tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23656222267132699382024-03-13T20:40:50.055+00:00The Green ChangemakersCollections of Resources on Education for Sustainability and Green LivingThe Green Changemakershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16843964897973431394noreply@blogger.comBlogger2053125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-18267454789030173462024-01-15T07:41:00.008+00:002024-01-15T07:41:46.829+00:00 Becoming Global Citizens for a Sustainable Society<p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Source: <a href="https://www.gcedonlinecampus.org/_HTML/closed_course_view.php?id=36">https://www.gcedonlinecampus.org/_HTML/closed_course_view.php?id=36</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: #f7f8fa; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">This course introduces the SDGs and the notion of Global Citizenship through the series of lectures by renowned experts from all over the world, interviews with scholars, advocates and representatives from all different sectors, and case presentations by active global citizens. </div></span><p></p><p style="background-color: #f7f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Blogger-Sans.ttf", "Noto Sans KR"; font-size: 16.002px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: keep-all;"> </p><p style="background-color: #f7f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Blogger-Sans.ttf", "Noto Sans KR"; font-size: 16.002px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: keep-all;">The course aims to examine and critically reflect on the revolving issues around the globe at local, national, and international levels by providing a platform where learners can virtually meet and learn from one another.</p><p style="background-color: #f7f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Blogger-Sans.ttf", "Noto Sans KR"; font-size: 16.002px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: keep-all;"> </p><p style="background-color: #f7f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Blogger-Sans.ttf", "Noto Sans KR"; font-size: 16.002px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: keep-all;">Learners will be able to deepen their understanding of the SDGs and global citizenship, exchange and embrace different perspectives, and challenge their own assumptions.</p><p style="background-color: #f7f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Blogger-Sans.ttf", "Noto Sans KR"; font-size: 16.002px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: keep-all;"> </p><p style="background-color: #f7f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Blogger-Sans.ttf", "Noto Sans KR"; font-size: 16.002px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: keep-all;">The course invites those who see themselves as global citizens as well as who aspire to assume active roles in bringing meaningful changes to oneself and to the society they are in.</p><p style="background-color: #f7f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Blogger-Sans.ttf", "Noto Sans KR"; font-size: 16.002px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: keep-all;"> </p><table class="table table-bordered" style="background-color: #f7f8fa; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); color: #333333; font-family: "Blogger-Sans.ttf", "Noto Sans KR"; font-size: 16.002px; height: 144px; margin-bottom: 20px; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify; width: 958px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 24px;"><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 24px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 50px;">No.</td><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 24px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 371px;">Module</td><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 24px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 534px;">Units</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 106px;"><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 106px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 50px;">1</td><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 106px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 371px;">Global Citizenship and the SDGs</td><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 106px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 534px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">1) Understanding global citizenship in the context of the SDGs.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">2) Why & What is Global Citizenship?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">3) Issues Around Global Citizenship</p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 193px;"><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 193px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 50px;">2</td><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 193px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 371px;">Global Citizenship in a Challenging World</td><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 193px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 534px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">Key Challenges to Global Citizenship</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">- Poverty & Glocal Justice</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">- Consumerism & Eco Justice</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">- Peace & Preventing Violent Extremism</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">- Media Influence and Critical Literacy</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">- Globalization & Migration</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">- Gender Equality</p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 85px;"><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 85px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 50px;">3</td><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 85px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 371px;">Act to Change: Global Citizenship for Transformation</td><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 85px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 534px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">1) Highlights and Key Issues of the SDGs</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">2) Global Partnership for Achieving the SDGs</p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 44px;"><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 44px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 50px;">4</td><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 44px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 371px;">Meet the Global Citizens Around the World</td><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 44px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 534px;">Case studies of innovative movements and cases of global citizens</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 12px;"><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 12px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 50px;">5</td><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 12px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 371px;">Plan for Action: Becoming Active Global Citizens</td><td style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); box-sizing: border-box; height: 12px; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; vertical-align: middle; width: 534px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">1) How to become active global citizens</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; word-break: keep-all;">2) Advocacy tools and strategies</p></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-21415331527837737892023-10-03T23:32:00.004+00:002023-10-03T23:32:28.822+00:00The Need to GROW<p><b> Source: <a href="https://grow.foodrevolution.org/">https://grow.foodrevolution.org/</a></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguARSVLZKQWrw3XIKf1VMxTR_OSFEl-nYbawYM6JxZ6yIRdHvPOPk8oBVmiuUrNxcRvaXiabSHw4aOMjFb4BxUfRhLjkMWoAidN2S3QiYRWAG_b17kx5Gi_5MYc3GxlVkjfyQXK9v1z1b24ujVz4G1oceNoffrs4GIpRfbta3H6118f_iq0TcJurTnqwM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="881" data-original-width="875" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguARSVLZKQWrw3XIKf1VMxTR_OSFEl-nYbawYM6JxZ6yIRdHvPOPk8oBVmiuUrNxcRvaXiabSHw4aOMjFb4BxUfRhLjkMWoAidN2S3QiYRWAG_b17kx5Gi_5MYc3GxlVkjfyQXK9v1z1b24ujVz4G1oceNoffrs4GIpRfbta3H6118f_iq0TcJurTnqwM=w635-h640" width="635" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>This is a story of CUTTING-EDGE</p><p>SOLUTIONS to climate change.</p><p>With the planet on the brink of ecological disaster, with chronic disease rates skyrocketing, many are wondering...</p><p>“What can I do?”</p><p>Start by watching The Need To GROW.</p><p>An environmental film that gives the world hope.</p><p>Change happens when people know the truth.<br /><br /></p><p>THE ENVIRONMENTAL FILM THE WORLD HAS BEEN WAITING FOR</p><p>“No human being on the planet should miss this film.”</p><p>— Society of Voice Arts and Sciences</p><p><br /></p><p>“Perhaps the best film on sustainability I have ever seen.”</p><p>— Teddy Grouya, Founding Director - American Documentary Film Festival</p><p><br /></p><p>“I loved this movie...it was one of those environmental movies that gave me hope.”</p><p>— Todd James, Global News</p><p><br /></p><p>It will make you laugh, make you cry, give you chills, and inspire you to participate in the restoration of this beautiful Earth.</p><p>The Need To GROW takes you inside the hearts and innovations of three very different leaders.</p><p>An 8-year-old girl challenges the ethics of a global organization.</p><p><br /></p><p>A renegade farmer struggles to keep his land as he revolutionizes resource-efficient agriculture.</p><p>A visionary inventor faces catastrophe in the midst of developing a game-changing technology.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-16733177608669460062023-08-29T10:43:00.009+00:002023-08-29T10:43:57.520+00:00Toolkit for Youth Eco-Activism <p><b> Source: <a href="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/courses/toolkit-for-youth-eco-activism/">https://learn.ecounesco.ie/courses/toolkit-for-youth-eco-activism/</a></b></p><h3 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #93bd1a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4375rem; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Nourishing Well-Being and Catalysing Collective Action for Earth</h3><div><section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-832d09b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-element_type="section" data-id="832d09b" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-self: var(--align-self); box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); margin-bottom: 50px; margin-top: 50px; order: var(--order); position: relative;"><div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1140px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e77fb45" data-element_type="column" data-id="e77fb45" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 603.365px;"><div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated" style="align-content: flex-end; align-items: flex-end; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 603.365px;"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-3332961 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-element_type="widget" data-id="3332961" data-widget_type="heading.default" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-content: var(--align-content); align-items: var(--align-items); align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-direction: var(--flex-direction); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); flex-wrap: var(--flex-wrap); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; gap: var(--gap); justify-content: var(--justify-content); margin: 0px 0px 20px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 583.365px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background .3s,border .3s,border-radius .3s,box-shadow .3s,transform var(--e-transform-transition-duration,.4s); vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: var( --e-global-color-176ff2d ); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 2.1875rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">About this Course</h2></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-7025c02 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="7025c02" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-content: var(--align-content); align-items: var(--align-items); align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-direction: var(--flex-direction); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); flex-wrap: var(--flex-wrap); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; gap: var(--gap); justify-content: var(--justify-content); margin: 0px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 583.365px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background .3s,border .3s,border-radius .3s,box-shadow .3s,transform var(--e-transform-transition-duration,.4s); vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Go on a journey of eco-activism using our online Toolkit for Eco-Activism!</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This course follows River on her journey of self-discovery and action, building a community of like-minded people on the way, and gaining the skills and confidence to get involved in eco-activism. Whether you are an eco-activist, an educator, or a young person interested in the environment, this toolkit can have implications for your life and help you respond to social-ecological challenges.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This Toolkit is the result of the collaborative project, Youth Action for Nature and Wellbeing, which you can read more about below. In addition to this online course, the toolkit is available as a printed book and in PDF format at <a href="https://www.yafnaw.eu/" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: none !important; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-shadow: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a80ec; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-shadow: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">yafnaw.eu</a>. </p></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-010ab6a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-element_type="section" data-id="010ab6a" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; 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--flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 906.562px;"><div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated" style="align-content: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 906.562px;"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-01d2853 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-element_type="widget" data-id="01d2853" data-widget_type="heading.default" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-content: var(--align-content); align-items: var(--align-items); align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-direction: var(--flex-direction); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); flex-wrap: var(--flex-wrap); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; gap: var(--gap); justify-content: var(--justify-content); margin: 0px 0px 20px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 886.562px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background .3s,border .3s,border-radius .3s,box-shadow .3s,transform var(--e-transform-transition-duration,.4s); vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: var( --e-global-color-176ff2d ); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 2.1875rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How to Use the Toolkit</h2></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-f2f19ec elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="f2f19ec" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-content: var(--align-content); align-items: var(--align-items); align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-direction: var(--flex-direction); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); flex-wrap: var(--flex-wrap); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; gap: var(--gap); justify-content: var(--justify-content); margin: 0px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 886.562px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background .3s,border .3s,border-radius .3s,box-shadow .3s,transform var(--e-transform-transition-duration,.4s); vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This course has been designed by young people for young people, aged 16 to 25. The toolkit can be used independently by the youth. It is primarily intended for individuals who wish to establish a collective group of local youth eco-activists. However, if you already have a group to collaborate with, that is fantastic.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are two ways to use the toolkit, depending on your needs and interests as an eco-activist. One way is is to follow the toolkit linearly through the 6 Phases of Activism, or alternatively you can follow the Learning Icons, as illustrated below.