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Lost Secrets Revealed!

Those of us familiar with the epic Fox television series Lost have learned two very important lessons: 1) It is quite possibly the most addictive TV show on the planet. Renting the first two seasons on DVD is an automatic two-week television bender, that will leave you very confused when you come to. Your house will be empty save for some empty pizza boxes, a carton of Ben and Jerry’s, and your sleeping dog - still lethargic from the countless leftover crusts he ate. Blindly obeying your subcon… Continue

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Green Jobs Would Stimulate American Economy

The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) held a briefing in conjunction with the House Climate Change Caucus to discuss the potential for green jobs in the United States and the policies needed to support their creation. The panelists gave an overview of three recent reports on the subject. Kevin McCarty, Managing Director of the Mayors Climate Protection Center of the U.S Conference of Mayors, talked about the current and potent… Continue

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The First Piece to the Climate Change Puzzle

Whoever is elected president on November 4 will be faced with some important questions: what to do about an economy that is in constant flux, whether or not to continue spending $10 billion a month in Iraq, how do we secure a renewable energy future. But according to a recent article in Environmental Finance, one decision the 44th president won’t have to make is how to address climate change. In the article, Michael Northrop and David Sassoon argue that key elements to climate change legislatio… Continue

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40 Scientests Call for Urgent Climate Change Action

Renowned authors Dr. Barrie Pittock and Dr. Andrew Glikson have released a statement co-signed by 40 Australian environmental scientists demanding swift action to stop climate change. From major improvements in public transportation and the development of large-scale energy utilities, to active diplomacy tied to aid, Climate: Urgent Challenge, Great Opportunity recommends nine policies in order to reduce climate change. With a focus on Australia, the statement calls for confronting the challenge… Continue

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See You Later, Alligator: The Florida Everglades

As sea levels rise, the Everglades are going under. As a result of global warming the Florida Everglades are under siege and will soon be under water. Situated south of Orlando on the Kissimee River and emptying into the Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades supports one of the most varied ecosystems in the world, including many endangered species. It’s also constantly changing, due to alternating periods of flooding and drought. Unfortunately, its next change will likely be its last. Low-lying coas… Continue

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At 8:17am on September 5, 2008, isabellemanneh said…
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. ." M. Mead

Support "Call to Action in Jordan": a non-profit collaboration of indipendent activists with the Global Climate Campaign (CACC/GCC) -UK and the EarthDay Network (EDN) -US.

Join Us at our new and improved website! Become a member today and invite your friends. Your help will make great things possible!

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At 12:15am on August 27, 2008, MAHESH PAL said…

At 10:49am on July 11, 2008, Gwain Colbert Fulai said…
Thanks and welcome once more
I am a Climate Change Campaigner for the Mr.Bamenda Organization in Cameroon. I am organizing a Green Cola nut Tree Festival in Bamenda,Northwest Province of Cameroon where 60 musicians, gospel singers and choral groups shall all join politicians,activists, to sing for global warming from the weekend of August 08-10,2008.The objective is to raise grassroots awareness and put climate change issues at the forefront of public consciousness as the region is already suffering the effects of global warming.
CONTEXT and JUSTIFICATION
“Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technological endeavors…..in order that the creations of our mind should be a blessing and not a curse to mankind”. This words by Albert Einstein refocuses the challenges the world faces today as a result of the climate crisis. While the primary culprit is the fossil fuel consumption of the industrialized world, the primary victims are the poor communities of the developing world. Faced with such alarming crisis, the world is unanimous that everybody, be he in the North or in the South, should become part of the solution rather than remain part of the problem.

Going by the Bali Action plan, Gwain Colbert Fulai, Climate Change Campaigner in the Mr. Bamenda Organization Seeks to take real, measurable and verifiable action in raising grassroots public awareness in the Northwest province through music and dance; provided real, measurable and verifiable means are available.

As a campaigner who has special interest in fighting for the redress of “glocal” inbalances, I agree with the people of the Northwest and Cameroon that fresh air is good. They love to walk down streets that are clean, to smell flowers, and the fragrance of fresh ripe fruit. There is no earth that prefers to live in stinking cities, drink chemically treated water, and swim in polluted streams.



