Blog year2008 in october is about ending poverty http://events.takingitglobal.org/20255 so we hope this week's syndication to 100 blogs will exponentialise to tens of thousands of blogs by then, with a little help from friends like you

sustainability club http://sustainabilityclub.com

social business club http://www.socialbusinessclub.net

collaboration cafe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I

yunus 10000 http://yunus10000.com collaboration coordinators for youth dialogues in that city and between cities together with invitations to action specific to each video good news story - eg if you want microcredit to beat off big banks why not help any school try out micro credit with the world's simplest program small change, big changes - a microloanfoundation franchise

Peers across hemispheres and I are far more interested in ensuring that each of these intercity movements vetoes any uses of 20th c failing system methods that the majority of club coordinators -or where elected an honorary board - vote against, than prescribing revenue models.

OPEN SOURCING THE CLUBS
Obviously we should want coordinators to make a living out of work input whlst at the same time recognising that being a club coordinator is probably worth more than having many a professional qualification - or needs to become so if this world is to be sustainable. Equally where profits are repeatedly generated I assume we can find a way iof agreeing some sliding scale that should be contributed either to your favourite grassroots organsiation in bangladesh or to a small list of other potential grassroots partners of future capitalism which should probably need at least 75 of members refendum to confirm

I am very happy if people will negotiate what other rules they would need to want to participate as well as to clarify where they want diferent contant at the mother webs. The main web system I use costs $35 a year per web so its not difficult to imagine that major cties will also want to set up their own branch web or of course a free blog - either of which we will happily linmk from the top of the mother web.

Obviously some of our constitution needs double checking with for example the 100000 bangladeshi's and other Gandhians who are the main practical exemplar of the values we seek to network worldwide so that the future sustains 7 billion brilliant jobs and goodwill multiplying across all women, children and even men.

We wish to learn from each city's most successful ways of mobilising and cross-cultural celebration, as well as metods for ensuring that any action network actually reaches to those in most desperate need of its service. This is one of the big lessons of bangladeshi experience -reiterated by every micro-system designer in bangladesh we have interviewed - once a networks starts empowering the entrepreneur inside it will never get deeper than the deepest needsholders it begins with. This is a lesson that many global NGOs seem never to have begun to grade.

chris macrae http://worldentrepreneur.net
washington dc inquiries desk usa 301 881 1655 info@worldcitizen.tv
y10000 at facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22045349892

DC is one of the first wave of cities that Yunus bookclub1000 would like to form a citizen group in - if these sorts of monthly breakthroughs are vital to you and your peers - apply to chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk - updating info at http://futurecapitalism.tv or chris dc 301 881 1655

DC May round-up http://www.cdgev.org lawrence mcdonald introduces scott mcneally and the campaign to modernise foreign assictance; nancy birdsdall co-launched reporting of the 4 million dolar report of worl bank and 4 governments that all 7 billion people need to be development experts

woodrow wilson centre lauches the film season with the reetrospective on whan usa rocked with anti-apartheid networks in the 1980s; raimo suggests I make contact with director of http://www.americaspeaks.org (june 4 mail)

first notive on youth DC microenterprise summit in september


DC features in april's round up of collaboration cities in post reproduced below

also I am making a concerted effort to link with media change agents at http://www.i-genius.com/member/profile.php/id/1055

april's round the world of collaboration cities

DC perhaps the greatest ever attempt to unite western women's networks -see the case for investing in women and girls http://wfd-alliance.org/AUthecase.htm ; this is theme we wish to continue in any space - eg facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18188015069- do tell us if there's a virtual community you'd want this conversation extended to ;

media change is one of those lifelong issues for world entrepreneurs and me - at the internet level the prospects of 10000 village telecentres quizzin the web on vital knowledge http://egrameen.com/ is perhaps the best news for the planet I have heard since berners lee invented the www; on mass media we continue to plug away at this tome of year in the face off between american idol and http://africanidol.tv/ and all year round at http://universityofstars.tv/ and http://cidaworld.tv/ in the campaigns for real heroes for youth and the training of youth entrepreneurs. LA's green children kindly gave me a plug recently http://thegreenchildren.org/tgcf/news/macrae.php

back at Dhaka in january when we met Dr Yunus and discussed what agendas 1000 bookclub should link round in 2008 findin the way to unite the voices of the big demographic groups such as women and youth who have less decision making power but so much to do in sustaining community was one of the top 12 connections we promised to keep trying to make - the picture shows the other 12 ; these are linked in more getail at http://smbaworld.com/

New York hosts the next collaboration cafe http://thecooperation.tv/ around dr yunus on april 15 at pete's tavern - if you are interested in coming ask info@worldcitizen.tv before april 14. Ta!

Has DC lost Washington? 1 2 Until the end of 2007,Macrae.Nets (1 2 3 4), vt and this weblog will attempt to unlock DC's best kept secrets. We will call these the Entrepreneurial Revolution Archives- begun at The Economist 1 2 in London 30 years ago: they multiply through 3 levels of leadership valuation Leadership Proof of Valuation 1 Entrepreneurial Revolution means the biggest systemic transformations that societies need to innovate through - see the declaration of independence as its language is right out of ER textbooks Leadership Proof of Valuation 2 We're all Intrapreneurial Now - published in The Economist of 1982 - but coined first by J Gifford Pinchot - Leadership Proof of Valuation 3 JGP has been a frequent connector with Washington's foremost entrepreneurial revolutionary catalogue maintained globally and socially at Bill Drayton's Ashoka network of social entrepreneurship (March 06: see also Oxford's global warning with Gore et al) in Arlington since 1983- a movement whose DNA connects with Gandhi, who in the view of mathematicians from Einstein down is the benchmark against all human leadership is worth judging.

Here are some network gateways I have loved to find around DC -email me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you want to be guided into them or feel there's a network I would like to be guided into! Social Entrepreneurs 1 (ie global village project transfers) - eg Ashoka Intrapreneurs (ie service economy) - eg Worldblu - Organisational Democracy Gandhi- eg DC arranges correspondence course with Uni Gandhi at Ahmedabad founded in 1920 Microfinance - eg Grameen International, Omidyar Future History - Death of Distance, Friedman's World is Flat, Green is Next Red White & Blue, State of Union Gathering Storm Revolutions - end addiction to petroleum economics, help kids love exploring science more than idols Open Space - Founder of this 25 year long and 80 country net is Harrison Owen, Potomac MD Unseen Wealth, Intangibles, Trust-Flow governance - used to be Brookings and Georgetown, now Tenessee aSIN - eg Al Gore's Generation IM youngHUBS - eg Rio's Catalytic Communities founded by a Washingtonian Theresa Williamson Brainstorms, web2.1 open space roadshow out of silicon valley

"Caputh bei Potsdam", September 1931 Respected Mr. Gandhi ! I use the presence of your friend in our home to send you these lines. You have shown through your works, that it is possible to succeed without violence even with those who have not discarded the method of violence. We may hope that your example will spread beyond the borders of your country, and will help to establish an international authority, respected by all, that will take decisions and replace war conflicts. With sincere admiration, Yours A. Einstein. I hope that I will be able to meet you face to face some day. DEAR FRIEND, I was delighted to have your beautiful letter sent through Sundaram. It is a great consolation to me that the work I am doing finds favour in your sight. I do indeed wish that we could meet face to face and that too in India at my Ashram. Yours sincerely, M. K. GANDHI

Further note by Einstein:
Source Einstein Archive, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mahatma Gandhi's life achievement stands unique in political history. He has invented a completely new and humane means for the liberation war of an oppressed country, and practised it with greatest energy and devotion. The moral influence he had on the consciously thinking human being of the entire civilized world will probably be much more lasting than it seems in our time with its overestimation of brutal violent forces. Because lasting will only be the work of such statesmen who wake up and strengthen the moral power of their people through their example and educational works.
We may all be happy and grateful that destiny gifted us with such an enlightened contemporary, a role model for the generations to come.

Bill Drayton Ashoka quoted in the book by David Bornstein-(How to Change the World- Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas) "Gandhi’s greatest insight was recognising early in the twentieth century that a new type of ethics was emerging in the world. – an ethics grounded not in rules but in empathy. It was a change that was necessary as human society grew increasingly complex. In the past, when people lived in homogeneous communities and rarely moved far from their birthplaces, rule-based ethics had been adequate to govern human relations. But the world has become too fast-paced and interconnected for rule-based ethics. There were too many interactions in which rules were outdated and belief systems clashed. The new circumstances demanded that people become more ethically self-guiding: people had to be able to put themselves in the shoes of those around them. Those who could not navigate situations in which rules were changing or could not master the skills of empathetic understanding would find themselves unable to manage their behaviour ethically or wisely; increasingly they would (need to) be seen as “loose canons”, and marginalised within society"

Back to the future as mappable at 1983, my father and I wrote the first future history in the death of distance genre 1 2 - currently being celebrated out of Bethesda and at the National Academy's Gathering Storm with additional metaphors such as the world is flat. Broadcast to be behind the conversion of Augustine and the 2 big revolutionary commitments made in the 2006 State of The Union : end American addiction to petroleum economics and do all we can to get children to love exploring science as much as they currently like sports and fashionable celebrities.

Our 2024 Report written in 1984 connected several future shocks:

one generation (1984-2024) challenged by a revolution without precedence connecting all through the world (what Buckminster Fuller has described as mankind’s final examination for all future generations to come)

The need for communities to act and learn round at least 7 waves -identified and timetabled as propagating through all societies, uptilting or down-tilting them, depending on how competent we are at collaboration's trust-flow, transparency and sustainability. These included humanity's most challenging cross-cultural wave timetabled back in 1984 as emerging 2005 or thereabouts

The ER archives' most risky scripts will start appearing here. We are delighted if anyone wants to open source or re-edit them. But don't bother to mention their link with us unless you want to present your script jointly. What we don't want is any of our specific meanings of Entrepreneurial Revolution, Intrapreneur, or Social Entrepreneur turned round to mean the opposite of what we have been mapping for 22 years in the case of Death of Distance, 30 years in the case of Entrepreneurial Revolution and over 140 years in the case of that school of economics that demands sustainability of all global village's society at the core of any worldwide map. This was the intent of the founder of The Economist James Wilson, and is given latter-day confirmation by Queen Elizabeth's end of 2005 speech to the Commonwealth : please stop globalisation from turning humanity on itself.

