Sunday, October 31, 2004
Our Shifting Focus / Events to follow up – Vancouver, BC (& San Rafael, CA)
Creating The Next Golden Believing It Can Be Done
VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 13, 2004 (BC Bioneers) - Virtually everyone today considers themselves environmentally aware, including active environmentalists, corporate and business leaders and social justice activists. What, then, do we do to fulfill the vision of an enduring, sustainable culture that is simultaneously just and peaceful? http://sharedvision.blogcatalyst.com.
Creating The Next Golden Believing It Can Be Done
VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 13, 2004 (BC Bioneers) - Virtually everyone today considers themselves environmentally aware, including active environmentalists, corporate and business leaders and social justice activists. What, then, do we do to fulfill the vision of an enduring, sustainable culture that is simultaneously just and peaceful? http://sharedvision.blogcatalyst.com.
Global Village / Participation / Solutions Web Tool
A World Changing How To
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 2004 (WorldChanging.com) - We thought we'd use this opportunity to talk a little more about what we're trying to do, and to invite you to get more involved, if you like. WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together. http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000106.html.
A World Changing How To
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 2004 (WorldChanging.com) - We thought we'd use this opportunity to talk a little more about what we're trying to do, and to invite you to get more involved, if you like. WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together. http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000106.html.
Turning the Tide / Building Sustainability
Living Planet Report
YELLOWKNIFE, NWT, Oct. 28, 2004 (Ecology North) - At a special event in the 'Palais des Nations' of Geneva, Switzerland, WWF International http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=fvbdj6n6.0.utzzj6n6.glnu67n6.31235&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.panda.org%2F (recently) released its fifth Living Planet Report using scientific analysis provided by Global Footprint Network. Using the Ecological Footprint, a measure of human demand on the planet's ecological assets, the /Living Planet Report 2004/ offers important information for reversing current trends… Highlights include an examination of four possible paths to the future and options for reducing human dependence on the planet's resources. The /Living Planet Report 2004/ exemplifies the relevance of the Ecological Footprint tool for decision-makers and defines humanity's challenge for the 21st century: /learning to live within the means of one planet/. To download: http://www.panda.org/news_facts/publications/general/livingplanet/index.cfm .
Living Planet Report
YELLOWKNIFE, NWT, Oct. 28, 2004 (Ecology North) - At a special event in the 'Palais des Nations' of Geneva, Switzerland, WWF International http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=fvbdj6n6.0.utzzj6n6.glnu67n6.31235&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.panda.org%2F (recently) released its fifth Living Planet Report using scientific analysis provided by Global Footprint Network. Using the Ecological Footprint, a measure of human demand on the planet's ecological assets, the /Living Planet Report 2004/ offers important information for reversing current trends… Highlights include an examination of four possible paths to the future and options for reducing human dependence on the planet's resources. The /Living Planet Report 2004/ exemplifies the relevance of the Ecological Footprint tool for decision-makers and defines humanity's challenge for the 21st century: /learning to live within the means of one planet/. To download: http://www.panda.org/news_facts/publications/general/livingplanet/index.cfm .
Empowerment / Consumer Vote
Buy Nothing Day – Nov. 26th
E-LIST, Oct. 22, 2004 (APIRG) - Was it when you first heard the polar ice caps were melting? Or when you read that mother's milk is now too toxic for newborns? Maybe it was when you first tasted the sweet, rich flesh of a homegrown tomato? Or when you finally figured out that even if half the people on the planet lived like us, we'd all be dead in 20 years? Those are the ahhh moments when you suddenly see the world anew and realize that there has to be -- we have to find -- another way to live. Buy Nothing Day is one step in that direction. We get together and take a stand against the chronic overconsumption that is the mother of all our ecological, psychological and political problems. Here's a good place to get started: http://adbusters.org/. See what other people around the world are doing this year.
Buy Nothing Day – Nov. 26th
E-LIST, Oct. 22, 2004 (APIRG) - Was it when you first heard the polar ice caps were melting? Or when you read that mother's milk is now too toxic for newborns? Maybe it was when you first tasted the sweet, rich flesh of a homegrown tomato? Or when you finally figured out that even if half the people on the planet lived like us, we'd all be dead in 20 years? Those are the ahhh moments when you suddenly see the world anew and realize that there has to be -- we have to find -- another way to live. Buy Nothing Day is one step in that direction. We get together and take a stand against the chronic overconsumption that is the mother of all our ecological, psychological and political problems. Here's a good place to get started: http://adbusters.org/. See what other people around the world are doing this year.
