Change: Supporting pluralistic political party formation and participation in young democracies around the world. Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) Working to reduce the global threat from nuclear terrorism and weapons proliferation (Ted Turner, Sam Nunn) Ocean Alliance Dedicated to the conservation of whales and   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1729)

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Change: Perhaps the earliest institute pioneering sustainable architecture (Sim Van Der Ryn). Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) The UK's leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. Business and public sector.Electronic Frontier FoundationThe leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world. European   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1682)

Change: groups at these orgs have distinguished themselves in methods or theory in one or more of the Foresight Frameworks on the FERNby website.organization name.Action Against Hunger (AAH) Specializing in emergency situations of war, conflict, and natural disasters. Alidade Information age consulting to defense   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1651)

Change: Exposing and counting all the lobbying money that each US politician gets from corporate special interests. Making politics more transparent and accountable to voters. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) Research institute established to promote innovative thinking about defense planning and investment strategies. Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1677)

Change: The leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world. European Commission's Forward Studies Unit, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) (Spain) and Foresight on Information Society Technologies in Europe (FISTE) Long range forecasting studies on European Integration and Technology Federal Forecasters Consortium Interdisciplinary group   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1569)

Change: List alpha by organization name.Action Against Hunger (AAH) Specializing in emergency situations of war, conflict, and natural disasters. Alidade Information age consulting to defense and corporate clients using complex systems, process innovation, and futures methodologies. (Jeffrey Cares, David Jarvis) American Evaluation Association Assessing the strength   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1554)

Change:  Actuarial Science and Risk Assessment | Ethics and Values Studies | Evolution and Development Studies | Facilitation, Mediation, & Peace/Conflict Studies | Forecasting and Modeling | Futures, Sci-Fi, Utopian, & Dystopian Lit Studies | Innovation Studies | Leadership | Long-Range Polling/& Urban Planning | Policy Studies Delphi,|   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1661)

Change: Ethnographic Futures, Forecasting, Foresight, Futures Studies, Futurology, History of Prediction, Long-Range Planning, Prediction Markets, Predictive Surveys/ Polling/ Delphi, Probabilistic (Statistical) Prediction, Prediction Analysis, Prognostics, Prospective Studies, Roadmapping, Scenario Development, Scenario Planning, Science-Fiction, Futurist, and Utopian Literature, Strategic Foresight, Trend Extrapolation, Visioning, Wildcards Know any other orgs   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1609)

Change:  Formed in 1974 by OECD members, to prevent a repeat of the oil shock of 1973-4. The world has been dramatically more conservation oriented since,   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1595)