Articles Tagged with the word ‘Earth’
Reaching Out to Our Readers
28 Feb 2003
We recently asked our subscribers for their thoughts about Positive News and were overwhelmed by the response. So many of you think that it is really important to have positive stories to counteract the negativity that so often pervades the mainstream media. Lots of readers talked of feeling inspired and connected to the wider network
Earth Summit 2002
28 Feb 2003
Mary Robinson, the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights has endorsed the idea that a legal right to a safe environment should be given the same status as the UN Declaration on Human Rights.
Earth Champions Interview with Michael Meacher
30 Sep 2002
WWF Earth Champions, Rhys Davies, age 17 (Wales), Stephanie Wiseman, age 11 (Scotland), Peter Burton, age 11 (Northern Ireland) and Tim Green, age 10 (England) met Environment Minister Michael Meacher, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development
What on Earth was the Summit all About?
30 Sep 2002
The United Nations World Summit for Sustainable Development, also called the Earth Summit, happened in Johannesburg, South Africa for six days in August/September 2002. It's aim was to explore how we can all work together to save the planet. World leaders came together to talk about what they had achieved since the last Earth Summit ten years ago in...
Extracts from the Earth Champions’ Summit Diary
30 Sep 2002
During the Summit, the four WWF Earth Champions from the UK, winners of the Our World School's Competition, visited schools in Soweto, where they were welcomed by singing and dancing.
Peoples Earth Summit Commits to Creating a Decade of Earth Democracy
30 Sep 2002
Michael Meacher, the British Environment Minister, took time out from the Johannesburg Earth Summit to visit the Peoples Earth Summit where he said the real work was going on.
Vote for Local Wealth
30 Sep 2002
MP's are being asked to support a Bill to help local people have more control over their own affairs and rebuild Britain's local economies.
Small Farmers Appeal for the Earth
30 Sep 2002
A moving appeal for the world to respect and uphold the traditional way of life of the small farmer was presented at the Johannesburg World Summit. Their appeal could not have been written more clearly.
Small Farmers Appeal for the Earth
30 Sep 2002
A moving appeal for the world to respect and uphold the traditional way of life of the small farmer was presented at the Johannesburg World Summit. Their appeal could not have been written more clearly.
Greenteams Declare the Way Forward
30 Sep 2002
The year running up to the Earth Summit 2002 saw young people from five schools in North London engaged in setting an example to the rest of the world. As part of The Young Envisionaries Award (YEVA) programme, around 60 students established Greenteams to individually and collectively take responsibility for tackling a range of environmental and social issues
Utopian Vision Practical Steps
30 Jun 2002
We may get support from some governments, but the lead must come from people who share this vision. There are many starting points towards a co-operative free market economy, where people seek useful niches, not competitive advantage, information sharing to spread best practice, and public ratings to build trust. Green information networks at local and larger levels can enable...
Restoring the Earth
30 Jun 2002
For the World Summit on Sustainable Development to be truly successful, it will need to produce ambitious but achievable plans, and firm com-mitments to their implementation from governments and other bodies, to address the deteriorating state of our planet, and to fulfil the basic needs of people throughout the world. The various preparatory events produced little cause for optimism,...
ROSE: Restore Our World Save Our Earth
30 Jun 2002
Without substantial pressure created by genuine co-operation it is unlikely that any of the current issues that threaten our world, or humanity, will be given the necessary attention or resources to make the difference, given the power of vested interests and the lack of current political resolve.
Ark of Hope
30 Jun 2002
Caught up in his enthusiasm Sally, who launched the Temenos project, felt that to win people's hearts and minds it must find some form of universal artistic expression. The Temenos is an ancient Greek concept; a sacred circle in which the impossible becomes possible. Reflecting on the Earth Charter, each of four artists made a Temenos book into which...
A Call for Appropriate Action
30 Jun 2002
The 1972 Stockholm UN conference on the environment, the first of its kind, was based around the theme Only One Earth'. It tried to take stock of the enormity of the new human impacts. The 1992 UN Rio Earth Summit defined the imperative of sustainable development ñ meeting the needs of all people, now and in the future, while...
People’s Earth Summit
30 Jun 2002
Gaia's Director, Liz Hosken, says: 'There is a real hunger amongst ordinary people for positive change. At present countless individuals and groups are already involved in working for the common good in a wide variety of ways. An eagerness and creativity exists in a great many of us to make a difference but, too often, our voices are not...
Choose positive Energy
30 Jun 2002
An Action Plan with specific proposals for the Global Proliferation of Renewable Energy will be presented at the Earth Summit. The World Council for Renewable Energy is making an appeal to the international community to form the Group of Renewable and Efficiency Energy Nations ñ GREEN nations - as a key strategy for sustainable development.
This Special Issue
30 Jun 2002
The object is twofold: to unite the non governmental organisations and activists and local and global networks around an agreed agenda, based on an agreed planetary ethic of respect for all life and human dignity and to urge governments worldwide join us in using the coming decade to bring in the new thinking and actions that will restore the...
Earth Emergency — A Call to Action
30 Jun 2002
Millions of people worldwide are becoming aware of the connectedness of all life. By working together through our networks, globally and locally, we can accelerate initiatives already under way, shifting the global balance of power in favour of restoring the Earth, sharing its resources equitably and assuring the sustainable wellbeing of present and future generations.