(or at least keep working towards celebration)
http://www.countdown2010.net/biodiversity/the-2010-biodiversity-target
http://www.un.org/en/events/iyof2011/
http://onedollaraday.weebly.com/index.html
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Showing posts with label activism. Show all posts
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Monday, 13 September 2010
Stop learning and the world will pass you by.
pg 6 of A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox by Anthony Weston
I have been a great-granddaughter and I hope to be a great-grandmother. That puts me in the centre of seven full generations of ideas and practices, of the changing of the world. "Remember who you are!" as the Native decree announces and you will be aware and engaged with your world, from the clothes you wear, the soil that grew your food, the people you bump into. Seven generations. Think.
Ethics is the awakening to the complexity of the world and all its issues and the internalization of how to fit into that world. Ethics is also "a concern with the basic needs and legitimate expectations of others as well as our own." (pg 5)
I have been a great-granddaughter and I hope to be a great-grandmother. That puts me in the centre of seven full generations of ideas and practices, of the changing of the world. "Remember who you are!" as the Native decree announces and you will be aware and engaged with your world, from the clothes you wear, the soil that grew your food, the people you bump into. Seven generations. Think.
Ethics is the awakening to the complexity of the world and all its issues and the internalization of how to fit into that world. Ethics is also "a concern with the basic needs and legitimate expectations of others as well as our own." (pg 5)
Monday, 29 March 2010
YG8: World Economics
Alex Tabarrok
"One idea, one world, one market.
Larger markets save lives.
How else can we create new ideas? That's one reason. Globalize, trade. Well, more idea creators.
Globalization is increasing the demand for ideas, the incentive to create new ideas. Investments in education are increasing the supply of new ideas.
So growth can wash away even what appears to be a great depression.
So my view is be optimistic. Spread ideas. Spread the light."
Geoff Mulgan
"I've always wondered why it is that capitalism is so amazingly efficient at some things, but so inefficient at others, why it's so innovative in some ways and so uninnovative in others.
Now, since that time, we've actually been through an extraordinary boom, the longest boom ever in the history of this country. Unprecedented wealth and prosperity, but that growth hasn't always delivered what we needed. H.L. Mencken once said that, "to every complex problem, there is a simple solution and it's wrong." But I'm not saying growth is wrong, but it's very striking throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better.
Surely, just as we invest in in R and D, two, three, four percent, of our GDP, of our economy, what if we put, let's say, one percent of public spending into social innovation, into elder care, no kinds of education, new ways of helping the disabled?
Why boost our consumption, rather than change what we consume?"
Invest in the future. Experiment with society.
KI's, experienced in design practice, Paul McKone: Style to Substance
Discovery
Invention
Innovation: What we had worked, but there was a better way
Novelty: New, improved and more shiny than ever before
Design: Function: evolution, innovation, problem solving
Style: Form: trend, fashion, appearance
8 Es of Fixing things: Enjoyable, Empowering, Equitable, Environmental/Ecological, Economical, Engineering, Educational, Engaging
You can't value what you don't understand.
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Copenhagen update
“Tck Tck Tck Time for Climate Justice”
TEMA
“EL TIEMPO ES HOY”
Canción original: "Beds are burning" de Midnight Oil
Adaptación al español: Milagros Salazar y Cynthia Galicia
LEJOS EN LOS ANDES VES
TIERRA SECA POR DOQUIER
CAMPOS MUERTOS, SOL QUE QUEMA
YA NO HAY LLUVIA…HAY DESOLACIÓN
EL TIEMPO ES HOY
ES LA VERDAD
CORRE EL RELOJ
NO HAY MARCHA ATRÁS
EL TIEMPO ES HOY
DEFIENDE TU LUGAR
TOMA UNA ACCION
NO HAY MARCHA ATRAS
CÓMO DORMIR FRENTE A ESTE PROBLEMA
LAS CAMAS ARDEN, LA TIERRA QUEMA
CÓMO ENFRENTAR ESTA INDIFERENCIA
PAGA LO JUSTO Y TOMA CONCIENCIA
EL TIEMPO ES HOY
ES LA VERDAD
CORRE EL RELOJ
NO HAY MARCHA ATRÁS
BOSQUES DE LA AMAZONÍA
FLORA Y FAUNA EN AGONÍA
TODO EL AIRE RESPIRADO
A CUARENTA Y CINCO GRADOS
EL TIEMPO ES HOY
ES LA VERDAD
CORRE EL RELOJ
NO HAY MARCHA ATRÁS
EL TIEMPO ES HOY
DEFIENDE TU LUGAR
TOMA UNA ACCION
NO HAY MARCHA ATRAS
COMO DORMIR FRENTE A ESTE PROBLEMA
LAS CAMAS ARDEN, LA TIERRA QUEMA
COMO ENFRENTAR ESTA INDIFERENCIA
PAGA LO JUSTO Y TOMA CONCIENCIA
EL TIEMPO ES HOY
ES LA VERDAD
CORRE EL RELOJ
NO HAY MARCHA ATRÁS
EL TIEMPO ES HOY
DEFIENDE TU LUGAR
TOMA UNA ACCION
NO HAY MARCHA ATRÁS
imaynataq puñusun kay sasachakuypi
CÓMO DORMIR FRENTE A ESTE PROBLEMA
puñunapas rawurachkan, allpapas rupachkan
LAS CAMAS ARDEN, LA TIERRA QUEMA
Imaynataq kawaq rumi qunqu
CÓMO PUEDES SER DE CORAZÓN DURO
Allinta pagay, hinaspa yuyaymanakuy
PAGA LO JUSTO Y TOMA CONCIENCIA
Traducción al quechua: Igidio Naveda
http://eltiempoeshoy-justiciaclimatica.blogspot.com/
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