World Service Responsibilities of Londoners to the Future and of the Peoples Economics

TomorrowsCompany.com Thursday 30 March 2006, 5.30pm to 8.30pm


The former US Vice-President, Al Gore, will outline his thoughts about the opportunities and challenges presented by climate change with a particular focus on the role and impact of business. Following his presentation there will be a Questions & Answers session and a drinks reception. John Manzoni, BP’s Group Managing Director and Chief Executive, Refining and Marketing, has kindly agreed to chair the lecture and lead the discussion that follows.

model family of tomorrowscompany 1:
not for profit aiming to help organisations that compound better consequences for all people related to the organisation

seeks to form benchmarking groups of the world's biggest corporations in which a CEO or other lead member of one company shares a collaboration method that many other organisations could systemically benefit from adopting

we are interested in what are the greatest collaboration methods that intercompany learning could propagate in this way
eg Ray Anderson's map of how doing good (sustainability) multiplies profits as well as all other goodwill , but has systemic governance skills to it that no stanadardising professional interst group will advise you on

we're also interested in how to help other benchmark group start parallel initiatives since Tomorrow's Company is primarily London based

we're also interested in how Tomorrow's Company as an offshoot of the Royal Society of Arts - a 250 year old network with arguably more scripts by leaders on doing better business can help stimulate readership circles in any city - eg visit the virtual library of practitioner lectures here -if you find a paper you love, do tell us about it so we can try and connect friends of the same great ideas

If there are 10 intercitizen networks that could collaborate in making the world a better place for people everywhere, we feel that TC and RSA are part of one of those 10 networks - do you want to see our map we are using to search for 10 cilaborating networks and and suggest any links we could be connecting onto it?

chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

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To celebrate today's start of the Social Entrepreneur World Championships (University of Oxford hosted by Skoll Foundation) we are starting a survey and campign for the inauguration of social entrepreneur olympics. Why should the deep pursuits of social entrepreneurs get any less media coverage than sports? Which SE arenas are you most excited by? Where do you get a chance to spread the word on how humanity's future depends on these greatest of all collaboration games? Do mail us at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you want any help in starting up a dialogue script on this (we're into our 22nd year of making connections)

chris macrae wcbn007@easynmet.co.uk

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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
....

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

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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

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If I understand correctly, the people of every city -let alone global villages- know who in their lifetime connects the best goodwill of their culture and everyone nurtured by the practice of Gandhi's teachings

Unlike today's mass media celebrities, people from other places (even now that networks often make geographic distance seem to have disappeared) usually never know who is a local place's deepest soul for uniting the world's flows of peace. However, sadly London is one of the cross-cultural test cities where anyone who links through Our Friend Colin's Wave 1 2 3 can see one such soul bearer's connections.

In the first 250 days of missing Colin, I have talked to many people who knew the changes he was searching in us to be. Most seem to remember a change project they were hoping to collaborate with him on. So that all these "be the change" projects do not get separated or lost in the mists of time, I invite anyone who remembers such a project (or idea for one) to join in cataloguing them.
August Fifteenth 1947: To-day our enemy is not outside us but within us. Hunger, poverty and disease, our ignorance, prejudice and folly, and above all the spirit of violence and disorder let loose by communal passions, are our enemies. Against these enemies we have to marshal all our forces. It is the sacred duty of every Indian to help the State fight these enemies. This new struggle will need even a greater spirit of sacrifice and self-discipline than we showed in our struggle for freedom.

Swaraj cannot be real for the masses unless it makes possible the achievement of a society in which democracy extends from the political to the social and economic sphere, and in which there would be no opportunity for privileged classes to exploit the bulk of the people, nor for gross inequalities such as exist at present. Such a society would ensure individual liberty, equality of opportunity and the fullest scope for every citizen for the development of his personality. Only in such a society will the common man be free from the triple exploitation of the communalist, the capitalist and the bureaucrat. Such a society derives its strength from the happiness of its people and its unity from their willing allegiance

Also if you didn't know Colin, but do know a circle of people who try with every breathe to live a "be the change" project that Gandhi would have united in blessing, please do share with us - if you will.

