SATURDAY, MAY 30 AT MIT~~9TH ANNUAL YOUTH SUMMIT ON CLIMATE CHANGE!
On May 30, 2015, join us for the 9th Annual Youth Summit on Climate Change! The day will be filled with informative and fun workshops, lunch and prizes. Last year’s summit was amazing and this year’s promises to be even better!
Bernie Sanders has made it official: he’s running for president. The Vermont independent senator says he will seek the Democratic nomination, joining Hillary Rodham Clinton in a race in which she’s the heavy favorite. (April 30)
Egyptian students are dreaming of space exploration after a former NASA astronaut spoke to them about her experience. Mary Ellen Weber is on a visit to Egypt to promote higher education programs.CCTV’s Adel Makhoury reports.
CCTV Africa Published on Apr 30, 2015
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did not deliver an official apology for Japan’s wartime atrocities in his address at the U.S. Congress in Washington D.C., despite calls from various circles urging him to do so
FUKUSHIMA FALLOUT AWARENESS NETWORK (FFAN) filed a legal document known as a Citizen Petition with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to drastically reduce the amount of radioactive Cesium permitted in food, from a ridiculous 1200 Bq/kg, to 5 Bq/kg.
PLEASE add your comments to the FDA CITIZEN PETITION filed on March 12, 2013 by FFAN coalition members Beyond Nuclear, Citizens for Health, and Ecological Options Network to significantly lower cancer causing Cesium 134 and 137 in the U.S. food, nutritional supplement and pharmaceutical supply, including imports from Japan.
Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University joins us to discuss the narrow coverage of economics in media, our fictional economic recovery, Occupy Wall St., and the structural problems that perpetuate a vast disparity of wealth.
Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University joins us to discuss the narrow coverage of economics in media, our fictional economic recovery, Occupy Wall St., and the structural problems that perpetuate a vast disparity of wealth.
Helena Norberg-Hodge was one of 45 leading scholars, authors and activists who convened at The Great Hall of Cooper Union, New York City, on October 25-26, 2014, for the public presentation: “Techno-Utopianism and the Fate of the Earth.” Speakers discussed the profound impacts—environmental, economic and social—of runaway technological expansionism and cyber immersion; the tendency to see technology as the savior for all problems. For more info, see http://ifg.org/techno-utopia/program/ .
Author and filmmaker Helena Norberg-Hodge (wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Norberg-Hodge
) is a pioneer of the new economy movement. Through writing and public lectures on three continents, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. She is a widely respected analyst of the impact of the global economy and international development on local communities, local economies, and personal identity, and is a leading proponent of ‘localization’, or decentralization, as a means of countering those impacts.
Helena’s seminal book, Ancient Futures (localfutures.org/publications/books-and-reports/books-and-reports),
has been described as “an inspirational classic,” providing insightful solutions to the unintended impacts of development, based on her decades living and working in Ladakh, India. Together with the film of the same title, it has been translated into more than 40 languages, and sold about half a million copies. She is also the producer and co-director of the award-winning film, The Economics of Happiness (theeconomicsofhappiness.org), and the co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home and From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture.
The Earth Journal counted Helena among the world’s ‘ten most interesting environmentalists’, while in Carl McDaniel’s book Wisdom for a Liveable Planet, she was profiled as one of ‘eight visionaries changing the world’.
Helena has lectured in seven languages and appeared in broadcast, print and online media worldwide, including MSNBC, The London Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian. She has written numerous articles and essays, and her work has been the subject of more than 300 articles worldwide.
Educated in Sweden, Germany, Austria, England and the United States, Helena specialized in linguistics, including studies at the University of London and at MIT. Since 1975, she has worked with the people of Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”, to find ways of enabling their culture to meet the modern world without sacrificing social and ecological values. For these efforts she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, or ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’. She was awarded the prestigious Goi Peace prize in 2012 (goipeace.or.jp/english/activities/award/award2012.html)
Helena is the founder and director of the Local Futures – International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) and The International Alliance for Localization (IAL). Based in the US and UK, with subsidiaries in Germany and Australia, ISEC examines the root causes of our current social and environmental crises, while promoting more sustainable and equitable patterns of living in both North and South. Helena is also a founding member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.
Welcome to Transition Studies. To prosper for very much longer on the changing Earth humankind will need to move beyond its current fossil-fueled civilization toward one that is sustained on recycled materials and renewable energy. This is not a trivial shift. It will require a major transition in all aspects of our lives.
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