Humankind has reached a state of development in which
old modes of thinking and behaving threaten to destroy our civilization
The
Crisis of Values and Attitudes on the Planet
Humankind has reached a state of
development in which old modes of thinking and behaving threaten to destroy our
planet. This is becoming patently obvious to people of all political and
religious persuasions. We are living through a global crisis in which only a
profound revolution can save us from total self-destruction. Those of us who
are dedicated to the preservation of life must play a prominent part in this
revolution, which calls for a substantial change in our manner of thinking.
Thomas Kuhn introduced the idea that
science functions under the control of a paradigm. For centuries science has been guided by a paradigm based on the
intellectual achievements of Newton
and Descartes, who saw the world mechanistically and reductively, with its
division of inside and outside, subject and object. This has been overturned by
the work of Einstein and his theory of relativity, the atomic physicists and
others who have discovered laws that don’t fit the old paradigm. The new
paradigm which is emerging takes into account the observer as well as the thing
observed, and the fact that the two cannot be separated. There cannot be
objective knowledge without a knowing subject: what we see must be relative to
and influenced by where we are and who we are.
In human affairs, objectivity on its own
does not work because it contradicts what it means to be a human being. A human
being is not an object. He or she is
not only a thinking but a feeling person with emotions, values, hunches,
intuitions, sensitivities which have a tremendous influence on what they do and
how they perceive the world. He or she is both an individual, alone in their
own private world, and also a member of a particular society; and, in turn,
that society belongs to a wider community, the human family, with which every
individual shares common experiences and aspirations and a common global
environment.
Basis for Action
We have to re-evaluate ourselves as the
prime cause of the problems we are facing, and rediscover the profound value
inherent in every single human being. This is something that the United Nations
conferences, as yet, have not really addressed.
The suggested process involves:
·
the
creation of a planetary peace and ecological culture, i.e. a sustainable
civilization
·
evolution of consumption and
macro economy as a result of changes in consciousness, value system , need
structure, education reform and human development
·
human development as a
prerequisite to the development of true civilization
·
an
understanding of the power of the human potential, including the power of the
mind to devise appropriate technologies
·
the
communication technology and the media.
·
the
integration of scientific disciplines and scientific knowledge with
consciousness
·
the use of
innovative forms of education which recapture the essence and heart of
education
·
economic
empowerment of the developing world by the rich countries by mobilising human
development
Education, knowledge and wisdom are very
powerful tools for the survival of humankind. The more thought we put into our
survival, the more solutions we will get. An open dialogue is the key to our
success because it addresses differences, difficulties and barriers, and
creates co-operation
Although the media tend to sensationalize
destruction, exploitation, greed and sexuality, there is a way in which the media
can, in fact, exalt ecological culture, peace and the values associated with
this. .
"Ultimately,
this Earth can be saved from mankind only if people are prepared to live with
nature, rather than upon nature. We have been taught that this world, and all
plants and creatures thereon, were created for man's use: that he was given
dominion over all other forms of life and that he must go forth and multiply.
It is now clear that if he follows that belief his extinction is inevitable.
Therefore, his whole relationship with Earth, with nature, must change rapidly.
But relationships between individuals or between man and his environment are
intellectual and of the spirit, rather than of material gain or loss." -
Sir Mark Oliphant (Father of Australian Science) - personal communication to Dr
Michael Ellis
A substantially new manner of thinking is required integrating all
sciences and creating a holistic approach which takes into account the
inextricable relationship between life and all phenomena. Such a science needs
to integrate scientific materialism and consciousness and requires a profound
change in human values and attitudes.
“When I went to the Moon, I was as pragmatic a test pilot engineer
and scientist as any one of my colleagues.... but there was another aspect to
my experience during Apollo 14......The first thing that came to mind as I
looked at Earth was its incredible beauty...I knew that life in the Universe
was not just an accident based on random processes. This knowledge came to me directly....
It was an experiential cognition.
But still as real as the objective data upon which say the navigational
programme was based.”
