A PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK GROUP WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 6, 2002 Eighty-four years ago in this city, Woodrow Wilson spoke of war and peace to a joint session of Congress. “What we demand” he said, “is that the world be made safe for every …
THE INNER LIMITS OF MANKIND HERETICAL REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S VALUES, CULTURE AND POLITICS ERVIN LASZLO One World Publications 1989 PART VI Appendix: A Long Way to Grow. A Bird’s-eye View of the Current Goals of the World’s Peoples In order to provide a more informed background for the proper assessment of the crucial question …
THE CHAOS POINT THE WORLD AT THE CROSSROADS ERVIN LASZLO PIATKUS BOOKS 2006 PART IV PART ONE: THE TIDES OF TRANSFORMATION Chapter 3: The Drivers of Chaos (Cont.) Social unsustainabilities The fourth driver: The unsustainability of established social structures Stresses within human communities are nearing a critical point: Traditional social structures are …
AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART I THE INSTITUTION MADE THE MAN AND THE MAN RE-MADE THE INSTITUTION Introduction Two years ago, on February 2, 2009, Bruce Lansdale, Director of the American Farm School from 1955 to 1990, died. We honoured him on Psycho Sabbato – the day when Greece remembers those who …
MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING VIKTOR E. FRANKL WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS 1959 PART IV PART ONE: EXPERIENCES IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP (Cont) There were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to …
THE INNER LIMITS OF MANKIND HERETICAL REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S VALUES, CULTURE AND POLITICS ERVIN LASZLO One World Publications 1989 PART V Chapter 6: Beyond Today’s Limits. The Evolutionary Prospect Scientists were wrong to insist that acceptable evidence must be ultimately reducible to what we can directly observe – to what is called ‘sense data’. …
THE FIVE LESSONS OF LIFE BILL ADAMS RIDER 2000 PART IV Chapter 5: The Power of Meditation I bathed as quickly as possible, dipping my hand in the bucket and splashing a few drops of water on my sleep-warmed skin. Never having done it before, I concentrated hard on what it was I valued, …
THE CHAOS POINT THE WORLD AT THE CROSSROADS ERVIN LASZLO PIATKUS BOOKS 2006 PART III PART ONE: THE TIDES OF TRANSFORMATION Chapter 3: The Drivers of Chaos The choice we presently face is between devolution toward crisis and breakdown, and evolution toward a new world. We will enter one or the other …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART III Chapter 3: Words/Meaning Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change. ANIMAL Before visiting any farms, I spent more than a year wading through literature …
MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING VIKTOR E. FRANKL WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS 1959 PART III PART ONE: EXPERIENCES IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP (Cont) As the inner life of the prisoner tended to become more intense, he also experienced the beauty of art and nature as never before. Under their influence he sometimes even forgot his …
