1. Input statement for theOpen Forum Open-SpacePitchingSection: The Need for Synthesis, Synopsis and Shared Actionin view of the outcomes of 20+ years ofGlobal Changeexercises: Challenges, Orientations, Lessons Learned, and the need forParticipation Opportunities and Options HeinerBenking Journalist, long-time experience with global issues, event planning, strategy advising Secretary of theCouncil of Global Issuesand theTagore-Einstein Council Vegetarianism : Essential to SavethePlanet? Sunday, Dec 13th, Copenhagen UNFCCC COP 15

2. Vegetarianism : Essential to SavethePlanet? Sunday, Dec 13th, Copenhagen UNFCCC COP 15 PLEASE NOTE: This slides are a resource prepared for the CopenVegan side-event and further events which took place in Copenhagen in December 2009 Each slide will be explained in a tour presently under construction. Please wait for a week or more.. Deadline, Jan 1 st ,2010 The lecture, as a whole or in sections will be available at this website: http://copenvegan.com/the-presentations/heinerbenking /andhttp://weturn.org/CopenVegan-Alliance-site-event-COP15/ 3. Ashok Khosla ,Founder DevelopmentAlternatives, Canada India Founder, India's Office ofEnvironmental Planning&Coordination President , IUCN Co-President , Club ofRome World Future Council .. 4. How to explain Copenhagen to a comedian Memo to Eugene Mirman http://www.grist.org/article/2009-12-03-how-to-explain-copenhagen-to-a-comedian Photo illustration / iStock imagesComedianEugeneMirmanisgoing to Copenhagen for Gristto cover the international climate talks. Eugene is a fairly well-informed guy (he at least scans Google News looking for reviews of hislatest album ), but hes the first to admit that he doesnt live, eat, and smoke climate policy. At his request, the Grist staff threw together a basic cheat sheet on Copenhagen. Its overly simplistic. It avoids lots of important details. Its probably offensive. In short, its just enough to help Eugene feign cluefulness when hes accosting world leaders in Denmark. 5. Watch your metaphors and models ! More:OverclaimsandOversimplifications1997& Sharing and Changing Realities:Landscape1997GeoEcoDynamics1988 & KnowmapSpacialvs.Spatial 2001 &Access and Assimilation 1992 andGeo-Object Coding 1988 (GeoJournal) &Spatial Metaphors1994 (Benking/Judge) GEOSCIENCESexhibition- AWS1991 &UN YEAR oftheMountains:Bridgesfora WorldDivided 2002Source:USGCRP report 2000 Source:BIOLOG, page 12 Biodiversity and Global Change www.pt-dlr.de , Nov 2003 6.

The greatest single achievement of science

in this most scientifically productive of centuries

is the discovery that we are profoundly ignorant;

we know very little about nature

and understand even less.