IF Washington DC's most secret archives can generate some clues on that- then long live the Queen, the American Independence, and the English-American speaking worlds our special transatlantic relationship has for most of its existence done a true and fair job.

Yours aye
Chris & Norman Macrae, Bethesda & Wimbledon, via wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
Sustainability Investment, Public Media & Learning Network advisers,
World Class Brands Network

The Wimbledon & DC dialogues

Julian Simon (Maryland)* Macrae

First an excuse for the wickedly partisan twin dialogues above , which I invite you to nominate other transatlantic pairings to.

As a statistician, I love hunting out exceptional viewpoints and find balanced ones devalue what futures are most likely to happen. There is a reason for this: system. Once a system pattern takes hold it spirals between one of 2 opposite extremes.

While we are still ruled by accounting that hasn't chnaged its monopoly captive audience in the boardroom for a century, the system will always cut people down as costs and invest in machines because that is what accounting books formalise quarter after quarter. It's as if nobody has told accountants that many leading nations became primarily service economies in the early 1980s.

Then I can bear witness to 2 other disasters which compounded the slump in devaluing human beings and devaluing their trust-flow relationships in teams and networks.

First, the spreadsheet enabled the accountant to inists that numbers went global overnight. Back in 1980 the fastest detailed information could pass around was the telex, and this had to be typed up on manual tickertape macines. If for no other reason, the largest corporations were still multinational. It was impossible for global orders to chase the numbers every quarter let alone every morning.

Second, the then 5 global accountants to be (I slept with one called Coppers! & Lybrand!! between 1989-1995) preferred to maintain their monopoly rule over the boardroom that admit that a second audit of intangibles was needed to understand what future people productivities any corporation or global industry sector of government is compounding. There are tales (you may not want to know about) of social lawyers who had just reserached the dynamics of this unseen wealth pleading with the inaugural circles of the first Bush Administration : until accounting's monopoly power to blind leaders over trust-flow is revoked, we are mathematically certain to compound ever more risky decisions through all the biggest organisations.

Dr Yunus of Grameen and microcredit and Nobel peace 2006 is setting cities and citiens around the world an interesting challenge. If he is passing through your city would you be able to find 1000 people who all wanted to collaborate with each other as well as him in empowering a good global world instead of the bad one currently compoundingSynonyms for good are win-win-win, sustainable, empowering every community up, one where hi-trust people transparently win over low-trustSo 2 questions:if Yunus was passing through Africa cities, which do you think would produce the most collaborative impactsif you are a twin national

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2516276605 - eg living in a rich city but with family roots back in Africa - how ready is your big rich city to represent Africa interests when Yunus hosts his Forum 1000 there.My friends are particularly working on London and New York as 2 test cities; partly because a London University student spent the summer interning in Dhaka on this project. One intercity collaboration idea is collaboration cafe - see those we have already hosted and tell us at info@worldcitizen.tv if you want to replay one in your city or virtually http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page4.html

Another collaboration idea is can we produce a good global idea to heroes, their projects and networks for humanity. Why do people all over the world know the top 10 sporstmen for 50 different sports but not top 10s for different vital issues of human sustainability? http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5475184122

http://worldcitizen.tv/_wsn/page2.html

But the best truth about collaboration knowledge cities http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Bknowledge+%2Bcollaboration+%2Bcity&btnG=Google+Search in the 5 years that I have been searching the peoples and communities that weave them is that if any city does a great job in turning round a beter Global with Yunus we can all learn from what it did and work out how to invite the 1000 most relevant citizens when Yunus passes your way. http://grameen.tv/

Education entrepreneurs is one of 7 waves I have been mapping with greatest interest since 1984 when I co-authored the original death of distance (flat world) future history- how networks hit one generation's (1984-2024) responsibility to the future in a way that has no parallel in the history of humankind (and will spin either very well or to oblivion depending what we action this next decade or so http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687http://globalcharters.blogspot.com

Entrepreneurship, unlike its sometimes diluted american connotation for superselling, is derived from the french take back - as in the peopes revolution where Egalite and Fraternite were taken back from Royal Power; or as in you all's Boston tea party with the English : a small revolutionary blip compared with taking back the peoples's globalisation peacefully today

FIRST QUESTION OF EDUCATION ENTREPRENEURS may be:. Who are the ten educational systemisers you might entrust our childerns future education to most. eg Ashoka's nomination of Mary Montessori http://www.ashoka.org/fellows/social_entrepreneur.cfm
A lot more is at stake for all whose networks hub out of or co-located in the Washington Dc region now Presidnet Bush and his 20 gathering stormers have set sail on their own version of educational futures www.nap.edu - and science for children http://clubofdc.blogspot.com
The conflict barrier seems to be how do open collaborators, parents, families mtake the learning network wave way out of these 21 folks' monopoly control. We are putting a lot of effort into mapping who wants to do that at http://www.frappr.com/entrepreneur

all help welcome from open space race agents
chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

Global Charters- Human Story Update in Brief

Ever since 1984 Entrepreneurs (Revolutionary, Social, Intra, Web or Sustainability) and opne Death of Distance Future History debating networks have known that one generation of mankind 1984-2024 will be hit by 7 interconnecting waves: each capable of sustaining or destabilising our children's generations for ever

It doesnt matter if you believe in 7 wonders - as long as you see and connect with people mapping more than 2 ; understand that they are interconnecting and each is systemic (can only compound expoential growth or destriction over time and through the 2 million global villages we 6 billion beings spend our lifetimes and genenerate the next by inhabiting or network around)

wave 1 might be called collaborating with sunshine's clean energy, clean water, clean oxygen, and healthy nature - for its most courageous storylines join in at this collaborative treasure map http://www.frappr.com/algaeworld

wave 2 might be called children's learning potentials and cross-cultural confidences and acccess to lifelong pursuits worthy of developing and not communally destructing

wave 3 might be called ridding apartheids and structural underclasses so that no baby girl or boy is born into and chained around extreme poverty's disease and compound loss of life's energy to make a loving difference
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wave 7 might be called changing economics, valuation, governance to love courageous people's relationships and trust-flows not to quarterise them -wave 7 was always going to be the hardest conversion of all - eg Augustine's conversion?

We are redeveloping our scripts of each wave at http://globalcharters.blogspot.com - if you have got a script for open use, or a wave of concern, or a treasure map to interconnect, please come along so we colaboration in the generation that collectively decided the fate of our species

We'll also collate economic scripts at the bottom section of this blog

Preneurs Villages

Inspired by the databanks of microfinance, Preneurs Villages is a mapmaking initiative being open sourced by future historians and the deepest investors in humanity's love and talents we seek to influence around the globe. Our studies and resources for this initiative started 30 years ago with the publication of Entrepreneurial Revolution at The Economist (we welcome many co-scripting birthday parties through 2006)

We identify transparency of preneurial villages that most interest us in a city by: going to network debates; questioning how long and deep the originator of a preneurial network has been connecting like-minded people; seeing if their best for the world cause matches others ones we have heard about in other places. Most of the co-editors of preneurial villages have worked on deep "economics of exponentials" projects, in most continents, typically 20 or more countries and cultures. They are interested in what connections and colaborations can be mapped to start to compound an economics of abundance that models which externalise competitivity alone can never sustainably compound.

Featuring below are the villages we've located so far in or connecting through the DC region. Please tell of us other village networks that merit being in this catalogue. Chris Macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk co-author of the 1984 Report on the Future of Networking Economics mapped around Global & Local Villages

Code Green means that we act as a pobox to the founder of these villages if you have a mail you want relayed

1 Intrapraneurial DC (service economy organisational democracy) hubs round Traci Fenton at WorldBlu

2 Deep Society preneurs for Brazil & Rio hubs around Theresa Williamson of Catalytic Communities

3 Future Histories of Green is Next Red White & Blue & Other Flat (Collaboration) World Scenarios - hubs round journalist Thomas Friedman

4 Microfinance - a world practice centre hubs round Grameen International -see also TrustMF

5 Cataloguing conflict resolution contexts in social demand in 100 countries - hubs around Open Space Technology of Harrison Owen. This also links to many other club of city's village interests - including London, Melbourne, Delhi and S. Africa.

6 Students for multicultural internships - hubs around DC branch of Aiesec

7 Can we carnivalise corporations and place's greatest services and market offers so that as many people as possible enjoy the reality of their future potential beyond image-making - a joint hub exercise of Brand Chartering, Beyond-Branding and Carnivalisation best practice catalogued out of in Barbados

8 Future Valuation and Governance of Unseen Wealth (Intangibles Margaret Blair) * Transparency *Exponentials (valuetrue Chris Macrae)

9 Can networking age education of school children be more exploratory than examination by one orthodoxy's standards - no nominated hub yet but keeps coming up in many cafe conversations

over in arlington, changemakers is one of the best of web happenings I've seen in 12 years of searching -Here -it is interesting to see views on what health for all means to citizens of 23 countries

one of the world's leading jams on health for all projects enters it last few days of the season

if you agree that project searches on such vital human endeavours should also be scaled with the help of world service public broadcasters, pelase consider pledging here (no money's involved just a bit of your time if 2009 others agree to network in support of what the British Broadcast Corporation could be doing with its world service)

The conference will have many followers of Gandhi,including of
course his grandson who is one of our speakers. Plus it is
cosponsored by the Buddhist peace fellowship. And then there is
John Dear, the great practitioner of non-violence from the
Catholic world who is also a follower of Gandhi.

D.C. May 17-20, 2006. The conference is the first East Coast appearance for the Network of Spiritual Progressives, co-chaired by MIchael Lerner, Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, and professor of African American studies and Religion at Princeton U. Cornel West. The Network of Spiritual Progressives has 3 goals:

1. to challenge the misuse of God and religion by the Religious Right to justify war and militarism, cuts in programs for the poor and powerless in order to justify cuts in taxes for the rich, assaults on human rights and civil liberties, and destruction oaf the separation of church and state;

2. to challenge the religio-phobia and hostility toward religious and spiritual people that appears in some sections of liberal and progressive culture, and to help the Left distinguish
between reactionary forms of religion and the progressives forms that it took with Martin Luther King, Jr., William Sloan Coffin, Abraham Joshua Heschel and many others. and to build a new spiritual progressive politics not only for religious people, but also for those who do not believe in God but are “spiritual but NOT religious”

3. to seek a New Bottom Line in the Western world so that institutions get judged efficient, rational or productive not only to the extent that they maximize money or power, but also to the extent that they maximize love and caring, kindness and generosity, ethically and ecologically sensitive behavior, and enhance our capacities to respond to other human beings as manifestations of the sacred and inherently valuable and to be respected, and enhance our capacities to respond to the universe with awe, wonder and radical amazement at the grandeur of all that is.

