what's new on this website This website is currently being redesigned. Much of the content of our old web site has still not been added. Please bear with us while we reformat and upload new pages.
2 June 2010:
The Adviser News section of this website contains a new link to a speech by Prof. Bill Rees entitled Is humanity unsustainable? in Vancouver, Canada in April 2010, in which he discusses the scientific consensus on the coming global eco-social catastrophe, human intelligence, memes, and the need for planned contraction and convergence of the economy to save the biosphere on which our survival depends - listen here: www.ecoshock.net/eshock10/ES_100528_Show_LoFi.mp3
1 June 2010:
New page about Francisco Varela, a brilliant neurobiologist whose theory of Autopoiesis deeply influenced the design of the Global Vision project. Includes references to his books and papers, and a new obituary by Eleanor Rosch.
29 May 2010:
Changing Images of Man: download here (268 pages, 4.1MB PDF). This highly recommended seminal book was co-authored by Joseph Campbell, Duane Elgin, Willis Harman, Arthur Hastings, O.W. Markley, Floyd Matson, Brendan O'Regan and Leslie Schneider, Centre for the Study of Social Policy, SRI International. Pergamon Press, 1982. This is a slightly updated version of Changing Images of Man, Research Report No.4, issued by SRI International, which was then known as Stanford Research Institute, in 1974.
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