Lewis Thomas

We will later show some blind spots-not only in Soils, Oceans, Athmosphere, Social/Cultural/Ecological/Human Systems, but their interaction.... 7. Dimensions of Globalisation SOCIAL POLITICS COMMUNICATION ECONOMY ECOLOGY CULTURE 8. We lost1Decade ? NO !! we lost > 4 Decades !! WHY ? 9. Copenhagen Consensus 2008 population,climate change peak oil? 10. "Values in Isolation are like facts in isolation,they are meaningless ! The facts alone are meaningless.Only when they appearat the end of a destructive chaindo they take on richness, perspective, and significance. Henry Margenau, OPEN VISTAS 11. BBK- Berliner Bibliotheks-wissenschaftlichesKolloqium25. Mai 2004 Introducing the 2ndedition of theInternationalEncyclopaediaof Systems andCybernetics Charles Franois, Heiner Benking PLEASE VISIT:http://www.open-forum.de/encyclopedia-pragmatics / http://benking.de/systems/encyclopedia/concepts-and-models.htm 12. THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIAOF SYSTEMS AND CYBERNETICS SECOND EDITION Charles Franois (editor),KG Saur, Mnchen, 2004 Updated and augmented in more than 740 pages,1700articles,some of them with figures, tables and diagrams,and1500bibliographical references. Please see these presentations at the introduction of the 2 ndEdition:Maybe start with slide # 3.Charles Franois andthe need for another language and the work on aCognitivePanorama andCognitive Spaces for multi-perspective orientation in the Encyclopedia and aGlobalEmbodied Covenant to share positions, perspectives, and mind-sets, and what this means formodern media,sign systems andsystemic ,holistic thinking . 13. http://www.diversitas.org/db/x.php Vol.1:World Problems(1976-1995).Vol.2:Human Potential: Transformation andValues(1976-1995).Vol.3:Actions-Strategies- Solutions(1995).http://www.uia.org/encyclopedia/encd.php UIA Online Databases 14. Global Sharing and Coping Starting Points HARMONIZATION The first and most central entry points have been around a G7 and SRU German Environmental experts initiative which was taken up by the UN- Environment ProgrammeUNEP - HEM. GLOBAL CHANGE The other started with the GLOBAL CHANGE conference 1988 in Moskow.Germany and other countries had been invited to present Challenges to Science and Politics in form of Conferences and Exhibitions. As I was invited to contribute I had to think anew on how such complex Issues could be communicated to the broader public, raising awareness and consciousness, and being correct and helpful for scientists, politicians, and industry at the same time. I go public now1998 as after having this touring exhibition 8 years in Germany, but never been shown outside Germany, and being updated and in high demand, there is high danger of losing this piece and milestone.Politics look east and local when the exhibition was opened in May 1990. The result we have no public eye and information about the exhibition, its scope and results.As this is fatal in my view, I fee I have to change and address that. I could have also called this UIA guest pageGLOBAL CHANGEorLOCALAND GLOBAL CHANGE - asmy work started about globalenvironmental issues in 1988 with such wide and universal themes. Only because I was involved in two or more projects at that time, and have a certain background which was about preparing and documenting decisions and presenting results, I was able to make the bridge, combine what normally is not seen as one - or in one solution. As both project concepts are not only of wider interest and unique in their approach, specially in their time we are proposing here to follow each background independently and then join in again the flow of events. 15.

See some more recommended links::

HARMONIZATION , Information about Information,not meta-data ,but meta-information , andAccess andAssimilation/Understanding .1989-1992

ICSU-CODATA 1992&95 & 2005 see Bridges and a Masterplan,

NAS NRC 1993

WORLDBANK WPCand this BLOGoverviewlink .

GRAND CHALLENGES TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

POLITICS AND LIFE SCIENCES IS HUMANITYDestined ? ShoworSchau?

THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION

UN AMR 2008

16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. SOILS and HUMUSsee this new FILM (2009)Humus - Forgotten climate aid-The implications are immense, see also the Ignorance statement in the beginning of this presentation,BioCharandTerraPreta . and another You Tube clipBiochar-agrichar- TerraPreta See alsoAquaterraandWFC report. 22.

[more]:New Renaissance 3 ,UN COP15 UNFCCC side events Copenhagen 2009 ,Continuously updated this Blog:www.quergeist.info

BreakingDown New Walls 10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates ,Berlin,November, 9-11 2009 Third session:Walls of menace to the Environment Breaking down the walls that constrain environmental and sustainable development prospects). [ Audio and Video ] NewScience, new Language, new Thinking ? HOW ABOUT?OLD and proven, traditional and NEWThinking and Doing and Sharing ? 23. Konrad Lorenz Institute forEvolution andCognitionResearch Altenberg Workshops 1996/97 30. January 1997, Austria,Worldview Compositions and Cognitive Spaces- a necessary evolutionary stepby Heiner Benking Source:Limits to Growth ,Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers& William W. Behrens III ,Potomac Associates, New York (1972) pls. see alsoTheClub ofRome-The PredicamentofMankind ,1970 Subtitle of Fig 1:Although the perspectives of the world's people vary in space and time, every human concern falls somewhere on the space time graph.The majority of the world's people are concernedwith matters that effect only family or friendsover a short period of time.Others look far ahead in time or over a large area - a city or a nation. Only few people havea perspective that extends far into the future. * Later we can read in the book: that in contrast to the majorities focus in the quadrant in the lower left box, the book concerns itself with the upperright quadrant or box. 24. Konrad Lorenz Institute forEvolution andCognitionResearch Altenberg Workshops 1996/97 30. January 1997, Austria,Worldview Compositions and Cognitive Spaces- a necessary evolutionary stepby Heiner Benking Interactive relations among hierarchically ordered subsystemsof an organism, Inscribed Domains, P. Weiss,In: Beyond reductionism, Alpbach 1968, pls. see more:IFSR-ISSS 25. The Need for a Paradigm Shift

