System Transformation
Academy of Management Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency Atlanta 265 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA, United StatesDavid will join Joel Rogers for a dialogue on "Progressive Localism as an Alternative Future" (11:45am - 1:45pm on Saturday, August 5). This session brings together two prominent scholar activists with the "Alternative Economic Futures" community to help envision progressive localism as a sustainable and democratic path forward. An economy organized by and for global [...]
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility Annual Fundraising Dinner
Mountaineers Seattle Program Center 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesDavid has been invited to speak at WPSR's annual fundraising dinner on "Economic Equality: Far More Than Just an Economic Issue".
Transition City Seoul
City Hall - Grand Conference Room Seoul, Korea, Republic ofThe world has suffered from various problems including low growth, long recession, population aging, demographic cliff, climate change, environmental crisis, and collapsing community. The purpose of this conference, focused on the theme, "Transition of Civilization and the Role of Cities", is to review attempts and experiments of the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the world, to discuss where the world [...]
2018 International Conference for Ecozoic Culture
Hotel Jijihyang Paju Book City, Korea, Republic ofUnder the theme, "Ecological Transformation on the Korean Peninsula and East Asia", the conference, hosted by People for Earth Forum, has two main goals: To examine the efforts of various areas such as global environmental protection, social economy and sustainable cities as parts of the big forest that is ecological civilization, and to create various [...]
International Forum on Ecological Urban Regeneration
Dubong Forest Village Seoul, Korea, Democratic People's Republic ofThe 2018 Seoul International Forum on the Northeast Four Boroughs, based on a commitment to increase ecological sustainability of the region at large, while also improving the residents’ economic conditions, offers an opportunity to propose and discuss visions for the direction and strategy for urban regeneration. The first half of the forum, “Ecological Urban Regeneration,” [...]
Metropolitan Democratic Club of Seattle Meeting
Metropolitan Democratic Club 600 Stewart Street, Suite 205, Seattle, WA, United StatesDavid will speak and engage the conversation about "The Role of Politics in a Time of Transformation". There are no solutions to the unfolding global environmental, social, and governance collapse within a political system captive to establishment interests and grounded in false values, flawed assumptions, and simplistic ideologies. The search for the path to the [...]
First Friday Forum – Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church
Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church 308 4th Avenue South, Kirkland, WA"Transitioning to an Ecological Civilization" David will talk about how our collective cultural stories are shifting to make way for the transition to an Ecological Civilization. Through systems of governance, economics, culture and religion, we can bring people and planet into balance, nurture innovation and creative expression. "Ecological civilization" is the final goal of social [...]
World Localization Day
Online via ZoomDavid will join Pat Mooney (ETC Group), Ronnie Cummins (Organic Consumers Association) and Helena Norberg-Hodge (Local Futures / Economics of Happiness) for a lively conversation - "From Corporate Control to Local Regeneration." These four system change veterans – including two Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Prize) recipients – are all sharp critics of globalization as [...]
Cedars Unitarian Universalist Church – Our Time to Choose
Online via ZoomJoin David Korten and Worship Associate Mike Cox to examine how science is validating ancient wisdom; the significance of UU principle #7; and the enormous implications for humans, a species with a distinctive capacity to choose. As science warned that continuing business as usual will bring devastating and irreversible environmental consequences, a global pandemic disrupted every [...]
Work That Reconnects Webinar and Conversation Café
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