Korten Study Guide

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In April 2005, Praxis Peace Institute launched study and think tank groups to augment the events, workshops, and conferences that have been its educational focus. Study and Think Tank groups formed following presentations and workshops by George Lakoff, Richard Tarnas, Rabbi Michael Lerner, and David Korten.

One group submitted content for the workbook accompanying David Korten's new book, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. The workbook is available above as a PDF file. For updates, please visit http://www.thegreatturning.net
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Praxis Think Tank Project

'The Sixth Extinction Round Table to Avert the Loss of Biodiversity"

Summary of Rountable Meeting (Microsoft Word document)

This invitationalmeeting was co-sponsored by the Sustainable Planet Committee of theThreshold Foundation and the Praxis Think Tank. The purpose of the meeting was to create a campaign to address the issue of Mass Species Extinction in social and cultural contexts. Our goal is to raise awareness regarding the urgency of species extinction and to create a strategy that will cut through the de facto denial surrounding species extinction. In addition to leading scientists in the field, we invited experts in media, marketing, language framing, the recovery movement, and religious leaders.

A summary of this roundtable meeting is available by clicking on the above Word document.

List of Participants (in alphabetical order)

Joshua Arnow, Buckminster Fuller Institute

William Brangham, Producer with NOW, weekly PBS TV news magazine

John Briscoe, Development Director, National Council of Churches

Cassnadra Carmichael, Eco-Jusitce Coordinator, National Council of Churches

Tim Cermak, M.D., Pioneer and Specialist in Addiction and Recovery

Kevin Danaher, Co-founder of Global Exchange and the Green Festival, San Francisco

Gay Dillingham, Earthstone International and Threshold Foundation

Jim Fournier, Biomass Energy Corporation, Threshold Foundation, and Round Table committee member

Louis Fox, Free Range Graphics, filmmaker

Jonathan Frieman, Center for Corporate Policy, Threshold Foundation, and Round Table committee member

Kathleen Frith, Center for Health and Global Environment, Harvard Medical School

Jay Golden, Free Range Graphics, filmmaker

Healy Hamilton, Research Associate Center for Biodiversity research and Information at California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

Thom Hartmann, popular talk show radio host on Air America and author of several books, including Unequal Protection and Screwed: The Undeclared War against the Middle Class

Sandra Hay, Unseen Pictures, film and TV producer, Board member of Praxis Peace Institute

Matthew Hoffman, One Earth Art, Council of Species, a community art project to raise awareness regarding species extinctions

Georgia Kelly, Founder/Director of Praxis Peace Institute, Round Table committee member

George Lakoff, Professor of cognitive science at University of California, Berkeley, author of Whose Freedom and Moral Politics, and Senior researcher for the Rockridge Institute, a progressive think tank

Troy Lush, Co-founder of the 11 Days of Global Unity; Board member of We, the World

Jerry Mander, Founder of International Forum on Globalization and Senior Fellow of Public Media Center

Mark McDonough, Time Banks USA and Threshold Foundation

Charles McGlashin, Marin County Supervisor

Margo McKnight, Executive Director of Wildlands Project, Florida

Joanie Misrack, Threshold Foundation, Pathways to Peace, and Round Table committee member

Scott Mullins, The Hive Advertising company

Stuart Pimm, Professor of Conservation Ecology, Environmental Sciences, and Policy division, Duke University; Research and Exploration at National Geographic

Michael Soule, Professor emeritus in Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

Faye Straus, Firedoll Foundation

David Ulansey, Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at California Institute of Integral Studies

Chera Van Burg, Executive Director, Species Alliance, Professor of Psychology at Skidmore College, filmmaker.

Jeffrey Wise, Policy Director, National Environmental Trust, Washington