Special Blue Marble Book Club Webinar – Transformation: What It Means, Why It Matters

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The Blue Marble Evaluation book club sponsored a special webinar on Chapter 3 of the book, which focuses on the Transformation Engagement Principle.  In this webinar, distinguished philosopher Elizabeth Minnich joined Michael Quinn Patton for a dialogue about the nature and meaning of transformation. She is the author of Transforming Knowledge.  She and Michael co-edited a book last year entitled THOUGHT WORK: […]

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Bioregioning: Ancient wisdom that has come of age

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Click here to watch a recording of this webinar. Presenters: Isabel Carlisle & Eduard Mueller Hosted by Glenn Page & Michael Quinn Patton Future resilience of our communities across the globe is a whole-systems challenge in the face of whole systems change (climate change being one of those lead systems). This webinar focused on two scales of transformation,

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A Guest Post from Elena Bonometti following our Conversation with Tostan

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Founded in 1991, Tostan is best known for its outstanding contributions to the movement for the abandonment of female genital cutting and child marriage in Africa. Tostan is widely recognized as a leader in building community well-being grounded in human rights. Tostan realizes its mission of empowering African communities to bring about sustainable development and

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Igniting and Sustaining Community-led Transformation: Tostan’s Proven Approach

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This webinar is now complete. Please click here to access a recording. Ms. Bonometti has also written a follow-up blog post answering some of the questions posed during this webinar. Click here to read that post. For this webinar, we will be joined by Tostan CEO Elena Bonometti to learn how a grassroots, human-rights based nonformal education program has sparked deeply transformational social

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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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UNDRIP is the most comprehensive international instrument on the rights of indigenous peoples. It establishes a universal framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world and it elaborates on existing human rights standards and fundamental freedoms as they apply to the specific situation of indigenous peoples.

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Transforming Food Systems with Beacons of Hope

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Summary: Around the world, an extensive network of people and initiatives are transforming food systems. Beacons of Hope: Accelerating Food Systems Transformation is a project by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food that aims to amplify the power and potential of transforming food systems to address critical global issues such as climate change, biodiversity, equity,

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Perspectives on Precedents: Viewing 2020 in a Larger Historical, Cultural, and Political Context

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Kim van der Woerd and Michael Quinn Patton worked together in 2016 as part of a team that created the Evaluation for Social Change and Transformational Learning Program at Simon Fraser University. This interactive blog illustrates and updates the kinds of conversations that framed the generation of that program MQP: This is the time of year when

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Nature as a Stakeholder – A love story

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From our Gulf of Maine Blue Marble Hub in Portland Maine, we have a Love Story about Nature. In today’s world, the dominant worldview is one where humans have control over nature. What if our love for the abundance that nature provides can be translated as legal status as a living being, not a bundle of

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Blue Marble Evaluation First Anniversary

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Click here to watch a recording of our one-year anniversary sunrise ceremony, featuring a prayer for our Earth by Nicole Bowman and contributions and stories from members from around the globe. Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 5: Transboundary Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL, Principle 12: Skin-in-the-Game

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