The Earth Library
Environmental Learning Center
Wild Blue Planet's goal is to design, build, and operate
an Earth Library Environmental Learning Center in the vicinity of every
major city in the United States. In addition to a
substantial library, each Center would house a Museum, Classroom,
Conference Room, Screening Room, Film Production
and Recording Studio, Organic Vegetarian Restaurant, Green/Sustainable
Products
Store, and Performing Arts complex.
Many activists have collected valuable private libraries of educational
resources which would best be made available to the public. These
materials, often rare, older, or specialized, are frequently not
available through standard outlets such as conventional libraries and
the Internet. Earth Library visitors will
have access to, and learn to appreciate the value of, hard-to-find
printed and recorded (audio-video) materials and literary memorabilia,
much of which is not available via computer. These resources will
be
useful for students, activists, organizers, writers, public speakers,
journalists, and others who need quick and easy hands-on access to such
information for projects, articles, speeches, class reports, and
presentations. Trained staff will
always be on hand to assist visitors, and a Screening Room will be
available for viewing various media.
These educational complexes will also be a source of connection and
community for like-minded people. Each will act as
a social venue, art and performance space, meeting facility, and
activist-support network for conscious individuals and
organizations. Children, students, and educators will have the
opportunity to
interact, share, learn, and build meaningful relationships
with others visiting the Earth Library, in a more intimate,
face-to-face environment than the World Wide Web could ever provide.
This document is a brief, preliminary description of Wild Blue Planet's
Earth Library project. Our staff is still in the process of
writing up a more detailed, comprehensive proposal that will explain
the operations, activities, and structure of these educational venues
and their programs and goals. In conclusion, the purpose of the
Environmental Learning Centers is to encourage humanity, especially
youth, to create a sustainable future for all of earth's inhabitants.
Please notify our director, Shicana Lynn Allen, by email at
wildblueplanet@yahoo.com,
or by telephone at (818) 407-0001, if you are aware of any person,
funder, or
facility that would like to help us fulfill our goals through a
donation of land, monies, or other contributions.