The Teacher´s Guide_Introduction_Worldview_DimensionGaia Education
The Teacher´s Guide-Design for Sustainability is a practical manual for sustainability teachers, ecovillage and community design educators and facilitators who are conducting courses on the broad sustainability agenda.
In this 333 page-manual you will find a comprehensive guide packed with innovative materials, methodological approaches and tools that have been developed and tested by sustainable communities and transition settings worldwide.
It covers all aspects of the transition of sustainable human settlements arranged into four distinct areas: the Social, Ecological, Worldview and Economic dimensions of sustainability. Some of the key topics covered in this guide include: creating community & embracing diversity, decisions that everyone can support, circular leadership from power over to power with, shifting the global economy, plugging the leaks of your local economy, local currencies, appropriate use of natural resources, urban agriculture and food resilience, transformation of consciousness.
Community-Building for Organizations Managing Change Using New Media
Guest lecture presented by Prof. Dean Kruckeberg, University of North Carolina at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, 15th May 2014
The Teacher´s Guide_Introduction_Worldview_DimensionGaia Education
The Teacher´s Guide-Design for Sustainability is a practical manual for sustainability teachers, ecovillage and community design educators and facilitators who are conducting courses on the broad sustainability agenda.
In this 333 page-manual you will find a comprehensive guide packed with innovative materials, methodological approaches and tools that have been developed and tested by sustainable communities and transition settings worldwide.
It covers all aspects of the transition of sustainable human settlements arranged into four distinct areas: the Social, Ecological, Worldview and Economic dimensions of sustainability. Some of the key topics covered in this guide include: creating community & embracing diversity, decisions that everyone can support, circular leadership from power over to power with, shifting the global economy, plugging the leaks of your local economy, local currencies, appropriate use of natural resources, urban agriculture and food resilience, transformation of consciousness.
Community-Building for Organizations Managing Change Using New Media
Guest lecture presented by Prof. Dean Kruckeberg, University of North Carolina at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, 15th May 2014
Presented at the March 26, 2015 SEPS-GC meeting at CCSU. The focus is on the nature-based forms of discrimination that form social discriminations and lead us to issues of unsustainability. This is a modified presentation from my NAME presentation in November 2014.
The Neoliberal Colonization on Nature and Our Deep Ecological Selves
Presented at the National Association of Multicultural Educators Annual Conference in November 2014 in Tucson, AZ.
Innagural presentation for Transition Milwaukee. The transition movement is an international grassroots framework for creating local resilience and self-reliance in the face of peak oil and climate change.
Development, Environment and Sustainabilty–the triumvirate on Geographical FrameProf Ashis Sarkar
Development, Environment and Sustainability form the triumvirate of present day World. If human is to survive and development is to remain sustainable, the geographical issues and concerns should be the thrust of analysis.
This is a summary document for a training program we are creating at Rancho Margot in northern Costa Rica -- as part of a global effort to birth "bioregional learning centers" for the spread of regenerative practices.
Degrowing urban japan: From vacant lots to biocultural cityscapesChristoph Rupprecht
Japan frequently features as a prime example of (involuntary) degrowth. With severe depopulation of about 15% projected for the next 25 years, degrowth seems inevitable rather than utopian, frantic attempts by the Japanese government to boost growth notwithstanding. This trend is strongest in rural areas, but large cities such as Osaka, Kyoto or Sapporo are also expected to shrink by more than 10%. Yet in transitioning to sustainable, non-growth-based lifestyles, rural and coastal Japanese communities are reviving traditional models of landscape stewardship (satoyama and satoumi) that have no urban counterparts.
In this paper, I attempt to envision how such a counterpart for Japanese cities could look like. For this purpose, I draw upon characteristics of the traditional rural models such as biocultural diversity to combine them with key degrowth concepts and recent advances in urban green infrastructure. In particular, I examine what role the vacant lots and other informal green spaces of shrinking cities might play in realizing what Peter Matanle has termed the ‘depopulation dividend’. The aim is an urban landscape stewardship model (satomachi, derived from the Japanese characters for “arable land, home land” and “town, suburb”) that supports both human and non-human livelihood with a high quality of life as well as a functional, diverse ecosystem.
