Hi Orion and All I greatly appreciate your sending the update of your group's wondrous work and the press release.
It may well be that people on these listservs will also be inspired by your your whole network's imagination to contribute to the manifesting of the Great Transition, including spreading the word ... Go well Alan Hong Kong ----- Original Message ----- From: Orion Kriegman To: Alan Stewart Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:11 AM Subject: RE: What 2084 could be like if more attention was paid to making it happen Alan, I see you have an earlier draft of the GT Today essay, I wanted to alert you to the fact that the entire GTI Paper Series has been published to the GTI website and is available for download. Below is our press release (and attached a more basic announcement), please continue to help spread the word. Thanks, Orion PRESS RELEASE Contact: Orion Kriegman Tel: 617.266.5400 GTI Paper Series Released Boston, MA, Oct.1 -- The Great Transition Initiative (GTI- www.gtinitiative.org) is a collective endeavor by scholars and activists who share a broad commitment to addressing the major problems confronting humanity: poverty, security, and the environment. GTI's mission is to imagine, assess, and advance a great transition to a global future of enriched lives, equity, solidarity and a healthy planet. It takes seriously the slogan of progressives everywhere that "another world is possible," but proposes that such a world must first be imagined creatively as a plausible human project. GTI's network of 200 participants from 40 countries contributed to the preparation of this series (http://www.gtinitiative.org/default.asp?action=43) through a more than year-long process of general exploration of ideas, thematic working groups and review. The 15 papers in the series elaborate the global challenge, future visions, and strategic directions in various domains of culture, politics, technology, economy and society. The papers offer no "blueprint" of the future, but are meant to be imaginative ventures that engage and intrigue others to contribute to the enterprise of inspiring change beyond the crisis and despair of the day. According to Paul Raskin, the Coordinator of GTI and President of the Tellus Institute, the GTI's paper series will " sharpen the critique of conventional thinking, deepen the understanding of the global possible, identify critical levers for change, and promote a coherent popular movement." The GTI is facilitated by the Tellus Institute (www.tellus.org), formed in 1976 as a a not-for-profit research and policy studies organization based in Boston, and now a world leader in assessing critical environment and development issues. Tellus has worked at every level -- global, regional, national, local, and enterprise -- bringing both vision and analytic rigor to fashioning strategies, policies and decision-support tools. Key foci have included energy, water, sustainable communities, corporate social responsibility, and climate change. Our projects are distinguished by an integrated perspective that illuminates linkages across spatial scales and the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of development. The Institute's sponsors -- foundations, government agencies, multilateral organizations, civil society organizations, and business -- reflect this diversity. ________________________ Orion Kriegman, GTI Organizer www.gtinitiative.org Tellus Institute 11 Arlington St. Boston, MA 02116-3411 Fax: 617-266-8303 Tel: 617-266-5400 http://www.gtinitiative.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Alan Stewart [mailto:alanmstew...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 8:57 PM To: Elisabet Sahtouris; GTI Coordinating unit <snip <snip * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
