Communication technology offers, without doubt, major business opportunities for the future, in addition to having a most crucial social impact. Of the many factors responsible for shaping modern society, Media and Communications are perhaps the most potent. As a result, communication technology can become the vehicle with which to inseminate society with new biocentric thinking, and provide a world-wide multidisciplinary exchange of information promoting appreciation of the bio-environment as the core component of every human endeavour. We are moving into a truly interdependent world, where communication is vital to development. Information technology can bring the world together. Mass media has the power to influence and the power to educate, and this power should be applied to guarantee peace and international co-operation, eliminating isolation and division. It also has the potential to raise the necessary global awareness of the urgent need to take action against environmental destruction and abuse. International bio-education through the internet can be one of the many ways of applying this potential, in order to achieve environmentally literate global citizens. Such projects, in addition to providing direct and efficient exchange of information, can allow for world-wide simultaneous participation in the attempt to preserve bios on our planet. Meanwhile, as a more immediate plan of action, the B.I.O. has been proposing the introduction of a news bulletin on the bio-environment, as a staple item on every news program, in the same way that weather and stock-market reports already are.
References
TEXTBOOKS
- Bio-Syllabus for European Environmental Education
A. Vlavianos-Arvanitis (Ed.), Biopolitics International Organisation, Athens 2002, 880 pp. - BIOPOLITICS – THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT – BIO-SYLLABUS
A model global Bio-Education promoted by the International University for the Bio-Environment, 1992
Bio-Communications
PROCEEDINGS
- BIOPOLITICS – THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT – VOLUME I
A.Vlavianos Arvanitis (Ed.),Proceedings from the First B.I.O International Conference, May 1987, (400 pp.) 1988
– Telecommunications science and its relation to Bios
Peter Stavroulakis - BIOPOLITICS – THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT – VOLUME II
“Bios in the Next Millennium”
A.Vlavianos Arvanitis (Ed.), Proceedings from the Second B.I.O International Conference, October 1988 (543 pp.) 1989
– Bios and the use of telecommunications
Peter Stavroulakis
– Bio-Communications
Haris Livas - BIOPOLITICS – THE BIO-ENVIRONMENT – VOLUME III
“The International University for the Bio-Environment”
A.Vlavianos Arvanitis (Ed.), Proceedings from the Fourth B.I.O International Conference, January 1991 (683 pp.) 1991
– The Alliance Network for Environmental Education
Terence John Mills
– The importance of context: environmental education in the United States
David W. Shapiro
BIO NEWS
- Bio News 32
– Page 3, Terrorism, Media and International Relations - Bio News 38
– Page 15, Business and the Media - Bio News 42
– Page 15, Greenaccord Media Forum on the Protection of Nature
Events
2013
- Launch of the Biotourism IPA Cross/Border Programme Greece Albania 2007/2013 ‘’Innovative Practices in Biotourism’’ facebook page.
2011
- Participation in a conference on the role of the media in the time of national crises organized by the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Athens, Greece
- Press coverage by GoGreen newsletter, Eleftheri Ora tis Kyriakis, Perivallon 21
2006
- President is appointed member of the Scientific Committee of Greenaccord, an environmental NGO addressing the international media community
- Lecture at the IV International Media Forum on the Protection of Nature organised by Greenaccord, Rome
2005
- Keynote speech at the “Greenaccord 3rd International Media Forum on the Protection of Nature,” Rome
2004
- Participation in the Arab-Hellenic Conference on The Investment Environment and the Role of Media in the Arab World, Athens
2002
- Keynote lecture at the conference on Terrorism, the Media and International Relations, University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus
2001
- Keynote presentation at the conference on Journalism, organised under the auspices of the French Institute, Patras, Greece
1995
- Meeting with the Committee on Legislative Provision of Freedom of Speech and Mass Media, Supreme Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine – Extensive Discussions and Presentations to Parliamentarian Commissions
1988
- The Media and Communications was discussed extensively at the Second B.I.O. International Conference. “Bios in the Next Millennium,” Athens. Programme
- Lecture and press conference, Union of Journalists and Periodical Owners, Athens
