Alliance for a New Humanity

The mission of The Alliance for a New Humanity is to connect people, who, through personal and social transformation, aim to build a just, peaceful, and sustainable world, reflecting the unity of all humanity.

The Alliance recognises at the core of its vision the unity of all life, and a wholehearted adherence to the noblest aspirations of humankind, as proclaimed in all spiritual and humanist traditions that call for compassion and the celebration of life.

The values and principles of the emerging movement for a new humanity, and of the Alliance, which is trying to serve it, are based upon the support of policies, causes and actions that favor respect for life, human dignity, freedom, ecological sustainability and peace.

The basic tenet of the Alliance is a consciousness based on the inseparability of all life, i.e., that everything is connected and that therefore our well being is the well-being of everyone. This consciousness we believe cannot be just passive, otherwise it would remain irrelevant, it has to be expressed for the benefit of all through service that improves life for all mankind.

For more, see www.anhglobal.org

Architects of a New Dawn

Architects of A New Dawn is a project, born from the dream and vision of Carlos Santana, to create a new global network, driven by extraordinary music and powerful media content.It is designed to engage people of all walks of life to work together to create positive change in the global community where love can replace fear and where peace can replace conflict.

"One of the things that has become very clear to me in recent months is that after carrying an idea in my mind and soul for decades that the time had come to bring my vision of Architects Of A New Dawn into reality. The world today is as deeply challenged as it is inspired. Never has there been a more profound time to harness the possibilities for positive change, especially in this era of mass communication. This is my invitation to you to join us in this transformational work.

As the title implies, my vision for AOAND is a multi-tiered media company whose approach to building a new reality for the planet is based on inspiration, creativity, love & forgiveness. This is where my passion lies, and I wish to bring it forth by combining music, sacred thoughts and inspirational media.

Our goal at AOAND is to inspire, motivate and activate our global audience. We are working to give each individual a sense that they literally can-and actually do-make a difference in a world that they are building and working on every day… thus, the concept of being an architect. Our way of entering into the minds and hearts across cultures and theologies will be to use questions to stimulate the audience/participant. Questions are a powerful bridge to move the mind beyond limited thinking towards what is possible.

AOAND’s efforts are focused in the areas of film, music, television and online social networks. The new world of the web will facilitate awakening minds and opening all hearts to realize that no matter what the problem or challenge may be… love, being the most powerful force in the Universe, is the answer. We believe that peace and mutually beneficial co-existence is possible in our lifetime and that this is the time for all of us to do all that we can to help create it."

Peace, Light, Love & Joy,

Carlos Santana

For more, see www.architectsofanewdawn.com

Campaign Promotions

Campaign Promotions is a network of consultants providing specialist business development, marketing, communications and events for

• SMCC’s (Small and Medium-sized Charities & Campaigns)
• SSME’s (Sustainability-focussed SME’s) and
• SE’s (Social Enterprises)

Campaign Promotions practices "The Four Q's of Effective Communication"

Q1) What do you want to say?

Q3) What do they want to hear?

Q2) Who do you want to say it to?

Q4) What do you want them to do?

Campaign Promotions has helped raise funds and / or awareness for Ecoshelter, Tsunami Relief, 999 It’s Time, Peace Not War, Art2Art, Sport4Sport, The European Social Forum (Culture Working Group) and The European Creative Forum. 

Campaign Promotions has also undertaken joint promotions with Oxfam, The DEC (Disasters and Emergency Committee), Rotary International, The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, The United Nations Association (Cardiff), The YWCA and many more.

For more, see www.campaignpromotions.org

Events4Change

Events4Change (E4C) is a new, dynamic, multi-media events company supporting a number of local, national and international environmental and social justice charities and campaigns.

E4C also seeks to help companies meet their CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) obligations by co-creating and managing ethical and sustainable events that have true value on any balance sheet.

E4C was born out of an alliance between various forward thinking organisations with expertise ranging across all aspects of sustainable / educational events production and promotion, arts and artists management, sustainable energy, technology, and development, fundraising and networking within the charity and not-for-profit sector.

E4C is a social enterprise providing outsourced event production and promotion services to anyone making a positive change in the world. This may be a third-sector non-profit organisation such as a charity or NGO looking to host an event to raise public profile, awareness, or funding. It may be a professional event organiser wishing to add some cool edutainment to their festival or club. Or it may be commercial company wanting to launch an ethical or environmentally sustainable product. Whatever the remit, E4C is able to provide the management, resources, artists, equipment, services and know-how need for a uniquely successful show.