</p></div></div></div></div></div></section><section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-146c59b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-element_type="section" data-id="146c59b" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-self: var(--align-self); box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; order: var(--order); position: relative;"><div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1140px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3821bbd" data-element_type="column" data-id="3821bbd" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 906.562px;"><div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated" style="align-content: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 906.562px;"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-0028b71 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-element_type="widget" data-id="0028b71" data-widget_type="heading.default" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-content: var(--align-content); align-items: var(--align-items); align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-direction: var(--flex-direction); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); flex-wrap: var(--flex-wrap); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; gap: var(--gap); justify-content: var(--justify-content); margin: 0px 0px 20px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 886.562px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background .3s,border .3s,border-radius .3s,box-shadow .3s,transform var(--e-transform-transition-duration,.4s); vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: var( --e-global-color-3e6a64b ); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4375rem; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 6 Phases of the Toolkit</h3></div></div><section class="elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-580436a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-element_type="section" data-id="580436a" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-self: var(--align-self); box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); order: var(--order); position: relative; width: 886.562px;"><div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1140px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-4357dd9" data-element_type="column" data-id="4357dd9" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 443.281px;"><div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated" style="align-content: center; align-items: center; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 443.281px;"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-f965e3d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="f965e3d" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-content: var(--align-content); align-items: var(--align-items); align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-direction: var(--flex-direction); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); flex-wrap: var(--flex-wrap); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; gap: var(--gap); justify-content: var(--justify-content); margin: 0px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 423.281px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background .3s,border .3s,border-radius .3s,box-shadow .3s,transform var(--e-transform-transition-duration,.4s); vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The toolkit can be read linearly, from start to finish through 6 Phases of Activism. Along the way, you and River, the main character of the toolkit, will encounter a variety of animals that will present tools and activities for eco-activists to try, getting creative and using nature as a canvas. If you are new to eco-activism, we recommend you work through the 6 phases one after the other. </p></div></div></div></div><div class="elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-caeef97" data-element_type="column" data-id="caeef97" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 443.281px;"><div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated" style="align-content: center; align-items: center; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 443.281px;"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-ec8e39c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image" data-element_type="widget" data-id="ec8e39c" data-widget_type="image.default" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-content: var(--align-content); align-items: var(--align-items); align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-direction: var(--flex-direction); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); flex-wrap: var(--flex-wrap); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; gap: var(--gap); justify-content: var(--justify-content); margin: 0px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 423.281px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background .3s,border .3s,border-radius .3s,box-shadow .3s,transform var(--e-transform-transition-duration,.4s); vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-image-40329 entered lazyloaded" data-lazy-sizes="(max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-1014x1024.png" data-lazy-srcset="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-1014x1024.png 1014w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-297x300.png 297w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-150x150.png 150w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-768x775.png 768w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-1521x1536.png 1521w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-2028x2048.png 2028w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-600x606.png 600w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-100x100.png 100w" data-ll-status="loaded" decoding="async" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px" src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-1014x1024.png" srcset="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-1014x1024.png 1014w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-297x300.png 297w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-150x150.png 150w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-768x775.png 768w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-1521x1536.png 1521w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-2028x2048.png 2028w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-600x606.png 600w, https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1.-How-To-Use-1-1-100x100.png 100w" style="border-radius: 0px; 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margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 0px; order: var(--order); position: relative;"><div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1140px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f9fc840" data-element_type="column" data-id="f9fc840" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 906.562px;"><div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated e-swiper-container" style="align-content: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - (var(--e-column-margin-left, 0px) + var(--e-column-margin-right, 0px)));"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-f2ff82b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading" data-element_type="widget" data-id="f2ff82b" data-widget_type="heading.default" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-content: var(--align-content); align-items: var(--align-items); align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-direction: var(--flex-direction); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); flex-wrap: var(--flex-wrap); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; gap: var(--gap); justify-content: var(--justify-content); margin: 0px 0px 20px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 886.562px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background .3s,border .3s,border-radius .3s,box-shadow .3s,transform var(--e-transform-transition-duration,.4s); vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: var( --e-global-color-3e6a64b ); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4375rem; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 7 Learning Ions</h3></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-ea2399c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="widget" data-id="ea2399c" data-widget_type="text-editor.default" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-content: var(--align-content); align-items: var(--align-items); align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-direction: var(--flex-direction); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); flex-wrap: var(--flex-wrap); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; gap: var(--gap); justify-content: var(--justify-content); margin: 0px 0px 20px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 886.562px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background .3s,border .3s,border-radius .3s,box-shadow .3s,transform var(--e-transform-transition-duration,.4s); vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another possibility is to navigate your way through the toolkit using the 7 learning icons, following your interests or needs at the time. If you are already engaged with eco-activism, you may find it more helpful to focus on what is needed at the moment or skip certain phases of your journey.</p></div></div><div aria-label="Carousel | Horizontal scrolling: Arrow Left & Right" aria-roledescription="carousel" class="elementor-element elementor-element-4d46b48 elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel e-widget-swiper" data-element_type="widget" data-id="4d46b48" data-settings="{"pause_on_hover":"no","autoplay_speed":3000,"navigation":"both","autoplay":"yes","pause_on_interaction":"yes","infinite":"yes","speed":500}" data-widget_type="image-carousel.default" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --swiper-navigation-size: 44px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-horizontal-gap: 6px; --swiper-pagination-bullet-size: 6px; --swiper-theme-color: #000; align-content: var(--align-content); align-items: var(--align-items); align-self: var(--align-self); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-direction: var(--flex-direction); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); flex-wrap: var(--flex-wrap); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; gap: var(--gap); justify-content: var(--justify-content); margin: 0px; order: var(--order); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 886.562px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background .3s,border .3s,border-radius .3s,box-shadow .3s,transform var(--e-transform-transition-duration,.4s); vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="elementor-image-carousel-wrapper swiper-container swiper-container-initialized swiper-container-horizontal" dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 30px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><div aria-live="off" class="elementor-image-carousel swiper-wrapper" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; transform: translate3d(-2365.33px, 0px, 0px); transition-duration: 0ms; transition-property: transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 886.562px; z-index: 1;"><div aria-hidden="true" aria-label="5 of 7" aria-roledescription="slide" class="swiper-slide swiper-slide-duplicate swiper-slide-duplicate-prev" data-swiper-slide-index="4" inert="" role="group" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: border, background, transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 295.667px; will-change: transform;"><figure class="swiper-slide-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Systems Thinking" class="swiper-slide-image" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-1-1-150x150.png" decoding="async" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><figcaption class="elementor-image-carousel-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Systems Thinking</figcaption></figure></div><div aria-hidden="true" aria-label="6 of 7" aria-roledescription="slide" class="swiper-slide swiper-slide-duplicate swiper-slide-duplicate-active" data-swiper-slide-index="5" inert="" role="group" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: border, background, transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 295.667px; will-change: transform;"><figure class="swiper-slide-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Transformative Learning" class="swiper-slide-image" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-5-1-150x150.png" decoding="async" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><figcaption class="elementor-image-carousel-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Transformative Learning</figcaption></figure></div><div aria-hidden="true" aria-label="7 of 7" aria-roledescription="slide" class="swiper-slide swiper-slide-duplicate swiper-slide-duplicate-next" data-swiper-slide-index="6" inert="" role="group" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: border, background, transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 295.667px; will-change: transform;"><figure class="swiper-slide-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Peer Education" class="swiper-slide-image" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-2-1-150x150.png" decoding="async" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><figcaption class="elementor-image-carousel-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Peer Education</figcaption></figure></div><div aria-hidden="true" aria-label="1 of 7" aria-roledescription="slide" class="swiper-slide" data-swiper-slide-index="0" inert="" role="group" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: border, background, transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 295.667px; will-change: transform;"><figure class="swiper-slide-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Well-being" class="swiper-slide-image" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-4-1-150x150.png" decoding="async" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%200%200'%3E%3C/svg%3E" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><figcaption class="elementor-image-carousel-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Well-being</figcaption></figure></div><div aria-hidden="true" aria-label="2 of 7" aria-roledescription="slide" class="swiper-slide" data-swiper-slide-index="1" inert="" role="group" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: border, background, transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 295.667px; will-change: transform;"><figure class="swiper-slide-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Nature Based" class="swiper-slide-image entered lazyloaded" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-3-1-150x150.png" data-ll-status="loaded" decoding="async" src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-3-1-150x150.png" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><figcaption class="elementor-image-carousel-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nature Based</figcaption></figure></div><div aria-hidden="true" aria-label="3 of 7" aria-roledescription="slide" class="swiper-slide" data-swiper-slide-index="2" inert="" role="group" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: border, background, transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 295.667px; will-change: transform;"><figure class="swiper-slide-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Civic Engagement" class="swiper-slide-image entered lazyloaded" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-6-1-150x150.png" data-ll-status="loaded" decoding="async" src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-6-1-150x150.png" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><figcaption class="elementor-image-carousel-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Civic Engagement</figcaption></figure></div><div aria-hidden="true" aria-label="4 of 7" aria-roledescription="slide" class="swiper-slide" data-swiper-slide-index="3" inert="" role="group" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: border, background, transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 295.667px; will-change: transform;"><figure class="swiper-slide-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Community Learning" class="swiper-slide-image entered lazyloaded" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-7-1-150x150.png" data-ll-status="loaded" decoding="async" src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-7-1-150x150.png" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><figcaption class="elementor-image-carousel-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Community Learning</figcaption></figure></div><div aria-hidden="true" aria-label="5 of 7" aria-roledescription="slide" class="swiper-slide swiper-slide-prev" data-swiper-slide-index="4" inert="" role="group" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: border, background, transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 295.667px; will-change: transform;"><figure class="swiper-slide-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Systems