About The CPCS Initiative

The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative provides research and analysis for critical challenge alerts, and research and support for collaborative problem solving, community education, and citizen peacebuilding initiatives which seek to maximize citizen participation, and accelerate solution-oriented activity

Key Documents

1.  “Global Warming Awareness, Climate Change Awareness, and Climate Emergency Action”​  A Survey:  1961-2020”  (240 highlights from reports, websites, articles, books, etc.) (316 pages; November, 2020)
2.  “Quick Reference to 10 Key Graphs and Charts” (6p)   (last six pages from “Survey” in #2 above) 
3. ”Unprecedented Challenges Ahead—March 2024” (4 pages)
4.  “17 Tweet Series Summarizing the ‘Constellation of Initiatives’ Approach” of
The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative 
(10 pages; June, 2020) (in document form, as pdf file)]
5.  "Sample List of 231 positive tipping point organizations and institutions" (12 pages; December, 2020)
6. “Maximizing Citizen Participation and Accelerating Solution Activity in a Time of Unprecedented Challenges”  (6 pages; December, 2021)  (Draft Syllabus-short course)
7.   “Neighbor to Neighbor Community Education (NTNCE) Project” (6 page Overview; May, 2015)
8. “Community Resilience and Cultural Sustainability Survey” (10 pages; March, 2022)
9. “Large Cities are Not Sustainable--and will not help us get to Zero Carbon ASAP”
(148 pages; May, 2022) (Complete Report) (May, 2022)
10. “26 Example tweets from my Twitter Account” (17 pages; July, 2022)
11. ”Triggering Positive Social, Environmental, Economic, and Cultural Tipping Points”
[20 pages, September, 2022; added overview of wetlands methane increase (runaway?), CPCS vision]
12. “61 Indicators of a Convergence of Unprecedented Challenges” (3p; Jan., 2023)
13. “Quick Resilience Questionnaire” (3 pages; September, 2023)
14. “1000s of “Positive Tipping Point orgs —> Global Clearinghouse risks/solutions
= Hub support for *local* #Ed #CivilianClimateCorps #SelectiveBuying #ConscientiousObjector #SmallerHabitats #EmergencySharing #Peace
= limiting #GlobalWarming in #10years” (6 Tweet Thread; 6 pages; November, 2023)
15. Template for ”Letter Appeal to Accelerate Climate Emergency Action”
(sent to 75 universities and colleges March-April, 2024)
16. “Wisely Directed Investments of Time, Energy, and Money (the ‘votes’)”
(4 pages; May, 2024) (also pinned tweet at X)
17. “Can we fix it?” (1 page; July 14, 2024) (Letter to the Editor—162 words)
18. “3 Page Overview of Permaculture” (September, 2024)

Larger Compilations of Challenges and Solutions
1.  "IPCR Critical Challenges Assessment 2011-2012: Summary Report"  (444 pages; January, 2012)  (Table of Contents)
2.  "Invitation Package for Possible Board of Advisors"  (589 pages; November, 2013)  (Table of Contents)
3. “Harvest Song” (78 pages; December, 2018) (summary of challenges and solutions)
4.  “Brainstorming 100% Reduction in GHG Emissions ASAP Campaign” (157 pages; June, 2019) “Press Release” (14 pages; September, 2019) [Appendix 10 in the 157 page paper is a list of 616 positive tipping point organizations and institutions with Twitter profiles, in 30 categories (see p. 69)]--and related Brainstorming Zero Carbon ASAP Project “Initial Contact Letter” (6 pages; January, 2021)

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“… there are truths which none can be free to ignore, if one is to have that wisdom through which life can become useful. These are the truths concerning the structures of the good life and concerning the factual conditions by which it may be achieved….”
[From “General Education in a Free Society, The Harvard Committee (1945)]

