Media for a New Humanity
Creating media to connect, serve and transform our world.
This group was formed at the Alliance for a New Humanity conference in San Jose, Costa Rica, March 11-13, 2008. Our mission is to connect people, who, through personal and social transformation, aim to build a just, peaceful, and sustainable world, reflecting the unity of all humanity.
GROUP DETAILS
Created: Mar 25, 2008
Updated: Nov 06, 2009
Membership: Open
Semi-Private
"There is simply no more appropriate project for us to undertake: making known the hundreds of thousands of organizations throughout the world addressing socialyou justice and the environment, and creating the vehicle to connect the movement toward sustainability."
Paul Hawken, Founder of WiserEarth
"WiserEarth has gone ahead and created the thing that everyone has been saying we desperately need: the well-organized, elegantly presented all-in-one directory for folks working in the fields of social and environmental justice and advocacy."
Jon Warnow, Step it Up Organizer
"I stumbled upon WiserEarth from a link on a website I was on and literally started crying (happy tears) to see all these wonderful groups/organizations grouped into one place. Truly amazing!!... You are truly making a difference!"
LeaEtta Chandler, WiserEarth Community Member, USA
"Most corporates can't even maintain a global address book. So WiserEarth's audacious goal - to create a global directory of the world's brightest minds committed to solving complex environmental and social challenges - is nothing short of astonishing."
"Being able to form new organisations rapidly, comprising of talented, experienced and flexible people to solve new problems in new ways is set to be one of the greatest opportunities of our generation. WiserEarth has already helped me find fascinating and talented people."
"But it's a work in progress and it still has much to do to refine how we navigate this world. It deserves all our support. Any company stressing a commitment to CSR and global collaboration should think hard about supporting it."
Mark Charmer, co founder of Akvo and director of The Movement Design Bureau
"I believe WiserEarth is an opportunity for humanity to recognize that there are millions of people working everyday in building a world in peace, harmony and abundance. I have chosen to work with WiserEarth because it represents an opportunity to weave the intentions of many global networks that are doing similar work around the world."
"I can see how in Mexico the networks movement is awakening and that is why I believe WiserEarth is such a great opportunity to trigger unity and synergy within the Mexican community and with the world."
Juan Carlos, ActivArte Mexico
"There is nothing like WiserEarth. Its' community directory, made by us and for us, has over 100,000 organizations working for just and lasting change. It offers a platform for groups to discover and connect and strengthen the bonds that bring us together."
Jon Ramer, Interra Project, USA
"Je recommende que le travaille qui est mené par WiserEarth doit être soutenu par les diffèrents membres de la communauté international car cette plateforme va nous aider à réorganiser et nous unir autour des thèmes essentiels"
Thierno Rampnoux Diallo, Président d'Horizon Afrik, France/Senegal
"Thanks for the service. It is very elegant. The wiki format is more suitable than a blog for organizing "accumulating information". The "group" is the best fit to "site", and the social networking opportunity adds value when I start offering workshops.... the combination of map/individual/group/social networking/conceptual mapping appears to be the best 'off the shelf' IT solution I have found."
Paul Cereghino, WiserEarth Community Member, USA
"Every conservation practitioner should familiarize themselves with this site and those it links to. They will find it invaluable as a one-stop shop in sourcing conservation solutions which are listed by thematic area, and ranked by other practitioners for efficacy and cost effectiveness. This site has been needed for years. It's here now!"
Paul Butler, WiserEarth Community Member, USA
"I love this platform as it puts the onus right back on the individual to be responsible and get connected and do something to share. It also provides a community place, a space where we can connect and share, when distances are too hard to travel in person. Sharing knowledge is almost as important as sharing a surplus crop. I like that we can all share equally, and it is not up to a moderator to decide what you can share and when. Again it enables the individual to be responsible."
Celeste Salter, WiserEarth Community Member, Australia
"I'm especially excited about being able to participate more fully in the WiserEarth site -- what a gift it is to everyone. I appreciate how it contributes to networking and expect to take advantage of more of its features...."
"In particular, I see the benefits of making interdisciplinary "crossover" connections among organizations and institutions, e.g. artists with community development specialists, environmentalists with social justice advocates."
