[Oe List ...] Salmon on Works Earthrise

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>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: <mailto:warkers at msn.com>Robertson Work
>To: <mailto:earthrise at yahoogroups.com>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.
>
>ŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠŠ
>
>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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