And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: << Subj: The Earth Forum - extended by popular demand !!! Date: 4/13/99 8:52:42 AM CST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** 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: http://www.earthforum.org 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 of the discussion areas 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 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 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
