John D. Liu

John D. Liu is Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland Foundation and Visiting Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology. Most of John’s published work including films, articles and essays are collected at: https://knaw.academia.edu/JohnDLiu Mr. Liu is an American who has lived in China for more than 30 years. He helped to open the CBS News bureau in Beijing at the time of normalization…

Children of the Black Dust | Child Labor in Bangladesh

There are hundreds of informal factories and workshops inside and on the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The industry employs thousands of women and children.  All day long women and children break used batteries to get reusable parts and tiny pieces of metal out of them. Once separated, these materials are sent to battery manufacturing factories and workshops that either…

United Nations Development Programme

The "Picture This: We Can End Poverty" photo contest was organised in early 2010 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with Olympus Corporation and The Agence France-Presse Foundation and aimed to profile people in both developing and developed countries contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in their local communities. Gallery One is a…

Picture This: We Can End Poverty

The "Picture This: We Can End Poverty" photo contest was organised in early 2010  by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with Olympus Corporation and The Agence France-Presse Foundation and aimed to profile people in both developing and developed countries contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in their local communities. The…

Pamela Sukhum Gallery

Pamela Sukhum's Paintings are characterized by rich colors and textures, and warm, radiant energy. Her use of both broad, sweeping lines and delicate, intricate details give her work a depth and dimension truly unique to the art world. Fueled by spiritual and human connections forged during her journeys around the globe, from the monasteries of Tibet to the refugee camps of Eastern Chad, Pamela's…

Archetypes of Humanity’s Collective Future

Archetypes as Evolutionary Tools The first step in building a promising future for humanity is to visualize it together.  As the bible says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish."  Although many people can visualize a future of catastrophe and ruin, far fewer can imagine a future of opportunity and renewal.  This is understandable as daily we are fed news reports of global…

Duane Elgin

Duane Elgin is the co-director of the Choosing Earth Project whose work is 1) taking a big picture view of the unprecedented challenges and opportunities present in the world, and then 2) deepening our understanding for action with learning and conversations. Duane is an internationally recognized author, educator, speaker and media activist. He has an MBA from the Wharton Business School, and…

Earth Charter

We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must…

Listening to the Voice of Humanity

When we look at world conditions and project current trends into the future we see much that is disturbing—environmental degradation, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, persisting poverty and injustice, violent conflict, the fiscal collapse of democratic governments. The institutions that have the greatest power—nation states, corporations, and organized interest groups—seem locked in patterns…