May 26-27: Members of the National Associations from Northern and Southern America will get together in Canada and will discuss future collaboration.
On May 27, the Annual General Assembly of the Canadian Association and a meeting of the Board of Directors will be held. For an overview of the events and contact data, please download the
announcement.
June 15: The Catalan Group of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome will hold a lunch-discussion, within the cycle Society and Nature, on "Civil society and the environment" with the intervention of Antoni Serra Ramoneda, Professor Emeritus of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, of which he was rector (1980-86). He was President of Caixa Catalunya and its Territori i Paisatge Foundatio. The lecture will be held at 1.30 p.m. in the Círculo Ecuestre.
PAST EVENTS
Vienna: The Future of Univerities
Prof. Julian Auleytner
May 19: Prof. Julian Auleytner, Rector of the Pedagocical University in Warsaw and President of the Polish Association for the
Club of Rome, gave a presentation at the European Support Centre in Vienna about his view on the future of universities.
Auleytner referred to the ranking of universities and focussed on the role which international exchange of students and remote education will play in the future. Dr. Siegfried Sellitsch, President of the Technical University of Vienna and Member of the Board of the Austrian Chapter commented on the presentation and outlined the changes among students.
The slides of the presentation by Prof. Auleytner are available for
download.
Bilbao: A Different Perspective on Globalization
May 13: The Basque group of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome held an event with Josu Ugarte.
He gave a presentation on "A different perspective on globalization", a very complex phenomenon which will cost deep changes in the economies of the developed countries. He pointed out that to strength the corporative capacities of small and medium businesses are the only possible way to profit from globalization’s great opportunities. Finally, he discussed hidden macro trends and his vision of how to deal with the challenges.
Josu Ugarte is Economist and as President of Mondragon International he manages its nine branches worldwide. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Mondragon University and member of Managing Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Guipuzcoa.
Barcelona: Does Nature Exist?
Ramón Folch
May 11: As part of the activities of the Catalan Group of the Club of Rome and within the cycle Society and Nature a lunch-discussion was held, at which Ramón Folch spoke about the fact that in just 10,000 years (The earth is 4,000 million years old), the human race has gone from being irrelevant to having the leading role on the planet.
What is important today is not to protect nature, but to guarantee the continuity of the environmental values built by humans. "Saving" the Earth is impossible and unnecessary, a well-intentioned but arrogant intention. The core question is to relocate ourselves culturally and moderate our expectations.
Ramón Folch is a Doctor of Biology, a socio-ecologist. Member of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome and full member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans. He has been President of the Social Council of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and Secretary General of the International Advisory Council of the Latin Forum of Environmental Sciences.
Valencia: Energy Sustainability Prospective in the Valencian Community: 2030 Horizon
Juan Manuel Bádenas,
Rafael Blasco (Coordinator of the Valencian Group)
May 10: Within the framework of the activities of the Valencian Group of the CoR´s Spanish Chapter, Juan Manuel Bádenas described the current economic situation of Spain, related to the rest of the world and the causes which he considers to have provoked the current economic crisis. He then presented the function of prospective science, its history and difference from other tools that can be used by public or private managers to best safeguard their respective interests. Finally, he enumerated some of the conclusions of the "Prospective study: Sustainable Energy Scenario 2030 Community of Valencia".
Juan Manuel Bádenas, is Director General of the Agencia Valenciana d’Avalució i Prospectiva.
Barcelona: The Club of Rome Vision for a Future of Humankind
Ian Johnson (Secretary-General of the CoR), Ricardo Díez Hochleitner (Honorary President), Teresa Mendizábal (Vicepresident of Spanish Chapter) and Bartolomé Masoliver (Coordinator of the Catalan Group).
April 26: Ian Johnson, Secretary-General of the Club of Rome, gave a presentation in Barcelona.
Economics has rapidly become divorced from real values. This results in sub-optimum decisions and the wasteful use of scarce resources: financial, natural, human and social. We need a major paradigm shift in the way we value the goods and services that will provide the most benefit to the future of humankind. In doing so we must re-assess the most important characteristics of a sustainable and safe world and reflect upon the current scale and challenges posed by the level and nature of global unemployment; the extent to which we undervalue the world’s natural resource and environmental base; the nature of current and future markets and their role in sustainable value creation; and the extent to which we need a major effort to restore and develop the social and cultural capital we have lost.
ORGANISATION
New Member of the Club of Rome
Herman E. Daly
Herman E. Daly is Emeritus Professor at the University of Maryland, School of Public Affairs. Formerly he was Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank, and Alumni Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University.
More info...
MEDIA
The New Economics of Growth
Ian Johnson
On May 5th, Ian Johnson, Secretary-General of the Club of Rome, gave a speech at ZHAW in Winterthur.
The topic was "The New Economics of Growth, Wealth and Real Values: Sustainability Under Scrutiny".
The video is available on the
ZHAW video server.
Vollgemuellt mit neoliberalem Vokabular
Interview with CoR Member Franz Josef Radermacher,
the Interview is available on the
external website.
PUBLICATIONS
The Blue Economy
Gunter Pauli presents innovations with a high potential for a sustainable future:
Cadmus Journal
Among the authors of the second issue of the new Cadmus Journal are several Club of Rome Members:
Heitor Gurgulino de Souza, Ian Johnson, Orio Giarini (Editor in Chief),
Ivo Slaus
(Chairman of the Editorial Board),
Patrick M. Liedtke, Hazel Henderson and Agni Vlavianos-Arvanitis.
The publication is available for
download.
Canadá y sus elecciones
by
Susana Chacon
Secretary General of the Mexican Association.
The article is available on the
external website
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