This is the ground floor of building a new kind of paradigm for progressive politics, and it could have a major impact in making the liberal and progressive forces far more successful in healing and transforming American society. As I’ve shown in my new book The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right, many people agree with the Left on specific issues but still end up feeling that their greatest pain is the deprivation of love, a sense of meaning in work, and a feeling that they are surrounded by materialism, selfishness, and moral insensitivity, that their children are subjected to sexual pressures before they are old enough to handle them, and that the Left seems oblivious to these kinds of issues and only addresses economic entitlements and political rights.

We in the NSP (the Network of Spiritual Progressives) care very much about eliminating poverty, fighting for equal rights, ending the war in Iraq and the militarist assumptions that led to it, but that these important struggles will not be won until the Left also seems to care about these other “meaning” issues in the lives of many Americans. Moreover, the Left is only clear on what it is against, but rarely has it communicated clearly what it is for. That’s why we are taking our demand for a New Bottom Line to the Congress and the media May 17-20—along with a detailed SPIRITUAL COVENANT WITH AMERICA that is meant to provide a positive vision of what a progressive spiritual politics is about (you can read it fully explicated in The Left Hand of God, which, I’m happy to say, has become a national best-seller since it was published by Harpers in February).

The spiritual activism conference will be a unique blending of progressive religious people with progressive “spiritual but not religious” people. Among the presenters, besides me, Cornel West and Sister Joan Chittister: Jim Wallis (progressive Evangelical editor of Sojourners and author, God’s Politics), Cindy Sheehan (mother of U.S. solider killed in Iraq war), Episcopal ArchDeacon Michael Kendall, Marie Denis (Fellowship of Reconciliation), Rev. William Sinkford (national president, Unitarian Universalist Association), Rev. Joan Campbell (Chautauqua Institute), Harry Knox (Human Rights Campaign), Rev. Penny Nixon (Metropolitan Church, San Francisco), Rabbi Brain Walt (national chair, Rabbis for Human Rights), Seyyed Hossein Nasr (author, The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity), Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (chair, Progressive Caucus, U.S. House of Representatives), Shaikh Kabir Helminski (Sufi teacher), Svi Shapiro (author of Beyond Liberalism and Excellence: Reconstructing the Public Discourse on Education), Rev. Ama Zenya (United Church of Christ), John Dear S.J. (Catholic non-violence activist), Rev. Lennox Yearwood (Progressive Democrats of America), Robert Thurman (Buddhist teacher and author The Jewel Tree of Tibet), Jonathan Granoff (chair, American Bar Association committee on disarmament), Rev. Lynice Pinkard (United Church of Christ), Bill Meadows (national chair, Wildlife Association), Enola Aird, Katrina Vanden Heuvel (editor, The Nation), Christopher Hedges (former NY Times reporter and author: War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning), Peter Gabel (associate editor of Tikkun and professor of law, New College of California), Thea Levkowitz (Religion and the Environment), Rev. Tony Campolo (Evangelical teacher), Holly Near (progressive music), Michael Bader (psychoanalyst), Michael Posner (human rights), Arthur Waskow (Shalom Center), Rev. Donna Schaper, Nanette Schorr, Rabbi Debora Kohn, Barbara Coombs Lee, Enola Aird, Rev. Bob Edgar (chair, National Council of Churches), Rev. Debora Johnson, John Seed, Paul Wapner, Mary Darling, Rev. Donna Schapper, Harvey Cox, Janet Chisholm, Roshi Bernie Glassman, Rev. Glenn Harold Stassen, Rev. Paul Smith, Çharlene Spretnak, David Abrams
Rev. Robert Hardies & Rev. Louise Green (All Souls Unitarian church), and many more.

Even if you can’t come to the conference, you can join as a dues paying member the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP) and help us out financially, or even help us build a local chapter in your area. For information on registering for the conference or joining the NSP: www.spiritualprogressives.org or 510 644 1200 (between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time).

I hope you personally will come, or join, and I’d particularly appreciate it if you’d send this note to everyone you know, and in your own name urge them to come as well..

Many blessings,

Rabbi Michael Lerner
Editor, Tikkun, rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in San Francisco, and author, The Left Hand of God

Has DC lost Washington?

When you look at such George Washington nquotes as these it seem that history is replaying the future but unfortunately current leaders have the wrong end of every sustainability exponential our economics experts are mapping 1 2 3

in April 1789 GW (George Washington) took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. "As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles."

May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years.

He realized early that the best strategy was to harass the British. He reported to Congress, "we should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn." Ensuing battles saw him fall back slowly, then strike unexpectedly. Finally in 1781 with the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.

Governance Structure of A*B*C:
A)Sustainability*B)Transparency*C)Gravity of True Purpose

Q1 Is it possible to govern the A*B*C of the local and global networks of civil society without this molecular structure?

continue the debate and finetune the details at http://civil-society.blogspot.com or discuss with me at C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net (CM1)

Is this the #1 story of our life and times? If not , please tell me what is?

# 1 compelling story of our lives and times???
how abundant energy and clean water - and so the economics of abundance became to be co-created is very simple provided :
you have a good enough map (help us develop it)
you all collaborate around developing this treasure

why
value: because those places with the most extreme climates either have the most desperate energy needs or capabilities to multiply sunshine's energy flows or both
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innovation: they are where people have spent longest with experimenting with solutions, as well as any cross-cultural conflicts or historical errors
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nature: they are where nature most wants to help save the world from the system of system crises of threat and opportunity that waves dynamise

come on humanity, since 1984 scripts from leading economists have suggested this is the major entrepereneurial 1 2 challenge to network collaboratively around, before all our global villages learn how to network other value multipliers and 30000 projects worth open sourcing all over the world

Has Capitalism Lost Its Human Interest?

What Our Economist said in 1984 about the challenges of networking to free markets - see our weblog on de-politicize , NOW!

What's being said now:
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>>Jerold Hubbard, USA
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>>TAXATION SHIFT TO SUPPORT THE RIGHT KIND OF END RESULT
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>>ITS INCOME TAX TIME FOR AMERICANS
>>And It's Time for the Entire World to Lower Income Taxes and Raise
>>Environmental Taxes
>>http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/Seg/PB2ch12_ss2.htm
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>>Lester R. Brown
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>>As Americans are filing their income taxes, many of their counterparts in
>>several European countries are benefiting from a steady decline in income
>>taxes as governments lower taxes on income and raise taxes on
>>environmentally destructive activities - like burning gasoline or coal.
>>The purpose of this tax shifting is to incorporate the environmental costs
>>of products and services into the market price to help the market tell the
>>environment truth. This rewards environmentally responsible behavior such
>>as reducing energy use.
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>>Among the various environmentally damaging activities taxed in Europe are
>>coal burning, gasoline use, the generation of garbage (so-called landfill
>>taxes), the discharge of toxic waste, and the excessive number of cars
>>entering cities. Germany and Sweden are the leaders among the countries in
>>Western Europe that are shifting taxes in a process known there as
>>environmental tax reform. A four-year plan adopted in Germany in 1999
>>systematically shifted taxes from labor to energy. By 2001, this plan had
>>lowered fuel use by 5 percent. It had also accelerated growth in the
>>renewable energy sector, creating some 45,400 jobs by 2003 in the wind
>>industry alone, a number that is projected to rise to 103,000 by 2010.
>>
>>In 2001, Sweden launched a bold 10-year environmental tax shift designed
>>to convert 30 billion kroner ($3.9 billion) of taxes from income to
>>environmentally destructive activities. Much of this shift of $1,100 per
>>household is levied on cars and trucks, including substantial hikes in
>>vehicle and fuel taxes. Electricity is also being taxed more heavily. This
>>tax restructuring is an integral part of Sweden's plan to be oil free by
>>2025. Among the other European countries with strong tax reform efforts
>>are Spain, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, and France.
>>
>>There are isolated cases of using taxes to discourage environmentally
>>destructive activities elsewhere. The United States imposed a stiff tax on
>>chlorofluorocarbons to phase them out in accordance with the Montreal
>>Protocol of 1987 and its subsequent updates. When Victoria, the capital of
>>British Columbia, adopted a trash tax of $1.20 per bag of garbage, the
>>city reduced its daily trash flow 18 percent within one year.
>>
>>Cities that are being suffocated by cars are using stiff entrance taxes to
>>reduce congestion. First adopted by Singapore some two decades ago, this
>>tax was later introduced by Oslo, Melbourne, and, most recently, London.
>>The London tax of £5, or nearly $9 per visit, first enacted in February
>>2002 by Mayor Ken Livingstone, was raised to £8, more than $14, in July
>>2005. The resulting revenue is being used to improve the bus network,
>>which carries 2 million passengers daily. The goal of this congestion tax
>>is a restructuring of the London transport system to increase mobility and
>>decrease congestion, air pollution, and carbon emissions.
>>
>>While some cities are taxing cars that enter the central city, others are
>>simply imposing a tax on automobile ownership. New York Times reporter
>>Howard French writes that Shanghai, which is approaching traffic gridlock,
>>"has raised the fees for car registrations every year since 2000, doubling
>>over that time to about $4,600 per vehicle - more than twice the city's
>>per capita income." In Denmark, the steep tax on an energy-inefficient new
>>car doubles the price of the car.
>>
>>An excellent model for calculating indirect costs is a 2001 analysis by
>>the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which calculated
>>the social costs of smoking cigarettes at $7.18 per pack. This not only
>>justifies raising taxes on cigarettes, which claim 4.9 million lives per
>>year worldwide (more than all other air pollutants combined), but it also
>>provides guidelines for how much to raise them. In 2002, 21 U.S. states
>>raised cigarette taxes. Perhaps the biggest jump came in New York City,
>>where smokers paid an additional 39¢ in state tax and $1.42 in city tax -
>>a total increase of $1.81 per pack.
>>
>>If the cost to society of smoking a pack of cigarettes is $7.18, how much
>>is the cost to society of burning a gallon of gasoline? Fortunately, the
>>International Center for Technology Assessment has done a detailed
>>analysis, entitled "The Real Price of Gasoline." The group calculates
>>several indirect costs, including oil industry tax breaks, oil supply
>>protection costs, oil industry subsidies, and health care costs of
>>treating auto exhaust-related respiratory illnesses. The total of these
>>indirect costs centers around $9 per gallon, somewhat higher than those of
>>smoking a pack of cigarettes. Add these external costs to the average
>>price of gasoline in the United States - just over $2 per gallon in 2005 -
>>and gas would cost $11 a gallon. For Americans, this is shockingly high,
>>but it is not that much higher than the $7 per gallon that Dutch motorists
>>paid briefly in late 2005 or the $6 per gallon that British, German,
>>French, and Italian drivers now regularly pay for gasoline.
>>
>>Asia's two leading economies - Japan and China - are now considering the
>>adoption of carbon taxes. For the last few years, many members of the
>>Japanese Diet have wanted to launch an environmental tax shift, but
>>industry has opposed it. China is working on an environmental tax
>>restructuring that will discourage fossil fuel use. According to Wang
>>Fengchun, an official with the National People's Congress, "Taxation is
>>the most powerful tool available in a market economy in directing a
>>consumer's buying habits. It is superior to government regulations."
>>
>>Environmental tax shifting usually brings a double dividend. In reducing
>>taxes on income - in effect, taxes on labor - labor becomes less costly,
>>creating additional jobs while protecting the environment. This was the
>>principal motivation in the German four-year shift of taxes from income to
>>energy. Reducing the air pollution from smokestacks and tailpipes reduces
>>the incidence of respiratory illnesses, such as asthma and emphysema - and
>>thus overall health care costs.
>>
>>Some 2,500 economists, including eight Nobel Prize winners in economics,
>>have endorsed the concept of tax shifts. Harvard economics professor N.
>>Gregory Mankiw wrote in Fortune: "Cutting income taxes while increasing
>>gasoline taxes would lead to more rapid economic growth, less traffic
>>congestion, safer roads, and reduced risk of global warming - all without
>>jeopardizing long-term fiscal solvency. This may be the closest thing to a
>>free lunch that economics has to offer."
>>
>>Accounting systems that do not tell the truth can be costly. Faulty
>>corporate accounting systems that leave costs off the books have driven
>>some of the world's largest corporations into bankruptcy. The risk with
>>our faulty global economic accounting system is that it so distorts the
>>economy that it could one day lead to economic decline and collapse.
>>
>>If we can get the market to tell the truth, then the world can avoid being
>>blindsided by faulty accounting systems that lead to bankruptcy. As
>>Øystein Dahle, former Vice President of Exxon for Norway and the North
>>Sea, has pointed out: "Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the
>>market to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it
>>does not allow the market to tell the ecological truth."
>>
>># # #
>>
>>Adapted from Chapter 12, "Building a New Economy," in Lester R. Brown,
>>Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
>>(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006), available for free downloading at
>>www.earthpolicy.org/Books/PB2/index.htm

