Balliol is an academic community which exists to promote excellence in learning and to encourage scholarship and research at the very highest levels. Founded in 1263, it is one of the oldest colleges within the University of Oxford. It is also one of the largest, with about 370 undergraduates and a nearly equal number of graduate students. Balliol has a long history of being open to all on merit, and we welcome applications from students from any background and from anywhere in the world.
The Institute for Transition Studies – ITS has been created by Balliol students, dons and alumni to share information, research, opinions and personal reflections on the current transition of global civilization from its dependence upon fossilized photosynthate toward a just and solar-sustainable future on this small, blue planet — the only life-supporting sphere in the known universe.
[Nota Bene. This weblog posting is a provisional “proof-of-concept” page. It is intended to test the mechanisms of connectivity and the trans-institutional, trans-national and trans-generational exchange of ideas concerning human survival in a complex ecosystem. It began with trans-Atlantic, student experimental exchanges in learning about global climate change when it became evident to Greta Thunberg and hundreds of millions of others that established institutions could not cope with the transformations in conscious now required for human survival. It is expected that the content of this page will evolve repeatedly as the ITS-Balliol group joins with other ITS groups emerging around the world (ITS-Cambridge, ITS-Harvard, ITS Yale, etc).]
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- Concluding remarks from the film – “Manufacturing Consent” (1992)
- Global-Balliol
- The Social Science of Human Behavior: Knowledge Systems & Belief Systems in times of crisis…
- Global Climate Regime Change & The Nigerian Elections ~ Macro Historical Trends & Micro Political History
- Spanning Oceans – Bridging Traditions: Learning About Global Climate from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale… etc.
- Transcending the Institutions We Inherit and Create: Climate Change and System Change in the Anthropocene
- The Law & The Profits vs. Natural Law & The Prophet: Herman Daly & the Future of the Human Prospect
- Overcoming the Multiple Legacies of European Colonialism: Can The West Survive Its Most Cherished Historical Myths?
- Some links to the thought and action of Greta Thunberg.
- Rhodes-Scholars.TV
- Institutions Working on the Transition … to a Post Carbon-Fueled World
- 100 + Grassroots/Global Visionaries ]
See related:
- “You are being lied to…” [CASSE & the Steady State Economy]
- The Law & The Profits vs. Natural Law & The Prophet: Herman Daly & the Future of the Human Prospect
- Why Transition Studies?
- While Angels Weep… Doing Theology on a Small Plane
- “Rubbish and Racism: Problems of Boundary in an Ecosystem,” The Yale Review (1971 & 1983).
- “Just take the case of agriculture…”
- “A New Paradigm for Environmental Protection for the 21st Century”
- The “Green Revolution:” Its Essence, Achievements & Aftermath
- “If you do not change direction, you will most likely end up where you are headed.”
- Got a Carbon Problem? Fix it ! Part 1 – Some Prophetic & Enduring Testimony
- “One of the biggest legacies of colonialism….is the marginalization of the human population…” – T. C. Weiskel, [interview excerpt, “Voices from Oxford”]
- Hominid Exceptionalism and the Intrinsic Limit of Human Power in Earth’s Ecosystem
- The Malthus Insight and the Global Limits of “Green Revolution” Food Production
- Canadian Association for the Club of Rome
- UN Charter for Ecological Justice – Poems For Parliament
- etc., etc.
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