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Description: The International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) is an anti-capitalist organization fighting against technology in general on the rationale that technology corrupts spiritual and emotional life. ICTA primarily fights against biotechnology, secondarily against global warming, pollution, overpopulation, globalization. ICTA cooperates on anti-technology projects managed by Fenton Communications, Washington, D.C.'s premiere anti-capitalist public relations firm. ICTA is linked by shared directors with the Center for Food Safety, the Turning Point Project, and the International Forum on Globalization. ICTA is virtually the instrument of Douglas Tompkins and his Foundation for Deep Ecology, which is the group's first and biggest funder.

Revenue and Expenses: Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2000

EIN: 52-1909699
Exempt since 1995

Andrew Kimbrell, president.
Mentored by Douglas Tompkins through the Foundation for Deep Ecology and its program director, Jerry Mander, one of America's most outspoken opponents of technology.
Personal background: Originally a concert pianist and music teacher in New York City. Convert to Catholicism. JD from New York University Law School. Writer: The Human Body Shop; The Masculine Mystique; 101 Ways to Save the Earth; The Green Lifestyle Handbook (editor). Co-founder, Men's Health Network.
Work history: 1986 - employed for 8 years as policy director of Foundation on Economic Trends under anti-technology guru Jeremy Rifkin. In 1994 established the International Center for Technology Assessment, and the Center for Food Safety in 1997. A principal in law firm of Kimbrell and Mendelson, with Joseph Mendelson III, CFS legal director. Also a director of The Turning  Point Project, funded almost entirely by Douglas Tompkins' Foundation for Deep Ecology. The Turning Point Project board is comprised of Kimbrell, Mendelson, Jerry Mander of the International Forum on Globalization and Foundation for Deep Ecology, Randy Hayes of Rainforest Action Network, and Anuradah Mittal of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, all extreme anti-capitalist organizations. Also a director of the International Forum on Globalization, led by Jerry Mander.

Other Directors:

Adele Douglas is the Washington director of the American Humane Association and is noted as devoting "minimal" time to ICTA in IRS reports.

Jennifer Beck is noted as devoting "minimal" time to ICTA in IRS reports.

Grants to ICTA:

FOUNDATION NAME: Turner Foundation, Inc.
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For legal action and grassroots organizing to pressure EPA to accept Global Warming Petition, which requests EPA to define and regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant
AMOUNT: $25,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 2000

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment
ABSTRACT: For Touring Biotech Action and Awareness Campaign
AMOUNT: $10,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 2000

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For general support
AMOUNT: $125,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 2000

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For Fatal Harvest book project
AMOUNT: $93,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 2000

FOUNDATION NAME: The John Merck Fund
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For Center for Food Safety's legal actions against Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration for failures to address adequately public health and ecological concerns  stemming from bringing genetically engineered products into food supply, and to represent public interest position challenging whether private corporations can hold patents on plant life
AMOUNT: $97,500       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1999

FOUNDATION NAME: Energy Foundation
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: To educate members and decisionmakers about benefits of strong tailpipe emissions standards for cars and light duty trucks
AMOUNT: $20,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1999

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For general support for project, Promotion of Sustainable Development
AMOUNT: $20,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1999

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For Organic Watch Initiative
AMOUNT: $25,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1999

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For book project entitled, Fatal Harvest
AMOUNT: $103,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1999

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For general support for Jacques Ellul Society which brings together international group of thinkers, writers and activists who have devoted  themselves  to the struggle against mega-technologies and technocracies
AMOUNT: $30,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1999

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For general support
AMOUNT: $120,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1999

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For Fatal Harvest book project
AMOUNT: $50,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1998

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For general support
AMOUNT: $75,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1998

FOUNDATION NAME: HKH Foundation
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
AMOUNT: $35,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1996

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For general support
AMOUNT: $75,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1996

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For general support
AMOUNT: $75,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1996

FOUNDATION NAME: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
RECIPIENT: Institute for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For research and writing of book on weight and obesity
AMOUNT: $126,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1996

FOUNDATION NAME: HKH Foundation
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
AMOUNT: $15,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1995

FOUNDATION NAME: Carnegie Corporation of New York
RECIPIENT: Institute for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT:  To  complete  study  of uses of technology to support international peace operations
AMOUNT: $25,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1996

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For general support
AMOUNT: $75,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1995

FOUNDATION NAME: Foundation for Deep Ecology
RECIPIENT: International Center for Technology Assessment,
ABSTRACT: For general support
AMOUNT: $75,000       YEAR AUTHORIZED: 1995

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