“… every article in the bazaar has moral and spiritual values attached to it… hence it behooves us to enquire into the antecedents of every article we buy…. “ (p. 53)
If we feel it is beyond us to guarantee the concomitant results of all our transactions, it necessarily follows that we must limit our transactions to a circle well within our control. This is the bed rock of swadeshi… The smaller the circumference, the more accurately can we guage the results of our actions, and (the) more conscientiously shall we be able to fulfill our obligations as trustees.” (p. 60)
[From “Why the Village Movement?” by J.C. Kumarappa   The All India Village Industries  Wardha, C.P,  1946 (at https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.118819 ) (using page numbers in the book)]

“The transition from an unsustainable fossil fuel-based economy back to a solar-based (agriculture and forestry) economy will involve the application of the embodied energy that we inherit from industrial culture: This embodied energy is contained within a vast array of things, infrastructure, cultural processes and ideas, mostly inappropriately configured for the ‘solar’ economy. It is the task of our age to take this great wealth, reconfigure and apply it to the development of sustainable systems.” [from “Energy and Permaculture” by David Holmgren (1994)]

“Summary of The CPCS Initiative” (4 pages; March 1, 2024)



”4 Tweet Thread re Rockstrom Transcript 6 4 24” (6 13 24)
(transcript for Dr. Johan Rockstrom presentation at Berlin Aviation Summit)

”Building #GHG emission-free supply chains
and #SRI enabling-peace supply chains”
(4 pages; May 29, 2024)
[4 tweet thread; above (featured), and pinned tweet at https://x.com/StefanPasti/status/1796072153898492406 ]


”Risk Assessment and Solutions Briefing” [18 pages (with July edits); July 9, 2024]
(most recent)

”Template for Letter to 50 university Alumni Representatives”
(post mailed July-August, 2024 with above “Briefing” enclosed)
(now being referred to in @StefanPasti Twitter posts)

Equally Important—About

The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative is an effort to apply the accumulated wisdom now accessible to us towards the general goal of integrating spiritual wisdom into the everyday circumstances of community life--and towards the specific goal of generating practical responses to the challenges of our times.

Key Documents

1.  “Do We Have Moral Compasses We Can Rely On?"  (147 pages; April, 2021)
Supplementary Table of Contents (13 pages) (summary of challenges and solutions)
2. “Key Sources of Inspiration” (51 pages; September, 2021) 31 key sources of inspiration listed followed by corresponding entries, with inspiration excerpts and links (also “Key Sources of Inspiration” webpage)
3.  "Growing Wisdom and Compassion in Small Communities (13 Steps)" (summary document)
[older CPCS Initiative document "13 Steps for Long Term Culture Change" (78 pages; May, 2017)
re-titled in 2019]
4. “An Arrangement of Quotations from ‘Sathya Sai Speaks’ (Vol. 1-15)” (301 pages; 1997, 2006)
5 page Table of Contents includes a sample excerpt of a quote for every section and subsection.
5. "Divine Intervention"  arrangement of quotations from "Sathya Sai Speaks" (Vol. 1-15)-- discourses made by Sri Sathya Sai Baba (1926-2011) during the years 1953-1982 (42 pages) (June, 2009)
6.  "The Spirit of the Sacred Hoop" (10 pages, short story) (First version Fall, 1984; first revision Spring, 2004; minor changes Summer, 2006; Winter 2013-14; Winter 2022-23)  The story is about a tribe of people who are experiencing great challenges, and who go on a great journey to find the tree at the center of the sacred hoop.
7. "Notes on the I Ching"  (5 pages) (March, 2009) “… in a highly developed civilization… every person of good will can in some way or other succeed.” (#50 The Caldron Richard Wilhelm)
8. “An Introduction to Kuan Yin:  Goddess of Mercy and Compassion”  (8 Pages)   (September, 2009) “Kuan Yin's beneficence being suggested by the various objects she holds in her hands: in one, a vase of amrita, the dew of immortality; in the other, a spray of willow branches with which to sprinkle her inexhaustible compassion upon her devotees.”
9.  “30 Propositions and Premises of The CPCS Initiative” (4 pages) (May, 2017; December, 2021) is a helpful view into the balancing I have done between the second mission statement above and the first.
10. “Spiritual Peacebuilding: 47 Quotes and Proverbs” (12 pages; 2007)
11. “’Holding Together’ During the Climate Emergency Era” Climate Emergency Questionnaire
(14 questions; 10 pages) (August, 2019, with minor editing June, 2024))
12. ”On the subject of ‘drawing on the worlds faith and wisdom traditIons to confront the ecological crises’” (27 pages; January, 2023)
13. “The Day of the Verdict:  plaintiff (Humans) v. GOD” (3 pages; July, 2023)
”The Day of the Verdict: plaintiff (Humans) v. GOD” (3 pages; updated re December 12, 2023; Cop28)
14. “It is Time for the Women in the World” (9 tweet thread; 9 pages; November, 2023)
15. “Quaker Queries Conscientious Buying Triggering Positive” (6 tweet thread; 6 pages; Nov., 2023)
16. “The Villages in Our Hearts” (3 pages; January, 2024)
17. “To my dear Divine Jour-ne-yers” (1 page; January, 2024)
18. “Where have we gone?” (1 page; February, 2024)
19. “Summary of The CPCS Initiative” (4 pages; February, 2024)
21. “All My Relatives” (1 page; 367 words; Op-Ed; March, 2024)
22. “Risk Assessment and Solutions Briefing” (18 pages; May, 2024)(with July edits) (most recent)
23. “Flowers from Heaven” (2 pages; September, 2024)
24. “I do hope all these new glitters are a good sign” (2 pages; October, 2024)

