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Annual ReportCelebrating 25 Years

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Earth Island Institute was founded in San Francisco in 1982. The visionary, pioneering environmental leader David Brower and a group of dedicated environmental activists created our nimble, streamlined organization to support the work of bold individuals with big ideas. We grow environmental leadership through education and activism. Our projects, publications, and initiatives support the biological and cultural diversity that sustain the environment.

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EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE • ANNUAL REPORT 2007 • 1982 - 2007 • 25 YEARS OF GROWING ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP

Overview


Twenty-five years ago this past September pioneering environmentalist David Brower and a committed circle of colleagues founded Earth Island Institute to create a new kind of support organization for activists. As we celebrate our 25th anniversary and look ahead to our spring 2009 move to the David Brower Center now under construction in Berkeley, CA we continue to be guided by our founder’s vision that a nimble, streamlined organization could grow the ideas and initiatives of bold individuals into effective programs addressing the truly urgent agendas for a sustainable world.

This fertile vision has taken us down many diverse paths — with historic accomplishments along the way — and we have been proud to see so many successes for our leaders in 2007. Without exaggerating, Earth Island Institute’s 25th anniversary kick-off year has been one of our greatest years ever for growing environmental leadership for a sustainable future.

Earth Island continued to: provide vital organizational support for our world-wide network of innovative projects; further our special initiatives in devel-oping youth leadership; support community-based restoration efforts, and inform and inspire our members and the public concerning a wide range of critical environmental and social justice issues and how they as individuals can make a difference.

We are also pleased to report that in 2007 Earth Island Institute received the highest rating of 4-stars from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent evaluator of charities for successfully managing our finances in an efficient and effective manner.

We invite you to read our Annual Report to get a sense of the special place that Earth Island is and our many efforts growing environmental leadership.

We thank our members, organizational funders, project leaders, staff, volunteers, and young environmental advocates for taking Earth Island’s strong history of leading the environmental agenda over the last twenty-five year into its next exciting chapters.

John A. Knox David Phillips

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Martha Davis, PresidentRiverside, CaliforniaManager for Strategic Policy Development, Inland Empire Utilities Agency

Michael Hathaway, Vice PresidentSanta Barbara, CaliforniaWriter

Kenneth Brower, Vice PresidentBerkeley, CaliforniaWriter

Jennifer Snyder, SecretaryOakland, CaliforniaForecasting and Planning Manager, CLIF BAR, Inc.

Alex Giedt, TreasurerFairfax, CaliforniaMarketing Consultant

Peter Winkler, CounselTiburon, CaliforniaAttorney

Barbara BrowerPortland, OregonProfessor of Geography, Portland State UniversityEditor, HIMALAYA

Beto BorgesBenicia, CaliforniaConsultant, International Development, Biodiversity Conservation and Nonprofit Management

Maria MoyerOakland, CaliforniaCommunications Consultant; Industrial Ecologist

Robert Wilkinson, President EmeritusSanta Barbara, CaliforniaLecturer, Environmental Studies Program, University of California at Santa Barbara

Board of Directors - 2007

Overview


Staff - 2007John A. KnoxExecutive Director — Operations

Dave PhillipsExecutive Director — Programs

Matthew CarlstoemWebsite Manager

Kevin ConnellyAssociate Director

Shiva DamghaniAccountin Associate

Karen GoslingMembership Director

Yvette HashAdministrative Director

Laura JohnsonIT Specialist

Susan KamprathProject Support Director

Ariana KatovichRestoration Initiatives Director

Ellen ManchesterDevelopment Associate

Jason MarkEditor, Earth Island Journal

Lilias Pettit-ScottAdministrative Assistant

Sharon SmithNew Leaders Initiative Director

Audrey WebbAssociate Editor, Earth Island Journal

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Earth Island Institute was able to achieve so much in 2007 thanks to the membership support and contributions made by individual donors, foundation grants, and corporate sponsorships. We are thankful for the generous gifts of those acknowledged below and we gratefully appreciate the support of all of our donors and volunteers. Thank You!

$5,000 and aboveEight anonymous giftsRay C. AndersonArntz Family FoundationArthur and Shirley BabadBiedenharn FoundationLouise BowmanPeter and Mimi BuckleyClif Bar Family FoundationBranden CohenHelen and Raj DesaiEarth Share NationalEarth Share of CaliforniaEsuranceMaria FlynnRobert FriedeGoldman Environmental FoundationLaura LewisMental Insight FoundationRelations FoundationMurray Sinclaire and Robin SinclaireSunshine FoundationVisa Inc.Woodward FundParker Worley

$2,500 - $4,999 One anonymous giftCharities Aid FoundationJon and Katherine Dart Charitable FoundationAlexandra C. DilworthCindy EwingFred Gellert Family Foundation

Global Greengrants FundPaul Johnson/Working Assets/CREDOAngeliki V. Keil and Charles KeilAshley and Elvin MacDonald/R.S. Evans FoundationGary McKellipsRichard and Marlene MillikanSheldon and Susan NashJennifer RandallBeverly Spector & Ken LipsonStonyfield Farms/Shift Energy Drink

$500 - $2,49921 anonymous giftsKenny AbikoKatherine AdamPeter AdlerPeter and Victoria AllinsonDr. Philip O. AndersonScott Atthowe and Patricia ThomasIndia BadinerDavid BaerCarol and Bruce BargeZenobia BarlowJames BerkMichael Birnbaum and Karen SeegerHenry Blodget and Amy ZilliaxUrsula Mary Brooks and Tze-Koong WangShirley Richardson BrowerAndre and Jennifer CarothersNancy and John CassidyPatricia CherneyAnn and Doug Christensen

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$500 - $2,499 cont.Charlotte andRichard CodyAsho CraineRichard CummingsHenry and Vergilia DakinBernard L. Dikman, CPALee DoanMarjory and John EllerKarl G. Estes FoundationLarry FahnCorwin FergusJustin M. Ferrari and Maggie HooksAbigail B. Field/The Edith B. & Lee V. Jacobs Fund, No. 3Jamie C. Field/The Edith B. & Lee V. Jacobs Fund, No. 1Alan Field and Donna WainwrightRobert and Elizabeth FisherMara FlanaganC. M. ForsytheSteffen & Deborah FosterDan and Bunny GabelMarie Lee GaillardNina GoldEthan GoldMyra GoodmanGoodTree, LLCAdrian GrahamWilliam GreenMrs. Florence W. HaaseRobert Hall and Ana BarretoMr. and Mrs. Robert HallidayCollier HandsReza HaririMichael HathawayShirleyann HavesonRobert and Phyllis HenigsonSally HooverEvelyn and Herbert HoweAllan & Marion Hunt-Badiner

Ralph A. JohnsonChristopher JohnsonDavid JoynerSteven Kadish/The Eric and Joan Norgaard Charitable FoundationAlbert Kadosh, DDSTerry Lynn KarlMark KempsonJohn T. KnoxDavid and Betty KollenPaul KonkaHari KrishnanLesley LathropJohn and Marina LittleChristopher Lloyd and Vassie SinopoulosSusan LoesserLou LukasTom LyonsMax B. MargolisWilliam and Louise McCannAnna and Rob McKayW. MitchellMichael MitraniJohn P. MontagueDouglas MontgomeryJan MoursundRoger MyersMark NickelsburgOkun Family FoundationJenane PattersonEdmund Payne and Elizabeth FainJohn and Mary PeltonRoland Pesch and Kathleen RosskopfKatharine PillsburyJames W. RobinsonLori RobinsonRockwood Leadership ProgramLili Schad and Jeffrey CahnMolly SchardtBob and Marilyn SchumannGreg and Nancy SerrurierMartha S. Sherwin

Hillary SlossMartin StadtmuellerMiss Nancy P. StetsonWilliam T. StewartCarol StorenMs. Philippa StrahmDavid StrongTravelocityTreefrog VeneerMichael UdelsonThomas Van DyckSally S. VenerableGretchen B. Wagner/Ayudar FoundationJ. D. WalterStan and Karen WattNadine WeilAdam WerbachBrian and Mary WestChizuko WestrumMargaret V. WhalenMichael Wheeler and Linda BrownDavid Wimpfheimer and Susan CollettaMichael Ziegler and Leigh Marz

BequestsKatherine G. FlynnLou Harrison EstateJeanne Nelson TrustGoldie Otters Estate

Earth Island is a member of EarthShare California and the Combined Federal Campaign workplace giving programs. We are thankful to the many employees who have made gifts to Earth Island through payroll deduction at their workplace.

*We strive to be accurate. Please let us know if you notice a mistake, and we will correct it in subsequent listings.

