*** Conference extended: Now Open to the Public ***
Global Ethics Sustainable Development and the Earth Charter
April 6-16, 1999 (extended by one week!)
The Earth Forum - http://www.earthforum.org
Dear Friends,
The Earth Council is pleased to announce an extension to the Earth
Forum's inaugural on-line conference entitled "Global Ethics,
Sustainable Development and the Earth Charter." This "interactive event"
has been a great success so far, exceeding even our own optimistic
expectations! At the end of the first week, the "Earth Forum" website
has attracted more than 700 university students from at least 250
universities in 65 countries from around the world. A complete list of
the participants' universities/countries can be found here:
http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/template/university/universities.cfm
** NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:
Starting on April 12, we will begin opening the Earth Forum website to
the "non-academic" community. While students from around the world
will still be active in the discussion forum, we would like to invite
you and your organization to visit the new website, review the 17
audio/video presentations (using the free RealVideo player), and then
offer your own comments and contributions alongside those of the
students. We hope that by opening up the conference website for the
final four days that the students and professors in attendance will
benefit from a variety of new ideas and approaches to this very
important subject and that you, too, will benefit from their lively and
insightful discussions and debates.
Attached you will find a list of discussion areas associated with each
of the audio/video presentations. Each discussion area is moderated by
the speakers themselves. Some of our speakers have even been travelling
during the past week but, through the "wonders of the Internet," they
have been reviewing their discussion areas and addressing students'
questions and comments nearly every day.
After April 16, the final day of the conference, the Earth Forum website
will remain fully accessible to the public, however we expect the
discussion fora to continue in an unmoderated or "semi-moderated" state
and that the RealVideo presentations will be replaced with
RealAudio-only
(to reduce bandwidth requirements/costs).
So, we hope you'll join us on-line throughout the remainder of the
week. We have an excellent group of speakers enthusiastically
supporting this unique experiment in "virtual conferencing," and we
welcome your own comments and contributions to the on-going discussion.
For more information on this event or the Earth Charter Campaign, please
contact us at:
The Earth Forum
c/o The Earth Council
Apdo. 2323-1002
San Jose, Costa Rica
tel: +506-256-1611; fax: +506-255-2197
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
See you on-line!
Kevin Hudgins
Earth Network Coordinator
The Earth Council
San Jose, Costa Rica
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THE SPEAKERS/DISCUSSION AREAS:
- A Nation's Sacred Covenant - "Shrine of the Nation"
Connie Alaras, University of the Philippines
(duration: 16min. 38sec.)
- The Earth Charter for Nation States and Ordinary Citizens
David Bernard (Capilano College) and Iain Benson (Centre
for Renewal in Public Policy), Canada
(duration: 21min. 46sec.)
- The Unique Experience of Panama (with emphasis on the Canal Zone)
Charlotte Elton - Panamanian Center for Research and Social Action
(duration: 12min. 13sec.)
- The Idea of a "Global Ethics"
Vittorio Falsina - Harvard University, USA/Italy
(duration: 33min. 46sec.)
- Environmental Rights and the Earth Charter
Willis S. Guerra F. - Federal Univ. of Ceara, Brazil
(duration: 21min. 31sec.)
- Empowering People / Innovative Technologies
Ashok Khosla - Development Alternatives, India
(duration: 16min. 40sec.)
- From Technological to Environmental Ethics
Kim S. Losev - Moscow State University, Russia
(duration: 22min. 57sec.)
- Global Interdependence and Civil Society
Ruud Lubbers - Tilburg University, The Netherlands/
Harvard University, USA
(duration: 24min. 42sec.)
- Science and the Earth Charter
Brendan Mackey - Australian National University
(duration: 15min. 14sec.)
- Educating Those Around Us - Everyone is a Teacher
Alejandrina Mata - University of Costa Rica
(duration: 15min. 22sec.)
- The Strength of Civil Society
Bedrich Moldan - Charles University, Czech Republic
(duration: 16min. 59sec.)
- The Absolute Necessity for "Proper Earth Government"
Robert Muller - University for Peace, Costa Rica/France
(duration: 16min. 52sec.)
- The Earth Charter Consultation and Drafting Process
Steven Rockefeller - Middlebury College (Emeritus), USA
(duration: 21min. 33sec.)
- The Earth Charter: Is it Sustainably Subversive?
Duncan Taylor - University of Victoria, B.C. Canada
(text only)
- Reflections on the Earth Charter: Our Priorities and Values
Mary Evelyn Tucker - Bucknell University, USA
(duration: 21min. 57sec.)
- Gender Dimensions of the Charter (social/political emphasis)
Saskia Wieringa - Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands
(duration: 16min. 40sec.)
- A Healthy Self, a Healthy Society, a Healthy Planet
(or "What Women Have in Common with Camels")
Soon-Young Yoon - Columnist, The Earth Times, USA/Korea
(duration: 14min. 32sec.)
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The Earth Forum - http://www.earthforum.org
