Western Research Institute (WRI) is a not-for-profit economic and social research centre based at Charles Sturt University Bathurst.
The WRI is governed by a board of eleven members of the community representing significant businesses and organisations across Western NSW.
The WRI was established in 1999 and since then has become renowned for producing credible and reliable research.
www.wri.org.au /whoweare.htm   (131 words)

  
 WRI   - - -   Windber Research Institute   - - -   WRIwindber.org   - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Samples are collected from a variety of diseased and healthy organs that are then transported to WRI under strict guidelines and protocols.
WRI has a state-of-the-art tissue banking facility with CBS V5000 "vapor phase" Isothermal freezers, each with a capacity to store up to 40,000 samples at -190°C. Tissues are acquired from consenting donors attending clinics at collaborating hospitals and is backed by comprehensive medical and clinical information.
WRI banks blood products and tissue from a variety of organs.
www.wriwindber.org /services_tissuebanking.html   (381 words)

  
 Worker Role Interview Assessment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The WRI was developed to address psychosocial and environmental factors that impact return to work.
The WRI is a semi-structured interview designed to be used as the psychosocial/environmental component of the initial rehabilitation assessment process for the injured worker or the worker with a long term disability and poor/limited work history.
The new WRI 10.0 has three interview formats: one for workers with recent injuries/ disabilities, for clients with chronic disabilities, and an combined WRI and OCAIRS interview.
www.moho.uic.edu /assess/wri.html   (322 words)

  
 WRI - Courses
To cater to this, WRI also offers tailor made programmes after interacting with such needy industries, exclusively for their personnel.
By conducting such programmes at WRI, the additional advantage of demonstrations and practical work can be availed by the participants.
WRI offers practical training to welders for a variety of job requirements.
www.wriindia.com /course.htm   (1690 words)

  
 WRI Publications
WRI takes responsibility for choosing the study topics and guaranteeing its authors and researchers freedom of inquiry.
WRI; Department of Resource Surveys and Remote Sensing, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Kenya; Central Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Planning and National Development, Kenya; International Livestock Research Institute.
WRI cuantifica el sedimento y los nutrientes provenientes de 400 cuencas que descargan en el Arrecife Mesoamericano para apoyar planes de ordenamiento territorial, la agricultura, la conservación y esfuerzos de mitigación de amenazas costeras.
pubs.wri.org   (1951 words)

  
 WRI Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Synopsis: WRI focuses on four areas: healthy ecosystems, stable climate, sustainable enterprise, and access to environmental information and decisions.
The global issues that WRI worked to put on the international agenda 20 years ago have emerged as major challenges of the 21st century: climate change: biodiversity loss, desertification, forest and reef destruction, and growing stress on freshwater resources.
WRI has succeeded in constructing a big tent, welcoming partners ranging from small NGOs in developing countries to multinational corporations and international institutions.
g.msn.com /9SE/1?http://pubs.wri.org/pubs_description.cfm?PubID=4160&&DI=6244&IG=09c335b2c0bd40beaec3bbd4849ec1a8&POS=11&CM=WPU&CE=6&CS=AWP&SR=6   (160 words)

  
 Climate, Energy & Transport
WRI's goal is to protect the global climate system from further harm due to emissions of greenhouse gases and help humanity and the natural world adapt to unavoidable climate change.
WRI provides independent, non-partisan expertise and guidance to policymakers on climate change technology, business engagement, policy design and international issues.
WRI's SDPAMs initiative aims to find ways to help major developing countries find policies and measures that meet their own sustainable development goals more effectively, while creating significant benefits for the global climate.
climate.wri.org   (484 words)

  
 WRI 101 & WRI 102 Course Descriptions :: Writing Program :: The College of New Jersey
Students place into WRI 102 in the following ways: the College requires a placement test of all students who score below 580 on either or both the SAT Verbal and the SAT Quantitative tests.
All first-year students entering in the fall semester take the First Seminar in the fall; and, normally, those who place into WRI 102 take that course in the spring.
Please consult the AP policy for exemption from WRI 102 based on AP score.
www.tcnj.edu /~writing/courses/index.html   (204 words)

  
 WRI Women's Working Group
Women came together as a response to being a minority in a male-dominated organisation, as WRI was at the time.
WRI is a network of pacifist activists on every continent who work on national, regional and international levels, as well as in local communities, to end war and the causes of war.
WRI serves as a communication and information link, building support campaigns for individual objectors and antiwar groups that come under attack for standing up for their beliefs, and promoting active nonviolent strategies for transforming militaristic societies.
wri-irg.org /wwghome.htm   (912 words)

