This
summer Earth Summit 2002 is taking place in Johannesburg,
South Africa.
Ten
years on from the first Earth Summit, held in
Rio de Janeiro in 1992, there is now a heightened
sense that problems are 'global' and that we live
in a small independent world.
The
Rio Earth Summit produced an agenda for action
for the 21st century - Agenda 21. Organisations
around the world were invited to join in a process
of 'thinking globally and acting locally'.
Agenda
21 projects have sprung up in many countries and
local councils and community groups in Britain
have been very active.
Local
Agenda 21 covers a very wide range of issues and
ideas but on this web site we focus on what might
be thought of as a key area - energy. In particular
we look at projects using natural renewable sources
of energy such as sunlight, and wind.
The
UK has enviable renewable energy resources and
some of them have been tapped on a local, small
- scale basis. This web site showcases some of
the sustainable energy projects
and plans that have emerged.
This
is the first post - Internet summit. In 1992 there
were only 50 sites on the World Wide Web. Today
there are more than 350 million. More people have
the opportunity to participate - not only in how
the future affects them but how they can affect
the future.
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