Current work on COSMOS involves incorporating cultural ecology into a global distance learning system for communities in the form of a prototype 'citizen's  conservation management curriculum.

We are now concentrating on the production and testing of an on-line module showing people how to produce long-term school/community action plans with measurable objectives, which follow a standard planning format, but with flexible databasing.  This will integrate with an on-line forum and a library of community management plans as practical models for others to adapt to their own circumstances.  In other words it's a kind of 'sustainability citizen’s cyber-café/library' with a minimum of central control.   Cross-linking existing community groups in this way could lead to a stronger force for change.

The package consists of the following elements:-