With our planet getting closer to a state of crisis state, and the human spirit being dampened by hedonism and consumerism, it is now vital that change and options for change are introduced rapidly. For this to happen, the voices of those who offer constructive solutions and offers for change have to be heard louder and clearer than ever before and introduced in all aspects of society.

E4C sets out to support this progressive movement by providing Non Governmental Organisations, Charities, and Ethical Businesses, with new, creative ways to reach young people in particular, through the use of multimedia, installations, artistic performances, and the production of both large and small scale musical and cultural events. By doing this we aim to further the presence of an educational dimension in the world of arts and entertainment and harness the power of their collective influence to promote positive, progressive thinking especially in the young part of society that contains the hope for the future of our planet.

NGO’s that have already benefitted from E4C’s insights into conscious, ethical and sustainable events include Ecoshelter, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Trees for Cities, SPEAK International, Campaign Against Climate Change, Peace Not War, NSPCC, No2ID, Rising Tide and many others. 

For more, see www.events4change.org

Fire and Ice 2009

The Fire and Ice Ceremony for the Earth will be a powerful three-day cross-cultural gathering of deliberation, ceremony, and celebration, the objective of which touches the welfare of the world. A principal objective is the return of the sacred fire in fulfillment of prophetic tradition. For the first time in memory the sacred fire will be home. The ceremony will revolve around the physical fire but the most important element will be the spiritual fire, the spirit of which the physical fire is a symbol.

It is a symbol of countless generations of indigenous people who have met around it to consider how to live well on the land given to them and how to relate well to the Creator and to one another. The lessons of the ice will also be prominent, both in helping us all recognize our common humanity, and in developing common perspectives raised by the melting ice and global climate change.

For more, see www.fireandice2009.org

First Noosphere World Congress

"Mankind taken as a whole is becoming a powerful geological force. Humanity's mind and work face the problem of reconstructing the biosphere in the interests of a freely thinking mankind as a single entity. The new state of the biosphere that we are approaching without noticing it is the Noosphere."

Vladimir Vernadsky, The Biosphere

The word "Noosphere" was coined in analogy with the "geosphere", the world or layer of dead matter, and the "biosphere", the world or layer of living matter. Beyond and superimposed on these spheres lies another dimensional sphere, the "noosphere", from Greek "noos, nous" = "mind", and "sphaira" = "globe", a figurative envelope of conceptual thought, or reflective impulses produced by the human intellect. I's presence is strongly felt and its influence is all-pervading.

The concept was first formulated by Vladimir Verdansky and elaborated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

"Pushed one against the other by the growth of their number and by the proliferation of their connections,approached one to the other by the reawakening of a common force and by the feeling of a common anxiety,the future human kind will form nothing but an unified consciousness".(Teillhard De Chardin)

The unification of humanity on a world scale coincides with the emergence of a Noosphere, the world of thought, the global consciousness. Willingly or unwillingly, all our desires and needs converge to the same final goal, the Omega point.

For more, see www.noospherecongress.org

Grail Life Canada

Grail Life, founded by Madeleine Marentette, is Canada’s leading lifestyle program dedicated to delivering systems of process for individual transformation encompassing a holistic wellness model inclusive of ‘cell to spirit’. The Grail Life Plan became a Canadian bestselling book in 2008, reflective of its 8 years of success assisting thousands of individuals in health and wellbeing at its Canadian luxury retreat location known as Grail Springs. The recent launch of the Grail Life Academy for online education and coaching, and the integration of the Grail Life Plan within a new K-6 ‘Barack Obama Charter School ‘ in Los Angeles, California is in alignment with its global vision and mission…. ‘We all need to be well for our Planet to be well.’

For more, see www.grailsprings.com

HUB (Humanity Unites Brilliance)

Humanity Unites Brilliance is where we connect to change our world. Together we are making an ever-increasing impact in the lives of ourselves and multiple communities around the world.

There are children who go hungry without fresh water, and no education. There are men and women who have lost hope of work. HUB's model circulates money and brilliant talents so that a thriving new world is created. You can be a part of a community that changes our world!   

Today you are able to add your brilliance to the expanding HUB and in turn help make an even bigger difference in the world!

For more, see www.hubhub.org

Kosmos Journal

Founded in 2001, Kosmos is the leading international Journal for planetary citizens committed to the birth and emergence of a new planetary culture and civilization. Embracing a comprehensive approach to change, its cutting edge writers address the many facets of individual, cultural and global transformation.

Articles address diverse cultural values, new spirituality, global activism and global political, economic, social, institutions. Stunning visuals grace its pages. Our subscribers are concerned about the state of the world and the future of humanity on a fragile planet.