Our Shifting Focus
Following the Unity Dream
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 7, 2004 (An excerpt from Pathways to Unity, by Jean Hudon) - This level of oneness and resonance with the inner guiding wisdom that each of us can embody on this planet is literally the doorway to the brightest future we could imagine. This feeling of being One with all Life and with the very Spirit animating the entire Universe has to pervade our inner awareness to such a level of "saturation" that nothing else, no doubt, no fear can be left over … So here are now the steps suggested to unveil the "inner instantaneous knowledge" coming through the still small voice within... http://www.EarthRainbowNetwork.com/Pathways.htm.
Following the Unity Dream
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 7, 2004 (An excerpt from Pathways to Unity, by Jean Hudon) - This level of oneness and resonance with the inner guiding wisdom that each of us can embody on this planet is literally the doorway to the brightest future we could imagine. This feeling of being One with all Life and with the very Spirit animating the entire Universe has to pervade our inner awareness to such a level of "saturation" that nothing else, no doubt, no fear can be left over … So here are now the steps suggested to unveil the "inner instantaneous knowledge" coming through the still small voice within... http://www.EarthRainbowNetwork.com/Pathways.htm.
Global Village / Participation & Technology
International Simultaneous Policy Ideas
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 25, 2004 (World Changing, QuickChanges) - An interesting new meme has been proposed by John Bunzl at his International Simultaneous Policy Organization - http://www.simpol.org/. The idea is this: many policies that help human rights, social justice, and the environment never get voted into law because they cause economic disadvantage for those that adopt them first. The current method of getting past this barrier is the international treaty system, like the Kyoto Protocol. However, as that treaty's history has demonstrated, the process is long and bureaucracy-intensive. What if we could use information technology to streamline that process? Bunzl's idea is that policies are published online, and citizens in all countries are encouraged to vote for the candidates who promise to "adopt" the policies they like. "Adoption" would be equivalent to signing a treaty saying "when all countries concerned vote yes on this, it will become law in all those countries"; only after all countries have ratified it does a policy become implemented. Sounds like a great idea. http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001458.html.
International Simultaneous Policy Ideas
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 25, 2004 (World Changing, QuickChanges) - An interesting new meme has been proposed by John Bunzl at his International Simultaneous Policy Organization - http://www.simpol.org/. The idea is this: many policies that help human rights, social justice, and the environment never get voted into law because they cause economic disadvantage for those that adopt them first. The current method of getting past this barrier is the international treaty system, like the Kyoto Protocol. However, as that treaty's history has demonstrated, the process is long and bureaucracy-intensive. What if we could use information technology to streamline that process? Bunzl's idea is that policies are published online, and citizens in all countries are encouraged to vote for the candidates who promise to "adopt" the policies they like. "Adoption" would be equivalent to signing a treaty saying "when all countries concerned vote yes on this, it will become law in all those countries"; only after all countries have ratified it does a policy become implemented. Sounds like a great idea. http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001458.html.
Sustainability / Global Attitude
Bruce Mau on Changing the World
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 21, 2004 (World Changing, QuickChanges) – Rough and incomplete notes: "The Twentieth Century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical innovations but as an age in which human society dared to think o f the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective." --Arnold Toynbee. Bruce is explaining that inn his view we can now do nearly anything in terms of design, so the real choice is what is worth doing? Also, it is not a matter of heroic individuals but increasingly of networks of people working together. "The world may not have embraced secular democracy, but it has embraced traffic." Luckily, worldwide we are designing solutions for sustainable mobility... We have to envision the world in a way which has more meaning, and allows us to conceive of the problems in a new way: "We will build a global mind." http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001442.html.
Bruce Mau on Changing the World
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 21, 2004 (World Changing, QuickChanges) – Rough and incomplete notes: "The Twentieth Century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical innovations but as an age in which human society dared to think o f the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective." --Arnold Toynbee. Bruce is explaining that inn his view we can now do nearly anything in terms of design, so the real choice is what is worth doing? Also, it is not a matter of heroic individuals but increasingly of networks of people working together. "The world may not have embraced secular democracy, but it has embraced traffic." Luckily, worldwide we are designing solutions for sustainable mobility... We have to envision the world in a way which has more meaning, and allows us to conceive of the problems in a new way: "We will build a global mind." http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001442.html.
