Learning, culture and communication for a sustainable future

Global Vision Consulting Ltd creates situations, events and media products designed to catalyse the global transition to sustainability. Founded in 2003 by Michael O'Callaghan, we produce our own projects and also provide trans-disciplinary advice, networking and strategy co-ordination for governmental, business and civil society clients seeking to know the people, paradigms, resources, technology and information to implement solutions.

We are based near Laragh in the Wicklow mountains, Ireland.

We also manage the Global Vision Project launched in 1982 by Michael O'Callaghan under the aegis of Global Vision Corporation, a Non Governmental Organisation accredited to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Originally based in New York City, this NGO is now in the process of relocation to Europe and will soon have a separate section on this web site.

philosophy

The prerequisite for a sustainable future is prior agreement on the goal. Our strategic, whole systems, self-organising, trans- disciplinary approach to the global crisis is designed to bridge the information gap which often prevents individuals and organisations from collaboration to implement solutions that work.

We see the institutions through which human societies manage their collective concerns as the nervous system of the global body politic, and are convinced that individual common sense is the greatest untapped resource on the planet.

We are especially interested in the pattern that connects the world sitation to one's own way of seeing it. More

resources

trans-disciplinary knowledge of global solutions based on 38 years of engagement in the transition to sustainability.

world-wide network of leading thinkers, experts, campaigners, UN agencies, Non Governmental and Civil Society Organisations, universities, think tanks, institutes, and socially responsible corporations around the world. More

convivial space for meetings, conferences, seminars and workshops in our future base at the secluded Castello di Cennina in Tuscany, Italy. 1hr from Florence airport, on-site accomodation for 35 - 50, slow food, ideal for multi-stakeholder group work. More

recruitment

We are seeking a motivated multi-talented co-ordinator for the GM-free Ireland campaign. More.

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projects in production

GM-free Ireland: Global Vision co-ordinates the GM-free Ireland Network which we founded in 2004 as a multi-stakeholder coalition to keep the island of Ireland free of genetically modified (GM) seeds, crops, trees, fish, livestock, animal feed and food. The network has grown to include the largest number and broadest diversity of stakeholders groups of any NGO on the island, with 130 organisational members and 19 local authorities representing over 1 million citizens. Following our public awareness and lobbying campaign, the Irish Government reversed its previous pro-GM stance in 2007 by announcing its new policy to "seek to negotiate to declare the island of Ireland as a GMO-free zone". A year later, however, no legislation has been passed to implement this goal. Website: www.gmfreeireland.org

Castello di Cennina: We are preparing to set up an international centre of learning, culture and communication for a sustainable future located at our future base in a beautiful 12th century castle and village in Tuscany, Italy. We have completed the business plan and a 3-D model of final architectural renovations, and are seeking philanthropic support of €6m to launch the centre in 2010.

Be The Change! a TV documentary about 1,000 teenagers from around the world who took part in Peace Child International's World Youth Congress and 100 sustainable development action projects in Morocco in 2003. Peace Child is a youth-led network of 500 groups of teenagers in 150 countries who take responsibility for peace, human rights and the environment through education, leadership development and direct participation in the events that shape our world. Now in post-production.

Ecology of Mind: a documentary film about the emerging global civil society consensus for a sustainable future, seen through the eyes of NGO leaders from around the world at the Rio+10 conference (United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development) in Johannesburg in 1992. See interview transcripts and videos. Now in post-production.

projects in development

Sustainability: the best investment: a multi-media educational package conceived as the world's first global curriculum on solutions to world problems, aimed at the global teenager. This project is co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, UNEP, UNFPA, WHO and UNESCO. Includes a 54-minute documentary film and 20 TV spots with a celebrity line-up of world leaders and stars from the movie, music and fashion industries; 13 x 12-min. videos; a DVD; a 240-page book and an interactive web site.

Sustainable City: a GIS (geographic information systems) software application for any town or city to see itself as a whole system, measure its ecological footprint, carry out scenario planning, and manage its transition to sustainability.

Image Resonance: a revolutionary music-driven film- and video-editing software application to create a new genre of cinema isomorphic with the way the mind thinks.

Green Ireland: A multi-stakeholder network co-ordinated by trained local community organisers to implement a Local Agenda 21 participatory planning approach to sustainable development, using open source web-based ecosocial modelling for citizens to take responsibility for their community's transition to a sustainable future.

Imagine Peace: a trans-disciplinary seminar for young people from conflict zones to meet with leading thinkers for in-depth exploration and creative thinking to launch projects to help create peace in war-torn areas.

Population Explosion: an information-art electronic time-sculpture displaying the past 500 years of human population growth on a Dymaxion world map in a repeating 60-second cycle. Bronze, microchip, light-emitting diodes, data, and one minute of your time.

Global Vision: an impressionistic documentary musical feature film designed by its own audience as a Collective Self-Portrait of Humankind and the Biosphere - a concept without precedent in art or motion picture history.

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Aarhus Convention

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autopoiesis

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bioregional planning

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biosafety

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civil society

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climate change

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conflict resolution

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community organising

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corporate responsibility

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cybernetics

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direct democracy

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ecological footprint analysis

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economic localisation

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embodied mind

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emergent properties

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gender equality

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global governance

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GMO-free zones

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high performance architecture

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human potential

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hydrogen transition

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local currencies

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media accountability

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nanotechnology

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networking

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non-violence

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organic farming

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open space discussion

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open source technology

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paradigm shift

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participatory plannning

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pattern recognition

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peak oil

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power down

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pluralism

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preventive medicine

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redefining security

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renewable energy

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resource efficiency

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rights and responsibilities

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right livelihood

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slow food

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socially responsible investment

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solidarity

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strategy coordination

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sustainable agriculture

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sustainable cities

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synergy

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transition initiatives

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transpersonal psychology

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United Nations

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whole systems

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youth-led education

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zero waste

clients

An Taisce / National Trust for Ireland • European Parliament Independence / Democracy Group • Government of Ireland • Greenpeace International • IMCOPA • Irish Cattle and Sheepfarmers Association • Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association • JOL - Global Park Qatar

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