HOWARD UNIVERSITY ENTREPRENEURIAL SOCIETY PRESENTS:

"5-Minute Networking"
Thursday, March 30, 2006, 6:00 pm
At
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Brief Agenda

6:00- 6:30 pm Registration and hor d' oeuvres

6:30-7:00 pm Welcome & Introductions
Keynote Address
Lamar Johnson
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Creator of Black College Games

7:00pm- 8:00 pm 5-Minutes of Networking
Speed Networking
(Facilitated by Speak2Society)

Breaking Views from ClubofLondon current #1 in collaboration knowledge city bookmarks (votes over 40 million)

This week saw world water day come and go with less than a ripple. Did Londoners know how they could have contributed more news on this around the world? no matter

Next week is arguably the biggest in the calendar for gifts to the world Londoners as number 1 collaboration knowledge city can start up, and make the next 6 years marathon of make poverty history connect all around the world

With Al Gore visiting the twin cities of London and Oxford, we cannot imagine a better time to Launch the Social Entrepreneur Olympics. The game is to have got 30 gravity pursuits of social entrepreneur world champions into the public consciousness by 2012 as much as the top 30 sports.

All we need is love and courage to cheerlead cross-cultural creativity's waves:

The Livingstone has got us off to a great start; he has declared there will be no sporting Olympics in London in 2012 unless they are carbon free - turn up the heat on every politician since only photosynthesis innovations can produce clean energy of that sustainability magnitude. Make sure all those who host Al Gore events debrief him as the clock to 2012 counts down

The lessons to be learnt from Make Poverty History from pop stars down can be an epiphany if University of Stars and the BBC turn their minds to the greater transparencies (eg end all country corruptions) needed if Make Poverty History is to be a reality network not just an image-making one

So that's 28 more gravity pursuits we need to celebrate around social entrepreneurs with as much gusto as the 20th Century hailed sporting stars

We are reminded of one Harrison Owen story I should tell because open spacing education is a social entrepreneur pursuit every family can stand up for whereas we cannot all help on the ground with projects in Africa or in the roofs that algae use to convert the sunshine into cleansing energy banks.

He was studying to be a priest around the Washington Dc area. It was a time when Martin Luther King was having a dream. Harrison can't recall quite how it happened but he was standing in a civil rights field in a crowd of African Americans - one tall lanky white man. The police were beginning to charge on the crowd and Harrison was feeling quite scared. That is until a 7 year old black girl came up to him - and said Mister will you hold my hand

Since that day, Harrison gave up the priesthood to the chagrin of most of his family. And is one of the handfuls of people who most interconnects conflict resolution facilitators around the world. Their networks criss-cross all religions that believe in golden rules of reciprocity such as so unto another what you want done unto you. They also connect mathematically - if Einstein is correct here at http://clubofdc.blogspot.com - to Gandhi as the greatest inventor of peaceful social entrepreneurial revolution that 144 years of The Economist's coverage of this most productive of all professions.

If some of this post makes sense to you, why not re-edit the parts you like and send it to the board of Governors of the BBC, and should you wish Tony Blair or another politician well with their legacy why not copy them in to. We the British people, not any of our political representatives own the BBC. We have invested way over 50 billion pounds in this corporation. On a personal note to all scots- may I ask whether you feel the inventor of television would feel proud of a television where every big debate is framed one dimensionally around short-term left and right rivals or whomever is looking fore a job with big business if the party does not turn out Trumps for their apprenticeship to network power.

It is high noon for the BBC with its 10 year licence determined by and for the people in the year of 2o06. Please could our world service be one of British Character we can feel both pride and humility in searching for. Please free your journalists for humanity to take a fearless lead in realising this open source script from 1984 , so that trust across peoples everywhere begins to flow through every documentary inquiry that has anything to do with world peace or nightly newscast on poverty's challenges through 2012 - and through these communications help the British to get to know 30 gravity pursuits of Social Entrepreneurs with as much joy and attention as the 30 sports it spend most public licence fees on. Hey when Brits helped to invent most of these sports we surely never intended they would take over from greater British realities of world service, through believing in CommonWealth principles and our Queen's higher order right to ask us as she did in her end of 2005 broadcast to unite in preventing globalisation from turning humanity on itself.

For the same of deeper democracy blossoming and connecting every coordinate on earth, you can also play a jigsaw mapping game aimed at sustaining 2 million global villages. Here's part of my family's tree which may open up some useful connections- what connections could your family tree or that of your peer networks open source. If you can make a "peer or family tree" picture why don't we play the mixed networking games of swap and snap. If we are going to turn around globalisation’s exponentials sustainably in time, we are all going to have to work with whatever grassroots community contexts up we can help each other navigate. No lead is too small as long as it is one you intend to gravitate transparently around as part of you lifelong learning mission. We need to help change children's education now so that the core human rights of freedom and happiness have a chance to breathe nature's clean waters, airs and energies everyone human beings sing her praises. Let's all turn up the courage through every family in the land and into wherever co-mentoring networks in internet space may take A B C D E F you

Seen a lot of good events being diarised by Women in International Trade recently, and I gather most meetings are not closed -as long as you cae about the issue

Hi open space racers

My father and I have been working for 30 years on language as the great integration crisis of leadership as well as system theorists. Every professor needs a different term to copyright their fame and alumni class and journal (sub-discipline, sub-professional business case or startegic power)- we need to open up such intellectual chaining all over the world's web

My father's beginning in this was to publish Entrepreneurial Revolution in The Economist in 1976. Odd collaborators included Romano Prodi who hosted an Italian roundtable in venice where all Italy's great leaders of the day sung the chorus of 10 green bottles (administrative barriers Entrepreneurs need to open space through). If you think about it now whether people claim leadership or facilitation gravity to unleash wealth or societal goods, they are usually happy to call themselves either entrepreneur (if business audiences are listening) or social preneur - see eg this fantastic meeting in Oxford next month http://clubofoxford.blogspot.com

To celebrate our 30th birthday of ER, which is actually close on the 200th birthday of the founder of The Economnist (probably the world's first social preneur as his only editorial goals were to repeal corn laws and end capital punishment - both Victorian England's remaining slave chains) , we invite you:
to translate what every your system language is so that it connects with preneurs as a trojan horse for changing global economics
and to choose a place name clubof which we can weblog a debate of how your systemic method helps cross-culturally interrate any type of preneur (ideally 2 million club of global villages are needed!)

