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Stefan Pasti
@stefanpasti.bsky.social
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#Climate #Biodiversity #Morality

“Right Livelihood in the Multiple Emergencies Era” 1285p
https://bit.ly/4k7z8Li
"Getting Together on Supply Chains" (7p; 2025)
https://bit.ly/47cRrJK

featured at www.cpcsi.org
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stefanpasti.bsky.social
2/2

+Use #SpiritualWisdom
Ex: “Quotations from ‘Sathya Sai Speaks’ (Vol 1-15)”
(301p) new 20p “Note to Readers”
bit.ly/4nXwJVs

We do not need #globaleconomy
for people who already have more than enough
We need a Global Emergency Assistance Network
for people who are suffering--
(completed below)
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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1/2

“Right Livelihood in the Multiple Emergencies Era”
(1285p) bit.ly/4k7z8Li
#RedesignHigherEd -> #LocalCommunityEds
=1000s of local collab prob solving + ALT
#PeaceCorps #CivilianClimateCorps
”Letter to 50 universities”
bit.ly/3Agdfrh
Rein in unnecessary energy demand
+below #EndConsumerEra
Re #MultipleEmergencies “Right Livelihood in the Multiple Emergencies Era” in profile 1000s of local Community Visioning Initiatives, in communities around the world, can activate most possible participation (by way of 6-12 months of workshops, meetings, brainstorming, and prioritizing challenges and solutions) + help build a high level of consensus for specific action plans in shortest amount of time, w/ support from universities, colleges, and 1000s of positive tipping point related orgs and institutions (https://www.cpcsi.org/231-positive-tipping-point-orgs-and-insti ) creating related curriculum--and offering resources, classes, workshops, teacher training to max identification of challenges,solutions during Community Visioning process [Exs: “Chattanooga: A Community with a Vision” 13 min documentary https://vimeo.com/9653090 , https://www.cpcsi.org/constellations-of-initiatives-approach ] Thru workshops and associated local learning networks, citizens can gain greater awareness of how all the investments of time, energy, and money (the “votes”) each of us make in our everyday circumstances become the larger economy. People from every variety of circumstances can learn how to wisely cast such “votes”. Wisely directed, such “votes” can result in countless ways of earning a living which contribute to peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability efforts necessary to drastically reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and minimize other related challenges. Once it becomes clear that local residents are “getting together” on Net Zero #GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emission #supplychains and #SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) enabling-peace supply chains; + many local communities = “driving” economies from global to just, sustainable communities, ecosystems; changes many come more quickly in upper echelons of govts, intl corporations, intl banks, etc., which have been--thus far--slow to respond to the Climate Emergency (and many other challenges).
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
17/17

Faith helps move belief from
“it hardly seems possible” to “it must be possible”
because Faith believes Love will prevail.

“ #MultipleEmergencies:
#ReDesignHigherEd --> #LocalCommunityEds” (as pdf)
(21 pages; Nov 16, 2025) bit.ly/484YzbD
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
@foeint.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
16/17

Large majorities of people
still buying sales pitches of
#techno-utopians #COP30
#JustSayNo
Wisdom from every sacred tradition
since civilization began
understands
Practicing, Feeling, Experiencing #SpiritualWisdom
is the only way to transmit it to future generations
@ienearth.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
15/17

#COP30
Make use of wisdom
confirmed again and again
as essential to well-being,social harmony
by saints, spiritual leaders, sincere practitioners
of all religious-spiritual-moral traditions
Ex: “Quotations from 'Sathya Sai Speaks'” (free)
301p new 20p preface
bit.ly/4nXwJVs +below
@aascu.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
14/17

We do not need a #globaleconomy
for people who already have more than enough
We need a Global Emergency Assistance Network
for people who are suffering--
(completed below)
@pdchinanews.bsky.social
@wedonthavetime.bsky.social
@wfp.org @fao.org
#JustTransition #PeaceCorps
#CivilianClimateCorps
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
13/17

“Ringing Great Bell at Kyoto's Chion-in Temple
= Buddhist tradition known as Joya-no-kane, occurring on New Year's Eve to symbolize purifying the new year of 108 worldly desires by striking the enormous 70-ton bell 108 times.”
How its done = bit.ly/4ny7Yza
+below
@wsj.com
@chronicle.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
12/17

