IN A NUTSHELL Editor's notePEAH is pleased to turn the spotlight on a just received note by our acknowledged partner* Dr. George Lueddeke, Global Lead International One Health for One Planet Education & Trandisciplinarity Initiative (1 HOPE-TDI)
By George Lueddeke, PhD
Consultant in Higher, Medical, and One Health Education
Global Lead – International One Health for One Planet Education initiative (1 HOPE)
Originally from Canada, now residing in the United Kingdom, George Lueddeke PhD MEd Dipl.AVES (Hon.) is an education advisor in Higher, Medical and One Health education and global lead of the international One Health for One Planet Education initiative (1 HOPE) in association with national, regional, and global organisations
Holistic Systemic Change to Care for All Life on Earth
Here is a link to the recently – launched All Life Institute website and brochure that might be of interest to PEAH affiliates / colleagues.
The Institute is “a global think tank based in Washington D.C. that is uniquely dedicated to protecting and enhancing all life on this planet including humans, nonhumans and the Earth.”
Three fundamental truths (imperatives?) appear on the introductory page:
- “All that we do depends upon abundant plant and animal life as well as clean air and water.”
- “Our collective future depends upon the decisions that we are making now.”
- “What is good for nonhumans and the Earth is virtually always in the best interests of humans, given the profound interdependence of all life.”
Embedding these themes across 22-23 September 2024 UN Summit of the Future ‘Pact for the Future’ and ‘Declaration on Future Generations’ implementation strategies, including enabling actions, seems especially timely and highly relevant in developing “a collective understanding that we need a new way of thinking that safeguards our futures” and building “the anticipatory governance this century demands” (Wales Protocol For Future Generations – from Declaration to Implementation).
In addition, promoting holistic “systemic change” (e.g., 1 HOPE-TDR) by cultivating “an active care for the world and with those with whom we share it” (UNESCO) could help strengthen engagement of Member States and other stakeholders in pre and post – Summit of the Future discussions.
Image credit: All Life Institute
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*By George Lueddeke on PEAH
Earth Future: Time for a Global ‘Reset’!
Planet Earth: Averting ‘A Point Of No Return’?
Tackling the Root Causes of Climate Change. If Not Now, WHEN?
Commentary on ‘More for The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) – Impakter’
Rebuilding Trust and Compassion in a Covid-19 World
The University in the early Decades of the Third Millennium: Saving the World from itself?
The World at Risk: Covid-19, Global Sustainability and 1 HOPE
Postscript – The World at Risk: Covid-19, Global Sustainability and 1 HOPE
On this theme, see also
INTERVIEW – ‘Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future’ – Routledge, 1st edition, 2019