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Understanding global trends & indicatorsTrends provide analysis of the impacts facing humanity and other planet life. Indicators help to guide through challenges, and opportunities. Typically, both give us an idea of where are we now. They allow us to consider alternative technologies, techniques, and approaches relevant to changes in values, attitudes and world views relevant to desired or plausible futures. Sustainable indicators incorporate these alternatives considering biological and physical limits. Some critical trends are positive but others suggest that the world is moving toward a troubled future. Indicators help us to align our destiny dependent upon regional choices made separately in many different corners of the world while realizing our global interconnectedness. Based on current trends, where might your organization be heading and what are the implications? The Manifesto of January 3, 2000 Description of the planet’s presently occurring sixth mass extinction of life
forms Is eating genetically engineered food good for you? The Current State of Currency (money) Genetically Engineered Foods Complementary Currencies are emerging world-wide Winner-winner solutions: solving he problem of partial corporate: welfare by having . .
. Total corporate welfare Political shifts Corporate interest in sustainable development appears to be on the rise. Topsoil (and water) crisis Worldwatch briefing on kyoto climate change treaty http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/pr981020.html Use of complementary currencies are on the rise globally Ice Cores Suggest Drastic Climate Change Uk government: sustainability counts Global distillation: awareness of global interconnectivity Texas Transportation Institute University of Michigan global environmental and social statistics (under statistics) Global consciousness change: positive trends The united nations official site for the Kyoto, Japan, climate conference The official documents : http://www.cop3.de United nations national implementation of the rio commitments What if the world were a village made of 100 people? State of our world indicators A guide to global trends, challenges, and opportunities The coming global oil crisis Telecommuting Population relating to agriculture, endangered species, and air pollution Human and environmental effects of industrial activity 1600 world scientists' warning to humanity Downloadable "climate change" model Audubon …..endangered fisheries list Y2k: global crisis holds opportunity for renewed community Y2k bug Putting the pieces together again: a perspective on y2k, business, and global
transformation; by organizational consultant Barbara Shipka in the world business
academy's perspectives on business and global change vol 12, no. 4 (1998), pp 77-88. An international agenda of human rights |
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