WorldShift Solutions

The WorldShift Declaration and the Global Conversation that will follow is the wake up call. But WorldShift 2012 will also highlight targeted, tangible and achievable solutions to the social, economic and environmental problems we face.

Working with partner organisations with experience and track record of delivery, WorldShift Solutions will present projects to the WorldShift Fund and WorldShift Finance (see below) and to the public to help raise the capital required to deliver them.

WorldShift 2012 is currently in negotiations with such organisations – projects and more information will be made available soon. In the meantime, any specific query can be answered by contacting us as below.

The WorldShift Fund

WorldShift 2012 seeks to create The WorldShift Fund for philanthropic donations to external organisations proposing deliverable solutions as above. The WorldShift Fund will be both a UK Charity Commission Registered Charity and a 501c (3) US Charity / Not for Profit.

More information will be made available soon. In the meantime, any specific query can be answered by contacting us.

WorldShift Education

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WorldShift Finance

WorldShift 2012 seeks to create WorldShift Finance CIC (Community Interest Company) as a social investment vehicle to support social and micro enterprises, sustainable and ethical companies with start up and development finance. Companies, organisations and individuals working towards WorldShift 2012’s common goals or with social, economic and environmental projects can apply for a variety of finance packages.

WorldShift Finance CIC will be a “for profit” venture, but the profits from WorldShift Finance CIC will be re-invested in further SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) and / or donated to the WorldShift Fund. More information will be made available soon. In the meantime, any specific query can be answered by contacting us. 

For more on CIC’s in the UK, see the comprehensive FAQ’s page at www.cicregulator.gov.uk

 

The WorldShift Library

WorldShift 2012 recommended reading compiled by David Woolfson, President of the Club of Budapest (Canada):

State of the World

• Climate Change 2007: Fourth Assessment Report. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• UNEP/GRID-Arendal. Planet in Peril: Atlas of Current Threats to People and the Environment. United Nations Publications, 2006 (See www.grida.no/publications/planet%2Din%2Dperil).
• Worldwatch Institute, ed. State of the World 2008: Toward a Sustainable Global Economy. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.
• Worldwatch Institute, ed. Vital Signs 2007–2008: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.

World Sustainability

• Doppelt, Bob. Leading Change Toward Sustainability. Pensacola, Fla.: Greenleaf Publications, 2003.
• Doppelt, Bob. Power of Sustainable Thinking. London: Earthscan Publishers, 2008.
• Hawken, Paul. The Ecology of Commerce. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
• Henderson, Hazel. Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 2007.
• Heinberg, Richard. Peak Everything. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 2007.
• McKibben, Bill. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. New York: Owl, 2008.
• Sachs, Jeffrey. Common Wealth. New York: Penguin Press, 2008.
• Senge, Peter, et al. The Necessary Revolution. New York: Doubleday Business, 2008.
• Stern, Nicholas. The Economics of Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

World Peace and Security

• Ferencz, Benjamin. Planethood. Coos Bay, Ore.: Love Line Books, 1991.
• Human Security Center. Human Security Report 2005. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2005.
• Jacobs, Didier. Global Democracy. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.
• Kay, Sean. Global Security in the Twenty-first Century. Plymouth, Devon: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
• Ribbelink, Olivier, editor. Beyond the U.N. Charter. The Hague, Asser Press, 2008.
• Roche, Douglas. Global Conscience. Toronto: Novalis Press, 2008.
• Schell, Jonathan. The Unconquerable World. New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2004.
• Schell, Jonathan. The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger. New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2008.

World Futures

• Diamond, Jared. Collapse. New York: Penguin, 2005.
• Glenn, Jerome and Theodore Gordon. 2008 State of the Future. Washington D.C.: Millennium Project, 2008.
• Homer-Dixon, Thomas. The Upside of Down. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 2008.
• IPCC. Climate Change 2007—Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Laszlo, Ervin. The Chaos Point. Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2006.
• Laszlo, Ervin. Quantum Shift and the Global Brain. Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2008.
• Mack, Timothy, ed. Creating Global Strategies for Humanity’s Future. Bethesda, Md.: World Future Society, 2006.
• McKenna, Terence. The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching (with Dennis McKenna). New York: Seabury, 1975.
• Martin, James. The Meaning of the 21^st Century. New York:Riverhead, 2007.
• Pearce, Fred. When the Rivers Run Dry: Journeys Into the Heart of the World’s Water Crisis. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2006.
• Pearce, Fred. With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change. Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
• Petersen, John. A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Publishing, 2008.
• Walker, Brian, and David Salt. Resilience Thinking. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 2006.
• Wright, Ronald. A Short History of Progress. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2004.
• Smil, Vaclav. Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.

World Transformation

• Anthony, Marcus. Integrated Intelligence. Boston: Sense Publishers, 2008.
• Arguelles, Jose. The Mayan Factor. Rochester, VT: Bear & Co. 1987, 1996; Time and the Technosphere. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2002.
• Bornstein, David. How to Change the World. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2007.
• Braden, Greg, et al. The Mystery of 2012. Boulder, Colo.: Sounds True, 2007.
• Brown, Lester. Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.
• Chopra, Deepak. Peace Is the Way. New York: Harmony, 2005.
• Elgin, Duane. Promise Ahead. New York: William Morrow & Co., 2000.
• Goerner, Sally, Robert Dyck, and Dorothy Lagerroos. The New Science of Sustainability. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Triangle Center for Complex Systems, 2008.
• Harman, Willis. Global Mind Change. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1998.
• Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. New York: Viking USA, 2007.
• Korten, David. The Great Turning. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2006.
• Laszlo, Ervin, and Jude Currivan. CosMos: a Co-Creators Guide to the Whole-World. London: Hay House, 2008.
• Mandell, Faye. Self-Powerment: Towards a New Way of Living.New York: Dutton, 2003.
• Monbiot, George. The Age of Consent. New York: Harper Collins, 2004.
• Petit, Patrick, ed. Earthrise: the Dawning of a New Civilization in the 21^st Century. Munich: Herbert Utz Verlag GmbH, 2008.
• Ray, Paul and Sherry Anderson. The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001.
• Russell, Peter. Waking Up in Time. Updated edition. New York: Origin Press, 2009.
• Senge, Peter, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Flowers.Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future. New York: Doubleday, 2005.
• Speth, James Gustave. The Bridge at the Edge of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
• Westley, Frances, Brenda Zimmerman, and Michael Patton. Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2007.
• Yunus, Muhammad. Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008.

WorldShift Events

WorldShift 2012 Founding Partner, Events4Change LLP, will set up and manage WorldShift Events CIC (Community Interest Company) as a social event-based enterprise raising awareness of the WorldShift Declaration and WorldShift Solutions.

WorldShift Events will include a global microfranchise event organisation and promotion vehicle, tapping in to the goodwill and resources of event promoters and producers around the world. It will initiate and manage live and dance music, corporate, family, student and other events as well as support others within the branded franchise.

As well as regular and ad hoc events through the year, WorldShift Events CIC will co-ordinate all participants to stage Macro / Micro – Global / Local events on the pivotal transformational dates of 10/10/10, 11/11/11 and then an attempt at the largest public event of its kind in history on 21/12/12.

If an individual or external organisation chooses to join WorldShift Events CIC, they will agree to operate within monitored and enforceable guidelines and to promote the WorldShift Declaration and WorldShift Solutions as well as to pay

• 9% or more of profit to The WorldShift Fund
• 9% or more of profit to a Charity of their choice
• 9% or more of profit to WorldShift Events towards organising the global WorldShift event in 2012

More information will be made available soon, in the meantime any specific enquiry can be answered by contacting us.