For more, see www.kosmosjournal.org

PlanetChange.tv

Welcome to the community-based, Internet TV nexus that is chronicling the process of a planetary paradigm shift in consciousness that is taking place before our eyes around the world.

According to the Mayan calendar December 21, 2012 is the end of time as presently experienced by human beings. A transformation in consciousness has been theorized that will coincide with a shift in planetary alignment of the earth, the galaxy and to some extent the entire universe. Through the aggregation and production of compelling and interactive Internet TV content, PlanetChange.TV seeks to foster the growth of an on line community of those who wish to communicate with each other and engage themselves in a higher state of focused awareness for this worldwide communal healing and transformation that is happening as we speak.

Looking at the world today, it is clear to anyone with an honest inner perspective, that there is a torrent of uncontrollable forces which are affecting every facet of our existence, from global climate conditions to the seismic shift in the world's economic structure as we know it. The metamorphosis we see these forces engendering in every phase of our existence serves as a testimonial to the magnitude of what is upon us as we head into 2012.

Join us at PlanetChange.TV as we build our interactive community, sharing the perceptions of like-minded and enlightened individuals who seek to communicate worldwide in preparation for 2012...Positive Planet Transformation...Believe.

For more, see www.planetchange.tv

Positive TV

Positive TV reports on what’s breaking through rather than what’s breaking down. From a local and global perspective, there is a huge amount happening in the world to excite and inspire viewers however much of this news never gets reported.

Positive TV looks to reach across generations and energise us with positivity at a time when we may feel overwhelmed by the negative prognosis for the future of humanity and the planet.

Positive TV reports on people and events from around the globe that are helping to create and shape a Positive future at this critical time where we believe we are on the verge of a new renaissance.

For more, see www.positivetv.tv

Renaissance2

Renaissance2, is a not-for profit foundation catalyzing socially innovative world-centric businesses, in the four innovation crucibles we need to create a renewable, thriving global economy:

• Renewable Energy
• Resilient Environments
• Enlightened Enterprise
• Integral Governance

The Mission of Renaissance2 is to accelerate open-source innovation between business, design, the scientific and technology communities, governments and NGO’s to address the most challenging issues facing human civilization today. 

Our strategic partners work together to shape the future design and direction of R2 through their participation in two major events and virtual collaboration between these events, using online tools including web-based video-conferencing and sophisticated online innovation forums.

This model will evolve to serve as an ongoing open system of social, business and technological innovation for the next decade. Renaissance2 enables its partners to integrate the three essential ingredients needed to accelerate the social innovations emerging today around the world by cultivating profound understanding and practices in:

• What is technically possible: In the first two focus areas, Renewable Energy and Resilient Environments, several of our members have turned technical understanding into real, sustainable prototypes and business results. Ecoliving, for example, is rapidly growing a business across Europe in renewable energy, while The Transitioner is developing resilient B2B financial systems using alternative currency models.
• What is urgently needed: We are connecting together visionaries defining the future shape of many different aspects of our civilization. From think tanks, through to leading thinkers on social change and social entrepreneurs creating new business designs, including successors to Skype, e-bay and existing models of collaboration.
• Creative Catalysts: The R2 meshworks includes a diverse group of talents and capabilities from CEOs to innovative leaders to experts on renewable energy, enlightened enterprise, resilient environments and integral governance, as well as a wide range of cultural creatives including artists, activists, technological and spiritual leaders.

For more, see www.renaissance2.eu

The 999 It's Time Movement

999 It’s Time is a new movement seeking to use the numerology of the date 9th September 2009 (09/09/09 > 999) to highlight the state of social, economic and environmental emergencies we face and to catalyse positive personal change.

In the UK, 999 is the number to dial for the emergency services, the equivalent of 911 in the USA and other countries. 

We are the Emergency Services…

We shall Emerge and See…

999 It’s Time is represented by 9 Ambassadors, each calling on individuals to take personal action within different areas of their lives.

They are as follows:

1. Community: Bruce Parry (TV Presenter – Tribe / Amazon)
2. Consumerism: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (TV Presenter & Campaigner)
3. Conservation: Polly Higgins (Barrister & Environmentalist)
4. Culture: Misty Oldland (Musician & Campaigner)
5. Activism: Sam Roddick (Creative Activist & Entrepreneur)
6. Awareness: Rory Spowers (Author & Environmentalist)
7. Economics: Charlotte di Vita MBE (“Compassionate Capitalist”)
8. Environment: Tamsin Omond (Inspirational Campaigner)
9. Politics: Pete Myers (Creator of “People Power” Vehicles)

For more, see www.999itstime.org

The Art of Living

The Art of Living is a multi-faceted, not-for-profit educational and humanitarian NGO with a presence in over 140 countries. Founded in 1982 by His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the Art of Living, today, is one of the largest voluntary organisations in the world.