Thinking" class="swiper-slide-image entered lazyloaded" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-1-1-150x150.png" data-ll-status="loaded" decoding="async" src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-1-1-150x150.png" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><figcaption class="elementor-image-carousel-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Systems Thinking</figcaption></figure></div><div aria-label="6 of 7" aria-roledescription="slide" class="swiper-slide swiper-slide-active" data-swiper-slide-index="5" role="group" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: border, background, transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 295.667px; will-change: transform;"><figure class="swiper-slide-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Transformative Learning" class="swiper-slide-image entered lazyloaded" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-5-1-150x150.png" data-ll-status="loaded" decoding="async" src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-5-1-150x150.png" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><figcaption class="elementor-image-carousel-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Transformative Learning</figcaption></figure></div><div aria-label="7 of 7" aria-roledescription="slide" class="swiper-slide swiper-slide-next" data-swiper-slide-index="6" role="group" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: border, background, transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 295.667px; will-change: transform;"><figure class="swiper-slide-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Peer Education" class="swiper-slide-image entered lazyloaded" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-2-1-150x150.png" data-ll-status="loaded" decoding="async" src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-2-1-150x150.png" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><figcaption class="elementor-image-carousel-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Peer Education</figcaption></figure></div><div aria-label="1 of 7" aria-roledescription="slide" class="swiper-slide swiper-slide-duplicate" data-swiper-slide-index="0" role="group" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: border, background, transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 295.667px; will-change: transform;"><figure class="swiper-slide-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Well-being" class="swiper-slide-image entered lazyloaded" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-4-1-150x150.png" data-ll-status="loaded" decoding="async" src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-4-1-150x150.png" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><figcaption class="elementor-image-carousel-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Well-being</figcaption></figure></div><div aria-hidden="true" aria-label="2 of 7" aria-roledescription="slide" class="swiper-slide swiper-slide-duplicate" data-swiper-slide-index="1" inert="" role="group" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: border, background, transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 295.667px; will-change: transform;"><figure class="swiper-slide-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Nature Based" class="swiper-slide-image entered lazyloaded" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-3-1-150x150.png" data-ll-status="loaded" decoding="async" src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-3-1-150x150.png" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><figcaption class="elementor-image-carousel-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nature Based</figcaption></figure></div><div aria-hidden="true" aria-label="3 of 7" aria-roledescription="slide" class="swiper-slide swiper-slide-duplicate" data-swiper-slide-index="2" inert="" role="group" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 179.708px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition-duration: 0.5s; transition-property: border, background, transform; vertical-align: baseline; width: 295.667px; will-change: transform;"><figure class="swiper-slide-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px;"><img alt="Civic Engagement" class="swiper-slide-image entered lazyloaded" data-lazy-src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-6-1-150x150.png" data-ll-status="loaded" decoding="async" src="https://learn.ecounesco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Learning-icon-6-1-150x150.png" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><figcaption class="elementor-image-carousel-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Civic Engagement</figcaption></figure></div></div><div aria-label="Previous slide" class="elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-prev" role="button" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(238, 238, 238, 0.9); cursor: pointer; display: inline-flex; font-size: 25px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; left: 10px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: calc(50% - 15px); transform: translateY(-50%); vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" tabindex="0"><span aria-hidden="true" class="eicon-chevron-left" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: eicons; font-size: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span></div><div aria-label="Next slide" class="elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-next" role="button" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(238, 238, 238, 0.9); cursor: pointer; display: inline-flex; font-size: 25px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; 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Provide space for organizations and members to share their opportunities and offerings. </p><p>ENLIVEN</p><p>Document and share stories of peace leadership in action to inspire local and global practice. </p><p>Promote the understanding & practice of peace leadership globally</p><p>We believe we all have the ability to be peace leaders in the work that we do, in the communities we are engaged in, and in systems large and small.</p><p>The Peace Leadership Collaborative holds space to explore peace leadership as a way of living that opens possibilities for peace to root and grow within ourselves, our relationships, our community, and our world.</p><p>A global hub for the theory, practice, & collective wisdom of peace leadership worldwide</p><p>The Collaborative is a space of belonging for peace leaders from all identities and contexts to learn about and from peace leadership communities around the globe, and collaboratively work together to effect just change in our relationships, communities, and societies at a global scale.</p><p>Embracing a generative relationship between theoretical perspectives and grounded work in communities</p><p>The Collaborative provides opportunities for peace leaders to learn skills, gain knowledge, and share stories to support what they need to be ready to engage in and lead peace; and offers researchers opportunities to learn from peace leaders in active community leadership about what is working to cultivate and sustain more peaceful communities and systems. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-7775038014813431122023-07-27T15:38:00.003+00:002023-07-27T15:38:28.645+00:00Holomovement and Our Moment of Choice<p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b> Link: <a href="https://www.holomovement.net/">https://www.holomovement.net/</a></b></li><li><a href="https://www.ourmomentofchoice.com/"><b>https://www.ourmomentofchoice.com/</b></a></li></ul><p></p><div class="fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-5f2601a280826" data-node="5f2601a280826" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #052e64; font-family: Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; width: 550px;"><div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 20px -10px;"><div class="fl-rich-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 48px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 20px 0px 10px; text-align: center;">Our Moment of Choice:</h1></div></div></div><div><div class="fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-5f2601a280bc0" data-node="5f2601a280bc0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #052e64; font-family: Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; width: 550px;"><div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -15px 20px 0px;"><div class="fl-rich-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0071bf; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;">EVOLUTIONARY VISIONS AND<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />HOPE FOR THE FUTURE</h3></div></div></div><div class="fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-5f2601a280b50" data-node="5f2601a280b50" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #052e64; font-family: Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; width: 550px;"><div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px;"><div class="fl-rich-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Our moment of choice is at hand. There has never been a more urgent moment for humanity to come together in synergy and collectively choose to hold the greatest vision of what we can be and do together, to lead with our hearts and co-create new possibilities that will offer us hope for our future.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">This uplifting and timely book is a call to action, offering evolutionary visions, resources and practical steps to help us navigate this moment of choice and amplify the movement for global transformation, upon which our future depends.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">"Our Moment of Choice” is a proud winner of the 2020 Gold Nautilus Award in the category of Rising to the Moment 2020, the 2021 New York Book Festival in the category of Compilations/Anthologies, a 2021 COVR Silver Visionary Award, and a Gold Living Now Book Award in the category of Social Activism/Charity.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnYDSbNRroh4-L9CuVMOf4jiWa-yDXASE3xxUxVlvsyYFts7X1_YymFYVA1X82NiYqcwgZGYitHuzu-nt3cVf7sZA5_G1eUtDaLgAfE4NPldXF-lJMuS4xSeR_hSqu3CMdX3xVUhXxw3DToZ3FleU8OlG0YGHns01LFXPuE0lwQ1qqBOohMbRwbZoejyU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="521" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnYDSbNRroh4-L9CuVMOf4jiWa-yDXASE3xxUxVlvsyYFts7X1_YymFYVA1X82NiYqcwgZGYitHuzu-nt3cVf7sZA5_G1eUtDaLgAfE4NPldXF-lJMuS4xSeR_hSqu3CMdX3xVUhXxw3DToZ3FleU8OlG0YGHns01LFXPuE0lwQ1qqBOohMbRwbZoejyU=w523-h640" width="523" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-36411161462886153542023-07-26T09:39:00.001+00:002023-07-26T09:39:05.229+00:00Mindfulness Education Curriculums<p><b>SEE Learning by Dalai Lama:</b></p><p><a href="https://compassion.emory.edu/_includes/documents/SEE_Learning_Docs/SEE_Companion_March.pdf">https://compassion.emory.edu/_includes/documents/SEE_Learning_Docs/SEE_Companion_March.pdf</a></p><p><b>Happy Schools by UNESCO:</b></p><p><a href="https://gcedclearinghouse.org/sites/default/files/resources/220135eng.pdf">https://gcedclearinghouse.org/sites/default/files/resources/220135eng.pdf</a></p><p><b>Kindness Curriculum by Center for Healthy Minds</b></p><p><a href="https://centerhealthyminds.org/join-the-movement/sign-up-to-receive-the-kindness-curriculum">https://centerhealthyminds.org/join-the-movement/sign-up-to-receive-the-kindness-curriculum</a></p><p><b>Kindness Curriculum by Kaplan</b></p><p><a href="https://thekindnesscurriculum.com/">https://thekindnesscurriculum.com/</a></p><p><b>Cambridge Life Competencies Framework </b></p><p><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/gb/cambridgeenglish/better-learning-insights/cambridgelifecompetenciesframework">https://www.cambridge.org/gb/cambridgeenglish/better-learning-insights/cambridgelifecompetenciesframework </a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-52776002285197546472023-07-26T02:07:00.002+00:002023-07-26T02:07:19.757+00:00Zero Waste Life - TV series<p> Meet people around Japan who strive for a life without waste under the traditional philosophy of "MOTTAINAI," which values cherishing the things we have.</p><p><b>Link to the series: <a href="https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/zerowaste/">https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/zerowaste/</a></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-1321565678892696592023-07-10T14:32:00.008+00:002023-07-10T14:32:39.395+00:00Charles Eisenstein's Books and Courses<p>Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution.</p><p>His on-line writings have generated a vast following; he speaks frequently at conferences and other events, and gives numerous interviews on radio and podcasts.</p><p>Eisenstein graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, and spent the next ten years as a Chinese-English translator. He currently lives near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with his wife and four sons.</p><p><b><a href="https://charleseisenstein.org/books/">https://charleseisenstein.org/books/</a></b></p><p><b><a href="https://sacred-economics.com/">https://sacred-economics.com/</a></b></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-75815081980416409392023-07-06T00:52:00.003+00:002023-07-06T00:52:38.409+00:00The Soil Solution to Climate Change
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<p><b>What If A Solution To Climate Change Was Beneath Your Feet? </b></p><p>Soil is a living universe beneath our feet. As important to our lives as clean air and water, soil also holds a potential solution to the global climate crisis. Increasing numbers of scientists, farmers and ranchers are implementing innovative land use practices that build fertile soil and sequester atmospheric carbon These methods of land management have the potential to provide us with nutritious food, improved human health, cleaner water, and a healthier planet for all.</p><p>World wide, most soils are depleted of carbon. The atmosphere contains an excess of carbon in the form of CO2, a climate change causing gas. What if that CO2 could be removed and stored in our carbon-hungry soil through land management practices? Find out how in The Soil Solution.</p><p>The Soil Solution to Climate Change was one of thirteen films featured in A Climate of Change Tour sponsored by 350.org, TRUST campaign and Wild and Scenic Film Festival. It has screened at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Sausalito Film Festival, Awareness Festival, Davis Film Festival, Wild and Scenic Film Tour 2013 and the One Earth Film Festival. </p><p>Anything that we do to increase soil fertility could be a step in reversing climate change. </p><p>Here's what you can do:</p><p> What Goes Up Must Come Down!- Cover bare soil with plants! Fertile soil is a natural sink for atmospheric carbon; the very same carbon that contributes to climate change. Excess carbon can be pulled out of the atmosphere by photosynthesis and into plants and the soil where it can have a beneficial effect. </p><p>Support Farmers and Ranchers Who Treat The Soil Like Gold- Buy from local food producers who increase soil fertility by using climate friendly agricultural methods including no or low-till plowing, cover cropping, composting and organic farming. If you eat meat, buy grass-fed beef from ranchers who practice holistic or rotational grazing methods that mimic the natural patterns found in nature. </p><p>If You Grow Your Own Food, Grow Your Own Soil- If you grow food, take care of your soil. Increase soil fertility by avoiding the use of toxic synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides on your garden or lawn. These poisons kill microorganisms that reside in and on the soil. These organisms perform numerous ecosystem services; including providing nutrients for plants, creating soil humus and loam and increasing plant health. The soil is filled with billions of unemployed microorganisms ready and willing to take on the job of providing nutrients to plants and indirectly to you. </p><p>Increase Your Skill Set- If you feel hopeless about climate change- it’s time to take action. Learn how to grow food without increasing atmospheric CO2. Take a course in organic gardening or regenerative farming. If you work with animals, learn about the benefits of rotational grazing. Get to know your local soil microbes and the Soil Food Web.</p><p><b>SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL</b></p>
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1. Living Soil Film
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2. Dirt! The Movie (FULL)
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3. Symphony of the Soil - Deborah Koons Garcia, Thomas J. Akin, Serita D. Frey, PhD, Jim Ward
