[GMW #1541] World Biosphere Conference - Nurturing Earth's Thin Layer Of Life

[GMW #1541] World Biosphere Conference - Nurturing Earth's Thin Layer Of Life Thursday 14 August 2008, Editor: Easy | RobertMuller.org | Contact | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | | GMW Blogs: English | Portuguese | Spanish | Tagalog | Dutch | Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500 ~ Idea 49 ~ 28 August 1994 The first world environment conference was in reality the Conference on the Biosphere convened by UNESCO in Paris in 1968 at the request of the government of Sweden. Its concept was right, namely to see the thin spherical membrane, or sphere of life, surrounding this planet, only a few miles into the atmosphere and a few miles into the oceans, containing all life of our solar system. The Conference had no impact and Sweden came to the UN Economic and Social Council to express its concern about the acid rain affecting their forests and the loss of life in their lakes. Sweden requested the UN to hold the first world conference on the environment in Sweden in 1972. It would be good to return to the concept of the biosphere and to hold a new world conference on the biosphere in 1998, thirty years after the first one, to see how the thin layer of life around our planet is faring. Note: At the time, I asked UN cartographers to draw for me a picture of the biosphere on a globe with a diameter of one meter. The biosphere appeared on it as a mere thin line not thicker than an eggshell. To politicians visiting my office, I pointed at that line, saying to them, "This is what you are playing with." * Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living, Volume II Chapter 18 Of Education (Inducation) For what understanding, for what kind of world, for what personal fulfillment are schools preparing children? That is a question every educator should ask. * UN News Sources - UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service, UN Wire News Archive New: References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc. My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight. Eudora Welty www.gratefulness.org WORD FOR THE DAY Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness by Dr. Robert Muller To order: Phone: 800-727-2782 Email: Becky@ParaPublishing.com Fax: 805-968-1379 Mail: Amare Media c/o Para Publishing, PO Box 8206 Santa Barbara, CA 93118-8206. Paperback, $12.95 PROPHET - THE HATMAKER'S SON The Life of Robert Muller by Douglas Gillies To order: Phone: 800-942-7617. For those of you who are interested in my life, there is a beautiful biography which I love very much. Order from www.robertmullerbiography.com . - Robert Muller Poems and Reflections for a Better Life by Kathy J. Ward "A book for anyone anticipating a lovely older age..and a perfect gift for anyone over 50..I read a page or two every single day and have since Kathy sent it to me. I love her book so easy to hold in my hands and read everyday." - Robert Muller - Click here to order. * Subscribe to other lists moderated by GMW's editor Easy: - Better World News: http://at7l.us/mailman/listinfo/bwn_at7l.us - Learning News - children learning, how mind works: http://at7l.us/mailman/listinfo/learn_at7l.us - Health News - better ways of healthy living: http://at7l.us/mailman/listinfo/health_at7l.us View these blogs: Better World News, Learning News, Health News