Open Source / NFPs / NGOs
Choosing Open Source
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 26, 2004 (Commons Group) - A guide for civil society organizations, by Mark Surman and Jason Diceman, January 06, 2004. Developed by Commons and the APC, this guide provides civil society organizations with both an introduction to open source and a framework for finding software that will meet their needs. Designed to be accessible and helpful to non-profit managers and others responsible for high level technology decisions. This document was developed by The Commons Group for the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). APC has published a curriculum version of this guide at www.itrainonline.org. PDF and Open Office versions are also available here on the Commons site. Click here to see the rest of the article and links. http://www.commons.ca/articles/fulltext.shtml?x=335.
Choosing Open Source
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 26, 2004 (Commons Group) - A guide for civil society organizations, by Mark Surman and Jason Diceman, January 06, 2004. Developed by Commons and the APC, this guide provides civil society organizations with both an introduction to open source and a framework for finding software that will meet their needs. Designed to be accessible and helpful to non-profit managers and others responsible for high level technology decisions. This document was developed by The Commons Group for the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). APC has published a curriculum version of this guide at www.itrainonline.org. PDF and Open Office versions are also available here on the Commons site. Click here to see the rest of the article and links. http://www.commons.ca/articles/fulltext.shtml?x=335.
Social Enterprise / NGOs / NFPs
William Davidson Institute Call for Policy Briefs "Rethinking the Way in which NGOs do Business"
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 25, 2004 (Idealist.org) - The William Davidson Institute invites you to submit a policy brief for inclusion in the conference "Rethinking the Way in which NGOs do Business." The conference will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 4-6, 2005. The Pontis Foundation in Bratislava, Slovakia is co-organizer of this conference. Submitted briefs should focus on the following topics: Strategies for developing corporate – NGO partnerships; Methods through which NGOs can achieve commercial sustainability; Innovative and commercially-sustainable approaches to alleviating poverty (i.e., microfinance, the NGO’s role in organizing production and distribution networks, and the third sector’s role in providing access to information and technology); Creative fundraising techniques including the creation of "for fee" services. Policy briefs should focus on innovative methods through which NGOs (or other groups with whom NGOs collaborate) have adopted strategies to become less donor dependent. http://www.idealist.org/en/events/120607:283/87698:26.
William Davidson Institute Call for Policy Briefs "Rethinking the Way in which NGOs do Business"
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 25, 2004 (Idealist.org) - The William Davidson Institute invites you to submit a policy brief for inclusion in the conference "Rethinking the Way in which NGOs do Business." The conference will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 4-6, 2005. The Pontis Foundation in Bratislava, Slovakia is co-organizer of this conference. Submitted briefs should focus on the following topics: Strategies for developing corporate – NGO partnerships; Methods through which NGOs can achieve commercial sustainability; Innovative and commercially-sustainable approaches to alleviating poverty (i.e., microfinance, the NGO’s role in organizing production and distribution networks, and the third sector’s role in providing access to information and technology); Creative fundraising techniques including the creation of "for fee" services. Policy briefs should focus on innovative methods through which NGOs (or other groups with whom NGOs collaborate) have adopted strategies to become less donor dependent. http://www.idealist.org/en/events/120607:283/87698:26.
Zero Waste / Simple Living
Recipe for Simplicity
WEB Reference, Oct. 30, 2004 (Gallagher Press; Book by Linda Breen Pierce) - "Simplify, Simplify…" More than a century after Henry David Thoreau uttered these words, his plea for simplicity has more significance now than ever before. We work hard and play hard, filling nearly every moment with activity. Most families believe they need two incomes to pay for a standard of living that has doubled in the last 50 years. But do we? Based on my three-year study of over 200 people who have simplified their lives, I found that we can work less, want less, and spend less, and be happier and more fulfilled in the process. Here are ten suggestions to simplify your life. Don't try to simplify your life in a few weeks or months; most people need an initial period of three to five years to complete this transition. Small, gradual steps are best.
http://www.gallagherpress.com/pierce/recipe%20art.doc.
