SPEAKERS FOR AWARENESS

COMING SOON

Speakers for Awareness (SfA) is a speaker platform with the purpose to increase impact on and awareness of ecological, economical and social sustainability.

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THE CHANGE

Mother Nature is speaking

Julia Roberts is the voice of Mother Nature in this powerful and confronting video of Conservation International. This short video is a real wake-up call about the relationship between humans and the Earth.

“How you choose to live each day, whether you regard or disregard me, doesn’t really matter to me. One way or the other, your actions will determine your faith. Not mine.”

GRADUATED IN THE GLOBALGIVING ACCELERATOR!

Since June, 2019, over 65 donors have already donated more than € 5500 to our fundraising for Speakers for Awareness. With this result, we have also secured a permanent space for Green Cross on the non-profit crowdfunding platform GlobalGiving. This also means our fundraising continues! We have already been able to start building our online platform, but we still need your help in order to launch Speakers for Awareness.

Please visit our project page on GlobalGiving to make a donation.

Conventions

You will create deeper content and an involved atmosphere for your convention by booking a top speaker through Speakers for Awareness. This will change the minds ánd hearts of your visitors.

(Corporate) Events

An important event for your organisation is coming up. With a speaker from Speakers for Awareness you’ll show and tell the social involvement of your organisation. This will certainly be appreciated by (future) employees and other key stakeholders.

Special occasions

Every occasion where you as an organiser would like to make a lasting positive impression on your guests or audience and also would like to contribute to an impact project, can be easily facilitated by Speakers for Awareness.

Speakers for Awareness

Speakers for Awareness (SfA) is a speaker platform founded in The Netherlands in 2019, under the flag of Green Cross Netherlands (part of the international sustainability and environmental organisation Green Cross International, founded in 1993 by former president Mikhail Gorbachev).

Speakers for Awareness is a platform with the following goals:

Offering speakers to the market who shine their light on ecological, social and economical sustainability and how to answer these challenges.
Donating fees of speakers to what we call ‘impact projects’ from NGO’s, foundations and other organisations which are working on the transition to a sustainable world.
Increasing the awareness of and transition to a sustainable society on the one hand and directly supporting local, national and international impact project with similar goals on the other hand.

The speaker world is a large market to which millions of euros flow – and that’s just in The Netherlands. Currently, this money is largely going to commerical parties. SfA will use this money flow to speed up sustainable development in ecological, social and economical areas.

The ‘Butterfly Effect’

If you throw a stone into the water, waves will start to arise at the water surface, concentric circles which exist out of increasingly small ripples as they move out of the place where the stone disappeared into the water.

Those ripples are caused by ourselves as well, all day long, throughout our whole lives, in the lives of other people in our world. By doing what we are doing or not doing, saying or not saying and by simply being, we are exercising influence on the inner world of others. We are often neither aware this is happening, nor are we aware of the ripples that our fellow human beings create within ourselves.

How heartwarming it can be when someone tells you that something you said or did, really meant something to them – whether it was weeks, months or even years ago. But even the small things like taking the time to listen to someone, smiling, handing out a compliment or a pat on the shoulder, are causing ripples in people’s souls. Some ripples will resonate for a little while, some for a day, but ripples can last for years, a whole life or even make their way to other generations.

Join to amplify the change!

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Jane Goodall, anthropologist, biologist and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute

SUSTAINABILITY THEMES

60 Dutch top speakers

SfA expects to welcome as participants in 2019 and 2020

100 events

will be provided yearly with a top speaker by SfA – and that’s just in the Netherlands

€ 165.000

SfA expects to generate for NGO impact projects by 2020

“A human being is part of the whole, which we call “the Universe”. Our task should be to increase our circle of compassion, in order to encompass all living beings and the whole nature in all of her beauty”

Albert EinsteinScientist and philosopher

“Poverty is the father of revolution and crime”

AristotleFilosopher

“All people are the same. It’s merely their customs which differ”

ConfuciusThinker and social philosopher from ancient China

“Whoever wants to be rich, should not increase their wealth, but decrease their greed”

PlatoGreek sage

“It’s important for us to have good thoughts, because we become what we think”

BuddhaSpiritual leader on whose teachings Buddhism is based

“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love”

Martin Luther King Jr.Civil Rights Activist

“We desperately need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism”

Mikhail GorbachevFounder Green Cross International and former president USSR

Speakers for Awareness (SfA) is an initiative by

Green Cross Netherlands

Founder Green Cross International

Mikhail Gorbachev

In 1993, former president Mikhail Gorbachev founded the international sustainability and environmental organisation Green Cross International.