This path breaking model was the first that showed the interrelationship between different growing systems of the world, and how in the process of achieving infinite growth, finite natural resources would be depleted forming a Limit to Growth. Increasing pollution and loss of agricultural land would also affect growth and welfare.
Presented at the March 26, 2015 SEPS-GC meeting at CCSU. The focus is on the nature-based forms of discrimination that form social discriminations and lead us to issues of unsustainability. This is a modified presentation from my NAME presentation in November 2014.
The Neoliberal Colonization on Nature and Our Deep Ecological Selves
Presented at the National Association of Multicultural Educators Annual Conference in November 2014 in Tucson, AZ.
Innagural presentation for Transition Milwaukee. The transition movement is an international grassroots framework for creating local resilience and self-reliance in the face of peak oil and climate change.
Development, Environment and Sustainabilty–the triumvirate on Geographical FrameProf Ashis Sarkar
Development, Environment and Sustainability form the triumvirate of present day World. If human is to survive and development is to remain sustainable, the geographical issues and concerns should be the thrust of analysis.
This is a summary document for a training program we are creating at Rancho Margot in northern Costa Rica -- as part of a global effort to birth "bioregional learning centers" for the spread of regenerative practices.
Degrowing urban japan: From vacant lots to biocultural cityscapesChristoph Rupprecht
Japan frequently features as a prime example of (involuntary) degrowth. With severe depopulation of about 15% projected for the next 25 years, degrowth seems inevitable rather than utopian, frantic attempts by the Japanese government to boost growth notwithstanding. This trend is strongest in rural areas, but large cities such as Osaka, Kyoto or Sapporo are also expected to shrink by more than 10%. Yet in transitioning to sustainable, non-growth-based lifestyles, rural and coastal Japanese communities are reviving traditional models of landscape stewardship (satoyama and satoumi) that have no urban counterparts.
In this paper, I attempt to envision how such a counterpart for Japanese cities could look like. For this purpose, I draw upon characteristics of the traditional rural models such as biocultural diversity to combine them with key degrowth concepts and recent advances in urban green infrastructure. In particular, I examine what role the vacant lots and other informal green spaces of shrinking cities might play in realizing what Peter Matanle has termed the ‘depopulation dividend’. The aim is an urban landscape stewardship model (satomachi, derived from the Japanese characters for “arable land, home land” and “town, suburb”) that supports both human and non-human livelihood with a high quality of life as well as a functional, diverse ecosystem.
This path breaking model was the first that showed the interrelationship between different growing systems of the world, and how in the process of achieving infinite growth, finite natural resources would be depleted forming a Limit to Growth. Increasing pollution and loss of agricultural land would also affect growth and welfare.
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Humans and the environmentLECTURE 1Environment and P.docxsheronlewthwaite
Humans and the
environment
LECTURE 1
Environment and Policy
Dr Aideen Foley [email protected]
Objective
Explore environmental policy with
an emphasis on the actors and
values that shape it.
Key content
Environmental and social principles
relating to policy-making
Regulatory, market-based and non-
legislative policy tools.
Environmental policy challenges,
successes and failures
Module
overview
1. Humans and the environment
2. Environmental principles
3. Social principles in
environmental policy-making
4. Environmental governance and
participation
5. Fundamentals of sustainability
6. Environmental regulation
7. Environmental issues as market
problems
8. Environment and business
responsibility
9. Climate change policy
10. Climate change ethics
Module
overview
Assessment
2 x 3500 word learning journals.
1 question to consider each week.
Critical thinking is key.
1-5 due by 6pm, November 12th
6-10 due by 6pm, January 14th
Assignment clinics:
Lectures 5 and 10.
Humans and the Environment
How do people ‘value’ the environment?
How do people perceive environmental risk?
Key concepts
▪ Environmental worldviews
▪ Cultural Theory of risk
▪ Political economy of risk
Why does this matter?
If we consider misplaced values and
perceptions as one cause of
environmental problems, we need to
understand theoretical frameworks that
attempt to explain peoples’
relationships with the environment in
order to respond to that.
1. Environmental worldviews
Environmental values, like all psychological and social constructs,
are found ‘within’ human individuals, institutions and societies,
and find expression and representation across all human
activities, relationships, and cultural products.
