For the purposes of this listing "projects" must be involved in a task or activity commensurate with the aims and aspirations of the global ecovillage movement.

UNESCO Information Programmes and Services

The Information Programmes and Services (IPS) serves as a gateway to information resources on education, science and social sciences, culture, and communication/ informatics.

Located in UNESCO, Bangkok and Regional Bureau of Education, the main mandate of Information Programmes and Services (IPS) is to ensure greater utilization of information by those who formulate policies and plans and implement programmes in order to achieve UNESCO's mission and goals in its fields of competence.

It also exists to provide technical assistance to various UNESCO programmes and projects which employ information and communication technologies (ICT) in promoting their objectives and implementing activities. It serves the information needs of all UNESCO Cluster Offices and 43 Member States in Asia-Pacific.

Website: http://www.unescobkk.org/ips/index.htm

NEW ZEALAND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS NETWORK

A forum for people who want to:

• do business within the principles of sustainability
• learn more about sustainable business
• help create business opportunities.

Combining creative energy through networking will provide an abundance of opportunities. In the era of green-industrialism, people who have made the paradigm shift from specialisation to integration will be the people who profit the most from this new way of doing business. We welcome new members to participate in the network.

Contact: Fliss Butcher, PO Box 5877, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Tel: (03) 477 997
email: fliss.butcher@earthlight.co.nz

The Participatory Management Clearinghouse

The Participatory Management Clearinghouse (PMC) site is a joint initiative of IUCN (The World Conservation Union), the Bureau of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar), and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). This free service provides a platform to showcase the work IUCN and partners do on participatory management of natural resources, including Collaborative Management, Community-Based Management and Indigenous Peoples' Management.

Website: http://www.iucn.org/themes/pmns/

Volunteer Connections

Idealist, an internet site is bringing together volunteers and projects/organisations needing help. Idealist is an online directory of over 10,000 nonprofit and community organisations working in 120 countries. Idealist is fully interactive, allowing any organisation - whether it has a Website or not - to enter and update detailed information about its services, volunteer opportunities, job and internship listings, and any publication or material it has produced.

Idealist is located at http://www.idealist.org

Eco-Village, and Cohousing Assoc of New Zealand

Website: http://www.converge.org.nz/evcnz/

The Australian Living Earth Centre

Greetings Fellow Travellers,

We would like to introduce ourselves. We are John & Vivienne Benton from Victoria, Australia.

We are in the process of setting up our Living Earth Centre with the hope of helping to inspire and empower people to take up sustainable living. It's great to know we have people here at home. We'd like to make contact and compare notes. We have recently completed making a pilot for television series called Tilting at Treadmills, which is creating quite a storm here.

We have also spent a great deal of 1997 negotiating to build the Australian Living Earth Centre, here just outside Melbourne. We have the backing of our local council, and some state Federal and MPs.

Our email address is: BentonProductions@access.net.au
Our home page: http://web.access.net.au/bentonproduction/

Regards
John & Vivienne Benton

Funding Body
Shell Foundation:

The Shell Foundation has three programmes: Sustainable Communities Programme, Sustainable Energy Programme, Promoting Youth Enterprise Programme.

Contact them at:
Shell Foundation,
Shell Centre,
London SE1 7NA, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7934 2727,
Fax: +44 (0)20 7934 6624,
E-mail: sep@shellfoundation.org
Web: http://www.shellfoundation.org

WANTED

Aloha, I'm an organic farmer/philosopher/scientist living on the Island of Kauai, in Hawaii. There is a lot of land here (several thousand acres) that is for sale and would make a perfect place for a paradisical eco-village. It is very expensive, many millions of dollars, but it is a perfect eco-village site, fertile soil, abundant water, 365 day growing season, mountains, ocean, beaches, open plains, forest, rainforest, fabulous climate.

I have a real estate sales licence and can help prospective buyers find the right tropical location if that's what they are looking for. So, if you know anyone looking for the ultimate site for a human eco-community, or tropical land in general please put them in touch with me.

Mahalo,

CONTACT
Darrel Jarmusch, RA, Emerald Isle Properties,
P.O. Box 712, Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii 96754, USA.
Tel: 1 (808) 828-0834,
E-mail: darrel@kauai-vacations-realty.com