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-84858316418331805732023-06-22T06:09:00.007+00:002023-06-22T06:09:56.992+00:00World Unity Week<p> </p><h2 class="et_pb_module_header" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005997; font-family: true-north-black !important; font-size: 32px !important; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Bringing the World Together</h2><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: rgba(37, 34, 46, 0.6); font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">World UNITY Week is an innovative virtual gathering that spans over eight days in June, bringing together influential individuals from around the world who are dedicated to promoting and advancing positive change. The event serves as a platform for global changemakers to connect, celebrate, and collaborate on emerging initiatives that are making a positive impact on society. </span></span><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(37, 34, 46, 0.6); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(37, 34, 46, 0.6); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Throughout World UNITY Week, participants engage in key conversations that highlight critical topics such as collective climate action, partnerships for peace, global governance, interfaith and interracial harmony, sustainable and regenerative development, the role of business and economics, human rights, disarmament, and other essential elements required to create a new and better future.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The event attracts a diverse and intergenerational community that spans across cultures and borders, combining science and spirituality, embracing indigenous wisdom, storytelling, music, conscious activism, and much more. It is a celebration of unity and a shared purpose to create new models for the world that align with our collective vision of a better future.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(37, 34, 46, 0.6); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">World UNITY Week has featured many of the current leading lights on the planet including Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Vandana Shiva,, Marianne Williamson, Paul Hawken, Zac Bush, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Linda Tucker, Duane Elgin, Simon Moss, Micheal Beckwith, Neale Donald Walsch, Awraham Soetendorp and so many more.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(37, 34, 46, 0.6); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><ul><li><span style="color: rgba(37, 34, 46, 0.6); font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><b><a href="https://worldunityweek.org/archives/">https://worldunityweek.org/archives/</a></b></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><b><a href="https://worldunityweek.org/">https://worldunityweek.org/</a></b></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">WORLD UNITY WEEK 2023 – NEW EARTH RISING</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">17-24 June, 2023</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">World UNITY Week is an annual FREE, online 8-day event embracing the mid-year Solstice, Yoga Day, UN Refugee Day, World Peace & Prayer Day and a vast array of interconnected global content. This year World UNITY Week launches the 99 Days of Peace through Unity culminating in Peace Week in September.</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">World UNITY Week offers something for EVERYONE with a host of inspiring, engaging and interactive events, presentations and co-creative opportunities.</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">World UNITY Week is an ecosystem of multiple spaces called “Convergence Rooms” that each follow a particular theme, such as:</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Peace-Building</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Partnering with Nature</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Intentional Community Living</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Integral Cities and Eco-Regions</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Community-led Eco-centered Governance</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Trauma Healing</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Awakening Consciousness</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">….And many more!</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #000060; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><br /></span></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-12218192451514541462023-06-17T00:27:00.000+00:002023-06-17T00:27:03.160+00:00Collective Awakening: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision for Mindfulness in Public Health<p> A 13-week course covering the growth and development of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's comprehensive vision for collective awakening through a selection of his books and teachings.</p><p><b>Playlist link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm9_3psBwxqOb1MOHuyNTUHLji92Coi2R">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm9_3psBwxqOb1MOHuyNTUHLji92Coi2R</a></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Click on the image below to read the paper and download the PDF. (For the best version to read via mobile devices, click <a href="https://davidkorten.org/ecological-civilization-from-emergency-to-emergence-web-page/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Feel free to use this paper and its content in any way you believe may be useful in your work, community, and personal life to draw attention and help move us forward on the path to an Ecological Civilization.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></em> – David Korten, May 25, 2021 (Updated with minor revisions on Nov 3, 2021.)<a class="fusion-no-lightbox" href="https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Korten-EcoCiv-11032021.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-6574" decoding="async" height="766" sizes="(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px" src="https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-791x1024.jpg" srcset="https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-116x150.jpg 116w, https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-200x259.jpg 200w, https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-232x300.jpg 232w, https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-400x518.jpg 400w, https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01.jpg 2550w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;" width="593" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a href="https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Korten-EcoCiv-11032021.pdf" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Read and download the PDF…</span></a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><a href="https://davidkorten.org/ecological-civilization-from-emergency-to-emergence-web-page/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Read on mobile device… </a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://vimeo.com/663162725" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">See Fritjof Capra’s Reflections on Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence (video)</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://davidkorten.org/start-an-ecological-civilization-discussion-group/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Start an Ecological Civilization Discussion Group</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-82570054796852448972023-05-13T23:51:00.004+00:002023-05-13T23:51:30.699+00:00Voice of Trees - The story of a man who planted a forest in India<p><b>Source: <a href="http://www.bigshortfilms.com">www.bigshortfilms.com</a></b><br /><br />Many of us know about Padma Shri. Jadav 'Molai' Payeng - the forest man of India who created 1360 acres of dense green forest in Assam, single-handedly. When we got lucky to shoot a film on him, so many things were running in our mind. But when we got up close with Jadav, we were swept clean by his simplicity and noble pursuit. How he walked the way for the past 35 years to build the forest that flourishes now with Elephants, Rhinos, Tigers and more was simply stunning. Had he been doing it for his own wellness, he’d have stopped after planting a tree or more near his house. But a whole big forest in the remote district of Jorhat? It is so hard to comprehend his commitment, passion & perseverance. In a time where politics is becoming a business and the common people are becoming materialistic consumers, we are forgetting the root of our very survival - Mother nature! It is the green warriors like Jadav Payeng who remain as the light and restore faith in humanity. VOICE OF TREES is his voice, as he speaks about his journey, his love for trees, his vision and his questions on the life today. </p><p>Special thanks to Mahesh Venketaswaran who made this entire trip possible, and Anil Kumar Gade, who led us through the jungle and set everything up from scratch to finish. Watch the film and share the voice of the trees. It deserves to be heard loud and far.</p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U1jtd3MrFQM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-24590058613933400542023-03-07T09:53:00.004+00:002023-03-07T09:53:40.897+00:00New Short Film: Farm to School<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/783017308?h=7f37de2644" title="vimeo-player" width="640"></iframe>
<p><b>Source: <a href="https://www.ecoliteracy.org/video/farm-school-film" target="_blank">Center for Ecoliteracy</a></b></p><p><span style="background-color: #efebe1; color: #666666; font-family: sofia-pro, helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">The short film</span><span style="background-color: #efebe1; color: #666666; font-family: sofia-pro, helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"> </span><em style="background-color: #efebe1; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: sofia-pro, helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">Farm to School<span> </span></em><span style="background-color: #efebe1; color: #666666; font-family: sofia-pro, helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">premiered at the 2023 Watsonville Film Festival. It was co-produced with Esperanza Community Farms and directed by Inspira Studios.</span></p><div class="field field-name-body" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #efebe1; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: sofia-pro, helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">Through our<span> </span><a href="https://www.ecoliteracy.org/article/california-food-california-kids-network" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #77a83e; text-decoration: none;">California Food for California Kids®</a><span> </span>initiative, the Center for Ecoliteracy supports school districts like Pajaro Valley Unified in serving fresh, locally-grown school meals. We are grateful for the support and engagement of this community, and especially for the involvement of the committed students featured in the film.</p></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-79088129647661409132023-02-10T23:52:00.006+00:002023-02-10T23:52:47.297+00:00Ecological Civilization (David Korten)<p><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px;">Drawing on the work and insights of many colleagues and from ongoing conversations, this paper was written in an effort to connect the dots and engage a serious conversation about the causes of the existential crisis we face, while bringing a message of hope and possibility.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Click on the image below to read the paper and download the PDF. (For the best version to read via mobile devices, click <a href="https://davidkorten.org/ecological-civilization-from-emergency-to-emergence-web-page/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Feel free to use this paper and its content in any way you believe may be useful in your work, community, and personal life to draw attention and help move us forward on the path to an Ecological Civilization.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></em> – <b>David Korten, May 25, 2021 </b>(Updated with minor revisions on Nov 3, 2021.)<a class="fusion-no-lightbox" href="https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Korten-EcoCiv-11032021.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-6574" decoding="async" height="766" sizes="(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px" src="https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-791x1024.jpg" srcset="https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-116x150.jpg 116w, https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-200x259.jpg 200w, https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-232x300.jpg 232w, https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-400x518.jpg 400w, https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/EcoCivFromE2EJune2021_Page_01.jpg 2550w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;" width="593" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a href="https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Korten-EcoCiv-11032021.pdf" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Read and download the PDF…</span></a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><a href="https://davidkorten.org/ecological-civilization-from-emergency-to-emergence-web-page/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Read on mobile device… </a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://vimeo.com/663162725" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">See Fritjof Capra’s Reflections on Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence (video)</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><b> Link: <a href="https://davidkorten.org/ecological-civilization-from-emergency-to-emergence/">https://davidkorten.org/ecological-civilization-from-emergency-to-emergence/</a></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><a class="fusion-no-lightbox" data-caption="" data-title="" href="https://davidkorten.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/NEXT_SYSTEM-Living_Earth_System_Model.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b>NEXT_SYSTEM-Living_Earth_System_Model</b></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Humans are a choice making species with a common future faced with an epic choice. We can continue to seek marginal adjustments in the culture and institutions of the Imperial Civilization of violence, domination, and exploitation that put us on a path to self-extinction. Or we can transition to an Ecological Civilization dedicated to restoring the health of living Earth’s regenerative systems while securing material sufficiency and spiritual abundance for all people.</em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding-left: 40px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: teal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;">***Read David’s latest paper,</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><a href="https://davidkorten.org/ecological-civilization-from-emergency-to-emergence/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence</a></span>, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;">in which<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />he connects the dots to engage a serious conversation about the causes of the existential crisis we face,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />while bringing a message of hope and possibility.***</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">We humans now consume at a rate <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/ecological-footprint/?utm_term=.05238990bff8" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">1.7 times what Earth can sustain</a>. By January 2020, the wealth of just <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/21/world-26-richest-people-own-as-much-as-poorest-50-per-cent-oxfam-report" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">26 billionaires</a> had grown to exceed that of the poorest half of humanity–3.9 billion people. That was before the Coronavirus pandemic drove breathtaking growth of the wealth gap.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Our future turns on a simple, nearly forgotten, truth. We humans are living beings born of and nurtured by a living Earth. Our health and well-being depend on her health and well-being. As she cares for us, we must also care for her.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">This is a foundational premise of the emerging vision of the possibilities of an Ecological Civilization grounded in a New Enlightenment understanding of the beauty, wonder, meaning, and purpose of creation.</p><h2 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="36px" style="--fontsize: 24; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--h2_typography-color); font-family: var(--h2_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--h2_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--h2_typography-font-weight); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--h2_typography-margin-bottom); margin-top: var(--h2_typography-margin-top);">A Vision of Human Possibility</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Adjustments at the margins of the failed cultural and institutional system of the Imperial Era will not take us where we must now go. The system’s cultural beliefs and institutional structures must be retooled and its resources reallocated to realign the defining purpose of human society from making money to supporting every person in making a living.