Beshara

Our World, Climate Change, and the challenges of today

Blog

• Richard Twinch: Food for Thought: To GM or not to GM?, February 2009
  Read the blog, post a comment

Articles:

• Nick Yiangou: Pachamama Alliance Symposium: "Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream"
• Dr Niels Detert: Unified Vision, Unified World?
  MIAS Symposium 2007
• Dr Michael Shallis: Climate Change: where we are now

Further reading:

• Al Gore: Rise
  Extract from an interview in VanityFair
• Prof Jeffrey Sachs: Bursting at the Seams
  Reith Lectures 2007; read them on the BBC4 website

In the Face of War

• Peter Young: Letter to a war zone
  
• Narda Dalgleish: Oh, Ahmad
• Letter to the U.N.: In Service of Unity

Further reading:

• Libby Purves: One mother’s answer to terror Interview with Narda Dalgleish; The Times 15/06/07

Education

• Peter Young: An Education for the Heart

Further reading:

• Prof B J McGettrick: Transforming School Ethos
  Bristol Univ. UK, 2002

Talks

• Ethical Economy – the generosity of giving, A talk by Giles Chitty, given at the Beshara School at Chisholme, February 2009. Giles co-founded The Financial Initiative Ltd, the first UK ethical financial institution, in 1984 and Barchester Green Investment, the first green IFA, in 1989. During his career he has advised the Indonesian Minister of Finance on public enterprise planning and management, and has been a Trustee of the Findhorn Foundation. Giles will be a speaker at the Symposium 2009 to be held at Chisholme in September. (mp3 file: 12mb)
• Gill Bolt Taylor: What happens when your brain shuts down?
  Astonishing insights into the workings of the mind.
• Alan Williams: Open-Heart Surgery, Chisholme 2007
  This talk explores the genius of Rumi and the transformative power of his verse.
  Listen to the audio (mp3: 13.3MB, 57'59) >

Reviews

• The 11th Hour
  N. Dalgleish: The 11th Hour
  A 2007 documentary created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.