EARTHKEEPING NEWS
A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND
ECOLOGY
Volume Nine, Number One
November/December 1999
An Invitation to Earth Day 2000
The Earth Day Network invites you to join in making Earth Day 2000 the beginning of a new chapter in the environmental history of Earth; to participate in an international movement to place environmental concerns and action at the top of the world's agenda for the 21st century.
Earth Day, April 22, can be celebrated in any way that honors the environmental passions and challenges of your community. Each country, city, neighborhood, and school will highlight its own issues as part of a larger campaign expressing the public will to create a sustainable society. Groups are invited to use Earth Day as a platform for connecting with each other, to launch campaigns on the critical issues of our time.
Earth Day Network's Worldwide Campaign is sending out letters in thirteen languages, inviting 21,000 groups in 160 countries to organize for Earth Day 2000. Already, over 1500 groups in 146 countries have joined the Campaign.
- The Asian NGO Coalition is organizing an Earth Day 2000 concert in the Philippines that will be transmitted all over Asia.
- Environmental Defense Fund will run a campaign to break the link between export credit funding and projects with disastrous ecological and social consequences.
- Peace Child International will hold a global youth conference during Autumn 1999 and produce a book of youths' visions for the new millennium.
- Rainforest Action Network is mobilizing to end the logging of and trade in wood from old growth forests, and to demand an end to new oil exploration projects.
Other programs include:
- A Worldwide Clean Energy Campaign, which will lead the world toward clean, renewable energy sources. Learn more by contacting sramanathan@earthday.net
- Global collaborative campaigns on oceans and biodiversity.
- An Environmental Education Eco-Kit, prepared in conjunction with the world's leading environmental education experts, will be distributed across the developing and developed world.
- Technology support project which, as a legacy of Earth Day, will provide internet access to selected groups in developing areas, connecting them with each other and the global environmental community.
- Teach-Outs propelling students out into their communities to create opportunities for dialogue with local elected officials, businesses, schools, newspapers and other members of the community.
Visit www.earthday.net/worldwide for more details.
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