Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 6, September 2003
Table of Contents
1.0 President's Message
2.0 Letter to the peoples of all communities on Earth concerning your desire to become citizens of the Global Community
3.0 Reports
The salmon life cycle in the estuary of Nanaimo River is endangered by ship activities and log storage
4.0 Research and development papers
A) Criteria of the Global Community Citizenship
B) My global community citizenship
C) Certified Corporate Global Community Citizenship
5.0 Articles of interest
A) Apply for one ECO, your Certified Corporate Global Community Citizenship (CCGCC), a unique way to show the world your ways of doing business are best for the Global Community
B) First corporation on Earth to obtain one ECO
President's Message |
Before you make your decision, we are asking you to read very carefully the Criteria of the Global Community Citizenship, make sure you understand every part of the criteria, and then make the oath of belonging to the Global Community, the human family, Earth Community and Earth Government.
You do not need to let go the citizenship you already had before. No! You can still be a citizen of any nation on Earth. But you are a better human being as you belong also to the Global Community, and you have now higher values to live a life, to sustain yourself and all life on the planet.
You have become a person with a heart, a mind and Soul of the same as that of the Global Community.
The Global Community welcomes you!
Letter to the peoples of all communities on Earth concerning your desire to become citizens of the Global Community |
We are asking you to take the oath of global citizenship. We all belong to this greater whole, the Earth, the only known place in the universe we can call our home.
Before you make your decision, we are asking you to read very carefully the Criteria of the Global Community Citizenship, make sure you understand every part of the criteria, and then make the oath of belonging to the Global Community, the human family, Earth Community and Earth Government.
You do not need to let go the citizenship you already had before. No! You can still be a citizen of any nation on Earth. But now you are a better human being as you belong also to the Global Community, and you have now higher values to live a life, to sustain yourself and all life on the planet.
You have become a person with a heart, a mind and Soul of the same as that of the Global Community.
The Global Community welcomes you!
Letter to |
Let |
The salmon life cycle in the estuary of Nanaimo River is endangered by ship activities and log storage |
The Nanaimo River is a salmon-bearing stream, chinook and chum salmon, and the Nanaimo River estuary plays a vital part in their life-cycle. From February to July, juvenile salmon will spend time feeding, growing and adapting from a freshwater to a marine environment in the estuary.
Log booms in intertidal areas have reduced a large number of species and abundance of macrobenthos (amphipod crustaceans, molluscs and annelid worms) under log rafts. Copepods are the largest biomass in the oceans and also the dominant food items in juvenile salmon fry in the Nanaimo River estuary. Copepods are subject to loss of living space, drainage changes, tow-boat wash, ship activities and their impacts, log grounding at low tide and tidal currents.
In June of 2003 Nanaimo was a port of call for a large condominium, "The World of ResidenSea", cruise ship right in the Nanaimo River estuary for 2 days(www.residensea.com). Both uses, ships allowed to cross and drop an anchor in the estuary, and the logging industry allowed to store logs in the estuary, have a dramatic effect on the salmon cycle of life.
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The logging industry in the Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, claims that the Nanaimo River estuary access is vital to sawmills, providing them with affordable log warehousing. Log storage is currently an allowed use under a lease the province of British Columbia has with the Nanaimo Port Authority, which in turn sub-leases the tidal estuary land to several sawmills that use it for log storage. The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans could possibly reduce or even eliminate this type of industrial use in the river estuary to improve fish habitat.
Log storage tenures were first issued starting in 1950 coinciding with a growth in the number of mills on Vancouver Island. By 1972 most of the Nanaimo River estuary was used to log storage. The water leases are administered by the Nanaimo Port Authority.
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Several more photos show forestry and log activities at the bottom of Mount Benson. You can acces the full report at the following website sponsored by Earth Government.
http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/mtbenson/index.htm
http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/mtbenson/workinthefield.htm
(Note: The August 2003 Newsletter (http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/mtbenson/NewsA.htm)of the Mount Benson Preservation Society explained details concerning environmental impacts of the forestry industry.)
A photo shows the West side of Mount Benson. It was taken from a secondary peak on the mountain. Develoment for the wealthy was allowed by the Regional District of Nanaimo and is seen right at the bottom of the mountain.
