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Interdependence & global challenges

Below are the best resources we could find on Interdependence and global challenges.

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Faith and the Fight Against Climate Change, Part 2

In a society increasingly driven by science and technology, world religions and the communities they inspire remain a vast and rock-solid political force.

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Theory U - Learning from the Future as It Emerges | Otto Scharmer | TEDxTUHH

Otto Scharmer talks about how we, as individuals and collectively as a society, create results no one wants - ecological, social and spiritual divide. He talks about what causes such divides and how we can overcome them.

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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development

Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically.

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FindCenter When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.

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The Need to Understand One Another

Events in one place can literally echo around the world in a matter of hours or even minutes. We are realizing that our lives are affected by many people who are different from us.

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An Ecology of Mind

'An Ecology of Mind' is a filmic portrait of anthropologist, biologist, and psychotherapist Gregory Bateson. Bateson believed that, 'The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between the way nature works and the way people think.

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A Talk for World Peace

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's public talk given at the West Lawn of the US Capitol in Washington DC, USA, on July 9, 2011.

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Global Challenges: War, Self Determination and Responsibility for Justice

In the late twentieth century, many writers and activists envisioned new possibilities of transnational cooperation toward peace and global justice. In this book Iris Marion Young aims to revive such hopes by responding clearly to what are seen as the global challenges of the modern day.

Iris Marion Young

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Matthieu Ricard: The Art of Meditation

The “world’s happiest man,” philosopher Matthieu Ricard, explains how we can train our minds in habits of well-being.

Matthieu Ricard

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Good Citizens: Creating Enlightened Society

In Good Citizens, Thich Nhat Hanh lays out the foundation for an international solidarity movement based on a shared sense of compassion, mindful consumption, and right action. Following these principles, he believes, is the path to world peace.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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