#COP30
#MultipleEmergencies link inprofile
#RedesignHigherEd -> #LocalCommunityEds
=1000s of local collab probsolving--below+ALT
=reining in unnecessary energy demand
=Sustainable #Ecosystems #Peace
@martinsokol.bsky.social
@jenniecstephens.bsky.social
start now
#ProSolutionMajority will come
Re #MultipleEmergencies “Right Livelihood in the Multiple Emergencies Era” in profile 1000s of local Community Visioning Initiatives, in communities around the world, can activate most possible participation (by way of 6-12 months of workshops, meetings, brainstorming, and prioritizing challenges and solutions) + help build a high level of consensus for specific action plans in shortest amount of time, w/ support from universities, colleges, and 1000s of positive tipping point related orgs and institutions (https://www.cpcsi.org/231-positive-tipping-point-orgs-and-insti ) creating related curriculum--and offering resources, classes, workshops, teacher training to max identification of challenges,solutions during Community Visioning process [Exs: “Chattanooga: A Community with a Vision” 13 min documentary https://vimeo.com/9653090 , https://www.cpcsi.org/constellations-of-initiatives-approach ] Thru workshops and associated local learning networks, citizens can gain greater awareness of how all the investments of time, energy, and money (the “votes”) each of us make in our everyday circumstances become the larger economy. People from every variety of circumstances can learn how to wisely cast such “votes”. Wisely directed, such “votes” can result in countless ways of earning a living which contribute to peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability efforts necessary to drastically reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and minimize other related challenges. Once it becomes clear that local residents are “getting together” on Net Zero #GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emission #supplychains and #SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) enabling-peace supply chains; + many local communities = “driving” economies from global to just, sustainable communities, ecosystems; changes many come more quickly in upper echelons of govts, intl corporations, intl banks, etc., which have been--thus far--slow to respond to the Climate Emergency (and many other challenges).
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
11/17

Time to admit fossil fuels/overshoot has humanity
in logistics-impossible corner
and many people #hunkeringdown in
#LowImpactLiving #PermacultureResilientEcosystems
with #AppropTech + non-material-intensive infrastructure
is valid remedy +below
#COP30 @insidehighered.com
@apnews.com @ox.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
10/17

Dr Euan Nisbet “Methane Climate Termination Event
--Wetlands are turning on (summary version)”
interviewed by Nick Breeze (ClimateGenn)
bit.ly/3vafGtk (11:50-16:40)
(posted on YouTube October 17, 2023)
@csis.org @earthjournalism.bsky.social
@smithschool.ox.ac.uk
@climatewwf.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
9/17

(Implications of 1.5C w/ overshoot)
"We know with 100% certainty this means rising frequency and strength of extreme events. So, the message to the world--'buckle up' because we are inevitably facing 30-40 years of rising climate damages
to societies across the world."
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
8/17

“Existing policies and market incentives have contributed to this problem of capital misallocation because they allow businesses to run up significant, largely unaccounted for, and unchecked social and environmental externalities.”
(UNEP, 2011)
@financialtimes.com
@timeshighered.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
7/17

“It is a little surprising that there has been no controversy over economics education… the economics world (is) defined in terms of competition of self-interested individuals w/ unlimited wants for scarce resources… (which) leave no room in the equation for duties, the sacred, or….”
@aaup.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
6/17

“The American economy became increasingly dependent upon a mass-consumption ethic that promised happiness through limitless material acquisition. But this vision contravened protestant ethic ascetic norms.”

[From “In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America” (p. 479)]
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
5/17 b

“In assembling these materials, concerning current socio-economic problems, Hanna and his associates had written to more than one thousand sources.”
in “About the Building America Series” (1935-1948)
(30 pages) bit.ly/3FfMP9w
@ourworldindata.org @hrw.org @amnesty.org
#ClimateEmergency
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
5/17 a

“The Editorial Board of BUILDING AMERICA (1935-1948) believes that… if our own democracy is to work even more successfully, and if we are to achieve cooperation with ‘men of good will everywhere,’ our people must know the facts. They must know the range of expert opinion.”
@aljazeera.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
4/17

“As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as to make for a better future society.”