The step from Environmental Protection (Rio) to Sustainable Development (Johannesburg) impliesa threefold shift of perspective, or paradigm shift:

From sectorial thinking to systems thinking

From deficit/problem to resource

From knowledge to competence

Dr. Ueli Nagel, Zurich University of Teacher Education 26. Copenhagen Consensus 2008 population,climate change peak oil? 27. "Values in Isolation are like facts in isolation,they are meaningless ! The facts alone are meaningless.Only when they appearat the end of a destructive chaindo they take on richness, perspective, and significance. Henry Margenau, OPEN VISTAS 28. see the full interview with annotations, links, and references at:http :// 21stcenturyagoras.org 29. Quest for Structured Response tp Growing World-wide Complexities and Uncertainties 1970 A PROPOSAL The Club of Rome-The Predicament of MankindEarly beginnings 1968- 1970 30. 31. Documents relating to Polarization, Dilemmas and Duality,by Anthony Judge http://www.un-intelligible.org/projects/transfor/a11aa.php 1972http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/globgov.php#exc 2008 32.

To create knowledge in a spirit of openness to the world, integrating new perspectives

To think and act in a forward looking manner

To acquire knowledge and act in an interdisciplinary manner

To be able to plan and act in cooperation with others

To be able to participate in decision-making processes

To be able to motivate others to become active

To be able to reflect upon ones own principles and those of others

To be able to plan and act autonomously

To be able to show empathy for and solidarity with the disadvantaged

To be able to motivate oneself to become active

Gestalt(ungs) Competences Education forSustainable Development 33. Gestaltungskompetenz 1 & 7 To create knowledge in a spirit of openness to the world, integrating new perspectives 1. 7. To be able to reflect upon ones own principles and those of others 34. Kurt Hanks ,OUT OF THE BOX THINKING see:Creating aDrivingVision (PDF) andGettingout of THE BOX 35. Kurt Hanks ,OUT OF THE BOX THINKING 36. Kurt Hanks ,PARADIGM MAPPING http://hanksconsulting.com/page10.html 37. Kurt Hanks ,PARADIGM MAPPING 38. Thinking/Reasoning learning room in En l ightenmentPedagogics DENK-LEHRRAUM der Aufklrungspdagogik ! Ecological TheologyandEnvironmental Ethics 39. GLOBAL LEARN DAYWELCOMETO EUROPE

real spaces

perceptual

__________________________________

concept spaces

conceptual

http://www.meta-self.com

http://ceptualinstitute/genre/

benking/borderland.htm

Why not think the thing deep,take space real and serious, enjoy and play in spaces, make spaces places which can help making sense,and ease understanding ? Sharing & bridging realities 40. Ecological TheologyandEnvironmental Ethics OttoSchrli drawing with me the flow of information across order schemas and how meaning connects across sign and media systems and what this could mean for our communication and shared awareness/consciousness. 41. Global Sharing and Coping Connecting Worlds, Scales, Media, & Forms/Structures 42.

[more]:New Renaissance 3 ,UN COP15 UNFCCC side events Copenhagen 2009 ,Continuously updated this Blog:www.quergeist.info

