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e-Planet is an educational component
of the Children's Art on the Environment Project (CAEP).
Our Mission is to encourage dialogue about
the environment among children and teachers in China, the
USA, and the world, through the universal language of art,
on the World Wide Web.
Artistic Dialogue is a way that participants
can teach and learn from each other even when they don't share
a written language. Participants may help each other see what
they see -- both fears and hopes -- and to find ways to preserve
the beauty and diversity in nature and societies that will
sustain the beauty and diversity of human societies, yet allow
them to improve themselves. Self-improvement and improvement
of our living environment is what makes humans feel fulfilled.
We encourage children to teach each other
about the environment they experience, and the one they will
inherit. We encourage teachers, parents and other earthlings
and organizations to join the dialogue.
Not everyone can travel around the world
to museums or to visit children in different countries. Since
people can access the WWW easier than they can travel great
distances, we invented e-planet.org as a tool to share the
educational resources generated and expand our community to
the rest of the world. As it develops, e-planet.org has the
potential to bring together a global community of children,
teachers and adults who can communicate through art about
our shared environment.
Who Created e-Planet? The members of the
CAEP Committee of The 1990 Institute
gave birth to the idea and began developing it. The site creation
and management team took on the actual creation:
Creative Innovator: Jiong Ma
Web Master: James Caldwell
Creative Designer: Rebecca Zhu
The vision of the CAEP began with an art contest
about the environment among nearly one million children in
China.
The second phase of the project brought
the best of the Chinese children’s art on a tour of
the USA so that US Children, teachers and adults could see
how Chinese children experience their environment, and what
Chinese children see as the future of their environment.
The third phase is to develop educational resources
for others to use in learning and communicating about the
global environment. Part of this educational component may
evolve, as interest develops, into taking some US Children’s
art on a tour of China.
CAEP Committee members are volunteers from
varying fields of work, who share a common vision: to use
children’s art as a medium of communication that can
cross linguistic and cultural barriers in the pursuit of a
better global environment.
William Lee Project Director -
retired architect, and lecturer in U.S. and
China on Architectural Design and Environmental Planning.
Eleanor W. Anderson retired President
- California Institute of Integral Studies, retired Director,
Staff Development at the Aerospace Corp.
James Caldwell President - E3 Regenesis Solutions, Inc., where he and his team are
developing solutions for renewable energy, waste reclamation and
sustainable communities.
Angela Cheng - Award–winning artist
who integrates Eastern and Western Art
Linda Craighead Director - Palo
Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California
Jean Crehan Executive Assistant,
The 1990 Institute
Rosalyn Koo Retired CEO - Self
Help for the Elderly, San Francisco, Ca.
CFO, The 1990 Institute
Wei-Tai Kwok Director and Publication
Committee Chair - The 1990 Institute
Shul-Von Lee Environmental Committee
- San Francisco Chinatown Community Development Center, Practice
in Chinese Medicine.
Jiong Ma - Director, The 1990 Institute
Jeannette Wei Educational Psychologist
and Consultant - Teacher at Ohlone Elementary School,
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