New video from 350.org

Check this out and please spread the word! —jt

Home

Hey everyone. There is a YouTube page I'd like you to visit. It features a film titled Home that is only up until June 14th. To me, Home is different from videos on climate change I had seen before. It is a moving piece that took a naturalistic and pragmatic approach, presenting life and climate change as if the world was looking down. Arthus-Bertrand establishes (on my viewing) a way of thinking about human existence that I just did not have before. (Lol, once he got to cities, I hated them during the film). Time permitting, please see it through. Note that this film leans on a depressive tone, so I would not want to discourage anyone from finding more exciting videos and articles.

Thanks to Rosario's parents for fixing my computer!

http://www.youtube.com/homeproject

Times article on LEDs and climate protection

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/science/earth/30degrees.html?th&emc=th

Even Buckingham Palace is "with it."

"The Sixth Extinction?"

Elizabeth Kolbert has a new article in the May 25th issue of The New Yorker. If you don't subscribe, you can get the issue this week at the newstands, or read it in any library. You can think of this article, "The Sixth Extinction?", as the latest chapter of the book we're reading. Three chapters of that were originally New Yorker articles.

An Inconvenient Truth, continued

If you haven't seen Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, you should do so right away. If you have Netflix, you can watch it on Instant Play. Here's a recent talk by Gore that picks up where the movie left off, from my favorite website, ted.com.

The Girl Effect

Here's another short but effective video that went viral on the web about the power of the individual to bring about change.

The Importance of Learning Goals Principles & Concepts

This is the text of the document on learning goals that Doug Cohen shared with us on Friday:


The development of individualized Learning Goals is an essential success factor in youth development, overall human development, and particularly in Adult Learning. Professional development is a journey that consists of acquiring Competencies (knowledge, skills and abilities) and moving towards Mastery. A professional is someone who is fluent in a Body of Knowledge who also possesses an accompanying Set of Skills to bring that knowledge into action.

And underpinning the achievement of personal and professional accomplishment is your Personal Foundation. The ability to steadfastly walk the path of the lifelong learner assures professional growth and satisfaction. In fact, one master teacher in this work suggests that the definition of being a professional is being a Lifelong Learner.

A few more thoughts about how critical one's personal foundation is. This I believe: The success of the revolution now underway to renew America and build the emerging Green Economy will be based on Who we are being, How you are being, and bringing yourself to others. This will be the crux of the matter in the success of building this movement.

The experience people will have of you will be the result of walking your path, defined by your Learning Goals. As you develop goals, they become the building blocks of an individualized Development Plan. This is your roadmap, your pathway towards mastering the bodies of knowledge and sets of skills that will become the foundation for your success. Making progress on this pathway is dependent on your ability to be committed to your own Learning.

Goal Setting focuses your Learning. Having a vision of Who you want to be next in the world, how you want to contribute, and determining what impact you want to have in the world are all
ingredients for building your Individualized Development plan.

So, WHO YOU GONNA CALL ?? Who are you going to call on yourself to become in order to serve the needs of our precious world?