From elist@ns.ecouncil.ac.cr Mon Apr 12 17:49:40 1999 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id RAA08578 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:49:39 -0700 Received: from terra.ecouncil.ac.cr ([206.153.36.174]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with SMTP id RAA03036 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:49:20 -0700 Received: from www by ecouncil.ac.cr with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP5.R) for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 18:40:46 -0600 Message-ID: <37129495.146C@terra.ecouncil.ac.cr> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 18:49:25 -0600 From: Kevin Hudgins Reply-To: elist@ns.ecouncil.ac.cr X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: indknow@u.washington.edu Subject: The Earth Forum - extended by popular demand !!! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: indknow@u.washington.edu X-Return-Path: elist@terra.ecouncil.ac.cr *** 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: earthforum@ecouncil.ac.cr See you on-line! Kevin Hudgins Earth Network Coordinator The Earth Council San Jose, Costa Rica ====================================================================== 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.) ====================================================================== The Earth Forum - http://www.earthforum.org .