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Hope resides in humanity’s emerging vision of an Ecological Civilization grounded in our deepest human understanding of creation’s purpose, life’s organizing principles, and our human nature and possibility as discerned by the converging insights of indigenous wisdom keepers, the great spiritual teachers, and leading-edge scientists. Some call this emerging 21<sup style="box-sizing: border-box;">st</sup> Century intellectual frame, the New or Second Enlightenment.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Naming the future, calls us to envision it. Naming it a new <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">civilization</span> evokes a sense of epic transformation. Identifying it as <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">ecological </span>evokes a New Enlightenment understanding of life as complex, intelligent, conscious, and self-organizing.</p><h2 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="36px" style="--fontsize: 24; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--h2_typography-color); font-family: var(--h2_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--h2_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--h2_typography-font-weight); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--h2_typography-margin-bottom); margin-top: var(--h2_typography-margin-top);">Earth Charter</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The Earth Charter—the product of a broadly participatory global process begun at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit—was finalized and launched in 2000. A 2002 paper by Elizabeth Ferrero and Joe Holland suggested the Principles of the Earth Charter, be considered principles for an Ecological Civilization.</p><h2 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="36px" style="--fontsize: 24; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--h2_typography-color); font-family: var(--h2_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--h2_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--h2_typography-font-weight); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--h2_typography-margin-bottom); margin-top: var(--h2_typography-margin-top);">China</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">In 2012, <a href="http://web.unep.org/ourplanet/march-2016/articles/ecological-civilization" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">China officially adopted Ecological Civilization</a> in its Communist Party Constitution and mandated its incorporation into “all aspects of economic, political, cultural, and social progress.” China is a country of 1.3 billion people with a Communist government and the world’s 2nd largest capitalist economy. It <a href="https://monthlyreview.org/2014/11/01/the-ecological-civilization-debate-in-china/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">faces extreme environmental crises</a>. Experiencing the benefits and burdens of both capitalism and communism, its attempts to deal with its environmental crisis uniquely position it for <a href="https://davidkorten.org/living-earth-econ-for-eco-civ/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">global leadership toward a new human framework that transcends both</a>. The Guizhou Institute of Environmental Science Research and Design is working with the Global Footprint Network to develop the <a href="http://www.footprintnetwork.org/content/documents/2016_Guizhou_Report_English.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">metrics for an Ecological Civilization</a> for China.</p><h2 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="36px" style="--fontsize: 24; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--h2_typography-color); font-family: var(--h2_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--h2_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--h2_typography-font-weight); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--h2_typography-margin-bottom); margin-top: var(--h2_typography-margin-top);">Parliament of the World’s Religions</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Ecological Civilization has also been embraced by the Parliament of the World’s Religions, which in 2015 issued a consensus <a href="https://parliamentofreligions.org/civicrm/petition/sign?sid=4" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">Declaration on Climate Change</a> that concluded with these words:</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding-left: 30px;">The future we embrace will be a new ecological civilization and a world of peace, justice and sustainability, with the flourishing of the diversity of life. We will build this future as one human family within the greater Earth community.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">This statement clarifies the relationship between Earth Community and Ecological Civilization. Earth Community refers to Earth’s interdependent community of life self-organizing in concert with Earth’s geological structures and processes to create and maintain the conditions essential to the existence of all Earth life. Ecological Civilization refers to the human subsystem within the meta-system of Earth’s community of life. Coincidentally the two terms share the same acronym (EC), which can be used to refer to either or both.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">A working paper, “<a href="https://davidkorten.org/toward-an-ecological-civilization-a-path-to-justice-peace-and-care-for-earth/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Toward an Ecological Civilization: A Path to Justice, Peace, and Care for Earth</a>,” was prepared as background for a <a href="https://davidkorten.org/event/2018-parliament-of-world-religions/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">series of presentations</a> on the human step to an ecological civilizations by John Cobb, Matthew Fox, David Korten, Frances Korten, and Jeremy Lent, at the 2018 Parliament of World Religions in Toronto. Read the paper <a href="https://davidkorten.org/toward-an-ecological-civilization-a-path-to-justice-peace-and-care-for-earth/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p><h2 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="36px" style="--fontsize: 24; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--h2_typography-color); font-family: var(--h2_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--h2_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--h2_typography-font-weight); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--h2_typography-margin-bottom); margin-top: var(--h2_typography-margin-top);">Claremont Conference</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">In 2015 an international conference held at Pomona College in Claremont California on the theme <a href="http://www.theinterfaithobserver.org/journal-articles/2015/7/2/toward-an-ecological-civilization.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">Seizing an Alternative — Toward an Ecological Civilization</a> drew 1,500 leading thinkers, authors, academics, activists, theologians, philosophers, and scientists. Shortly thereafter, sponsors of the Claremont conference launched <a href="http://ecociv.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Toward Ecological Civilization</a> (EcoCiv – aka Institute for Ecological Civilization), a think and action tank dedicated to identifying “how social, political, and economic life needs to be organized if humanity is to achieve a sustainable, ecological society over the long-term.</p><h2 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="36px" style="--fontsize: 24; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--h2_typography-color); font-family: var(--h2_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--h2_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--h2_typography-font-weight); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--h2_typography-margin-bottom); margin-top: var(--h2_typography-margin-top);">Grounded in a 21st Century Enlightenment</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The Enlightenment of the 18th Century raised our human recognition and understanding of the role of physical mechanism, causality, and order in the universe and became the foundation of what academic philosophers call Modernism. It strengthened the authority of science, challenged traditional religious and political hierarchies, and unleashed dramatic advances in technology, democracy, and individual liberty.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">This opened new human possibilities, including technological advances that with time virtually eliminated geographical barriers to human communication and exchange. It supported the spread of democracy and human liberty and medical advances that significantly increased human life expectancy and unleashed a dramatic growth in our human numbers.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Concurrently, in its denial of conscious intelligence and agency, it stripped life of meaning and absolved us individually and collectively of responsibility for the consequences of our human choices. Our new abilities supported a fragmentation and monetization of human relationships and eroded our sense of connection to family, community and living Earth.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">We grew the power of our instruments of war and our ability to dominate and exploit one another and nature to support previously unprecedented levels of material extravagance by the few at the expense of the many. During the latter half of the 20th Century, our material consumption exceeded for the first time the limits of Earth’s capacity to sustain us. The institutions of democracy became subverted by global financial markets and corporations for which people and Earth were nothing more than a means to profit.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">We lived an illusion of growing prosperity for all in the midst of a reality in which fewer and fewer control and consumer more of a shrinking pie of Earth’ real wealth. The disastrous consequences now threaten to drive a massive dieback, if not the extinction, of the human species.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The rapidly deepening human crisis cannot be resolved with the same mindset and institutions that created it. Hope lies in the new understanding of the now emerging New Enlightenment. Grounded in traditional understanding, the wisdom of the world’s great spiritual traditions, and dramatic breakthroughs in the findings of quantum physics and the biological and ecological sciences, the New Enlightenment recognizes conscious intelligence as the ground of all being.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Our primary sources of knowledge and understanding are converging to affirm that there is far more to what we experience as material reality than material mechanism and chance. Consciousness, intelligence, and agency are integral and pervasive.</p><h2 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="36px" style="--fontsize: 24; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--h2_typography-color); font-family: var(--h2_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--h2_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--h2_typography-font-weight); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--h2_typography-margin-bottom); margin-top: var(--h2_typography-margin-top);">Living Earth: A Superorganism</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The wonder of organic (carbon-based) life is that every living organism, from the individual cell to living Earth, maintains itself in an internal state of active, adaptive, resilient, creative thermodynamic disequilibrium in seeming violation of the basic principle of entropy. It takes a community of organic life to create and maintain the conditions that carbon-based life requires. Earth itself exemplifies this principle.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">According to evolutionary biologists the first living organisms appeared on Earth some 3.6 billion years ago. We still have little idea how it happened. We do know, however, that as their numbers, diversity, and complexity increased, they organized themselves into a planetary-scale living system comprised of trillions of trillions of individual choice-making living organisms. Together, they worked with Earth’s geological processes to filter excess carbon and a vast variety of toxins from Earth’s air, waters, and soils and sequester them deep underground—preparing the way for the emergence of more advanced species.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">In a continuing process—and with no discernible source of central direction—Earth’s community of life continues to self-organize to renew Earth’s soils, rivers, aquifers, fisheries, forests, and grasslands while maintaining global climatic balance and the composition of Earth’s atmosphere .</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Likewise, the human body is best understood as a self-organizing community of tens of trillions of individual, living, choice-making cells that together create and maintain the superorganism that serves as the vehicle of our agency and houses our individual consciousness. Each cell is making constant decisions that simultaneously balance its own needs and those of the larger whole on which it depends and which in turn depends on it. It all happens below the level of individual human awareness.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Science has only the sketchiest idea of how it works beyond a recognition that organic life organizes not as hierarchies of central control, but as holarchies of nested, communities that self-organize from the bottom up. We humans must now learn to do the same.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">By the understanding of the New Enlightenment, we humans are living beings born of and nurtured by a living Earth, itself born of and nurtured by a living universe unfolding toward ever greater complexity, beauty, awareness, and possibility. Creation thus reveals its purpose—a quest to know itself and its possibilities through an epic journey of self-discovery thru a process of eternal learning and becoming.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">This restores a sense of the purpose and meaning of life that the 18th Century Enlightenment stripped away. And it provides an essential frame for a <a href="https://davidkorten.org/home/great-turning/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">Great Turning</a> to a <a href="https://davidkorten.org/the-new-economy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">New Economy</a> that meets the essential physical needs of all people within the regenerative capacities of a healthy, finite living Earth community of life.</p><h2 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="36px" style="--fontsize: 24; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--h2_typography-color); font-family: var(--h2_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--h2_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--h2_typography-font-weight); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--h2_typography-margin-bottom); margin-top: var(--h2_typography-margin-top);">An Epic Challenge and Opportunity</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">We humans are now a truly global species. Our common future depends on our successful transition to an Ecological Civilization that works in balanced and harmonious relationship with Earth’s living systems to provide every person with a means of living adequate to their health and happiness. Yet we remain burdened by a 5,000 year cultural and institutional legacy of an <a href="https://davidkorten.org/home/great-turning/empire/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">Imperial Era</a> that divides us by nationality, religion, class, race, and gender and pits us against one another in a violent competition for wealth and power.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The challenges of the transition are summed up in a paper by Chris Williams, “<a href="https://climateandcapitalism.com/2015/11/02/how-will-we-get-to-an-ecological-civilization/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">How will we get to an ecological civilization?</a>” Williams concludes that:</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding-left: 30px;">It will not only be a question of constructing a new society, but deconstructing the old one. It is not enough to take over and reassemble the state,…; we will need to reassemble the whole world – every single aspect of humanity’s relationship with each other and the natural world. Just like the state, an infrastructure designed to dominate nature cannot simply be appropriated and used to good ends.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding-left: 30px;">Ultimately, it is vital that fighters for social emancipation, human freedom and ecological sanity recognize that capitalism represents the annihilation of nature and a functioning and diverse biosphere and, thus, human civilization. A system based on cooperation, genuine bottom-up democracy, long-term planning and production for need, not profit,… represents the reconciliation of humanity with nature.