Response - Charter for Human Responsibility

 
Brisbane, Australia. December 2009.
A Science Technology and Society conference brought an opportunity to activate new contacts for the Across Oceania network by preparing a presentation for the conference and visiting an 'ecotechnology' scientist, Callum Coats with whom we have been associated for many years.  Callum is experimenting with using energy enhancing technologies, such as spirals inserted into water pipes, to test the beneficial effects for plant growth.
Photo - Callum Coats beside growing tunnel with energy enhancing technologies.

 
Vanuatu. 29 Nov - 6 Dec 2009.
Summary
A visit to Vanuatu  was hosted by a Ni Vanuatu women known to us though her studies at a university in new Zealand. We found that women are bearing large burdens of extended family responsibilities - and that in urban areas there are added pressures of financial responsibility upon women who have jobs.

 
 
The Charter in South Australia - from Betsan
                                                                                                       September 2009
 

WATERSCAPE
Watersheds and Responsible Governance
A COLLABORATION ON WATER & THE WATERWAYS OF LIFE

 
An Assembly on Watersheds and Responsible Governance:

Aotearoa-New Zealand 2009

'WATER AND THE SAMOAN INDIGENOUS REFERENCE'

'Water and the Samoan Indigenous Reference' - Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Efi,
Head of State of Samoa

Local Management of Marine Areas (LMMA) Network Meeting, Fiji

SUMMARY

The Local Management of Marine Areas Network meeting was held in Fiji, November 2008.  An invitation to RESPONSE to attend the meeting came through the Across Oceania Symposium held in Samoa in January 2008. Partners from the Philippines and New Zealand attended.

The Charter for Responsibility Meeting, Changchun, China Oct 2008

The meeting of a committee working on a Charter for Human Responsibility took a principle focus on the development of a strategic plan for the next five years.

The following is a resume of the focus of the meeting and plans ahead.