Books and DVD's to learn more about Global Change
365 WAYS TO CHANGE THE WORLD (Excerts from their website www.365act.com)
Become an Everyday Activist! Everyday activism is a movement that is gathering steam around the world. To be an Everyday Activist means that you belong to a community of people that are dedicated to taking individual everyday actions to help change the world for the better.
On this site you will find 31 ideas for a simple positive Action and find out what other Everyday activists are up to around the world. If you're a more tactile person, you can buy our book 365 Ways to Change the World, which has an Action for every day of the year in a handy paperback format. You can buy the book directly from their website www.365act.com
We really want our everyday activist community members, you, to contribute ideas too - our aim is to collate ideas and provide a focus, so please don't be shy, submit your own ideas too! As the saying goes, even the ocean is made up of individual drops and we hope that together we can create enough waves to really change the things for the better.
Our Mission How to make a difference. One day at a time... 365 Ways to Change the World started with the book. We realised there was a great deal of gloomy stuff happening in the world that just saddened and sometimes panicked us. We wanted to be positive, to see this as an opportunity to take action, to be part of the generation that turned the trend around. So we produced a very practical book, with everyday Actions that everyone could do - some of them are easier than others, some of them will need you to engage friends, some might cost some money, but all of them are fun, novel or enjoyable.
Then we realised that people wanted to talk to each other about the actions they were taking, they wanted to share stories and contribute their own ideas for Actions. So our mission evolved to include community building. The core of what we do is still to offer, create and collate Actions, but we have also now created a virtual place where everyone can contribute where you can chat, be inspired, or just browse in a comfortable space.
The key element of our mission though, is to be a forum for everyone - our community is for all ordinary individuals, regardless of whether you work in the sustainability sector or are a member of a charity or any other special criteria. We don't think anyone is more righteous than anyone else, we don't like that kind of hierarchy - we believe we can each contribute in our own way. Most of the 365 team don't have a specialised background in ethical consumerism or anything as grand as that - we're also ordinary people that just want to change the world through individual Actions.
THE NEXT EVOLUTION by Jack Reed
(Excerts from their website www.communityplanet.org )
Can We Live Together In Peace? If we're even going to HAVE a world, we're going to have to start making it work for everyone. A World Community That Works!
- Do you know that there are enough resources for all life on the planet to live very abundantly?
- Are you aware there is a way to tap these resources that is sustainable and where everyone wins?
The Next Evolution meticulously describes new-paradigm Communities—the basis building block that is needed to transform the world.
This is not a utopian fantasy. This is the blueprint for transforming our world through integrated and practical solutions to the present-day political, environmental, economic and social problems of the entire planet.
“I join Jack Reed in seeking a newer world and I applaud his dedication, commitment and high intention to produce a plan of action that we might investigate with real seriousness and with a genuine opportunity, at last, alter the human experience.” —Neale Donald Walsch.
Best-selling author of Conversations with God.
Jack Reed is truly a visionary who has spent nearly three decades studying, examining and experiencing with ways to make this planet a better place. In The Next Evolution he paints this vision of a new world in a conversational, candid and often humorous style that is both persuasive and inspiring.
Bringing Change Through Community Building After reading The Next Evolution: a Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, many of the people who have caught the vision that this model could transform the world have contacted us and are ready and willing to take action. To that end, the Community Planet Foundation is starting to compile a list of those people. As stated in the “Community Clusters” chapter, it would just take one cluster of these Highest Good For All Communities to start the transformation of the planet. We currently are looking for land to create the first Community.
THE COMMUNITY PLANET VISION AS FOUND ON THEIR WEBSITE WWW.COMMUNITYPLANET.ORG
We think that those of us who would like to transform the planet would agree that we need a new paradigm. But, with the challenges facing our planet, especially the environmental imbalances, we no longer have the luxury of acting out of against-ness towards the government and towards the money/power brokers. Also, with the Systems Theory telling us that all things are interconnected, we cannot really change what must be changed by simply rallying against one or a couple of issues. There are so many challenges and problems the planet faces that we would use up all our time and energy being against this or that, and still the planet will have moved a little closer to ecological disaster.
The new paradigm can only be created by a group of people who come from a loving place inside themselves, absolutely hold the consciousness of the Highest Good For All, and have the vision to bring that into manifestation. People need to see that there is another way, that we don't have to continue doing the separation that has bred this everyone-for-themselves approach that has been in place unquestioned for thousands of years. People need to see a Community of people who adopt a way of living together and relating together in Community on the principle of the Highest Good For All. When people see the quality of life and the ecological balance that is possible, they will also want to learn the consciousness and the form it takes to do that, and this is what will ultimately transform the planet.
We have a saying: “The solution for everything is the solution to anything.” Virtually every challenge that one can think of can be resolved by the creation of worldwide Communities such as has been described in The Next Evolution. Also, one of our leading futurists, Barbara Marx Hubbard, once asked how much it would take to create the first Community. We responded with a dollar figure, but later we realized that the answer was really that it would take just one person. One person with the resources and the vision could help us create this, and there are many good people out there who have the resources and are looking at what they can do to help humanity out of the mess we're in. Who knows, maybe you will be the one who gets this 'evolution information' vision to them.
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ASFOUND ON THE GOODPLANET WEBSITE www.goodplanet.org
the book was made to make people go further in their understanding of the movie mentionned issues. There are in the book : - 84 Yann Arthus-Bertrand photographs with some taken during the movie shooting to make people aware of the necessity to protect the environment ; - 9 chapters with a quick summary of the main environmental issues ( Earth, agriculture, cities, oil, climate change, the oceans, water, forests and human kind) made by 5 GoodPlanet writers.
GoodPlanet
GoodPlanet is a foundation that was created in 2005 to raise public awareness of environmental protection and to bring concrete solutions to the Earth’s ecological crisis. The foundation is chaired by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
Our objective
Since 1990 Yann Arthus-Bertrand has flown over one hundred countries around the world. Extraordinary aerial views of nature and descriptive texts invite all of us to reflect upon the our planet’s evolution and its inhabitants’ future.
In just 50 years mankind has modified Planet Earth’s environment faster than in the whole history of humanity ! As Earth’s ecosystem worsens, nature is expressing its violent anger : fresh water, oceans, forests, air, climate, arable land are all diminishing drastically.
We live a decisive moment - right now ! A worldwide governmental policy must establish without delay norms which will make it possible “to meet present needs without compromising the needs of future generations”. We are personally responsible for the future of our Earth, and each of us has a role to play ; we are all able – have the duty - to take action.
Here’s where we start.
The mission of GoodPlanet
GoodPlanet is working to raise awareness and propose concrete solutions in favor of our planet and its inhabitants. We are
• Sensitizing all citizens to the world’s problems, and giving each person an active role ;
• Mobilizing the economic leaders and governmental policies by explaining the association’s goals and by helping them set up sustainable development procedures ;
• Implementing programs that propose concrete answers to the environmental crisis.
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