Edgar Mitchell (Astronaut, supporter of The Centre)
Our main proposal is therefore:
To ask the UN, including
especially UNEP, UNESCO
and UNCSD and
the governments of the world, to support ideas and proposals on developing and
putting into practice, new informational and educational policy based on the
new scientific and intellectual paradigm, to develop and establish new
educational programs for different national, social and age groups. Such
programs would be established under the aegis of the UN (directly or under UNEP
& UNESCO) institutions, governments and industrial organisations. These proposals concern education,
information policy and science based on the new way of thinking that we may
prevent the potential global crisis.
The
Diagnosis
Economic, Social and
Political State of Affairs
Ten years after the Rio Earth Summit, we
are still far from the prevention of a global ecological catastrophe and the
creation of a solution to urgent ecological, social, economic and
political problems which affect billions of people. No visible and substantial results have
been achieved.
We currently live in a global political
system, which has changed from the polarisation of USA
vs USSR
to a monopolar order completed after September 11th. The monopolar system is not
sustainable by definition. The process which is known today as globalisation is
a mono-polarisation. A
genuine globalisation is the transformation of our globalised world to a
cooperative, united, human family.
Our world faces a global threat – the
danger of ecological catastrophe, which threatens equally every human being,
every nation and every social group. The contradictory interests of a multitude
of cultures and nations often camouflage and confuse the problems we are
facing, because the information is not available through the mass-media.
Macro Environmental Global Issues
The
Global ecological threat is apparent in numerous known and unknown phenomena to
the extent that we are on an extinction curve, more pronounced than at any time
since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The world has been converted in an
instant of time from a wild natural state to one in which human beings one of
an estimated 10 million species of organisms are consuming, wasting, or
diverting an estimated 45% of the total net biological productivity on land, and
using more than half of the renewable fresh water. In a matter of a hundred years, we have
altered substantially the characteristics of the land, the freshwaters of the
Earth, and the seas. We are driving
a major proportion of the species which are fundamental for our continued
existence, to extinction.
Klaus Toephler, Director of the UN
Environment program, Nairobi, Kenya in the United Nations Environmental Study
2002 Report states, ‘the Planet is poised
on a precipice, and time is running out for making tough, economic and
political choices that can pull it back from disaster.’
This report, made by contributions from
more than 1,000 scientists associated with UNEP shows that within 30 years:
- 55% of the global population will suffer severe water
shortages
- 11,000 plant and animal species will be dead or dying
- 30% of the biodiversity will be erased by the middle of the
century
- There will be increased emissions of carbon dioxide doubling to
16 billion pounds per year
since the 19th century.
The Military Industrial Complex
No threat is greater than the threat of
nuclear war. There are still
between 40,000-50,000 nuclear warheads in the world today – enough to destroy
60 times the Earth’s population. In
addition to India and Pakistan, 15-20
developing countries will have nuclear capability in the next 10 years.
For a fracture of arms spending, (over
$1trillion dollars annually), sanitation and clean water could be supplied to
all the deprived peoples of the world.
Wide spread diseases could be prevented and schooling and medicine
provided.
The global military complex which has
emerged for the defense of nations and people has become more dangerous that
the threat it should prevent. If
only a fraction of the financial and scientific resources it consumes were used
to prevent the potential ecological catastrophe a sustainable civilisation
could be built.
The Medical System
The domination of the pharmaceutical
industry in the health system ignores nutritional, environmental, preventative
and lifestyle management of illness through health promotion. Due to inequities in global health care,
a child dies of avoidable disease every three seconds. The global community faces morbidity
from the growth of AIDS, a resurgence of other infectious diseases such as
Hepatitis, and Malaria, particularly in the developing world.
The developed world is faced with
cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes.
The Consumptive Society
Modern society with its excessive emphasis
on commercial return, economic growth, wealth and material success,
subordinates and distorts peoples minds, mentalities and ultimately, real needs. The people are victims of
surrogate values and needs forced on them by informational and economic
sub-systems of society.
Our survival has to be seen from on overview of planetary sustainability
and transboundary environmental issues.
The old system that says we have to dominate, cultivate fear, and
exploit in order to survive, is no longer tenable.
A positive change in new world outlook
requires the cultivation of genuine human values and the acknowledgement of the
interconnectedness and interdependence between humans, the natural environment
and the Universe. The cultivation
of Self
knowledge, self esteem and spiritual growth, would lead paradoxically to a
reallocation of consumer resources, conservation of nature and new, more
sustainable, technological and scientific advances.
