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ONLINE AUCTION: Today's the Last Day...BID NOW!
April 30, 2013
– 10:00 pm
Visits our online auction where you can bid on great gifts and experiences while helping us make a difference in the lives of under served youth. Launched on April 2, 2013 at 8:00 am EST, the Temple of Understanding's online auction has a number of exclusive items and experiences at terrifically low prices. Here are a few more ways that you can support this auction:
1. Visiting the auction at http://www.biddingforgood.com/ToUS2013
2. Bid on your favorite times. Don't forget to add them to your "Watch" list
3. Post/share the link on your social media outlets and encourage your friends to do the same
4. Forward the website link to your friends and family
5. Add the link to your email's signature section. Here's an example for you to try:
Jane Doe, Vice President
XYZ Corp
212-555-9292, ext 22, [email protected]
Support Cross Cultural Education for Youth, Visit the ToU’s Online Auction at http://www.biddingforgood.com/ToUS2013
GIVE A LITTLE GET A LOT!
Ending on April 30 at 10:00 pm, items currently being offered include: art, jewelry, dining experiences, travel and home decorating items. Thank you for your interest.
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Aphrodite at the Landfill: Trebbe Johnson
May 1, 2013
– 2:30 pm
The Temple of Understanding & The Interfaith Consortium for Ecological Civilization (ICEC)
Science, Ecology and Faith Series
Author, Trebbe Johnson, will discuss her new book, Aphrodite at the Landfill: Beauty as Earth Activism, a rousing call to readers to turn their attention to the kinds of places most people would rather forget: the clearcut forests, paved wetlands, fracked farms, and polluted rivers that once were beautiful and meaningful and now are under assault. Yet when the places we love are damaged, we humans hurt too. And it is by reconciling with the wounded places in our midst in bold, creative ways that we forge a new definition of activism. Part I, “The Environment Isn’t Here Yet,” explores five subtle cultural assumptions about how we ought to react to a broken, toxic, or ugly environment and why these concepts get in the way of our living the “sustainable” life on Earth that we all supposedly aspire to. Part II, “Beauty as Earth Activism,” unveils attitudes and practices that shift thinking and remake traditional environmentalism into a new field where existential action, play, spectacle, and the church social meet.
Trebbe Johnson is the author of The World Is a Waiting Lover (2005, with a foreword by Thomas Moore) and has published many articles and essays about the relationship between people and their places in Sierra, Orion, Spirituality and Health, The Nation, and other magazines. She is a consulting editor and frequent contributor to Parabola. Trebbe is the founder and director of Radical Joy for Hard Times, a non-profit organization devoted to finding and making beauty in wounded places.
EVENT LOCATION: The Church Center for the United Nations, 10th Floor
777 UN Plaza / 777 First Avenue at 44th Street
New York, NY 10017
Hosted by ICEC, this speaker series focuses on climate change and sustainable development and the role of the interfaith community as a catalyst for change. www.ic4ec.org
RSVPS are welcome to [email protected]
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OPEN HOUSE - Celebrating Sr. Joan Kirby
May 22, 2013
– 6:00 pm
A Retirement Party for Sr. Joan Kirby, ToU United Nations Representative
Please join the Temple of Understanding Board and staff, UN NGO’s, family and friends to celebrate Sr. Joan’s retirement party at a gathering from 4 to 6 on Wed. May 22 at our office, 211 E. 43rd Street, suite 1600, NY, NY (between 2nd and 3rd).
If you can’t stop by, please send a note, a poem, etc.
“Sr. Joan has been a source of inspiration and wisdom to me ever since I arrived at the United Nations, and I am even more impressed by her energy and commitment as the years go by. Her leadership in the community of religious NGOs has helped usher in a new era of respect and cooperation, both among faith groups and with the UN agencies, departments and Missions. It’s impossible to imagine her as retired, so I’m sure she will be re-inventing the meaning of the term!”
~Deborah Moldow
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ONLINE AUCTION: Today's the Last Day...BID NOW!April 30, 2013 – 10:00 pm Visits our online auction where you can bid on great gifts and experiences while helping us make a difference in the lives of under served youth. Launched on April 2, 2013 at 8:00 am EST, the Temple of Understanding's online auction has a number of exclusive items and experiences at terrifically low prices. Here are a few more ways that you can support this auction: 1. Visiting the auction at http://www.biddingforgood.com/ToUS2013 Jane Doe, Vice President Support Cross Cultural Education for Youth, Visit the ToU’s Online Auction at http://www.biddingforgood.com/ToUS2013 Ending on April 30 at 10:00 pm, items currently being offered include: art, jewelry, dining experiences, travel and home decorating items. Thank you for your interest. |
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Aphrodite at the Landfill: Trebbe JohnsonMay 1, 2013 – 2:30 pm The Temple of Understanding & The Interfaith Consortium for Ecological Civilization (ICEC) Author, Trebbe Johnson, will discuss her new book, Aphrodite at the Landfill: Beauty as Earth Activism, a rousing call to readers to turn their attention to the kinds of places most people would rather forget: the clearcut forests, paved wetlands, fracked farms, and polluted rivers that once were beautiful and meaningful and now are under assault. Yet when the places we love are damaged, we humans hurt too. And it is by reconciling with the wounded places in our midst in bold, creative ways that we forge a new definition of activism. Part I, “The Environment Isn’t Here Yet,” explores five subtle cultural assumptions about how we ought to react to a broken, toxic, or ugly environment and why these concepts get in the way of our living the “sustainable” life on Earth that we all supposedly aspire to. Part II, “Beauty as Earth Activism,” unveils attitudes and practices that shift thinking and remake traditional environmentalism into a new field where existential action, play, spectacle, and the church social meet. Trebbe Johnson is the author of The World Is a Waiting Lover (2005, with a foreword by Thomas Moore) and has published many articles and essays about the relationship between people and their places in Sierra, Orion, Spirituality and Health, The Nation, and other magazines. She is a consulting editor and frequent contributor to Parabola. Trebbe is the founder and director of Radical Joy for Hard Times, a non-profit organization devoted to finding and making beauty in wounded places. EVENT LOCATION: The Church Center for the United Nations, 10th Floor Hosted by ICEC, this speaker series focuses on climate change and sustainable development and the role of the interfaith community as a catalyst for change. www.ic4ec.org RSVPS are welcome to [email protected] |
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OPEN HOUSE - Celebrating Sr. Joan KirbyMay 22, 2013 – 6:00 pm A Retirement Party for Sr. Joan Kirby, ToU United Nations Representative Please join the Temple of Understanding Board and staff, UN NGO’s, family and friends to celebrate Sr. Joan’s retirement party at a gathering from 4 to 6 on Wed. May 22 at our office, 211 E. 43rd Street, suite 1600, NY, NY (between 2nd and 3rd). If you can’t stop by, please send a note, a poem, etc. “Sr. Joan has been a source of inspiration and wisdom to me ever since I arrived at the United Nations, and I am even more impressed by her energy and commitment as the years go by. Her leadership in the community of religious NGOs has helped usher in a new era of respect and cooperation, both among faith groups and with the UN agencies, departments and Missions. It’s impossible to imagine her as retired, so I’m sure she will be re-inventing the meaning of the term!” |
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