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The Club of Budapest USA provides educational programs that are individual as well as collaborative with other organizations both national and international. They may be offered and transmitted through a variety of media as well as public dialogues, seminars and conferences etc. The Club also supports and encourages the work of volunteers.
The Club facilitates attendees learning more about the interdependence of disciplines, cultures, and ecologies using the concepts included in the human-environmental systems model and the general evolutionary systems philosophy of Dr. Ervin Laszlo among others.
Some programs are transdiciplinary, utilizing scientific knowledge and joining it with cultural, artistic, and spiritual insight to identify and communicate responsible and sustainable ways of thinking and acting. These may also include educational instruction strategies from preschool through higher education.
Media planning includes an online newsletter for the membership and general updates for the public as well as published research papers and/or projects on related topics.
The Club of Budapest USA public programs cover many disciplines such as business, art, philosophy, education, ethics, religion, economy, physics and social science. Discussions across disciplines can help facilitate global thinking and new strategic and/or cross-cultural behaviors.
The Club of Budapest USA delivers its mission by bringing together a community
of thinkers that wish to engage in this work.
Periodic forums are created with the intention to:
Educate participants in global consciousness, sustainability and
Responsibility
Attract academic, corporate, individual and public participation
Create and support a sustainable standard of living for all the earth's citizens
Bring together leaders and professionals from diverse fields
The outcome of these forums may include:
Creating partnerships between corporate and nonprofit interests
Generating research for sustainable and conscious living
Creating cross-disciplinary dialogues to find new solutions to global
sustainability issues
Creating intergenerational, intercultural and other dialogues to
facilitate new ethical thinking and action
Aims
To stimulate and nurture ethical values and consciousness in all fields
of human endeavor by drawing on the experience and abilities of
creative individuals in all walks of life.
To encourage the development of ethically sound and responsible
individual and organizational behavior by arranging meetings, conferences and colloquia for leaders and young people at international, national and local levels.
To translate emerging insights in human behavior and consciousness
into practical activity by building bridges of communication and
understanding, and developing and encouraging dialogue and
diplomacy.
To develop educational content on ethical and sustainability issues for local, national and international use by educators and trainers, through conferences, presentations, publications and media.
To create a safe arena for deep dialogue on diverse ideas and beliefs
as a path to global understanding.
To make clear the underlying interconnectedness between local and
global thinking and action.
Current Focus
GLOBALLY
The international Club of Budapest launched an initiative in 2001 called the Planetary Vision Festival this is now part of the global "You Can Change the World" initiative. The Planetary Vision Festival, in partnership with the Founding Alliance, began a series of Planetary Vision days in 2001. The annual World Ethics Day helps to focus world-wide attention on the need for a global planetary ethics and on the efforts of thousands of non-governmental organizations around the world working to formulate global ethical principles that are both situational and apply to all humanity and to bring them into practice. The first World Day of Planetary Consciousness took place on the equinox, March 22, 2001. Sunrise events were held in twenty-two countries around the world, following the path of the sunrise on that day.
The World Day of Planetary Ethics 2003, on September 21st is in commemoration of Earth Charter (for information email: pd@planetaryvision.net).
Statement from His Holiness the Dalai Lama in regard to the first World Day of Planetary Consciousness
LOCALLY
The Club of Budapest USA commemorates EARTH CHARTER on both the global and local level (www.earthcharter.org, individuals and organizations may endorse Earth Charter on their site). Earth Charter itself is a global document of principles for a just and sustainable global society. World wide, more than 10,000 NGOs have signed the Earth Charter, representing more than 50 million people.
VIRTUALLY
Please visit our discussion board where you can discuss topics related to the Club of Budapest USA philosophy.
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