About the Enviropaedia
The Enviropaedia is a knowledge and network building project designed to motivate and facilitate wide scale participation in social, environmental, economic and political sustainability. The four key elements to facilitate this are:
Networking
- Enabling individuals and organisations to network and share information
- Helping environmental organisations to gain public and business support
- Facilitating the promotion of environmentally sustainable goods and services.
Knowledge
- Facilitating greater understanding of the issues
- Motivating increased participation in finding solutions.
Building Bridges of Understanding
By inviting a diverse range of credible Authors to write material for The Enviropaedia, this enables those with conflicting opinions to understand each others perspectives and ensures that readers are given a multi-dimensional perspective of the issues.
Empowering the individual
The Enviropaedia enables the individual to consciously use their consumer power to promote sustainability and encourages them to become a member of an environmental organisation that is relevant to their interests.
Through these four mechanisms, The Enviropaedia facilitates a co-operative synergy between individuals and organisations, encouraging a holistic and inter-disciplinary approach with a focus on solutions to common goals.
The Enviropaedia Project began by publishing its first hard copy publication in the millennium year 2000. Since then, due to the success and growing popularity of The Enviropaedia, subsequent updated and improved editions were published in 2002, 2004 and 2006.
www.enviropaedia.com
Thanks to the moral and financial support of the Frye family, in honour of the life of Tony Frye, The Enviropaedia Online version has been created and launched on World Environment Day 5 June 2007.
With plans for substantial growth and development in increasing public awareness and participation in promoting Sustainable Living
click here to see what The Enviropaedia has achieved thus far.
David Parry-Davies
EDITOR AND PROJECT DIRECTOR: After 20 years of successful international management in the corporate finance and insurance sectors, David turned to his lifelong interest in nature and the environment. In the UK he worked with various environmental organisations including Wildlife Aid and Friends of the Earth. In 1998, he returned to South Africa and created The Enviropaedia as a practical tool to promote environmental, social and business sustainability and to facilitate business and public participation.
Kim De-Bruin
PROJECT MANAGER: With a background in horticulture, design and IT, Kim has brought a wealth of technical and creative skills to enhance and expand the functions and resources of The Enviropaedia. Her enthusiasm, zeal for excellence, care for people and an unbounded passion for the environment have been invaluable in the development and evolution of both the hard copy and online versions of The Enviropaedia
Contact the Enviropaedia
PO Box 425,
Simonstown 7995,
Western Cape,
South Africa
Tel: 021 786 4311
Fax: 021 786 3171
Email: info@enviropaedia.com