Recipe for Simplicity
WEB Reference, Oct. 30, 2004 (Gallagher Press; Book by Linda Breen Pierce) - "Simplify, Simplify…" More than a century after Henry David Thoreau uttered these words, his plea for simplicity has more significance now than ever before. We work hard and play hard, filling nearly every moment with activity. Most families believe they need two incomes to pay for a standard of living that has doubled in the last 50 years. But do we? Based on my three-year study of over 200 people who have simplified their lives, I found that we can work less, want less, and spend less, and be happier and more fulfilled in the process. Here are ten suggestions to simplify your life. Don't try to simplify your life in a few weeks or months; most people need an initial period of three to five years to complete this transition. Small, gradual steps are best.
http://www.gallagherpress.com/pierce/recipe%20art.doc.
Cooperation / Alliances
Who We Are And What We Do
WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 30, 2004 (Website Reference, EcoMall ) Co-op America, a national nonprofit organization, provides the economic strategies, organizing power and practical tools for businesses and individuals to address today's social and environmental problems. While many environmental organizations choose to fight important political and legal battles, Co-op America is the leading force in educating and empowering our nation's people and businesses to make significant improvements through the economic system. The Reason - Every time you make a purchase, the money that leaves your hands goes to work. Too often, this means your dollars exploit workers here and abroad, abandon hard-hit communities and dump toxins into our environment.. But it doesn't have to be this way. Your purchases can support businesses that create jobs, care about their communities, engage in fair trade and protect our environment. Co-op America helps you find those businesses and provides technical assistance to help those companies emerge and succeed. http://www.coopamerica.org.
Who We Are And What We Do
WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 30, 2004 (Website Reference, EcoMall ) Co-op America, a national nonprofit organization, provides the economic strategies, organizing power and practical tools for businesses and individuals to address today's social and environmental problems. While many environmental organizations choose to fight important political and legal battles, Co-op America is the leading force in educating and empowering our nation's people and businesses to make significant improvements through the economic system. The Reason - Every time you make a purchase, the money that leaves your hands goes to work. Too often, this means your dollars exploit workers here and abroad, abandon hard-hit communities and dump toxins into our environment.. But it doesn't have to be this way. Your purchases can support businesses that create jobs, care about their communities, engage in fair trade and protect our environment. Co-op America helps you find those businesses and provides technical assistance to help those companies emerge and succeed. http://www.coopamerica.org.
Leadership Education & Training for Sustainability
Methodology of Empowerment
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 30 2004 (Empowerment Institute) - Empowerment Institute is the world's premiere consulting and training organization specializing in the methodology of empowerment. Its state-of-the-art empowerment tools have been applied over the past twenty-five years to achieve measurable behavior change at the community and organizational level. Its clients consist of public sector agencies, corporations and non profits. The following represents its specific skill set. http://empowermentinstitute.net/files/AboutEI.html .
Methodology of Empowerment
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 30 2004 (Empowerment Institute) - Empowerment Institute is the world's premiere consulting and training organization specializing in the methodology of empowerment. Its state-of-the-art empowerment tools have been applied over the past twenty-five years to achieve measurable behavior change at the community and organizational level. Its clients consist of public sector agencies, corporations and non profits. The following represents its specific skill set. http://empowermentinstitute.net/files/AboutEI.html .
Local Living Economies / Heroic Actions
Leading By Example: Judy Wicks
ELIST, Oct. 20, 2004 (E. F. Schumacher Society) - Judy Wicks started the White Dog Café out of the backdoor of her Philadelphia home and grew it into an enterprise known for its advocacy of local organically raised food and for the farmers who grow such food. The adjoining Black Cat retail shop specializes in locally made products and fair trade goods. Read more .
Leading By Example: Judy Wicks
ELIST, Oct. 20, 2004 (E. F. Schumacher Society) - Judy Wicks started the White Dog Café out of the backdoor of her Philadelphia home and grew it into an enterprise known for its advocacy of local organically raised food and for the farmers who grow such food. The adjoining Black Cat retail shop specializes in locally made products and fair trade goods. Read more .
Student Involvement / EcoVersity
Academia to Action
ELIST, Oct. 20, 2004 (Sierra Youth Coalition Sustainable Campuses Project) - "No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. They have buying and investment power. They are widely respected. Consequently, what they do matters to the wider public." (David Orr). With this need in mind the Sierra Youth Coalition (SYC) created an innovative project to assist students, faculty and administration in increasing the sustainability of Canadian post-secondary institutions through improved understanding of their ecological, economical and social impacts. That is the goal of Greening the Ivory Towers: Academia to Action. http://syc-cjs.org/gitp/en/index2.htm .