Global Warming is an emerging global crisis and there is no room for slow action. I am moving in with the same integrated marketing communication for Behavioral change approach for climate change I used last year for the repackaging of HIV/AIDS messages for the Mr. Bamenda Organization. The most effective way to put global warming at the forefront of public consciousness is through a grand musical festival in Bamenda, capital of the Northwest province, a province that already feels the impact of Global warming. Green Cola nut Festival will be an effective tool to raise grassroots awareness to the negative effects of climate change in Cameroon.

Why music as an effective tool for grassroots mobilization? This is a crisis and requires immediate and ground floor responses. It is a well known fact that music stimulates the emotional nature of man. It can stir the most negative or most noble emotions. In fact, where verbal language ends, music language begins. Being not just an art and a science but a language, “music expresses that which cannot be put into words, and that which cannot remain silent”, as Victor Hugo put it centuries ago. We can no longer remain silent. And since music stimulates the emotions and the psychic centers and assists man to rise to the higher levels of consciousness, it is safe to say music is an efficient and effective tool to mobilize grassroots awareness to the issues of climate change in Cameroon.

Why Green Cola nut? Cola nut trees have been important in Africa for centuries. As an indigenous tree, it has withstood all forms of destruction. Cola nut trees live for between 75 – 100 years. Since deforestation accounts for a higher percentage of the global warming, Cola nut trees defy any cutting down, and are suited for our message. With so many economic and medicinal as well as social uses, they are not just a message but a messenger. The seeds, termed cola nuts, are chewed for their stimulatory effects. In most of the Northwest, a host who fails to give cola nuts to departing guests commits a serious social blunder. Haven’t we heard that he who brings cola brings life? Hence, the reason d’etre for the Green cola nut Festival. The festival seeks to enable Cameroonians live green lives. The festival is free and seeks to gather about 60 Northwest artists, actors, politicians, and choral music groups in just one location. Financial support is sort because the festival is free and intended for the grassroots who would not afford a toll.
About the Climate Change Campaigner
Gwain Colbert Fulai is an upscale consultant in lobbying and advocacy and a local resource mobilizer for social, cultural, health, and today, climate change issues. He is also a consultant in Integrated Marketing Communication for Behavioural Impact (IMCOMBI) in the social and health domains and Progressive Communication initiatives.

He is the initiator and promoter of the Mr. Bamenda Organization, a youth project for youths and by youths with the main desideration of promoting a culture of decision making in the Cameroonian youth.

He has worked as a communication attaché and local resource mobilizer for many local associations including the International Club for Peace Research, ICPR-Yaounde, and Bamenda based Centre for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy, CHRAPA, an NGOs in Special Consultative status with ECOSOC of the United Nation. He has led a major and successful signature collection and petitioning of government over the total neglect of late Nyos Survivors, which exercise has forced government to put the issue on the list of its priorities with support coming from the European Union and the United Nations.

Only recently, he initiated the first – ever Bamenda Fashion Week with support from Culture Ministry, show casing grass field’s traditional regalia as a form of cultural expression and the effects global warming has on that prestigious attire. He currently works with the Earth Day Network, the Clinton Climate Initiative and Al Gore’s “We Can Solve It” climate initiatives to see how their experiences and competences can benefit Cameroon. Green Cola festival is one of such initiatives.
At 6:05am on July 11, 2008, omiyehan sunday said…
WE HAVE FOUND A TALKING TREE

