"Aurelio Peccei Website" Launched

May 2007: On the occasion of the Annual Aurelio Peccei Lecture in Rome, a website has been launched which presents the biography of Aurelio Peccei and describes his work for the Club of Rome.

The website is a joint initiative by the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei and the European Support Centre of the Club of Rome.

The site can be accessed via http://www.clubofrome.at/peccei/

Rome: Aurelio Peccei Lecture 2007 by Norman Myers

May 17th, 2007: Norman Myers discussed the challenge of maintaining biodiversity. Myers was among the first scientists to alert the global community to tropical deforestation, an impending mass extinction, and environmental security.

Norman Myers

Norman Myers was introduced by Roberto Peccei (President of the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei).

Roberto Peccei

The presentation was followed by contributions by Luigi Boitani (Direttore Dipartimento Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Roma) Gianfranco Bologna (Secretary-General of the Fondazione Aurelio Peccei) and Riccardo Valentini (Direttore Dipartimento Scienze dell'Ambiente Forestale, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo).

Gianfranco Bologna

The slides of the presentations are available on the Aurelio Peccei Website ("events" section)

Milano: Science, Society and Politics - The Legacy of Umberto Colombo

May 14th, 2007: The event called attention to the work of Umberto Colombo, who was a Member of the Club of Rome, and discussed his positions and achievements. The following statements are available for download
(all in Italian language):
Andrea Aparo
Gianni Cervetti
Marcello Colitti
Riccardo Galli
Vittorio Gregotti
Guiseppe Lanzavecchia
Guido Martinotti
Marco Vitale
Salomon Wald
G. B. Zorzoli

Ottawa: CACOR Luncheon with Magnus Schoenning

May 14th, 2007: The First Secretary at the Embassy of Sweden in Ottawa discussed "The Transition from Fossil Fuel: The Case of Sweden". He talked about Sweden's environmental policy and how a long-term commitment to the move away from fossil fuels have contributed to a sustainably sound energy mix with a focus mainly on climate change.

Further information is available on the website of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome

Brussels: 41st Aurelio Peccei Lecture by Florence Devouard

May 24th, 2007: "Wikipedia and the Educational Landscape" will be the title of the presentation by the Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a project to build free encyclopaedias in all languages of the world.

Details are available for download.

Zukunft fairantworten

May 23rd, 2007: tt30 Germany is organizing a round table in co-operation with the Bertelsmann Foundation. Partner for discussion will be Werner Taiber, member of the Board of WestLB. More information is available on the website of tt30 Germany.

Future Oriented Studies

The article by Wladyslaw Switalski, Member of the Polish Association for the Club of Rome, is available for download.

Welt mit Zukunft - Ueberleben im 21. Jahrhundert

The book by Franz Josef Radermacher, Member of the Club of Rome, and Gert Beyers is available for purchase via this external link.