Global Village News and Resources Issue 114 - September, 2006

Editorial

Leading scientists are telling us that the impact of our industrial system, and the sudden expansion of humanity’s ability to harvest the common bounty of our planet for short-term gain, may actually be upsetting the balance of our highly complex and fragile web of life. It is as if we are living inside of a dream, sleepwalking toward oblivion, while self-serving, short-sighted interests encourage our slumber with managed news, celebrity culture and other weapons of mass distraction.

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World Wisdom Alliance Launched in Canada

The World Wisdom Alliance, envisaged as a ‘mega-network’ of like-minded groups, organizations, and individuals actively engaged in addressing the environmental challenges and opportunities facing society, both globally and locally has been launched in Canada.

Nearly 200 people from around the world attended the Toronto launch. Founder David Woolfson, President of Club of Budapest, Canada, who hosted the event, said “I believe the Alliance has the potential of bringing like-minded p

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The Alliance for a New Humanity are organising a Faces of Courage conference in December. The Alliance for a New Humanity are people from all regions of the world and from all walks of life united by a common vision; to strengthen and sustain an actively compassionate humanity. They aim to create an alliance of people based on the awareness of humanity's interconnectedness. They believe that if enough people share the value of peace, war can be brought to an end.

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At the Inaugural meeting of the World Future Council Founding Councillors and its board of Advisors and Donors in Geneva the founder Jacob von Uexkull laid out the crucial need for creating the World Future Council as a permanent organisation.

He said “the WFC will inspire, because its members have inspiring track records. It will overcome inaction and over-specialization, because its members are doers with a broad vision. It will celebrate our global citizenship, because its membership will combine wisdom and vision from all continents. It will serve the needs of both people and planet, because its members know that only thus will it have an impact.”

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Faces of Hope

Alison Wright is best known for her award-winning photography reflecting the traditions and changing faces of endangered people living in the world’s remotest of regions. Martha Hammond reviews her book, Faces of Hope, Children of a Changing World, a collection of expressions, which captures the spirit of children and the promise they hold for the future of our troubled communities. In Faces of Hope, Alison Wright takes us on a remarkable journey across the developing world. We visit children in isolated, rural villages and crowded urban slums, sharing some of the everyday moments that make up their world – at work, play, worship and rest, we celebrate and join in with their routines of life. While some of the children live in difficult circumstances, the hope of childhood remains and each portrait shares a common beauty, dignity and, more often than not, a common joy.

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• ‘Am I Listening?' The Seen and Heard Awards
• UK Walk to School Campaign and Website
• Digital Links
• Eco Schools Forum

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Sustrans is the UK's leading sustainable transport charity. Its vision is a world in which people choose to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment. It is achieving this through innovative but practical solutions to the UK's transport challenges. On Saturday 4th November 2006, Sustrans and the Stop Climate Chaos coalition are staging a huge event in Trafalgar Square, London, to launch the ‘I Count' campaign!

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Eight years ago, Mexico City based Roberto Cruz traded in his Ford Mustang for a bicycle and has never regretted the decision . Cruz, originally from Mexico, quickly became an activist with a Mexico City-based cycling organization called Bicitekas. Cruz explains, “I used to pick up my wife with my car. Her co-worker asked me why I did not take my bike. He convinced me to buy a bicycle and invited me on a ride with a group of friends who promoted cycling. I had a great time and wanted to become active with the group.”

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The World’s Longest Cycle Route

Earlier this year, cyclists across Europe rode sections of the North Sea Cycle Route, celebrating its fifth birthday as the Guinness Book of Record's longest signed international cycling trail.  A6,000 kilometre (3,788 mile) ride, the North Sea Cycle Route, runs through eight countries and follows the North Sea Coast. Riders pass through Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Scotland and England, taking in some amazing cultural sites, including the Norwegian fjords and the bulb growing fields of Holland. Martha Hammond looks at the route and places of interest riders visited on the way.

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Throughout the United States there are few places where a person can go and see sustainable design in action. Two organizations in the Ithaca area of New York State are working to provide such a place: the Cayuga Nature Center (CNC) and the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FLPCI). While the Cayuga Nature Center has offered opportunities for appreciation of nature in its many forms for over 30 years, the creation of a project devoted to sustainability, and specifically permaculture, marks a new focus for the 160 acre property CNC currently operates. Both CNC and FLPCI have mission statements that focus on interest in the natural world and on educational efforts to promote harmonious living with it.

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In the North East corner of New South Wales, a company named Regenesis has embarked on an ambitious project that embraces cutting edge organic farming, sustainable housing and strategic links between the two.

At a 130-acre research farm located near the tourist town of Byron Bay, Regenesis is working with polycultures, farm forestry and land regeneration. An important aim is to achieve a closed loop system with minimal petrochemical inputs.

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ViewPoint
Rescuing a Planet Under Stress

Our global economy is outgrowing the capacity of the earth to support it, pushing our early twenty-first century civilization ever closer to decline and possible collapse. In our preoccupation with quarterly earnings reports and year-to-year economic growth, we have lost sight of how large the human enterprise has become relative to the earth’s resources. A century ago, annual growth in the world economy was measured in billions of dollars. Today it is measured in trillions.

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