I AM SUNDAY OMIYEHAN, I SUPPORT EARTHDAY PROGRAMME THEY ARE REALLY DOING WELL. THAT IS WHY WE ALSO MAKE SURE WE DO OUR YEARLY EARTHDAY FESTIVAL IN MY COUNTRY WHICH I THINK WILL BE MORE GREAT COMING YEAR IN CECD FOREST RESERVATION PROGRAMME. AS WE WERE MOVING ROUND THE FOREST WE FOUND SOME GREAT ABOUT A TREE, WHICH BRING ABOUT THAT HEADING WHICH SAY WE FOUND TALKING TREE. THIS IS REAL WE FOUND IT IN IRELE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA ONDO STATE NIGERIA. THE TREE IS VERY HIGH IN HEIGHT AND NO OTHER TREE AROUND IT, AROUND THE TREE THERE ARE NO LEAVE FALLING THE ENVIRONMENT IS ALWAY CLEAN AS IF SOME ONE IS LIVING THERE BUT THERE IS NOBODY LIVING THERE IT IS JUST ONLY THE TREE IN THE FOREST AND THE TREE WAS MAKING NOISE WHEN WE MOVE CLOSE TO IT. BUT IT DOES NOT SPEAK TO SOME SOMEBODY AS IN CONVERSATION BUT THERE IS VOICE COMING OUT OF THE TREE. THIS IS UNBELIEVEABLE, IT IS REALLY HARD TO BELIEVE THIS BUT IT IS REAL AND SEEING IS BELIEVING. ACCORDING TO LAGATO HE SAID THAT IS HOW THE TREE WAS CREATED BY GOD, THAT THE INFORMATION OF THE TREE WAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM BY ONE ELDERLY PERSON WICH HE BELIEVE NOT UNTIL HE SAW IT WITH HIS EYE. CAN YOU REALLY BELIEVE SUCH TREE EXIST IN THE WORLD? THIS IS NOT FUN BUT REALLY IT EXIST IN MY COUNTRY, MY STATE, AROUND MY TOWN IN THE STATE THERE THE TREE IS TILL TODAY NO MAN THINK OF TO CUT IT BECAUSE NO ONE THINK OF SUCH.

TALKING TREE BY SUNDAY OMIYEHAN
At 5:50pm on July 10, 2008, Green Power said…
The novel Green Power developes it's plot around the use of methane digesters to help mankind. However, when an epidemic breaks out implicating this alternate source of energy the plot thickens. For more information, please visit the author's website: http://www.freewebs/vrooman.
At 3:57pm on June 9, 2008, John Akinnuba said…
BIOFUEL CAN BE BIOFULISH


On our warning planet forest is a precious commodity. Every acre of forest landscape used to plant crops to generate fuel is an acre that can be use to generate food to feed the world or carbon storage needed to save the earth.

We are better-off growing food for our population while drilling oil in a more ecologically sound manner. Sure we should conserve fuel by buying efficient cars, we should keep filling them with gas if other alternative are dirtier.

Biofuel could be a God sent, only if we don’t use arable lands and converted food stuffs. The carbons lost when wilderness is raized are overwhelm the gains from any form of cleaner burning biofuel. Deforestation accounts for 20% of all current carbon emission worldwide.

Let’s reduce deforestation or continue to risk environmental catastrophe.