Click on his picture to see a short video (1:15 min.) in which Mikhail Gorbachev speaks on the necessity of Green Cross.

Ambassador Green Cross USA

Leonardo DiCaprio

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the ambassadors for Green Cross USA (Global Green). He addressed his concerns about the imminent climate crisis when he received his Oscar for Best Actor.

Click on his picture to see the video of his speech as UN Ambassador for Peace during the opening of the Climate Summit 2014.

Ambassador Green Cross NL

Victoria Koblenko

Actress, presenter and columnist Victoria Koblenko is ambassador of Green Cross Netherlands.

Victoria promotes sustainability in fashion through various initiatives.

The Committee of Recommendation of Green Cross Netherlands is composed of:

Dr. Herman WijffelsCo-founder of Worldconnectors and professor ‘Sustainability and Societal Change’ at the University of Utrecht. Former CEO of the Rabobank, former president of the SER and former Dutch director at the World Bank in Washington.

Dr. Jan TerlouwWriter, former politician at D66 and former Minister for Economic Affairs. In 1991 he was appointed as The Queen’s commissioner in Gelderland. After his retirement Terlouw remains committed to nature and the environment.

Prof. dr. Dorien PessersLawyer, philosopher of law and columnist. Taught history of law the Free University of Amsterdam and at the University of Amsterdam. Co-founder of Clara Wichmann Institute and member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.

Dr. Jan PronkFormer Minister of Development Cooperation and Housing. Former president of the World Environment Conference. Pronk held various functions at the UN, among else as former special UN envoy for the Darfur region in Sudan.

Prof. dr. Mechteld JansenRector and Chair of the Board at the Protestant Theological University (PThU) in Amsterdam and Groningen. She also teaches missiology at this university.

Princess Irene van Lippe-BiesterfeldPrincess Irene focuses on the revaluation of the relationship between people and nature. In 2000 she founded the ‘NatuurCollege’, an NGO which commits itself to the preservation, conservation and valuation of the natural environment by promoting personal involvement and awareness. Princess Irene is a member of the Club of Budapest.

The Advisory Board of Green Cross Netherlands is made up of:

Bart-Jan KrouwelCo-founder of the Triodos Bank, former director Sustainability and Social Innovation Netherlands and former director Green Cross Netherlands.

Maurits GroenCommunications advisor, activist and entrepreneur who occupies himself with environmental and developmental issues. According to national newspaper Trouw the most sustainable doer and thinker in The Netherlands in 2015.

Bas de LeeuwManaging Director at the World Resources Forum, full member of the Club of Rome and former senior staff member of the United Nations Environment (UNEP) secretariat.

Prof. dr. André FaaijProfessor energy transition and director of the ‘Energy Academy Europe’.

Jesse van DorenSocial media, technology and innovation expert.

Henry MentinkFounder of the first Dutch car sharing organisation ‘MyWheels’ and owner of ‘Het Veerhuis’ in Varik.

COMING SOON

At present we are powering through with our team to launch the SfA platform. We expect to go live autumn 2019. This will be accompanied by a new (booking) website. In case you are interested to book a speaker through SfA at this point or would like to receive more information, please contact us at info@speakersforawareness.org or give us a call on +31 40 7878787.

SPEAKERS FOR AWARENESS

COMING SOON

Mother Nature is speaking

GRADUATED IN THE GLOBALGIVING ACCELERATOR!

Conventions

(Corporate) Events

Special occasions

Speakers for Awareness

The ‘Butterfly Effect’

SUSTAINABILITY THEMES

Green Cross Netherlands

Founder Green Cross International

Ambassador Green Cross USA

Ambassador Green Cross NL

The Committee of Recommendation of Green Cross Netherlands is composed of:

The Advisory Board of Green Cross Netherlands is made up of:

COMING SOON

Speakers for Awareness

Foundation Green Cross Netherlands

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