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1. Suggestions for Prayer, Study, and Action
Our Mother who is within us
we celebrate your many names.
Your wisdom come.
Your will be done,
unfolding from the depths within us.
Each day you give us all that we need.
You remind us of our limits
and we let go.
You support us in our power
and we act with courage.
For you are the dwelling place within us
the empowerment around us
and the celebration among us
now and for ever. Amen
Miriam Therese Winter
Medical Mission Sister,
Professor of Liturgy, Worship and Spirituality
Hartford Seminary
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Maha Saraswati - Kangra, India
Source: Wikipedia
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Persevere in your Nuptial Covenant
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Source: Wikipedia
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2. News, Publications, Tools, and Conferences
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NEWS
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PUBLICATIONS
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TOOLS & DATABASES
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CONFERENCES & JOURNALS
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3. Advances in Sustainable Development
Click on the image to visit the NEON web site
National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), USA
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Approaching the Limits to Growth, Paul Chefurka, February 2011.
Ecological Footprint Atlas, Global Footprint Network, 24 November 2010..
What's blocking sustainability? Human nature, cognition, and denial, Bill Rees, Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, Fall 2010.
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4. Advances in Integral Human Development
Click on the image to visit the UN WOMEN web site
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
5. Advances in Integrated Sustainable Development
Click on the image to visit the Gender at Work web site
Gender at Work is an international collaborative that strengthens organizations
to build cultures of equality and social justice.
6. Sustainability Games, Databases, and Knowledgebases
Click on the image to visit the Gender Inequalityt Index (GII) web site
Click here to view GII data for 169 countries.
7. Visualizations of the Sustainable Development Process
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Sustainable Land Development Inititiative, TriplePundit, 2 December 2010.
Source: TriplePundit
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This is a hierarchical model that visualizes sustainable development in terms of three interacting dimensions, each with three interaction sub-dimensions:
Profit (economics)
Create Value
Eliminate Waste
Recognize Interdependence
Planet (the human habitat)
Natural Resources
Energy Flows
Humans & Nature
People (society)
Share Knowledge
Accept Responsibility
Quality of Life
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Fifteen Global Challenges for Humanity, Millennium Project, 2010.
Source: Millennium Project
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The lines show all the interactions between 15 challenges facing humanity. It provides a better visualization of the complexity of the process.
Assuming that the 15 challenges can be analyzed in groups of 5, the number of group combinations to be analyzed is 15!/10!5!, or 3003. If the order in which they are considered matters, then the number of challenge permutations to be analyzed is 15!, or 1307674368000.
Computers can crunch numbers, but resolving these 15 challenges together requires more than number crunching.
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The Perfect Recipe, Concita Ladelfa, EuroEcoTeens.Net, Energy and Environment Comenius Project, 23 November 2010.
Source: Comenius Project
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This is the best visualization. It shows that, in the ultimate analysis, the transition from consumerism to sustainability must happen in human minds and hearts before it can happen at any level - local, national, or global.
This model suggests the additional (and critical) insight that the transition is contingent on gender equality and cross-gender solidarity. Sustainable development will require the collaboration of all men and women of good will.
The transition from homo economicus to homo ecologicus requires gender equality, because the ecological mindset cannot take root and grow as long as humans are engaged in any form of domination; and patriarchy is the most pervasive structure of domination.
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8. Sustainable Development Modeling and Simulation
9. Sustainable Development and the International Community
Click on the image to visit the International Women's Day web site
A global hub for sharing International Women's Day news, events and resources
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