Inspired by its founder’s vision of making the world a violence-free, stress-free global family, the organisation is engaged in various initiatives that uplift humanity and enhance the quality of life. The goal of the organisation is to bring peace at the level of the individual, society, nation and the world as a whole. Its areas of work covers conflict resolution, disaster and trauma relief, poverty alleviation, empowerment of women, prisoner rehabilitation, education for all, campaigns against female foeticide and child labour and environment sustainability.

Guided by Sri Sri’s philosophy of peace, “Unless we have a stress-free mind and a violence-free society, we cannot achieve world peace,” the Art of Living offers several stress-elimination and self-development programmes based mainly on breathing techniques, meditation and yoga. These programmes have helped thousands around the world to overcome depression and violent and suicidal tendencies.

For more, see www.artofliving.org

The Goi Peace Foundation

The mission of the Goi Peace Foundation is to bring together people in wisdom, united in their hearts toward the common goal of peace on Earth.

By encouraging public awareness of peace and by building cooperation among individuals and organisations in all fields, including education, science, culture and the arts, we aim to build an international peace network and to stimulate the global trend toward a culture of peace.

The Goi Peace Foundation launched the Declaration for All Life on Earth to promote a shared vision of a truly peaceful and harmonious world for all life in the 21st century. It sets forth guiding principles aimed toward realizing this vision and encourages all people to apply them in their individual lives and in their specialized fields of activities.

Goi’s collective wisdom and joint efforts are needed to ensure a bright and sustainable future. It is hoped that the Declaration will serve as an instrument which brings together individuals and organizations committed to this aim.

For more, see www.goipeace.or.jp

The Institute of Noetic Sciences

IONS is a nonprofit membership organisation located in Northern California that conducts and sponsors leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness – including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition.

The Institute explores phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional scientific models, while maintaining a commitment to scientific rigour.

It is not a spiritual association, political-action group, or a single-cause institute. Rather, it honours open-minded approaches and multiple ways of knowing, bring discernment to our work, and support diversity of perspectives on social and scientific matters.

For more, see www.noetic.org

The Jane Goodall Institute

Jane Goodall is one of the World's most famous scientists. Her pioneering study of wild chimpanzees, begun over 40 years ago in Tanzania, revolutionised how we think about both chimpanzees and ourselves.

Her research in Africa continues to this day and is the longest field study ever undertaken of any group of animals in the wild. Today, however, Jane combines her scientific work with international advocacy on behalf of chimps and the environment.

Chimpanzees are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. They are highly intelligent, social apes, found only in Africa. They share over 98% of their genetic material with us, communicate, and express many of the same emotions that we do. Sadly though, while the number of human beings inhabiting the planet continue to grow, chimpanzee numbers are falling.

They are threatened by hunting, loss of forests and illegal capture. Many are still forced to lead miserable lives in squalid zoos or are kept confined in laboratories, the subjects of invasive medical experiments.

We are working to prevent their extinction, through conservation, research and education.

For more, see www.janegoodall.org.uk

The Lifeline

The Lifeline is a global network of people and communities creating positive, sustainable solutions for life on Planet Earth.

The Lifeline Project will send 9 teams, each comprising 3 documentary film-makers leaving London, New York and Sydney on 9/9/9 on an epic 18,000 mile journey to arrive on 10/10/10, a year, a month and a day later.

Blogging and Vlogging (Video Blogging) as they go internet users can follow their reports on the remarkable people pushing forward sustainable initiatives in growing organic food, buildings, education, transport, renewable energy and wildlife conservation.

Each film-maker team will walk, sail, ride and use public transport - no flying - to their destinations.  Presenting the WorldShift 2012 Declaration to individuals, groups and media along the way each team will also document the individuals, businesses and communities implementing sustainability initiatives.

Their reports will then be uploaded onto a digital ark for all Humankind to share on the Lifeline web site.

From 10/10/10, and each year onwards, more film-makers will leave to visit other countries documenting and supporting sustainable projects across the globe for people to be inspired by and to follow in their footsteps and their journeys will also mark the other key transformational dates of 11/11/11 and 21/12/12.

“As film-makers this is our gift to Humanity, that through our dedication and vision we hope to show we are capable of creating an alternative way of living that will protect and sustain Life on Earth for all Time,” Phil Stebbing, Founder, The Lifeline / Award-winning Documentary Maker.