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">To achieve this future, we must navigate a successful transition from:</p><ol style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px !important;">Transnational corporations to national governments as our primary institutions of governance,</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px !important;">Competition to cooperation as our dominant mode of relating, and</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px !important;">Growing GDP to meeting the spiritual and material needs of all within the limits of what living Earth can sustain as the economy’s defining purpose.</li></ol><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Base on the deepening understanding of the New Enlightenment, the governing institutions of an Ecological Civilization will support national and bio-regional self-reliance, the free sharing of information and technology, and balanced trade in goods for which one nation has a natural surplus and another is unable reasonably to produce for itself.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">An authentic economics for an Ecological Civilization will be grounded in the scientific understanding of how living communities of trillions of individual living organisms self-organize to create and maintains the conditions essential to life’s existence. It will measure economic performance by indicators of the healthy function of individuals, families, communities, local biosystems, and Earth’s global biosphere.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Consistent with these truths, the legal principles of an Ecological Civilization will recognize that:</p><ol style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px !important;">Individual persons possess both rights and corresponding responsibilities.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px !important;">Governments must be accountable to the people who form them.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px !important;">Corporations are created by government to fulfill a public purpose within that government’s jurisdiction and are accountable to that government for fulfilling that purpose.</li></ol><h2 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="36px" style="--fontsize: 24; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--h2_typography-color); font-family: var(--h2_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--h2_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--h2_typography-font-weight); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--h2_typography-margin-bottom); margin-top: var(--h2_typography-margin-top);">Other Resources</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Sam Geall, “<a href="https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/8018Interpretingecologicalcivilisationpartone" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Interpreting Ecological Civilisation</a>,” Part I of a three-part series.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Zhu Guangyao, “<a href="https://www.un-ilibrary.org/content/journals/15649016/2016/1/19" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Ecological Civilization: Our Planet</a>,” UNDP.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Zhang Chun, “<a href="http://thediplomat.com/2015/09/chinas-new-blueprint-for-an-ecological-civilization/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">China’s New Blueprint for an Ecological Civilization</a>,” <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Diplomat</em></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Thomas Berry, “<a href="https://ecozoictimes.com/determining-features-of-the-ecozoic-era/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">The Determining Features of the Ecozoic Era</a>,” conference handout 2004. What Berry called the Ecozoic Era was pretty much synonymous with the concept of an Ecological Civilization.</p><h2 class="fusion-responsive-typography-calculated" data-fontsize="24" data-lineheight="36px" style="--fontsize: 24; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--h2_typography-color); font-family: var(--h2_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--h2_typography-font-size); font-weight: var(--h2_typography-font-weight); line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: var(--h2_typography-margin-bottom); margin-top: var(--h2_typography-margin-top);">Three Overview Presentations</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">David Korten, “<a href="https://davidkorten.org/birthing-an-ecological-civilization/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">Birthing an Ecological Civilization: Overview</a>.” This is a short-overview introduction to the human transition to an Ecological Civilization written for a general readership.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">David Korten, “A Living Earth Economy for an Ecological Civilization,” <a href="https://davidkorten.org/living-earth-economy-for-eco-civ-ualberta/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;">2017 opening keynote presentation</a> to the 20th annual International Week, hosted by the Global Education Program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Explores implications for the academy and institutions of higher learning.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">David Korten, “A Living Earth Economy for an Ecological Civilization,” <a href="https://davidkorten.org/living-earth-econ-for-eco-civ/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, border-color; transition-timing-function: linear;" target="_blank">2016 keynote address to the Donghu Forum on Global Governance</a> in Wuhan China addresses a high level Chinese audience and makes the case that among the world’s nations, China is positioned to take the global lead on advancing an Ecological Civilization.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-80627049760031220952022-11-04T01:55:00.005+00:002022-11-04T01:55:37.392+00:00Ecovillage Transition Toolkit and Handbook<p><b> Source</b>: <a href="https://ecovillage.org/ecovillage-transition-in-action-2"><b>https://ecovillage.org/ecovillage-transition-in-action-2</b></a></p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2f33; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><span class="entry-title-primary" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ecovillage Transition in Action</span><span class="entry-subtitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; display: block; font-size: 0.7em; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.5; opacity: 0.7;">An EU funded collaboration to scale up ecovillage solutions</span></h1><p class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><time class="entry-time" style="box-sizing: border-box;">August 29, 2022</time> by <span class="entry-author" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="entry-author-link" href="https://ecovillage.org/user/carolin-waldmann/" rel="author" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;">Carolin Waldmann</a></span> </p></header><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2f33; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Project Summary</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;">Addressing systemic crises will not derive only from international organisations, governments and politicians, they require a greater collective response. Communities, citizens, NGOs and other forms of civil society hold many of the solutions. In a fragmented world, successful cross-sectoral collaboration is key, particularly partnerships that blur the lines between top-down and bottom-up, i.e. partnerships between municipalities and community-led initiatives (CLIs).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;">It is common in our networks to see examples of engaged communities working for positive change who feel unsupported by local governments. We also see municipalities determined to act and support, who are struggling to build genuinely collaborative relationships with communities and other local initiatives. </p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-style-plain" style="background-color: #eaeaea; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 24px auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 5px 20px 5px 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 21px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 42px; opacity: 0.8; padding: 0px;">The project “Ecovillage Transition in Action” explored how ecovillages, community-led initiatives, local government and local academic institutions can better collaborate to scale both horizontally and vertically in order to catalyse regional sustainability innovation.</p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;">Completing a three year long partnership, the Ecovillage Transition in Action is now proud to share learnings, inspirations, outcomes and tools created throughout the international project to:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;">– <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Grow the capacity</span> of educators, local initiatives, local authorities, citizens and community organisers to facilitate this crucial but complicated collaboration, and to teach those skills and capacities to others.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;">– <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Provide accessible and transferable educational tools, curricula, and methods</span> for bringing together community-led initiatives and local government actors, and increase the depth and quality of collaboration between them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;">– <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Provide a set of replicable trainings</span> that support our target groups to acquire key competencies and skills for what we call Ecovillage Transition – a process where municipal authorities and local citizens work together to develop alternative pathways to local development, based on a holistic framework of social, cultural, economic and ecological regeneration.</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Collaboration Partners</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;">Ecovillage Transition in Action was a strategic partnership between 5 organisations from 4 countries funded by the EU Erasmus+ programme.</p><figure class="wp-container-3 wp-block-gallery-2 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-5" style="--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); align-items: normal; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) ); margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px 0px auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(20% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.8);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-277393" data-id="277393" height="225" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" src="https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/St.-andrews-lgo-5.png" srcset="https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/St.-andrews-lgo-5.png 225w, https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/St.-andrews-lgo-5-150x150.png 150w, https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/St.-andrews-lgo-5-100x100.png 100w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="225" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px 0px auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(20% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.8);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-277392" data-id="277392" height="120" loading="lazy" src="https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Ecolise-logo-3.png" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="209" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px 0px auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(20% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.8);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-277391" data-id="277391" height="368" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px" src="https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Hurdal-logo-1.png" srcset="https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Hurdal-logo-1.png 707w, https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Hurdal-logo-1-300x156.png 300w, https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Hurdal-logo-1-600x312.png 600w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="707" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px 0px auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(20% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.8);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-277390" data-id="277390" height="135" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px" src="https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GEN-deutschland-logo-3.png" srcset="https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GEN-deutschland-logo-3.png 372w, https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GEN-deutschland-logo-3-300x109.png 300w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="372" /></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin: 0px 0px auto; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: calc(20% - var(--wp--style--unstable-gallery-gap, 16px)*0.8);"><img alt="" class="wp-image-277347" data-id="277347" height="144" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px" src="https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GEN_Logo.png" srcset="https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GEN_Logo.png 351w, https://ecovillage.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GEN_Logo-300x123.png 300w" style="border-radius: inherit; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="351" /></figure><figcaption class="blocks-gallery-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; flex-basis: 100%; flex-grow: 1; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; text-align: center; width: 740px;"><a href="https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">University of St Andrews</a> – <a href="https://www.ecolise.eu/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ECOLISE</a> – <a href="http://hurdalecovillage.no/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Hurdal Ecovillage Norway</a> – <a href="https://www.gen-deutschland.de/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Global Ecovillage Network Germany</a> – <a href="https://ecovillage.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Global Ecovillage Network International</a></figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;"></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Materials and Resources developed through the 3-year project</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;"></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/smomessv72fwbvo/ETiA%20Toolkit.pdf?dl=0" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;">Ecovillage Transition Toolkit</a></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;">A toolkit to collate and curate knowledge and practices in ecovillages and community-led initiatives can integrate with local government institutions and processes (municipalities, regional municipalities, local authorities and community councils as appropriate) to catalyse regional innovation and impacts in line with the SDG aspirations and actions. The educational exercises and tools previously developed in other Erasmus+ partnerships like T2R, <a href="http://clips.gen-europe.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">CLIPS</a> and <a href="https://www.sircle-project.eu/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">SIRCle</a> can provide core ingredients, as will the foundational tools of the Map of Regeneration (with the Ecovillage Design Cards) and the Journey of Regeneration. In addition, new tools and knowledge creation has been fed into the Toolkit while making tools available in French, German and English.</p><div style="border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: rgba(63, 69, 81, 0.16) 0px 2px 8px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.9em; margin-top: 1.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 528.562px; position: relative; width: 740px; will-change: transform;"><iframe allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="lazy" src="https://www.canva.com/design/DAFBzbg7SuU/view?embed" style="border-style: none; border-width: initial; box-sizing: border-box; height: 528.562px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 740px;"></iframe></div><a href="https://www.canva.com/design/DAFBzbg7SuU/view?utm_content=DAFBzbg7SuU&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=embeds&utm_source=link" rel="noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Ecovillage Transition Toolkit</a> von Carolin Waldmann<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;"></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/biozg8nnhrbfgca/ETiA%20-%20Handbook%20%28English%29.pdf?dl=0" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;">Handbook: <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Communities and local authorities collaborating for sustainability</span></a></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;">A curriculum offering fresh framings for different actors to work with communities and across sectors for bioregional transformation and restoration. Individuals from ecovillages, community led initiatives, local government and local colleges or universities can come together to learn how to design and implement local and bioregional regeneration in line with the Ecovillage Principles and the SDGs. The complete handbook is also available for you in <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/65hl2bn8jxs1ej5/ETiA%20-%20Handbook%20%28French%29.pdf?dl=0" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;">French</a> and <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xg79j4ux96wxjae/ETiA%20-%20Handbook%20%28German%29.pdf?dl=0" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;">German</a>.