Following the inconclusive outcome of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, the failure of governments and global institutions to address social and environmental problems is glaringly obvious. We can no longer afford a global system that aims to represent us only in our narrow capacity as consumers.
The Earth Emergency - A Call to Action initiative together with the World Future Council will seek to link up civil society initiatives around the world to promote the creation of an Earth Democracy forum for people around the world.
A political and corporate 'bypass' is intended, due to the tendency of self-interested parties to prevent appropriate reforms, which address social and environmental problems, from being implemented. The Earth Emergency link up will enable grassroots initiatives based upon sustainable lifestyles to be directly in touch with an overall global council, the World Future Council, whose role will be to provide moral guidance at the highest level. This will ensure both a bottom up and top down approach to reforms so that our political leaders are pressurised to take appropriate action by both the people and a moral leadership.

Earth Emergency - A Call to Action

• Earth Emergency - A Call to Action
  An acute State of Emergency exists on Earth, imperiling its climate, its life support systems and the lives of billions of people. The related crises of environmental degradation and the destitution of a third of humanity are linked to the ever-greater concentration of economic power and worsened by a profound failure of world governance. The world community, is called to act, agreeing a planetary ethic - of respect for life and human dignity - as expressed in the Earth Charter.

• e-Parliament
  The e-Parliament is the first world institution whose members are elected by the people. It links democratic members of parliament and congress into a global online forum. Through the e-Parliament, legislators can learn from each other, monitor international agencies and work together to solve common problems.
  

• eParliament.org
  eParliament.org is a pioneering operational model of webocracy to harness the power of virtual space to bring real changes in the lives of people by promoting the Internet as secure, confidential, convenient and cost-effective negotiation and mediation medium for conflict resolution and peace-building.
  

• Interactive Representative Directdemocracy - IRD
  How to Use Technology as a Tool to Empower the World towards True Democracy?
  

• Movement Millennium
  Movement Millennium is a soul-searching and selfless campaign, pioneered by Global Initiatives for Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Action, which is a conscious, collective and organized universal movement toiling for the elevation of human, environmental, economical, emotional and spiritual health worldwide.
  

• Network Institute of Global Democratization
  NIGD aims at promoting global democratization by producing and developing emancipatory knowledge for democratic movements, organizations and states.
  

• PlaNet: A network for the PlaNetary Citizen
  A resource for discussions, polls, news and information for groups and individuals who are generally aligned with this vision.
  
  

• The Institute for Economic Democracy
  Eliminating poverty is not philosophically complicated; eliminate the monopolization of land, technology, and finance capital and equalize pay for equally productive work, both within internal economies and between trading nations.
  

• WORLD FUTURE Council
  The World Future Council will serve as a forum to focus global attention on new phenomena and priorities for action. As the voice of our common future, will debate the choices facing us from a perspective of expanded responsibility, it will press for the necessary legislative changes to prevent further social injustice and environmental degradation, and to build on tried and tested alternative ways of living in harmony with each other and with nature.

• World Wide Democracy Network - WWDN
  How can the human family co-create a just and sustainable future starting from today's unjust and unsustainable global regime?