More photos were taken on the North-East slope of Mount Benson. They show very young trees being cut off the mountain slope. Very little profit was made by the logging company yet it makes other industries and activities in the region at high risk: the ecotourism industry, Nanaimo heritage, protection of Nanaimo water shed, parks. The logging company is building a road to the peak of the mountain. With so very little profit made there has to be another reason for destroying the forest. The Regional District of Nanaimo may well be in the process of allowing development on the slopes of the mountain.
Clearcutting of the forest is obvious. One or two trees were left over.
Only small trees could be cut. There is more left over trees and debris on the ground than trees being actually taking away.
The long road on the mountain slope has not yet reached the top. The logging company is making the slope available for more development. It may be soon before re-zoning of the land will allow 'the rich and famous' build homes on the slopes. It has already been used by large trailer truks to carry the trees away.
Nanaimo downtown can be seen on the right side of several photos. Also shown here is Protection Island, Newcastle Island, and Departure Bay. The photos were taken from a secondary peak of Mount Benson. The cutting of the forest and the road going up the mountain slope can be clearly seen.
Owners of the 209 hectares property on the peak are in the process of subdividing it into eight-hectare parcels. Cercomm Electronics built its radio tower on the mountaintop. The tower itself does not need to be on the top of the mountain to broadcast to the Nanaimo region and surroundings. Radio waves can travel very well from a secondary peak in a less threatening place to the ecosystem of the mountain and to the quality of life of the people of Nanaimo. If there were any chance at all for Nanaimo senior people to have access to the top of the mountain and build their own trail for viewing from the top then they would be looking at the radio tower like a sour thumb.
A photo shows Nanaimo downtown and Westwood Lake Park from the top of the mountain.
Another shows a beautiful panoramic view of the other side of the mountain.
Article B |
Article C |
Criteria of the Global Community Citizenship |
Copyright © 2003 Earth Government
a) I am not just a woman, I am a person, I am citizen of a global community,
b) I am not just a man, I am a person, I am citizen of a global community,
c) We are responsible, accountable and equal persons in every way and,
d) We are citizens of The Global Community, the Earth Community, the human family, Earth Government.
We need to take this stand for the survival of our species.
2. Acceptance of the concept of 'a global community'. The concept of 'a global community' is part of the Glass Bubble concept of a global community. The concept was first researched and developed by the Earth Community Organization (ECO) and was summarized on Earth Government website.
Then it was further researched and developed by Earth Government and results obtained were published by Earth Government in its February 2003 Newsletter.
We have already said that 'a global community' is not about a piece of land you acquired by force or otherwise. A typical global
community may be what a group of people, together, wants it to be. It can be a group of people with the same values. It can be a
group of people with the same cultural background, or the same religious background.
One could think of a typical global community of a million people that does not have to be bounded by a geographical or political border. It can be a million people living in many
different locations all over the world. The Global Community is thus more fluid and dynamic. The Global Community is this great, wide,
wonderful world made of all these diverse global communities. We need to let go the archaic ways of seeing a community as the street
where we live and contained by a border.
The people making a global community may be living in
many different locations on the planet.
It can be a village, or two villages together where people have decided to unite
as one global community. The two villages may be found in different parts of the world. It can be a town, a city, or a nation. It can be two or more nations together.
We can no longer perceive ourselves as a People who could survive alone and a People who does not need anyone else. We belong and depend to this much larger
group, that of The Global Community. The 21st Century will see limitless links and symbiotical relationships with and within The
Global Community. A global symbiotical relationship between two or more nations, or between two or more global communities,
can have trade as the major aspect of the relationship or it can have as many other aspects as agreed
by the people involved. The fundamental criteria is that a relationship is created for the good of all groups participating in
the relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on
Earth. The relationship allows a global equitable and peaceful development.
The emphasis of a global symbiotical relationship is not so much on how much money a nation should have or how high a GDP should be although money can be made a part of the
relationship. We all know developed countries live off developing countries so the emphasis has no need to stress out the profit a rich nation is making off a poor nation. The emphasis
of the relationship should give more importance to the other aspects such as quality of life, protection of the environment and of the global life-support systems, the entrenchment of
the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Charter of Earth Government into our ways of life, justice, peace, cultural and spiritual freedom, security, and many other important aspects as
described in the global ministries (health, agriculture, energy, trade, resources, etc.).
