19 research outputs found
Pushing "reset" on sustainable development
No full textThis repository item contains a single issue of Sustainable Development Insights, a series of short policy essays that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The series seeks to promote a broad interdisciplinary dialogue on how to accelerate sustainable development at all levels.This issue explores how to continue accelerating sustainable development in an era of financial collapse and if sustainable development requires a “reset”. The paper concludes, “Perhaps the word ‘reset’ – a return to an original state, in this case the origins of our understanding of sustainable development, in terms of both systems science and social change – is the right metaphor after all.
55th Annual Pepperdine Bible Lectureship -- Another King, Another Kingdom: Great Themes from the Gospel of Luke (1998)
No full textProgram booklet for the 55th Annual Pepperdine Bible Lectures, held at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, April 28 - May 1, 1998. The Pepperdine Bible Lectures is an annual event hosted by Pepperdine University featuring a wide variety of lectures and classes on topics and themes in the Bible and Christianity.
Jerry Rushford, Lectureship Director
Bill Henegar, Alan Beard, Patty Atkisson, Lauren Waldvogel, and Emily Lemley, Lectures Teamhttps://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/churches/1067/thumbnail.jp
Sustainability Science to Real-World Action:A Short History of the Balaton Group
No full textThe Balaton Group has been responsible for the creation or accelerated development of a number of innovations in the field of sustainable development. However, to understand the history of the Balaton Group, one must begin with the history of the Club of Rome, and the report that the Club sponsored and published in 1972, The Limits to Growth
A busca de um novo modo de vida e trabalho: as mudanças no cotidiano dos novos-rurais
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia Política.Através do resgate de conceitos e de uma dimensão romântica do pensamento de Marx, buscou-se analisar os significados do modo de vida de homens e mulheres que trocaram seus cotidianos e trabalhos urbanos por uma vida no meio rural, praticando, dentre outras atividades, a agricultura. A partir de três narrativas de histórias de vida, procurou-se compreender as motivações dessa busca por uma experiência da Natureza, focando-se os processos de tomada de decisão dos sujeitos, para compreender as possibilidades concretas de reprodução dessa forma de vida e as expectativas dos sujeitos quanto ao futuro próprio e ao futuro da sociedade. Tendo como perspectiva teórica e metodológica a totalidade sócio-histórica enquanto processo aberto, desenvolvendo-se infinitamente, e realizando de maneira gradual e contínua as possibilidades imanentes à humanidade, encarou-se esses modos alternativos de vida em suas potencialidades mais do que em seus limites. Tal caráter otimista do olhar sobre o fenômeno social está relacionado a essa visão histórica aliada à idéia presente na obra do filósofo marxiano Ernst Bloch de que o sonho é o mais intenso elemento da realidade inacabada. Nesse sentido, tentou-se estabelecer uma ponte entre questionamentos colocados por uma redescoberta da Natureza (preocupações ecológicas) e o aparato teórico marxista - especialmente a ontologia marxista - ao ter como pressuposto que por trás da forte inquietação ecológica que impulsiona a escolha desses novos-rurais estão revelados aspectos das relações entre a Natureza, a tecnologia, os poderes econômicos e o poder político em nossa sociedade. It was the goal to analyse the meanings of the life styles of men and women - through rescuing the concepts, at a romantic dimension, of the thought of Marx - that had changed their daily lives and urban jobs into a country life, practicing, among other activities, agriculture. Starting out through the narratives of life stories, it was the aim to comprehend the motivations of this search for a Nature experience focusing, therefore, in the decision-making process of the subjects, in order to understand the concrete possibilities of reproducting this life form, as well as the expectations of the subjects towards their own and society`s future. Considering the social-historical totality as an open process ever developing phenomena, for the theoretical and methodological perspective, and realizing as a gradual and continuous event the possibilities that grow from humanity, these alternatives ways of life were seen in its potentialities more than in its limitations. This optimistic character on the look into the social phenomena is related to the historical vision that is allied to the idea of that in wich the dream is the most intense element of the non-finished reality, present in the work of the marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch. In that sense, it was the intent to establish a bridge between questions on the rediscovery of Nature (ecological matters) and the marxist theoretical apparatus - specially the ontological marxism - supposing that behind these ecological restlessness that inspire the choice of these new-countrymen are revealed aspects of the relation among Nature, technology, the economical and political powers in our society