For more, see www.thelifeline.tv

The State of the World Forum

The State of the World Forum was founded in 1995 by Jim Garrison with Mikhail Gorbachev, who served as the Convening Chairman.

Global Leadership Network

The Forum was established to create a global leadership network comprised of eminent individuals ranging from Heads of State to grass roots organisers, Nobel Laureates to business leaders, policy makers to social activists drawn from the governmental, business and civil society sectors, committed to discerning and implementing those principles, values and actions necessary to guide humanity wisely as it gives shape to an increasingly global and interdependent world.

Working with partners worldwide, State of the World Forum seeks to serve as an incubator, catalyst and integrator for innovative leaders and institutions working to gather creative solutions to critical global challenges.

It believes in cross-sectoral leadership; we believe in dialogue; we also believe that dialogue must lead to actions that make a real difference in the world.

Transforming Conversations That Matter Into Actions That Make A Difference

The guiding principle of all of its endeavours is to transform conversations that matter into actions that make a difference. In this regard, the Forum challenges all stakeholders who come together to transform what they have come to know about the world into constructive actions.

State of the World Forum Gatherings

The Forum has a long history of convening highly diverse sectors from around the world and a wide spectrum of disciplines, including Heads of State, Nobel Laureates, social analysts, grassroots activists, business executives, scientists, policy-makers, senior military officers, politicians, spiritual leaders, artists, academicians, and many others, ensuring gender parity among speakers and the inclusion of youth.

Forum gatherings also cover the full spectrum of human concerns, from the scientifically secular to the spiritually profound; and from the most controversially political to the most personally transformative.

The ethos of these gatherings is that at this unique transitional moment in history, questions are more important than answers, dialogue more constructive than dogma. All participants and all issues are given equal place in an atmosphere of mutual respect. The Forum promotes a heightened sense of personal and civic responsibility by exploring new models of thought, action, communication and participation.

Strategic Initiatives and Spin-Off Organisations

In and through the conferences it convenes, the Forum challenges its participants to transform thought into deed, dialogue into action. Forum gatherings thus consistently yield concrete results and often catalyze the development of ongoing Forum projects, called Strategic Initiatives, which address pressing global issues and forge international partnerships.

To date the Forum has developed a number of action-oriented Strategic Initiatives with partners worldwide and spawned several non-profit organizations.

For more, see www.worldforum.org

The World Wisdom Council

Dedicated to the Advancement and Application of Wisdom in the World

The World Wisdom Council (WWC) has been convened by the Club of Budapest in cooperation with the in the conviction that the paramount requirement in this age of discontinuity and transformation is to recognize that, through the development of a new dimension of consciousness, the world can be constructively changed by women and men wherever they live and whatever their interests and lot in life.

The task of the Council is to build on the power and creativity innate in all people by

• bringing to the attention of the widest layers of the public both the dangers and the opportunities inherent in the human condition in its global dimension;
• identifying priority areas where individual and cooperative action is needed in order to reinforce progress toward peace and sustainability, locally as well as globally;
• offering guidance for developing the individual and collective wisdom that empowers action capable of bringing about constructive change in the local and the global economic, social, and ecological environment.

The World Wisdom Council realizes that there is already a growing range of initiatives aligned with its mission. In consequence it is taking as one of its highest priorities the formation of networks, partnerships, and collaborations in the interest of mobilizing the forces required for constructive transformation on a global scale.

The World Wisdom Council is politically, socially, and culturally non-partisan, championing the joint interest of all humans and all life on this planet, informing people so that they can move toward a world where they can live in peace with each other and in harmony with nature.

For more, see

http://www.wisdompage.com/wwc-041220-budapest-declaration.pdf

http://globalspirit.org

The WorldWide Fund for Nature (Italy)

is...

• the world’s leading independent environmental organisation;
• a truly global network, working in more than 90 countries;
• a challenging, constructive, science-based organisation that addresses issues from the survival of species and habitats to climate change, sustainable business and environmental education;
• a charity dependent upon its five million supporters worldwide - some 90 per cent of our income derives from voluntary sources such as people and the business community.
• an organisation that makes a difference

WWF addresses global threats to people and nature such as climate change, the peril to endangered species and habitats, and the unsustainable consumption of the world’s natural resources.

We do this by influencing how governments, businesses and people think, learn and act in relation to the world around us, and by working with local communities to improve their livelihoods and the environment upon which we all depend.

WWF uses its practical experience, knowledge and credibility to create long-term solutions for the planet’s environment.

For more, see www.wwf.org.uk