EURO-ECO 2010 Hanover 2 - 3 Dezember 2010	Environmental, Engineering - Economic and Legal Aspects for Sustainable Living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover University of Bremen, Bremen

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The problem of harmonious interaction between mankind and biosphere remains pressing in recent years. Researchers and progressively conceived people understand more and more, that the purposes of the humans and means of their achievement should be brought into accord with the ecological requirements.

Global character of environmental problems requires their immediate solution at different levels: international, state and regional. The successful solution of environmental problems in a particular region requires certain knowledge in the field of ecology from the population.

The understanding of interrelation between the humans and the nature demands reorientation of public consciousness to the achievement of harmony between humans and nature. This point of view, unlike the previous one (Dominant Social Paradigm – DSP, that is focused on economic development and material benefits), has received the name «New Environmental Paradigm» (NEP).

Thus the problem of public ecological education is especially important. The purpose of such education is development of ecological thinking, ecological culture. New informational technologies can be applied as an effective mechanism of this problem solution at the regional level. Particularly, there appear to be some sufficient reasons for creation an ecological Internet portal in each certain region. The portal is a web site, the content of which will cover a wide range of environmental issues, urgent and interesting to many inhabitants of the region. Each region has got its own peculiarities, without knowledge of which it is impossible to understand the natural and anthropogenous processes influence on physical, mental and moral health of population.

The Internet portal project «Ecology of Yelets city» has been developed by now. It is at the stage of implementation and includes following sections: 1) General knowledge of natural components (geological environment, landscapes, ecosystems, plant and animal life); 2) Environmental problems (industry and transport effect, influence of city building, waste generation and recycling); 3) Environmental information (state of the environment monitoring, ecological mapping, ecological forecasting); 4) Social ecological situation (ecology of the city territory, ecology of the internal environment of buildings, state of city population health); 5) Administrative mechanisms (administrative and economic aspects of the city ecology; city ecosystems recovery; city ecological organizations and programs); 6) Ecological education. The following sections are also presented in the portal: news, library, references to environmental and ecological Internet resources, ecological dictionary, photo and video albums, forum.

The site is oriented to various social strata; however its target audience is youth. According to the questioning in Yelets branch of “Russian New University”, about 95% of students showed interest to this Internet portal, more than 65% were ready to give information of different kinds (photos, videos, articles, etc.). So this project will be intended to solve the major problems of ecological informing and formation of public opinion and public activity in the field of environment preservation. It can be realized at active participation of youth.