John W. Gardner was an amazing human that a large impact on American society. The following speech was given in 1986 to the high school graduates and their families at […]
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John W. Gardner was an amazing human that had a large impact on American society. The following speech was given in 1998. John W. Gardner The Long Story Think of […]
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Timothy Wilken Readers of this site know I believe in building a 4-win world—win-win-win-win. This is a world where I win, Others win, Life wins, and the Earth wins. Wednesday, […]
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I came across an obituary for John W. Gardner in the current issue of The Futurist. Gardner was an amazing human that had a large impact on American society. The […]
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“The Earth Flag is my symbol of the task before us all. Only in the last quarter of my life have we come to know what it means to be […]
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Perhaps the most important challenge to those who would like to make a positive future is to better understand ourselves. This essay written a few years ago serves as preamble […]
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Our human culture is currently trapped in Neutrality. Our values are neutral values and we see the individual as supreme. While the concept of Humanity as Individual is valid, we […]
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Yesterday we learned: Nature is a live, self-creating process forever making order from chaos, forever free to do something new—to reorganize itself when necessary, even if only to stay the […]
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Elisabet Sahtouris continues her story of the EarthDance: In Chapter 5, The Dance of Life, we spoke of the differences between mechanisms and organisms in connection with the autopoietic definition of life, and […]
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Yesterday, Elisabet Sahtouris explained: The old philosophy of nature as alive and creative in its imperfection was replaced by belief in the perfect and rather mechanical creation of a single, […]
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