Above I have put one slide up which shows 200 years of preneurial language revolutions and since we are also mathematicians, we will need to slay the monopoly of tangible accounting which assigns 0 value to goodwill as a system flow and compounds maximum conflicts by separation every quarter. Knowing that's the fina system barrier is the only way that any system's theory can interface with changing leadership atop the wordl's biggest organsaitions be they corporate of government. As well as 30 years of ER scripts we have 22 years of death of distance scripts since tracking what webs will do has been my whole career and in 1984 I teamed up with my dad and a sci-fi writer to write a book on how 1984-2024 would challenge humanity to its wits end because becoming interconnected in obe generation was always going to be the biggest revolution our species had encountered ; and our species copes with revolutions in ways that spin either very good compound outcomes or in this case ones that will mean no 22nd century. So given this is just a language problem of eladership, why not open source the preneur word unless you can sugest one that can flow through more corridors of power without them knowing what confusion has open spaced

I know swapping the language you believe in most is diffciult. happy to try to help with any 1:1 or many:1 Q&A

chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/
http://openspaceraces.blogspot.com/
http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com/
http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com/
http://project30000.blogspot.com/

Here are 2 ideas people might like to collaboratively brew with:

Last night Bush promised to collaborate with the world and unite the union by making ethanol competitively priced as car gasoline within 5 years. Idea: why not linkin the networks capable of doing that -provide us links, come and co-edit at http://ethanolworld.blogspot.com -particular note to Londoners village 2 : http://futureoflondon.blogspot.com : Lobby the BBC to support Bush's?Blair's legacy on this one goal with every documentary on ethanol and green energy that it could produce in the next 5 years; and link this to schools programs. Village 1 get the Queen to speak up for ethanol so humanity doesnt turn on itself (cf her end-2005 speech to the nation & commonwealth) , and so on through all 5 vilages http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com that any big collaboration knowledge city http://clubofcity.blogspot.com needs to end the lurking of corruption, and collaborate transparently with 2 million globa village networks

This year celebrates 30th birthday parties of my dad's http://normanmacrae.blogspot.com (NM) publication of Entrepreneurial Revolution in The Economist. NM blog asks what 101 take back stages peoples economics needs. For example : link to what are the 21 global market exponentials we must turn round in the next decade if the meta-system of going global is to spin goodwill all over the world's localities. As people whose double-lifelong learning curves knows the maths of valuing/mapping global media, we imagine that taking back global media around open source launches of markets like green energy and ethanol is the number 1 preneurial work of people networks over the next few years. If you have a different way of wording this , please say. At ER http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com, we'd like 2006 to end with as many one-page scrips connecting with socieatl revolutions of the peopes economics as we all can imagine

Please note I have no particular fondness in my own collaborative ideas. Only those that I can passionate linkin to participation with multiplying goodwill exponentials. What interests me is to hear from you : ideas we can all participate and web round in collaborating on. I hope these 2 ideas turn out to be the worst of the next 99 you all openly submit
sincerely
chris macrae

Monday, Jan. 30 from 10:30 am to 5:00.DC Improv, 1140 Connecticut Ave., N.W. http://www.brainjams.org/ Think of BrainJams as the ³unconference² for everyone who is passionateabout ideas and making a difference; it is a space for collaboration and newideas; where smart people don¹t talk at you, they talk with you. BrainJamsis truly of, by, and for the people--the organizers provide the space, somebasic structure for the day and an environment that enables participants tocreate the conference, with the conversations that matter most. BrainJams bring together people from different backgrounds to shareknowledge, experience, and ideas across traditional boundaries. According toJack Welch, this sort of Œboundaryless behavior¹ was the key to his successat General Electric. By bringing together technologists, media people,non-profits, business leaders, civil servants, and artists, amazing thingscan happen. **At the last event in Silicon Valley, an entrepreneur found a new boardmember, a non-profit found a Œvolunteer¹ technologist to help launch acommunity site, and several people with new ideas found the encouragementthey needed to take action.** The D.C. event starts at 10:30 am, with speed-dating style knowledgenetworking, where each participant gets a chance to meet 12-15 otherparticipants in short one-on-one sessions. The afternoon session is run ina modified 'open space' format, where participants lead Œbreakthroughsessions¹ on topics of their choosing related to Web 2.0, Social Networks,blogs, and other aspects of social media. Different tracks will be availablefor newcomers, experienced users and developers, allowing each to deepentheir own knowledge with peers. As Howard Rheingold says, ³What it is is up to us.² ABOUT BrainJamsBrainJams is a non-profit organization whose mission is to encourage ad-hoccollaboration in the public commons through the use of emerging socialmedia. As part of this mission, BrainJams is organizing live events and isbuilding a community of practice for those interested in organizingsimilarly structured events. Inspired by BarCamp, Webzine, and the TechCrunch Barbecue in Silicon Valley, BrainJams enables ordinary people withextraordinary ideas to make real, lasting impact by connecting with adiverse peer group and learning how to best use emerging technologies.MORE: http://www.brainjams.org/whatarebrainjams.html

Please get in touch with us at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk in 2006 if you know of how we can connect with the following sorts of networks in particular:

Entrepreneurial Revolution - 2006 marks 30th birthday scripting parties linking together preneurial networks with the survey my father wrote for the Economist in 1976

DeathofDistance co-bloggers news feeds where our correspondents across the world of club oc Village, City, Country openly report where the future's happening , including our free monthly newswires

The new rankings of corporate governance, global sector sustainability investment crises and economics fit for connecting divided between 2 million global villages in win-win-win ways. So that goodwill networks produce 30000 projects for humanity by 2010; win the war against badwill networks which we predicted in 1984 would be the big challenge to humanity of this first second half decade of century 21- lets make the peoples economics of abundance trapsparent for everyone to map and co-mentor around.

Our tenth year since publishing Brand Architecture Chartering - the Q&A methdology which launched thye genres of learning and living brands as human relations systems of productivities and demands gravitated by Unique Organsiing Purpose; and the 15th year since our book World Class Brands connected networks of researchers concerned with valuing the future's connections with context deep maths not separating our past quarters with a monopoly standard drowned by mathematical assumptions that prioritise the 19th Century machine view of the world to the 21st one needed for 6 billion human beings to thrive

Chris Macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk 301 881 1655
Intercitizen Collaboration Clubs 1 2 3 Project30000
Sustainability Valuation: Transparent Corporate Governance Rankings & Global Sector Exponentials
World Class Brand Networks since 1991
Death of Distance Networks since 1984
Enrepreneurial Revolution Roundtables since 1976
Future Histories transparently mapped for valuetrue system*system decision-making.

Financial Times, 19th Jan 06.
"Business 'sees gain in binding standards on human rights'by Guy Dinmore in Washington.
International companies have responded favourably to calls for bindinghuman rights standards in the corporate sector as evidence mounts thatvoluntary guidelines are unfair and bad for business, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. The global watchdog, launching its annual report inWashington, said multinational executives were privately starting toquestion the conventional wisdom that self-regulation and codes ofconduct were sufficient. Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executivedirector, told the FT that companies had responded positively to thecampaign, launched last year, for a level playing-field of enforceableglobal standards. .... Human Rights Watch recommended that the OECDfollow up the treaty that outlawed bribery by making its corporatesocial responsibility guidelines binding. The United Nations, which hasalready drafted non-binding norms on corporate conduct, could alsoprovide a forum for a universally applicable treaty. ..."
But regarding the prospects of governments supporting such moves, thearticle goes on to say:
"Addressing the state of human rights around the world in 2005, HumanRights Watch also focused on what it called the Bush administration'sdeliberate adoption of torture and mistreatment of detainees as a policyin its counter-terrorism strategy. Allies such as the UK and Canada hadundermined critical international protections, said the group, while theEuropean Union had shown a lack of leadership over disappearances,secret prisions and abuses by governments in Africa and Asia..."
Governments on their own, it seems, won't do the job. Which is whyCITIZENS through our simultaneous policy need to drive them to do it!!
all the bestJohn, lead coordinator www.simpol.org

DC's Greatest Open Networking Event 2000-2005, as viewed by Entrepreneurial Revolutionaries

Bravo Traci Fenton and WorldBlu. In the 22 years I have attending intrapreneur network launches since my father's survey "Intrapreneurial Now" in The Economsist exploring the different orgabsiational leadership needed to sustain service economy, I have never been to a network event with as energetic leaders, facilitators and mentor as this. 4 days of the most practically enriching dialogues among 200 people who so evidently love to see co-workers making the most productive difference they can.


THE CORPORATE CASES - GEO Aerospace, South West Airlines...
We heard broadly the same leadership goverenace and organsiational empowerment design from: one of the world’s 5 largest corporations, from arguably the world’s favourite service organisation, from a franchise owner, a software industry CEO. Its develops up like this:

There is no deeper value multiplier to build with than an individual’s specific learning curve. Next this needs to be teamed up around projects or services because no single person is likely to be able to deliver knowledge-worthy customers world class value on their own. Then council-up (a council typically has a member form every team or team type) and raises innovation, investment and systemic cultural questions with the leadership team

There are nuances:

In this system who you hire is absolutely vital and those who will be peer team members need to be included in the selection process

In this system the company tends to openly publish next challenges, and asking for help to change because customers or environment is chnaging is encouraged

In this system yo0u don't see bit part consultants coming in. Systemic context interfacing is the only kind of faciliation method that can help and when this is used it needs to be interdisciplinary.

Use of corporate university, from the lady Rita Bailey who had been HR Director for quarter of a century, at South West Airlines was a revelation. Employyes come and ask for the training they need. If it can be done by an in-house function it is, and then the employee who requested it is often expected to lead peer classes.

In vibrant sectors of the service economy let alone among knowledge networkers -, management's job isn't really top-down regarding employee relations, though it will still be up for asking BHAGs: how are we going to stretch consolidate our productivity goals from our latest action learnings. Servant leadership reads any anxieties so there is maximum time to reflect on organsiational innovation in a way that is more joyfully participative- at the edge of flow as Emotional In telligenec researchers would say. ValueTrue leadership also guarding the organisation from conflicts above -or across partners - especially if you're in a division that is are part of a larger organisation; helping to be a benchmarking ambassador where service teams love to be seen that they are contextually best in the world and being visited to see how they achieve such energy day in and day out

As we have noted before from research of organisational psychologists -particularly those hubbing round ben Schneider of The University of Maryland and author of the Harvard Business School text on Service Markets - in dozens of service cases, bossiness needs to be out, for this most human of relationship flows: the customer can tell how a boss treats an employee from the way the employee treats the customer. User friendliness and knowledge activated by positive emotional energies flow, and where there is hi-trust the value multiplication for investors over a generation will be great.

How can Organisational Democracy network be knitted across DC's other active networks and shaped into DC's equivalent of London's 5 village networking and peoples economics patterning? How can other cities connect with DC's OD network- these wil be questions I wil be debating with Traci and other delegates in months to come.

AND THERE WAS MORE
The extrordinary Myrna Lewis alumni epicentre of the deepest conflict resolution methodology any place could need - Deep Democracy
The wonderful Roosevelt with his research on Carnivals - which sounds a far better way to market than any other I have heard for decades

Extraordinary journalism inputs from Bill Taylor (founder of fast company and the search for the yaer's 25 most promising social capital projects); David Weinberger on how to audit potentials fears that prevent leaders from integarting with the rest of the organisation transparently; a director from the Canadian documentary school of local crises of globalization; the wonderful connecting global-down and community up approach of universalgiving's networks; and past leaders of a country or two.