JOHN AKINNUBA
At 10:59pm on May 6, 2008, Edong Magpayo said…
Dear Raquel…
Greetings from Palawan, Philippines!
Thank you so much for the response, actually I’ve been waiting for his answer but now that I learned from you that he is no longer connected to EDN that is okey. Actually I already asked to one of my artist friend to sketch a picture of climate change like a caricature, and she responded me. I attached here the drawing, please kindly check and give me an idea if that is okey?
Yeah we are publishing a book on climate change, entitled KLIMA or climate. Actually we wrote it in Filipino our language and the meaning of KLIMA is KaLipunan ng Impormasyon ukol sa Mundo at Atmospera or Collections of Various Information about the Earth and Atmosphere. I will post in the website of EDN the output of the book as soon as we published this May, 2008.
We are planning to initiate a Teachers Training Workshop on Climate Change, but sad to say that this is really a challenge for us when it come to fund. Hope that you could help us recommend any foundation that were willing to help us to put this dream into reality so that in our own little way we can also help combat the number one problem on earth, which is the global warming.
Until here and wish to hear from you, again thanks for the response. Happy Ocean Month!
For the environment,
Edong Magpayo
Program Manager
Palawan Conservation Corps
www.palcorps.tipod.com
At 8:37am on April 20, 2008, Frank Joe Chou said…
Hi ! Dear !
Please add me as your friend from you, because I already requested over 100 people in less than one day without having time to be approved by them and was rejected by the computerized default system!!
My name is Frank Joe Chou(http://network.earthday.net/profile/FrankJoeChou) from Taiwan.
My academic backgrounds: B. S. in Earth Science from National Taiwan University; M. S. in Earth Science from Louisiana State University; M. S. in Management Science from University of Texas, specialized in Application of Total Quality Management (TQM) and Organizational Learning(OL) to government, non-government and profit organizations. Operations of successful modern entrepreneurs, small-medium-multinational corporations are all based on modern management science, especially on Total Quality Management(TQM) and Organizational Learning focusing on quality, team-brain-storming, systematic thinking and action, creativity/innovation/invention,etc.. Encouraged by academicians in university management schools and successful business practitioners, many government and non-government organizations all over the world follow these practices with successful results, too.(References: (1)Many books written by Peter Drucker; (2)Reinventing Government: How Entrepreneurial Spirits Change Public Sectors, by David Osborne & Ted Gaebler; (3)Many others, including "Butterfly Effect" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect)).
***Abstract of this long message:
With the help of or through Total Quality Management(TQM)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Quality_Management) and Organizational Learning(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_learning) of modern management science, please join one of the global network of "Integrated Creative Life-Long-Learning Organization for Global Village Community" project : "Everyday is Earth Day!" project provides every family and community with creative learning and entertaining ways of happy daily life. It can be done (1) just to organize a study-circle studying books, films, arts, etc. at home and in the community; (2) through national or international exchange programs by schools, colleges, government/non-government/non-profit organizations. Please tell all of your friends to come to Taiwan to learn all of them ASAP on tourist visa or student visa or working visa or professional visa.
***Global network project: Everyday is Earth Day Project! Please start "Everyday is Earth Day!" Project anytime as early as possible! It can be done through: (A)everyone's social network in the internet;(B)but with the best results (efficiency, effectiveness, creativity, etc.) through:(a) inviting community members to organize different types of study-circles(studying books, films, arts, etc.) in the neighborhood's/school's/university's/city's/county's/provincial/national community .
(b)Living out-of-province or out-of-country through national/international exchange programs by government/non-government organizations/non-profit organizations(e.g. Rotary Club, Lion's Clubs, etc.. or your own organizations)/ and profit organizations, any religious organization, any school, universities, etc.. National/International Exchange Programs(for Students or The General Public) can be done through the government (e.g. sister cities/counties/states)/non-government organizations/non-profit organizations(e.g. Rotary Clubs, Lion's Clubs, etc.. or your own organizations)/school/university/profit organizations. After the citizens of any school/university/city/county/state, complete petition to the school/university/city/county/state for being a foreign sister school/university/city/county/state of any foreign school/university/city/county/state.
Citizens or government officials can do the International Exchange Programs.
Everyone’s daily life in the whole family or in the community is full of entertaining opportunities in learning everything from empathy/sympathy/affectionate love/charity/beneficence to fine arts, performing arts, literatures, liberal arts, mathematical science, natural science, social sciences and management science, all kinds of technology, etc., and all or some of them can be integrated together with creative learning with “association techniques”, followed up with Total Quality Management(TQM) and Organizational Learning(OL). The best ways of quality life and quality learning can be got through Total Quality Management(TQM) and Organizational Learning(OL) in the family and in the community, at least through the fixed scheduled “free and democratic family’s or community’s meeting”and team-brain-storming . Every family and every community can do them very quickly, just organizing a study-circle to study books, films, arts, etc.. More details about Total Quality Management(TQM) and Organizational Learning(OL) and team-brain-storming can be found on any good website and library. This is the main frame of "Integrated Creative Life-Long-Learning Organization for Global Village Community" project (abbreviated as "IC3LO" project). This can be done at the family level, local community level, national community level and Global Village Community level through internet or national or international exchange programs. Enhancement and Advancement of human potentials and civilizations require such "IC3LO project”.