BreakingDown New Walls 10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates ,Berlin,November, 9-11 2009 Third session:Walls of menace to the Environment Breaking down the walls that constrain environmental and sustainable development prospects). [ Audio and Video ] NewScience, new Language, new Thinking ? HOW ABOUT?OLD and proven, traditional and NEWThinking and Doing and Sharing ? 43. Whoever imaginesmental deep permeable barrierswhich actually do not exist and then thinks them away,has understood the world. As space is entrappedin geometry's network of lines,thought is caught in its (own) inherent laws.Maps make the world comprehensible to us;we are still waiting forthe star-maps of the spirit.In the same way than ambling through fieldswe risk getting lost,the spirit negotiates its terrain. Friedrich Rckert,Wisdom of the Brahmins, a didactic poem,Charles T. Brooks in 1882 above is unfortunately only a clumsy first translation by Robinson/Benkingas we could only get hold of the original German version. this is a critical translation issue:WALLS & BOUNDARIESare man-made They have no equivalent in Nature. The term Schranken therefore can be translatedas restraining bounds, or semiphors, barriers & temporary permeable or translucent / transparent material/strata/membranes/transition zones). Friedrich Rckert Die Weisheit des Brahmanen,ein Lehrgedicht in Bruchstcken Werke, Band 2, Leipzig und Wien [1897], S. 50-51.BreakingDown New Walls 10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates ,Berlin,November, 9-11 2009 Interview,Panel-Discussion , . 44.

How about that for a beginning?

Elinor Ostrom , Economy and Political Sciences,Nobel Prize Lecture, Dec, 8., 2009

More:

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action Ostrom, Elinor, Cambridge University Press, 1990

Understanding Institutional Diversity Ostrom, Elinor, Princeton, Princeton University Press.2005.

Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice Ostrom, Elinor and Hess, Charlotte, Editors, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006

BreakingDown New Walls 10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates ,Berlin,November, 9-11 2009

multi-perspective

multi-positional and multi-centric

mix of scales

nested

meta-data analysis research included

diversity of rules and systems

coping with dilemmas

multi-level

not chaotic but complex

common pool resources and sets

common analytical tools and language

common and diverse regimes

across scales

communication and agent-based models

clarifying concepts, trust and reputation

.

45. FOOT PRINTHAND PRINTMIND PRINT 46. Global Ecological Integrity, Human Rights, and Human Responsibilities: Intersections Between International Law and Public Health, 2003, June 27- July 1,& Open Space,TheEarth Charter in Action,June26- 30,Urbino ,Italy Ecological Integrity, Democracy, Governance, and Education: THE NEED and A WORK-REPORT towards an embodied Covenant Heiner Benking Independent Futurist and Facilitator 47. 48. http://21stcenturyagora.org /http:// www.globalagoras.org /

Co-Laboratories of Democracy

How Co-Laboratories

Of Democracy Work

Problematic Situation

Discover root causes;

Adopt consensual action plans:

Develop teams dedicated toimplementing those plans,

Generate lasting bonds ofrespect, trust, and cooperation.

49. Possible elements for a more tangible, practical, and feasible shared Global Learning

Elements needed for a different ways of

(GLOBAL) learning and shared action and consensus building

PRE-REQUISIT:Space(tangible=dimensionality and immersion) in multi-dimensional multi-sectorialrealms

• MODEL THINKING: (also making use of cognitive spaces).

MAPS and (mental) MODELS to provide collectively explorable tangible spaces for multi-media and sign integration, multi-modal thinkingand shared cognitive models, see super-signs and meta-models. See, Systems and Model (tangible pragmatics,Culture vs. Cyberculture.

• OUTLINE (CONTEXT) -boundsand PATTERN -matchingthinking on different levels of details or granularity.See Global Covenant and generalcomparative studies

• DIALOG & DECISION CULTURE

see also extended version of the bullets above

and aGLOSSAR indispensable for immersing into the approaches presented

50. My Topic My Concern My Offer to the Group: SPEAKERor PITCHER:NAMEParticipants:Vegetarianism:Essential to Save the Planet? Dec. 13th, 2009 Open Forum Open Space Veg Climate AllianceCopenhagen Workshop 51. Why Democratic Dialogue?

Motivations (just a few):

Increasing complexity & globalization of issues

Increasing interconnectedness (systems thinking)

• e.g.Global warming as asymptom :How do we reach agreement on root causes for action?

