Conférence de Rafael Correa Président de la République de l'Equateur. Www.amma.nl/files/Pers-info/2013_Persfolder_NL-02.pdf. Joanna Macy Part 2 (of 3) Complete Interview Joanna Macy. Joanna Macy. Joanna Rogers Macy (born May 2, 1929), is an environmental activist, author, scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology.
She is the author of eight books.[1] Biography[edit] Macy graduated from Wellesley College in 1950 and received her Ph.D in Religious Studies in 1978 from Syracuse University, Syracuse. She studied there with Huston Smith, the influential author of The World's Religions (previously entitled The Religions of Man). She is an international spokesperson for anti-nuclear causes, peace, justice, and environmentalism,[1] most renowned for her book Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World and the Great Turning initiative, which deals with the transformation from, as she terms it, an industrial growth society to what she considers to be a more sustainable civilization. Key Influences[edit] Her Work[edit] Sustainability Education[edit] Joanna Macy is one of the world’s leading sustainability educators.
Business as usual. Jane Elliott. Eye color idea instead of moccasins for shoes[edit] On the evening of April 4, 1968, Elliott turned on her television and learned of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
She says she vividly remembers a scene in which a white reporter with the microphone pointed it toward a local black leader and asked, "When our leader (John F. Kennedy) was killed several years ago, his widow held us together. Who's going to control your people? " The following day, she had a class discussion about the lesson and racism in general. The first exercise using brown collars[edit] Steven Armstrong was the first child to arrive in Elliott's classroom,[4] asking why "that King" (referring to Martin Luther King, Jr.) was murdered.
Brown Eye-Blue Eye Experiment. The event: How racist are you - 1 of 5. An Unfinished Crusade - An Interview With Jane Elliot. What have you seen or learned after conducting your exercise in various parts of the world?
I've learned that discrimination and its effects are the same no matter where you find them. I get the same results with the exercise in Berlin or in the Netherlands that I do in the U.S. or Australia or Curacao. And what's even more distressing is the fact that I've gotten the same results using the exercise with adults in Scotland and Australia in the year 2002 that I got using the exercise with children in Riceville, Iowa, in 1968. A number of years ago we did the exercise in Berlin in a building not far from the still-raw remnants of the Berlin wall. There was a woman from East Germany in the brown-eyed group who insisted that we not do the exercise. What was the exercise's relevance for Germans who participated? Brown eyes and blue eyes Racism experiment (Children Session) - Jane Elliott. Michael Zimmerman, Philosopher Artist of the Fall Quarter 2006. Michael E.
Zimmerman was voted by the members and visitors of Universe Spirit as our Philosopher Artist of the Fall Quarter 2006. After receiving his PhD in philosophy in 1974, Michael E. Zimmerman spent 31 years teaching at Tulane University (New Orleans), where he was chair of his department for three terms, co-director of environmental studies, co-director of Asian studies, and clinical professor of psychology in psychiatry department of Tulane Medical School. Michael has published two books on the philosopher Martin Heidegger (Eclipse of the Self [1981] and Heidegger’s Confrontation with Modernity [1990], a book on environmental philosophy,Contesting Earth’s Future, and most recently a book co-authored with Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, Integral Ecology.
Vandana Shiva. Vandana Shiva (Hindi: वंदना शिवा: born 5 November 1952) is an Indian environmental activist and anti-globalization author.[2] Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than 20 books.[3] She was trained as a physicist and received her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 1978 with the doctoral dissertation "Hidden variables and locality in quantum theory.
"[4][5] She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization, (along with Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, Jeremy Rifkin, et al.), and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, as is evident from her interview in the book Vedic Ecology (by Ranchor Prime) that draws upon India's Vedic heritage. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank. Career[edit] Dr. Dr. Dr.