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Earth Island Institute informs and empowers our members and the public with our award-winning quarterly, Earth Island Journal; our website, www.earthisland.org; and our free monthly newsletter, IslandWire. In addition Earth Island sponsors public lectures, book signings, film screenings, and informal round-table discussions with prominant activists.

In 2007, noted author, activist, and urban farmer Jason Mark took the helm as our Editor.

Earth Island Journal received the Utne Independent Press Award for “Best Environmental Coverage”

“The quarterly publication of the David Brower-founded Earth Island Institute . . . impresses us with its global perspective on environmental news, its clear presentation of complex issues, and an editorial gutsiness in its well-researched features and hard-hitting comentaries.” — Utne

PUBLISHING / Earth Island Journal : News of Action for the World Environment

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Leaders Initiative


Earth Island Institute supports emerging young environmental leaders. Each year since 2000, we have identified and honored six outstanding youth activists between the ages of 13-22 with our Brower Youth Awards; mentored these young achievers; and provided them with experiences, contacts, and resources to develop their leadership, advocacy, and project management skills.

Sharon Smith brought extensive youth organizing experience when she became director for our New Leaders Initiative and Brower Youth Awards in early 2007.

Our 8th annual Brower Youth Awards was a great success, with some seven-hundred guests of all generations —including a large and enthusiastic youth contingent from local schools and youth programs — filling Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.

Together we honored six amazing 2007 Brower Youth Awards honorees: (left to right in photo) Jon Warnow, Carlos Moreno, Erica Fernandez, Q’orianka Kilcher, Alexander Lin, and Rachel Barge.

NEW LEADERS INITIATIVE / BROWER YOUTH AWARDS : Growing Environmental Success

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RESTORATION INITIATIVES : Building a Restoration Agenda

Earth Island Institute’s Restoration Initiatives Fund supports emerging leaders in restoration. With guidance and funding, we help build community constituences to bring life back to once-polluted and -neglected streams, wetlands, and open space in Southern California.

By supporting and empowering these groups and young leaders, we advance David Brower’s vision of how restoration can also bring together our fragmented human communities.

In 2007, our program continued to fund and build a network of diverse restoration innovators through the Small Grants Program of the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project. The Restoration Initiatives web site offers an interactive map showing the locations of projects and information about partner groups:

http://restoration.earthisland.org.

Project Support


EARTH ISLAND PROJECT SUPPORT : Solutions for Global Challenges

Earth Island Institute continued as an expanding global hub for effective environmental problem solving. In 2007, we welcomed nine new projects: Adaptation Network, Altai Project, Bay Localize, Big Wildlife, California Student Sustainability Coalition, Green Cafe Network, South Coast Habitat Restoration (funded earlier by our Restoration Initiatives program), Wildebeat, and Women’s Earth Alliance. Our projects are active worldwide — from the international to the local:

Internationally. Sacred Land Film Project has completed major shooting toward its next film series about international sites where native peoples’s sacred lands are threatened, from Altai, Russia, to Australia….Our Borneo Project continues to support the blockades and legal actions of Malaysian native peoples to protect their traditional lands from being logged and turned into plantations….Meanwhile, our EcoEquity project has articulated a Greenhouse Development Rights framework under which less developed nations would be entitled to fairness in their economic development aspirations under enlightened international protocols for greenhouse gas reductions.

Nationally. Energy Action Coalition is the leading force linking campus actions on global warming. Their “Campus Climate Challenge” unites 43 organizations working with over 535 local groups in 56 US states and Canadian provinces. In addition to bringing about extensive changes in campus energy policies, it organized the historic assembly of over 6,000 student activists in November at the Power Shift 2007 conference in Washington, DC….International Marine Mammal Project scored a final federal court victory in defending the definition of dolphin-safe tuna against Bush Administration attempts to water it down….And John Muir Project achieved successful federal court rulings on post-fire logging projects, halting all new timber sales Sierra Nevada national forests for the first time in the century-long history of the National Forest Service.

Locally. Bay Area Wilderness Training accomplished its 5,000th trip for a young person on a wilderness experience….Kids for the Bay extended the reach of its dynamic program to give kids hands-on educational experience in ecological restoration to include clean-up of the November 2007 S. F. Bay oil spill….And Bay Localize has made a big splash in presenting community-supporting initiatives for a post-carbon future, in which rooftops will be resources for producing food, water, and energy and in which green jobs will become an essential part of regional environmental restoration.

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Adaptation Network

We promote adaptation in concert with mitigation to build resilience in the United States changing climate. The Adaptation Network identifies who is doing what in adaptation in the US and strengthens their work; supports change in US policy on climate change to include fiscally responsible adaptation activities; and works in a personal one-on-one manner with those who want to do or plan adaptation.

PO Box 117Berkeley Springs, WV 25411-0117(304) 258-2533

www.adaptationnetwork.org [email protected]

Staff:Lynne Carter, co-directorBeth Raps, co-director & founder1 Volunteer

Advisory Board: N/A

• Our co-director Lynne Carter was asked to give testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on The Global Change Research Improvement Act of 2007.

• Co-director Lynne Carter asked to present on adaptation planning at back-to-back conferences of NOAA-funded estuarine reserves (national), planners (Cape Cod), and coastal managers (New England), and Coastal Impacts and Adaptation strategies (Cape Cod).

• Co-directors Beth Raps and Lynne Carter, along with Heinz Center Senior Scholar Dennis Ojima, give panels on adaptation at Power Shift 2007.

• Co-director Lynne Carter completes contract work facilitating stakeholder meeting for federal Climate Change Science Program.

• First contract work planning and presenting at scoping meeting on adaptation for national think-tank, Center for Humans and Nature.

Major Accomplishments for 2007:

Projects


Altai Project

The mission of The Altai Project is to protect the natural and cultural heritage of the Altai – a uniquely diverse, mountainous region of southern Siberia. We provide small grants to nonprofit organizations in the Altai region of southern Siberia, organize professional exchanges, and carry out joint projects with our Altai partners in order to reach our goals of nature conservation, promoting renewable energy and environmentally sustainable design, and supporting indigenous organizations in their efforts to protect and restore their traditional lands and life ways.

P4715 Meldon AvenueOakland, CA 94619510-393-5525

[email protected]

Staff:Alyson Ewald, Director Jennifer Castner, Coordinator

Advisory Board:Bill Pfeiffer, Sacred Earth Network David Gordon, Pacific Environment Enid Schreibman, Center for Safe EnergyFran Macy, Center for Safe EnergyGary Cook, Baikal WatchSusan Cutting, Student Conservation Association

• Separated from Center for Safe Energy and became a project of Earth Island Institute.

• Made promising new foundation contacts and pursued funding for a greatly expanded role in Altai.

• Both staff members visited Altai together to meet with grantees and project partners and to strategize for future.

• Participated in a round-table discussion at Altai State Technical University exploring and promoting environmentally friendly building design, especially straw bale building.

• Sponsored anti-poaching brigades, equipment for Leave No Trace trainings, a newsletter on the gas pipeline, and costs of the anti-pipeline campaign.

Thank you to our 2007 Foundation & Individual Donors:

Weeden Foundation, Susan Cutting, Dorothy Cutting, George & Lucy Cutting, Aron Heintz, Eliza Klose, Paul Pitlick & Jan St. Martin.


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415-788-3666 ext. 206

[email protected]

Staff:Martin Witte, Project DirectorMorgan Levy, E-News Editor

Advisory Board:Roz Dzelzitis, May I Speak Freely Media? Dalya Massachi, Writing for Community Success Martin Witte, The Dui Hua Foundation

BAIDO (Bay Area International Development Organizations)

BAIDO is a network of San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits doing international development work. We promote understanding of the challenges facing people globally - and the solutions we are finding.

Inactive in 2007

Projects


• Helped build an additional 45 miles of the Great Baikal Trail at 25 different locations within the national parks and nature reserves around the lake, recruiting and managing some 750 volunteers (of whom 140 were non-Russian) to accomplish this task.

• Helped various NGO partners at Baikal as they protested against the expansion of a uranium recovery and enrichment plant in nearby Angarsk.

• Brought about 200 ecotourists and volunteer workers to the Lake Baikal region, international travelers that left over 120,000 dollars of profit in the region for the local parks and local NGOs and their partners.

• Helped host and provided training to 35 Russian and Central Asian colleagues, including three of our main partners at Baikal (each for a period of six months here in the US)---and in so doing, we managed to share information and provide extensive training on a wide range of environmental problems and how they are dealt with here in the US.

• Continued delegating much of the work previously done by Baikal Watch to our various Russian partners, helping them grow into viable and effective environmental NGOs.

Baikal Watch

Baikal Watch promotes international activities for the permanent protection of biologically rich areas around Lake Baikal and Siberia, while creating numerous conservation initiatives in other parts of Russia and northern Asia.

