Mois : avril 2010

Tanner Humanities Center

University of UTAH / College of Humanities

  • The Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center fosters innovative humanistic inquiry and scholarship. The Center’s public programs create opportunity for lively dialogue among scholars, students, and citizens on issues (from ancient to contemporary) pertaining to human condition.
  • Founded in 1988 in the College of Humanities as the University of Utah Humanities Center, the Center was endowed and renamed in 1995 through a generous gift from the family foundation of Obert C. Tanner, renowned entrepreneur, philanthropist, and late professor emeritus of philosophy.
  • … (full text about the Center).

Homepage;
Research support; Humanities Fellowship; Tanner Lectures on Human Values; Events; Calendar; Programs Interdisciplinary Studies;
Address: University Information Technology, 101 Wasatch Dr. #201, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA;
map; Contacts for Researche Interest Database.

About the Tanners: … As a boy, Tanner learned habits of hard work on his uncle’s farm, on railroad and construction crews, and in a lonely season herding sheep for his father in the Canadian Rockies. Continuer la lecture de « Tanner Humanities Center »

World Wide Web Virtual Library

This website has only one long page, full of links.

The page is maintained by the Center for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment, located at Université Libre de Bruxelles.
If you know of additional sources of information that would be appropriate for this page, or would like to maintain a specialty library, please leave a message.

  • Description: A comprehensive list of internet sites dealing with sustainable development, including organisations, projects and activities, electronic journals, libraries, references and documents, databases, directories or metadatabases;
  • keywords: sustainable development, index, environment, development, resources, internet, world wide web, sites, WWW, durable, sustainability, Virtual Library, ecological economics. (Last update: 29 July 2009).
  • … (a full long page of links).

Council on Global Issues

Linked with Science for Peace.ca, with International Holistic Tourism Education Centre IHTEC, and with International Peace Bureau IPB.

  • Welcome to the Home page of the Council on Global Issues, an Internet based, not for profit think tank for a sustainable civilization. The main purpose of the group is identifying crucial global problems, their root causes, feasible solutions, and ways to implement desirable futures.
  • INVITATION: You are invited to join the Council on Global Issues (CGI) in the exploration of the current world problems. CGI would like you to participate in discussions, in writing papers, and in other activities applying systems sciences and holistic methodologies on global issues. – Systems science is based on integral thinking, and includes the properties of complex wholes, which are different from the sum of the parts … (full text Homepage and recent activities).

Issues and problems; Download handbook; References;
Address: Council on Global Issues, 142 Balsam Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4E 3C1;
Contact.

Who we are: The Council on Global Issues is focussed on the application of systems and complexity sciences to the better management of dilemmas facing humanity. Continuer la lecture de « Council on Global Issues »

Ethik-Zentrum, Uni Zürich

in german – Das Ethik-Zentrum in Zürich ist das erste seiner Art in der Schweiz. Es betreibt und koordiniert an der Universität Zürich die Lehre und Forschung in der Ethik. Im Ethik-Zentrum sind das Institut für Sozialethik (Theologische Fakultät), die Arbeits- und Forschungsstelle für Ethik (Philosophisches Seminar) und der Institut für Biomedizinische Ethik (Medizinische Fakultät) vereinigt … (ganzer Text der deutschsprachigen Homepage.
(with a Homepage in english: Centre for Ethics, University of Zurich).

Sitemap;
Arbeits- und Forschungsstelle für Ethik; Institut für Sozialethik; Institut für Biomedizinische Ethik; Ethikkommission;
Agenda; Veranstaltungen; Board and staff; Corti Fellowship; Newsletter (de, fr, en); Buchpublikationen; Zeitschriften; Bibliotheken;
Adresse: Ethik-Zentrum der Universität Zürich, Zollikerstr. 117, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland;
Kontakte.

Ethikkommission der Universität Zürich: Aufgaben: Mit dem § 66 der Universitätsordnung wurde am 19. Mai 2000 die Ethikkommission der Universität Zürich ins Leben gerufen.   Continuer la lecture de « Ethik-Zentrum, Uni Zürich »

Global Compact of the United Nations

in many languages

  • The United Nations Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. (Homepage).
  • Corporate Citizenship in The World Economy, 6 pdf pages.

Key Documents and Core UN Agencies (about, scroll down and click on links);
Participate; Communicate; Participants, Stakeholders; Local Networks; Issues; News, events; Foundation; UN homepage;
Contacts.

About: Overview of the UN Global Compact – The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. By doing so, business, as a primary agent driving globalization, can help ensure that markets, commerce, technology and finance advance in ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere.  Continuer la lecture de « Global Compact of the United Nations »