WRI recognizes that the exchange of ideas in a modern work environment depends on technology as well as materials, electronic connections as well as personal interactions.

WRI recognizes that the exchange of ideas in a modern work environment depends on technology as well as materials, electronic connections as well as personal interactions. Our new office incorporates upgraded computer networks and greater capacity to produce interactive digital content in many forms, including text, data, maps, graphics, sound, and video.

Videoconferencing facilities, supported by contributions and assistance from AMX, DNP America, Draper, and Trooper Visual Structures, for example, allow WRI's press conferences to reach media internationally.

Our expanded website can do more to engage and inform the hundreds of thousands of people who already visit our site each week. Other new technology, including laptops from the Dow Chemical Co., telephones from Williams Communications, and contributions from Extron and Gentner, offers us a platform for easier and more comprehensive two-way communication with collaborators around the world.

By sharing the lessons of our experience with this new technology, WRI can assist other organizations that want to enhance their communcations in the 21st century.

Communications technology: Sources and contributors

An asterisk indicates suppliers who contributed products or services.

* AMX Corporation

Remote control panels for conference rooms

748 North Bethlehem Pike, P.O. Box 620, Springhouse, PA 19477 (800/462-6946)

* DNP America, Inc.

Glass screen for projection system

355 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10017 (212/503-1060)

* Dow Chemical Company

Laptop computers

Midland, Michigan

* Draper Shade and Screen Company

Electrical and manual screens

411 South Pearl Street, Spiceland, IN 47385 (765/987-7999)

* Electric Press

Archival software

11440 Isaac Newton Square, Reston, VA 21190 (703/742-3308)

* Extron Electronics

Computer-video interface

1230 South Lewis Street, Anaheim, CA 92865 (800/633-9876)

* Gentner Co.

Teleconferencing systems

1825 Research Way, Salt Lake City, UT (800/945-7730)

Hoppmann Communications

Communication systems consulting services

P.O. Box 221855, Chantilly, VA (703/502-4080)

* Trooper, Visual Structures, Inc.

Rear projection system

10803 Bloomfield Street, Los Alamitos, CA (800/655-8766)

* Williams Communications and Solutions

Nortel telephones

2010 Corporate Ridge, McLean, VA 22102 (703/712-7720)

WRI also acknowledges generous contributions in support of our new comunications facilities from the following members of our Board of Directors:

Manuel Arango

Frances G. Beineke

Robert O. Blake

Michael R.Deland

WIlliam M.Haney, III

Cynthia Helms

Jonathan Lash

William F.Martin

Matthew Nimetz

Ronald L. Olson

William Ruckelshaus

Rogert W. Sant

Bruce Smart

James Gustave Speth

Maurice F.Strong

Wren Wirth