A Global Crisis of Social Values
The global crisis is symptomatic of the
inadequacies of our social values.
Ethical and moral value systems have not evolved properly to keep up the
balance with our growing material needs and technological inventiveness. We are living through a
civilisation crisis in which only a profound social epiphany leading to a
paradigmatic shift, unlike any other in history, can save us from total self
destruction.
The environmental problems that we face are
because humankind does not see itself as a species, whose role is as a
subsystem of the biosphere.
Humanity’s role is, in our opinion, to develop a deep understanding and
wisdom based on our alignment with the Universal
Laws and the co-evolution of human society with nature.
Our basic requirement is for ecological peace and
health which means a complete shift of the paradigm involving science,
education and health to a complete understanding of humanity and its
relationship with the cosmos.
The Genesis of
Environmental Problems
The Loss
of Values and the Loss of Dreams
The most
underused and misused resource on the planet is the human mind. Although we may
have finite natural, ecological resources, we have one infinite resource, which
is the human mind and spirit. This may be the only resource which will save our
planet.
The famous
Russian scientist and Academician, Dr Vladimir
Vernadsky
The root problem is that our social life and our economic and technological
development is grounded in the old, but still predominant paradigm based on the
intellectual achievements of Newton and Descartes, who saw the world
mechanistically and reductively.
This has been overturned by the work of Einstein who showed that the new
paradigm is based on the relationship and connection with the thing
observed. What we see must be
relative and influenced by what we are, how we are and where we are. The old paradigm works well for
mechanisms and technology, but does not work when we try and understand
consciousness and psychosocial issues.(XY).
Tolstoy, in War and Peace, said ‘the highest wisdom has but one science, the
science of the whole –the science explaining the whole of creation and man’s
placement’.
The measures aimed at preventing ecological catastrophe
and transition to sustainable development, whether it be technological,
economic and or ecological, will be doomed to failure unless we free ourselves
from the old scientific, intellectual paradigm.
In our printed and visual media we find
sensationalism, and no integration of news or proper analysis, as news tends to
serve political purposes . Our news
media tends to create an erroneous picture of reality and draw people away from
serious reflection. There is no
public voice. Even in Universities
there seems to be no integration between different specialties and information
is narrowly focussed.
It is no
wonder that our young people are worried and often angry. Their lives are changing, but they feel
there is no future, as they feel there is nothing left. Our young people nowadays grow up so
quickly due to the influence of the media, particularly television. The destructive influence of mass
media on the developing psyche of children and teenagers has a deleterious
effect on the creation of the integrated personality. Parental care is lost as parents
go out to work under the increasingly stressful working environment. In this situation, they are not able to
substitute money, property, social status, and material needs with the creation
of values.
The New Paradigm Integrating Spirituality and Science
Einstein, 50 years ago, said ‘if humanity is to survive, there has to be a
substantially new manner of thinking.’ He also said ‘A human being is part of the whole
that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences in himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the
rest a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people
nearest to us. Our task must be to
free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace
all living beings and all of nature.’
Vaclav Havel, echoed this statement when he
became President of Czechoslovakia, stating that there needs to be a massive
change in consciousness if humankind is to survive.
The root problem is that although we
have made great leaps in technological science, and our physical knowledge has
expanded, our development, is based on an inadequate understanding of the world
generally, as well as of human beings and human life. Our science serves technological
development, but it is incapable of predicting the consequences of the
interaction of technology with nature.
The new vision of reality requires us to review our
origins, the nature of evolution and the basic cause behind the need of healing
for the individual, society and the global civilisation We have to reevaluate ourselves
and our mode of development as the prime cause of the problems we are facing
In this respect, the new frontier is the
new paradigm which is the new spirituality that encompasses a consciousness of
oneness where all of life on Earth is connected and not separate.
The great Copernican revolution of the 21st
Century is to realise the nature of universal consciousness spirit and
soul.
Great inventions, great thought and
creativity come from a higher order of
intelligence and consciousness.
Education, in our view should be based on this concept of human
potential and the hidden abilities within all human beings. Particularly we would emphasise the
power of the sub-conscious and conscious mind and the ability of the individual
to find expression in a unique and whole way.