If you want to be connected to any of the above please send me an email in a form I can relay and say which subnetwork group leader you want me to dend it to. Chris Macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

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Links Beyond

The 21st C world of going global*local involves exponentials compounding up or down but never at zero sum. Those in charge of corporate goverance who fail to introduce the new value multiplying accounting 1 and hi-trust 21st economics are not just weak at organisational democracy they lose all worth just like Arthur Andersen who did not realise that billions of business worth and 0 societal worth (through loss trust-flow on true and fair) leads to billions*=0=0 worth not billions+0. Coincidentally, the greatest understanding of sustainability of business investment is opinion led around Chairman Ray Anderson (USA) and Sir John Banham (UK) –vote for any changes in these laurels at ASIN.

Postcard from Queen Elizabeth's end of 2005 Report- Is Humanity Turning on Itself?

Our co-editors from ecosaintjames preview 2006 : This is the 30th anniversary of my father's Entrepreneurial Revolution survey in The Economist and all the readers networks which waved out from this. We invite everyone with a deep communal concern to re-edit their own preneurial summary at http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com

As predicted back in 1984, 2005 was a turning point for humankind. The people stood up aghast by Tsunami, Katrina, Pakistan Quake, London's tube bombing and perhaps the 30000 project deadline for 2010 remains in reach

Who's Who for encouraging DC to stand up? Please mail wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you wish your network to be added to this list:

Bravo the women: Theresa, what you do at Catalytic Communities in Rio warms every community spirit around the world, and Traci WorldBlu- well that was the best 4-day network event I have been to in a Western city

WorldBlu's 200 networkers for Organisational Democracy provided case after case of how companies can return extraordinary dividends to investors ove a generation but only if they return even more to society. Moreover, we are now in service economies where people teams need to be emepowered not controlled if great service is to be sustained day in day out as father's 1982 We're All Intrapreneurial Now foresaw

The emergence of Al Gore's Generation IM in London & DC is welcomed by aSIN however there is still very low awareness of the the Unseen Wealth Crises of Intangibles, Transparency and Sustainability which is very odd since Brooking's DC was the first to release this news in 2000. Again this seems to us why all measurement professions and economics need to transform out of the expenential conflicts they are compounding sector by sector. When Al Gore comes to London to deliver the annual lectore to Tomorrows Global Company, we hope to better map who in DC will lead this cvaluation revolution in his view. By then Omniworldview's summer carnival of events round Britain clean energy in association with the photosynthesis architecture network solaroof will be ready for publication -and we Brits will enjoy consigning Peak Oil scares as much as Bostonians once enjoyed tea parties

DC is a strong contributor to the revolution that is microfinance. But we are still way behind Schumacher's vision of interlocally connecting 2 million Global Villages, each with their context grassroots sustainable economy up

Ashoka, Atlas you are great networks but will you contribute to the 30000 projects; will you help lead the change in sustainability valuation's exponentials?

Mass Media is one of those difficult areas in DC as it is in the whole of the USA. We had however expected much more of google than melting down many of our club of city blogs, which is why this DC blog looks shorter now than it has for years. Where do journalists for humanity in DC meet? We love Thomas Friedman's book The Earth is Flat as a modern day successor to our 1984 Death of Distance, but we feel linked in to too few future history storytellers in this town, and not enough cafe spaces. Its extraordinary how the world's leading open space facilitator and practice of peace reconciliation expert is so little seen in his home city. Could this too change in 2006?

In a Charlie Rose interview last night, author (and Bethesda resident) Thomas Friedman was asked: why's your book The World is Flat (a short history of the 21st C) selling 1.3 million books. He said: on reflection, I believe your parents and my grandparents knew that life in the USA was getting better overall: that their children would have a better life than them. Today, everyone is starting to doubt that.

His interview closed with the question: if Bush & Cheney asked you to summarise what you know from surveying people aroumd the world what you say. "We need an energy strategy, not for the last 90 days but for our futures. The first country to collaborate with China in developing green energy breakthroughs will win-win-win. The reason I say this is that China's need is most urgent. In continuing its growth exponential, it will be the first to suffocate if carbonised energy is all there is. Green, Mr President, is the new red, white & blue; and just as Nixon needed his China breakthrough for his legacy, your's could be wonderful now if you could boldly go green.

Anyone for debating this at Club of DC or Entrepreneurial Revolution (where my dad's 1984 prediction was that America would need to change economics now by co-leading love for 2 uniting 2 million global villages as the 5th preneurial revoltion of humanity becoming networked & paradigm shift of death of distance)?

You can obtain the whole 55 minute interview for 99c from this google video bookmark

Unlike my home experience of British media (where debates on the side of humanity are enabled by much of the tv media being owned by the people), notable instances of humanity rising in American media deserve to be prized. Our blog would love to hear who else among DC region based journalists help cheerlead the future sustainability of humanity in 2005

Life Critical Organisational Systems - Will the top of DC never learn wholy and contextually enough? Katrina, NASA, Anthrax...

I expect that when Katrina's New Orleans is done and dried out, there will be as many lessons that the top must take poor overall managment responsibility for as in Nasa's case of the lost Challenger space ship. Then over 50 systemic disconnects were revealed by a system that over many cycles had compounded numbers measurements to further goals of cost sutting and increasing sceduling productivity but at the degradation of the main human connections flw : Safety

I dont expect the honest NASA report from which we provide you with all the practical lessons mapped so that many sectors involved in critical incidents can prepare for whether they are ready come the hour of need:
-people no longer able to convene inter-diviision meetings in real time being so habituated to electronic measging instead

-various work contracted out so come the time of crisis the contracted out cmapany's staff do not understand the real-time urgency, nor having been contacted for years were experienced in what they needed to make life critical models of

-a gungho culture that had responded to staff cuts by yes each of us will do more but made that more specialisation within our box with all the connections between expert boxes rusting untile many had no teamlike reality

etc

Entrepreneurial Revolution Archives - Scripting DC's Best Kept Secrets
(those that blind true leadership and network economics in death-of-distance century 21)

Testimony of Intangibles Crisis Union - Technical Question of Intrapreneurs & Service Economn:
Do the people of the USA truly want to be only 10% as productive as they could be over the next quarter of a century?

The USA was late in benchmarking Baldrige/Deming physical quality losing many machine-age global markets. To be late in systemising human relationship quality will destroy the nation's leadership of many more global markets. Worse yet, this will inhibit the USA from being a leader in many knowledge network markets which as service systems squared need collaboration and transparency, not just competition and externalising. When the latter rules alone at the top of global organisations, its potential exponential consequences for globalization are corruption of borders and the compounding of risks for societies everywhere. Diverse references for opening debates of this viewpoint include: Chris Patten's 2006 book Not Quite the Diplomat - see denoument in final chpater; The Socila Entrepreneur world champions spreading from Ashoka to Oxford to Fast Company to Web2.1


Simple mathematical definition of intangibles

A company is being governed optimally for intangibles when every way round (top-down, bottom-up, sides to sides) everyone knows and can systematically trust which relationships will compound more wealth as flows than separated as parts.


STORY

A newly interesting event happened in advanced economies of the late seventies. The service economy became greater than the machine-age economy. Intrapreneurs inspired by the work of J Gifford Pinchot in USA and my father’s, We’re all Intrapreneurial Now, published as a survey in The Economist 1982 have now had quarter of a century to track cases in the service economy

The future shocking news is that most of the largest corporations in the service economy are compounding under 10% of the wealth they could be producing over a quarter of a century’s

Experience shows that business managers go through 2 levels of denial when this shock is put to them. The first denial: we don’t believe it. The way to remedy this is to have a 4-day meeting among 200 Intrapreneurial opinion leaders like that organised in Washington DC by www.worldblu.com where people discuss 25 cases with each other. You my start with South West Airlines- the stock that has compounded more wealth on US stock exchanges over a quarter of a century than any other returning 100 fold to shareholders who invested through that generational period. And as you go through cases after case of people presenting this is how we connect flows – probably by about case 7 you will stop being a misbeliever. By the way you don’t need to take my word for this event happening it was witnessed by several journalists and film makers and systemic champions of entrepreneurs

Level 2 denial starts with this sort of query: if this potential for governing intangibles as flows is true why haven’t lots more corporations that govern sub-optimally gone bust. Economics would predict that – wouldn’t it? The answer to this catch 22 appears to be the following. The easy part of transforming to intangibles governance is mapping what flows need to connect. The hard part is not being blown off course by all the bigger corporations in the sector that will try to disrupt you. They may do this by taking you over. They may do this by sponsoring accountants to value even more separability- the scandal that happened to brand valuation from the late 1980s, a topic networks around me I have tracked as much as anyone for 18 years now. They may do it by lobbying in various ways that short-term cases soundbite more powerfully than long-run ones. Still folks, we are in a global economy: it only takes a major company in another country to escape the intangibles impoverishing cluster for the generational result to be the loss of whole sectors of national economies

So the sustainability risks to peoples will compound every year wherever the groupthink of a nation’s big leaders continues to deny the simplest mathematical definition of intangibles.

Any comments.
Chris Macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

The Curriculum Vitae of Water
(people's note - when it comes to water we are unclear whether the following is a secret or just a typical muddle that arises when top-down people and the academics they fund believe precision comes from separating expert views)

World Water 2006: From this day on, I am trying to co-edit a few scripts on how every green (& red, white and blue -see PBS Charlie Rose Interview Series) collaboration connects through water. Are you interested in open sourcing such stories, please contact me at wcbn007@easynet.co.u ... at any time

Here's one draft example that links through best-seller Thomas Friedman and other future historian views of how a flat world interconnects us all in collaboration waves - a competence, we 6 billion people need to practice much more trustingly if our children's children are to be sustainable. This is not a political or religious/racial issue of who's got the best governor of white houses, it is as mathematicians from Einstein down have forewarned: nature's different way of controlling through globalisation's connectivity than the institutions we have created to separate who owns and extracts what.

As one of the leading European economists of the 20th century foretold back in 1984, the networked world changes economics. Unless we can all agree to map that new maths, old economics will globally bankrupt us all even whites in the grandest towest that century 20 knew how to skyscrape.

Water Bio Series #1

On biodiversity systems atlas, water is a grand central junction to clean everything and the http://exponentials.blogspot.com exponential sustainability of everything that human health requirtes given water is our most fundamental constituent. Its health and ours are umbilically linked in system terms as you see from cradle to grave if you search connections for nature's whole picture of life.

