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Dear Optimist Readers, the Optimist magazine is currently on hold while GCI finds a stable funding source to be able to reinstate the magazine. We will keep in touch with former subscribers with updates as they become available. In the meantime, we will shortly make the electronic versions of the past issues downloadable free of charge on this page (see below). New Optimist articles will also be regularly posted. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time. Green Cross International launched The Optimist magazine in 2004 and it remains critical to the organization's communications arsenal. It continues to encourage the development of a new Global Glasnost for sustainable development.
Spring 2006 saw the unveiling of a new design and structure for the magazine. Since then, each issue of The Optimist has included a features section and regular segments including "Frontline", "Innovation", and "Optimist Alert!" The Optimist chooses its feature subjects based on major world events and developments. In the period 2006-2007 this has included examination of the unprecedented destruction unleashed by natural disasters, the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe and a debate on the future of nuclear energy, and the stalling Doha Round of world trade talks.
 The Optimist is unique in combining the contributions of leading voices on these crucial subjects with a lively, contemporary magazine style. The issue commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster includes an exclusive interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as hearing from key scientists and former government and UN officials. The "Environment, War and Peace" issue took readers as far a field as Aceh, Nepal, Darfur, Chechnya, and the urban conflicts of South America to examine links between natural resources and security. Examination of the contentious issue of "Trade, Finance and Justice for Development" included a wide range of views from diverse sources. An Editorial Board including Federico Mayor, the former UNESCO Director-General, Lester Brown, the renowned Environmental Scientist, Ismail Serageldin, the Director of the Library of Alexandria, and Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the UN Office at Geneva, guarantees the quality of the publication. The Editors-in-Chief of The Optimist are Green Cross International President Pr. Alexander Likhotal and world-renowned environmentalist Jean-Michel Cousteau.The Editor is Fiona Curtin.
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