A new ethos implies a belief in universal
abundance actualised by the creative potential of human minds. The key to this abundance is the
creation of a new kind of non-polluting energy,
which gives
humanity the opportunity to meet all of
humanity’s needs.
Our civilization is changing rapidly. As a result, we are entering the so
called post-industrial or the information society.
The computer
information and technological revolution now occurring should be accompanied by
new ways that actualise the global mind and vastly enhance the creative
potential and access to freedom for all humanity.
Now is the time that millions of people
need to awaken to their sense of truth, freedom, co-operation and connectedness
with all of life – an expression of connected humanity.
What is needed, we believe, is a new science that
can integrate the mind and its abilities with the whole phenomenon of human
productiveness, technology and the
environment. This means that we
have integration instead of fragmentation into the various subjects that are
taught in universities, which are differentiated and separated into various
disciplines. This means that we
produce graduates versed in the whole phenomenon of life.
This is possible because
science already has come to a new level of understanding of the new
paradigm. This paradigm should
become the basis for new education systems, new information policies, and a
means to building relationships between people, nations, social groups etc.
Education, in
this sense, is giving to people throughout the planet an understanding of what they have in common despite their
races, religions, ideologies, cultures, traditions, beliefs and spiritualities
- enabling them to realise their backgrounds, their origins and potential and
individual destinies within the common ground of human life and existence.
Openness is a prerequisite of
education. It is also the
prerequisite of communication.
New forms of communication are needed, involving the media, which will
help to educate people by enabling them to realise the depth and power of the
human spirit and the ability of people to heal themselves and to create peace.
Our aim is to promote a dialogue to impact human
consciousness on a deep and profound level.
“All that man has here in
multiplicity is intrinsically One.
Here all blades of grass, wood and stone, all things are One. This is the deepest depth. And thereby am I completely
captivated”. Meister Eckhart (1260-1327)
To ask the UN (including the UNEP,
UNESCO, UNCSD and other bodies:
, a new informational and educational policy
based on the new scientific and intellectual paradigm to develop and establish
new educational programs for different national social, and, age groups.
Such programs would be established under the aegis of the UN or its
institutions aimed at implementing
the major proposals formulated below. Such an educational program would
integrate healing issues looking at the importance of lifestyle, nutrition,
relaxation, nutritional supplementation, meditation and exercise for the
prevention of the major scourges of illness and deprivation in our global
community. This activity would be facilitated by outstanding world leaders and
key humanist individuals.
- To establish educational programs for
teachers, and for different social and age groups.
·
To elaborate and enhance the
conception of eco-settlements understanding the profound connection between
dwellings and the environment in which they exist and to provide support to
eco-settlements from international,
governmental
and non governmental entities.
To call all the World’s scientists to take part
in developing the intellectual basis for forming a sustainable civilization..
A substantially new
manner of thinking is required integrating all sciences and creating a holistic
approach which takes into account the inextricable relationship between life
and all phenomena. Such a science
needs to integrate scientific materialism and consciousness and requires a
profound change in human values and attitudes.
To ask all medical doctors and health professionals to support a form of medicine which is integrative,
health giving and gives individuals the opportunity to take responsibility for
their own lives and the opportunity to arrest the development of degenerative
disease or prevent it altogether.
To ask business and community
groups to consider our
proposals in developing a new sector in
the market: on ecologically sound production, primarily in food and
medicine, placing emphasis on
organic foods, sustainable agricultural practices and cellular and herbal
medicines.
A new sector
for the solution of our global problems would also include education (training
courses), publications, centres designed specifically for health promotion,
preventative health, self care, ecological education and spiritual development.
Our children need oxygen, water, food, trees and grass and a sustainable
environment more than material possessions in order to thrive.
To appeal to the young people of the
world to seek unity within
diversity,
cohesion where there is fragmentation and resolution where there is
conflict. We ask them to take on the responsibility for this brilliant
jewel of our planet and seek to acquire a deep and abiding passion and
knowledge for life itself. A profound cultivation of true civilisation
requires a broad and deep understanding of the nature of humanity, earth,
the cosmos and the culture of their nation and all nations. It requires a profound love and respect
for all peoples and the living biodiversity of nature itself.
