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There are three essential functions of Earth Counsel including: (1) managing, value adding and disseminating real-time Earth-system data; (2) providing natural resource planning for the Continents; and (3) providing environmental dispute resolution services between and among the Member Continents. Funding for the organization is provided by the Members. In order to fulfill its functions, Earth Counsel is comprised of three principal organs, including: Earth Data Bank, Earth Policy Council, and Earth Court. Earth Counsel also maintains two primary Institutes, including Earth University--a life-long, degree-granting, all electronic virtual university; and Earth Press, which maintains publications for each of the principal organs. Earth Data Bank, formerly known as "Earth Data Council," is a depository for real-time Earth-system data concerning the continents and each Earth Sphere. Earth Counsel endeavors to structure agreements with each of the world's space programs, ground stations, and universities as part of its Earth data development and real-time Earth data banking functions. Earth Data Bank collects, adds value to, and disseminates Earth-system data, and primarily serves as a knowledge and information resource center for the organization. It also provides technical support to Earth Court. Earth Policy Council acts to reconstruct and to preserve the integrity of the Members. Specifically, Earth Policy Council acts to assist the Member continents with natural resource management, including but not limited to city-planning, agriculture, forestry and afforestation, energy, transportation, population, hazardous waste, and species accounting, preservation, and repopulation. In sum, Earth Policy Council provides natural resource planning and related services in behalf of the Continents and their Sphere. Earth Court is the adjudicative body of Earth Counsel. Earth Court has jurisdiction over disputes between and among the Member Continents, and performs natural resource dispute resolution services in behalf of them. Earth Court operates under a statute that provides Earth Court with jurisdiction over both intracontinental and intercontinental disputes involving significant impacts upon the Spheres in Trust. |
