From mit.world at MIT.EDU Tue Dec 8 14:40:53 2009 From: mit.world at MIT.EDU (MIT World) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:40:53 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] The Dalai Lama on Ethics, Panel on Future Civic Media Message-ID: <200912081940.nB8JerOE019987@mrkrabs.mit.edu> MIT World Newsletter Volume 9, Number 16 | December 8, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------- Ethics and Enlightened Leadership April 30, 2009 His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke at an inaugural event for a new institute in his name, the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. He tempered his provocative ideas about promoting ethics in a secular society with a stream of lively banter. He recalled that he had visited a homeless shelter in San Francisco the other day and told a man he met that he, too, had suffered the same fate after he went into exile in 1959. "I said, 'me too. Homeless'." http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/725 Speaker: His Holiness the Dalai Lama The 14th Dalai Lama 1989 Nobel Peace Laureate Event Host: The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values "You could invent an injection for compassion, I would want that. And maybe commerce could contribute: you could have shops selling compassion. In a supermarket, you could buy compassion." -His Holiness the Dalai Lama -------------------------------------------------------------- What?s New at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media? November 5, 2009 Based on this roster of speakers, the MIT Center for Future Civic Media exists in a constant state of productive ferment, if not adrenaline rush. In a series of brief, timed talks, 13 researchers describe projects to help communities leverage self-knowledge into useful change or even transformation. http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/726 Speaker: Chris Csikszentmihalyi Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab Director, MIT Center for Future Civic MediaDavid and Roberta Loge Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Event Host: MIT Communications Forum "We?re taking a step back, (trying) to re-imagine technologies so they?re built on the level of the community, not just on the level of the individual consumer. We imagine technologies will strengthen social bonds and empower communities." -Chris Csikszentmih?lyi -------------------------------------------------------------- In The Pipeline: Creating a Game Plan for Transition to a Sustainable Economy Presented By: MIT Sloan School of Management Dean?s Innovative Leader Series Speaker: Jeffrey Hollender Co-Founder & Executive Chair Seventh Generation -------------------------------------------------------------- MIT World Lectures on iTunesU Make your iPod smarter today http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/mit.edu

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