Lynne, WiserEarth Community Member, USA
"I'm very happy to find WiserEarth, and think it may be a good fit for some organizing and connecting work I feel drawn to doing. I like the social networking, the clean interface, the modules that are available, and the social/wholesome intent. I'm hoping those I will invite to the group will appreciate the features and environment and also find WiserEarth a valuable resource."
Brother Faith, WiserEarth Community Member, France
"WiserEarth is the best cooperative site I have come across and a great place to learn, connect and share thoughts - you guys do an awesome job, so thank you! "
John Rainbird, WiserEarth Community Member, Australia
See also WiserEarth success stories
If you have would like to share your thoughts, send a message to Camilla or leave a comment.
Video: Members of WiserEarth talking at the Green Festival, Seattle
"It is especially important for groups that do not have the infrastructure or financial means to maintain their own web presence."
Culture of Peace Initiative
"Merci pour la bienvenue a WiserEarth. c'est vraiment merveilleux!"
Kevin, WiserEarth Community Member, France
"Thank you for turning me on to WiserEarth.org. I interviewed a potential new volunteer today. She found Maitri's info on the Wiserearth website just days after I signed up. So it's already paying off. Thanks for the tip. You're brilliant!!"
Stan, WiserEarth Community Member, USA
"Our organization does not yet have a web-site. Reason is no money for this (including for english version of web). We are trying to do this, but it can be not so easy and soon."
Kaisha, WiserEarth Community Member, Kazakhstan
"There is digital divide between the global north and the global south. Internet connectivity is still at slow speed in many parts of the developing countries while getting a website costs a fortune. WiserEarth has given those of us from the global south the rare opportunity of being a part of the big but yet small global village in terms of e-connectivity and especially creating a forum (free webforum) for us to share ideas with our colleagues up north. The names of the founder of WiserEarth and his colleagues should be written in gold for their foresight and understanding of the necessity for helping human kind especially from the less developed world."
"BIG THANK YOU to you all."
Tola Winjobi, WiserEarth Community Member, Nigeria
"This is a good example of the community realizing that we can join efforts."
Martine, WiserEarth Community Member, USA
"OH MY GOD THIS SITE IS AMAZING!!!!! I can't wait to explore it more, as I've just begun to skim the surface, but I've been wanting there to be a site that lists organizations all over the world like this based on categories, and then linking them to each other, and finding ways of helping people network."
"Not only is it an amazing educational tool, but it provides resources for people wanting to get plugged in who don¹t know how to find these groups. Whether someone wants to volunteer in their community, needs help researching for their thesis, or wants to find a group doing specific work in a foreign country they want to go delve into, it's all here and REALLY well done!!! Kudos!"
Rosemary, WiserEarth Community Member, USA
"Just wanted to tell you that there is a woman from Guinea in our office. She got on the end of the call so was just asking me for the background and instructions on WiserEarth. I explained it to her, told her how it has groups all over the world and invited her to check out the listings under Guinea."
"She laughed and said there wouldn't be any. We got on it together and there were not only listings but 41 just in her town. I wish you could have seen her smile of delight. What a great thing to have created a tool that will elicit smiles of delight like that all over the world."
Annie, WiserEarth Community Member, USA
"We like how the WiserEarth platform incorporates the best of a Wiki with a community concept and functionality, among other things."
John, WiserEarth Community Member, USA
"By some stroke of luck, fate or coincidence I googled my way onto the WiserEarth site. I did not know what I was looking for other than a medium in which I could connect with people around the globe who felt the same urgency and passion for addressing the important issues facing humankind today."
"I utilise another social networking site to stay in touch with friends but appreciate that WiserEarth is more than a place to chit chat. I am very grateful for this site and am looking forward to participating more. It is clear to me from seeing all of the organisations and people that the paradigm shift is happening. We just need to wake everyone up. There is no difference, we are all one."
Genevieve, WiserEarth Community Member, USA
"Wiserearth.org is important work and true service to the unnumbered individuals out there who, having tuned in to the spirit of the age, now labor for the good of themselves and their neighbors the world over."
Tom Viator, WiserEarth Community Member, USA
"There is such a wealth of community here at WiserEarth."
Wendy Levy, WiserEarth Community Member, USA
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