Here are some interesting web sites and projects that highlight different ways oneness is working.
Do you have a site to add to our list?
100% Human
100% Human is a new campaign to spread the message that no matter where you come from, or what religion, what race, what culture, what social class you belong to - you are a human being first of all. You can check out some of their videos and ads on their web site (currently under
development):
www.100percenthuman.org (pictures)
www.100percenthuman.org (videos)
Big Picture TV
Big Picture TV streams free video clips of leading experts, thinkers and activists in environmental and social sustainability. They offer a general audience analysis and commentary from a growing number of world leaders including scientists, journalists, economists, businessmen,
designers and politicians.
Dropping Knowledge
dropping knowledge's mission, to “provide a globally accessible educational source and onlinenetwork of knowledge, opinions and ideas, in order to enable people to gather, take-up and reflect on multiple viewpoint of important global values” is a good example of an initiative that embraces a new ways of thinking and embodies a non-hierarchical approach to knowledge and communication.
The Forgiveness Project
At a time when scenes of atrocity, conflict and crime fill our TV screens and newspapers, when tit-for-tat killings, attacks and counter-attacks seem to grab all the headlines, The Forgiveness Project aims to tell the quieter, less publicized stories of reconciliation. The stories of people who have discovered that the only way to move on in life, is to lay aside hatred and blame.
Global MindShift
Discovering the implications of the unity of life, and learning how evolutionary principles can help us work together to meet the tremendous challenges of our times, is the essence of the core conversation we now need to be having as a human family. You can host or join in-depth coversations about our evolutionary journey on Global Mindshift's site, and help create global community.
KarmaTube
KarmaTube is a collection of short,
"do something" videos coupled with simple actions that every viewer can take. Their vision is to create and connect a global network of volunteers awake to capturing these stories, using simple digital video cameras. While the stories produced may be polished and professional or
diamonds-in-the-rough, the crucial through-line is this: they celebrate the work of local change agents, demonstrating the ways "do something" moments can be "tipping point" experiences for individuals and communities.
Kiva
Kiva combines the power of the internet with the concept of microfinance, allowing users to make loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world for as little as $25. Kiva is the first transparent lending platform of its kind, and is an example of a new model for economic development that is direct and non-hierarchical.
Thousand Kites and Calls From Home
Thousand Kites is a national cultural organizing project created to bring the power of community theater, radio, and digital technology together in a unique series of events designed to spur dialogue about the criminal justice system. The project includes a radio show, Calls From Home, which features phone calls from mothers and children, brothers and grandparents, sharing the intimate power of families speaking directly to their incarcerated loved ones. Produced in the coalfields of central Appalachia, the show reaches a national network of prisoners, their
loved ones and public listeners through community radio. This is a good example of how an art project can us a public medium like radio to help people recognize their shared humanity.
The Potsdam Manifesto
The Manifesto is a declaration of three scientists, Hans-Peter Dürr, J. Daniel Dahm and Rudolf zur Lippe. The manifesto connects to a central but not expanded appeal of the Russell-Einstein-Manifesto of Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein, published on the 9th of July 1955 in London: “We have to learn to think in a new way”. The Russell-Einstein-Manifesto was an ultimate calling for a new way of thinking that would guarantee war, in the future, to be completely banned as an instrument of politics and conflict resolution. The new version, which reads like a blend of science, philosophy and sociology, argues that creativity, differentiation and connectedness are basic characteristics of life, and the future is essentially open.
Read the manifesto: www.vdw-ev.de/manifest/index-en.html
Project Happiness (Dalai Lama Foundation)
The Mission of Project Happiness is to engage youth in a conversation about how their values and ethics are connected to happiness and to the meaning and purpose in their lives. It is both an online project, and a feature-length documentary film that follows a senior high school class
from California on a journey to discover the true basis of human happiness. Joining them on this quest are students from the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala, India, and students from the Dominion Heritage Academy in Jos, Nigeria.
QuantumShift.tv
QuantumShift TV is a web video network focused on solutions, from global warming to human rights, education to economics, medicine, technology, design, and more. With both original and user-generated content from socially-responsible businesses, non-profits, and independent producers, QuantumShift TV helps you to be the change and share the story.
The Vision Project
Something wonderful is trying to happen to and through humanity. But in these troubled times we need a vision to help us realize it. The Vision Project is a gathering of the visions of people from many walks of life, nations and races, some well-known and some not. Letting these
visions play through your mind and heart will change you. You will no longer wonder if we are going to make it, and you will be better able to see how.
WorldChanging
WorldChanging works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together.
World House Project
Institute without Boundaries is embarking on a multi-year collaboration — to design a sustaining, universal and healthy human dwelling. That challenge is different depending on where you are. In developed countries, we have urban sprawl and monster houses that consume huge amounts of the world’s total energy supply while polluting the atmosphere. In developing countries, over a billion people live in urban slums or in the streets without shelter…
www.institutewithoutboundaries.com
World of Good
World of Good is a marketplace of products that do good for people and planet. Their mission is to empower socially conscious consumers to align their personal values with their shopping decisions. Their site is filled with beautiful ethically sourced gifts, but of real value is learning how you can impact people all over the world through your spending power.
Lesson of Darkness
Muma, a Spanish-born artist in Lausanne, Switzerland, transforms his town into a scintillating paradise. “Allumons Lausanne!” (French for “Let's Light Up Lausanne!”) attracted over 40,000 visitors on July 31, 2006 to absorb the spectacle created by over 127,000 candles placed in
intricate patterns by 1,000 volunteers. The ancient Swiss town was transformed, bringing everyone together to appreciate what Muma calls "social art." "Lessons of Darkness" will make you reconsider your thoughts on collective identity, urban space and what it really means to live in today’s intensely modern society.
Baraka (1992)
An extraordinary non-narrative film that invites us to see the interconnectedness of all life on earth.
Happy Feet (2006)
A feel-good story of change, heroism and the interconnectedness of life on our planet, with a hopping soundtrack.
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
An absurd existentialist comedy that explores philosophical ideas of interconnectedness and nothingness in hilarious ways.