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Upcoming Events:

United Nations 2012 Rio 20 Earth Summit

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Past Events:

July 25th, 2010 Webcast of the World Water Ceremony

UN World Water Day March, 20-22, 2010 Lake Biwa, Japan Feat: Dr. Emoto

Global Water Event July, 25th 2009

 

Global Events

Our next large event will be the Earth Summit +20 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in 2012. We are planning to utilize our network of event organizers around the world, networks of NGOs and other event organizers to facilitate a globally synchronized event. The mission is to increase the awareness of and gather input from people around the world on opportunities to further the green economy and further sustainable development and poverty alliviation.

 

Past Events:

Our 3rd annual World Water Blessing was on July 25th, 2010. Our main broadcast location was at the 4th annual Mystic Garden Party festival in Northern California. Other locations in 92 countries/200 locations joined via webcast.

 

In 2009 GEN produced our 2nd annual web-casted event on the weekend of Day Out of Time and Love & Thanks to the Water Day with Dr. Emoto (see below).

As part of our mandate to outreach into popular festival culture, the event took place at a west coast music festval (The Mystic Garden Party festiva)l on the weekend of July 23rd - 26th. A highlight of our webcast was Dr. Masuro Emoto who has declared July 25th as "Love & Thanks to the Water Day".

July 25th also is known as the Day Out Of Time in the Myan Calendar with events around the world on that day in over 92 countries. We invited people around the world to participate & share reverence for Water & support of more sustainable water management policies.

The outreach poster below shows some highlights and how we reached out & inspire people around the world to apprecaite and rally for us all to become better stewards of the world's waters.

 

In March, 2010, GEN supported & promoted and the UN World Water Day (March 22nd, 2010) which happened in many locations around the world. In particular we promoted our ally Dr. Emoto's event at Lake Biwa, Japan (called Love & Grattitude Festival). This event was be a key ceremonial and educational event that happened along with others organized for UN World Water Day.

This UN World Water Day is held annually on 22 March each year, events that are held in countries all over the world. This day is a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

This themed day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development nicknamed "The Earth Summit". The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.

Below was Dr Emoto's offical poster for the event:

 

Additional annual events includee:

We are also working with Mystic Garden Productions again to host a ceremonial event for the UN Intl. Day of Peace, Sept. 21st. This UN holiday focusing on Peace happens annually on this day with events for peace all over the world. We intend to webcat from our event in NY which is happening on the weekend of Sept. 18th-21st.

GEN is committed to participate in some way each year with events on Sept. 21st to utilize webcast technology and offer capacity building maximizing impact of this inspirational global holiday around the world.

International Day of Peace

 

Global News

UN Earth Summit in 2012

On 24th December 2009 the UN General Assembly adopted a Resolution (A/RES/64/236) agreeing to hold the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in 2012 - also referred to as 'Rio+20' or 'Rio 20'.

The Conference seeks three objectives: securing renewed political commitment to sustainable development, assessing the progress and implementation gaps in meeting already agreed commitments, and addressing new and emerging challenges. The Member States have agreed on the following two themes for the Conference: green economy within the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication, and institutional framework for sustainable developmentThis summit will review progress achieved since the first Summit in Rio De Janeiro 92', the Rio + 5 in 97', and the Rio +10 in 2002. The resolution.

Global Event for Water on July 25th, 2009

GEN confirmed our global webcast July 23rd - 26th, 2009 at the Mystic Garden Party festival. A major highlight during the weekend (on July 25th) will be a Global Water Blessing with Dr. Masuro Emoto (the reknownd emmisary of water, featured in the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know". July 25th is known as the Day Out of Time in the 13 moon (Mayan related) calendar. There are many synchronized events each year & we'll be working to invite their participation. We also confirmed that the Earth Dance Intl. Festival that is inviting it's network of over 350 locations in 65+ countries to participate!

For several years GEN has been building our network of partners & participants including NGOs, event organizers, artists, and companies in the Green Economy to prepare for the Earth Summit + 20 in Rio.

To develop this network, GEN has participated in several UN Summit events including:

In 2009, the 17th CSD meetings at the UN, NYC.

In 2002, the World Summit on Sustainable Development,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
(This was Rio + 10)

In 1997, the Earth Summit + 5 at the UN, New York.

In 1996, 2nd Conference on Human Settlements, (called Habitat II), Istanbul, Turkey.