‘Global Citizenship’
News on groups, NGOs, companies seeking to take responsibility for the common good and whole human family and the planet.
Relates to: SRI News, Transforming Finance, GTS, Sustainability News, Earth Systems Science, Beyond GDP, Power of Yin
Hundreds Temporarily Shutdown Access to Port of Long Beach
Hundreds Temporarily Shutdown Access to Port of Long Beach Occupy Shuts Down Ports of Seattle, Portland, Oakland and Longview Economists Support Occupy Movement Say NO to the Use of the Military in the United States The Truth Hurts–And Heals An Open Letter from America’s Port Truck Drivers on Occupy the Ports Occupy The Ports [...]
Latin America’s message to the Arab world
Latin America's message to the Arab world Latin Americans should share their experiences with democratisation with other countries in the global South. Pepe Escobar Last Modified: 09 Dec 2011 10:10 Now the Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff was tortured in 1970 by the country's military junta Take a good look at this 1970 photo. (see [...]
National Update
Centre for Civil Society NATIONAL UPDATE Consumer Family and Citizen Empowerment http://www.civilsociety.org.au/National_Update1111.htm November 2011 In this issue: Afif Tabsh Arab Spring, the Economy and Social Entrepreneurship Filippo Addarii The European Social Business Initiative Jude Foster Health consumers and social [...]
Our new World Future Council film “Power to the People”
Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year! Dear Friends of the World Future Council, Councillors, and Supporters, We thank you for your wonderful support for the World Future Council and wish you a very happy, peaceful and powerful new year. We would like to share our enthusiasm and inspirations with you, in the form of some of our [...]
Prague Declaration
Prague Declaration December 12, 2011 We, the participants of the conference “Democracy and Human Rights in Asia: One Year after an Empty Chair in Oslo”, who have gathered here in Prague at the invitation of President Vaclav Havel wish to join in the international efforts to promote awareness and improve progress in human rights across [...]
ReGreen the World
The Green World Campaign (GWC) has just won a 2011 International Green Award for its "Times Square Takeover" this past Earth Day. You might enjoy a short video of the stunning animations of trees that swirled across the jumbo screens inviting people to support global reforestation by tapping "Text TREE" on their phone. Next year: rock [...]
Top 10 Issues & Campaigns of 2012
Top 10 Issues & Campaigns of 2012 As a team, The Future 500 staff and board believe passionately in the promise of corporations and NGOs coming together to advance systemic solutions to our most urgent sustainability challenges. Each Fall, we hold a series of strategic planning meetings where we outline our core issues of focus for the [...]
2011 Recap and Our First Family Photo
I’m still eating Thanksgiving leftovers, but it’s already time to decorate Focus the Nation headquarters for the holidays! In the spirit of “you have mountains to ski and cookies to decorate,” we’ll keep this one short and sweet. Image of Focus the Nation Staff 2011 has been a groundbreaking year for Focus the Nation. We held our [...]
WS20 Council new Press Release is now available
We are pleased to advise that the Worldshift 20 Council new Press Release is now available at http://worldshiftcouncil.org/press. Please distribute the press release virtually via the above link to your Networks, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts. Please also post the attached pdf version on your websites. It's very important to get this [...]
Germany’s Low Carbon Energy Strategy
Organized by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) Jennifer Morgan, World Climate and Resources Institute, welcomed the Federal German Ministry initiation of this event at a crucial time in the climate change negotiations. She stressed the urgency to massively scale up the development of [...]
