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 talk on suburbin sprawl, technosis externality clusterfuck, the last 60 years of town planning, much like our agricultural choices, have devastated chances for sane healthy living, we must rebuild, resize, downscale to a Local living lifestyle
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 talk on suburbin sprawl, technosis externality clusterfuck, the last 60 years of town planning, much like our agricultural choices, have devastated chances for sane healthy living, we must rebuild, resize, downscale to a Local living lifestyle
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