To ask governments to support our
concerns and ideas and to establish appropriate state institutes, to initiate
programmes aimed at focusing on scientific activities as a matter of urgency
on:
- New ways of thinking about our
place on Earth and the ways in which we relate to the functioning of
natural systems if we are to find a better way to live in harmony with
nature.
- Formulating new ways in industry
and agriculture, making a possible a sustainable world.
- Reforming educational systems
based on the new paradigm
- National strategies to create the
conditions for
- Human and social development
- Environmentally friendly
economies
- Poverty reduction
8.
To
reflect the above proposals in the findings and/or decisions of the WSSD.
We feel that if these
major principles and directions are instigated we may be able to prevent the
global catastrophe to which we are currently headed.
SIGNATORIES TO THE
PROPOSAL
TRANSITION TO A
SUSTAINABLE CIVILISATION
TO BE PRESENTED TO THE WORLD SUMMIT FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
Russia
¶
Dr. Irina Abalkina, senior research
fellow for Institute of USA and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow
¶
Eugeny Viktorovich Tkachenko, Academician Russian
Academy of Education (RAE), member of
RAE Presidium, member of the Expert Council of the National Dissertation Commission
on pedagogy and psychology, professor,
doctor of Chemistry, former Minister of Education of the Russian Federation
(1992-1996)
¶
Alexei Reteyum, Professor of Ecology, Moscow State
University of Engineering
Ecology
¶
Dr. Irina Glazyrina, Director of the Transbaikal Center
for Ecological Economics, Head of Ecological Economic Modelling Department of
the Institute of Natural
Resources of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy
of Sciences
¶
Vladimir F. Belogolovov, Buryat Regional
Department of Lake
Baikal
¶
Tamara Loubova Dr.of agriculture,docent Institute of Continuous
Education in Forestry, Pushkino, Moscow oblast’
¶
Valery Dementiev, Krasnoturiinsk,
Sverdlovskaya r.,
¶
Alexander Roumega, Master Degree in
Physics, PO Box 5132, Rostov-on-Don, 344015 Russian Federation
¶
Dr. Sofia
Solovieva, Senior Researcher Division of Environmental economics
Department of Economics
Moscow State
University
¶
Dr. Vladimir Zolotarev, founder of the
NOOSPHERE Information Fund (Global Survival), Borok, Yaroslavl obl.
¶
Rostov Regional non-governmental
ecological organization "Yav", Rosto-on-Don
¶
Dr. Vladimir I. Bodyakin, PhD in physics
and math, Institute of Control Sciense of the Russian Academy of Science, Head
of the project "Informograd" (Informcity), Moscow
Dr. Tatiana Petrova, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental
Protection, Moscow
¶
Valery Petrovich Kochetov, Director of public organisation of
serving in the army "Independente Defence" (On behalf of 17 officers
of the organisation), Vilyuchinsk (town),
Kamchatskaya oblast’
¶
Dr. Elena M. Melikhova, Biophysic, Head
of Laboratory, Nuclear Safety Institute, Russian
Academy of Science, Moscow
¶
Stanislav G. Lebedev, Education and
Social Technologies, Methodologist of Self Developing Living Complex, Moscow
¶
Vladimir Annenkov, Institute of Geography RAS,
Geography, Senior Research Fellow, PhD, convener of E-net of the Russian
Geographical Society (RGS)
¶
Sofia V.Solovieva PhD,
Environmental Economist
¶
Kirill Stepanov, General Director, Non-governmental
Ecological Vernadsky Foundation
¶ Yu.I.Rusinov,
Space Scientist
¶
Yu.K.Ustinov, Russian Federation Cinema Committee, Saint-Petersburg Institute Of Cinema And Television
¶ Prof Alexei
Reteyum, Prof of Ecology, Moscow
State University
of Engineering Ecology
¶ Serge Marakushev,
Biochemist, Russian Academy of Sciences IPCP, Institute of Problems
of Chemical Physics,
France
¶
Emmanuel Asomba, Consultant in
Institutional Strengthening & Organisational Development
Armenia
¶
Liana Mikayelyan, Student, majoring in
