environmental sustainability are enshrined and where there is no concept of exploiting other people or damaging our home Planet Earth.
Your Planet Needs You • Introduction •
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R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER • First published in Learning Tomorrows: Commentaries on the Future of Education, ed. Peter H. Wagschal (New York, 1979) - The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller. …
le energies – are connecting the human race, what is so shocking
is that no one has offered much of a reason as to why we ought to be connected. We talk
breathlessly about access and inclusion in a global communications network but speak little
of exactly why we want to communicate with one another on such a planetary scale. What’s
sorely missing is an overarching reason that billions of human beings should be
increasingly connected. Toward what end? The only feeble explanations thus far offered are
to share information, be entertained, advance commercial exchange and speed the
globalization of the economy. All the above, while relevant, nonetheless seem insufficient to
justify why nearly seven billion human beings should be connected and mutually embedded
in a globalized society. The idea of even billion individual connections, absent any overall
unifying purpose, seems a colossal waste of human energy. More important, making global
connections without any real transcendent purpose risks a narrowing rather than an
expanding of human consciousness. But what if our distributed global communication
networks were put to the task of helping us re-participate in deep communion with the
common biosphere that sustains all of our lives?…
JECTS. Indeed that is what has been so exciting
within Transition to see a host of new leaders and people in
communities creating ways forward.
IT IS about starting with the strengths and assets of communities -
then we are more likely to see how people can take control of their
future rather than relying on other people. Harnessing the skills and
experience of local people helps create sustainable change....
Comment from Philip Booth on the POWER of Not Doing Stuff…
we must think like nature by focusing on cycles
that create no waste or pollution, while at the same time valuing
diversity as a strength that provides vital systems resilience.
We now have an incredible opportunity to create entirely new
sustainable industries, products, services, and supply chains
based on a circular bio economy.
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e communications at the same time. The dissemination of co-creative practices is propitious in becoming aware of differences, and at the same time, pointing to our similarities. Our mutual relationships have a lingering impact on us. We are not billiard balls bouncing off each other. While billiard balls change direction and speed as they interact, they remain essentially unchanged. As humans, we evolve internally with every contact we have with another human being. Alain Ruche
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To echo Leonardo’s passion for Nature and as part of the long-term creation of Leonardo’s Garden, Le Clos Lucé and its young visitors are involved in a project of co-development and sustainable development, paying part of each child’s entry fee to the NGO “SOS SAHEL”.
The objective is to finance a programme of reforestation in the Sahel, the vast arid region that borders the south of the Sahara. Following in Leonardo's footsteps, Le Clos Lucé thus intends to make each of its visitors aware of the need to protect the environment and, more specifically, of the questions of desertification and reforestation.
After 36 years of working across the drylands of the Sahel, we at SOS Sahel International UK has closed its doors. We have completed our goal: our partners, SOS Sahel Sudan and SOS Sahel Ethiopia, are now experienced, effective and sustainable organisations that have the resilience to face daily challenges.
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