300 Broadway, Suite 28San Francisco, CA 94133Ph: (415)-788-3666 ext 209 or (510)-841-1616fax: (415)-788-7324

[email protected]

Staff:Gary Cook, Director Ariadna Reida, Coordinator of the Great Baikal Trail Elena Agarkova, Volunteer Legal Counsel Elena Chernobrovkina, Coordinator or Mining Programs 1,000 volunteers


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300 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133415-788-3666 ext 125

[email protected]

Staff:Kyle Macdonald, CEO and FounderRoger Miller, Executive DirectorChelsea Griffie, Program ManagerEve Skyler, Program AssociateMichael Mitrani, OutreachCliff Agocs, Director of Climbing for KidsCisco Martin Del Campo, South Bay Program Associate4-8 Interns Rotating50 Volunteers

Advisory Committee:Alison Gooding, Interim Board Chair, Working AssetsJill Greenblatt, Co-chair -Program Committee, Stuart FoundationAnn Hamilton, Chair–Marketing Committee, Clif Bar

Matt Hitchcock, South Bay Task Force, YMCA RichmondJennifer Lyle, MSW, PhD, Program Committee,Youth Leadership InstituteJunaid Mohiuddin, Metrics and Evaluation Task force, McKinsey & CompanyJamie Morris, Co-Chair, Development Committee, Goldman Sachs, Investment Banking DivisionDavid Scott, Strategic Planning Committee, Knova SoftwareRon Soto, South Bay Task Force, California Youth OutreachEri Suzuki, Program Committee, East Bay Regional Park DistrictJoe White, Technology Task Force, SecorixDan Zucker, Co-chair –Board Development Committee, MBA studentKyle Macdonald, BAWT Founder and CEORoger Miller, BAWT Executive Director

Bay Area Wilderness Training

Bay Area Wilderness Training provides educators with the training and equipment needed to take urban youth on safe, powerful wilderness trips.

• Growing the cumulative number of youth served to over 5,000

• Increasing the number of youth workers served dramatically over the 2006 program year

• Raising over $300K through our Climbing for Kids

• Launching a South Bay office.

• Securing funding for a biodiesel vanpool program


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• Published Tapping the Potential of Urban Rooftops a feasibility study documenting the potential for urban areas to become more self-sufficient in producing their basic needs.

• Collaborated on developing, funding, building, and publicizing a rooftop school garden pilot project at the EC Reams Charter School in East Oakland, along with the Oakland Food Connection.

• Cofounded the Green City Gallery in downtown Berkeley, along with Dig Co-op.

• Published interactive online Localization Asset Map identifying key localization efforts throughout the Bay Area.

• Organized the Local Clean Energy Alliance of the East Bay with the Sierra Club and Pacific Environment in order to bring 50% renewable energy to Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville by 2017.

Bay Localize

Bay Localize builds more livable and self-reliant communities while decreasing dependence on fossil fuel in the nine-county Bay Area.

436 14th StreetSan Francisco, CA 94133Ph: (510)-834-0420

www.BayLocalize.org [email protected]

Staff:Kirsten Schwind, Program DirectorIngrid Severson, Lead Project Organizer

Principle Consultants:Aaron Lehmer, Communications and Strategy ConsultantAllyse Heartwell, Outreach Consultant

Advisory Board:Kat Steele, Urban Permaculture GuildKevin Bayuk, Urban Alliance for SustainabilityDan Antonioli, LEED Certified Green Independent ContractorDavid Room, Oil Independent Oakland


P.O. Box 489Wiliams Oregon 97544

Ph: (541)-846-1352fax: (510)-380-3600

[email protected]

Staff:Spencer Lennard, Project DirectorBrian Vincent, Communications Director

Advisory Board:Kelly Peterson, Humane Society of the USSally Mackler, Oregon Sierra ClubGeorge Wuerthner, Foundation for Deep EcologyMichael Robinson, Center for Biological DiversityNoah Greenwald, Center for Biological DiversityMichael Moss,Siskiyou Goat DairyDave Foreman,Wildlands ProjectWendy Keefover-Ring, Sinapu

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Big Wildlife

Big Wildlife is a conservation advocacy group working to raise public awareness and gain support for top carnivore and keystone wildlife throughout North America. We use grassroots organizing and media infuse positive and sustainable messages on tolerance and coexistence with wildlife, particularly in areas where humans and wildlife have experienced conflict.

• Raised funds in early ‘07 to hire a professional organizer to kick off our campaign in Oregon

• Inserted pro-cougar messages in media coverage of the legislative battle for Oregon’s cougars in 2007

• Developed pro-cougar ranchers to speak out for non-lethal and preventative strategies


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• Produced and distributed documentary video: Rumah Nor: A Land Rights Test for Malaysia, with Malay and English subtitled versions, to hundreds of local communities and dozens of NGOs, journalists and academics around the world.

• Trained 50 indigenous activists in videography and video editing

• Coordinated multi-year scholarship for advanced studies for a Penan student

• Recruited new international volunteers for research and program monitoring in Borneo

• Raised awareness in USA and internationally about Borneo environment and human rights concerns through educational content of website, newsletters, and networking

The Borneo Project

The Borneo Project supports indigenous communities protecting ancestral rainforests and human rights. The Borneo Project coordinates training, supports legal proceedings, provides small grants, facilitates volunteer opportunities, and supports international education about communities and forests in Borneo through programs that include indigenous lands protection, Natural Resources Management, Green Energy, Community Schools, and global education about Borneo community and environment concerns.

1771 Alcatraz AvenueBerkeley, CA 94703

Ph: (415)-788-3666 x212 [email protected]

Staff:Judith Mayer, CoordinatorShawn Sullivan, Communications AssociateJessica Lawrence, Project Advisor (former Director)

Advisory Board:Martha Belcher, Sungevity, Inc.; International Rivers

Joe Lamb, Brende and Lamb TreecareJessica Lawrence, Former Executive DirectorAnna Goldstein, Taube FoundationWick Pancoast, Berkeley Craftsmen BuildersRobert Kruger, Smith-BarneyLiz Varnhagen, National Park ServiceDavid Jaber, Natural Strategiesudith Mayer, Environmental PlanningAnushka Drescher, Environmental consultantJohn Paisley, BuilderDick Morten


www.sustainabilitycoalition.org

[email protected]

Staff: Crystal Durham, Executive Director 13 Volunteers

300 Broadway, Suite 28San Francisco, CA 94133

[email protected]

Staff:Mikhail Davis, Executive Director

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The Brower Fund

The Brower Fund educates the public on David Brower’s life and his message and provides short-term organizational support and small seed grants to innovative campaigns and projects that provide CPR for the Earth.

• Funding of green building program on Navajo reservation

• New partnership with Brower Youth Awards for granting program


California Student Sustainability Coalition

CSSC is a statewide network of passionate young leaders who are working together to advance sustainability in all areas of human endeavor, currently collaborating with key decision makers to promote, create and implement university sustainability policies. CSSC works to educate, train and network the next generation of leaders in California with the knowledge and courage to build both capacity and community.

• Signing of our Charter.

• Establishing a budget and fiscal sponsorship for the first time.

• Getting funded by Energy Action Coalition.

• Getting our first major donor.

• Hiring our first staff.


• Stopped cruise industry from dismantling the successful cruise ship law during the past Alaska legislative session

• Helped force Coeur Alaska (Kensington Mine) to decide to operate in compliance with the CWA


Patagonia, Marisla, Skaggs, Armington, Sierra Club

Campaign to Safeguard America’s Waters

C-SAW designs and employs strategic campaigns based on science, law, and policy to stop industrial wastewater pollution.

PO Box 956Haines, Alaska 99827

Ph: (907)-766-3005Fax: (907)-766-2921

[email protected]

Staff:Gershon Cohen, Project Director

Advisory Board:Steve Kallick, Pew Charitable TrustJeff Short, NMFSRiki Ott, Alaska Forum for Environmental ResponsibilityIrene Alexakos, Sierra Club

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Center for Safe Energy

CSE works to provide knowledge, American contacts, skills, technical assistance and financial resources to non-profit partners in the former Soviet Union that are strengthening democratic society and improving environmental conditions.

2828 Cherry StreetBerkeley, CA 94705

Ph: (510)-883-1177

www.centerforsafeenergy.org [email protected]

Staff:Francis Macy, Co-directorEnid Schreibman, Co-directorTamara Kowalsky, consultant on exchange managementMelissa, exchange managerElizabeth, consultant on IT15 Volunteers


• Technical assistance exchanges on energy related issues with NGOs and municipal governments in Russia.

• Program on recycling for delegations visiting the US and technical assistance in Russia and Ukraine by an expert from San Francisco Department of Environment.

• Weeklong immersion program in the Bay Area on NGO influence on government policy and internal NGO management for three delegations from Russia and Ukraine under the Library of Congress Open World program.