Economics, also member of an NGO
¶
Sargayan
Isabella, MA,
Theology
Ethiopia
¶ Tamiru Woubbie
Semunegus, Economist and systems administrator
Cameroon, Central Africa
¶
Prof. John Ngundam, MSc.A. in Electrical Power
Engineering, PhD (University of London) and a DIC (Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine, London) in
Electrical Engineering (Power Systems/Reliability) Université de Yaoundé
Bangladesh
¶
Abdur Rahman, Social Worker, Bangladesh
India
¶ MP Sukumaran Nair
FIE, Chairman of the Institution of Engineers (India)
Cochin Centre and a member of several expert advisory committees to the Central
and State Governments in India. He is listed in the Marquis, Who's Who
in the World and by the International Biographical Centre ,Cambridge, England
¶
G. Rajshekar Reddy, Director, Scarlet Flowers &
Agritech Ltd, Bangalore, India
Indonesia
¶ Tjahjokartiko
Gondokusumo, Civil Engineer, CHP Cooperative, Jakarta, Indonesia
Australia
¶ Dr Helen
Caldicott, MD. Writer, Speaker,
Pediatrician, Activist
¶
Prof. Avni Sali, PhD, Head of Graduate
School of Medicine, Swinburne University
¶
Dr Keith Suter, President of the United Nations
Association (NSW) and President of the Society for International Development
(Sydney Chapter). Consultant on strategic planning and a futurist. He is an
international authority on UN disarmament and peace building
¶ Dr Jager Ellison,
BA NDDN DI NPAA, Co Founder Centre for Change, Nutritionist, Writer, Artist,
Metaphysical Teacher and Counsellor, Feng Shui Expert
¶
Ms Laura A’Bell, Environmentalist, Artist,
Aromatherapist, Web Designer
¶ Ms Christine
Hooper, Promotions and Management, Metaphysics
¶
Ms Kala Saravanamuthu, Division of Business and Enterprise, University
of South Australia
¶ Dr Horst
W.Doelle, D.Sc., D.Sc. [h.c.], Chairman, IOBB
¶
Ron Carroll, Director, R.J. Carroll and Associates
Pty. Ltd.
United Kingdom
¶ Aubrey Meyer, Director, Global Commons Institute
Canada
¶ Dr Desmond Beghofer PhD, Chairman of
the International Foundation of Learning and Co-founder of the Institute for
Ethical Leadership and President of Creative Learning International, author of
Manifesto for the New Millennium
¶
Julia Morton Marr, Founder / President of
International Holistic Tourism Education Centre (IHTEC) and Founder of International School Peace
Gardens
¶ Judyth
Mermelstein, QC, Montreal,
¶
Dr Lucio Munoz PhD, Independent Qualitative
Comparative Researcher/Consultant
United States of America
¶
Dr Deepak Chopra, Chopra Centre for Wellbeing,
Author and Internationally acclaimed physician
¶
Pastor Randall Denton, Vice Chairman Centre for
Change, International Conference Organiser, Spiritual Counsellor,
¶ Dr Ron Ingalsbe
PhD (Metaphysics/Religion), M. Ed., Health Promotion and Wellness Management,
BA (Psych), Community Wellness Consultant, Former Director, Living Well Centre,
State University New York
¶ Brad Bartholemew,
President, Scientists for Population Reduction, Inc.
¶ Sugato Dutt, Indian Forest
Service - Project Tiger
¶
Assoc. Prof. Alexey Voinov,
Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont
Ukraine
¶
Dr. George E. Kanivets, Academician, Professor,
Doctor of Sciences (Technology), President and Founder of the Academy of
Sciences of Technological Cybernetic of Ukraine, President and Founder of the
International Academy of Sciences, Technologies and Engineering, Khar’kov,
¶
Ruslan Synelnykov, Secretary of Youth National
Security Council of Ukraine,
Chief of Youth Information Foundation of Ukraine "ARIY"
Nigeria
¶ Adebayo Adenekan.
The Environmental and Forestry Foundation (TEFF)
Malaysia
¶
Dr. Mohammad Bashir Khan,
Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Management
Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia
DR
MICHAEL ELLIS MBBS MRCP DCH MACNEM NPAA BA (Hons) Dip Grad (Nutr Med)
Dr Ellis is an English trained doctor with over 20 years of general
practice both in the UK and
in Australia.
