Tag: Individual & Societal

Frank White, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution (1998, 1987)

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Frank White, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution (1998, 1987)

Frank White uses interviews and writings by 29 astronauts and cosmonauts to show how circling the Earth every 90 minutes and viewing it from our moon have profoundly affected their perceptions of themselves, their world and the future. White imagines how a permanent perspective from outer space beyond excessive nationalism can affect politics, religion, social relations, psychology, economics and the hard sciences. Potential rebellion by human space settlers and human contact with extraterrestrial beings are also examined.

 

 

 

Education Advancement Fund International

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Education Advancement Fund International

Since its founding in 2002, Education Advancement Fund International (EAFI) has initiated various programs to facilitate international education exchange, cultural understanding, global education reform and gender equality in education by assisting poor, minority and learning disabled students to overcome financial barriers to appropriate education.

 

 

 

Theresa Hitchens, Future Security in Space: Charting a Cooperative Course (2004)

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Theresa Hitchens, Future Security in Space: Charting a Cooperative Course (2004)

Theresa Hitchens is a former defense issues journalist. She has served as the editor of Defense News, the director of the Center for Defense Information (CDI) in Washington, D.C. and the director of the United Nations Institution for Disarmament Research (UNIDR) in Geneva.

 

 

 

Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA)

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Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA)

Established in 2007, UNPA meets annually in different cities of the world to draft declarations for how best to achieve representative democracy through the United Nations system.

 

 

 

Abundance-based economics article

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Chris Anderson, “The Tragically Neglected Economics of Abundance,” The Long Tail on Wired Blog Network, March 6, 2005.

Any form of abundance-based economics is necessary though not sufficient to solve any global issue(s). Accepting the premise of scarcity-based economics will automatically result in the failure of any creative global solution, such as “green capitalism” or “democratic socialism.”

Abundance-based economics assumes that Earth is one component of a solar system and universe that is an open system of systems to be harvested. Scarcity-based economics, whether rooted in capitalism, socialism or barter assumes that Earth is a closed-loop system to be controlled.

 

 

 

Charles M. Overby, A Call for Peace (1998)

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Charles M. Overby, A Call for Peace (1998)

Charles M. Overby wrote this analytical text on the implications of Japan’s war-renouncing constitution post World War II. Overby flew bombing missions during the conflict between the United Nations and North Korea in the 1950s before serving as a professor of industrial and systems engineering at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, USA.

 

 

 

Center for Disaster Management (Pitt)

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Center for Disaster Management (Pitt)

The center for Disaster Management was established by Dr. Louise Comfort at the University of Pittsburgh, perhaps the world’s authority on post-seismic emergency communication response. Her Interactive, Intelligent, Spatial Information System (IISIS) is a global model in decision support.