There are 3 ways to share that come to mind:
1) Just post it here
2) Mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk and I will help you edit what you want posted
3) If your project has its own lively collaboration network or is in a family tree of other projects, and you want a section of this weblog to update project news through- mail me and ask for that space

The Road to Ahmedabad
I first heard of the intended Gandhi centenary alumni event when I was at the annual congress of Global Reconciliation Network which was convened in Delhi, December 2004. I will be trying to get Ahmedabad in October 2007, and it would be great to hear from people who have a similar intent. One of the questions I will try to ask our hosts at gandhi's Akram : is there a central clearing house on the web uniting all the world's peoples be the chnage project nominations. There is no wish on the part of this weblog or myself to reinvent the wheel. If you know of a place that already contains the most diverse listings of be the change projects and is open for allcomers to qualify their projects peace-spreading and community-rising intent, then please tell us.

Yours sincerely,
Chris Macrae, Gravity200

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Blackheath & Greenwich United Nations Association invite you to a public meeting:

Wednesday 15th March, The Old Bakehouse, Age Exchange, Bennett Park, Blackheath Village, London (almost directly opposite Blackheath rail station, )
Speaker: John Bunzl, Founder and Trustee
International Simultaneous Policy Organisation
http://www.simpol.org/

"What kind of world are we creating for our children and grandchildren and what we can do about it".

Please bring your questions and answers! For a summary of the Simultaneous Policy (SP) campaign, see below. 12 MPs from all the main political parties have so far signed up to SP along with MPs in the EU and Australian parliaments.

Simpol promotes the Simultaneous Policy (SP), which aims to deliver social justice around the world, resolve global problems like environmental destruction and regulate the economic power of international capital for the good of all. Simpol seeks solutions to problems that individual national governments cannot resolve by acting alone. This is because the problems transcend national boundaries, and because the global competitive system means that any government that acted alone to try and resolve such problems could effectively make its country uncompetitive.Simpol aims to achieve these objectives by encouraging ordinary people around the world to oblige their political representatives and governments to move toward co-ordinated international resolution of global issues for the good of all. This is because it is only by countries all agreeing to implement changes at the same time that problems no individual government dares tackle alone can be resolved in a satisfactory way. Simultaneous implementation of such policies would ensure that no country became uncompetitive as a result of pursuing policies that were right for the planet and which embodied people¹s higher aspirations.All you need to do is sign up as a Simultaneous Policy Adopter which costs you nothing. By so doing you agree in principle to vote at elections for any candidate, within reason, who has signed a pledge to implement the Simultaneous Policy alongside other governments. Alternatively, if you have a party preference, your Adoption signifies you will encourage your preferred party to make this pledge. This is the simple mechanism Adopters use to advance their cause.Simpol's approach is peaceful, open, and democratic. If you Adopt you will have the opportunity to contribute to the formation of specific policies that answer global problems and join with others in using your vote in a new and effective way to drive the politicians of all parties to implement thesepolicies.

Book Endorsements: "The Simultaneous Policy - An Insider's Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet" by John Bunzl. Published by New European Publications. ISBN 0-1872410-15-4. Foreword by Diana Schumacher.

"I thought your proposal was an elegant idea of how change could occur. It reflects the core ideas of how to create consensus around change. This is the biggest challenge that we have"
Ed Mayo. Former Executive Director, New Economics Foundation

"Your idea for a simultaneous policy is excellent. … Lets hope that people start to listen to this important message."
Helena Norberg-Hodge Member of the International Forum on Globalisation and Director of the International Society for Ecology & Culture

"It’s ambitious and provocative. Can it work? Certainly worth a serious try."
Noam Chomsky

"…the basic concept is excellent. … Let me know what develops!"
Jakob von Uexkull Founder and Chairman - Right Livelihood Award Foundation

"The Simultaneous Policy is a creative proposal to accelerate progress toward a sustainable global economy. Many movements and grassroots globalists working for these goals can coalesce around such innovative initiatives"
Hazel Henderson Author of 'Beyond Globalization: Shaping a Sustainable Global Economy'

"I agree with the case your organization is making about the failure of anti-globalization forces to propose effective alternatives to thestatus quo. I believe your organization's proposals are an important step forward. I hope that many of those who took first steps in Seattle, Washington and Quebec City will nowtake the second step and take either the ISPO programme, or anyalternatives they wish to propose, into the political arena.Anti-globalization demonstrators have the attention of the world. If they wish to hold that attention, and start to make an impact on policy,they must now follow the ISPO's lead and propose workable alternativesto the status quo."
Prof. Christopher Leo - Dept. of Politics, University of Winnipeg, Canada.

