Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. When the declaration was signed in 1948, it was the first time in history that nations came together to agree on
basic principles of justice, equality, and rights for all. The Univeral Declaration has become the most translated, the most ‘universal’ in the world. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights was awarded the Guiness World
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Beyond the Bailout: Clean Up Wall Street
By David Korten | Website
Reprinted from "Sustainable Happiness," the Winter 2009 YES! Magazine
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The first item of business is to get the immediate
crisis under control. Wall Street institutions have long claimed their
trading activities create wealth, provide the funds that keep business
moving, increase economic efficiency, and stabilize markets. The
Link Up, Tune In, Co-Create
By George Por | Blog of Collective Intelligence
Yes!! “Let’s clean up the mess before we die” is the most concise and energizing way to say that we got one more chance to make a difference for a better world. But how can we clean up, in the next few decades, a “mess” produced by the millennia of scarcity, humans treating one another less than equals, unnecessary suffering caused by unwise social systems?Whether we can or can’t, our best bet is in recognizing that the job of evolutionary janitors is not ours alone. It’s only the multigenerational alliances of pioneers of the change that we need, which will have all the collective intelligence, wisdom, and passion needed to clean up the mess.
What occurred to me is that when I was younger, my ‘work’ or the cause I was working for was something that I was attached to. I mean ‘attached to’
Poznan: A Change of Climate
A year ago, we were focused on Bali as 184 nations gathered to discuss the Kyoto Protocol. From December 1st to 12th this year, we are now looking to the gathering of over 10,000 delegates and staff from 190 countries in Poznan, Poland at the 14th session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change
Convention (COP 14). This event, held in conjunction with the 4th Conference
of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto
Protocol (CMP 4), continues
Beyond the Bailout: Agenda for a New Economy
By David Korten | Website
Reprinted from "Sustainable Happiness," the Winter 2009 YES! Magazine
284 Madrona Way NE Ste 116, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110. Subscriptions: 800/937-4451
David is author of the international bestseller When Corporations Rule the World and The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. He is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, and a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies.
The financial
Florida Intergenerational Week
December 1st to 7th has been declared Intergenerational Week by the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. This occasion highlights the importance of developing and maintaining healthy relationships across generations. Department of
Elder Affairs Secretary E. Douglas Beach states that, “Florida seniors remain a
vibrant part of their communities and are a potent economic force, and
their life lessons can play an important
Multi-Generational Collaboration: Shaping Tomorrow, Together III
By Juanita Brown, David Isaacs and Samantha Tan | World Cafe website
Reprinted with kind permission from "Changing the World Together", Spring/Summer 2008 Kosmos Journal
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Juanita
Brown and David Isaacs are co-founders of the World Café, an innovative
approach to large group dialogue being used across sectors on six
continents. Their award-winning book, The World Café: Shaping our
Futures Through Conversations
Connecting Our Conversations
By Jim Selman | Bio
I came across an article on Becoming Wiser Together by an old acquaintance of mine, George Por, in Kosmos Journal in which he was talking about the idea ‘that the future is already here’ but that we have different sensibilities and awareness of what it is and the possibilities it brings. George has been working for decades on the idea of what some of us might
How Can They Do That…?!
By Jim Selman | Bio
I got another shot of what has been a curiosity to me for a long time: the growing practice of ‘texting’. This practice was highlighted for me when I read that Barack Obama has to kick his Blackberry habit in his new job and again when I was at the theater earlier this week with an audience of mostly 20 and 30-year-olds. Both before the curtain and at the intermission, I counted about 30 folks fixated on their ‘mobile communication devices’. Several were even covertly ‘peeking’ during the performance.I don’t think I am a Luddite, yet somehow this seemed to me to be not only rude, but also a bit ludicrous. I watched myself falling into a kind of judgmental ‘old person’s’ conversation along the lines of “Don’t these kids know that they are missing the point of going out for a pleasant evening…blah blah blah.” I clearly had a point of view based on my experience of growing up and was looking down my nose at this new practice in much the same way my father probably
Multi-Generational Collaboration: Shaping Tomorrow, Together II
By Juanita Brown, David Isaacs and Samantha Tan | World Cafe website
Reprinted with kind permission from "Changing the World Together", Spring/Summer 2008 Kosmos Journal
PO Box 2102
Lenox, MA 01240. Subscriptions
Juanita
Brown and David Isaacs are co-founders of the World Café, an innovative
approach to large group dialogue being used across sectors on six
continents. Their award-winning book, The World Café: Shaping our
Futures Through Conversations