3. Acceptance of the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and reponsibilities and their importance. The Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Charter of Earth Government
were researched and developed by Earth Government to guide us in continuing this process. The Scale shows social values in order of importance and so will help us understand the rights and responsibilities of global communities.
* Ecological rights and the protection of the global life-support systems
* Primordial human rights
* The ecological rights, the protection of the global life-support systems and the primordial human rights of future generations
* Community rights and the right that the greatest number of people has by virtue of its number (50% plus one) and after voting representatives democratically
* Economic rights (business and consumer rights, and their responsibilities and accountabilities) and social rights (civil and political rights)
* Cultural rights and religious rights
4. Accptance of the Charter of the Earth Community. The Charter of the Earth Community is a declaration of interdependence and responsibility and an urgent call to build a global symbiotical relationship between nations for sustainable development. It is a commitment to Life and its evolution to bring humanity to God. Earth Community has focused people aspirations toward a unique goal: humanity survival now and in the future along with all Life on Earth. The "Belief, Values, Principles and Aspirations of the New Age" of the Charter are closely interrelated. Together they provide a conception of sustainable development and set forth fundamental guidelines for achieving it; they were drawn from international law, science, philosophy, religion, and they were discussed as research papers during the global dialogues.
5. Acceptance of your birth right of electing a democratic government to manage Earth. The political system of an individual country does not have to be a democracy. Political rights of a country belong to that country alone. Democracy is not to be enforced by anyone and to anyone or to any global community. Every global community can and should choose the political system of their choice with the understanding of the importance of such a right on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. On the other hand, representatives to Earth Government must be elected democratically in every part of the world. An individual country may have any political system at home but the government of that country will have to ensure (and allow verification by Earth Government) that representatives to Earth Government have been elected democratically. This way, every person in the world can claim the birth right of electing a democratic government to manage Earth: the rights to vote and elect representatives to form Earth Government.
6. Acceptance of the Earth Court of Justice as the highest Court on Earth.
My global community citizenship |
The process of obtaining your global community citizenship is explained in the Letter above.
Certified Corporate Global Community Citizenship |
You can obtain the citizenship after accepting the Criteria of the Global Community Citizenship and following an assessment of your business. The process shown here is now standardized to all applicants. You are then asked to operate your business as per the values of the citizenship. As a business you may:
a) be a corporate KnightBut now we want to help you be an active corporate member of The Global Community, the human family, the Earth Community, Earth Government.
b) be a socially responsible investor
c) have taken the challenge of a more integrated approach to corporate responsibility by placing environmental and community-based objectives and measures onto the decision-making table alongside with the strategic business planning and operational factors that impact your bottom-line results
d) provide not only competitive return to your shareholders but you also operate your business in light of environmental and social contributions, and you have understood the interdependence between financial performance, environmental performance and commitment to the community
e) have taken a full life-cycle approach to integrate and balance environmental and economic decisions for major projects
f) have an active Environmental, Health and Safety Committee and integrated codes of conduct, policies, standards and operating procedures to reflect your corporate responsibility management
g) have scored high on categories such as:
* environmental performanceh) support a balance and responsible approach that promotes action on the issue of climate change as well as all other issues related to the global life-support systems:
* product safety
* business practices
* commitment to the community
* employee relations and diversity
* corporate governance
* share performance
* global corporate responsibility
* health, safety and security
* audits and inspections
* emergency preparedness
* corporate global ethical values
* standards of honesty, integrity and ethical behaviour
* in line with the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Charter of Earth Community
* global warming
* Ozone layer
* wastes of all kind including nuclear and release of radiation
* climate change
* species of the fauna and flora becoming extinct
* losses of forest cover and of biological diversity
* the capacity for photosynthesis
* the water cycle
* food production systems
* genetic resources
* chemicals produced for human use and not found in nature and, eventually, reaching the environment with impacts on Earth's waters, soils, air, and ecology
Apply to us to be a corporate citizen of The Global Community, the Earth Community, the human family.
Apply for one ECO, your Certified Corporate Global Community Citizenship (CCGCC), a unique way to show the world your ways of doing business are best for the Global Community |
You can obtain the citizenship after accepting the Criteria of the Global Community Citizenship and following an assessment of your business. The process shown here is now standardized to all applicants. You are then asked to operate your business as per the values of the citizenship.