Academia to Action
ELIST, Oct. 20, 2004 (Sierra Youth Coalition Sustainable Campuses Project) - "No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. They have buying and investment power. They are widely respected. Consequently, what they do matters to the wider public." (David Orr). With this need in mind the Sierra Youth Coalition (SYC) created an innovative project to assist students, faculty and administration in increasing the sustainability of Canadian post-secondary institutions through improved understanding of their ecological, economical and social impacts. That is the goal of Greening the Ivory Towers: Academia to Action. http://syc-cjs.org/gitp/en/index2.htm .
Success Stories / Global Village
Dramatic Changes in Namibia’s Classrooms
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 30, 2004 (Academy for Educational Development) - In the past 14 years Namibia’s education system has undergone a transformation so sweeping that it could be described as extraordinary. Since gaining independence from South Africa in 1990, this young nation in Southwestern Africa has gone from an apartheid educational model that served only the privileged few—and even those students were racially segregated—to a structure that welcomes all children into integrated classrooms. http://www.aed.org/Education/International/namibiaed.cfm .
Dramatic Changes in Namibia’s Classrooms
WEBSITE Reference, Oct. 30, 2004 (Academy for Educational Development) - In the past 14 years Namibia’s education system has undergone a transformation so sweeping that it could be described as extraordinary. Since gaining independence from South Africa in 1990, this young nation in Southwestern Africa has gone from an apartheid educational model that served only the privileged few—and even those students were racially segregated—to a structure that welcomes all children into integrated classrooms. http://www.aed.org/Education/International/namibiaed.cfm .
PIRG Events / Community to Community - Calgary, AB / Haiti - Nov. 4
Don’t Hate on Haiti Fundraiser
ELIST, Oct. 20, 2004 (PIRG-Calgary) - Before the atrocities of 2004, Haiti had already been under siege. Haitians have endured decades of sanctions, devastating hurricanes, political unrest, impoverished standards of living and an AIDS epidemic second only to Sub-Saharan Africa. In the aftermath of the most recent Hurricane Jeanne in September 2004, Haitians are suffering painful deaths. They are starving, thirsty and wounded. In Calgary - Experience an evening of live Haitian dancing and become aware of the humanitarian disaster afflicting the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. Join the Haitian Pearls, a Calgary based dance troupe, in Wyckham House at Mount Royal College on Thursday, November 4 at 7: 00 pm. Those in attendance at this fundraiser will join together and send our Haitian brothers and sisters love in their time of grave need. Donations will be taken at the door. For more information, contact: Amanda McCue, Event Organizer; (403) 612-2132; Email: downsince1981@yahoo.ca .
Don’t Hate on Haiti Fundraiser
ELIST, Oct. 20, 2004 (PIRG-Calgary) - Before the atrocities of 2004, Haiti had already been under siege. Haitians have endured decades of sanctions, devastating hurricanes, political unrest, impoverished standards of living and an AIDS epidemic second only to Sub-Saharan Africa. In the aftermath of the most recent Hurricane Jeanne in September 2004, Haitians are suffering painful deaths. They are starving, thirsty and wounded. In Calgary - Experience an evening of live Haitian dancing and become aware of the humanitarian disaster afflicting the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. Join the Haitian Pearls, a Calgary based dance troupe, in Wyckham House at Mount Royal College on Thursday, November 4 at 7: 00 pm. Those in attendance at this fundraiser will join together and send our Haitian brothers and sisters love in their time of grave need. Donations will be taken at the door. For more information, contact: Amanda McCue, Event Organizer; (403) 612-2132; Email: downsince1981@yahoo.ca .
Conferences / Our Shifting Focus – Las Vegas, Nevada – Nov. 12 - 14
The Gift Economy Inside and Outside of Patriarchal Capitalism
ELIST, Oct. 18, 2004 (Idealist.org) - This dynamic and thought provoking conference will be held right after one of the most dramatic elections in this country's recent history, an election in which citizens have been asked to choose between one extremely patriarchal and one somewhat less patriarchal candidate. The conference will discuss the gift economy as an alternative to patriarchy, with perspectives presented by some of the foremost leaders and thinkers in the international Women's Movement. See for speaker list. Giving attention and value to the logic of gift giving as embodied in the practice of mothers, indigenous peoples, immigrants, free soft ware providers, artists, activists, volunteers and social experimenters, reveals a widespread hidden gift economy that coexists with the market. A gift economy can be seen as an alternative to patriarchal capitalism -- an alternatve that continues to exist in spite of the misogyny, racism, classism and greed that motivate the present system. http://www.idealist.org/en/events/93723:261/87625:17 .
