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THE EARTH FOCUS WORLD PORTAL IS CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT!

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT = SOCIAL + ECONOMIC + ENVIRONMENTAL

 

EF CARBON            - EARTH FOCUS Carbon (In Development)

CURRENT EARTH FOCUS INFO-STREAMS

(FUTURE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE PORTAL) 

 

  EF CARBON       - EARTH FOCUS Carbon (In Development)

         EF -   IBOR    - EARTH FOCUS - IBOR Conference 

                                  - EARTH FOCUS Facebook     

      EF GYC                 - EARTH FOCUS Global Youth Conference

                                            - EARTH FOCUS Magazine

           EF IVESTING       - EARTH FOCUS Investing

                                               - EARTH FOCUS Issue 2 PDF

                                             - EARTH FOCUS INVESTING : Facebook

                                         - GREEN MAPS SWISS Green Maps Swiss

                                - GREEN MAPS SWISS Facebook

                      - ALP ACTION  Alp Action (In Development)

                 OVERVIEW                 

The website will serve as an international platform for raising awareness towards Sustainable Development.

The best and most up-to-date learning materials, recent developments, and positive projects concerning Society, Environment and Economic elements will be displayed in the widest variety of media forms.

Each submission will be primarily evaluated by youth with the support of experts, thus creating a diverse user community promoting learning for life, ideas exchanges, crisis resolution and the building up of an environmental and socially conscious human civilisation Today!

 

Earth Focus Workshop - 10 Dec 2012 (Human Rights Day)

Following the Earth Focus Workshop on Human Rights Day (Dec 10 2012), you will find

below a short montage of some of the highlights (including all the student presentations)

  

Global Youth Conference on Forests, Water, Health and Peace: 12 interviews

Following the Global Youth Conference on Forests, Water, Health and Peace, you will find below a series of interviews all directly related to the event in addition to the complete webcast of the event. Click on each image to play the corresponding videos:

Global Youth Conference on Forests, Water, Health and Peace

The Earth Focus Foundation co-organized the Global Youth Conference on Forests, Water, Health and Peace at the CICG International Conference Centre of Geneva. Have a look back at the two day conference:

Videos of the Massive Change Network Seminar, Geneva, 24 Feb. 2011

Earth Focus Foundation organized a special event with the support of the Green Film Festival in Geneva on the 24th of February 2011.

Earth Focus Foundation presented THE PLAN written and directed by David Osterberg and Michael Stenberg of Biospheric Pictures AB (2010, 58’, Sweden) followed immediately by live discussion with Bruce Mau and Bisi Williams, and director David Osterberg.

Video summary of the event:

After the screening of THE PLAN, Bruce Mau lead a discussion exploring these questions:

1. How can we get the power of design into the hands of the 99% who have not had access to higher education?
2. How do we break through the noise, and make the best of human culture the most visible?
3. What can we do to accelerate the best (and stop the rest)?

Interviews:

What is the Massive Change Network?

The Massive Change Network is purpose filled, entrepreneurial, experienced based design possibility network. The key strategic idea of the Massive Change Network to provide via various means and methods the inherent and native capacity of citizens, students, governments, business and community leaders to develop and enhance their critical design thinking skills. The vast majority of global citizens lack access to this critical working tool.

Our purpose is sharing knowledge with the 99% of global citizens who do not have access to college, university, or post secondary education. Our intention is to deliver the most knowledge, wisdom and culture to those with the least. The Massive Change Network is mandated to focus on inclusivity rather than exclusivity.

To greet the greatest opportunities and meet the most pressing challenges being presented to our world, citizens must be equipped to accelerate the uptake of new solutions. The emerging global conditions will require a new kind of scholar, worker, entrepreneur, leader, and educator. This emerging ecology of ever increasing technological, social, financial, environmental, governmental, and educational challenges, will require citizens committed to working collaboratively across professional silos, the ability to not only think critically, but creatively, and to move beyond theoretical musings to practical implementation. The 21st century will be the century where every citizen must become a life-long learner of some capacity. A network changes everything.

For more information visit:

• www.MassiveChangeNetwork.com
• www.brucemaudesign.com/98199/Massive-Change
• www.earthfocusfoundation.org
• www.festivaldufilmvert.ch
• www.lamuse.ch
• www.ville-ge.ch/mhng
• Slides of the Earth Focus Foundation

Earth Focus recapitulative video of 2010 events

Presentation of Earth Focus foundation in video featuring Mrs Nicola Spafford Furey during the 2048 project meeting in December 2010 in Geneva as well as young students at the GIN (Global Issues Network) conference and at the Global Youth Conference explaining their actions to change the world:

Global Youth Conference 2010: video summary

This video highlights the main points discussed at the last Global Youth Conference 2010 organized by the Earth Focus Foundation in Geneva:

Project 2048 and the International Convention on Human Rights: video interviews

Following the one day conference (see the full video content with all the debates here), a couple of interviews of experts in the domain were recorded on December 10, 2010.

Video Interview of Mrs Nicola Furey, vice-president and secretary general of the EarthFocus Foundation:

 

Interview of four young students from the Kenyan Aga Khan Academy:

Links to other interviews:

• Video Interview of Alfred de Zayas.
• Video Interview of Bruna Molina.
• Video Interview of Mishana Hosseinioun.
• Video Interview of Johannes Van Aggelen.
• Interview of an active participant.
• Video interview of Hubert Schneebeli.
• Brief recap video about the general ambiance of the conference.

On demand video webcast: Project 2048 and the International Convention on Human Rights

In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a deeply inspiring document that has been translated into over 300 languages and dialects. But because its provisions are not enforceable, its promise has not been fulfilled. Human rights violations continue in every corner of the globe, the cause of countless individual tragedies as well as large-scale disasters like war, poverty and environmental ruin.

EarthFocus organized this conference in Geneva on the 10th of December 2010. You can watch the video of the full conference by clicking on the image below:

Project 2048: Live streaming Conference webcast on Dec 10 2010, Geneva

EarthFocus is co-organizing a conference in Geneva on December 10, 2010 regarding the 2048 project: “Drafting the Universal Declaration on Human Rights” debate. Everyone was able to follow live the full content of the day from 9AM GMT (Webcast powered by Klewel).

Download the programme of the conference:

Morning

How can we make the Universal Declaration of Human Rights relevant for the issues of today?
● 9:00 The Universal Dream: drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Mishana Hosseinioun and professors Bruna Molina and Alfred de Zayas
● 10:15 Break
● 10:30 Human Rights in 2048- an enforceable bill of human rights and introduction to 2048 Project

Afternoon

If "humanitarian intervention" is an emerging principle of international law, why has it not been applied in Gaza?
● 13:00 Introduction from Professor Bruna Molina for the role playing debate on the case study of the Israeli attack on the Humanitarian Flotilla in May of 2010
● 13:15 Introduction from role playing individuals and commencement of the debate
● 14:15 Break
● 14:30 Continuation of the debate

Youth Message for COP 16

To view the youth message for COP 16:

Download Message-from-the-Global-Youth-Conference-2010