One way practitioners of religious and spiritual traditions can make a significant contribution during this Climate Emergency Era is by encouraging and supporting Interfaith Prayer Vigils.
To learn more, visit https://www.cpcsi.org/interfaith-prayer-vigils .

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One of the most persistent ironies in life is that with so many opportunities to provide real assistance to fellow human beings, there are still many, many people in this world who cannot find a way to earn a living providing such assistance. 

https://www.cpcsi.org/231-positive-tipping-point-orgs-and-insti
+ ”Triggering Positive Social, Environmental, Economic, and Cultural Tipping Points” (20 p., Sept, 2022)
+ https://www.cpcsi.org/constellations-of-initiatives-approach
+ "Growing Wisdom and Compassion in Small Communities (13 Steps)"  (78 pages; May, 2017)
+ “God can do anything….” and “Love is My Highest Miracle.”  (7 pages; May, 2023)
+ “1000s of “Positive Tipping Point orgs —> Global Clearinghouse risks/solutions
= Hub support for *local* #Ed #CivilianClimateCorps #SelectiveBuying #ConscientiousObjector #SmallerHabitats #EmergencySharing #Peace
= limiting #GlobalWarming in #10years”

 =  Countless opportunities for all of us--ourselves, our neighbors and our fellow citizens—
to become part of a system of mutual support and encouragement in our local communities

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 “By the examples of your lives, you have to restore confidence among the people in the higher values of life.... Have the picture of the happy, united, love filled human community in your heart. That will give you enough encouragement in your mission.”  [from p. 51 in "An Arrangement of Quotations from 'Sathya Sai Speaks' (Vol. 1-15)"  (301 pages; 1997, 2006)]

“… in no previous Yuga did the people get so many clear intimations of the nature of Avathaar as now….” [from p. 6 in "Divine Intervention"  arrangement of quotations from "Sathya Sai Speaks" (Vol. 1-15)
(42 pages; June, 2009)]

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#HigherEd = solutions hubs for #ClimateAction, #Peacebuilding
and many other challenges “calling and calling” to be resolved
Letter to 50 university alumni reps (July-August, 2024)
https://bit.ly/46f1jBQ
refers to
“Risk Assessment and Solutions Briefing”
https://bit.ly/3Wws1mf 9 times