One of the greatest biodiversity maps connecting water projects with every other cultural project mattering to peoples of a place, has been developed out of Foz's water basins (connecting the world's largest water dam). I witnessed an open source presentation of this at the Brazilian embassy in London. Amazing projects include:

teaching 80000 children from about 100 different ethinicties and languages how they are all cross-culturally connected by water

some of the world's leading projects on organic farming for plants and fish

how to harvest clean water and clean energy

Biodiversity's meta-connections across system maps of the globe's future is good news and bad news. It means that specialists in water -and the coverage they get every year for international water day - are in danger of missing the biggest public opportunities to change clean water everywhere if they are not well connected with other biodiversity issues that may be getting the lion's share of debate - eg global climate or more particularly the race announced in the America's http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com State of the Union (January 2006) to end addiction to petroleum economics.

IF the most evolutionary fit way forward for clean energy - 22 year-long debating views of future historians of death of distance (aka The World is Flat') -photosynthesis - takes root all over the world, then clean water flows will start recoveing everywhere. If not, more and more people will be either evaporated or poisoned to death.

The key to photsynthesis of energy has always been algae as far as I know from phds in biology. Core Question: Can we explore the interesting round the world game that colaboration networks for superclean futures need to play at grassroots contextual levels . http://www.frappr.com/algaeworld


The Global and Local Snap Game Green-Blue (Collaboration Facilitating) People Need to Play

Example: When you come down from space, Almeria http://clubofalmeria.blogspot.com is the second manmade construction place you see after China's greatwall. It is in Spain and is the greenhouse capital of the world. To feed the plants, it has had to dig deeper and deeper for water which is fast running out. This means that Almeria has a world leading edge in desalination approaches to water if not the funds to go it alone. Once you get into large scale deslaination techniques, you will find that algae architect experts have lots to demonstrate. Photosynthesis as a catalytic power for cleansing includes applications which purit water in this case by taking out its salt. To be a world leading protagonist for clean water but not to have enough connections with photosynthesis and algae protagonists could inadvertently lose the world's sustainability. This is because compared with how far we could have beenn advabced if the world's media had given death of distance debates a fair share of voice, we no longer have the luxury of taking any suboptimal collaboration routes if we wish to sustain the world for future generations

A question to 21st C: will those on top of the world leave the peoples to suffer through all the troubles?

The death of distance future history we wrote in 1984 (the final book of a trilogy whose first 2 episodes were published as surveys in The Economist 1976 1982 ) predicted the next decade would revolve round reconciling this risk. In a networked age the people at the top are not as smart as connecting what we could all observe, question, collectively knowledge work around.

If this decade 2000-2010 fails in this globalisation reconciliation, 1 we will have failed our children's generation and started mankind's destruction of the earth. Call that the George Orwell scenario or which ever scifi apocalypse tomorrow you have had the closets encounter with. If however we succeed in mapping a way through so that the top listen to the people and use media to ask the next big questions rather than to image over reality, then we forecast that the 21st C will be the age when humankind finally grows up in the greatest collaboration and civilisation imaginable.

OUR MISSIONS at MACRAE.NETS

WE will keep circulating our scripts on Death of Distance and Entrepreneurial Revolution for Open Debate wherever people sources linkin or netizens co-blog A B C D

We will develop a website valuetrue.com where all transparency communities are invited to map out hi-trust relationships and transparencies between the boundaries of one place and another, or one competitive corporation and another, or one management profession and another. We will update any trouble stories that appear in the hope that out of conflicts pattern rules higher order harmony can be facilitated. This reflects the number 1 learning about innovation and peace of open space in its first 50000 rehearsals that Harrison Owen's worldwide alumni began about the same time as we started issuing earth of distance debating scripts. May all your good's love unite around large scale people meetings wherever the souls and spirits are trying their best to love one another.

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valuetrue - a cross-sectional sample or troubles- March 2006
March 06 - ClubofPakistan continues to search through how the world could help with people's desperate needs; we hear a lot from Spiral Dynamists and Integral System theorists but clearly their roadshow in Denmark a few years back didn't nurture enough worldwide understanding among the media and cartoon communities; system mapmakers have no business to offer methods that do not open up interfaces with other system methods in cross-cultural ways; we applaud Brainjams for its intent to move its open space roadshow on the deepest possibilities of silicon valley and web2.1 to disadvantaged cities, New Orleans next stop; Oh Paris you are the love and terror of my life and Brussel Sprouts are the one food whose knowledge you are the worst in the world maitre D'

OPEN SPACE RACES
FRAP! & globalcharters: we are starting to map the who's concerned who of waves all over the world - clean energy, education, knowledge, brand
August 05 - Sarajevo's story from Paul -Thank you. I have been here for three days. It is one of the most intense places I have ever been. Sarajevo is itself exquisitely beautiful, with architecture dating from the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires while at the same time everywhere the scars of war are evident. Also, everyone has a story of pain. Together, it is almost too much to bear. The task of reconciliation is certainly a massive one!

Appreciating other's places

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How we announced MyWorldAtlas to The Open Space Community whose shared listserve is as inquisitive for humanity's sake as any yet known to valuetrue transparency communities and ASIN emerging at BBCican.

I have been piloting this systemic construct's components for quite a long while now, and feel confident enough to expose it to your advice. Doubtless it needs huge improvement. I have long believed an open networking world needs a whole new atlas to take economics above zero-sum extraction - our dream journey begins at global university with helping people to develop a different map for every humanitarian agenda that replicates globally but requires active resolution locally. Oddly, as I begin to network professionally with sustainabilty investment analysts - defined to be those whose prime concern is mathematically quantifying future exponentials - I believe that service and knowledge community businesses could learn from this paradigm too. See through maps of how key relationships of productivities and demands win-win-win make a company's most attractive (unique founding) purpose sustainable if it a company is prepared to make its reputation an open gateway to better futures for as many people as possible (an old fashion view of why people commit working lives to organisation). This seems to be acutely true in transformation contexts needing appreciation of Harrison's Triple-C : Conflict-Chaos-Confusion template for reconciliation. The first component of MyWorldAtlas is literally to issue an invitation to a person or people in a network who appear to have a common gravity that I would hope to mutually multiply trust around. In issuing such invitations, its often unclear who needs to co-mentor who first- that is part of the exploration permit or open space dialogue. I am sure, since Open Spaces are the greatest invitation gatherings around, you could edit a better invitation but the one our (1) MyWorldAtlas network uses currently is approximately this Typical Co-Navigation Opening Offer Between Deep Context MyWorldAtlas Cartographers The more I read of your ideas and concerns , the more I would like to work as virtual partners on a deep joint project By a deep issue context I mean: any one that you will be passionate about over the next 7 years and need some joint open searching, linking, promotion, facilitation, action project prooftesting and global replication. I don't particularly mind whether a nomination is commercial or wholly humanitarian as long as it does not close off collaborative learnings and transparency work I try to do with many others and other networks. The bigger the challenge the better as long as you know some of your time/passion will compound around its action learning curve. I have been piloting a rough idea which I call MyWorldAtlas that I can illustrate better to show how to iteratively connect around a context, but I would need to hear or rehearse with you what the deepest context you are interested in from where you observe and experience life and sustainable value development. One reason why big actually helps me is that I mail coordinators of powerful networks with expressions of interest of people I link with giving them a menu which test out whether their network is actually up for action. One example of a target I want to test over the next 6 weeks is (3) clintonglobalinitiative.com - I get to hear of a new one of these almost monthly, and whilst I expect 11 out of 12 won't listen, (4) At Interlocal I later publish the gist of the letters I wrote and so discover who is prepared to work all the way with the people everyplace and who is just in a summit world of their own kind any players? chris macrae , wcbn007@easynet.co.uk - London & Washington DC, Project30000

Our official journalist biographer of Transparency Mapping's first 5 years of learning from all our communal members has just sent me a complete draft of chapters.

If you want to peak at some, say which

1 Intro 235k

2 Maps & Mapping 646k

3 The Secret of Mediocrity 219k

4 Millennium Bug 76k

5 Dog that didn't bark 638k

6 Mind Forged Manacles 838k

7 Building momentum 712k

8 Some outline maps 855k

We ask that however short, you post a comment back to us after reading any chapter. Your comments will not be named anywhere unless we receive your permission

email chris macrae

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Can we simultaneously learn from New Orleans, 77/7, Tsunami, 9/11...? We profile New Orleans here because it may have the most learning loops all the way down from superpower to communities whose fragility may be cause by nature's extremities on man's more selfish divides compounded over many periods of government. In most situations, we have local disaster clubs continuing action learning and regeneration from their epicentre of crisis- ask wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you want or can help guiding transparent learning from these situations. Thanks

Exploring New Orleans Future : Doublequotes is full of tense clues

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Sep 16, 2005 — President Bush said Friday that the Gulf Coast must be rebuilt with an eye toward wiping out the persistent poverty and racial injustice plain to all in the suffering of the black and the poor in Hurricane Katrina's wake.

"As we clear away the debris of a hurricane, let us also clear away the legacy of inequality," Bush said during a national prayer service with other political leaders and religious figures from the affected region at the National Cathedral."

Also Friday, White House officials said that taxpayers will pay the bill for the massive reconstruction program for the hurricane ravaged-Gulf Coast and that the huge expense will worsen the nation's budget deficit.

Before Bush's remarks, Bishop T.D. Jakes, head of 30,000-member Potter's House church in Dallas, delivered a powerful sermon in which he called upon Americans to "dare to discuss the unmentionable issues that confront us" and to not rest until the poor are raised to an acceptable living standard.

"Katrina, perhaps, she has done something to this nation that needed to be done," Jakes said. "We can no longer be a nation that overlooks the poor and the suffering, that continues past the ghetto on our way to the Mardi Gras."

Bush, faced with continuing questions about whether help would have been sent more quickly to the storm zone if most victims had not been poor and black, echoed those themes in his brief remarks.

"Some of the greatest hardships fell upon citizens already facing lives of struggle, the elderly, the vulnerable and the poor," he said. "As we rebuild homes and businesses, we will renew our promise as a land of equality and decency and one day Americans will look back at the response to Hurricane Katrina and say that our country grew not only in prosperity but in character and justice."

vt says- lets make as start with some Washington DC cafe circles (and share ideas across other cities like London &...) discussing these intents and also survey what are the most valued humanity networks that invite volunteers to activate thier joint concerns

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Top Billing for Grassroots Testimonies eg this - please email wcbn007@easynet.co.uk others of similar depth or diversity

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The Washington Post of Sept 11 carried a complete calendar of breakdowns between all major organisations in the first 2 weeks of Katrina's disaster. Even more clearly than the tragedy 4 years earlier, this shows how the prosperity of human beings everywhere is declining unless we can learn to value transparency as the new vital dynamic of our networked globe and communities everywhere.

