[Oe List ...] Salmon on Works Earthrise

[William Salmon]

Robertson--
    We're all just the 99th monkey wanting to create in the "noosphere" a new paradigm. Your image of living in a Global "birth canal" spoke volumns to me. 

    My reference to the 100th monkey, in case you've forgetten, is a little book on a little myth written by Lawrence Blair and Lyall Watson in the mid-to-late 1970s, who claimed that it was the observation of Japanese scientists that the monkey's teeth were ground down by the sand when the coconuts were opened, until one monkey washed his coconut in the ocean. When the 100th monkey did likewise, all of the monkey on all of the Pacific Islands began washing their coconuts and saving their teeth. 
      That's us! Yep--the 99th monkey looking for the 100th.
      I'm proud of what you are doing while touching so many other lives that will touch more in return. How's that for "monkeying around." 
      Inner Peace, 
      Bill Salmon

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robertson Work 
  To: earthrise 
  Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 9:40 AM
  Subject: [earthrise] The Future is Open


    

  The Future is Open



  As with many of us I am deeply concerned about this moment in world history and evolution. I believe that human society has entered a critical period of environmental, energy, economic and governance crisis and transformation. We have entered the birth canal to a new civilization of sustainability, equity and participation, or to a tragic world of chaos and destruction. The entire future of life on Earth is being created by each choice you and I make moment by moment.



  Recently a colleague wrote to me asking “what are you doing to advance sanity?” I wrote to her concerning my small offering as follows:



  “In the past six months I facilitated an international workshop in Honolulu on long-term policy-making for sustainable development sponsored by the East-West Center and UN University. The results will go out to policy makers throughout Asia. At New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service I taught a course on innovative leadership for sustainable development. My 22 students from 15 countries seemed to really "get it." My chapter on leadership innovations from civil society {including ToP, social artistry and integral systems thinking) was published in a new book, Engaging Civil Society, by the UN University Press. I participated in a UNDP high-level event on biodiversity, climate change and localizing the millennium development goals (MDG) as part of the UN MDG Summit in NYC.



  “At an interfaith conference on climate change and ecological civilization sponsored by the Temple of Understanding in NYC, I served as an environmental advisor. The Fulbright Specialist Program of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars and the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State has appointed me to their global roster through which overseas institutions of higher learning can request my services with support of Fulbright. At a think tank on international development sponsored by the Institute of Cultural Affairs USA, I made a presentation on the critical decade we have just entered.”



  Is this alot or a little? For me it feels like the latter. I have tried to be a good man, husband, father, grandfather and friend. I fail everyday and do so little. Nevertheless . . . I am grateful for the unparalleled possibilities of being alive at this moment of crisis and opportunity.



  May we each in our unique ways offer ourselves to the unfolding of the possible human and the possible society. For the sake of my two grand children and indeed all of life on Earth, I rededicate myself to respond to these challenges as best I can. May it be so.

  ………………………

  I am Robertson Work and am grateful for being part of the life force of planet Earth – part of a loving family, the OE/EI/ICA, the UN, NYU and Innovative Leadership Services. I renew my vows to help catalyze a new civilization of sustainable human development.


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