Thriving in the 21st Century: Building a Dynamic Framework for the Future

Lake Tahoe
August 3-5, 2000

Last August over 30 people gathered at Lake Tahoe because they believe the time is right to explore how to bring together the people, resources and knowledge to create the future they want. They explored how they could align with others and co-create a holistic framework and a platform for action to align systems and produce goals based on the values by which they want to live.

They are primarily practitioners who over the past six years have created projects together, co-evolved ideas and capacities, collaborated at World Future Society and other conferences and written a number of articles and the book, Pathways to Sustainability: The Age of Transformation.  Individuals in this network share values such as commitment to community, compassion, democratic principles, importance of diversity, the need for a fairer and just approach to concepts of equity, humility, integrity, interdependence, love, opportunities for a strong quality of life, respect for all life, individual and corporate responsibility, trust and an emphasis on the need for individual, group and community transformation.

Simply stated, they believe that enormous resources and creativity of humanity can be directed in new transformational ways to create a healthy, equitable, environmentally stable and economically prosperous society for all. Please read their Declaration of Conscience Concerning the Necessity of Working Toward a Sustainable Future created drafted during the Gathering and review our other materials.

• Invitation
  

• Meeting Outline
  

• Proceedings
  

• List of Attendees and Brief Bios
  

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• Mind Maps
  

Tahoe Gathering 2000 Materials

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Peter Alexander
Executive Director
San Cristobal Ranch Foundation

Sandra Babb
President, HumanForce Consulting
Raleigh, NC

Kathy Barry
Individual & Organizational Consultant
Berkeley, CA

Sherrin Bennett
President, Interactive Learning Systems
Pt. Richmond, CA

David Berry
Executive Director, Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators
Washington, D.C.

Bob Burnett
Activist/a founder of Cisco Systems
Berkeley, CA

Gordon Davidson
President, Center for Visionary Leadership
Washington, D.C.

Dee Dickinson,
CEO New Horizons for Learning,
Seattle, Washington

Duane Elgin,
Author,
San Rafael, CA

Madilyn Fletcher, Ph.D.
Director, Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research at the University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Sally J. Goerner Ph.D.
Director, Triangle Center for the Study of Complex Systems
Chapel Hill, NC

Andrei Gostev Ph. D.
Vice President Russian Transpersonal Fund & senior researcher Institute of Psychology
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia

Bruce and Birgitta Gregory
Gregory & Associates
Executive Consulting Services
Los Angeles, CA

Jan Hauser
Principal Architect, Sun Microsystems
Palo Alto, CA

Leonard Joy
Consultant: governance--human rights, poverty/livelihood, environment
Berkeley, CA

Prasad Kaipa
CEO, SelfCorp.com
Founder Mithya Institute for Learning
Campbell, CA

Joseph Kruth
Chair, Tahoe Center for a Sustainable Future
Lake Tahoe, NV

Claudia L'Amoreaux
Founder, Haven.net Learning Community
Neary Lagoon Watershed on Monterey Bay, CA

Paul McIsaac
Director, Worldwork Documentary Project.
New York, NY

Corinne McLaughlin
Executive Director, Center for Visionary Leadership
Washington, D.C.

Bill Minnis
Developer and owner of software systems
Austin, TX

Bill Moyer
Executive Director, Social Movement Empowerment Project
San Francisco, CA

Michele Perrault
International Vice President, Sierra Club
San Francisco, CA

Vance Peterson, Ph.D.
President, Sierra Nevada College
Incline Village, NV

Kelly Quirke,
past director, Rainforest Action Network
San Francisco, CA

Professor Richard C. Rich
Virginia Tech Institute for Environmental and Energy Studies
Blacksburg, VA

Jan Roberts
President of the Institute for Ethics & Meaning,
Tampa, Florida

Vicki Robin
co-author, Your Money or Your Life
Seattle, WA

Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D.
Evolution Biologist and Futurist, Living System Design
Burlingame, CA

F. Michael Smith
President, F. Michael Smith & Associates
Information Architecture and Resource Management
San Rafael, CA

Rick Smyre
President, Communities of the Future
Gastonia, NC.

Anne Stadler
Organizational Consultant
Seattle, WA

Lauri Thomas
President, Productivity Links
Woodlands, TX

Chris Thomson
Director CRISTOS
Edinburgh, Scotland

John Tracy, Ph.D.
Water Resources Engineer
Reno, NV

Barbara Vogl
Founder/Director, Change Management Systems
Santa Cruz, CA

A. Brian Wallace, Chairman
Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California
Lake Tahoe

Arthur Warmoth
Professor of Psychology, Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA

The following persons were involved in the Tahoe Gathering, including signing the Declaration of Conscience:

Tahoe Center for a Sustainable Future

Email: scottross@telis.org