Rome, the Eternal City in the heart of Europe, is where western urban development, roads, and aqueducts had their first truly continental development. It is, therefore, significant that the Geosophia Project was conceived there. Preceding the opening of the third millennium an organization was born to create solutions for the modern environmental crisis on a global scale. No project could be more in line with United Eco-action Fund's (UEF) ideals of international cooperation and common consent on environmental, economic, and social problems than Sistemform's Geosophia Project. Sistemform is a trainer of trainers in Environmental Management. Its Geosophia Project has a 21st Century vision for establishing an International Management College for interdisciplinary environmental studies to speed up effective environmental and social solutions to the major problems threatening humanity and the biosphere. Why is the Geosophia Project so important?--Because environmental faculties and research institutes have, as their object, knowledge itself, primarily scientific knowledge. An international management school, on the other hand, must be based on methodology that brings all scientific knowledge to bear on real life questions of management for governments and business, integrating and resolving any contradictory conclusions of science so that important ecologically sustainable methods may be applied without the dangerous delays caused by waiting for often unnecessary further research. "Geosophia" means "earth wisdom," which is quite often historically self-evident and which must be taught to enterprises and those government officials in charge of potentially devastating activities by the use of irrefutable scientific evidence or plain common sense applications. Sistemform has conducted extensive Environmental Management and Environmental Risk Management courses in various regions in collaboration Cork University, Brunel University (UK), and IEM, Athens, Greece, under the auspices of "EUROFORM" (European Union Programme). Training projects for the period 1995-1998 (Youthstart, Leonardo da Vinci and Adapt).Training services in Albania, European Union Programme PHARE, and other programs in Argentina, Italy, and the Maghreb Countries. Studies and surveys for the City of Rome and for the Centre Developpement Formation Professionelle of Berlin. Eco-studies for the cotton industry in Peru. Organized the "Amalfi Prize in Sociology" on behalf of the University of Rome. Organizations and persons expressing interest in Geosophia Project (these are constantly being updated): University of Rome; Confagricultura (Italy); ICEPS (UNO Agency); INSEAD Fontainebleau (Prof. Robert Ayres); University of East Anglia, Norwich (Prof. Timothy O'Riordan, University College Cork (Dr.Aveen Henry); Wuppertal Institut fur Klima Umwelt Energie (Prof. Ernst U Von Weizsacker); Brunel University, London (Dr. Ross King); International Executive Centre Kranju (Dr. Danica Purg); Earth Watch, Oxford (Sir Crispin Tickell); and ISIGE - Ecole des Mines de Paris - Fontainebleau (Dr. Philippe Jamet).
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