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Figure 27: Wal Read and newly-elected President Bill Beckman with Horst Hörste (President of the German
Section of ISES) pointing the way to the 1987 Hamburg Congress

1986
• A members’ survey indicated the following distribution: engineers (57%), physicists (17%), architects
(8%) and chemists (4%) with most in education and research.

1987
• First ISES working groups were chartered.
• Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Working Group created the first PLEA Newsletter.
• The Swiss Section was accepted.
• The first Solar World Challenge car race was held in Australia.
• The Brundtland Commission published Our Common Future which strongly influenced the Earth Summit
(1992) and UNCED 3 in Johannesburg (2002).

1988
• In June 1988, ISES headquarters moved from CSIRO laboratories in Melbourne to Chisholm Institute of
Technology in Melbourne.
• The Italian Section instituted the first ISES journalism prize for outstanding contributions to the
promotion of renewable sources and energy saving.
• ISES Section members were using climate change as a rationale for local support of solar energy.

1989
• ISES News produced an editorial called The Greenhouse Effect and Society.
• South Pacific and the Republic of South Korea Sections were created.

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