Partnership Initiative World Ambassador

Paul Coleman has been walking around the planet since 1990 when he walked from Canada to Rio de Janiero for the UN’s Earth Summit Conference in 1992. Paul plants trees with the local people wherever he goes, as well as with government officials and high level dignitaries. His hope is to inspire the planting of 100 million trees, one for every person killed in war during the past century. Paul is a global ambassador for the EcoEarth Alliance. He strongly supports the ecovillage approach to sustainable rural development and will be using it to build his dream home in Patagonia, Chile with his wife, author Konomi Kikuchi, when he finishes his current walk.

Paul is currently walking up through China on his way to Beijing for the Green Olympics in 2008. He has endorsed the idea that the Olympics can provide a good means to encourage everyone to take better care for our planet and to support sustainable development. In fact, Paul has worked with MP Joan Walley to introduce a motion in the British Parliament that the Olympics in London in 2012 also be a Green Olympics.

Paul left England in 2000 setting out for China. He walked across Europe, down through the Middle East, and then joined the EcoEarth Alliance in Johannesburg for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. After planting trees with many high level officials, Paul walked through South Africa and up through the African continent. Everywhere Paul goes he talks about the beauty of the earth and the need to protect and restore the natural environment. He was named one of 100 Environmental Heroes for the Planet for Expo 2005 in Japan. You can go to Paul’s website to read about his ongoing adventures and all of the things that he has done and seen since he started his walk.

See: http://www.earthwalker.com

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