Our Media Capacity Building Network

The Global Events Network (GEN) serves and on-going mission to host high-profile media events to inspire people around the world and bring exposure and awareness to people around the world of Healthy Community & Sustainable Development issues. The speakers, musicians, and other content focuses not only on the challenges we as a humanity are facing, but even more so we showcase successful projects/models that have been implemented in cities around the world. The UN calls these case studies "Best Practices"*** and the scope of these implemented policies, range from city wide, to state or country wide.

Many people around the world remember when the largest worldwide UN Environmental or Sustainable Development Summits nicknamed the Earth Summit happened in Rio De Janero in 1992.

In 2012 is when the next World Summit on Sustainable Development or Rio +20 appears to be slated for. GEN intends to organize a globally synchronized event at the Summit with other locations synronized around the world. This summit has almost been confirmed by the UN to again revisit and follow up on our progress or lack there of, set timelines to implement sustainable solutions that have already been agreed to (see Agenda 21 that 172 Heads of State signed in June 1992 at Rio).

Our focus over the next 3 1/2 years then, is to build our Global Events Network by hosting synchronized events, inviting NGOs & other event organizers to join the GEN network and prepare for the Earth Summit +20 to have events in every country in the world.

***Submissions of Best Practices are from virtually every country in the world as part of the followup from several UN World Summit's on Sustainable Development. The Alliance for Healthy Communities (AHC) is working to create an exhibit of Best Practices for healthy communities to showcase at various festivals including the Mystic Garden Party festivals.