Monday, October 30, 2006
人文地理讲座小记
Thursday, October 26, 2006
CDM Club, 6 E plus创社第一讲:Into a New Territory
主讲人:Bo Ekman(Tallberg 基金会创始人及主席)
时间:10月27日(星期五)晚上7:00-8:30
地点:老地学楼三楼会议室
他于1981年创办了Tallberg基金会,Tallberg是瑞典一个非赢利的国际组织。基金会的目标是通过加深和拓展知识和洞见以增强人们对世界的新模式的理解。基金会的工作是基于人文主义价值以及一整套的系统方法。基金会通过它的活动,帮助领导者更加具有人类的视角,从而目标更加明确地应对全球化等挑战。基金会从1981年开始组织年度的Tällberg论坛,论坛规模不断扩大,2005年题为“我们到底如何共存?(How on earth can we live together)”的论坛吸引了450多位世界各地知名人士参加。
此外,Ekman先生还曾作为联合国秘书长Kofi Annan的顾问并在联合国执行办公室(the UN Executive Office)任职,且曾承担联合国开发计划署一些重大项目。在80年代初期,他曾经是工业国家欧洲圆桌会议(the Roundtable of European Industrialists)的总体设计者。Ekman先生如今活跃于作为瑞典或其他国家或者国际组织相关部门领导人以及商业领域高层管理者的高级顾问。他在管理和改革领域的一些发言以及论述常常成为商业、社会和文化发展领域公众争论的热点。
本次讲座中,Bo Ekman将讲述他对可持续发展、全球化等一系列人类面临的重大问题的思考,Into a New Territory将是他的一部新书的名称,他还将介绍Tallberg论坛的创意和盛况。Bo Ekman先生对中国非常感兴趣,并拟将2008年的论坛放到中国来。欢迎感兴趣的朋友参加讲座并与他展开交流和对话。
北京大学“CDM Club, 6 E plus”协会
2006.10
Monday, October 23, 2006
Yunus北大演讲会:穷人银行家
Friday, October 20, 2006
《读书》不读书?规划也“鬼话”?
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
尺度的研究,研究的尺度
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
你为何而贱,谁与你同贱
Sunday, October 15, 2006
CDM Club, 6 E +
Friday, October 13, 2006
财富无限?资源有限。技术万能?能量守恒。
Thursday, October 12, 2006
技术为王?几个好玩的东西
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
与国外公司签的第一个项目
Writing has its way to deliver ideas
Here is a piece of essay from Kammen, good structure to put a way for his own idea also a good history summary to inspire our environmental mind. Beautiful English!
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THERE IS a saying that "life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." Such an event takes place today in San Francisco, and warrants a place in history.
In the environmental arena, the September 1962 publication of "Silent Spring" was such an event. Rachel Carson's book alerted America to the destruction we were causing to birds, fish and to ourselves, and launched the modern environmental movement.
Earth Day, April 22, 1970, was another milestone, when millions gathered across the nation to take heed of Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson's warning, that, "we have only one Earth, we need to take care of her." Shortly thereafter, Congress passed the Clean Air Act, arguably the single-most important and successful piece of environmental legislation to date.
The June 1992 "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro was an unprecedented U.N. conference where heads of state, non-governmental groups and almost 10,000 journalists gathered to deliver the message that changes on a grand scale were needed, and were possible through a mix of local action and international accords, to protect the planet.
To this list we can now add Sept. 27, 2006, the day Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will sign a piece of landmark legislation that has been agreed upon by a coalition of Republicans, Democrats, climate and energy scientists, activists and a cadre of industry leaders: Assembly Bill 32 (AB32), the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
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Shortly before her death, Rachel Carson wrote: "Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself ... (We are) challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves."
Today, a vital step is being taken to meet that challenge.