The Global Community Assessment Centre (GCAC) will be conducting the assessment. GCAC is the assessment Centre for the Earth Community, the Human Family. It was created to give individuals, businesses or other organizations help and/or advice about negative events happening in their communities which cause concern to people, resources, industry or the environment. GCAC is also the Centre of assessment of local/global indicators about the four major quality systems: Environment, People, Economic Development and the Availability of Resources. The assessment of these indicators will result in giving the Earth Community a sense of direction as to ensure a sound future for Earth.
In order to do this GCAC will continue to amass a body of scientific information based on formal assessments such as those on Biodiversity, Climate Change, Human Development Report, World Development Report, struggle for Human and Earth Rights, life species Conservation, Health, Economic Analyses, Commission on Sustainable Development, etc., which have bridged the distance between incomplete science and contentious policy. Local and global indicators developed by the Earth Community will also be used as basic scientific information.
Furthermore, no one really understands what assessment processes have been most effective in the past, or why others have failed. GCAC’s goal is to explore how assessment of local/global indicators can better link scientific understanding with the progressive implementation of effective policy solutions to global changes. Achieving this integration is fundamental. The Earth Community needs this annual assessment to effectively manage global changes.
We can help you integrate and balance global life-support systems protection, global community participation, and economic decisions into your operations and products.
Ever since the early 1990s, the Earth Community Organization (ECO) has developed and defined sustainable development and a mean of measuring it. Now we want the corporate world as well as everyone else, all consumers, to integrate and balance global life-support systems protection, global community participation, and economic decisions into your operations and products, and into your way of life and of doing things.
As a business, a government, an NGO, or a group of well-intentioned persons, you have to make economic decisions into your operations and products, and you may:
a) be corporate shareholders in good standingNow is time to reach a higher level of protection to life on Earth. We all need this for the survival of our species. We can help you integrate and balance global life-support systems protection, global community participation, and economic decisions into your operations and products.
b) be a socially responsible investor
c) have taken the challenge of a more integrated approach to corporate responsibility by placing environmental and community-based objectives and measures onto the decision-making table alongside with the strategic business planning and operational factors that impact your bottom-line results
d) provide not only competitive return to your shareholders but you also operate your business in light of environmental and social contributions, and you have understood the interdependence between financial performance, environmental performance and commitment to the community
e) have taken a full life-cycle approach to integrate and balance environmental and economic decisions for major projects
f) have an active Environmental, Health and Safety Committee and integrated codes of conduct, policies, standards and operating procedures to reflect your corporate responsibility management
g) have scored high on categories such as:
* environmental performanceh) support a balance and responsible approach that promotes action on the issue of climate change as well as all other issues related to the global life-support systems:
* product safety
* business practices
* commitment to the community
* employee relations and diversity
* corporate governance
* share performance
* global corporate responsibility
* health, safety and security
* audits and inspections
* emergency preparedness
* corporate global ethical values
* standards of honesty, integrity and ethical behaviour
* in line with the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Charter of Earth Community
* global warming
* Ozone layer
* wastes of all kind including nuclear and release of radiation
* climate change
* species of the fauna and flora becoming extinct
* losses of forest cover and of biological diversity
* the capacity for photosynthesis
* the water cycle
* food production systems
* genetic resources
* chemicals produced for human use and not found in nature and, eventually, reaching the environment with impacts on Earth's waters, soils, air, and ecology
Paper c |
First corporation on Earth to obtain one ECO |
A) Global 2000
World Congress on Managing and Measuring Sustainable Development: Global Community Action 1
Held in , Ontario, Canada, August 1-22, 2000
B) Global Dialogue 2002
Earth Management - All Peoples together
Theme: Earth Government for Earth Community - A grassroots process -
Held in August 17-22, 2002, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and on Internet in August 1-31, 2002.
It is also sponsoring Global Dialogue 2004:
New Age Civilization of the 3rd Millennium: the age of global co-operation and symbiotical relationships
Theme: A Vision to Caring for Life and Earth
To be held August 17-22, 2004 in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada,.
These global dialogues have resulted in the establishment of the criteria of the Global Community Citizenship. You will be required to take oath.
a) I am not just a woman, I am a person, I am citizen of a global community,
b) I am not just a man, I am a person, I am citizen of a global community,
c) We are responsible, accountable and equal persons in every way and,
d) We are citizens of The Global Community, the Earth Community, the human family, Earth Government.