[From “Democracy and Education" by John Dewey
MacMillan Company, New York 1922]
@aau.edu
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
3/17 b

“No other figure in the Chinese pantheon appears in a greater variety of images, of which there are said to be thousands of different incarnations or manifestations.”
[From Holy Mountain Trading Company’s “The Legend of Quan Yin Goddess of Mercy” (at www.holymtn.com/homepage/god... )]
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
3/17 a

“According to Mahayana doctrine, Avalokiteśvara is the bodhisattva who has made a great vow to listen to the prayers of all sentient beings in times of difficulty, and to postpone his own Buddhahood until he has assisted every being on Earth in achieving nirvana.”
@tricyclemag.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
2/17

“Nalanda was a renowned Buddhist mahavihara (great monastery) in medieval Magadha (modern-day Bihar), eastern India, widely known as one of the greatest centres of learning in the ancient world and often referred to as ’the world's first residential university’."
@harvarddivinity.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
#COP30
#MultipleEmergencies link in profile
#RedesignHigherEd -> #LocalCommunityEds
=1000s of local collab prob solving--below+ALT
=reining in unnecessary energy demand
=Sustainable #Ecosystems #Peace
@amnesty.org @amnesty.be
@amnesty.de @economist.com
start this now
#ProSolutionMajority will come
Re #MultipleEmergencies “Right Livelihood in the Multiple Emergencies Era” in profile 1000s of local Community Visioning Initiatives, in communities around the world, can activate most possible participation (by way of 6-12 months of workshops, meetings, brainstorming, and prioritizing challenges and solutions), +help build a high level of consensus for specific action plans in shortest amount of time, w/ support from universities, colleges, +1000s of positive tipping point related orgs and institutions (https://www.cpcsi.org/231-positive-tipping-point-orgs-and-insti ) creating related curriculum--and offering resources, classes, workshops, +teacher training to max identification of challenges, solutions during Community Visioning process [Exs: “Chattanooga: A Community with a Vision” 13 min documentary https://vimeo.com/9653090 (above screenshot from (9:27) and https://www.cpcsi.org/constellations-of-initiatives-approach ] Thru workshops and local learning networks, citizens can gain greater awareness of how all investments of time, energy, and money (the “votes”) each of us make in our everyday circumstances become the larger economy. People from every variety of circumstances can learn how to wisely cast such “votes”. Wisely directed, such “votes” can result in countless ways of earning a living which contribute to peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability efforts necessary to drastically reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and minimize other related challenges. Once it becomes clear local residents are “getting together” on Net Zero #GHG emission #supplychains and #SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) enabling-peace supply chains; + many local communities “driving” economies from global to just, sustainable communities, ecosystems; changes many come more quickly in upper echelons of govts, intl corporations, intl banks, etc., which have been--thus far--slow to respond to the Climate Emergency (and many other challenges).
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
#COP30
#MultipleEmergencies link inprofile
#RedesignHigherEd -> #LocalCommunityEds
=1000s of local collab prob solving--below+ALT
=reining in unnecessary energy demand
=Sustainable #Ecosystems #Peace
@greenpeace.org @ran.org
@350.org @wsj.com @nature.org
start this now
#ProSolutionMajority will come
Re #MultipleEmergencies “Right Livelihood in the Multiple Emergencies Era” in profile 1000s of local Community Visioning Initiatives, in communities around the world, can activate most possible participation (by way of 6-12 months of workshops, meetings, brainstorming, and prioritizing challenges and solutions) + help build a high level of consensus for specific action plans in shortest amount of time, w/ support from universities, colleges, and 1000s of positive tipping point related orgs and institutions (https://www.cpcsi.org/231-positive-tipping-point-orgs-and-insti ) creating related curriculum--and offering resources, classes, workshops, teacher training to max identification of challenges,solutions during Community Visioning process [Exs: “Chattanooga: A Community with a Vision” 13 min documentary https://vimeo.com/9653090 , https://www.cpcsi.org/constellations-of-initiatives-approach ] Thru workshops and associated local learning networks, citizens can gain greater awareness of how all the investments of time, energy, and money (the “votes”) each of us make in our everyday circumstances become the larger economy. People from every variety of circumstances can learn how to wisely cast such “votes”. Wisely directed, such “votes” can result in countless ways of earning a living which contribute to peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability efforts necessary to drastically reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and minimize other related challenges. Once it becomes clear that local residents are “getting together” on Net Zero #GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emission #supplychains and #SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) enabling-peace supply chains; + many local communities = “driving” economies from global to just, sustainable communities, ecosystems; changes many come more quickly in upper echelons of govts, intl corporations, intl banks, etc., which have been--thus far--slow to respond to the Climate Emergency (and many other challenges).
