Global Action for Internet Advocates

"People on Earth are beginning to understand how it is possible to communicate ideas to and from every part of the globe using the internet. A new sense of global consciousness is developing, and the nation states are becoming homogenized into one planetary family. It is this sense of a global family that an internet advocate supports." Van De Bogart

Hot Issues Peru, Canada, Brazil - The forests are being cut.
New legislation in congress on California logging roads.

• Julia Butterfly leaves Luna - Historic environmentalist comes down from tree-sitting.
• Julia Net - Share ideas about Julia's leaving Luna and making the $50,000 deal.
• The Tragic Loss of David Chain - What the hell is going on?

• - Coming next: Save Mt. Shasta - Stop major development.

Gaia platform:

• To be aware of the interdependence of all living things, and the desire to do something, however small or large, that will support a planet that works for everyone.
• Support the many organizations, citizen iniatives, and action coalitions devoted to individual and planetwide life-supporting strategies.
• To implement direct action which promotes recycling and the reduction of waste wherever possible.
• To re-think personal actions that serve global regeneration through the distribution of organic seed stocks and ecological land use.
• To encourage alternative healthcare, conscientious population growth, and the collaborative creation of a future where children can live in peace.
• To promote anticipatory design science and the general operating principles of the universe as suggested by R. Buckminister Fuller.
• To promote long-range survivability of cooperative and compassionate intelligence in the universe.
• To promote alternative technologies that provide usable energy without depleting our natural resources.
• To live by philosophies and cosmologies which support the divinity of nature, and to listen to the wisdom of the tribal elders of all indigenous cultures.
• To adopt the natural timing of a 13 moon calendar, as suggested by José Argüelles, rather than the current 12 month calendar initiatated by Pope Gregory in 1558.