“And We All Thought That Banks Had Money!”

http://www.hazelhenderson.com/editorials/thought_banks_had_money.html

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O site de Hazel Henderson traz um artigo recentemente escrito a respeito da crise mundial. A economista oferece algumas reflexões e sugestões como entendermos que é tempo de entrar na era da energia solar e sustentável. *********************************** At last the time has come to regulate Wall Street and the global casino, so as to return finance to its limited role in serving the needs of real, productive economies. Implementing these and other reforms can also make the banks fulfill their original purpose. They can finance maintenance of neglected public infrastructure and complement the private investments now pouring into the growing green economy, as all countries shift from the early fossil fueled Industrial Age to the sustainable Solar Age.

Site de George Monbiot - A próxima onda será o medo

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/10/14/this-is-what-denial-does/

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Disponível apenas em inglês, o site de George Monbiot traz um texto, publicado originalmente no The Guardian, que levanta a possibilidade de que a próxima onda seja o medo provocado pelo colapso da Natureza. Importante também conhecer a história de Monbiot. Somente sentindo na pele a miséria humana é possível agir para debelá-la. ************* GEORGE MONBIOT talks about the Nature Crunch, next wave, that is near and will provoke fear. Let's read and be prepared to cut fear and help to cut in other's person: The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch. But they have the same cause. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 14th October 2008 This is nothing. Well, nothing by comparison to what’s coming. The financial crisis for which we must now pay so heavily prefigures the real collapse, when humanity bumps against its ecological limits. As we goggle at the fluttering financial figures, a different set of numbers passes us by. On Friday, Pavan Sukhdev, the Deutsche Bank economist leading a European study on ecosystems, reported that we are losing natural capital worth between $2 trillion and $5 trillion every year, as a result of deforestation alone(1). The losses incurred so far by the financial sector amount to between $1 trillion and $1.5 trillion. Sukhdev arrived at his figure by estimating the value of the services - such as locking up carbon and providing freshwater - that forests perform, and calculating the cost of either replacing them or living without them. The credit crunch is petty when compared to the nature crunch. (...)

Novo site da Transcend International

http://www.transcend.org/

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O site está de cara nova, com mais funcionalidades e informação sobre mediação de conflitos por meios pacíficos,com quatro pilares de iniciativas: ação, educação\treinamento, disseminação e pesquisa. Tudo isto para aumentar a rede de diálogo em torno destes temas tão fundamentais como ferramentas de conhecimento para nos direcionar neste momento histórico da humanidade, buscando acelerar os esforços para um mundo mais pacífico. **************************** The new site of TRANSCEND INTERNATIONAL is in the air. The organization connects autonomous individuals and centers working on peace by peaceful means, development by developmental means and environment by environmental means. The mission statement defines four pillars: To bring about a more peaceful world by using action, education/training, dissemination and research to handle conflicts with empathy, nonviolence and creativity. TRANSCEND was founded August 1993 by Johan Galtung and Fumio Nishimura as a conflict mediation organization. Dietrich Fischer joined and June 1995 Fischer and Galtung invited 11 others. Mid 2008 TRANSCEND has 350 scholars-practitioners from 80 countries as members, one third women. TRANSCEND INTERNATIONAL: A NETWORK FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT