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The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative (www.cpcsc.info) now has a proposal ("Tipping Point Action: Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges") in a contest at the MIT Climate CoLab Platform. The Tipping Point Action Proposal is entered in the "Shifting Behavior for a Changing Climate" contest.
There are opportunities to comment on the Tipping Point Action proposal--and to give it a "thumbs up"…
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Press Kit for Tipping Point Action Campaign
Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges
[a campaign of The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative]
(www.cpcsc.info)
Contact: Stefan Pasti, Campaign Coordinator
Cell: (703) 209-2093
Email: stefanpasti@gmx.com
Note: a February 14, 2014 Press Release, and the full text (with resource links, etc) of…
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The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative provides research for critical challenge alerts, and support for collaborative problem solving initiatives which seek to maximize citizen participation.
Beginning in December, 2013 The CPCS Initiative launched a new and comprehensive campaign called “Tipping Point Action: Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges”.
As a way of sharing information about the Tipping Point Action Campaign, I…
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The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative provides research for critical challenge alerts, and support for collaborative problem solving initiatives which seek to maximize citizen participation.
Beginning in December, 2013, The CPCS Initiative is launching a new and comprehensive campaign called “Tipping Point Action: Citizen Participation in Times of Unprecedented Challenges”.
There are many initiatives which are part of this campaign: Planetary…
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The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative provides research for critical challenge alerts, and support for collaborative problem solving initiatives which seek to maximize citizen participation.
The CPCS Initiative is introducing two new information and advocacy campaigns for 2014: the “Planetary Distress Signal” Campaign and the “1000 Community Visioning Initiatives” Campaign.
The primary goal of these campaigns is to encourage citizens from…
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Documents now accessible at the Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative website include:
“Invitation Package for Possible Board of Advisors (at www.cpcsc.info )” (589 p.; 3.66 MB)
1 page introduction (also on title page of "Invitation Package" document)
6 page introduction to the “Invitation Package” document (not in complete document)
20 page Introduction (also included in the complete document)
1…
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An Introduction to Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability
I am making this post to share with readers a new website: Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (at www.cpcsc.info ).
The new website consolidates four websites (which have been archived), and thus includes “homebases” for The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative, Community Visioning Initiatives Clearinghouse, Community…
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New Approach to Collaborative Problem Solving and Citizen Peacebuilding
(being introduced by two companion websites and four key documents)
The websites, the documents, and the approach
We are in uncharted territory, for there is no culture or association of societies that ever existed on planet Earth which has had to resolve the kind of challenges the next few generations of people will have to resolve [see “A List of Ten Critical Challenges” (also accessible from the…
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Full video of this speech is on the National Endowment for the Humanities' website here.
The essayist, novelist, and poet Wendell Berry, shown at…
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We have the choice of burning all the oil left and hacking down all the remaining rainforests - or saving humanity
by Johann Hari
Sometimes, there are hinge-points in human history – moments when we have to choose between an exuberant descent into lunacy, and a still, sober voice offering us a sane way out. Usually, we can only see them when we look back from a distance. In 1793, the great democrat Thomas Paine said the French…
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If we aren’t living in an “educable moment,” then we must be dumber than a doggone boot. Financial collapse, fiscal crisis, skyrocketing gas prices, global warming, revolutions in crowded countries, unemployment all…
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Community Design for25-500 Families
Based upon Permaculture & Socialist…
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The Sustainable Revolution
by Mykoden
This paper was originally presented at the World Social…
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The Sustainable Revolution
This paper was originally presented at the World Social Forum in Caracas at the University of Venezuela on January…
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