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INOCHI (meaning "life force" in Japanese)
is an international environmental and educational organization with
focal points in North America, Japan, and the Pacific Islands. INOCHI
sponsors a number of projects and campaigns including A World WIthout
Armies, Shake! Bay Area Report, Plutonium Free Future, Hawaii Project,
Gandhi Women's Project, and Asia Awareness Project.
INOCHI evolved from Plutonium Free Future, an international group of
artists and peace and environmental activists, which was formed in 1992
working to promote safe, clean, renewable sources of energy, to phase
out nuclear power, and to support a ban on the research, testing production,
deployment and use of nuclear weapons. Since INOCHI's founding in 1994
as a non-profit charitable organization, it has received a wide public
support and grants from foundations, including The Columbia Foundation,
The Flow Fund, The Grove Foundation, The Roy A. Hunt Foundation, The
Lannan Foundation, The Rockfeller Family Foundation, The Sacharuna Foundation,
The Tara Foundation, The Threshold Foundation, and The Turner Foundation.
INOCHI is a 501 (c)(3) organization
incorporated in the State of California.
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IAs
a bicultural (Japanese and American), bilingual organization, INOCHI
will promote a vision of a society founded on non-violence and respect
for the earth, environment and all living things, and to put this vision
into practice by advocating and aiding in the
implementation of humane, sustainable, and environmentally sound policies
at every level of society - individual, local, national, and global.
As an organization whose staff and directors include visual and video
artists, INOCHI will also create and use images to promote this vision
and to educate the public on a variety of environmental issues, including
energy production, the preservation and renewal of the earth's environment,
and non-destructive development alternatives on which to build a sustainable
future.
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World Without Armies | www.aworldwithoutarmies.org
A growing number of nations are interested
in demilitarization. Costa Rica provides a model for this, having abolished
its armed forces in 1949 and maintaining the highest living standard
in Central and South America. We work with people in Costa Rica and
endeavor to spread their exemplary practice of having no army to other
parts of the world.
Shake! Bay Area Repot | www.shakenews.org
Plutonium Free Future | www.inochi.us/pff
JUCCS | www.juccs.org
 Hawaii
Project | www.inochi.us/hawaiiproject.html
 Gandhi
Women's Project | www.inochi.us/gandhi.html
 Asian
Awareness Project | www.inochi.us/asianawareness.html
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