About the Green Pack
This CD-ROM was created as part of the Green Pack, a collection of instructional educational materials on environment and sustainable development. The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe developed the Green Pack with support from the Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program and the Finnish Ministry of Environment, and assistance from Eco-Accord, the Committee for Nature Use, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety, City of St. Petersburg and a number of Russian and European environmentalists and experts.
In addition to this CD-ROM, the Green Pack includes several educational components, including a handbook with lesson plans for teachers, a video cassette with environmental video clips and longer films, an environmental game and student fact sheets. The Pack is designed for use in primary schools. It is offered free of charge.
CD-ROM Development
Author - Kliment Mindjov with assistance from - Robert Atkinson, Mira Mileva, Steven Graning
Russian case studies texts - Tamara Bulygina, Andrei Ivaschenko, Nikolai Sobolev, Elena Smirnova, Victoria Elias, Olga Speranskaya, Elena Purtova, Elena Puzanova, Elena Grebennikova, Igor Kulikov, Victor Pitylko, Ludmila Romanjuk, Andrei Scherbakov, Nikolay Sorokin, Elena Titova
Dilemmas - Robert Atkinson Tests - Kliment Mindjov, Robert Atkinson Glossary - Steven Graning, Victoria Elias
English editing and proof-reading - Steven Graning, Nathan Johnson Russian-English translation - Vadim Vinichenko
Russian editing - Andrei Scherbakov, Natalia Tomilina, Andrei Ivaschenko Russian proof reading - Aleksandra Kiseleva, Olga Zemlyanova English-Russian translation - Ivan Petrov, Victoria Elias, Andrei Arkhipets, Olga Zemlyanova
Art direction - Sylvia Magyar
CD-ROM design - Ferenc Navratil, Gergo Korinek, Nora Miskolczi Programming - Almos Rajnai
Illustrations - Laszlo Falvay, Nelly Marinova, Stoyan Nikolov
Photos - Andrei Ivaschenko, Pavel Teplov, Victoria Elias, Gennady Zelensky, Fikret Jafarov, Aleksey Smalianchuk, Alexander Herrmann, Andrzej Wojciechowski, Anry Ermolaev, Armin Hanisch, Artem Mazunov, Ben Spear, Brad Harrison, Dain Hubley, Dan Whetton, Edward Warek, Elisa Nobe, Enrique Galindo, Evan Earwicker, Evgenia Pronina, Fernando Fazzane, Igor Andrianov, Inga, Jan Friml, Jordan Zupnik, Jozsef Szasz-Fabian, Joseph Zlomek, Kat Callard, Kathy McCallum, Konstantinos Dafalias, Kristian Birchall, Laszlo Harri Nemeth, Lies Van Rompaey, Luc Sesselle, Marja Flick-Buijs, Maurici Liso, Michael Fasen, Miregio Eliot, Monika Leon, Morten Bech, Narva 99, Natasha Zaharova, Nick Cowie, Nikita Golovanov, Noel Cosgrave, Okorenkov Mikhail, Paige Foster, Paul Cooper, Pierre Luc Lamarre, Piotr Rudziewicz, Ricardo Vasquez, Roel van der Ven, Sergey Lebedev, Sergey Pozhilov, Sergio Pachini, Slava Guchin, Vasiliy Cheptsov, Vladimir Ivanov, Witek Burkiewicz, Wojciech Bekiesz, Wout J Reinders, Yarik Mission, Bat Research and Protection Group, Branislav Peric, BTA, the Daphne Centre for Applied Ecology, the Eagle Conservation Committee, Green Balkans, the Group for Speleological and Sub-Aquatic Exploration, the Heves County Environmental Protection Agency, Nicolae Iordache, MTI, Raili Nugin, the Society for the Protection of Birds, Lulzim Syla, the Toad Action Group, Wijnand Udema, the Wilderness Fund, the Wolf Forest Protection Movement, Laszlo Balogh (Reuters), Vassil Donev (EPA Photo, European Commission), Attila Kisbenedek (EPA Photo, European Commission), Pavel Antonov, Sergiu Serban, Sylvia Magyar, Ivan Kozhuharov (Prina Consult), the REC's NGO Grants Archive, and Reuters
Project management - Kliment Mindjov
Project coordination in Russia - Victoria Elias, Elena Titova
Produced by - Nautilus Multimedia Group
Acknowledgements
The development of the Green Pack CD-ROM was made possible by the cooperation and good will of many individuals and organisations that contributed to its content.
We are grateful to a number of Russian teachers and educators: Ilya Belov, Sergei Daushkevich, Nadezhda Domanova, Victor Zubakin, Andrei Ivaschenko, Alexei Kiselev, Igor Kulikov, Olga Marfenina, Vera Mischenko, Natalia Oliferencko, Elena Semenova, Olga Speranskaya, Irina Travina, Andrei Scherbakov, Natalia Scherbakova, Victoria Elias, as well as their colleagues from Poland, Bulgaria and Hungary for their valuable work on the lesson plans included in the CD-ROM as pdf format files.
We wish to express our warmest gratitude to the Television Trust for Environment (TVE-International) and the Borrowed Nature Association (Bulgaria), which provided us with various environmental video clips.
We are grateful to Svitlana Kravchenko and Mary Taylor (European Eco Forum) for their valuable materials on the Aarhus Convention.
