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the US Virgin Islands!
My name is EJ Wensing and I am the founder of Ecosphere Net.
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Ecosphere Net is based out of St. John in the US Virgin Islands
Monday, October 12, 2009 at 10:36AM 
Join the global movement to end poverty.
Join the network of events taking place all over the world October 16 -18th
To learn more visit the website (click here).
Get involved in your community.
EJ Wensing
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 09:18AM Achieving global sustainability and sustainable development refers to the task of meeting fundamental human needs worldwide while preserving the life supporting ecosystems of the planet at the same time
To survive, we have to balance what is developed (such as economic growth) with what is to be sustained (life-supporting ecosystems).
Joachim Spangenberg, one of the founders of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute (click here), called this differential the “environmental space”.
Climate change, pollution, environmental exploitation, overpopulation, poverty, equality, freedom, human rights, peace.
The goal is to balance the maximum permitted use of our environment with the minimum necessary for human development across all global societies.
Policies and individual human actions influence both sides of the space.
While effective policies are essential, they are not enough.
It comes down to the choices we each make every day.
EJ Wensing
US Virgin Islands
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 10:00AM 
Global leaders will meet at the UN Climate Change Conference from December 17-18, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hopenhagen is a global movement about hope.
“The hope that during the conference we can build a better future for our planet and a more sustainable way of life.
It is the hope that we can create a global community that will lead our leaders into making the right decisions.
The promise that by solving our environmental crisis, we can solve our economic crisis at the same time.
Hopenhagen is change - and that change will be powered by us all.”
Please visit the website to learn more about what you can do. Click here.
EJ Wensing
US Virgin Islands
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 10:54AM Red dust storms are currently raging throughout Australia (click here).
The above picture was taken from a Sydney, Australia harbor bridge this morning.
It reminds me of the effect of Sahara dust here in the Caribbean (image below)
The sand travels thousands of miles through the air from Africa to dirty our windows here in the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.
It also reminds me of how our atmosphere, the air we breathe connects us all.
The image below is of a recent pollution cloud over Eastern China.
We are all connected on this planet.
Connected through our shared ecosystems and connected in the responsibility of helping them become sustainable for future generations to come.
EJ Wensing
USVI
Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 08:57AM There are fundamentally two ways to determine how to achieve a sustainable global future.
These are forecasting and backcasting.
Forecasting is about using research to determine trends and patterns in human behavior, climate change etc. and seeing where things are headed with regard to sustainability and sustainable development.
Forecasting describes the current problems.
Backcasting is about looking out to the future, determining the world we want to co-create and then working from the present to generate scenarios to get there.
Backcasting is about shaping our future. Forecasting is about problem solving.
Both forecasting and backcasting are very difficult because achieving a sustainable future is a very complex problem that involves many variables.
The best way to deal with this complexity is to develop collaborative cultures across global societies that link the local to the global through multidisciplinary and multistakeholder research networks.
We have to work together to generate our sustainable global future.
EJ Wensing
USVI
