Archives - 2004

7 April 2005
Sustainable Development and the Charter by Rob WHEELER

We need to develop an organizational foundation for the Campaign for Leadership on Sustainability so that it can fund and promote itself, we can hire adequate staff, reach out to additional organizations and stakeholders, and begin to sponsor our own program activities. We are planning to invite past leaders from the Presidents Council, environmental organizations, sustainable business leaders, etc to join us in this effort. In particular we are interested in working with Earth Day (...)

6 April 2005
A Big Challenge to Face by Rob WHEELER

The primary challenge has been the lack of expected resources with which to do this work, which as we had envisioned it in the US was most ambitious indeed. In particular we have not had the time to follow up appropriately with many of the various contacts and efforts that we have made; and it has taken us much longer than we had expected to be ready to post the materials for the US projects on a website so that we could really begin to develop the (...)

Priorities and Activities in 2004 - 6 April 2005, by Rob WHEELER

First, we focused on the development of a National Campaign for Leadership on Sustainability, which is being sponsored by the US Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet) along with the US Charter project. Second, we worked on our activities in the area of Peace and Disarmament. This included the initial steps to develop a National Campaign for Peace and Disarmament and a Peoples Department of Peace, along with preparatory work for a dialogue series with the US Army War College (...)

Context - 16 January 2005, by Rob WHEELER

Currently our society faces many problems. These exist because people, families, societal institutions, businesses, schools, etc are not taking personal or full responsibility for the things that they do and how they live their lives. The Charter can serve as a catalyst to challenge all peoples and associations to consider what it would mean to act responsibly and to make a full and serious commitment to doing so. The country we live in and will be responsible for, the United States, causes (...)

Objectives - 16 January 2005, by Rob WHEELER

The Charter is being used to define the nature of responsibility that each person has (in their private, public, and professional capacities) in regards to one another and to the entire global human community. Likewise, the initial objective of our work with the Charter in the US is to identify and present the primary work that is and has been done to both define and establish more responsible practices in each of the primary issue areas that we are addressing. We are beginning to engage (...)

Methodology and Strategies - 16 January 2005, by Rob WHEELER

The Charter is being used to define the nature of responsibility that each person has (in their private, public, and professional capacities) in regards to one another and to the entire global human community. We are beginning to engage the primary actors in discussing, enriching proposals, and providing more effective means for carrying out the responsible actions that are identified. I attended many meetings and conferences and met with key people that could help us to develop the US (...)

Partnerships - 16 January 2005, by Rob WHEELER

US Citizens Network for Sustainable Development www.citnet.org Global Ecovillage Network www.ecovillage.org UNITAR - Access to Basic Services for All www.unitar.org San Francisco Peoples Assembly www.Empowertheun.org & www.sf-pa.org Great Transitions Initiative, Orion Kriegman www.gtinitiative.org American Friends Service Committee, Colonel Dan Smith www.afsc.org Carlisle Peace College www.carlislepeacecollege.org US Carlisle Army War College (...)