Global Village News and Resources Issue 90 - September, 2004

Renewable Energy Vital for Global Security

“We need to expand the use of renewable and decentralised energy in order to help increase security in the one world we all live in,” said Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder addressing the International Conference for Renewable Energies, hosted by Germany and attended by 3,000 people from nearly 100 countries. “Events in Saudi Arabia and Iraq have made it dramatically clear how vitally important it is to our security to have an energy supply based on as many different types and sources of energy as possible.”

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Awards for Solar Century

Solarcentury has won two of the Construction Industry’s Oscars. Their Streetsmart solar lighting system which enables bus shelters to provide their own electricity and their new solar roof tile beat over 100 of the industry’s newest products to be recognised as the most innovative and exciting to be launched this year. Solarcentury's Martyn Berry said that the photovoltaic tile is as easy to install as a conventional roof tile and provides clean, free electricity.

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Plan B: A Plan for the Future

“We can build an economy that does not destroy its natural support systems; a global community where the basic needs of all the earth’s people are satisfied and a world that will allow us to think of ourselves as civilized,” says Lester Brown, author of 'Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble'. Leading the Plan B Team of enthusiastic supporters is Ted Turner, founder of CNN, who has bought 3,500 copies to distribute to friends and opinion formers.

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Be The Change

"You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change things you have to build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”. That was the message of the Be The Change Conference in London hosted by Jim Fadiman and co-organised by Nick Hart Williams.

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Ambassadors for Change

A movement inspired by the words of Mahatma Gandhi, Be the Change You Want to See in the World, is gathering pace. Next year, Scotland will host a Be the Change conference following on from the first in Morocco, opened by the King and attended by 1,000 young people. Meanwhile, Be the Change Ambassadors are presenting dramas in schools raising key issues of sustainability.

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Uniting The Colours of the World

In Bali, Umbul Umbul flags proclaim and presence of the gods and signify consciousness at the highest levels. In August, people from all over the world are invited to Bali for a special Umbul Umbul Festival. Co-organiser, Thomas Bertschi of Switzerland's Rainbow Project, says: The festival will provide a Forum for people from different cultures to come together to exchange information, inspire one another and build new networks for the future of the world.

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Hazel Henderson Presents TV’s Ethical Marketplace

Hazel Henderson, author of Beyond Globalization and Creating a Win Win World is recording an important, new television series, Ethical Marketplace. Initially, the programmes will be shown on stations affiliated to America’s Public Broadcasting Service and will also be available for transmission worldwide.

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WeAreEverywhere.org
by Shauna Crockett-Burrows

Something that has never occurred in history before is happening. People from different cultures, different belief systems and social circumstances are uniting around the world for a new kind of democracy.

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