"Global
2000 Revisited is both thunder and lightning across the landscape!
Thunder of terror if we continue as of the present! Lightning
revealing the grandeur of a possible future! -- Father
Thomas Berry, author of The Dream of the Earth and co-author
of The Universe Story"
Hey..
Lets Build an
Eco Economy !
Do we have the collective will to put healing the ozone layer
at the forefront, to educate ourselves, educate others, to check
products on sale locally, to question local business and industries
as to their use of these chemicals, to enact local restrictive
legislation as needed, to demand national restrictive legislation
and compliance from industry and the military; to demand the
necessary aid for Third World countries to get their CFCs, HCFCs
and halon under control? Earth-Policy.org
The
Path to a Sustainable Planet
Lies Just Ahead...
What
is Global Governance?
Organizations
and information focused on the creation of worldwide methods
and structures of governance and problem normalization and harmonization
(not necessarily government) to tackle the urgent problems facing
the globe, be they poverty, environmental degradation, economic
policy, food, human rights violations and so on. Topics include
United Nations, Globalization issues and Human Rights. Global
Governance includes NGO's Non Governmental Organizations, Civil
Society, and Third World countries. Other areas include globalization
and its effects, positive and negative, social justice and multinational
corporations, as well as anti globalization and non-governmental
organizations. Plus the effects of globalization, economic globalization
and global issues. Topics may include arms race, militarism,
civil society, policy harmonization, third world debt and more.
We
desperately need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters
of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs
and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself
rather than the limits of technology and consumerism."
"Mikhail Gorbachev
Chairman of the Board,
Green Cross International"
Realizing a better world--a new higher reality--involves understanding
and actualizing concepts and practices which reflect the timeless
perennial wisdoms. That which is lasting, wisdom, beauty and
the universal truths of natural science and higher philosophy.
These perennial
truths and practices define our higher human nature, right
human relations and right relations between human beings
and the natural world.
Permaculture
101. Permaculture
is an approach to
designing human settlements and agricultural systems
that mimic the relationships found in natural ecologies.
A
profound speech, Severn Suzuki speaking the
Truth at the UN Earth Summit 1992, please listen.
Thought-provoking
facts and questions about our current time
We
are on the Road to Shamballa..
How does your Light Shine?
'It's
Only the Beginning' of a
New Era and a New World'
The Global Oneness Project There
is a source above the everyday thinking that can allow
humanity
to ...unite.
Fernando
Nilo and Recycla are changing the world through cooperative
community recycling. Outstanding Social Entrepreneur and CEO
of Chile's Recycla urges you to recycle your tech products
for a better future.
Select English www.recycla.cl
Opening
Plenary of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 - Welcome
Address by Hans-Rudolf Merz, President of the Swiss Confederation
and Federal Councillor of Finance and Klaus Schwab, Founder
and Executive Chairman, World
Economic Forum1
hour:13:35 YouTube
World Economic Forum Global
Risk Review
Rebooting
the Global Economy World Economic Forum
Economics
and Power. Journalist Naomi Klein speaks with economists
Joseph Stiglitz and Hernando de Soto in a conversation moderated
by David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at
the Graduate Center - City University of New York
A music video that brings together 16 of the worlds top musicians—some
of whom have fled oppressive regimes—in a rousing musical plea
to
a guarantee for Human Rights for all.
Great
Lecture on Humanity's Future from the
World Future Council
What
Happens if the Temperature.....
Rises
by 5 - 6 Degrees...
...Global Climate Shock
The Great Work...
We are about the Great Work
This site is dedicated to the pioneering vision and
works of Father
Thomas Berry and the vision of the
~ Ecozoic Era ~ Earth-Community.org Father
Thomas Berry, Books The
Great Work We are about the Great Work. We all have
our particular work--some of us are teachers, some
of us are healers, some of us in various professions,
some of us are farming. We have a variety of occupations.
But beside the particular work we do and the particular
lives we lead, we have a Great Work that everyone
is involved in and no one is exempt from. That is
the work of moving on from a terminal Cenozoic to
an emerging Ecozoic Era in the story of the
planet Earth...; which is the Great Work. - Thomas
Berry THE
CENTER FOR ECOZOIC STUDIES Center
for the Story of the Universe
As
opposed to just forging ahead in ideologies that do
not serve the whole of life and humanity on this small
fragile delicate planet we are all totally dependent
on for our support. It appears that global society
is beginning to seriously consider the structural
changes in our civilization that are being recommended
by environmental, social, economic, political and
spiritual experts that is based on life long assessment
and observations. -State of
Our Planet Forum.org -
An
ethical approach to globalization can mean nothing
less than a rights-based approach to development. -
Amnesty International -
The
Next Industrial Design Revolution is...Biomimicry Learning
from the Natural World
The
11th Hour for our Home Planet has arrived...experts
from the
11th Hour Documentary,
Opens in Theatres on Sept 01, 2007
Al
Gore, Mr State of Our Planet speaks about his new book
on May 29, 2007 Thank you Al Gore.
Sustainable
Development
- 15 Global Challenges -
David
Suzuki gets interviewed on the CBC about the government's
climate change plan
Get
the Facts on the Eco Economy from the man himself...Lester
Brown
Now..