I am writing a series of books on”IC3LO project”, one of them is "Everyday is Earth Day!" with the creative themes(as described below), looking for teams to make cartoon books, computer-animated movies, film series, TV-teleplay series, through or by application of practice and art in Total Quality Management (TQM) and Organizational Learning(OL) to government, non-government and profit organizations. These projects can be done through internet, but with the best results (efficiency, effectiveness, creativity, etc.) through neighborhood/city/county community's study-circles, living out-of-state or out-of-country through national/international exchange programs by government, non-government and profit organizations, churches, schools, universities, etc.. to create a global net work of "Integrated Creative Life-Long-Learning Organization for Global Village Community". You are quite welcome to Taiwan to be an English teacher or an expert to teach something important in our life, including "Everyday is Earth Day!" , and to be VIP of “IC3LO project” .
The creative themes are as follows: (A)Think and Act Both Globally and Locally: At Home and In the local neighborhood/city/county/state/nation/world communities ; (B)Think and Act Both Governmentally and Non-Governmentally(including government, non-government and profit organizations);(C)Think and Act Both Academically and Practically;(D)Think and Act Both Systematically and Organizationally;(E)Think and Act Both demurely/earnestly/gravely/no-nonsensely/sedately/seriously/severely and
encouragingly/incentively/Incitingly/invigoratively/stimulantly/stimulatively/amusingly/amusively/arrestingly/deliciously/divertingly/divertively/entertainingly/funly/funnily/interestingly;(F)Others :Think and Act in other creative ways. Because of Ecological System(Air/Land/Water/Lives and Non-Lives), "Butterfly Effect", we must call for world cooperation among government, non-government and profit organizations in doing all of those described above "Think and Act Both ... And ...": Planning, Doing, checking, Action by law enforcement(Cycling of Planning, Doing, Checking, Action is the main theme of TQM). Multi-national corporations are required by ISO14000 Regulations/Rules, but local businesses and
governments are only for purposes of profit-making and economic development at the sacrifice of environments, especially in China, India, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Brazil, and other developing and under-developed countries. In many countries or cultures(e.g. Chinese culture), knowing or saying is one thing, but doing is just another!
National/International Exchange Programs(for Students or The General Public) can be done through the government (e.g. sister cities/counties/states)/non-government/non-profit/school/university/profit
organizations. After the citizens of any school/university/city/county/state, complete petition to the school/university/city/county/state for being a foreign sister school/university/city/county/state of any foreign school/university/city/county/state.
Citizens or government officials can do the International Exchange Programs.
Taiwan was the homeland of Austronesian people back 6000 years ago . She is full of very beautiful natural resources, culture and civilization of East-Meeting-West and of Austronesian people. She will hold “World Games 2009 In Kaohsiung”, my hometown. City of Kaohsiung(World Games2009) (http://www.worldgames2009.tw/english/index.asp) got several sister cities/counties in U. S. and in other countries(http://w4.kcg.gov.tw/~protocol/sister.htm). According to modern modern Neuroscience (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience), participating in all kinds of learning & educational activities, sports activities and cultural activities can improve and release human potential. So it’s for everyone's goodness to create a new link to creative learning & educational activities of many interesting things all over the world other than scientific viewpoints or purposes, at least with "Association Techniques”, e. g. starting programs right now in association with the International Year of the Reef 2008 held by Reefcheck Foundation (http://www.reefcheck.org/ ), and World Games2009 held by City Government of Kaohsiung, Taiwan (http://www.worldgames2009.tw/english/index.asp), and other conservation activities held by conservation organizations all over the world.
Many Taiwanese schools/universities/cities/counties got several foreign sister schools/universities/cities/counties and introduce many foreign native language speakers to be language teachers in private and public schools/universities, because every Taiwanese knows that everyone requires proficiency in many foreign languages, and wisdom of and real experience with foreign cultures and civilizations in this huge tide of globalization and global competition, and knowledge-based economy. All of foreigners are well-treated like one's own family members because of several hundred years of Taiwanese hospitality tradition, and can get full development in career and academic potentials. All are all welcome to Taiwan to be teachers to teach something important or experts/professionals to do something important in our life, including "Everyday is Earth Day!" ,and work together to become a global network for everyone's goodness and God's purposes to save the whole world (at least to terminate all of the massacre tragedies happened on high-school and university campuses all over the world)and upgrade quality of life, human culture and civilization, etc..
Please forward this article to friends, relatives and people caring about our Mother Earth all over the world ASAP!!
Please E-mail to me ASAP: integrity_all@yahoo.com.tw
My social network is at http://integrityall.ning.com/main/feature/add