• Expansion of the Democracy in Action Program in Kazakhstan that is designed to increase the role of women and non-profits in local legislative and executive decision-making.

• Facilitation of European support for womens’ NGOs in Kazakhstan whose leaders were trained by CSE over last seven years.


Trust for Mutual Understanding, Open World Leadership Program of the Library of Congress, Harriett Crosby, Larry and Ellen Bean, Carol Kuzmierski, Elise Thoron

• Completed research for forthcoming book

• Completed interviews for feature and documentary films

• Added to roster of experts with national press club associate, specifically listing “21st-century civil rights movement: human rights versus corporate rights” as area of expertise, among others

• Key speaking/teaching engagements

• Designed curriculum for Ultimate Civics

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Communities for Democracy in Alaska

CODA is the 21st-century civil rights movement: human rights versus corporate rights with the goals of revising the Alaska Constitution, and, ultimately, amending the U.S. Constitution, to separate corporation and state, returning all rights and powers to natural persons.

PO Box 1460 Cordova, AK 99574

[email protected]

Staff:Riki Ott, Project co-directorGershon Cohen, Project co-director


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EcoEquity

EcoEquity is a research and advocacy organization dedicated to the promotion of a just and adequate solution to the climate crisis. Our primary focus is a fair and adequate global climate regime, and preparing the US people for its demands.

1514 Beverly PlaceAlbany, CA 94706

Ph: (510)-524-8352

[email protected]

Staff:Tom Athanasiou, Executive DirectorPaul Baer, Research DirectorVolunteers

Advisory Board:Azibuike Akaba, Environmental Justice Specialist, California EPA Eugene Coyle, PhD, Ecological Economics, "public servant" John Gershman, Asia/Pacific Editor, Foreign Policy in Focus Barbara Haya, PhD Candidate, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley Glenn Fieldman, Lecturer, San Francisco State University

Donna Green, Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia) Dan Kammen (chair), Professor, Energy and Resources Group and Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley Juliette Majot, Consultant specializing in Non Profit Organizations Patrick McCully, Executive Director, International Rivers Network Richard Norgaard, Professor, Energy and Resources Group Susan Ode, Program Coordinator, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives Timmons Roberts, Professor of Sociology, College of William and Mary Agus Sari, Executive Director, Pelangi, Indonesia Sivan Kartha, Senior Scientist, Tellus Institute Jim Williams, Energy consultant


• Completed our first complete exposition of the Greenhouse Development Rights framework, which was printed by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin and distributed / introduced at COP13 in Bali.

• Developed a close working relationship with Christian Aid in England, added the Heinrich Böll Foundation as another partner, and established a close working relationship with both Friends of the Earth International and Oxfam International, both of which are now “friends of Greenhouse Development Rights.” Which also includes the Stockholm Environment Institute.

• Specified the domestic side of our project in a satisfactory manner for the first time. This is the project we call “Global Climate Justice for Americans,” and we will begin work on it in early 2008.

• Formal MoU signed to partner with Angel Island State Park

• Agreement with Park on key mission objectives

• Presented GDRs in a series of increasingly prestigious and influential venues, including a United Nations Expert Group meeting on Climate and Development, a climate law and policy forum at the NYU law school, a seminar at the Monterey Institute, the International Forum on Globalization’s Washington DC teach-in this last summer, the “Power Shift 2007” student conference in November, an American Meteorological Society policy workshop, a Tufts/SEI forum, and even a symposium on future architectures organized for Hillary Benn, the new British Environment Secretary.

• Received our first major grant from a US Foundation, $50,000 from Town Creek. Thank you to our 2007 Foundation & Individual Donors:

The Town Creek Foundation

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EcoEquity

EcoIslandEco-Island endeavors to make Angel Island a symbol of the Bay Area's environmental leadership by partnering with Angel Island State Park to harness renewable energy, promote sustainable management, and foster environmental education.

PO Box 470261 San Francisco, CA 94147

Ph: (415)-370-6392

[email protected]

Staff:Joe Wenisch, Project Co-DirectorJohn Rethans, Project Co-Director2 Volunteers


Energy Action CoalitionEnergy Action is a coalition of more than 40 organizations from across the US and Canada, founded and led by youth to help support and strengthen the student and youth clean energy movement in North America.

1301 Clifton St, Suite 700Washington, DC

414-520-5655 (Jessy)202-449-8284 (Jessy) [email protected]

2017 Mission St, 2nd FloorSan Francisco, CA 94110

Ph: 415-290-0129 (Kassie)Fax: 801- 994-5880 (Kassie)[email protected]

www.energyaction.netwww.climatechallenge.org

Staff: Jessy Tolkan, Co-Director Kassie Rohrbach, Co-Director Arthur Coulston, Digital Organizer Ragini Kapadia, Field Director Brianna Cayo-Cotter, Communications Director Aleli Gapero, Operations Assistant Whit Jones, Challenge FellowBilly Parish, Ashoka Fellow

Volunteers: 27, 000 across the coalition

Advisory Board: (Rep. from each org.)

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher EducationBlack Mesa Water CoalitionCalifornia Student Sustainability CoalitionCALPIRGCampus ProgressChesapeake Climate Action NetworkClean Air Cool PlanetClimate Crisis CoalitionConnPIRGCoPIRGEarth Day NetworkEnergy Justice NetworkEnvironmental Justice and Climate Change InitiativeGlobal ExchangeGreenpeaceGreen 4 All (Trail Active Member)Indigenous Environmental Network

Kids Against PollutionLeague of Conservation Voters Education Fund / ProjectDemocracyMASSPIRGNational Association of Environmental Law SocietiesNational Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology ProgramNJPIRGRainforest Action NetworkRestoring EdenThe Ruckus Society (Trial Active Member)Sierra Student CoalitionSierra Youth CoalitionSouthern Alliance for Clean EnergyStudent Environmental Action CoalitionStudents United for a Responsible Global EnvironmentSustainable Endowments InstituteWashPIRGWISPIRGYoung People For

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Major Accomplishments for 2007:• Over 6,000 young people gathered in Washington DC for Power Shift 2007, the first youth climate convergence in the U.S.

Campus Climate Challenge:The Rockefeller Brothers FundThe Kendeda FundThe Surdna FoundationOpen Society InstituteNew York Community TrustThe Overbrook FoundationThe Merck Family FundThe Kendall FoundationThe Energy FoundationWolfensohn Family FundTown Creek FoundationLaird Norton Family FundConnect US The Donner Foundation The Marisla Foundation The Wallace Global Fund Hinkle Charitable Trust

Power Shift Donors and Sponsors:HKH FoundationThe Betsy & Jesse Fink FoundationThe Nathan Cummings FoundationEarth Island InstituteNational Wildlife FederationThe Rockefeller Brothers FundThe Rockefeller Family FundThe Better Tomorrow FundNatural Resources Defense CouncilEnvironmental DefenseThe Sierra Club

The Overbrook FoundationNational Environmental TrustThe Ford FoundationThe Threshold FoundationThe Alliance for Climate ProtectionThe 11th Hour ProjectGreen PeaceUnion of Concerned ScientistsHal HinkleMonster.ComTown Creek FoundationEarthjusticeClif BarEarth Day NetworkChristensen Family FoundationMatthew HeisingAmerican Council on Renewable EnergyNational Religious Partnership for the EnvironmentRainforest Action NetworkThe Wilderness SocietyCFLs for KidsEnvironmental Leadership ProgramThe Compton FoundationStudent PugwashPublic CitizenFood & Water WatchThe Dolphin FoundationGreen CorpsMarion Edey

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Energy Action Coalition• Over 3,000 young people stayed for the Power Shift Lobby Day on November 5, 2007, which resulted in the largest federal lobby day to-date on Climate Change.

• 600 campuses signed up for Campus Climate Challenge and over 490 college and university presidents signed onto the President’s Climate Commitment, largely due to student pressure.

• Since the fall of 2006, coalition members have helped to organize over 60 state and regional youth climate summits. Over 6000 youth have attended these.

• In 2007, we fundraised over $3.5 million for the Campus Climate Challenge and Power Shift 2007.Thank you to our 2007 Foundation & Individual Donors:

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Ray Rodney, Wilderness TravelFreight & Salvage Coffee HouseJoyce Clark, Friends of Khmer Culture

Ethical Traveler

Ethical Traveler was created to inform people of the ambassadorial aspects of travel, and to empower travelers to take a pro-active stance on issues impacting countries where a considerable portion of the GNP is based on tourism. We stage campaigns promoting human rights and environmental preservation, and help guide travelers toward ethical travel destinations.