We extend our most sincere thanks to our donors from the Toyota Motor Corporation and the Ministry of the Environment of Finland. Their understanding and trust encouraged us throughout the months of hard work on the Green Pack.
About the REC
The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) is a non-partisan, non-advocacy, not-for-profit organisation with a mission to assist in solving environmental problems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The Center fulfils this mission by encouraging cooperation among non-governmental organisations, governments, businesses and other environmental stakeholders, by supporting the free exchange of information and by promoting public participation in environmental decision-making.
The REC was established in 1990 by the United States, the European Commission and Hungary. Today, the REC is legally based on a Charter signed by the governments of 27 countries and the European Commission, and on an International Agreement with the Government of Hungary. The REC has its headquarters in Szentendre, Hungary and local offices in each of its 16 beneficiary countries, which are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, FYR Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey.
Recent donors are the European Commission and the governments of Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Switzerland the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as other inter-governmental and private institutions.
About Toyota
The Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program was established in 2000, in commemoration of Toyota Motor Corporation's (TMC) receipt of the Global 500 Award* in 1999 from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Based on the theme of "Social Investment for Sustainable Development," the programme provides grants to practical, regionally rooted projects in Japan and overseas.
The selection committee, consisting of a group of experts from Japan and abroad, based its selections on considerations of the feasibility of the applicants' activities, the prospects of such activities for future development, their need for support and how well they benefit their local communities. Recipients are carrying out highly feasible, regionally based projects with local fields of operations that better address the needs of their immediate communities. In the future TMC hopes to provide even further support to well-established programs on a more global scale.
* Established by UNEP to recognise individuals or organisations that contribute to greater environmental protection or improvement in terms of sustainable development. TMC received the award in 1999 for its efforts to build a comprehensive system of environmental management. These efforts included TMC's development of the world's first mass-produced hybrid vehicle, achieving ISO 14001 certification and active disclosure of environmental data.
The Finnish Ministry of the Environment
The Unit for Central and East European Co-operation in the Finnish Ministry of the Environment was established in 1990. The Unit supports environmental co-operation projects in Northwest Rus-sia and the Baltic countries. Support to the Baltic countries, however, will be phased out due to their membership of the European Union.
Co-operation is mainly targeted at the protection of the Baltic Sea in accordance with the objectives of Finland's National Programme for the Protection of the Baltic Sea and the programmes of the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM). The main sectors of co-operation are water protection, air pollution control, waste management, and nature protection. Emphasis is also placed on institutional strengthening and awareness raising. The Finnish Ministry of the Envi-ronment has supported REC activities since the beginning of the 1990's.
ECO-Accord Centre
The ECO-Accord Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development is a non-governmental, not-for-profit citizens' organisation. It was established in 1992 in Russia and registered with the Ministry of Justice.
The main goal of ECO-Accord is to contribute to the transition to sustainable development by searching for new approaches and solutions for environmental, economic and social problems at global, national and local levels as well as raising broad public awareness on environmental and sustainable development issues.
The founders and activists of ECO-Accord are graduates from different departments of Moscow Lomonossov State University. Environmental and sustainable development problems have became the group's highest priority for both their public activities and research.
ECO-Accord undertakes information and awareness campaigns, prepares analytic reviews, reports and publications, implements educational and training programmes, and organises conferences and workshops. ECO-Accord actively participates in a number of international processes, such as the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Environment for Europe ministerial process, the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO-Euro) Environment and Health ministerial process, cooperation on environment and sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region, and implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development decisions. ECO-Accord is accredited by the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and the World Trade Organization.
The main areas of ECO-Accord's work are: environmental and sustainable development policy; energy and climate change; persistent organic pollutants and chemical safety; education for sustainable development; public participation in environmental decision making; sustainable production and consumption; trade and sustainable development.
Committee for Nature Use, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety, City of St. Petersburg
The Committee for Nature Use, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety is responsible for the implementation of the City policy in the area of environmental protection and ecological safety.
Some of the main objectives of the policy of the St. Petersburg City Administration are to maintain and raise the quality of life of citizens, to stabilize and develop the economy without increasing the environmental impact, to transit from elimination of the consequences of pollution to its prevention as well as the formation of environmental culture and changing the mentality and behaviour of dwellers and visitors of St. Petersburg of all ages.
The priority objective of the formation of the environmental culture at the current stage is to consolidate efforts and shared responsibility of the Government of St Petersburg, all City departments, professional and non-governmental associations and citizens in order to cultivate an environmental outlook of people of all ages. In this respect the Committee is intensively developing the following activities: a/ raising of public awareness in environmental issues; b/ training of managers and experts, who are responsible for decision making in the area of environmental protection and ecological safety; c/ spreading of environmental information; and d/ involving of the mass media.
References
Information included in the CD-ROM was drawn from the following comprehensive reports and assessments:
• State of the World, Lester Brown, World Watch Institute Reports, 1995–2000.
• Living in the Environment, Ninth Edition, G.Tyler Miller, Jr., 1996.
• Europe's Environment: The Dobris Assessment, European Environmental Agency, 1995.
• Europe's Environment: The Second Assessment, European Environmental Agency, 1998.
• Caring for our Future, Action for Europe's Environment, European Commission, 1999.
• Environment in the European Union at the Turn of the Century, European Environmental Agency, 1999.
• Children's health and environment: A review of evidence, WHO Regional Office for Europe, EEA, 2002.
• Learn about chemicals around your house, US Environmental Protection Agency, 2001.
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