He has higher qualifications in general medicine and paediatrics. He
has a special interest in mind/body medicine and in optimizing the physical,
mental and emotional health of the.
He is a Research Fellow at the Post Graduate School of Medicine at Swinburne University. He has passed the Graduate Diploma in
Nutritional and Environmental Medicine at Swinburne University. He is a member of the Australia Society
for the Study of Obesity and ASIM and was the head of the Obesity Study and Weight
Loss Trial with a well-known pharmaceutical Company. He is on the Board of The
Australian Integrative Medical Association.
As well as his medical qualifications, Dr Ellis also
has an Honours Degree in Literature, Arts. Philosophy and Social Psychology.
Michael has been practicing Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism for 25 years and teaches
this Buddhism in Melbourne He is the editor of the Australian Nichiren Shoshu
Buddhist Newsletter which is distributed worldwide.
Dr Ellis is a prolific writer and author.
Dr Ellis founded
and convened an international conference – Conference Earth: Humanity and
Planet Earth – 2001 and Beyond. This conference was held at and supported by Melbourne University on 17-19 November 1995 with
400 delegates, 50 workshop leaders and 10 international speakers attracting
national media coverage. This series of Mindquest Conferences is now supported
by the Research Institute “The Centre For Change” founded by Dr Ellis. He convened a Critical Mass seminar on
‘The New Spirituality’ in April 2002 at Swinburne University.
Other speakers included Prof Avni Sali, Dr Bob Phelps, Dr Sarah Crome, Ms Sue
Barton and Dr Desmond Berghofer.
Dr Ellis has a
keen interest in the plight of the ordinary GP and is concerned about creating
a more sustainable future for both doctors and the community. Because of this, he established The
Medical Renaissance Group in Australia
in 2001, which is sponsored by Dr Ian Dettman, Director of Biological
Therapies.
DR
PAVEL KASYANOV. PHD. DIP ENGINEERING (Hons), DOCTOR OF ECO SCE DIP
Dr Kasyanov is President of the Russian
Society for Ecological Economics
(RSEE), former Director of
the Centre for Preparation and Implementation of International Projects on
Technical Assistance (Moscow),
and formerly headed a subdivision at Economic Department of Russian Ministry of
Natural Resources and Environmental Protection.
Dr Kasyanov participated in developing a number of State documents,
including Draft of the State strategy of Sustainable Development (1997), Draft
of the Concept of the State Policy of natural resource use (1997), National
Environmental Action Plan (for Russia) as well as some regional and sectoral
environmental action plans (1997-1999), Decree "On privatization of the
environmentally unfavorable enterprises" (1995). He has over 40
publications on the issues of sustainable development, linkage between
consciousness and the social need structure, environmental economics such as
pollution charges, user fees, taxation; natural resource economics; environmental
management, environmental actions planning. He participated in a number of
international conferences, working groups and projects, organised by OECD, EEC
UN, UNCTAD, UNEP, WB, WWF. In particular he was a co-ordinator (for NIS and CEE counties) of
the UNEP Natural resource valuation Project. (1995 -1997).
Member of the working group "Natural and Other Material Resources
Management" under the Presidential Commission on Powers Sharing between
Federal and Regional Authorities (2001-2002); personal responsibility: reform
of the forest resources management.
Other areas of his interests and activities he participated:
1) Economic issues of the environmental protection and natural
resource: elaborating proposals on the economic
instruments for biodiversity conservation; participation in drafting the
chapter of “The Tax Code” on ecotaxes;
2). Consultant to the WB on developing methodology for selection of
priorities in implementation of measures of the “Revival of the River Volga”
Program (1999-2000)
3) Member of the Baltic testing team for the GIWA (Global International
Waters Assessment) Program of UNEP and GEF (2000).
4).Consultant to the US Agency for
International Development: preparation of the Survey of Environmental
Impacts of Land Privatization In Europe and Eurasia
(May 2002)
5) Environmental impact assessment for Crude Oil Rail/Road Transport in
Uzbekistan (in co-operation
with “Institut Fresenius” (Germany)
(2001)
Dr Kasyanov has a profound interest in cosmology, philosophy, theosophy
and history of the Earth and the Humanity and integrating different scientific
disciplines in a united harmonic system of knowledge on the world.
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