Does Anyone Really Know What Time it is..the end of
the old world or the beginning of a new world..
The
World is at the Crossroads We are at a critical juncture in
history, a "decision-window" where we face both the danger of
global collapse and the opportunity of worldwide renewal. We
have, at most, 7 years to head off unsustainable trends that
would lead to a "tipping point" beyond which there is no turning
back. By 2012 we either evolve to a safer, more sustainable
world, or the social, economic, and ecological systems that
frame our life will break down. "The World Future
Society 2006"
www.wfs.org
"Anyone
who thinks that an economy can be expanded forever, within
the confines of a finite planet, is either a madman or an
economist." ~ Economist Kenneth Boulding ~
We
are in the Time of the Deciding Moment
Civilization has
made a lot of progress in the last 100 years.
We are just now beginning to see that our institutional, economic,
energy, environmental and social support systems are not in
the best shape to handle the pressures that unregulated and
uncharted development has on the systems we all count on every
day. The current structures of global and regional civilization
currently do not have the experience, mechanisms and structures
in place to efficiently handle, prepare and confront the increasingly
complex ecological, political, social, cultural and economic
problems of current and future global challenges and scenarios.
Reality is now hitting the planet and human civilization
very hard. The misconceptions of our institutional, economic,
environmental and social policy processes are becoming increasingly
very clear to everyone. The good news is that millions of people,
institutions, celebrities, societies and many leaders are beginning
to engage a new world cooperative view. This is based on the
communities of life and humanity, a commitment to the collective
development of reason and civilization and an open process of
communication and dialog. A world view that the web of life
and the environmental ecosystems must be protected under global
governance as the foundation of global development is emerging.
We have spent the last 100 years building global hierarchies
for a handful of institutions and people. Through this process
we have reached the current point of global civilization very
quickly. We now must spend the next 20 years organizing network
communities of civilization, reason, ingenuity and sharing to
create a sustainable future for all of humanity and restore
the ecological web of life. This web site is about bringing
to you the visionary leaders and groups who have the models
and the answers to bring forth solutions to the next stage of
a more functional cooperative sustainable civilization. Welcome. Through the expression of great ideas
and great ideals, humanity is beginning to awaken to the
possibilities ahead of us. A Brilliant Peaceful Global Society is just ahead of us
"The
United Nations once dealt only with Governments. By now we
know that peace and prosperity cannot be achieved without
partnerships involving Governments, international organizations,
the business community and civil society.
In today's world, we depend on each other. " Kofi Annan,UNSecretary-General"
"The
whole of my life has been about getting further and
further upstream, so that I'm ahead of the power curve,
as it were. And the highest upstream that I can figure
out how to get is in designing new cultural DNA and
splicing it into cultural codes, as well as identifying
malfunctioning "DNA strands," such as GNP, which generate
pathological patterns in the body politic. This activity
has the biggest multiplier in terms of shifting the
system towards sustainability."...Hazel Henderson “In
order to change something, don’t struggle to change
the existing model. Create a new and better model,
and make the old one obsolete.”...Buckminster
Fuller.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
...Albert Einstein
Our comments on Times Poll Is the environment doomed.
Based on the results of this poll most people feel the environment
is doomed. This is why it is so vital and important you
connect to the right information like Time's Report and
from the experts like Lester Brown and his book Eco-Economy
and Elisabet
Sahtouris, Living Systems work on how DNA can reorganize
very quickly given the support systems to do so. This not
only includes the living systems DNA but the DNA of society
or the reasoning and processing systems of society. The
solutions are possible and emerging and can emerge very
quickly as all of humanity begins to come together.
The State of Our
Planet Network Interdisciplinary
Research, Solutions,
Models, Vision and Ingenuity
for the Next Stage of Global Civilization.
Contact: info[at]stateofourplanetforum.org
~The
first principle of the new model must be that humans and Earth
be in a mutually enhancing relationship. Without this principle
as a starting point, no model of development, no vision of progress
is sustainable.~ Father Thomas Berry: The Dream of
the Earth
Content
and research inspired by the efforts, research
and writings of visionary leaders and societies like: Joanna
Macy, Ph.D & The Great Turning The
shift from the Industrial Growth Society
to a Life-Sustaining Global Civilization.
"Some
day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides,
and gravity, . . . we shall harness . . . the energies of Love.
Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will
have discovered... Fire." ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
The
Geopolitics of post 1945 continue to dominate the governance
structures of key institutions, even at this point well into
the post-colonial era. We need to concede that many of these
public institutions appear to be operating under rules and logic
models that are not in keeping with the realities that citizens
confront around the world today. ~ 10 February
2003, Dr. Kumi Naidoo Secretary General & CEO CIVICUS:
World Alliance for Citizen Participation ~
"An
economic system cannot exist without an ecological system: the
ecological system being the principal system, from which the
economic system is derived." From
the Book: Sustainability-in-Finance.com
"A
human being is part of the whole called by us the Universe.
We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something
separated from the rest --a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to
our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest
us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by
widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures,
and the whole of nature in its beauty."
-- Albert Einstein --
"If
we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before,
we must leave the door to the unknown ajar. We
are at the very beginning of time for the human race."
Richard Feynman - American theoretical physicist
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