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Germany To Phase Out Nuclear Energy
In keeping with Europe’s ongoing effort to move toward responsible environmental management, Germany is set to phase out its 19 nuclear power stations over the next 20 years. The government deal with the energy companies will Germany the first European country to announce an end to nuclear power.

Less than a week after the German deal, Sweden voiced its intention to phase out coal and nuclear power.
"Both coal and nuclear power have to be phased out if we are to reach sustainable development around the Baltic Sea," said Environment minister, Kjell Larsson. Sweden's 11 nuclear reactors provide 48% of the country's power with the rest coming from wind, sun, hydro and biomass. The Swedish government is also helping Lithuania close down one of their nuclear reactors.
Mr. Larsson said that Sweden wants to lead the world in developing renewable energy technologies.
Meanwhile Turkey, Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit announced the cancellation of the controversial nuclear power plant proposed for Akkuyu Bay on the Mediterranean coast north of Cyprus.
"The world is abandoning nuclear power," the Prime Minister said. "It is unnecessary for us, for the time being, to invest in nuclear energy.
Mr. Ecevit emphasized that Turkey would focus on energy conservation and invest in natural gas, hydro-electricity and solar and wind generation.
World nuclear power use is expected to peak in 2002 and then begin a period of sustained and permanent decline.

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Mad cow disease 'may have spread beyond Europe'
The Financial Times reporting. Fifteen years after British scientists first formally recognised mad cow disease, the United Nations dared on Wednesday to say what many have long feared - the problem could be about to spread way beyond Europe's borders. MORE


Stories of Positive Planetary Transformation

Muslim Sheik Leads Jewish New Year Celebration Atlanta, USA - While the Mideast has been caught up in the worst violence in decades, the voices of reason, restraint and peace - both Palestinian and Israeli - have largely gone unheard by the conventional sensationalist media. What is ignored or forgotten in the graphic portrayal of violence is the fact that there are dozens of Israeli and Palestinian groups and individuals that have been working for peace and understanding at a people-to-people, grassroots level for many years. Full Story: click
http://www.savesite.net/gvnr/articles/120100_4.html

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Inspiring News Briefs From Around The World

Albanians Open Homes & Hearts ALBANIA - "I will take care of these people for their whole life, if I have to", says Mustafa Kastrati, a pensioner from the Albanian capital, Tirana. In the spring of 1999, he and his wife were living a quiet life in their two-room apartment with one bath and a small cook stove. By May there were 22 people staying with the Kastrati family. Full Story: click
http://www.savesite.net/gvnr/articles/120100_7.html

FDA To Allow Dietary Supplement Health Claims USA - Washington, DC - In a move which surprised many in the alternative health community, the US Federal Drug Administration recently published a notice in the Federal Register stating that dietary supplement manufacturers will be allowed to market their products with health claims that are not unequivocally supported by scientific evidence. Full Story: click
http://www.savesite.net/gvnr/articles/120100_8.html

Editorial SaveSite's Publishers Perspective "Reflections On The Middle East" here

Model Project Seeks To Heal The Hate PRISTINA, Kosovo - "You're Insane!" was the first response that most people had to the idea of restoring the city park of Gjilane, Kosovo with an ethnically mixed work crew of Serbs & Albanians. "It's impossible now; there are too many widows; too many who have lost loved ones in the recent violence; too many painful memories both historically; from the most recent ten years of ethnic violence and from the previous three months of terror. Wounds are still raw; hatreds close to the surface." Full Story: click

Ancient Art Revived For The Dying USA, Montana - They call it "conscious dying." But whether one ascribes to the notion or not, the renewed use of sacred music as an aid to the death process is being lauded by physicians and laymen alike. They have found that it is helping with the management of physical pain as well as offering substantial relief from the intense emotional pain and suffering that often accompanies death. Full Story: click
http://www.savesite.net/gvnr/articles/120100_3.html