The Gift Economy Inside and Outside of Patriarchal Capitalism
ELIST, Oct. 18, 2004 (Idealist.org) - This dynamic and thought provoking conference will be held right after one of the most dramatic elections in this country's recent history, an election in which citizens have been asked to choose between one extremely patriarchal and one somewhat less patriarchal candidate. The conference will discuss the gift economy as an alternative to patriarchy, with perspectives presented by some of the foremost leaders and thinkers in the international Women's Movement. See for speaker list. Giving attention and value to the logic of gift giving as embodied in the practice of mothers, indigenous peoples, immigrants, free soft ware providers, artists, activists, volunteers and social experimenters, reveals a widespread hidden gift economy that coexists with the market. A gift economy can be seen as an alternative to patriarchal capitalism -- an alternatve that continues to exist in spite of the misogyny, racism, classism and greed that motivate the present system. http://www.idealist.org/en/events/93723:261/87625:17 .
Mainstream Wake-up / Spirituality
Faithkeeper Speaks
GREAT BARRINGTON, MA, Oct. 20, 2004 (E. F. Schumacher Society ) - At a time when the citizens of the United States are probing the question of what constitutes a leader, the voice of Oren Lyons, chosen by Clan Mothers as Chief of the Onondaga people, sounds a clear note of authentic leadership for his people and for our time. He is Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, tireless advocate for indigenous rights and sovereignty issues, professor, author, publisher, painter, father, and grandfather. Chief Oren Lyons said in a July 3, 1991 interview with Bill Moyers for Public Affairs Television, "We can't afford, now, to have these national borders. We can't afford to have racism. We can't afford apartheid. We cannot that we can't have anymore as human beings. We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation. And we've got to move in concert. We've got to sing the same song. We've got to have the same ceremony. We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive." More quotes from Oren Lyons. Chief Lyons has agreed to spoke at the Twenty-Fourth Annual E. F. SchumacherLectures, "Visionaries Among Us," October 23rd, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Faithkeeper Speaks
GREAT BARRINGTON, MA, Oct. 20, 2004 (E. F. Schumacher Society ) - At a time when the citizens of the United States are probing the question of what constitutes a leader, the voice of Oren Lyons, chosen by Clan Mothers as Chief of the Onondaga people, sounds a clear note of authentic leadership for his people and for our time. He is Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, tireless advocate for indigenous rights and sovereignty issues, professor, author, publisher, painter, father, and grandfather. Chief Oren Lyons said in a July 3, 1991 interview with Bill Moyers for Public Affairs Television, "We can't afford, now, to have these national borders. We can't afford to have racism. We can't afford apartheid. We cannot that we can't have anymore as human beings. We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation. And we've got to move in concert. We've got to sing the same song. We've got to have the same ceremony. We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive." More quotes from Oren Lyons. Chief Lyons has agreed to spoke at the Twenty-Fourth Annual E. F. SchumacherLectures, "Visionaries Among Us," October 23rd, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Travel / Environment / Costa Rica - January 22 to February 2, 2005
Transformational Costa Rica
ELIST, Oct. 27, 2004 (Earth Rainbow Network & CIP ) - A Soul Journey in the Heart of the Americas. Spiritual Ecology and Honoring the Divine within all life. Experience nature, volcanoes, rain forests, waterfalls, dolphins, yoga and learn about new archeological discoveries. Call Joy Travel 1 800 569-5010, email anda-joy@ixpres.com and visit http://www.joytravelonline.com. Or if you prefer, try this Gordon’s Guide link to ecotourism holidays around the world: http://www.gordonsguide.com/ecotourism/ecotourism.cfm .
Transformational Costa Rica
ELIST, Oct. 27, 2004 (Earth Rainbow Network & CIP ) - A Soul Journey in the Heart of the Americas. Spiritual Ecology and Honoring the Divine within all life. Experience nature, volcanoes, rain forests, waterfalls, dolphins, yoga and learn about new archeological discoveries. Call Joy Travel 1 800 569-5010, email anda-joy@ixpres.com and visit http://www.joytravelonline.com. Or if you prefer, try this Gordon’s Guide link to ecotourism holidays around the world: http://www.gordonsguide.com/ecotourism/ecotourism.cfm .