  
 WRI - Home Page
or Call WRI at (909)-537-7681 for questions about our presentaions.
The Water Resources Institute (WRI) is an interdisciplinary center for education, research and policy analysis which also manages a valuable archive of historical water documents about Southern California and material tracking current water resource information with the Southern California region.
If you have any questions or comments, please email me Susan Lien Longville so the WRI can serve you better.
wri.csusb.edu   (167 words)

  
 WRI - Fequently Asked Questions
WRI will depute experts and technicians at Nominal charges.
WRI is equipped with state of the art welding and test equipments under one roof.
WRI has undertaken number of research projects through collaborative works.
www.wriindia.com /sitemap.htm   (249 words)

  
 .: WRI Publications :.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Or, select a sub-category, which groups all the pertinent materials into a specific applications package, such as "Paving" or "Structural." Any publication that is highlighted and underlined in any of the lists may be downloaded immediately by clicking on it.
Publications, charts, tables, and statistics made available on the WRI website are intended to serve only as an informational resource for WRI website users.
No advice, information or documentation obtained by you from WRI personnel or the website shall create any warranty or liability on the part of WRI.
www.wirereinforcementinstitute.org /HTDocs/Pages/pubs.htm   (412 words)

  
 WRI
He is the father of WRI symposium and also designed the logo of the symposium.
I was the Chairman of WRI that time and had pleasure to meet him and his colleagues in USGS at Menlo Park to discuss about bringing WRI-7 to US.
I felt that Soviet was changing and as the Chairman of WRI, I thought that Oleg would be able to organize WRI-8 in Vladivostok and that it would be a big drive to the change.
wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov /wri/early_wris.htm   (689 words)

  
 Procedures
The WRI Executive Director will also attend, as a nonvoting member, to provide technical assistance, as needed.
Copies of the form and the summary shall be given to the subject or the representative.
That the only record linking the subject and the research would be the consent document and the principal risk would be potential harm resulting from a breach of confidentiality.
www.wri-edu.org /wrihumansubjrev.htm   (1088 words)

  
 WRI-Service Provider Survey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
To help us to continue to position the Institute as a service provider, the WRI needs to know what would be useful to your agency or company.
Partnering with the WRI to compile or manage data for you or provide digital mapping support to you?
Partnering with the WRI for facilitation to bridge a conflict?
wri.csusb.edu /web-pages/mscl/survey.html   (472 words)

  
 SD-Pams Database Prototype   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
We have based the general design on that of the IEA's database of climate policies and measures in its member states.
WRI has a set of climate data tools that can be viewed at http://cait.wri.org, and the database will have context-relevant links to these tools.
Please email comments to Britt Childs at WRI bchilds@wri.org
cait.wri.org /sdpams/info.php   (374 words)

  
 Notes from the WRI office
Information about the seminar "Gender and Militarism", jointly organised by WRI and New Profile, is now available in English, German, Spanish, and Turkish.
A report on WRI's presence at the June G-8 protests in Germany can be found here in English.
A detailed report on militarisation in Colombia, written by the Colombian group ACOCC, is available here in Spanish and German, with an update in Spanish.
www.wri-irg.org /from-off.htm   (269 words)

  
 War Resisters' International
Se også en oversættelse af den nyeste udgave af princip-erklæringen, vedtaget af WRIs council juni 1997.
The following Statement of Principles was agreed at the first WRI Conference in 1925 except for the references to the League of Nation and collective security which were added in the 1930s.
This year the WRI Council is considering a draft for a new Statement of Principles.
www.fred.dk /peace/wri.htm   (511 words)

  
 About WRI > How we work > WRI Library & Information Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Please note: The WRI Library does not fulfill orders for WRI Publications or for requests for copyright permissions for use of WRI work.
Please visit the WRI Store to order WRI Publications or to inquire about an existing order.
To submit a request to use copyrighted WRI materials, please review WRI's Permission Policy.
www.wri.org /library/index.html   (169 words)

  
 EarthTrends | Environmental Information
The authors present this watershed event, which demographers predict will occur sometime in 2008, as the most important trend in human development.
New Energy Bill Makes Strides Towards GHG Reduction, WRI's President Responds
OECD fishery subsidies were estimated at $6.2 billion in 2002, equivalent to 20 percent of the gross value of production.
earthtrends.wri.org   (603 words)

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