Now, that's got you thinking hasn't it? The most sustainable village on the planet.How can your village be THE most sustainable on THIS planet? We all now belong to one global village, interconnected unfortunately.

Scott Edward Anderson is an award-winning poet, change agent, and social capitalist. After 15 years with The Nature Conservancy, he is now a vice president with Ashoka, the global association of leading social entrepreneurs. He has been a John Sawhill Conservation Leadership Fellow and is currently a Senior Fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program, occasionally writes for GreenBiz.com among other publications, and serves on the advisory board of Green Microfinance, LLC.

Samoa - A carbon-neutral holiday destination by 2008

The Global Environment Facility is investing $USD100million over the next 2-3 years, replenished with the same amount again in 3 years time, matched dollar for dollar by our co-financiers - this amounts to more than half a billion USD expenditure on village development projects alone. Where are the instructions, the pre-requisites, the commitments and all the legislation to underpin such an investment? Who are the stakeholders and how are the villagers getting involved, what role do the schools play, etc.?