Need for citizen participation in public institutions

Weakness of citizens vs. corporations in civil issues

• Not knowing how to make themostdifference

Breakdown of media communications, distrust

52. How we Dialogue

Socratic Dialogue

Gadamers hermeneutic dialogue

Habermas Communicative Action

Bohms collective meaning

Bakhtins dialogical imagination

Freires dialogue in education & social action

Facilitated dialogue, Art of Hosting

Talking Stick World Cafe

Structured Dialogue Dialogic Design

Magic Roundtables

53. TOPIC1 Re-inventing Democracy with generative and disciplined transdisciplinary intergenerational interculturalDialogues and Conversations http://open-forum.de/open-space-open-forum.html http://www.benking.de/open-forum/events/NeuesEuropa.html http://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/loversofdemocracy / http://open-forum.de/Dialogue_and_DecisionCulture.html http://www.benking.de/dialog/dialog-among-civilizations.htm 54. HUBSustainabilityWe ek 2009 http:// hubberlin.wordpress.com / http://berlin.the-hub.net The Hub Berlin a space for people with good ideas for the world. http://benking.de/open-forum/OF_Background_paper_4.htm http://benking.de/open-forum/OF_Backgroundpapers / The graph and some links were developed around the Leadership Development Dialog and Diversity site and initiative from the late 90ies:http://open-forum.de/guide2dialog-VUMC--1999.htm So let us check below some hurdles and barriers we have to address which prevent us from reaching the objectives of : Suspend Certainty Seek to Expand the Questions Grow Ideas Rather Than Take a Position Listen to Your Listening Be Open Rather Than Attaching to Outcomes 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. Getting the Whole System in the Room for convergence and action. Bertalanffys 100th 61. UN ECOSOC- AMR 2008:http://www.quergeist.net/AMR-2008/ http://www.un.org/ecosoc/newfunct/Responses_in_Full-Part_I.pdf N) Proposal forAnna- Lindh -Foundation , European Mediteranian Countries, Berlin-Alexandria 2008.TransculturalDialog and Peace-Making Roundtable learning from experience during the last 40 years and new ideas Stumbling blocks preventing true dialog, peace-making, and reconciliation: 1)we fight over words but do not check the meaning, 2)we do not question and compare the values attached to statements and attitudes,3)we do not contextualize and embody concepts and meaning, do not check the sectors, regions, scales, proportions and consequences of alternative actions,4)we do not give voice, empower, listen, cherish and cultivate difference or variety in dialog and decision making,5)Disorientation and dumbing-down in Cyberculture and a mis-administered and misunderstood, intangible Globalisation /Glocalisation : Where we get overloaded by communication noise (sign/symbol melange) and media demagogy which means: no trust and fidelity in the statements and no ways and means to check the credibility and impact/relevance, and get lost between the scales, brackets, and sectors. 6)The above incompatibility and incomparability opens the door for over-claims and oversimplifications. Leaders use intangible jargon (plastic-words), neglect impacts and avoid instead of exploring differences and alternatives. e DISCUSSION ON ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT "Implementing the internationallyagreed goals and commitmentsin regard to sustainable development" . 62. 63. BE PREPAREDTO BE SURPRISED Open-ForumOpen-Space 64. Vegetarianism: Essential to Save the Planet? TWITTER UN-COP 15 CopenVegan,Dec. 13, 2009 This "Pitch of 10 Minutes to open the "Magic-Roundtable Open-Space section of the event, was designed to focus on what has been going on around Environmental Research and Management and Capacity Building during the last 40 years. The "Pitch is an invitation to go beyond the "winning argument of other lifestyles, diets, greater compassion towards all living things; reduction of suffering; and urges concerted action in all sectors. Itargues that contributions towards caring for the soils, the water, healthy environment, energy efficiency and life-cycle thinking are a must in order to attain the objective of peaceful survival of living thing which is only possible by caring for the whole Creation on this planet. Mapping out our reach for and sharing of common grounds and insisting on the credibility of the whole proces in a workable and repeatable participative deliberation processis seen as an essential first step towardsshared( embodied )covenantswhich give room for coexistence ofoikos ,ecumene ,ecudomyand not just the juxtaposition of economy and ecology. Needed is aNew Renaissance . Concretion and embodiment in times of Global Change. Please check theother presentations , follow the links, check thisBlog , start the discussion or write an E-Mail to[email_address] THANK YOU ! Open-Forum MogensDahlKoncertsal