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AMSTERDAM, (AFP) - Environmental campaign group Greenpeace announced the launch of a program to promote sustainable technology, offering solutions for economic growth that respect the environment.
"Greenpeace has the role to stimulate the debate that governments avoid, about the role of science and technologies in the future," Greenpeace president Thilo Bode said. "We are not against technologies but only if they are sustainable ... And these technologies are there. They just have to be pushed and applied," he added.
The program will be based in Amsterdam with an annual budget of $360,000 dollars. It will be led by German researcher Harry Lehman and will work with various technical research institutes.
It aims to introduce more sustainable and "alternative" technologies in different sectors and to support their entry onto markets. "Science, the economic sphere, and society will be able to develop sustainable solutions, enabling Man to live on this planet with a certain well-being," Lehman said.
The announcement came as the organization released its annual report, which showed an eight percent growth in net revenue to $96.4 million in 1999. Its support grew from 2.4 million people in 1998 to 2.5 million last year.
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