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.
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.”
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.
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 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
Quotes and testimonials
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 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 the end of 2020, 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 4th quarter of 2020. 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.