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The Zambia Community Action on Poverty and Environment project (COPE) is a joint venturebetween two affiliates of the Earth Charter Initiative: the Workers` Education Association of Zambia(WEAZ) and the Earth Charter of the United States (ECUS). This project has been active since 2009,implementing activities that aim to translate the principles of the Earth Charter into specific actions.Currently, COPE is working with multi-purpose cooperatives in three rural Districts in Zambia wherethey have been implementing hands-on training actions including: how to build ecodome dry toilets;how to run credit and savings businesses for cooperatives; how to test water quality and purify it; howto use solar energy for cooking; and teaching youth activists about gardening.Asia and the PacificIn Asia and the Pacific, there are several Earth Charter networks: Earth Charter Australia, EarthCharter Japan Committee, Earth Charter Aotearoa New Zealand, and Earth Charter Taiwan. Thesegroups have been active for several years. The Centre for Environment Education of India (CEE),under its Paryavaran Mitra Programme, organized a photo competition based on the 16 principles ofthe Earth Charter. The contest was open to anyone interested worldwide. The winning photos andmore information can be found here: http://paryavaranmitra.in/Default.aspx?sID=694Also, an as a result of the work that Soka Gakkai International (SGI) does in this region, anorganization called Sabah Environmental Protection Association (SEPA) learned about the EarthCharter and organized a massive Earth Charter event in Malaysia with other partners. This eventreceived wide media attention in that country and generated around 5,000 endorsements to the EarthCharter. Speakers included, Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan, the former President of the Malaysian BarCouncil, Jenice Lee Ying Ha, Deputy Chief cum Selangor State Assemblywomen for Teratai, FuziahSalleh, Member of Parliament for Kuantan, Pahang and Robin Chapple, Australian politician serving inthe Western Australian Legislative Council.Soka Gakkai International (SGI) and its new Seeds of Hope exhibitionhave been very helpful in disseminating the message of the EarthCharter. The exhibitions in Singapore and Malaysia were verysuccessful. At the latter, more than 3,000 people attended between Apriland May.CEDS Asia, the Earth Charter Affiliate in Hong Kong, has beenactively networking with organizations and government agenciesworking on urban planning and health, bringing the Earth Charter tothem. CEDS sponsored two youth/student leaders from Malaysia toattend the 10th Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumptionand Production. They also facilitated the SGI Seeds of Hope exhibitionin Malaysia and Singapore.Members of Earth Charter Taiwan created a poster to represent theprinciples of the Earth Charter and traditional knowledge from24Earth Charter Annual Report 2011
indigenous groups of Taiwan at the Caretakers of the Environment International Conference inHungary, 2011. See more through this link.Consumers International and SWITCH-Asia Network Facility published “Mainstreaming SustainableConsumption in Asia”, which includes a reference to actions of the Earth Charter Initiative in the Asiaand Pacific region. This publication was launched during the 10th Asia Pacific Roundtable onSustainable Consumption and Production, in November 2011.The Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research, the ECI Affiliate in SriLanka, has been involved in the launch of the National Strategy on Education for Peace andSustainable Development. They are bringing the Earth Charter into this strategy.EuropeAffiliates in Spain, Portugal, and Germany organized several conferences, workshops, seminars, artexhibitions, and other activities around the Earth Charter with universities, schools, and also thegeneral public.The ECI Affiliate Fundación Valores in Spain held a workshop forteachers in Cáceres titled “Values and Sustainability Education with theEarth Charter” in October to enhance individual learning fordeveloping individual and social abilities for a better quality of life.Also in Spain in 2011, the Department of Education Sciences of theUniversity of Granada approved a new 6-credit programme titled“Earth Charter Platform for Action (PACTA)”. The Programme isavailable for any student within the Department. The general objectiveof the Programme is to promote holistic learning (cognitive,affective/emotional, and action) based on Earth Charter values. Thisproject is more open and less formal and academic compared to typicalcourses.Thirty artists showed their creativity in an exhibition called "EarthCharter - Transformations in Art and Sculpture" held in the town ofWarburg, Germany in July. An opening event was held where a talk wasgiven about the history of the Earth Charter. This is part of "Earth Charter and Arts", a project thatwas started two years ago by the arts organization "Art Driburg" and the Ecumenical Initiative OneWorld, a German Earth Charter Affiliate.ECI Affiliate Earth Charter Switzerland created and delivered a one-week course at the LifeFair, asustainable development fair in Zürich, in September, 2011. The course called "Ways towards an Earthfriendlylifestyle” included several aspects of the Earth Charter. The course, which is in German andaimed for 5th and 6th graders, lower and upper secondary school students, visitors to the fair, and25Earth Charter Annual Report 2011
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