The focus of Camp Internet 1997 is Sustainable Habitats.
Last year, in
Istanbul, Turkey, the United Nations held a World Conference called
Habitat
II. It's purpose was to study and make recommendations on human habitat.
The earths environment, cities and how we can build sustainable, new
settlements as world population continues to grow. The RAIN-Habitat
Project is your online, global classroom, with environment, sustainable
habitats, and the future, as your focus. What ideas and examples of
sustainable Habitats
will you find here. Intentional and sustainable communities like
Findhorn and the Farm, among others, will give you new ideas.
We will go from there to a study of gardens, environment and
sustainability right in your own Community and Neighborhood.
To start off we want to get an idea of how you would define the word
Habitat.
From my point of view Habitat means the environment within which something lives.
I even see the Internet as a Habitat, containing all the ideas and
messages of people around the world. A 'one-world habitat', fragile and
with limited resources that we could easily deplete, just like the Great
Forests. We'll get into that later.
In Camp we will study with scientists and researchers at the Channel Islands
Natinal Marine Sanctuary,
we'll visit with Keepers at the Santa Barbara Zoo and look at how the
Zoo's
new Great Ape Habitit has been
designed. We will go, via Internet video (cu-see-me), into the Great Ape
Habitat and we'll
explore around the Islands in the Santa Barbara Channel via live Internet
video.