News from hubworld & our 2000 bookclub network :
Yunus new book in 2010, Building Social Buiness, invites the net generation to make the 2010s the most exciting decade :
we are what goals we decide we must collnoratively
linkin by 2020...
THE TIME TO DO IS NOW
MY writes: "What will the world be like 20 years or 10 years
from now? Interesting to speculate but for me the more important question: what do we want the world to be like 20, 10 years
from now? The difference is huge. The first question makes us passive viewers of unfolding events whereas the second question
empowers us to see ourselves as active co-creators of a desired outcome
It is time to take charge of our future
rather than accept it passively. What would world you like to help create? It might include:
a world without a
single person living in poverty
a world whose oceans, lakes, streams and atmosphere is free of pollution
a world where no child goes to sleep hungry
a world where noone dies a premature death from an avoidable
illness
a world were wars are thing of the past
a world where people can travel freely
across borders
a world where no one is illiterate and everyone has easy access to education through the application
of new miracle technology
a world where the riches of global culture are available to all
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204 | SofiaB , yunusbookclub and yunus 69th birthday dialogue friends and I have started to brainstorm - what if youth and citizen networks could be surveyed to identify 20 big goals
which if they were achieved through microeconomics (community to community) by 2020 would mean that we had bent the curve
away from global colapse of sustainability, to sustainability rising
We would very much like these to be open
goals that could be tracked and celebrated worldwide but where london and UK would retain some collective ownership of them,
and be the first to celebrate events and perhaps prize givings on each at the london sustainbility olympics 2012. We can imagine
setting up a different welcoming panel of famous or expert to celebrate practitioners in the 20 sustainability games whose
goals we have identified.
If we dont come up with some united proposal on something like this out of the UK, there
is a risk that other European capitals wiill take over plans for the olympijcs which yunus is asking all social business networks
to swarm to as a key moment in time of the 2010s.
some examples might or might not be
1 since
the 2000's the greatest change in ending southern hemisphere poverty - nomination Ingrid Munro - this particular
game/pitch being one relevant to microcreditsummit - still the most extraordinary network I have been able to map - and one
whose summits 2009, 2010 in south america and africa, and 2011 while hosted out of spain is being sponsorewd by queen sofia
who particularly wants to publish best southern hemisphere progress by micro- both the idea of huge golas and famlous
people weklconing grassrioots practioners who do most to find solutions is borrowed frpom microcreditsummit
2
the founding group without whom clean microenergy would be furthest behind nomination - founders of grameen
shakti who have not only won clean energy prizes at ashden awards but whose number also includes the market decvelopment of
http://microenergycredits.com/
3 the person who has done most to change sustainbility curricula of students over 18 including
MBAs
4 the person who has done most to change education's development on children's and teenager's job
creating capacity
if you are interested in piloting this survey through networks or peers you connect,
please tell us. I am aware that choosing goals that save the world from a micro perspective may seem to involve somewhat opposite
framing from prizes set up for macro-professionals and hugely resourced inventors to lead . I think that could be
part of why the survey is worth doing |
