Our Announcements
Scientists Launch Unprecedented Public Web Site for Tracking Climate Change and the Environment
World Leading Scientists, Organizations and Technology Leaders Join Forces to Launch the Earth Portal
WASHINGTON D.C. — April 26, 2007 — Hundreds of the world’s science and education leaders today joined together to unveil the Earth Portal — the authoritative, comprehensive, non-commercial source for environmental news, education and debate online. The Earth Portal is online at www.EarthPortal.org.
The Earth Portal is the result of the global scientific community coming together in an unprecedented way to produce the first free, expert-driven, massively scaleable information resource on the environment. In addition, it will engage civil society in a public dialogue on the role of environmental issues in human affairs. Under the leadership of the Environmental Information Coalition, it has been in development for the past two years.
“The Earth Portal fills a major gap in the media landscape today,” said Dr. Jane Goodall, an advisor to the Earth Portal. “If we are to serve and save our ecosystems and all the living systems they support, we must first understand them, unfiltered by advertising-driven commercial interests.”
“Today, the Earth Portal provides the first real opportunity for the world’s scientific community to coalesce around a non-commercial center of gravity on the World Wide Web for environmental information,” said Dr. Peter Saundry, Executive Director of the National Council for Science and the Environment and a leading member of the Environmental Information Coalition. “The Earth Portal is the best chance to provide objective, unbiased information about Earth’s changing environment — and to engage civil society in a public dialogue on the role of the environment issues in our lives.”
The Earth Portal includes the rapidly-growing and expert-edited Encyclopedia of Earth; the Earth Forum, with weblogs where leading scientists engage in ongoing conversations with the public; and Earth News, the latest reporting on the state of the environment.
“The Encyclopedia of Earth presents an alternative to sources like Wikipedia and other information resources that lack peer-review or quality control,” said Dr. Cutler Cleveland, Professor of Geography and Environment, Boston University and Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth. “With more than 600 leading scientists in over 40 countries already contributing prior to public launch, we are well on our way to building the largest and most reliable library of information relating to the environment.”
The Environmental Information Coalition (EIC) is a partnership of diverse environmental scientists, educators, and professionals, and the organizations, agencies, and institutions for which they work. The Earth Portal was created in collaboration with ManyOne Networks, a company to be owned and governed by the non-profit ManyOne Foundation. ManyOne is building a Public Internet Media Service — a service that empowers non-profits, companies, agencies and individuals to build and operate financially self-sustaining web portals and communities.
Contact:
Peter Saundry
202.207.0002
Preview the ManyOne Browser
ManyOne’s Events
Learn more about upcoming conferences and events.
View Events