Kellogg's Cereal Company Funds Diversity Education USA - Michigan, While the mainstream press continues to focus on isolated incidents of ethnic violence, The W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan, has joined a growing number of companies and private foundations which are focusing on diversity education and tolerance. Full Story: click
http://www.savesite.net/gvnr/articles/120100_9.html

Mainstream Medical School to Teach Alternative Diagnosis USA - In a bold move toward a more holistic approach in medical education, the Yale University School of Medicine is offering a unique elective course designed to teach first year students the art of integrative diagnosis. Full Story: click
http://www.savesite.net/gvnr/articles/120100_10.html

Country Music State Gifts Newborns With Classical CD USA - Nashville, Tennessee, is best known as the country music capital of the world. But the state of Tennessee is not promoting country crooners to its newborns. Full Story: click
http://www.savesite.net/gvnr/articles/120100_11.html

Employer Distributes $128 Million To Employees USA - Belleville, Michigan - Last year Bob Thompson sold his asphalt and paving business for $422 million. He then took $128 million of it, after taxes, and distributed it among the 550 employees at the plant. Full Story: click
http://www.savesite.net/gvnr/articles/120100_12.html

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This Week's Global Resources Websites devoted to Positive Planetary Transformation

Business, Finance & Economy
The Sustainable Business Network go to
http://sbn.netforchange.com/ The Sustainable Business Network (SBN) is a project of the EnviroLink Network and has been in existence since 1996. Its mission is to promote the growth and development of environmentally and socially responsible businesses, providing the tools and information necessary to make sustainable business a prominent global economic force.

Communities Tamera In Portugal http://www.tamera.org/ A community of people dedicated to creating a model for a nonviolent culture and researching new ways of healing within humanity and between humanity and nature. Tamera is located on 134 ha land (330 acres) in the south of Portugal, about 20 km (12 miles) away from the west coast. Tamera is located about 30 km from in southern coast of Portugal. Email: mailto:tamera@mail.telepac.pt

Directories Body-Mind-Spirit Directory click http://w3.one.net/~source/ Hundreds of international resource listings for Natural Healing, Holistic Health, Spirituality, Metaphysics and More!

Environment Eco Activists Network click
http://www.ActionNetwork.org/ Want to make your voice heard? A network formed by Environmental Defense and 24 other nonprofit groups and coalitions will send you alerts about the eco-issues that interest you the most. You simply click REPLY to these email messages to generate a letter (which you can edit) that will be delivered either as an email or a fax to the appropriate parties. The network already boasts 400,000 activist...

Human Relations Search For Common Ground click
http://www.sfcg.org/ Search for Common Ground was founded in 1982 in Washington, DC, and the European Centre for Common Ground was established in Brussels in 1995. Both organizations share a vision of transforming how the world deals with conflict -- away from adversarial approaches toward cooperative solutions. To implement this vision, we carry out programs that aim to resolve conflict, and prevent violence.

Networking Resource guide click
http://www.lightparty.com/Networking.html A selective list of organizations and periodicals which are serving to enlighten the general public in the areas of politics, health, education, technology, the environment, human potential and higher consciousness. Sponsored by the Light Party

Wealth Study click
http://wealthstudy.com/juno Offering a discerning view of the world, money and wealth

Future Politics Center for Visionary Leadership click
http://www.visionarylead.org/ Trains governmental, business and NGO leaders in how to develop the inner resources to deal creatively with social and economic change in creating a positive future.

Science & Technology New Energy Sources click
http://www.cseti.org/position/addition/oulist.htm In a 1988 experiment, an unconventional solid-state vacuum triode amplifier developed by the late Floyd Sweet continuously discharged 1,200,000 times more electrical power than was fed into it. It also exhibited anti-gravity properties. This is one of many such devices described at this website.

Youth & Elders Children's Action Network http://www.execpc.com/~i-can Dedicated to empowering children & youth to heal & constructively transform their world while creating joyful, meaningful, and Self-realized lives of service.