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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.”

50TH ANNIVERSARY EARTH DAY

Earth Day’s 50th anniversary with the global call for environmental reform comes at a time when human health and survival have never been more pressing. The current economic system is at the expense of people, animals, nature and the climate. The ecological damage done to our planet in the past 270 years is enormous. With 50 years of Earth Day, it is therefore also remarkable that after 270 years of industrial revolution, the earth recovers because of the Covid-19 pandemic, many factories and companies are forced to reduce or close production completely. The lesson for all of us is that we as humans must respect nature, which provides resistance to disease. The Covid-19 Pandemic and Earth Day 2020 teaches us that there must always be a balance between man and nature. “We wanted to change the Earth, but the Earth has informed us that we need to change.”

Watch here the appeal of some concerned Dutch people and their contribution to the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

GRADUATED IN THE GLOBALGIVING ACCELERATOR!

Since the start of the SfA project, more than 65 donors have donated more than € 5500 to our fundraising for the realization of a modern bookingsite for the sustainable speaker platform ‘Speakers for Awareness’.

We are not yet at the required amount, but this is already a very nice result that we are very happy with. This also means our fundraising continues! We have been able to start building our online Speakersplatform but still need your help in order to launch Speakers for Awareness in the near future.

Participate in this crowdfunding campaign and help us with the realization of a beautiful booking site, so that the speakers affiliated with Speakers for Awarenesss can soon be presented in a professional manner!
If you transfer an amount to Green Cross Netherlands, please state under ‘Comments’: SfA project.
Thank you.

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View which speakers are already participating in SfA (in Dutch)
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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:

  1. Offering speakers to the market who shine their light on ecological, social and economical sustainability and how to answer these challenges.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 uses part of this money flow to accelerate sustainable development in the ecological, social and economic fields.

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

Sustainability Themes
100 new Dutch top speakers

SfA expects to welcome as participants 2023. Click here for an overview of the current Dutch participants.

50 events

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

€ 250.000

SfA expects to generate for NGO impact projects in 2023. Click here (https://www.gcnl.nl/sfa-impactprojecten/) for an overview of the impact projects.

Quotes and testimonials

“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
VorigeVolgende

Prof. dr. Steven Rockefeller

“Speakers for Awareness is an innovative initiative for promoting transformative change through education and raising consciousness and by mobilizing support for worthy social- and environmental projects. The Earth Charter is being used as the ethical framework for this initiative. This is just the kind of practical use of the Earth Charter that Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong hoped that the Earth Charter would have.”

Prof. dr. Steven Rockefeller, former Chairman of the Board of Earth Charter International

Sir David Attenborough – A Life On Our Planet

In this unique feature documentary, titled ‘David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet’, the celebrated naturalist reflects upon both the defining moments of his lifetime and the devastating changes he has seen. This documentary was released on October 4, 2020 and is currently on Netflix. Sir David Attenborough discusses some of the greatest challenges facing humanity in 2020.

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.
dr. 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.

THE SPEAKERS FOR AWARENESS LOGO

Speakers for Awareness uses the Phoenix as its logo. In Greek mythology, the Phoenix symbolizes immortality and rebirth. The expression “When a phoenix rises from the ashes” is used to indicate that something or someone is blossoming, after having first completely broken down. The spoken word is seen by Speakers for Awareness as “the source from which new thoughts and ideas can arise,” whereby people with new insights and knowledge can come to wisdom. These newly acquired insights are an absolute precondition for raising humanity as a whole to a higher level of existence, with which our world with all the life that arises therefrom has a greater chance of a peaceful future.

COMING SOON

The SfA team is currently working hard to further expand the SfA platform with top speakers. From mid-2023,  international speakers and chairmen will also be added to the SfA platform. The Dutch participating speakers and chairmen can now be (temporary) found on the Green Cross Netherlands site. The new (booking) website Speakers for Awarenes is expected to go live in the 1th quarter of 2023. If you are interested in booking a speaker through SfA and/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

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).

Foundation Green Cross Netherlands

Head office
Rosa Luxemburgstraat 10
6663 LB Lent/Nijmegen
The Netherlands

+31 40 7878787
info@gcnl.nl
www.gcnl.nl

Office hours

Monday – Friday: 10:00-17:00
Saturday – Sunday: Closed

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