presention of environmental and climate concerns, diets, human and animal rights, soil, water, agriculture, dialog and decision cultures and new conference formats

1. Input statement for the Open Forum – Open-Space “Pitching”Section: The Need for Synthesis, Synopsis and Shared Action in view of the outcomes of 20+ years of Global Change exercises: Challenges, Orientations, Lessons Learned, and the need for Participation Opportunities and Options Heiner Benking Journalist, long-time experience with global issues, event planning, strategy advising Secretary of the Council of Global Issues and the Tagore-Einstein Council Vegetarianism : Essential to Save the Planet? Sunday, Dec 13th, Copenhagen UNFCCC COP 15

2. Vegetarianism : Essential to Save the Planet? 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 / and http://weturn.org/CopenVegan-Alliance-site-event-COP15/

3. Ashok Khosla , Founder Development Alternatives, Canada – India Founder, India's Office of Environmental Planning & Coordination President , IUCN Co-President , Club of Rome 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 images Comedian Eugene Mirman is going to Copenhagen for Grist to cover the international climate talks. Eugene is a fairly well-informed guy (he at least scans Google News looking for reviews of his latest album ), but he’s the first to admit that he doesn’t live, eat, and smoke climate policy. At his request, the Grist staff threw together a basic cheat sheet on Copenhagen. It’s overly simplistic. It avoids lots of important details. It’s probably offensive. In short, it’s just enough to help Eugene feign cluefulness when he’s accosting world leaders in Denmark.

5. Watch your metaphors and models ! More: Overclaims and Oversimplifications 1997 & Sharing and Changing Realities: Landscape 1997 GeoEcoDynamics 1988 & Knowmap Spacial vs. Spatial 2001 & Access and Assimilation 1992 and Geo-Object Coding 1988 (GeoJournal) & Spatial Metaphors 1994 (Benking/Judge) – GEOSCIENCES exhibition - AWS 1991 & UN YEAR of the Mountains: Bridges for a World Divided 2002 Source: USGCRP report 2000 Source: BIOLOG, page 12 Biodiversity and Global Change www.pt-dlr.de , Nov 2003

7. Dimensions of Globalisation SOCIAL POLITICS COMMUNICATION ECONOMY ECOLOGY CULTURE

8. We lost 1 Decade ? 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 appear at the end of a destructive chain do they take on richness, perspective, and significance“. Henry Margenau, OPEN VISTAS

11. BBK - Berliner Bibliotheks-wissenschaftliches Kolloqium 25. Mai 2004 Introducing the 2nd edition of the International Encyclopaedia of Systems and Cybernetics Charles François, Heiner Benking PLEASE VISIT: http://www.open-forum.de/encyclopedia-pragmatics / http://benking.de/systems/encyclopedia/concepts-and-models.htm

12. THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SYSTEMS AND CYBERNETICS SECOND EDITION Charles François (editor), KG Saur, München, 2004 Updated and augmented in more than 740 pages, 1700 articles, some of them with figures, tables and diagrams, and 1500 bibliographical references. Please see these presentations at the introduction of the 2 nd Edition: Maybe start with slide # 3. Charles François and the need for another language and the work on a Cognitive Panorama and Cognitive Spaces for multi-perspective orientation in the Encyclopedia and a Global Embodied Covenant to share positions, perspectives, and mind-sets, and what this means for modern media, sign systems and systemic , holistic thinking .

13. http://www.diversitas.org/db/x.php Vol.1: World Problems (1976-1995). Vol.2: Human Potential: Transformation and Values (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 Programme UNEP - 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 now 1998 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 page GLOBAL CHANGE or LOCAL AND GLOBAL CHANGE - as my work started about global environmental 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.

21. SOILS and HUMUS see this new FILM (2009) Humus - Forgotten climate aid - The implications are immense, see also the Ignorance statement in the beginning of this presentation, BioChar and Terra Preta . and another You Tube clip Biochar - agrichar - Terra Preta See also Aquaterra and WFC report.

23. Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Altenberg Workshops 1996/97 30. January 1997, Austria, Worldview Compositions and Cognitive Spaces - a necessary evolutionary step by 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 also The Club of Rome - The Predicament of Mankind , 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 concerned with matters that effect only family or friends over a short period of time. Others look far ahead in time or over a large area - a city or a nation. Only few people have a 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 upper right quadrant or “box”.

24. Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Altenberg Workshops 1996/97 30. January 1997, Austria, Worldview Compositions and Cognitive Spaces - a necessary evolutionary step by Heiner Benking Interactive relations among hierarchically ordered subsystems of an organism, Inscribed Domains, P. Weiss, In: Beyond reductionism, Alpbach 1968, pls. see more: IFSR - ISSS

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 appear at the end of a destructive chain do 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 Mankind Early beginnings 1968- 1970

31. Documents relating to Polarization, Dilemmas and Duality, by Anthony Judge http://www.un-intelligible.org/projects/transfor/a11aa.php 1972 http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s/globgov.php#exc 2008

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 one’s own principles and those of others

34. Kurt Hanks , OUT OF THE BOX THINKING see: Creating a Driving Vision (PDF) and Getting out 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 ightenment Pedagogics DENK-LEHRRAUM der Aufklärungspädagogik ! Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics

40. Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics Otto Schärli 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

43. Whoever imagines mental deep permeable barriers which actually do not exist and then thinks them away, has understood the world. As space is entrapped in geometry's network of lines, thought is caught in its (own) inherent laws. Maps make the world comprehensible to us; we are still waiting for the star-maps of the spirit. In the same way than ambling through fields we risk getting lost, the spirit negotiates its terrain. Friedrich Rückert, Wisdom of the Brahmins, a didactic poem, Charles T. Brooks in 1882 – above is unfortunately only a clumsy first translation by Robinson/Benking as we could only get hold of the original German version. this is a critical translation issue: WALLS & BOUNDARIES are „man-made“ – They have no equivalent in Nature. The term “Schranken” therefore can be translated as restraining bounds, or semiphors, barriers & temporary permeable or translucent / transparent material/strata/membranes/transition zones). Friedrich Rückert Die Weisheit des Brahmanen, ein Lehrgedicht in Bruchstücken Werke, Band 2, Leipzig und Wien [1897], S. 50-51. Breaking Down New Walls 10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates , Berlin, November, 9-11 2009 Interview, Panel-Discussion , ….

45. FOOT PRINT HAND PRINT MIND PRINT

46. Global Ecological Integrity, Human Rights, and Human Responsibilities: Intersections Between International Law and Public Health, 2003, June 27- July 1, & Open Space, The Earth Charter in Action, June 26- 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

50. My Topic – My Concern – My Offer to the Group: SPEAKER or PITCHER: NAME Participants: Vegetarianism: Essential to Save the Planet? Dec. 13th, 2009 Open Forum Open Space Veg Climate Alliance Copenhagen Workshop

53. TOPIC 1 Re-inventing Democracy with generative and disciplined transdisciplinary – intergenerational – intercultural Dialogues 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. HUB Sustainability We 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

60. Getting the Whole System in the Room for convergence and action. Bertalanffy‘s 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 for Anna- Lindh -Foundation , European – Mediteranian Countries, Berlin-Alexandria 2008. Transcultural Dialog 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 internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to sustainable development" .

63. BE PREPARED TO BE SURPRISED Open-Forum Open-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. It argues 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 towards shared ( embodied ) covenants which give room for coexistence of oikos , ecumene , ecudomy and not just the juxtaposition of economy and ecology. Needed is a New Renaissance . Concretion and embodiment in times of Global Change. Please check the other presentations , follow the links, check this Blog , start the discussion or write an E-Mail to [email_address] THANK YOU ! Open-Forum Mogens Dahl Koncertsal