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
#COP30
#MultipleEmergencies link in profile
#RedesignHigherEd -> #LocalCommunityEds
=1000s of local collab prob solving--below+ALT
=reining in unnecessary energy demand
=Sustainable #Ecosystems #Peace
@greenamerica.org @climatesolutions.org
@ecesp.bsky.social
start now
#ProSolutionMajority will come
Re #MultipleEmergencies “Right Livelihood in the Multiple Emergencies Era” in profile 1000s of local Community Visioning Initiatives, in communities around the world, can activate most possible participation (by way of 6-12 months of workshops, meetings, brainstorming, and prioritizing challenges and solutions) + help build a high level of consensus for specific action plans in shortest amount of time, w/ support from universities, colleges, and 1000s of positive tipping point related orgs and institutions (https://www.cpcsi.org/231-positive-tipping-point-orgs-and-insti ) creating related curriculum--and offering resources, classes, workshops, teacher training to max identification of challenges,solutions during Community Visioning process [Exs: “Chattanooga: A Community with a Vision” 13 min documentary https://vimeo.com/9653090 , https://www.cpcsi.org/constellations-of-initiatives-approach ] Thru workshops and associated local learning networks, citizens can gain greater awareness of how all the investments of time, energy, and money (the “votes”) each of us make in our everyday circumstances become the larger economy. People from every variety of circumstances can learn how to wisely cast such “votes”. Wisely directed, such “votes” can result in countless ways of earning a living which contribute to peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability efforts necessary to drastically reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and minimize other related challenges. Once it becomes clear that local residents are “getting together” on Net Zero #GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emission #supplychains and #SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) enabling-peace supply chains; + many local communities = “driving” economies from global to just, sustainable communities, ecosystems; changes many come more quickly in upper echelons of govts, intl corporations, intl banks, etc., which have been--thus far--slow to respond to the Climate Emergency (and many other challenges).
November 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
stefanpasti.bsky.social
#COP30
#MultipleEmergencies link inprofile
#RedesignHigherEd -> #LocalCommunityEds
=1000s of local collab prob solving--below+ALT
=reining in unnecessary energy demand
=Sustainable #Ecosystems #Peace
@Greenpeace @RnfrstAlliance @EcoWatch
@CanadianGreens start this now
#ProSolutionMajority will come
Re #MultipleEmergencies “Right Livelihood in the Multiple Emergencies Era” in profile 1000s of local Community Visioning Initiatives, in communities around the world, can activate most possible participation (by way of 6-12 months of workshops, meetings, brainstorming, and prioritizing challenges and solutions) + help build a high level of consensus for specific action plans in shortest amount of time, w/ support from universities, colleges, and 1000s of positive tipping point related orgs and institutions (https://www.cpcsi.org/231-positive-tipping-point-orgs-and-insti ) creating related curriculum--and offering resources, classes, workshops, teacher training to max identification of challenges,solutions during Community Visioning process [Exs: “Chattanooga: A Community with a Vision” 13 min documentary https://vimeo.com/9653090 , https://www.cpcsi.org/constellations-of-initiatives-approach ] Thru workshops and associated local learning networks, citizens can gain greater awareness of how all the investments of time, energy, and money (the “votes”) each of us make in our everyday circumstances become the larger economy. People from every variety of circumstances can learn how to wisely cast such “votes”. Wisely directed, such “votes” can result in countless ways of earning a living which contribute to peacebuilding, community revitalization, and ecological sustainability efforts necessary to drastically reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and minimize other related challenges. Once it becomes clear that local residents are “getting together” on Net Zero #GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emission #supplychains and #SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) enabling-peace supply chains; + many local communities = “driving” economies from global to just, sustainable communities, ecosystems; changes many come more quickly in upper echelons of govts, intl corporations, intl banks, etc., which have been--thus far--slow to respond to the Climate Emergency (and many other challenges).
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM