Millenium Ecosystem Assessment - launched on 5 June 2001 by Kofi Annan it is the first global multi-scale multi-epistemic research project on the status of Social and Natural capital
Stuart Kauffman - life sciences thinker mentions recent book and the global ethic/worldview need to heal the divide between secular humanists and believers of a transcendent God
David Orr on our food system - industrial factory farming gives way to local organic connections
David Korten on the Great Turning - how imperial prosperity, security, and dominator hierarchy stories must give way to Earth community, cooperative relationship, and integral Universal Spirit stories
James Howard Kunstler on Meaningful Places - lively TED talk on how sprawl, a national automobile slum, and the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world have degraded public life, public realm
Deepak Chopra on Religion - lucid 2:52 description of the limits of religion, what it needs to incorporate, and how the Cosmic Oneness experience Christ, Buddha, and Mohammed can be substantiated scientifically
The Story of Stuff - 20min video: Annie Leonard explains her 10-year investigation into the materials chain from extraction to disposal, its conception 50-yrs ago and the preference for using toxins and waste, the socio-enviro injustice, and how another way is urgently needed
Qingdao Ecoblock - 11 min video on mass produced sustainable living in China - 1km^2 at a time
The Equator Prize - UNDP –> Environment –>Biodiversity –>Equator Initiative –> Equator Prize selection criteria “impact, partnerships, sustainability, innovation & transferability, leadership & community empowerment, gender equality & social inclu
Stuart Kauffman - life sciences thinker mentions recent book and the global ethic/worldview need to heal the divide between secular humanists and believers of a transcendent God
David Orr on our food system - industrial factory farming gives way to local organic connections
David Korten on the Great Turning - how imperial prosperity, security, and dominator hierarchy stories must give way to Earth community, cooperative relationship, and integral Universal Spirit stories
James Howard Kunstler on Meaningful Places - lively TED talk on how sprawl, a national automobile slum, and the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world have degraded public life, public realm
Deepak Chopra on Religion - lucid 2:52 description of the limits of religion, what it needs to incorporate, and how the Cosmic Oneness experience Christ, Buddha, and Mohammed can be substantiated scientifically
The Story of Stuff - 20min video: Annie Leonard explains her 10-year investigation into the materials chain from extraction to disposal, its conception 50-yrs ago and the preference for using toxins and waste, the socio-enviro injustice, and how another way is urgently needed
Qingdao Ecoblock - 11 min video on mass produced sustainable living in China - 1km^2 at a time
The Equator Prize - UNDP –> Environment –>Biodiversity –>Equator Initiative –> Equator Prize selection criteria “impact, partnerships, sustainability, innovation & transferability, leadership & community empowerment, gender equality & social inclu
