I have just attended Gwanwyn Gwyrdd, (Plaid Cymru Spring Conference)
at the National Botanical Gardens of Wales.
Many interesting speakers, delegates and exhibitors (of which I was one!!)
theARCproject is a non-party political organisation.
The only fundamental principle we subscribe to is from:
Agenda Resolution 42/187. Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development
"Meeting the needs of the present, without compromising the abilities of future generations to meet their own needs."
Defined, globally as the Rio Earth Summit, 1992
It is now 2009, seventeen years have passed, as has so much rhetoric and inaction.First from the Tories (Conservative) and then eventually from our current administration of New Labour Government, not to be confused with Old Labour (Socialist)!?!
While you might have thought all those years ago, that the Green party or maybe the Liberal Democrats (Liberals/Democrats....etc) may have been the best party to take this 'ethos' forward into a 21st Century, we now find ourselves as People & Planet, staring down the barrel of a very large and fully loaded gun!
Not the one about Global Terrorism that Messrs. Bush & Blair have proliferated on for almost a decade but a much more severe, immanent and present danger. Our Earth; Our Planet; Our Land.
Maybe it was the bright lights and shiny dollar signs of globalisation that blinded us for a generation? Perhaps, it was the much loved 'Ostrich Syndrome' that has blighted the 'Stay at Home' lifestyle that has been created and manufactured for us?
Anyway, in an attempt to market, promote and raise support for theARCproject and the work we wish to undertake within Dinefwr - I compiled an exhibition/display of the policies and initiatives for the organisation.
* I am more than happy to attend, display or present at any discussion, meeting or conference (that is relevant to the memorandum, articles and principle agenda of theARCproject). Please get in touch!
The response was favourable, while I knew some faces and names it was good to meet up in a mutually beneficial environment. A fabulous venue for a Sustainability Conference! I will post News on the website with some pictures in the next few days.
It was certainly very refreshing to hear speakers and politicians voicing their concerns publically regarding the state of the earth and the problems we all face and must overcome together.
