Of Interest

Below are websites and information that may be of interest to our friends in the New School community:

Appropedia is an open library wiki for best practices and technology for sustainability.

The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society is a 501-c(3) non-profit organization which works to integrate contemplative awareness and contemporary life, to help create a more just, compassionate, and reflective society. They work in program areas which explore and promote the effectiveness of contemplative practices. Within each program, they hold retreats, workshops or training sessions, create publications, identify useful resources and connect like-minded individuals and organizations to help promote a stronger network of people working to bring contemplative practice to contemporary life.

The Garrison Institute was founded in 2002 to apply the transformative wisdom of the world's contemplative traditions to systemic challenges facing the human and natural environment. It offers a year-round calendar of residential initiatives and retreats that bring together spiritual leaders and practitioners, activists and social service providers, policy makers, scientists and scholars to explore the intersection of contemplative and spiritual experience with engaged action in the world.

Global MindShift This website is based on a basic premise: Underlying the diversity of life is unity. If we can expand our perspective and truly see that all life is intimately connected, it would lead to a radical shift in how we think and act, a global mind shift. You can join interesting and thought provoking online conversations hosted by members of their staff or read/watch the "Discover" portion of their website.

The Global Oneness Project is a video website about emerging ways of working and living in our interconnected world. Travel around the world as the authors of this site interview people from all walks of life, who share their stories and insights about living from a perspective of oneness.

Institute for Inquiry is a 501c3 non-profit organization, proposes a new generation of journalism that forefronts physical, biological, and cultural life as the realities most at stake and least understood. IFI uses an innovative inquiry model that invites rigorous questioning with lead and network contributors. IFI's vision is to create a participatory, global network that challenges us to learn how physical, biological, and cultural life flourishes; and to use such reasoning to inform economic and political aspirations. Be sure and check out their journal: Wild Duck Review: Literature, Necessary Mischief, and News.

TED Conference TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). Watch this moving speech, "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" (18 min), from Sir Ken Robinson at the 2006 TED Conference.

The TED Conference, held annually in Monterey, is still the heart of TED. More than a thousand people now attend indeed, the event sells out a year in advance and the content has expanded to include science, business, the arts and all the big global issues facing our world. Over four days, 50 speakers each take an 18-minute slot, and there are many shorter pieces of content, including music, performance and comedy. There are no breakout groups. Everyone shares the same experience. It shouldn't work, but it does. It works because all of knowledge is connected. Every so often it makes sense to emerge from the trenches we dig for a living, and ascend to a 30,000-foot view, where we see, to our astonishment, an intricately interconnected whole.

The TED Prize is designed to leverage the TED Community's exceptional array of talent and resources. It is awarded annually to three exceptional individuals who each receive $100,000 and, much more important, the granting of "One Wish to Change the World." After several months of preparation, they unveil their wish at an award ceremony held during the TED Conference. These wishes have led to collaborative initiatives with far-reaching impact.

Timeline Magazine Global Community Foundation's bimonthly magazine, Timeline, focused on cultural change. It included interviews with leading-edge thinkers, editorials, book reviews, and articles on systems thinking, sustainability, ecology, conflict resolution, social change, and community building. Although Timeline came to an end after 14 years of publishing it is a great online resource. For the final issue, they went back over the 83 prior issues and picked out 64 pages of things we especially liked and that are timeless.

Wiser Earth is a community directory and networking forum for organizations and people addressing the central issues of our day: climate change, poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights, and more. Content is created by people like you from around the world.

Working With Oneness This site is dedicated to connecting with individuals and spiritual groups of all types who are working towards the emerging consciousness of oneness that is central to our human and planetary survival and evolution. Consciousness of oneness is an awareness of the unity and the interconnectedness of all of life.

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