The worldwide series of concerts known as Live Earth have started today in Australia and Japan and will be moving around the world for the next 24 hours.
Although not directly related to Live Earth, there are a couple relevant sites you might want to check out:
- Earth Charter
is “a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just,
sustainable, and peaceful global society for the 21st century. Created
by the largest global consultation process ever associated with an
international declaration, endorsed by thousands of organizations
representing millions of individuals, the Earth Charter seeks to
inspire in all peoples a sense of global interdependence and shared
responsibility for the well-being of the human family and the larger
living world. The Earth Charter is an expression of hope and a call to
help create a global partnership at a critical juncture in history. ” - The Earth Portal
is “a comprehensive resource for timely,
objective, science-based information about the environment. It is a
means for the global scientific community to come together to produce
the first free, expert-driven, massively scaleable information resource
on the environment, and to engage civil society in a public dialogue on
the role of environmental issues in human affairs. It contains no
commercial advertising and reaches a large global audience.” - And as always, there are pledges to be found – the good folks at Avaaz have one which they’re trying to get 50 000 signatures on (27 055 at this point).