P.O. Box 5883 Berkeley, CA 94705

Ph: (510)-653-6911Fax: (510)-653-6911

[email protected]

Staff (all volunteers):Jeff Greenwald, Executive DirectorEllen Bruno, Documentary Filmmaker V. Carroll Dunham, Nepal-based Author and AnthropologistNancy Lindborg, President, Mercy CorpsDr. Elliot Marseille, Public Health and AIDS ExpertRon Silberman, Activist and DeveloperMalia Everett, Global Exchange

Advisory Board:Jeff Greenwald, Executive DirectorMichael McColl, Communications DirectorGregg Butensky, Website DirectorAndrew dePasquale, Website DesignerChristina Nielsen, Volunteer CoordinatorIsabelle Lagarde, Assistant to the Executive DirectorHolly Monohan, NY liaisonEdward Readicker-Henderson, New Room EditorJenny Boyd, News WriterChristy Hoover, News WriterAmeena Shah, News WriterFelix Choo, News WriterLiliana DeBarbieri, News Writer

Major Accomplishments for 2007:• Campaign against child sex trafficking in Cambodia;

• Maintenance of top-notch news writing team, which now produces a monthly News Room.

• More than doubling our registered membership to 5,117

• Profile of ED Jeff Greenwald in the New York Times (April 3 2007)

• Stories about our work in Condé-Nast Traveler, Google News, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Toronto StarThank you to our 2007 Foundation & Individual Donors:

Richard and Lorraine Henninger

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Green Café NetworkGreen Café Network is dedicated to addressing America's over-consumption by reducing the ecological impacts of the coffeehouse industry and harnessing café culture for environmental education. By 'greening' the coffeehouse industry at the grassroots level, Green Café Network aims to bring sustainability to the mainstream by educating, inspiring and mobilizing a new population of environmentally responsible citizens.

300 Broadway, Suite 28 San Francisco, CA 94133

Ph: (415)-788-3666 ext. 208Fax: (415)-788-7324

[email protected]

Staff:Kirstin Henninger, Founding DirectorMacKenzie Greene-Powell, program intern (SFSU)Michael Cole, research intern (SFSU)

Emily Loen, art volunteer (for logo and materials)

Advisory Board: Christopher Waters, Owner, Nomad CaféJessica Parsons, Chair Board Member and Interim Executive Director, Exploring New Horizons Outdoor SchoolJulian Agyeman, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

Major Accomplishments for 2007:• In the first 8 months, we’ve completed a pilot project and recruited 10 cafes as members of Green Café Network

• We were interviewed for Worldwatch Institute’s ‘State of the World 2008’ for a chapter on sustainable urban communities.

• We formed an Advisory Board, which is still growing

• We got the help of two interns and one volunteer artist

• We have moved far in our plan to organize collective purchasing among member cafes (which should be in operation in early 2008)


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• 1st national multi-sectoral stakeholders meeting for production of organic sugar in Fiji

• Developed presence for project in Fiji

• 5 on-farm research trials using organic fertilizers

• Grew from 1 to 4 all-volunteer staff

• Started e-newsletters (online outreach)

The Fiji Organic Project

The Fiji Organic Project is leading the effort to shift agricultural production in Fiji to organic growing methods, particularly in the sugar cane industry, as a means of protecting the fragile island ecosystems and safeguarding the health of Fiji citizens while promoting sustainable economic development. The Fiji Organic Project is accomplishing this by conducting participatory action research and building a coalition of diverse stakeholders including university students, farmers, local professionals, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations.


Ph: (314)-348-6999Fax: (314)-991-1998

[email protected]

Staff:Molly Rockamann, Founding DirectorRupeni Tamanikaiyaroi, Research OfficerJeanette Reynolds, Communications OfficerLucy Browner, Public Outreach Intern


• Refocused programs and restructured headquarters staff.

• Hired Assistant Director and Thailand Program Coordinator.

• Completed Thailand HIV/AIDS pilot project with PATH International.

• Hired highly qualified Tanzania in-country Director of Operations.

• Established new GSC Tanzania office, doubling our space.

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Global Service Corps

Global Service Corps provides service-learning opportunities for adult volunteer participants to live and work on environmental, health, and social justice projects in developing countries.


Ph: (415)-788-3666 x 128Fax: (415)-788-7324

[email protected]

Founded in 1993Joined EII in 1995

Staff:San Francisco:

Rick Lathrop, Executive DirectorMaxine Lathrop, Assistant DirectorBrian Fabian, Tanzania Program CoordinatorKent Hung, Marketing Assistant/Database AdministratorWilliam Li, Accountant InternAlpa Mistry, Administrative Assistant Intern

Tanzania:Erwin Kinsey, Director of

OperationsFrida Lauwo, In-Country CoordinatorDaphne Waite, Tanzania In-Country AdministratorJenaya Rockman, Youth Program CoordinatorWilliam Rite, Sustainable Agriculture CoordinatorSommy Isanja, Sustainable Agriculture InstructorEvans Javason, Sustainable Agriculture InstructorMary Lucas, Sustainable Agriculture Demonstration Plot AssistantEva Dominick, Office Cleaner/Assistant

Thailand:Patrick Franssen, Program ManagerKantiya Suwan, Logistics Manager Chan, Project Coordinator2 Volunteers


Global Greengrants FundThank you to our 2007 Foundation & Individual Donors:

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• Hydro Nova continued to offer a consumer and environmental perspective for the on-going review of California’s onsite wastewater regulations.

• Hydro Nova’s director published articles in professional magazines which offered alternatives to current practices.

• Hydro Nova supported a local group in Alameda County which managed to alter poorly written regulations to become somewhat more consumer friendly.

• Hydro Nova expanded the workshops it offered through the Building Education Center of the Bay Area.

HydroNova

Hydro Nova supports a decentralized approach to water and wastewater management. In contrast to the big pipe mentality we emphasize approach-es that foster local solutions to critical water issues.

3001 Ashbrook Court Oakland, CA 94601

Ph: (510)- 534-7008

www.earthisland.org/hydronova [email protected]

Staff: Bob Feinbaum, Project Director (Volunteer)



San Francisco Foundation

Anonymous DonorsMarisla FoundationMoss FoundationSummerlee Foundation

Haskell FundHawley Family FoundationRegina Frankenberg FoundationWaren Verein

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International Marine Mammal ProjectIMMP is leading the global effort to stop the slaughter of dolphins, to end commercial whaling, to end the use of drift nets and other destructive fishing practices, end commercial exploitation of cetaceans by aquariums and sea parks, and to protect key whale and dolphin habitats.


Ph: (415)-788-3666Fax: (415)-788-7324

www.earthisland.org/immp [email protected]

Staff: David Phillips, Project DirectorMark Berman, Associate DirectorMark J. Palmer, Associate DirectorMichael Reppy, Director Thursday's Child

Sam LaBudde, ConsultantRic and Helene O’Barry, ConsultantsMany Volunteers

Advisory Board:Dr. Paul Spong Dr. Roger Payne, Whale Research Center Craig Van Note, MonitorJosh Floum, Vice President, VISA Ann Moss, Dolphin Connection

Major Accomplishments for 2007:• Maintained worldwide Dolphin Safe tuna label• Successfully concluded eight years of litigation against the Bush Administration, preventing the weakening of the standards for the Dolphin Safe tuna label in the US• Monitored dolphin-safe tuna in countries around the world, including several new locations• Participated in 2007 International Whaling Commission, posting the daily conservation newsletter ECO on EII Website• Gained worldwide recognition for our campaign to Oppose Japan’s Dolphin Drive Fishery with demos in 35 countries and stories in Japan newspapers, and had dolphin meat banned from several major Japanese markets and chains• Became a leading voice globally in opposition to Navy's LFA Sonar program and other ocean noise pollution issues• Helped block weakening amendments in Congress to Marine Mammal Protection Act, Endangered Species Act, and increased offshore oil drilling


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John Muir Project

John Muir Project’s goal is to ensure ecological management of our National Forests by ending the federal timber sales program and eliminating its system of perverse economic and political incentives that undermine science and threaten native wildlife and forest ecosystems.

P.O. Box 697 Cedar Ridge, CA 95924

Ph: (530)-273-9290Fax: (530)-273-9260

www.johnmuirproject.org

Staff:Chad Hanson, DirectorRachel Fazio, Staff Attorney


• JMP defeated the Forest Service’s attempt to overturn our important legal ruling at the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Project director Chad Hanson received his PhD in ecology, emphasis in fire ecology, from UC Davis.

• JMP’s legal precedent halted most new logging projects on Sierra Nevada national forests from March 2007 until November 2007.


Environment Now Deer Creek Foundation

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Kids for the BayKIDS for the BAY partners with 4,000 students and 200 teachers in low-income elementary schools in Alameda and Contra Costa counties each year to inspire environmental consciousness and cultivate a love of learning through our seven environmental education programs.