</p><div style="border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: rgba(63, 69, 81, 0.16) 0px 2px 8px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.9em; margin-top: 1.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 1046.56px; position: relative; width: 740px; will-change: transform;"><iframe allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="lazy" src="https://www.canva.com/design/DAFJ4GorOTY/view?embed" style="border-style: none; border-width: initial; box-sizing: border-box; height: 1046.56px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 740px;"></iframe></div><a href="https://www.canva.com/design/DAFJ4GorOTY/view?utm_content=DAFJ4GorOTY&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=embeds&utm_source=link" rel="noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Handbook</a> von Cameliaz Olarte<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;"></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/sh2voof3gl627rt/Trainer%27s%20Handbook.pdf?dl=0" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;">Trainer’s Handbook</a></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px;">A train the trainer programme to equip facilitators with the tools, skills and competencies to facilitate local and regional processes of transformation and regeneration.</p><div style="border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: rgba(63, 69, 81, 0.16) 0px 2px 8px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.9em; margin-top: 1.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 1046.56px; position: relative; width: 740px; will-change: transform;"><iframe allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="lazy" src="https://www.canva.com/design/DAFJ3yb5v9E/view?embed" style="border-style: none; border-width: initial; box-sizing: border-box; height: 1046.56px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 740px;"></iframe></div><a href="https://www.canva.com/design/DAFJ3yb5v9E/view?utm_content=DAFJ3yb5v9E&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=embeds&utm_source=link" rel="noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1db3e0; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Trainer’s Handbook</a> von Cameliaz Olarte</div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-56228282276096554412022-09-15T10:02:00.004+00:002022-09-15T10:04:44.712+00:00Localization - Action Guide<p> Source: <b><a href="https://actionguide.localfutures.org/">https://actionguide.localfutures.org/</a></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 26px; text-align: center;">Join the global movement to build resilient local economies and flourishing local communities. Take action with the tools and resources in this guide.</span></p><h1 class="heading-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #03365b; font-family: "Limes Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 92px; line-height: 72px; margin: 0.67em auto 60px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 512px;">137 Actions to resist and renew.</h1><p class="textactionhp" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 22px !important; line-height: 35.2px; margin: 0px auto 100px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 614.396px;">Solving our current crises requires actions that resist the drivers of social and ecological destruction, and those that renew local cultures, communities and economies. Let’s take action at a personal and community level and build a movement powerful enough to turn the tide.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></p><div class="bigpicturebloc aos-init aos-animate" data-aos="fade" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; background-color: #03365b; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: flex; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 80vh; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10vw; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transform: translateZ(0px); transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: opacity, transform; transition-timing-function: ease; width: 100vw;"><div class="container-6 w-container blocbigpicture" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: auto; max-width: 80vw; padding: 0px;"><div class="columns-4 " style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="w-col w-col-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px 10px; position: relative; width: 682.667px;"><h1 class="heading-1-copy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #fefdfb; font-family: "Limes Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 64px; line-height: 64px; margin: 0.67em 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 530.125px;"><strong class="blocbigpicture-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 5vw; line-height: 57.6px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">LOCAL ACTION AND SYSTEMIC CHANGE</strong></h1><p class="blocbigpicture-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #fefdfb; font-size: 22px; line-height: 30.8px; margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;">In the pursuit of never-ending growth and profits, the corporate-led global economy is putting all life on earth at risk. When we take action to localize our economies and strengthen our communities, we are helping to bring about a systemic shift in direction – towards cultural and biological diversity, social justice, genuine democracy, and our own health and happiness.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It’s time to bring our economies back home, to return to a human scale, to localize.</p><a class="buttonlearnmore w-button" href="https://actionguide.localfutures.org/blog/about" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 20px; border: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 9px 15px; text-decoration-line: none; text-transform: uppercase;" target="_self">LEARN MORE <img alt="" loading="lazy" src="https://actionguide.localfutures.org/assets/images/rightarrow.svg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; filter: invert(100%) brightness(200%); margin: -4px 0px 0px 5px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 10px;" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="quotebloc aos-init aos-animate" data-aos="fade" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: flex; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: auto; min-height: 60vh; opacity: 1; padding: 25px 0px 50px; transform: translateZ(0px); transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: opacity, transform; transition-timing-function: ease; width: 60vw;"><div class="container-7 w-container" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: auto; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #03365b; font-family: "Limes Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 46px; line-height: 46px; margin: 0.67em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: auto;">“From farmers markets and consumer-producer co-operatives to local business alliances and community finance schemes, people are reweaving the fabric of local interdependence from the ground up. Out of common sense and heartfelt intuition, they are finding innovative ways to step out of the consumer rat race to live local lives at a human pace and scale.”</h1><p class="paragraph-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Helena Norberg-Hodge, Founder - Local Futures</p><p class="paragraph-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="text-block-2" style="background-color: #fffbf8; box-sizing: border-box; color: #03365b; font-family: "Limes Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 40px; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Localization Action Guide</div><p class="p-footer" style="background-color: #fffbf8; box-sizing: border-box; color: #03365b; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">This guide, created by Local Futures, provides tools and resources to build resilient local economies and flourishing local communities.</p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-16555729744112852622022-07-02T01:10:00.001+00:002022-07-02T01:10:05.589+00:00Doing what matters in the times of stress<p> </p><iframe src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/XHjoRbyVgDXkB" width="668" height="714" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="//www.slideshare.net/pthuyduong/dong-what-maters-in-the-times-of-stress" title="Dong what maters in the times of stress" target="_blank">Dong what maters in the times of stress</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="//www.slideshare.net/pthuyduong" target="_blank">Little Daisy</a></strong> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-36568471828927301902022-06-15T05:27:00.003+00:002022-06-15T05:27:34.065+00:00Council Ways<p> Source: <a href="https://howlingcastle.wordpress.com/council-ways/">https://howlingcastle.wordpress.com/council-ways/</a></p><p style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Inviting all who want to explore this simple and powerful way of communication. More than a way of sharing, it is a practice that moves us to a deeper, more compassionate level of communicating and being.</p><p style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: left; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mostly based on The Way of Council and on ancient traditions that keep on crossing my paths, these spaces are <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">just</em> a circle—or a spiral?—where each part, each node can witness and be witnessed in the moment, with whatever is alive. Sometimes we come together with a prior intention to explore particular issues, sometimes the doors are open to whatever comes. Most often we sense a wisdom beyond each part, and although unexpected, the flow, the themes, the sharings <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">simply make sense</em>.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-color: #faf9f5; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-1618" data-attachment-id="1618" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="<p>OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA</p>
" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"E-500","caption":"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA","created_timestamp":"1408530356","copyright":"","focal_length":"150","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" data-large-file="https://howlingcastle.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/p8202464.jpg?w=720" data-medium-file="https://howlingcastle.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/p8202464.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://howlingcastle.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/p8202464.jpg" data-orig-size="3264,2448" data-permalink="https://howlingcastle.wordpress.com/olympus-digital-camera-7/" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://howlingcastle.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/p8202464.jpg?w=1024" srcset="https://howlingcastle.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/p8202464.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://howlingcastle.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/p8202464.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https://howlingcastle.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/p8202464.jpg?w=150 150w, https://howlingcastle.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/p8202464.jpg?w=300 300w, https://howlingcastle.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/p8202464.jpg?w=768 768w" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #a09a92; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: center;">Circles holding circles within circles</figcaption></figure><h3 style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #6f6961; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.6; margin: 2em 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Council Way into our Full Humanity</h3><p style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These one and a half hour sessions are a place to come and taste the space of council, and are suited for any level of experience. Sometimes once is what you need, sometimes they become a place of refuge, or connection. They’re offered at different times and days of the week in the hope of bringing together an ever-changing flow of peoples, ages, stories…</p><p style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://howlingcastle.wordpress.com/2022/03/24/a-council-way-into-our-full-humanity-transitions/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #a21d21; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here you can check the current offerings</a></p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-black-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-black-background-color has-background" style="background-color: #26231e; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #26231e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; max-width: 100px;" /><h3 style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #6f6961; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.6; margin: 2em 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Council Journeys</h3><p style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Over several weeks (usually four), we explore the practice of council, in a small-group setting. You get to know more about different shapes and variations, some of the history and evolution of this way of inquiry. We get to deepen connections with our selves and each other.</p><p style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://howlingcastle.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/council-journeys/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #a21d21; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here you can check the current offerings</a></p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-text-color has-black-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-black-background-color has-background" style="background-color: #26231e; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #26231e; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; max-width: 100px;" /><h3 style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #6f6961; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.6; margin: 2em 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Council of Beings</h3><p style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What happens when we let go of our circumstantial identity as a human being, when we touch the connections with other beings and let them speak through us? A space to witness what moves us deeply from the world we live in. Especially powerful in the context of the ongoing crises of our biosphere.</p><p style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Offerings coming soon!</p><hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" style="background-color: #d9d6d0; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; max-width: 100px;" /><p id="block-041691b5-3357-40bb-a68f-b9abf96791c6" style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My own Council Journey…</span> I’m Dita. I fell in love with the Way of Council some six years ago, when I attended my first one at <a href="https://www.highheathercombecentre.org.uk/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #a21d21; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">High Heathercombe</a>, up in the dramatic moors of Dartmoor. My dear friend Mel Lamb held it with her characteristic and amazing energy—I learned much from Mel in the coming years, and got to hold circles with her until her passing in 2020. Since that first one, I have attended many councils, in different contexts, and have experienced a wide diversity of flavours and intentions. I’ve had the honour and privilege to learn from the expert and caring hands of many, especially <a href="http://klaudia.co.uk/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #a21d21; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">Klaudia van Gool</u></a>, <a href="https://regenco.wordpress.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #a21d21; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">Jeremy Thres</u></a>, and <a href="https://grieftending.