Reser, J.P. and Bentrupperbäumer, J.M., 2005. What and where are environmental values? Assessing the
impacts of current diversity of use of ‘environmental’and ‘World Heritage’values. Journal of Environmental
Psychology, 25(2), pp.125-146.
Ecocentric
The person is not above or
outside of nature. E.g. Deep
ecology, eco-feminism.
Biocentric
Does not distinguish
between humans and other
life on Earth.
Environmental worldviews
Commonly shared beliefs that give groups of people a sense
of how humans should interact with the environment.
Anthropocentric
Humans should manage
Earth's resources for our
own benefit. E.g. Planetary
management, stewardship,
‘no-problem’.
“…sowing and planting of trees had to
be regarded as a national duty of
every landowner, in order to stop the
destructive over-exploitation of
natural resources…”
John Evelyn (1662), English writer, gardener and diarist
Planetary management
“It is a well-provisioned ship, this on which we
sail through space. If the bread and beef above
decks seem to grow scarce, we but open a
hatch and there is a new supply, of which
before we never dreamed. And very great
command over the services of other ...
The Needs of Our Age: Chinese and Baha'i Viewpoints Joe Carter
This presentation explores and compares the Chinese and Baha'i viewpoints on the needs of our age: in particular the need to enlarge our consciousness and our allegiance to include the whole planet; and the need to build a global community that is both materially and spiritually advanced, and that draws on all of our collective heritage.
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Billion Dollar Proposal for Applied Cultural EvolutionJoe Brewer
Let me begin by acknowledging those who came before me. The runner-up for a 1 billion euro grant from the European Union nearly a decade ago was FuturICT with their vision for modeling complex social systems to avoid (or manage) future economic collapses. So I am not the first person to propose that a massive effort is needed to (a) integrate the social sciences; and (b) do so with motivation to apply what is learned to address extremely difficult problems in the world. With that said, let me now offer my billion dollar proposal that follows in FuturICT’s footsteps. At the time they were competing for substantial funding, I was working with the International Centre for Earth Simulation to build its billion dollar (over a decade) vision for a high-performance computing facility that models the entire Earth in its full complexity. It is from these projects that I draw inspiration for this essay.
Also, a fact that should cause you to sit up straight. The annual budget for CERN (the high-energy particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland) was roughly 1.2 billion dollars in 2017. So what I am calling for here is what the European Union spends every single year on the search for fundamental particles for all of humanity to instead address the global ecological crisis and safeguard the future of our species.
Think about this for a moment before you continue reading this essay. It really should cause you to pause and reflect about our current priorities as human beings.
What I propose now is a framework for guiding humanity through the sustainability bottleneck as we navigate the planetary-scale systemic collapse outlined in the previous two essays in this series. If you want to hear me talk through this proposal in a recorded talk, I invite you to watch the 90 minute video on YouTube for a version that I presented to the cognitive science department at the University of California, Merced earlier this year. This essay will go into more detail about the vision I’ve been cultivating for a global network of culture design labs that—as argued in previous essays—I no longer believe is possible to build in the world.
Global warming / Climate change / Political deceit and mass mental manipulationRobert Powell
History of Global Warming and the Oregon Global Warming Commission Scandal. Global Warming Commission has slowed business, placed artificial, unattainable goals in place while ignoring the people of the state in many other ways. This is Corporatism in play. Flow of leftist gutting of traditional education for Sustainable education.
This slideshow explores the prevailing ethics and value systems that have shaped culture and guided human behavior. It looks at philosophical as well as religious & spiritual systems, and discusses today's dominant, neoliberal point of view about the nature of the world and its resources.
The Converging Economic and Environmental Crises - A Pep Talk for those Payin...theoildrum.com
The slides of my latest speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hNi-7EjsH4#t=3580
were a bit washed out. I upload them here if anyone wanted to see clearer details.
What is opposite from fear? What is opposite from polarity? What brain is the polarity vehicle? What brain is unity vehicle? How to balance polarity? Why is it that every solution that the Western world has tried to come up with to help poverty has not worked? What is the current situation regarding wealth in our world? What can be done to create more wealth, well being for those people on the planet who live in scarcity?