1771 Alcatraz AvenueBerkeley, CA 94703

Ph: (510)-985-1602Fax: (510)-547-4259

[email protected]

Staff:Mandi Billinge, Executive Director/FounderSheela Shankar, Associate DirectorShannon Bowen, Development CoordinatorKristina Cervantes, Yoshida – Education DirectorShefali Shah, Education Director

Leslie Haynes, Program DirectorKrista Mendelsohn, Program DirectorSayo Costantino, Program DirectorDeborah Zierten, Program Coordi-natorJonah Yamagata, Program CoordinatorPatrick Stelmach, Office Assistant

Advisory Board:Leilani Alo, Goldman PrizeBrenda Salgado, Breast Cancer ActionLaura Prival, Oakland Unified School DistrictSumana Rao, Napoleon At Home


• Delivered programs to 4,000 students and 200 teachers

• Celebrated our 15 Year Anniversary

• Winner of the 2007 Coastal Living Education Award

• Winner of the 2007 Contra Costa Watershed Education Project of the Year Award

• Implemented a successful year of internal professional development for our multicultural team of environmental educators and nonprofit professionals

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Alameda County Clean Water ProgramAlameda County Waste Management/StopWaste.OrgAltamont Landfill Education Advisory BoardBernard Osher FoundationCalifornia Bay Delta Authority Watershed ProgramCapital Group CompaniesCedar Tree FoundationCity of AntiochCity of El CerritoCity of HerculesCity of PinoleCity of PittsburgCity of RichmondCity of San PabloContra Costa Clean Water ProgramContra Costa Watershed ProjectContra Costa Fish & WildlifeEast Bay Community FoundationGiant Steps FoundationGive Something BackDavid B. Gold FoundationFlanagan Family FoundationGoldman FundHeller FoundationHolloway Family FundJ. Vance Huckins FundNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Bay Education & TrainingRose FoundationSan Francisco Estuary ProjectSan Francisco FoundationS.D. Bechtel FoundationTimberland CorporationTown of DanvilleWells FargoWest Contra Costa County Integrated Waste Management Authority/Recyclemore


Kids for the Bay

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San Francisco FoundationJ. Michael Nitschke FundREIRobert and Suzanne TauntRich and Jackie BobergStefano Dezerega,John and Diana HarringtonArieh Rosenbaum

Nature in the City Nature in the City is San Francisco's first and only organization wholly dedicated to ecological conservation, restoration and stewardship of the Franciscan bioregion. Our strategies/program areas are public education, community organizing & stewardship, conservation advocacy & policy, and collaboration.

PO Box 170088San Francisco CA 94117

Ph: (415)-564-4107Fax: (415)-564-4107

[email protected]

Staff: Ellie Billings, Program AssociatePeter Brastow, Founding Director

Advisory Board: Brent Plater. Golden Gate

Charlotte Hill, Kids in Parks Chris Giorni, Tree Frog Deirdre Elmansoumi, Community Gardens for ButterfliesDoug Kern, Urban Watershed Project Dylan Hayes, Recreation and Parks Greg Gaar - History/Photography/Native Plant Propagation/Habitat StewardshipJake Sigg, California Native Plant Society Josiah Clark, Habitat Potential


• Earth Day at McLaren Park• Received a capacity-building grant from the San Francisco Foundation• Hired Ellie Billings, our absolutely phenomenal Program Assistant• Led the advocacy for inclusion of $5 million for nature trails in the General Obligation Parks Bond, which is going to be on the February 2008 ballot as Prop A• Secured $50,000 for the San Francisco Weed Management Area to restore endangered species habitat on Twin Peaks and collate noxious weed data from all county agencies


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Red Panda Network

The Red Panda Network is focused on conducting community-based conservation through education, monitoring and sustainable development. We are focused on grassroots species conservation focusing on the ambassador for the Eastern Himalaya, red panda

PO Box 390454Mountain View, CA 94039

Ph: (650)-279-1650

www.redpandaproject.org [email protected]

Staff:Brian Williams, Executive DirectorJennifer Freitas, Business Coordinator Bree Richardson, Membership CoordinatorPaula Chang, Webmaster and Site DesignerDawn Moya, Marketing

Coordinator10 Volunteers

Advisory Board:Drew Weiner, Director of Major Gifts, San Francisco ZooNicki Boyd, Animal Care Supervisor, San Diego Childrens ZooDr. Abby Gross Lew, Ear, Nose and Throat Physician, Kaiser PermanenteDavinna Ohlson, Senior Project Manager, Live Oak Associates, Inc.Mark Brace, Business Development Team, Chatham Financial

Major Accomplishments for 2007:• Creation of Red Panda Network-Nepal - national affiliate

• Filming of Documentary – In Search of Red Panda

• Implementation of Project Punde Kundo – world’s first community-based red panda population monitoring

• Refunding from our major donors

• Strategic Partnership with TMI and WWF-NepalThank you to our 2007 Foundation & Individual Donors:

San Diego Zoo Rotterdam ZooGlobal Greengrants FundAAZK-Nashville Chapter (Stephanie Greene)Alexis YeapAlison DayaniAmanda RosenbergAmy Hulsey

Barbara JonesBenjamin Smithcafepress.comCaren BernsteinCarla J. KantCelina PhillipsChristian KryderChristine RachwalChristopher PapasianDisposal ManagementElizabeth Kobayashi

Erika DeoudesHeather StephensJames & Nancy WilliamsJanet Palmieri Jill ByasseeJim BoeckmanJulia L. YoungLindsay NewlinMarjorie & Cary Fulbright

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Red Panda Network


Mark Lies Meredith Houser Neal GorenfloNicole GreeleyPatrick BensonPaula GrimestadRobert & Judith FenertyRon HermansenSan Diego ZooSara AngustiStephanie BrinkopStephen KaySusan IbarguenWendee Coons Lisa Adametz Matthew Allen Mai Britt Andreasen Connor Bailey Dawn Barr Jeremiah & Jessica Blatz Samuel Blaustein Shane Bornstein Mark Brace Troy Bruett Leigh Bryan Paula Byers Dawn Cantagallo Jason Chandler Dien Leung Peter Cheng Caroline Clark’s Third Grade Class Anne Marie Colwell Cressida Darwin Pamela Davis Shauna Dee Collin Deschamps Olivia March Dreizen Kent Eddy Melissa Epler The Estrada Brigade (Sultana Vest) Joseph & Elaina Ferro John & Bretta Fox Jennifer Freitas

J. Gregory Kimberly Glab Joseph Gleason Greater Kansas City American Association of Zoo Keepers Corey Greeley Elizabeth Green Linda Greene Stephen Gregory Elizabeth Haffling Grant Hampton Justin Hatt Francis Henry Ron Hermansen Natalie Hildebrandt Kelly Hobbs Eric Holloway Matthew Inns Carol Isen Melanie James Belinda Johnson Tae & Hae Kil Robert Kilvington Diane Kortsch Jane LaPides Kurt Leutfeld Andrew Martin Randall & Sharon Matke Melanie McGovern Carrie Meggs James & Sarah Mellon Martin Miller Sara Miller Kelli Medeiros Chad Morrow Lori Neikirk Christine Olson Karla Peterson Nataliya Pick Kirsten Pohl Erin Poirier Geoffrey Potter Joanne Randinitis

E.K. Rayborn Carol Reifsnyder Alexis Roughton Spyroulla Rowland James Sands Gabrielle Scarpa Erika Schafer Paul Segesdi Laura Smith Hanna Sone Erik Steffens Sophie Tajry Rob Tebeau Luca & Paolo Triglia Lauren Turnani Caroline Turner Freya Tyrer Udhailiyah School’s 3rd/4th Grade Class (Jennifer Born) Jane Verlander Vicky Vladic Patricia J. Warning Glen Weinstein Westridge School For Girls Katy Willison Peter Yacavone Alexis Yeap Bryn Yoder Amy Zuckerman The Lew Family

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Reef Protection International

RPI educates the public about the marine aquarium trade and promotes consumer behavior that enhances coral reef conservation.

300 BroadwaySuite 28 SF, CA 94103

Ph: (415)-788-3666 x 223Fax: (415)-788-7324

www.reefprotect.org [email protected]

Staff: Drew Weiner, Director


• Updated website with “website companion” to Reef Fish Guide

• Quotes attributed to RPI in multiple mission-related articles

• Managed expenses to a minimum and carrying over nearly all of the remaining balance from 2007


Marisla Foundation

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Rooted in Community National Network Rooted In Community (RIC) is a national grassroots network that empowers young people to take leadership in their own communities. We are a diverse movement of youth and adults working together who are committed to fostering healthy communities and food justice through urban and rural agriculture, community gardening, food security, and related environmental justice work.