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #a21d21; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">Sophy Banks</u></a>. But most of my learning comes from a beloved teacher and my council guide, <a href="https://www.ancienthealingways.co.uk/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #a21d21; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">Pip Bondy</u></a>. It is from her that my council tradition comes from. She was taught by Gigi Coyle in the tradition of the <a href="https://ojaifoundation.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #a21d21; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><u style="box-sizing: inherit;">Ojai Foundation</u></a>, where the Way of Council as we practice it today was co-creatively brought into life.</p><div id="atatags-370373-62a96310181ab" style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div id="atatags-26942-62a96310181f1" style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled" id="jp-post-flair" style="background-color: #faf9f5; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #3b3b3f; font-family: "Quattrocento Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="sd-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #6f6961; display: inline-block; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Share this:</h3></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-14107824278694069472022-06-05T13:09:00.002+00:002022-06-05T13:10:09.301+00:00School Circles (2021) - documentary<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ElAEiG6siv0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>School Circles (2021) - documentary - Short Version (44 min)</p><p>School Circles is an independent documentary that explores the practice of democratic schools in the Netherlands. The film shows students, teachers and staff members coming together to dialogue, discuss proposals, mediate conflicts and make decisions about their school life.</p><p>These schools not only challenge the mainstream education, but also democracy as we know it. They put into practice Sociocracy, a method for collective organisation based on a systems perspective, in which the decisions are made by hearing all the voices and getting everyone's consent.</p><p>School Circles connects the theory of sociocracy to its practice within schools, taking us to new possibilities of organising ourselves and our communities.</p><p>MORE INFO:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://schoolcirclesfilm.com"><b>https://schoolcirclesfilm.com</b></a></li></ul><p></p><p>The directors of the film are trained sociocracy facilitators and offer courses around democratic governance and sociocracy within schools and educational settings. For more info visit: https://www.wonderingschool.org/socio... </p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-4193818637582927892022-05-26T04:52:00.005+00:002022-05-26T04:52:40.056+00:00The Circle Way<p><b> Source: <a href="https://www.thecircleway.net/">https://www.thecircleway.net/</a><br /><br /></b></p><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-fae162202ec511a5bfc4" style="background-color: white; clear: none; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: europa; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.5px; padding: 0px 17px 17px; position: relative;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><div style="font-family: futura-pt; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 1em 0px 0px; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Circle Way — Putting Equity and Justice in the Center<br />The Circle Way unequivocally affirms the essential practice of turning to one another to uphold racial, ethnic, gender, disability, economic, and environmental justice. We can imagine a different way.</span></div></div></div><div class="row sqs-row" style="background-color: white; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: europa; letter-spacing: 0.5px; width: auto !important;"><div class="col sqs-col-8 span-8" style="float: left; width: 702.667px;"><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1592695462556_55675" style="clear: none; height: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative;"><div class="sqs-block-content" style="outline: none;"><h2 style="font-family: futura-pt; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: small;">Quick Links</span></h2><p class="" style="font-size: 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.thecircleway.net/circle-way-guidelines" style="background: transparent; color: rgba(254, 6, 31, 0.8); overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Two-page Circle Guidelines</a> available in 14 languages</p><p class="" style="font-size: 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.thecircleway.net/booklets" style="background: transparent; color: rgba(254, 6, 31, 0.8); overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Circle Way Pocket Guide</a> available in 3 languages</p><p class="" style="font-size: 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.thecircleway.net/booklets" style="background: transparent; color: rgba(254, 6, 31, 0.8); overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Circle Way Hosting Guide for Virtual Online Grief Circles</a></p><p class="" style="font-size: 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.thecircleway.net/articles/2020/12/30/resource-bundle-hosting-circles-online" style="background: transparent; color: rgba(254, 6, 31, 0.8); overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Resource Bundle: Hosting Circle Online</a></p><p class="" style="font-size: 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: futura-pt; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 4px;"><br /></span></p><p class="" style="font-size: 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: futura-pt; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 4px;">What is The Circle Way?</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1592695462556_54997" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: europa; font-size: 17px; height: auto; letter-spacing: 0.5px; padding: 17px; position: relative;"><ul data-rte-list="default" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1653539800746_319" style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><li style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">A way of being in the world</p></li><li style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">A structure for deep conversation and wise outcomes</p></li><li style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">A methodology founded by Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea in 1992</p></li><li id="yui_3_17_2_1_1653539800746_318" style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1653539800746_317" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">A growing movement of global practice</p></li><li id="yui_3_17_2_1_1653539800746_318" style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1653539800746_317" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><a href="https://www.thecircleway.net/the-circle-way">Learn more: https://www.thecircleway.net/the-circle-way</a></b></p></li><li id="yui_3_17_2_1_1653539800746_318" style="list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p class="" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1653539800746_317" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></p></li></ul><div><h3 style="font-family: futura-pt; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 4px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is The Circle Way process?</h3><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Circle Way gathers people into a circular shape with participants at the rim and the purpose in the centre. Each person has a voice and everyone can see and hear one another. Social agreements and practices help facilitate respectful conversation. Circle supports a leader in every chair.</p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><a href="https://www.thecircleway.net/the-process">Learn more: https://www.thecircleway.net/the-process</a></b></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-75057600278617497512022-04-23T13:45:00.001+00:002022-04-23T13:45:34.271+00:00SDG Academy Library<p><b> Link: <a href="https://sdgacademylibrary.mediaspace.kaltura.com/home">https://sdgacademylibrary.mediaspace.kaltura.com/home</a></b></p><p><b><a href="https://sdgacademy.org/">https://sdgacademy.org/</a></b></p><p>Free educational resources from the world’s leading experts on sustainable development.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2365622226713269938.post-50907942435279278982022-02-11T08:23:00.002+00:002022-02-11T08:23:27.367+00:00Guiding Principles<p><b> Source: <a href="http://www.coeworld.org/guiding-principles">http://www.coeworld.org/guiding-principles</a></b></p><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="background-color: white; 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font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Identify & Distinguish:</em> In my sustainability assessment, how did I distinguish between identified community strengths and areas for improvement? </span></h2></li><li style="counter-increment: rte-list 1; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="color: #171717; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Reflect, Predict &</em> <em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Comment:</em> How might a common understanding of sustainability unify a community? </span></h2></li><li style="counter-increment: rte-list 1; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h2 style="color: #171717; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.02em; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Extension)<em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Transfer & Evaluate: </em>How can I apply my experience with the Sustainability Compass in a school organizational assessment towards evaluating the sustainability a community project or the True Price of personal action? </span></h2></li></ol></div></div><div class="sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule" data-block-type="47" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1580837563835_21334" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: rgba(23, 23, 23, 0.8); font-family: futura-pt; height: auto; letter-spacing: 1.5px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 17px; position: relative; width: 798.135px;"><div class="sqs-block-content"><hr style="background-color: #fac77a; border: none; box-sizing: content-box; color: #fac77a; 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color: #212529; font-family: lato, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">The United States should substantially reduce solid waste generation (absolute and per person) to reduce plastic in the environment and the environmental, economic, aesthetic, and health costs of managing waste and litter. There is no single solution to reducing the flow of plastic waste to the ocean. However, a suite of actions (or “interventions”) taken across all stages of the path from source to ocean could reduce ocean plastic waste and achieve parallel environmental and social benefits.</span></p><p><button class="accordion int-1" style="appearance: button; background: rgb(247, 147, 29) !important; border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: #444444; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 18px 18px 18px 35px; position: relative; text-align: left; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s; width: 729.99px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Reduce Plastic Production.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />This is the first stage where plastic waste can be affected, by reducing the amount of plastic produced so there is less to manage in the waste stream. 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line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Decrease Waste Generation.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Actions at this stage reduce unnecessary use of plastics such as some single use applications. Types of interventions can include product limits and targets for recycling and reuse.</p><p><button class="accordion int-3" style="appearance: button; background: rgb(228, 230, 102) !important; border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: #444444; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 18px 18px 18px 35px; position: relative; text-align: left; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s; width: 729.99px;"></button><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: lato, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><div class="panel int3-panel" style="background: rgb(247, 246, 184) !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: lato, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; max-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 18px; transition: max-height 0.2s ease-out 0s;"><table class="table-responsive table-striped interventions-table" style="border-collapse: collapse; display: block; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; overflow-x: auto; width: 693.99px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr class="table-hdr" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"></em></p></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Improve Waste Management (Prevent or Reduce Disposal/Discharge).</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Action within this stage improves solid and other waste infrastructure, collection, treatment and management, including leakage control and accounting.</p><p><button class="accordion int-4" style="appearance: button; 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width: 693.99px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr class="table-hdr" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr><tr style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Capture Waste (to Remove Plastic Waste from the Environment.)</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Improving waste capture from the environment before or after it enters the ocean is another intervention strategy. This can include re-capturing wastes from stormwater or directly from waters where it accumulates, such as during river or beach cleanups or using retention booms.</p><p><button class="accordion int-5" style="appearance: button; background: rgb(100, 196, 229) !important; border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: #444444; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 18px 18px 18px 35px; position: relative; text-align: left; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s; width: 729.99px;"></button><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: lato, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><div class="panel int5-panel" style="background: rgb(180, 226, 241) !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: lato, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; max-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 18px; 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margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Minimize Ocean Disposal.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />This category reduces inputs of plastic waste into the ocean directly from vessels, point sources, or platforms and includes actions under specific laws and treaties relevant to ocean pollution. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; 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display: block; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 30px; overflow-x: auto; width: 693.99px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr class="table-hdr" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"></span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="30%"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p><button class="accordion int-7" style="appearance: button; background-color: #ccdcf4; border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: #444444; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 18px 18px 18px 35px; position: relative; text-align: left; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s; width: 729.99px;"></button></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Other Activities (to Support Above Interventions)</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><img alt="Flow diagram of available plastic waste interventions from plastic production to recapture of plastics in the ocean. SOURCE: Modified from Jambeck et al. (2018). " class="img-fluid" src="https://www.nap.edu/resource/other/dels/plastics-in-the-ocean/images/int-flowchart.jpg" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: lato, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: lato, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;"></span></strong></p><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: lato, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px;">Flow diagram of available plastic waste interventions from plastic production to recapture of plastics in the ocean.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="citation text-small" style="box-sizing: border-box;">SOURCE: Modified from Jambeck et al. (2018).</span></figcaption>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com