projects

These projects are either currently either in development or production.

projects in production

Castello di Cennnina: We are now in the advanced stage of development on Global Vision's €30m international centre of learning, culture and communication for a sustainable future located in a beautiful 12th century castle and village in Tuscany, Italy with a business plan and a 3-D model of final architectural renovations. We are currently seeking philanthropic support of €6m to launch the centre as soon as possible.

GM-free Ireland: Global Vision founded the GM-free Ireland Network in 2004 as a multi-stakeholder coalition collaborating to keep the island of Ireland free of genetically modified seeds, crops, trees, fish, livestock, animal feed and food. This network now has the largest number and diversity of stakeholders of any NGO on the island, with 130 institutional members and 19 local authorities representing over 1 million citizens. In 2005 we declared 1,000 GMO-free zones. In 2006 we hosted the Green Ireland conference on GM-free branding for food, farming and eco-tourism, and also forced BASF to abandon its experimental release of 250,000 GMO potatoes. In 2007 we collaborated with Greenpeace International to shut down EU imports of US animal feed contaminated with illegal GMOs, and persuaded the Irish Government to cancel its pro-GM food and farming policy. In 2009 we secured a government agreement to ban field trials and cultivation of all GM crops and introduce a voluntary GM-free label for food (including animal produce) produced without the use of GMOs. The policy remains to be implemented with legislation. Website: www.gmfreeireland.org

Be The Change!: a TV documentary about Peace Child International's Be the Change! project. Filmed on location with 1,000 young people aged 14 - 25 from 120 countries in Morocco in August 2003. Now in post-production.

Emerging Worldview: a documentary film about the emerging global civil society consensus for a sustainable future, seen through the eyes of NGO leaders from around the world at the Rio+10 conference (United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development) in Johannesburg in 1992. See interview transcripts. Now in post-production.

projects in development

Sustainability: the best investment: a multi-media educational package conceived as the world's first global curriculum on solutions to world problems. Aimed at the global teenager, the project is officially supported by UNICEF, UNDP, UNEP, UNFPA, WHO and UNESCO. Includes a 54-minute documentary film and 20 TV spots with a celebrity lineup of world leaders and stars from the movie, music and fashion industries; 13 x 12-minute videos; a DVD; a 240-page book and an interactive web site.

Sustainable City: a GIS (geographic information systems) software application for any town or city to see itself as a whole system, measure its ecological footprint, carry out scenario planning, and manage its transition to sustainability.

Image Resonance: a revolutionary music-driven film- and video-editing software application to create a new genre of cinema isomorphic with the way the mind thinks.

Imagine Peace: a trans-disciplinary seminar for young people from conflict zones to meet with leading thinkers for in-depth exploration and creative thinking to launch projects to help create peace in war-torn areas.

Population Explosion: an information-art piece of electronic time-sculpture displaying the past 500 years of human population growth on a Dymaxion world map in a repeating 60-second cycle. Bronze, microchip, light-emitting diodes, data, and one minute of your time. 2m. x 1.13m.

Global Vision: an impressionistic documentary musical feature film designed by its own audience as a Collective Self-Portrait of Humankind and the Biosphere - a concept without precedent in art or motion picture history.

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