758 East Avenue Rochester, NY 14620

Ph: (585)-473-4630Fax: (585)-271-0194

[email protected]

Staff: Hank Herrera, Project Director

Advisory Committee:Malaika Edwards, People’s Grocery

Geralina Fortier, People’s GroceryErika Allen, Growing PowerHank Herrera, Center for Popular Research Education and PolicyIan Marvy, Added Value, Red HookJenifer Smith, GRUBKim Gaffi, GRUBKirsten Walters, Lots to GardenLydia Villanueva, C.A.S.A. del LlanoSylvia Blaine, Dunbar GardensJennifer Eckert, Santa Cruz


• Ninth successful RIC National Conference in Philadelphia.

• Advisory Committee initiated strategic planning for the indigenous leadership and entrepreneurship programs.

• Growth of subscriptions to the RIC list serve to 100.

• The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation provided core general operating support for RIC.

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Sacred Land Film Project

Earth Island Institute’s Sacred Land Film Project produces a variety of media and educational materials to deepen public understanding of sacred places, indigenous cultures and environmental justice. Our mission is to use journalism, organizing and activism to rekindle reverence for land, increase respect for cultural diversity, stimulate dialogue about connections between nature and culture, and protect sacred lands and diverse spiritual practices.

P.O. Box C-151 La Honda, CA 94020

Ph: (650)-747-0685Fax: (650)-747-0750

[email protected]

Staff: Christopher McLeod, Project DirectorVicki Engel, Program CoordinatorAshley Tindall, Associate ProducerMarlo Bodzick, Office Manager/Production Coordinator3 Volunteers

Advisory Board: Winona LaDuke, White Earth Land Recovery Proj.

Chris Peters, Seventh Generation FundWalter Echo-Hawk, Native American Rights FundGerald Vizenor, professor U.C. BerkeleyJosé Lucero, Circle of the Four DirectionsDonna House, ethnobotanistRichard Clemmer, University of Denver Peter Nabokov, U.C.L.A. anthropologistBen Bagdikian, author/ journalistTed Roszak, historianPeter Matthiessen, authorJoan Halifax, anthropologistAlfonso Ortiz, the late Tewa anthropologistJoan Halifax, anthropologist


• Filming in the Altai Republic of Russia, the Northern Territory of Australia and northern California.

• Building relationships with indigenous colleagues in Russia, Australia, Hawaii and Peru. Bringing colleagues from the Altai Republic of Russia together with the Winnemem Wintu as we filmed in northern California.

• Beginning to edit Losing Sacred Ground.

• Mapping our production schedule for 2008: planning trips to Hawaii, Peru, Africa, India, northern California and Washington, D.C.

• Expanding and updating our web presence, with a website redesign, a new weblog and social networking sites.

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Christensen Fund

Compton Foundation

Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation

Grousbeck Family Fund

Kalliopeia Foundation

Newman’s Own Foundation and Susan Newman

Sundance Documentary Fund

Work-in-Progress Fund of the Tides Foundation

Many individual donors and foundations

Sacred Land Film Project


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Marisla FoundationStephen NaigleVerizon WirelessMicrosoftMiranda TaylorLindsey VurekChange Your Food Change Your Life

Safe Food and Fertilizer

Safe Food and Fertilizer seeks to ban the use of hazardous and other industrial wastes in fertilizer, soil amendments and animal feeds because of their potential risk to human health and the Environment.

617 H St. SWQuincy, WA 98848

Ph: (509)-787-4275Fax: (509)-787-4275

www.safefoodandfertilizer.org [email protected]

Staff: Patricia Martin, Director18 Volunteers

Advisory Board:Steve Dickens, Healthy Rivers, Healthy CommunitiesJane Williams, California Communities Against ToxicsBrian Lipsett, Co-founder Environmental Background Information CenterToni Temple, Ohio Network for the Chemically Injured


• Submitted comments against the proposed adoption of the AAPFCO (industry) standard by the Organic Materials Review Institute

• Participated in the EcoFarming Conference panel on organic fertilizer standards

• Submitted joint comments on EPA’s redefinition of Solid Waste together with EarthJustice, NET, Sierra Club and Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center

• Spoke at Evergreen State University and Gonzaga University


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Became an EII project!

South Coast Habitat RestorationThe mission of South Coast Habitat Restoration is to manage habitat protection, conservation, restoration and outreach projects in the Santa Barbara and Ventura region.

PO Box 335Carpinteria, CA 93014

Ph: (805)-729-8787Fax: (805)-684-7255

[email protected]

Staff:Mauricio Gomez, Project Director


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Spoonbill Action Voluntary Echo (SAVE) InternationalThe purpose of Spoonbill Action Voluntary Echo (SAVE) International is to protect the critically endangered black-faced spoonbill and its habitat throughout its flyway by promoting alternative economic development and long-term sustainability of the ecosystems and local communities.

Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental PlanningUniversity of California, Berkeley202 Wurster HallBerkeley, CA 94720

Ph: (510)-215-1864Fax: (510)-849-0594

www.earthisland.org/[email protected]

Staff (all volunteers):Sheila Dickie, Project Coordinator10 Volunteers

Advisory Board:Shay BoutillierBarbara ButlerYoonjoon ChangSheila DickieJan EieslandRandy HesterMarcia McNallyDerek SchubertWen-ling TuWan-chih Yin


• Held successful Remodeling Design Activism Conference in February 2007 as part of our tenth anniversary year celebration which included nearly 40 visitors from Taiwan actively involved in the effort over the 10 years.

• UCB-LAEP Tommy Church competition used NSA site for design challenge.

• Attended workshop in Taiwan in June 2007 as part of the National Scenic Area development in Taiwan, developing stepping-stone habitat site plans for endangered Black-faced Spoonbill and sustainable economic models.

• Continued intervention in National Scenic Area planning process which prevented further loss of existing and potential spoonbill habitat in Taiwan

• Direct involvement in planning for Augo ecotourism site and continuing monitoring of the proposed Bin-nan industrial complex (in Taiwan)

• Continued meeting of organizational protocol (hold regular meetings and meeting minutes, keep bylaws current and relevant, produce newsletter, hold annual membership “drive”)

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Malcolm CoulterSheila DickieRandy Hester and Marcia McNallyDiana KeenaThom Sutfin KerrMatt KondolfDoris and Pete LindforsClare Cooper MarcusPatricia SchubertKim StrykerJean TakekawaAnni Tilt and David ArkinFlora Yeh

Spoonbill Action Voluntary Echo (SAVE) InternationalThank you to our 2007 Foundation & Individual Donors:

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• SWAle’s “Seven Goals for the San Francsico’s Sewer System Master Plan” were adopted by San Francisco’s Environment Commission, the Sierra Club, and the Wastewater subcommittee of the SFPUC

• Gave presentations on the Sewer System Master Plan and our priorities for it to Telegraph Hill Dwellers and the Senior Action Network.

• Received a detailed response to our Seven Goals from SFPUC planning staff

• Master Plan summary released in June of 2007 included “integrated watershed management” as an key component of the program, as advocated by SWAle

• Working through the SFPUC Citizens’ Advisory Committee, at the request of the General Manager, we developed specific program recommendations for the development of environmental justice guidelines (as required in the San Francisco Charter) and pilot projects.

Sustainable Watershed Alliance

The Sustainable Watershed Alliance is a coalition of 28 organizations that works to reform the way San Francisco perceives and handles its water resources.

300 Broadway, Suite. 28San Francisco, CA 94133

Ph: (415)-585-9489Fax: (415)-369-9180

[email protected]

Staff:Jennifer Clary, Project DirectorAlex Lantsberg, Project Director

Advisory Board:Jennifer Clary, Clean Water Action, San Francisco TomorrowAlex Lantsberg, India Basin Neighborhood Assoc.Linda Hunter, Farallones Marine Sanctuary Assoc.Steven Krefting, SF League of Conservation VotersDan Dodt – Bayview Hunters Point Community Advisory CommitteeLeslie Caplan, business representative



San Francisco Foundation

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• Developed program plan to expand the Community Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Cultivation Program in Nepal for implementation Spring, 2008

• Referred reports from NGOs and individuals regarding international shahtoosh trade to USFWS law enforcement for follow-up

• Initiated revision of TPP project web pages

• Networking and research on NGO conservation issues and organizations in Tibetan Plateau region

Focused on research for the SourceBook

Sustainable World CoalitionWe are a research and education organization, with the purpose of educating the general public as to the essential condition of the planet (regarding environment, social and economic issues) and what are the best solutions—individually and collectively—towards creating a peaceful human society and a healthy environment. We have no permanent staff, but recruit contractors on a project-by-project basis.

