MISSION
Globaïa is a global education organization whose mission is to foster a consistent and informed participation of citizens in environmental issues by understanding the multiple dimensions of today's world and its likely future.
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OBJECTIVES
1. To promote a comprehensive, meaningful and unified vision of the contemporary world by providing young people, civil society, institutions, businesses and municipalities practical solutions and tools for action in order to promote change of lifestyle that can reduce our ecological and carbon footprints, making us more aware and resilient;
2. To enhance the effective participation of citizens in the major contemporary issues through a better understanding of the multiple dimensions of our world;
3. To form and inform on major environmental issues of our time;
4. To establish partnerships and collaborations with other agencies, such Artcirq, to achieve the objectives of Globaïa.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Marc DOUCET | President. Marc Doucet is lawyer and holds a master's degree in health law. He is currently the Clerk of the City of Rimouski. He has been interested on major environmental issues for over twenty years. As an actor of the municipal sector, he is able to observe the role of municipalities in the preservation of resources and the promotion of quality of life of their citizens.

Guillaume SALADIN | Vice-president. Guillaume comes from a family of anthropologists and raised partly in Igloolik until the age of 15 years. After earning a BA in 1998 in Sociology and Communication at UQAM, he helped to start the project while continuing Artcirq training circus artist at the National School of Circus Arts in Montreal. In 2001, he joined the Cirque Éloize as Acrobat actor-world tour for four (4) years of the show Unplugged. He lives in Igloolik on an ongoing basis to continue the drive to find and develop new projects with video Igloolik Isuma Productions.

Anne-Marie DOUCET | Secretary-Treasurer. Anne-Marie is a teacher, specializing in environmental education. She works as a development officer at RECYC-QUEBEC. She has worked in many organizations dedicated to environment, including the Centre écologique de Port-au-Saumon, Explos-Nature in Grandes Bergeronnes and ENvironnement JEUnesse.

Félix PHARAND-DESCHÊNES | Administrator. Félix is the founder of Globaïa. He is an anthropologist by training, specializing in ethnogeography. He worked for over 10 years as a science communicator in various public and private institutions. This journey, inspired by the deep love he bears for nature since childhood, led him to focus on the terrestrial biosphere and the impacts caused by human activities. Félix has created Globaïa to express and disseminate an integral, scientifically accurate, vision of our shared world.
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NAME
The name Globaïa is made out of two other words, "global" et "Gaia".
Gaia was the primordial mother goddess of the land in ancient Greek cosmology. This name is itself made out of two words: [Ge], originating the Sumerian, for "Earth" and [Aia], derived from Indo-European, for "grandmother". It emphasizes on the meaningful and emotional relationship we have to reinvent between the Earth and our societies.
Adding "global" gives a modern meaning, the fact that the Earth is round having been ignored by our ancestors.
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LOGO
The "o" is a blue marble, a reminder of the famous picture of our planet taken during the Apollo 17 mission, in December 1972. This first beautiful image of the Earth has influenced generations and corresponds to the awakening of the global environmental movement. Two lines illustrate the Equator and the Polar Circle, highlighting the fact that the Sun's energy is unevenly distributed on Earth, forming its climate and determining its biosphere. The logo also comprises a butterfly with the umlaut of the "i" and the reversal of the last "a", illustration of the fragility and beauty of life.
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VISION
Globaïa was born of an urgency. Urgency to understand, urgency to act.

We believe that an education to global citizenship, to global issues and to the state of our planet may contribute to help make this world a better place than it is right now. Huge challenges are awaiting us and denial cannot continue any longer. The changing climate, the biodiversity crisis and the growing gap between rich and poor are problems we must urgently address on a global scale.

Our era is one of great diagnostics. International teams of scientists and thinkers of every domains a working in synergy to take the pulse of our planet and to foresee what our future is going to be like. While these activities are drawing a portrait of Humanity and the Biosphere with unprecedented details, many thresholds in the Earth's system are about to be crossed, threatening the very equilibrium on which civilizations relied on for millenniums.

With today's context, Globaïa offers an expertise to communicate and raise awareness on our world trajectory in order to spread a significant and holistic global picture. We hope to touch people's sensitivity because this is where meaning lies. We hope to raise consciousness because this feature make our specie unique and adaptive. We hope to inform to fight against ignorance.

The Anthropocene has begun.
To find our way through this maize requires an exceptional vision.