2012/11/17

2012/11/13

Why “DESIGN ME A PLANET” : http://integralleadershipreview.com/7592-why-design-me-a-planet


Why "DESIGN ME A PLANET"



After thirty glorious years crashing in the late 70s on the first oil shock, we had 30 years during which we have sunk deeper and deeper into economic, social and ecological crisis. Economic demography stumbles because we are already on the limits of the planet. We know this, in part, because social inequalities are now back to what they were in the nineteenth century. Also, the ecology has undermined biodiversity and accelerated global warming. Right in the desire to free all, the initiative remains locked in a neoliberal stance too insensitive to social dislocation and ecological crisis. We cling to growth in developed economies as the sole engine of development without offering a real solution for the economic and social crisis.
The Left has embraced the struggles of minorities towards more freedom, but left to disintegrate the old social contract without proposing a new one. The middle class emerges today impoverished, while misery engulfs the poorest. Environmentalists for thirty years have continued to warn people about the risks of industrial development and the intrinsic limits of the planet. Defenders of endangered species have some difficulties to propose an economic and social project credible, exciting and compelling for humans! The growing importance of real environmental problems, while giving them a renewed legitimacy, has faced increasing shortcomings in terms of societal projects.


2012/11/10

Fwd: Survivre au progrès


Objet : Survivre au progrès
Date : 9 novembre 2012 20:25:40 UTC-07:00
À : Michel SALOFF-COSTE 

http://survivingprogress.com/?lang=fr


Dear Michel,

Have you seen this documentary? It's marvelous, and made me think of your "Design Me a Planet."  I highly recommend watching it!

Affectionately,
Melissa


2012/11/04

2012 10 25 ASU ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY









Saloff-Coste's international NGO, "Design Me a Planet," creates global scenarios and develops a systematic process for implementation beginning at the regional level and sustained through global level information sharing. In this talk, Saloff-Coste compels the audience to "generate intelligent change together." Saloff-Coste is an artist, global futurist, business adviser, and entrepreneur. He seeks to discover the technological, economic, social, and ecological processes related to the passage of the "Industrial Society" to the "Information Society." 

Related Event: Passport for the Future: 
Why We Need to Re-Design the Planet 

Transcript of the video

YOU are invited! Here is your formal invitation to the Day of the Dead feast and get-together Saturday, November 3.


Hi dears,

Here is your formal invitation to the Day of the Dead feast and get-together Saturday, November 3. Soon!

We will be delighted to see you all, and it's going to be an intimate evening, so more for all of us of food, fun and each other's company. Yipppieeeee!!!

See you soon, love, Cheryl and Kenton


2012/11/03

2012 11 03 “Design Me A Planet”A Futurist Global Think Tank A Profile of Michel Saloff-Coste





“Design Me A Planet”—A Futurist Global Think TankA Profile of Michel Saloff-Coste
Perhaps our most ambitious hub is an organization called “Design Me a Planet” based in of Paris, France—an inspired “think tank” founded by Michel Saloff-Coste whose purpose is to create and disseminate solutions for global issues at the planetary level. The founder of the Club of Budapest in France, Michel has been closely associated with Welcoming Committee member Ervin Lazslo and many other leading European innovators and visionaries. Michel is a bestselling author in France who is known worldwide as a change catalyst, global futurist, and integral thinker—and also as an artist whose work hangs in prestigious museums. And now he’s a friend of the Birth 2012 movement.