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The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
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Exploring the Mindfulness Understanding Its Benefits.pptxMartaLoveguard
Slide 1: Title: Exploring the Mindfulness: Understanding Its Benefits
Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
Mindfulness, defined as the conscious, non-judgmental observation of the present moment, has deep roots in Buddhist meditation practice but has gained significant popularity in the Western world in recent years. In today's society, filled with distractions and constant stimuli, mindfulness offers a valuable tool for regaining inner peace and reconnecting with our true selves. By cultivating mindfulness, we can develop a heightened awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surroundings, leading to a greater sense of clarity and presence in our daily lives.
Slide 3: Benefits of Mindfulness for Mental Well-being
Practicing mindfulness can help reduce stress and anxiety levels, improving overall quality of life.
Mindfulness increases awareness of our emotions and teaches us to manage them better, leading to improved mood.
Regular mindfulness practice can improve our ability to concentrate and focus our attention on the present moment.
Slide 4: Benefits of Mindfulness for Physical Health
Research has shown that practicing mindfulness can contribute to lowering blood pressure, which is beneficial for heart health.
Regular meditation and mindfulness practice can strengthen the immune system, aiding the body in fighting infections.
Mindfulness may help reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity by reducing stress and improving overall lifestyle habits.
Slide 5: Impact of Mindfulness on Relationships
Mindfulness can help us better understand others and improve communication, leading to healthier relationships.
By focusing on the present moment and being fully attentive, mindfulness helps build stronger and more authentic connections with others.
Mindfulness teaches us how to be present for others in difficult times, leading to increased compassion and understanding.
Slide 6: Mindfulness Techniques and Practices
Focusing on the breath and mindful breathing can be a simple way to enter a state of mindfulness.
Body scan meditation involves focusing on different parts of the body, paying attention to any sensations and feelings.
Practicing mindful walking and eating involves consciously focusing on each step or bite, with full attention to sensory experiences.
Slide 7: Incorporating Mindfulness into Daily Life
You can practice mindfulness in everyday activities such as washing dishes or taking a walk in the park.
Adding mindfulness practice to daily routines can help increase awareness and presence.
Mindfulness helps us become more aware of our needs and better manage our time, leading to balance and harmony in life.
Slide 8: Summary: Embracing Mindfulness for Full Living
Mindfulness can bring numerous benefits for physical and mental health.
Regular mindfulness practice can help achieve a fuller and more satisfying life.
Mindfulness has the power to change our perspective and way of perceiving the world, leading to deeper se
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
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Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
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What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
Peter Brown - Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy
1. Could This Be A Moment of Grace? A time to find a new, or renewed, Human-Earth Relationship?
2. Philadelphia Year Meeting July 29, 2009 A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, resilience and beauty of the commonwealth of life. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. - adapted from Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac Moral Economy Project Quaker Institute for the Future moraleconomy.org
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22. New Answers to Five Questions About the Economy Based on Right Relationship. What’s the Economy For?: A Flourishing Commonwealth of Life How Does It Work?: Putting the Economy in Its Place How Big Is Too Big?: Boundaries on Consumption and Waste What’s Fair?: Sharing Life’s Bounty How Should It Be Governed?: New Ways to Stay in Bounds and Play Fair
24. Whole Earth Economy Keynes had it right: a principle goal of the economy is social stability, but we need to broaden this to the include the well being of Earth’s ecological systems. We seek a flourishing commonwealth of life—encompassing human and natural communities. To obtain this perspective we need an ethic of respect and reciprocity such as that found in the wisdom of many indigenous cultures, and in some of the world’s major religions.
25. The economy is for maintaining a thriving commonwealth of life.
26. How does it work? It is part of the universe and subject to its laws. (Bernanke)
43. G r o w i n g E c o n o m i c S u b s y s t e m Recycled Matter R e s o u r c e s S o l a r E n e r g y W a s t e H e a t " F u l l W o r l d " E n e r g y E n e r g y R e s o u r c e s FInite Global Ecosystem Sink Functions Source Functions
45. Part Four: Four steps to a whole earth economy 1 Grounding and clarification . Going to the Fountainhead (Thoreau) Finding and nurturing inner strength and resolve. 2 Design . Models, pilots and techniques 3 Witness . Mass epiphany 4 Non-violent reform . Abolishing slavery as a leading model. Meeting with Obama, rethinking the Federal reserve.