79 Sidney Ct. San Rafael, CA 94903

Ph: (415)-785-1888Fax: (415)-785-3548

[email protected]

Staff: Vinit Allen, Director


Tibetan Plateau Project

The Tibetan Plateau Project promotes biodiversity conservation and sustainable development of mountain communities in the Tibetan Plateau region through research, grassroots action and public education.


Ph: (415)-788-3666 x132Fax: (415)-788-7324

http://www.earthisland.org/[email protected]

Staff: Justin Lowe, Project Director


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• Former UAP sponsored Biology and Ecology students organized and conducted conservation workshop to community members and teachers in Padre Ramos on birds and mangroves.

• Former UAP student published a 70 page colored bird manual of lo-cal bird species of Padre Ramos.

• A 4 page laminated mangrove guide was designed by UAP students and distributed to community members and teachers in Padre Ramos and a 6 page laminated guide to the scarlet macaw was distributed in the Volcán Cosiguina area.

• In 2007, UAP worked closely with rural farmers in the communities around the Tisey Estanzuela reserve on a socio-economic study of 40 members involved in the creation of a cooperative. UAP sent two students from UNAN Leon to the area to conduct surveys, which was developed in coordination with the cooperative and UAP staff, to gather information about the community members’ living conditions, farming techniques, in-come, expectations for the cooperative, and more. In July of 2007, the UAP students and staff presented the results of the study to all 40 members of the cooperative, and helped them take their first steps in the development of a long-term strategic plan.

• Youth group members in Padre Ramos re-structure local governing committee and UAP sent former UAP students give workshop to the new committee, training them in project development, proposal writing, and leadership skills.

UniversitÀrea ProtigidaUAP promotes sustainable rural development by supporting participative research projects, environmental education programs, conservation efforts, and grassroots cooperatives. In partnership with progressive Nicaraguan university student groups and rural communities, UÁP works to transform the youth of today into the education and conservation leaders of tomorrow.

300 Broadway Suite 28San Francisco, CA 94133

Ph: In California: (415)-788- 3666 Ext. 203

In Nicaragua: (505)-605-6851

www.eii.org/uap [email protected]

Staff: Olin Cohan, DirectorGerald Camacho, Education Coordinator

Advisory Board: Sonja Martin, administrative supportJesse C. Swanhuyser, Director, California Coalition for Fair Trade and Human Rights



Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation

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5866 Harbor DriveOakland, CA 94611

[email protected]

Staff: Laura Patricia Pérez Arce, Director,Dr. Patricia Pérez-Arce, Co-Director

Viva Sierra GordaVSG is a support organization to a coalition of local organizations working together for a high impact public—private partnership to guarantee long term sustainability in a sacred and priority natural sanctuary, the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

• Updated webpage• Regular presence in EII publications• International and TV coverage• Public event in San Francisco


Supported publication of 2 books on Niger Delta

West Africa Rainforest Network

WARN supports the protection of forests and forest peoples’ rights in West Africa. Working in solidarity with local communities and organizations, WARN builds local capacity and international support for the protection and sustainable management of West Africa’s natural resources.

300 Broadway, Ste. 28San Francisco, CA 94117

Ph: (510)-282-2374Fax: (415)-788-7324


Staff:Stephanie Alston, Project Director

Advisory Board:Oronto Douglas, Environmental Rights Action, NigeriaTunde Morakinyo, Iroko FoundationIke Okonta, JournalistMichael Watts, Professor UC BerkeleyGary Cook, Baikal WatchJohn O’Niles, PhD Rainforest Coalition


• Joined Earth Island Institute• Attended the Outdoor Retailer trade show seeking sponsors• Maintained a weekly production schedule• Signed a corporate sponsor• Arranged distribution on 3 radio stations

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WildeBeatThe WildeBeat is an audio journal – like a radio news magazine – presenting news and features to help you explore and appreciate America's wild public lands. Each week, we publish a 10-minute documentary piece about wild places you can visit, outings you can join, or skills and gear you'll need.

PO Box 32364San Jose, CA 95152

Ph: (408)-937-8136

[email protected]

Staff: Steve Sergeant, director

Advisory Board: Lowell Moulton, retired from Sony Electronics.Tom Mangan, San Jose Mercury News.Steven Nelson, BackpackingLight.com and Netflix.Todd Vogel, Friends of the Inyo N.F. and Sierra Mountain Center.Jean Higham-Sergeant, wife and co-editor.


• Facilitated several NGO Board meetings• Provided Campaign planning to NGO’s in the Southwest• Launched the Wild Felid Research and Management Association• Provided program support to several staff of NGO’s • Provided ongoing coordination of the Cougar Management Guidelines Working Group

WildfuturesWildFutures provides essential tools and trainings for wildlife and habitat groups as well as other conservation organizations. Through facilitation, trainings, campaign planning assistance and other services, WildFutures helps organizations, coalitions, and individuals advance their conservation goals.

353 Wallace Way, NE #12Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

Ph: (206)-780-9718Fax: (206)-780-1022


Staff:Sharon Negri, Project Director


Thank you to our 2007 Foundation & Individual Donors:The Summerlee FoundationThe Wilburforce Foundation

Projects


300 Broadway Suite 28 San Francisco, CA 94133

Ph: (415)-788-3666 x110Fax: 94150-788-7324

[email protected]

Staff:Amira Diamond: Development ContractorCatherine Brozena: Executive AssociateMelinda Kramer: Executive DirectorCaitlin Sislin: Transformative Advocacy Program DirectorShannon Laliberte: Transformative Advocacy Coordinator

Advisory Board:Rosemary Enie, President, Women International Coalition Organiza-tion Claire Greensfelder,Director, INOCHI/Plutonium Free Future International Women's Network Paul Hawken, Author, Founder of Natural Capital Institute Catriona Macgregor, Founder, Awen Grove Joanna Macy, Eco-Philosopher, Author Avon Mattison, Co-Founder and President, Pathways to PeaceKirsten Moller, Executive Director, Global ExchangeLibby Roderick, Singer/songwriterDr. Vandana Shiva, Author, Director of Research Foundation of Science, Technology, and Natural Resources

Women’s Earth AllianceWomen's Earth Alliance strengthens and unites grassroots women-ledenvironmental initiatives around the world. WEA’s mission is to unite grassroots women environmental advocates around the world and to provide the connections, resources and training they need to enact effective, lasting change in their communities.

• Launched individual donor cultivation strategy• Launched Giving Circle for multi-year giving of major gifts• Launched WEA event series, “Weaving the Worlds”• Designed Women and Water conference structure, identified key partners• Launched WEA Advocacy Network• Launched WEA’s online community space


The Sister Fund


2007 Income

Foundations $6,148,832 64%

Individuals $2,065,446 22%

Service Revenue $951,086 10%

Other $343,468 4% Total $9,508,832

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2007 Expenses

Program $6,819,610 85%

Administrative $509,550 6%

Fundraising $650,772 8% Total $7,979,932

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Earth Island Institute’s IRS Form 990 filing for 2007 can be viewed and downloaded at: http://www.earthisland.org/assets/2007form990.pdf

Earth Island Institute’s complete 2007 Financial Statement and Independent Auditor’s Report can be viewed and downloaded at: http://www.earthisland.org/assets/2007.Audit.pdf

Please feel free to contact us if you’d like to be sent a printed copy in the mail.

2007 Financials


Earth Island Institute received a four-star rating in 2007 from Charity Navigator (www.CharityNavigator.org), America’s largest independent evaluator of charities.

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David Brower, the first executive director of the Sierra Club and the founder of Earth Island Institute and many other organizations, had many passions. He loved books — the writing, editing, designing, and production of them even more than the reading, or so it seemed. He loved music. He had a passion for mountains, and the sea, and the canyons, and the prairie. Also, Tanqueray martinis and the Biltmore Hotel in New York. In fact, he was an enthusiastic fan of much of what’s good in this life and lived it all to the fullest.

Brower believed in passion and its close neighbor, boldness. A favorite quote he repeated thousands of times was from Goethe: “Anything you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

Earth Island Institute was fashioned, in one sense, to encourage people to be bold. The name “Earth Island” came from Margaret Mead, who urged respect for “The Island Earth.” Her famous admonition, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has,” could be the organization’s motto.

But it takes more than thoughtfulness and commitment to repair this abused planet. To make a real difference, a group, sometimes an individual, needs support in a variety of areas — a place to work, for example, money to pay the bills, a Web site, maybe help with press relations or advice on the political process, help in keeping the books in order, and a myriad other tasks, large

and small, that can too easily detract from time better spent on the real work, whether that means combating climate change or saving an endangered species.

This is part of the philosophy of Earth Island Institute, founded in 1982. The general idea was to provide a home for people who had an interesting new strategy for saving the Earth: En-courage them, offer administrative sup-port, process grant money, give advice when asked for it. Earth Island would be a new kind of service organiza-tion, “a temple for all the people doing good,” i

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