[GMW #2358] Creating Universities of Consumption and Universities of Employment

[GMW #2358] Creating Universities of Consumption and Universities of Employment Tuesday 27 December 2011, Editor: Easy | RobertMuller.org | Contact | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Biography | World Core Curriculum | Store | NEW Facebook | Twitter | GMW Blogs: English | Portuguese | Spanish | Tagalog | Dutch | Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500 ~ Idea 1204 ~ 27 October 1997 Among the new Universities I would like to see established would be Universities of Consumption and Universities of Employment. This is in response to the fact that all Universities are concentrating on production and marketing, taking employment for granted as a result of the existing economic system. Since we have both underconsumption, overconsumption and wrong consumptions on this planet which destroy or diminish humans and the Earth, it is high time to deal seriously with this subject. And since a slowdown and changes of consumption habits are absolutely necessary in the world if we want to save the Earth, we should also study the concept and ways of proper, fulfilling employment in the western countries especially. I have a whole file of original ideas in this field. Someone should write 2000 ideas for fulfilling employment of humans on planet Earth. The environment, spirituality and voluntary service provide great possibilities in countries where the machines have made much employment dispensable. Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living, Volume II Chapter 11 - Of Gratitude Decide to Love Take this great, momentous decision for all your life love yourself Love your family Love the Earth Love humanity Love the sun, the heavens and the stars Love God Love the good of the present, the past and the future Love to see, to hear, to think, to learn, to speak, to write, to communicate, to do good, to sing, to be happy, to laugh Love peace and everything that is good on this planet Love all living beings Love your loving life Irradiate your love Make others love Help humanity grow a global heart Help this beautiful Earth become the Paradise of Love Love until it hurts And spend your heaven doing good on Earth. UN News Sources - UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service , UN Wire News Archive References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc. WORD FOR THE DAY If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau Books recommended by Robert are here. Other newsletters by GMW's editor can be viewed and subscribed to here. Subscribe to or unsubscribe from GoodMorningWorld.org

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[GMW #2220] Learning To Be Careful Managers Of Our Planet With Global Consciousness

[GMW #2220] Learning To Be Careful Managers Of Our Planet With Global Consciousness Monday 23 May 2011, Editor: Easy | RobertMuller.org | Contact | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Biography | World Core Curriculum | Store | Facebook | Twitter | GMW Blogs: English | Portuguese | Spanish | Tagalog | Dutch | Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500 ~ Ideas 1455 to 1466 ~    5 to 16 July 1998 I have been invited to attend again a Findhorn conference in England but am unable to go.  To support the advocacy work of that splendid environmental organization, I reproduce here the following text: Transcript of short talk by Robert Muller to the Ecovillages and Sustainable Development Conference in Findhorn, in October 1995 In my 40 years in the UN, I have seen three very basic changes.  From 1945-70 the UN was focused on humanism and humans; on avoiding war, on preventing children dying, and on The Declaration of Human Rights.  The Charter of the UN does not mention the Earth.  Why?  Because in our belief the Earth was limitless.  This continued until the late 60's when poets like Rachel Carson and advanced countries like Sweden began to notice that something was wrong with nature around us. A completely new period of history thus started with the First World Conference on the Environment in Sweden in 1972.  There was continuation of the preoccupation with humans, but also a new preoccupation with the world around us.  It was only in the late 60's that we realized that we had a population problem, because the fertility rate continued at about the same level, while the mortality rate was declining.  The population explosion intensified the problem of the environment.  In 1980 we began to get warnings from climatologists that something was going wrong with the world's climate. As a result since 1980 we have entered a third period – from now on the Earth is number one, and humanity is number two.  Humanity is number two because we wish humans to decline on this planet.  And we have begun to question the consumption of resources by Western countries which is 30 times the amount consumed by developing countries.  Believing that the world was unlimited, we started with the discipline and science called economics, (from Greek, oikonomos, the management of the home), before ecology, (the Greek, oikologos, the knowledge of the home).  We began to manipulate the home before we knew what we were manipulating.  Economics should have been and should become a sub-science of ecology. The prospect of the third millennium has an incredible effect.  Humanity is preparing itself for a new millennium and century.  I have pages and pages of events which will take place even beyond the year 2000. There is reason for optimism.  Humanity is really trying.  But we are only in the kindergarten of the global age.  We have not yet learned to be the careful managers of our planet.  We are still its exploiters. I have just attended the Gorbachev meeting on the State of the World in San Francisco, and  I have gained a lot of hope.  They had the courage to get some of the best world experts to look into the state of the world and into the future, to create a vision of the society we want in the next millennium...and then do it.  They want to implement the population plan, support simple and frugal lives, and get multinational corporations to acquire global consciousness.  This gives me hope.  From a pessimistic young man, when I entered the UN immediately after World War II, I have become an optimistic elder. Let me give you some very specific recommendations and ideas: Idea 1455    Create a World Association of Eco-Communities to be NGO-accredited by the UN. Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,   Volume II Chapter 5 - Of Love Love is our only salvation, the only cement and uplifting force that holds us upright in the mysterious, fathomless universe.  Love is our voluntary, conscious, willful endearment with life, with the Earth and with the positive flows of the universe. UN News Sources - UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service , UN Wire News Archive References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc. Daily Ray of Hope Photo Credit: June Marie SobritoLocation: Larchmont, NY When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Books recommended by Robert are here. Other newsletters by GMW's editor can be viewed and subscribed to here. Subscribe to or unsubscribe from GoodMorningWorld.org

The first 4000 Ideas & Dreams For A Better World The Idea Dreams    With An Index Idea Dreams by Volumes of 500 Idea Dreams Select Topic Index Idea Dreams listed by Topic Robert's Harmonic & Talk Ode To Joy Never Give Up (Audio Talk) Decide to - poems Decide To Index Decide To Poems Writing The Miracle, Joy &    Art of Living Robert's Golden Sayings Mt. Rasur Legend Our Dream 3000 Documents World Peace Plan 2005 Earth Peace Plan 2010 Proper Earth Government    2020 Paradise On Earth Plan 2050 Appeal To World Leaders World Citizenship Award 2002