We need to take this stand for the survival of our species.
2. Acceptance of the concept of 'a global community'. The concept of 'a global community' is part of the Glass Bubble concept of a global community. The concept was first researched and developed by the Earth Community Organization (ECO) and was summarized on Earth Government website.
Then it was further researched and developed by Earth Government and results obtained were published by Earth Government in its February 2003 Newsletter.
We have already said that 'a global community' is not about a piece of land you acquired by force or otherwise. A typical global
community may be what a group of people, together, wants it to be. It can be a group of people with the same values. It can be a
group of people with the same cultural background, or the same religious background.
One could think of a typical global community of a million people that does not have to be bounded by a geographical or political border. It can be a million people living in many
different locations all over the world. The Global Community is thus more fluid and dynamic. The Global Community is this great, wide,
wonderful world made of all these diverse global communities. We need to let go the archaic ways of seeing a community as the street
where we live and contained by a border.
The people making a global community may be living in
many different locations on the planet.
It can be a village, or two villages together where people have decided to unite
as one global community. The two villages may be found in different parts of the world. It can be a town, a city, or a nation. It can be two or more nations together.
We can no longer perceive ourselves as a People who could survive alone and a People who does not need anyone else. We belong and depend to this much larger
group, that of The Global Community. The 21st Century will see limitless links and symbiotical relationships with and within The
Global Community. A global symbiotical relationship between two or more nations, or between two or more global communities,
can have trade as the major aspect of the relationship or it can have as many other aspects as agreed
by the people involved. The fundamental criteria is that a relationship is created for the good of all groups participating in
the relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on
Earth. The relationship allows a global equitable and peaceful development.
The emphasis of a global symbiotical relationship is not so much on how much money a nation should have or how high a GDP should be although money can be made a part of the
relationship. We all know developed countries live off developing countries so the emphasis has no need to stress out the profit a rich nation is making off a poor nation. The emphasis
of the relationship should give more importance to the other aspects such as quality of life, protection of the environment and of the global life-support systems, the entrenchment of
the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Charter of Earth Government into our ways of life, justice, peace, cultural and spiritual freedom, security, and many other important aspects as
described in the global ministries (health, agriculture, energy, trade, resources, etc.).
3. Acceptance of the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and reponsibilities and their importance. The Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Charter of Earth Government
were researched and developed by Earth Government to guide us in continuing this process. The Scale shows social values in order of importance and so will help us understand the rights and responsibilities of global communities.
* Ecological rights and the protection of the global life-support systems
* Primordial human rights
* The ecological rights, the protection of the global life-support systems and the primordial human rights of future generations
* Community rights and the right that the greatest number of people has by virtue of its number (50% plus one) and after voting representatives democratically
* Economic rights (business and consumer rights, and their responsibilities and accountabilities) and social rights (civil and political rights)
* Cultural rights and religious rights
4. Accptance of the Charter of the Earth Community. The Charter of the Earth Community is a declaration of interdependence and responsibility and an urgent call to build a global symbiotical relationship between nations for sustainable development. It is a commitment to Life and its evolution to bring humanity to God. Earth Community has focused people aspirations toward a unique goal: humanity survival now and in the future along with all Life on Earth. The "Belief, Values, Principles and Aspirations of the New Age" of the Charter are closely interrelated. Together they provide a conception of sustainable development and set forth fundamental guidelines for achieving it; they were drawn from international law, science, philosophy, religion, and they were discussed as research papers during the global dialogues.
5. Acceptance of your birth right of electing a democratic government to manage Earth. The political system of an individual country does not have to be a democracy. Political rights of a country belong to that country alone. Democracy is not to be enforced by anyone and to anyone or to any global community. Every global community can and should choose the political system of their choice with the understanding of the importance of such a right on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. On the other hand, representatives to Earth Government must be elected democratically in every part of the world. An individual country may have any political system at home but the government of that country will have to ensure (and allow verification by Earth Government) that representatives to Earth Government have been elected democratically. This way, every person in the world can claim the birth right of electing a democratic government to manage Earth: the rights to vote and elect representatives to form Earth Government.
6. Acceptance of the Earth Court of Justice as the highest Court on Earth.
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