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"The Earth Charter Initiative" is an extraordinarily diverse, global network of people, organizations, and institutions that participate in promoting and implementing the values and principles of the Earth Charter. This page contains a guide for using the Earth Charter in education, including key resources for teachers.

"The Earth Charter Initiative" is an extraordinarily diverse, global network of people, organizations, and institutions that participate in promoting and implementing the values and principles of the Earth Charter. This page contains a guide for using the Earth Charter in education, including key resources for teachers.

Earth Day is a great opportunity for children to learn more about their environment by doing service activities and playing games. This website has links on crafts, poems, songs, and color pages for children to use on earth day.

Exciting ideas for using Google Earth. Probably lots here we know little about YET. Important to help develop a sense of place and know and get a feel for other places. The simple task "where were you born?", "your parents", "your grandparents" maps most of us as immigrants and foreigners.

Elizabet Sahtouris: The biology of Globalisation " All living systems self-organize and maintain themselves by the same biological principles, which we can identify and abstract. Among the principles essential to the health of living systems are empowered participation of all parts and continual negotiation of self-interest at all levels of organization. Humanity constitutes a living system within the larger living system of our Earth. Essential to the health of humanity is empowered participation of all humans and negotiated self-interest among individual, local and global economies as well as the Earth itself."

Presentation on Google Docs. You need to get a gmail account (no bad thing) Ideas use Twitter and historicaltweets, twitterfall, twitter poll, wordle, Google Earth ....\nFrom Tom Barrett via Joe at Mirandanet

The Earth Charter is a set of internationally agreed, cross-cultural, cross-religious, cross-political values to guide our relations with the rest of human and non-human nature. It has an education programme, a youth initiative and a community programme.

"Tipping Elements in the Earth System: How Stable Is the Contemporary Environment?"

An important new book.

"Almost since life began on earth, mycelia have performed important ecological roles: nourishing ecosystems, repairing them, and sometimes even helping create them. The fungi's exquisitely fine filaments absorb nutrients from the soil and then trade them with the roots of plants for some of the energy that the plants produce through photosynthesis. No plant community could exist without mycelia."

bi-monthly magazine at the heart of earth, art and spirit, often inspirational Part of the Schumacher Circle

"Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth. It is essential for sustaining the natural living systems or ecosystems that provide us with food, fuel, health, wealth, and other vital services." International Year of Bio-diversity

"Sustainability Frontiers is an international alliance of sustainability and global educators seeking transformation of the human condition through repaired and restored earth connection." David Selby & co worth a look. Newly formed I think.

Elements described in Chinese philosophy, Yin Yang, 8 chnages, trigrams, sky-man-earth

Page of logo links. Worth a look

Embercombe is a charity and social enterprise established \nto champion a way of living that celebrates the opportunities inherent in this \nchallenging time and that inspires people to energetically contribute towards \nthe emergence of a socially just, environmentally sustainable and spiritually \nfulfilling human presence on earth.\n\nIt is our view that humanity now stands at a cross-roads - \na defining time in which we will make choices that will greatly influence our \ncollective future, for better or worse. We have become so numerous, so \nindustrious, so ambitious, and so technologically powerful, that we have the \ncapacity to orchestrate the destruction of our species, habitat, and future. We \nalso possess the imagination, the vision, and the intellect to learn from \nexperience, meet our challenges, and build a positive, sustainable future. A \nradical shift in awareness, values, and behaviour is required to meet this \ncritical transition.

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This is the proper site! Worth following I think. Interesting and relevant ideas,

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Childrens section of the World Future Council. Includes an interactive forum and a gallery of childrens work from across the world.

Childrens section of the World Future Council. Includes an interactive forum and a gallery of childrens work from across the world.