Best Regards,
Frank Joe Chou
P. S.: E-mail posted on EOL’s feedback/forum
(http://forum.eol.org/viewtopic.php?p=1511#1511).
Dear Madam/Sir:
EOL Subjects and Suggestions In Discussion: Create a New Link to Creative Learning and Education at least With Association Techniques
(A)EOL Project is great. But from viewpoints of the Modern Neuroscience (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience) and of the Learning & Educational & Developmental Psychology and of the Entrepreneurial Mindset/Spirit(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurial_mindset) of Total Quality
Management (TQM) and Organizational Learning(OL)of Modern Management
Science, which emphasize efficiency, effectiveness, creativity, innovation , invention, self-motivated-learning & education, etc.. EOL Project is lack of many interesting things for everyone's goodness all over the world other than scientific viewpoints or purposes.
(B)From viewpoints of Modern Neuroscience (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience), participating in all kinds of learning & educational activities, sports activities and cultural activities can improve and release human potential. So it’s for everyone's goodness to create a new link to creative learning & educational activities of many interesting things all over the world other than scientific viewpoints or purposes, at least with "Association Techniques”, e. g. starting programs right now in association with the International Year of the Reef 2008 held by Reefcheck Foundation (http://www.reefcheck.org/ ), and World Games2009 held by City Government of Kaohsiung, Taiwan (http://www.worldgames2009.tw/english/index.asp), and other conservation activities held by conservation organizations all over the world.
We can invite people all over the whole world for EOL to create new romantic imaginative names for everything: lives and non-lives, at least for efficiency, effectiveness, creativity, innovation, invention, self-motivated-learning & education, etc.. For examples Mermaid’s purse has been a common term for the normally empty egg cases of dogfish, skates, sharks and rays. They are among the objects which are washed in by the sea, and can be found at the strandline, which is the furthest point of the highest tide. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Mermaid%E2%80%99s+purse+&fulltext=Search)
(C)Examples of “Association Techniques” with literatures, myths:
(1)Many biologists already know that Acetabularia is called the “mermaid's wineglass”, because it resembles such a cup and raise biologists’ romantic imagination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetabularia). We can invite people all over the whole world to create new romantic imaginative names for everything: lives and non-lives.
(2)Maurice Maeterlinck(1862-1949, a Nobel Prize laureate in Literature in 1911) mentioned many flowers in his essay "The Intelligence of Flowers” (1906), associating flowers with world-wide literatures, myths, etc.., such as, Lilium candidus, Nymphaea lotus, Nymphaea alba, etc.. We can invite people of the whole world to post such existing association with the world-wide literatures, myths, etc. and also to create new association with world-wide new literatures, myths, etc. about everything: lives and non-lives. This is what we can contribute more to http://www.eol.org/ in different ways to awaken people’s interest and motives in self-motivated learning in everything, including EOL, world-wide conservation, etc.. I find that daily life are full of opportunities in learning everything from empathy/sympathy/affectionate love /charity/beneficence to fine arts, performing arts, literatures, liberal arts, mathematical science, natural science, social sciences and management science, all kinds of technology, etc., and all or some of them can be integrated together with creative learning with “Association Techniques”, followed up with Total Quality Management (TQM) and Organizational Learning(OL). The best ways of quality life and quality learning can be got through Total Quality Management(TQM) and Organizational Learning(OL) in the family and in the community. This is the main frame of "IC3LO" project. This can be done at the family level, local community level, national community level and Global Village Community level through internet or national or international exchange programs living in the community planned by non-profit organizations, e.g. EOL Foundation, Rotary Clubs, Lions’ Club, etc.. We can do them right away for the high school students with diploma-requirement of community service, college students, graduate students and general families or tourists. Enhancement and Advancement of human potentials and civilizations require such Integrated Creative Life-Long-Learning in this wave of Globalization, especially all of Taiwanese being eager for it with foreign culture, and this can be a gold-mine or even a diamond-mine for interesting individuals, families, communities, profit or non-profit organizations. Taiwan was the homeland of Austronesian people back 6000 years ago . She is full of very beautiful natural resources, culture and civilization of East-Meeting-West, and of Austronesian people, and holds “World Games 2009 In Kaohsiung City, Taiwan”. We can start such programs right now in association with EOL’s creation of new link to Creative Learning and Education at least With Association Techniques.
Sincerely Yours,
Frank Chou 2008/4/11
At 7:28am on April 20, 2008, The Professor said…

Come join me on Earth Day. Wear Green on TUESDAY April 22nd to show your Support to Mother EARTH
Click here to join in and become active in Gerald's effort to raise awareness and Save the Earth. This a new and special Web Page I started just for Earth Day where you can sign in to Wear Green>>>
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Then visit the Mind of Gerald for the You Tube Info on Global Warming and steps YOU can take to help Save the Earth @ http://girvin227.spaces.live.com
At 1:15pm on April 19, 2008, The Professor said…
If we spread the word around the globe to wear green on Earth Day, we will raise the awareness level of people everywhere.
Wear Green @ http://girvin227.spaces.live.com
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