"Simultaneous Policy is a very stimulating book and by substituting internationalism for globalization, co-operation for competition, humanity for markets and wisdom for materialism you have unlocked a powerhouse for good."
Tony Benn - Former Labour Member of Parliament, UK.

"The really big issues today now cross national frontiers and individual governments cannot cope with them in isolation. This is where Simultaneous Policy comes in. … [It] is the only way a host of problems can now be solved. Simultaneous Policy is the alternative."
Sir Richard Body - Former Conservative Member of Parliament, UK

"Simultaneous Policy is a most promising strategy for discovering and establishing a more equitable, efficient and sustainable economic order."
Shann Turnbull Author of "Democratizing the Wealth of Nations"

"The concept of Simultaneous Policy (SP) is a wonderful way of implementing cooperation which is the new law of human survival in the globalized world. With it goes moral education inducing a new system of values to satisfy the requirements of the New Age."
Dr. Farhang Sefidvash Coordinator, the Research Centre for Global Governance

"Working from an East-West perspective in which the interdependency of Buddhism combines with the economics of E.F. Schumacher, Bunzl argues for a program of restoring social control over the blind destructiveness of corporate globalisation by simultaneous government policies across world borders. The need for simultaneity of sovereign state action is an important new dimension of a debate affecting all planetary life."
John McMurtry Author of "The Cancer Stage of Capitalism"

"With his concept of Simultaneous Policy, John Bunzl delivers an important piece in the puzzle that governments around the world can use to resolve the pressures of increasingly integrated markets. ... It is, perhaps, one of the few workable solutions to bridging the sustainability gap."
Matthias Hoepfl Politische Oekologie Magazine, Munich, Germany.

"This is an important book about a potentially very important idea - the Simultaneous Policy. The author asks the question: how can the world get beyond the escalating problems of global competition to a framework of global co-operation? As we have seen with single issues such as arms control, it is hard for an individual country to justify making the first move. This is where SP comes in. It provides a rallying point for those who would like to see the vicious circle broken and a new world system inaugurated."
The Scientific and Medical Network Review.

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Hello Rosalind

I am interested in motivations of people who host big leadership conferences, as well as the vip names who talk (do they have missions in life we can join in - given the death of distance world my dad and I have been writing about since 1984, -the third of a trilogy of works on entrepreneurial revolutions hitting one generation 1984-2024 that he developed for The Economist)
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html

The blunt questions

- do you expect any intiatives to emerge from your conference that will seek to make the world a better place, and which delegates can participate in - say as http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.com/ has

-do you seek to link your network of speakers and delegates with other world changing conferences or movements; for example I am aiming to connect any world change conferences with the Gandhi centenary conference October 2007 (by link I mean connect some overall action learning so that it informs and is informed by every coference occassion where people spend so much time and energy congragating around visionary views of eladership)

sincerely
chris macrae
http://clubofcity.blogspot.com
valuetrue.com
connecting 40 million bookmarks of collaboration knowledge city
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Bcollaboration+%2Bknowledge+%2Bcity&btnG=Google+Search



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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
*
innovation: they are where people have spent longest with experimenting with solutions, as well as any cross-cultural conflicts or historical errors
*
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

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March 2006, London

Noted by aSIN, solaroof, AMED sustainability billionnaires & omniworldview:
The news that Al Gore is delivering March 2006, the annual lecture of Tomorrows Global Company is brilliant:
December ebulletin, Tomorrows Company:
Annual Lecture 2006
Al Gore has been confirmed for next year’s Annual Lecture on 30th March 2006

Future historians & Entrepreneurial Revolutionaries wonder how many more of the 30000 project would already be energetically multiplying around the world if Florida's 2000 elections had been counted by UN observers instead of quaint computing tabulators

This ties in with Club of City's December 05 intercitizen debate:

4 From aSIN ,ValueFuture & Future of London: Will 2006 be the year that clean energy 1 2 cheers up the world showing that Peak Oil and all scaremongering about smaller ecological footprints are mistakes propagated by people who have not been keeping up with the last 21 years of innovations in photosynthetic scorces and architectures of energy

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