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The Next System Project: Creating a Society We'd Like Now and for the Future
The Next System Project
What is required to deal with the systemic challenges facing us now and in coming decades? The Next System Project is debating this concept and more, putting the central idea of system change, and the idea that there can be a “next system,” on the map. Working with a broad group of researchers, theorists and activists, they are launching a national debate on the nature of “the next system" to refine and publicize alternative models to the failed systems of the past. Their goal? To move the political conversation beyond current limits with the aim of visualizing a radically different system for the future.
The Next System Project’s national launch webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, May 20th at 3 p.m. EST.
Register today.
The “Next System Project: New Political-Economic Possibilities for the Twenty First Century” report [pdf] is available.
Download the report today.
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Our Children's Trust
Our Children's Trust | Public Trust Doctrine
Frustrated by the slow pace of progress on climate change policy, an Oregon-based environmental group is using the Public Trust Doctrine to try to force governments to take action. The movement, spearheaded by Our Children’s Trust, is being led by those with the highest stakes in the game—the young people who will inherit an uncertain world. Support their efforts and share this story with your networks. Growing public awareness will support bold judicial action!
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UN Atlas of the Oceans
UN Atlas of the Oceans
News from W2O's original partner, the UN Atlas of the Oceans. Each month they provide information on recent discoveries, new publications, and ocean-related news and events. Not a member? Join today.
The UN Atlas of the Oceans is an Internet portal providing information relevant to the sustainable development of the oceans. It is designed for policy-makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues and for scientists, students and resource managers who need access to databases and approaches to sustainability. The UN Atlas can also provide the ocean industry and stakeholders with pertinent information on ocean matters.
In this month's newsletter you'll learn about:
< The Race Against Ocean Plastic:
         A Sailing Expedition to Inventory Pollution
< 50 Years of Tsunami Warning in the Pacific:
< What Do You Call a Group of Cuttlefish, Anyway?
< Vanuatu:
          Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Recovery
< Chasing Whale Sounds in New Zealand
< Good News for the Pitcairn Islands

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Blue Vision Summit
Blue Vision Summit
May 11 - 14, 2015
Next Week: W20 Director Peter Neill will present with a panel of experts at the Blue Vision Summit in Washington D.C. Register Today.

How to Tell Your Story Workshop
Tuesday May 12, 2015
This workshop will offer guidance to more effectively communicate blue issues through use of film, video, social media, and interactions with mainstream media.
 
Nature's Trust, Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age
by Mary Christina Wood (November 2013, Cambridge University Press)

Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age offers a fresh and astonishing contribution to the discussion of the system of law. Professor Wood asks two fundamental questions about environmental law:
1. Does the field of law work to keep society in compliance with Nature’s own laws? and
2. Can it be effective in confirming the ecologic challenges now coming at us at horrifying speed?

World Ocean Radio
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This month's World Ocean Radio was devoted to a series on designing an enduring plan for the future to protect natural resources such as water, wildlife, and air beyond the challenging circumstances of the 21st century.
World Ocean Radio: Nature's Trust, IV
Nature's Trust, Part 4
About this episode: In this fourth and final episode in the "Nature's Trust" series we highlight two citizens' lawsuits filed against governments for failing to protect the legal right to a healthy atmosphere and a stable climate, using the legal principle of the Public Trust Doctrine to assert that governments are required by law to protect and maintain natural resources for future generations. (See Our Children's Trust in the feature at left.)
 
World Ocean Radio: Nature's Trust, III
Nature's Trust, Part 3
About this episode: Do natural systems belong to the public or do they belong to corporate and private interests? Do corporate entities have an obligation to sustain resources for the ongoing benefit of the public or can they be exploited to exhaustion? In this episode of World Ocean Radio we discuss the conflict of ownership and control of our natural resources, and continue the discussion of University of Oregon Law Professor Mary Christina Wood’s “Nature’s Trust” and the public trust doctrine.
 
World Ocean Radio: Nature's Trust II
Nature's Trust, Part 2
About this episode: The “Planning with Water” series continues this week with discussion of the current water crisis in Brazil. In this episode we ask, “What does it mean when we don’t plan with water?” and uses São Paolo, Brazil as an example of a mega-city in the midst of a critical water crisis, how the situation has developed over time, and what they and the rest of the world will be required to do to meet the global challenge.
 

World Ocean Radio: Nature's Trust, Part 1
      
Nature's Trust, Part 1
About this episode: How do we organize a civilized response to the needs of a new age? What do we want and how can we achieve it in a democratic society based on the rule of law? In this episode of World Ocean Radio we attempt to answer these questions and more.

World Ocean Radio Global
World Ocean Radio provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of brief audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by college and community radio stations worldwide. World Ocean Radio Has Gone Global: a selection of episodes is now available in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Swahili, and Mandarin. More info.
 
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