Center for Safe Energy
Supporting Citizens’ Organizations in the Former Soviet Union

Events

In 2011, CSE will host four Open World delegations from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Russia, including from Siberia's Lake Baikal.

• June 22, 12 - 1:30pm
  Climate Change and Human Impacts on Siberian Forests and River Flows
  Brownbag Lunch Presentation by Tamara Burenina, Russian Academy of Sciences

• June 18-26, 2011
  Russian Climate Change Delegation
  NGOs and Local Government working together to combat climate change in Russia
  

  Click here to see the delegate bios!

• Feb 26-March 6, 2011
  Kazakh Delegation
  Exchanging methods to prepare for potential oil spills in the San Francisco Bay and Kazakhstan's Caspian Sea

• March 31-April 10, 2011
  Siberia’s Lake Baikal Delegation
  Working to develop ecotourism on the planet's oldest and largest freshwater lake which holds 20% of the world's freshwater!

• April 5th at 12 pm
  Siberia’s Lake Baikal Event: a Nature Lover’s Paradise. Presentation and Slide Show.
  

• April 8th at 8am and April 9th at 9am
  A Quarter Century of Chernobyl Events: KPFA Interviews 3 Russian Anti-Nuclear Activists on Chernobyl
  

• April 8, 4-6 pm
  A Quarter Century of Chernobyl Events: San Francisco State University presentation
  Russian activists and Andrew Lichterman from Western States Legal Foundation will speak about nuclear issues.

• April 10th, 4 pm
  A Quarter Century of Chernobyl Event: Nuclear Presentation and Chernobyl4Ever Film Premiere
  Event moderated by Joanna Macy

• April 12th, 6-9 pm
  A Quarter Century of Chernobyl Events: Presentation and James Lerager photo exhibit
  

• May 14-22, 2011
  Tajik Delegation
  Developing Ecotourism in Central Asia's 98% Mountainous Tajikistan

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Partners

• Kazakhstan
• Russia
• Ukraine

Creating Partnerships with the Former Soviet Union

The Center for Safe Energy (CSE) addresses the most urgent needs of citizen-based organizations in the former Soviet Union (FSU). Since 1989, the Center has actively formed partnerships with environmental citizen groups around energy issues across Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. CSE supports its partners by sending experts to provide technical assistance in the FSU and organizing professional delegations to the US. 

 

A Tribute to Fran Macy

A Remarkable Life 1927-2009

Francis Macy was a dedicated environmentalist, energy activist and citizen diplomat, whose ground-breaking work inspired fresh collaborative ventures with the former Soviet Union.

The Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Earth Island Institute’s Center for Safe Energy since 1995, he trained hundreds of activists in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Kazakhstan to address the environmental legacy of the nuclear arms race and the Chernobyl disaster. Initiating scores of professional delegations and exchanges between Americans and their counterparts in the former Soviet Union, in the areas of psychology, environment, and citizen organizing since 1983, Macy’s work empowered the rise of non-governmental organizations--a strong contribution to the health of post-Soviet life. In 2005, he was awarded the Nuclear Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award. More…

Please visit Fran’s memorial site at www.francismacy.com.

Continuing Fran’s Legacy

His legacy is being carried on as CSE continues to organize delegations from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.