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valuationUSA
What if we explore governing America transparently: as a network of states where people's cultures flourish- we feel that a more human way can be found of sustaining states like Louisiana and cities like New Orleans than today's short-term power-brokering. We have a dream perhaps, but backed up by networking economics we began work on in 1984 that cherishes community-up transparency and enabling people to make a difference and seeks to resolve conflicts of sustainability systemically ahead of time. If this might be a discussion group you want to be in join our egroup valuationUSA here.

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In our networked worlds and interlinking economies & societies 1 2 3 4 5, over-reliance on one system’s command and controls is every being’s greatest risk.

What do New York, New Orleans, Phuket Island, London, Baghdad & Various African States have in common? Were they one-offs or will their compound root causes recur in other cities (or geographically people-tied places)?

Quite simply, we can see that all these geographies of citizen networks (aka societies) were devastated by terrifying acts of man or nature. Some unprepared for a single destructive stroke, many degraded by compounding distrust or short-term monetisation.

Analyse these system crises more deeply for common patterns - and warn yourself by asking would you want your family's future to rely solely on 20th C -pre-networked, pre-global&local - ideologies like these:

National governance – much more local contextual resilience is needed

Nightline, ABC Sept 1: To hear federal & local authorities discuss the plight of New Orleans today is to know that one is seriously out of touch or incapable of confronting the truth

Left versus right short-term constitutions of voting and mass media soundbiting – investment decisions that truly could have saved or ameliorated situations were long-term, structural ; not just about money but deeper human relations investments such as trust in human cooperation, open spaces and learning curves of social capital, cultural harmony and trust as money.

Valuing global corporations' future impacts separately from local societies- any state that perpetuates this governance error will depressingly make globalisation less & less human

Blocking Interlocal exchanges of learning across networks that go beyond national or other geographical boundaries- for example, as human beings are composed mainly of water, we should demand education about whole system learnings to do with water and climate ecologies. Make sure these go beyond nations and other geographical boundaries-indeed when a network of systems times systems sustains the overall value or health being compounded over time, boundary separation is like any other apartheid the area of greatest human risk.

Ignoring nature's cultural order: healthy society is a necessary condition for compounding strong economic growth and sustaining learning cultures, not vice versa

Utellus other learnings from these or other world’s citizens most urgent concerns for humanity

Open Networks that can help share pattern rules of World Citizen Simultaneity include:

Simpol ...1

Global Reconciliation Network...1

Open Space Alumni

Life Synthesis- Photosynthesis Energy Inventor Network

Verna Allee's Expert Alumni of Value Exchange Theory -one of the core advances in valuation/network economics understanding around which all valuetrue cartography and compound risk reduction auditing is based

Tomorrows Global Company

Royal Society of Arts cafe propagating dialogues -most current being : Global Citizenry & Sustainability

European Knowledge Management Survey openly sponsored by Emotional Intelligence Networks on the 5 productive multiplying systems of the companies that are best for sustaining the world and human trust-flows
Utellus of other networks or ask for guiding links around the networks tables

Utellus of summits where top people most need to include the systemic patterning intelligence in their action planning or media informing

September 05

Clinton’s Global Initiative

Tomorrow Global Company’s Wilton Park & Global Compact Networking

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Citizens testimonies worldwide -Utellus who to feature

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1 Sept 2005- UK Channel 4 Snowmail:

New Orleans: Anarchy hits US storm relief
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The news out of New Orleans is getting harder to believe every hour. The world's only superpower seems to have lost control of the situation. Thousands of people are still stranded without food, water or medicine. Tens of thousands more homeless.

Lawlessness is spreading around the city with police and national guard trying to control things but ambulances and rescue helicopters have been shot at by armed thugs. Those stranded at centres like the sports stadium are in appalling conditions with grim sanitation and supplies. There are attempts to get a few thousand people a day out of the city as the Mayor has ordered the forced evacuation of everyone, but it is pitifully slow and the people have little or nothing to go to. As for the bodies - there is still no reliable estimate of those dead. But now the Mayor and a senator have put it in the thousands.

People are starting to ask whether or not the warning and evacuation was mishandled. If people are being forced to leave now then why not at the weekend before Katrina struck? And there are increasing voices emerging about the warnings that were ignored.

Federal funds were denied to strengthen the levees. Was America so obsessed with fighting terror that it forgot what homeland security really means? And does the demographic breakdown of those worst hit - predominantly poor and black have anything to do with how little was done to help them?

It is worth noting that George Bush's new chief of Homeland Security was out launching September as National Preparedness Month. You couldn't make it up. --------------------
Sept 1 New Orleans mayor speaking on radio: I've spoken to them all from George Bush down. I keep hearing help is coming- this is BullShit man, I ask where’s the beef? We need Greyhound Buses form everywhere, they offer a few school buses. There's too much small thinking- I am saying this may the biggest catastrophe ever seen in a modern American city. Let me tell you there is one John Wayne character I trust a General Honore. He's the one gift the nation's top has sent us. I want him to have all the operating authority, then we could perhaps save some people.

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How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

"It is seldom, in the modern day, that one comes across a book with an impact like 'Collapse - how societies choose to fail or survive', by Jared Diamond (an Allen Lane imprint of Penguin books, 2005. HBK ISBN 0-713-99286-7; PBK ISBN 0-713-99862-8). Diamond combines the most rigorous research with a light and engaging writing style that turns this potentially weighty topic into an informative and delightful read. He charts the lessons of past societies such as those of the Easter, Pitcairn and Henderson Islands, the Maya, the Vikings in Greenland, and Papua New Guinea. He contrasts these with modern experiences in Montana (USA), Rwanda, Haiti, China, and Australia. Diamond then provides a compelling synthesis and puts forward practical suggestions as to what governments, corporations and individuals can do to learn from the past and thereby endeavour to secure the best possible future for our world. I thoroughly recommend this book as a thought-provoking read".

William GORDON, co-author of Brand Manners (John Wiley, 2001)

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Tales of 2 Cities

New Orleans News Wires (Several links require free registration to Boston Globe) Katrina's death toll will be way above 9/11 Sept 2 CNN news : Unconfirmed 100 perish in one place while 1500 wait to be bussed-Governor of Louisiana broadcasts today's biggest question: what can we do when network of civilisation falls apart? Journalists report reaching places days before National Guards, Red Cross & Other Resources on US Homeland Security. Convention centre testimony: there is genocide going on around here. Journalist: authorities are using responses designed for the aftermath of a terrorism attack and finding that response needed to a natural catastrophe is wholly different. From catastrophe to chaos: Gunfire, corpses left in the open, and a slow exodus out Analysis: Politicians failed storm victims Katrina will have broad economic reach Foreign governments line up to help after Katrina Miss. struggles to deal with dead bodies New Orleans doctors plead for help Congress to vote on $10B Katrina package Americans open homes to refugees Senate approves $10.5B in hurricane aid Gasoline supplies tighten, prices rise Fats Domino apparently rescued by boat Sewage in floodwaters carries disease From web report of B Kirkman:issues that led to the tragedy in New Orleans will become apparent: 1. After 9/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency shifted from 75% of its efforts being focused on natural disaster planning, preparation and drills to 75% being terrorism event reaction grants administration and terrorism event planning and preparation. Despite what one might think, there is little overlap between the two kinds of events. There has been a major departure of experienced FEMA managers with knowledge in natural disasters due to the focus on terrorism, and their replacement by terrorism experts. 2. All across the US there is a terrible lack of coordination in issues related to flood control projects between the Federal, state and local government. There is also a lack of coordination between the construction of projects and their day-to-day operational management. In particular, in Louisiana is up to local officials to decide if volunteers will be recruited to stay in flood control stations when major storms approach, at the risk of of the volunteers dying if the stations are destroyed. New Orleans did not ask for such volunteers. Adjoining suburban areas did. The volunteers in adjoining areas were able to activate back-up generators and keep pumps working that helped to avoid catastrophic flooding in the suburbs. In New Orleans the stations were unmanned. The power went out -> the pumps went off ... 3. There had been proposals for over 20 years to build stronger flood control stations and barriers in the New Orleans area. It was not supported by short-term taxation logics. 4. The evacuation plans were all designed on individuals and families driving their own cars out of New Orleans. No consideration was made for the approximately 20% of the city that was dependent on public transportation. No one with knowledge of public transportation usage was involved in designing the evacuation plan until it was very late.

London Former teaching assistant turned bomber slaps the policy of British Prime Minister Edgware bomber kills marketing genius who tried to save the world 1 London becomes test case for future of all open multicultural cities Discuss RSA Speaker's Papers: Sustainability - Discussion Global Citizen - Discussion Restore every person's voice to World's Largest Public Broadcaster

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In 2002, The New Orleans Times featured a 5-part award winning series written by John McQuaid & other journalists: Surging water is a huge threat to New Orleans. The Red Cross says that there will be a very high death toll if a levee breaks unless all citizens are evacuated in time- something more than likely if a category 4 hurricane hits New Orleans directly. Update CNN Sept 2 interview with McQuaid: the response we needed to this problem requires sustained attention and investment from every level of authority. Clearly that response was not achieved within the 3 years since this report.

UK Channel 4 Sept 5: This is the biggest displacement of people since the American Civil War and it must have political consequences as the people are being scattered across the US.

US Washington Post: Sept 8 - Leaders Lacking Disaster Experience- how FEMA's top became jobs for the boys

King

Nonviolence Workshops in Palestine
“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

—Martin Luther King Jr.

Middle East Non-Violence Fellowships

Board of Directors of MENV

Micah Mission
Extract:Integral Mission and Advocacy, of the Micah Network

We confess that in a world of conflict and ethnic tension we have often failed to build bridges. We are called to work for reconciliation between ethnically divided communities, between rich and poor, between the oppressors and the oppressed.

We acknowledge the command to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute in a world that has given ‘money rights’ greater priority than human rights. We recognise the need for advocacy both to address structural injustice and to rescue needy neighbours.

Globalisation is often in reality the dominance of cultures that have the power to project their goods, technologies and images far beyond their borders. In the face of this, the church in its rich diversity has a unique role as a truly global community. We exhort Christians to network and co-operate to face together the challenges of globalisation. The church needs a unified global voice to respond to the damage caused by it to both human beings and the environment. Our hope for the Micah Network is that it will foster a movement of resistance to a global system of exploitation.