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Laurel
Springs School Laurel Springs is a personalized distance learning school, and resource to home school families, private and public schools, tutoring centers, students achieving personal life goals in acting or sports careers, and families living abroad. For over 25 years, Laurel Springs has offered quality high school, college prep and honors academic programs as well as creative, innovative curriculum options for elementary and middle school. Their interactive online, and approved text-based courses inspire critical thinking, and are supported by caring teachers building one-on-one relationships for a positive learning experience. www.laurelsprings.com United Nations Environmental Programme Global 500 Forum The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Global 500 Laureate Roll of Honour to recognize the environmental achievements of individuals and organizations around the world. Since 1987, over 600 Laureates have received the prestigious Global 500 Laureate award. Many Laureates devote impressive portions of their lives to such global concerns as climate change, deforestation, ocean pollution, dumping of toxic waste, and the conservation of biodiversity. The formation of the Global 500 Environmental Forum at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro made it possible for Laureates to support and communicate with each other. The Forum includes individuals from all walks of life... individuals working alone or in organizations... individuals whose initiative and courage protect the environment against all odds. Its network is particularly helpful to those Laureates who live and work in isolated areas. www.global500.org Yayasan Anak Warisan Alam (YAWA) can be translated as 'Children's Environmental Heritage Foundation'. A non-profit, non-government organization, it was founded in 1990, as an informal group called the Junior Environmental Group of Malaysia (JEGOM) purely to instill a love of and care for the environment in young people. JEGOM changed its name to Yayasan Anak Warisan Alam and was registered in 1996 as a Foundation limited by Guarantee. YAWA nurtures continuous positive development in young people throughout the critical growing stages of life. Networking with organizations both locally and internationally, YAWA has organized almost 100 projects involving many hundreds of children. www.yawa.org Globe Tree Foundation of Sweden Since its founding in 1982, Globetree has worked tirelessly to unite children in caring for their world. Globetree uses theatre and drama as its tools and has science and technology as its platform. Globetree uses the creative impulse to mobilize children and teachers to improve life and the environment. Globetree's achievements include: curriculum development in Bolivia; ecological parks in Brazil; a university technology center in Indonesia; environmental education and technology in Kenya; GlobetreeNet (a network of children's advocates); GlobetreeTheatre; and GlobeEye (sound, picture and film archive). When Globetree hosted a meeting of 600 children in Stockholm in 1986 to discuss environmental concerns, water was found to be their common bond. In the ensuing years, Globetree hosted the `Sharing Water Ceremony' in Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, Norway and the Netherlands, and at the 1992 World Summit on Children at the UN in New York. These ceremonies culminated in Globetree's sponsorship of 5,000 young people from 70 countries in the Globe Arena in Stockholm on UN day - 24 October 1998. Their mission was to incorporate Agenda 21 into a group vision of a safe and healed earth, which they called Future Vessel. For the first time in the history of global environmental activity, 200 computers linked the gathered participants with students from around the world. To symbolize their unity, the participants co-mingled water from their countries in a crystal bowl. Since then, 30 more countries have contributed water to this bowl. www.globetree.org |
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