China, in the spotlight in the last few years due to its vigorous development, never lost its place as a transmitter of lessons from a remote past, of an ancient wisdom. Kung Fu-Tzu’s teachings remain prevailing lessons. 500 years before the Christian era Tzu passed down perennial values in his manual SUN. He said, not with these exact words: “A strong nation must have 5 elements: to respect the sky, to understand the earth, to have worthy values, to have a leader which represents those values, to have method and discipline. The nation that respects these 5 values will prosper throughout eternity and won’t perish.”
Priest Geraldo Magela Teixeira Rector at Centro Universitário UNA
I believe that these principles, so ancient and so lucid, in a way or another guided our actions in the last few years and inspired us to build a sustainable company. The Earth Charter and the 10 Principles of the
As human beings there are a number of questions we’ll
used the same way they’ve been used, particularly in the
communications, by the experiences
never be able to answer. Among them, many contain
last few centuries. There are clearly empty spaces to be
carried out widely by models of
answers which lead us to think of the most extraordinary
filled so that the wonderful conditions, today heritage to
education, now increasingly global.
assembly of favorable conditions to, in a small planet, when
all living beings, may resist and even be bettered in future
We could say that it has been a very
compared to the vast dimensions of the outer space, make
years. Therefore, recent global initiatives of corporate
positive reinforcement of human
the creation and development of life, as we enjoy it on
citizenship, now promoted by the United Nations, since the
technology serving something of the
Earth, possible.
beginning of the XXI century and the Third Millennium, have
utmost importance, as the maintenance
allowed many to unite, all interested in accepting the
of life.
of years ago, show a spectrum of physical and chemical
What is important now is that
species to live, with all the consequences to all other life
everything that we can do to promote
forms on Earth. This, surprisingly, has not been essentially
and distribute, in the terms of the
observed until a very recent past. We must acknowledge
principles proposed, happens on the
his intelligence, started off by mastering fire, an ability
that, concerning life on Earth, the gregarious human
basis of volunteer and conscious
not achieved by any other type of animal life. Through this
society, although possibly having existed for not longer
movements, founded in dialog and
small, but big step to humankind a chain of events allowed
than 150 thousand years, in very little time began to
learning. The idea of the Global
certain results to be reached and to continue to expand,
interfere increasingly with the environment in which we
Compact, released under the aegis of
now every day, by the ingenuity of an immensely superior
live in.
the UN, is a positive initiative, which
how much is given to us as a guarantee to our survival, and to the survival of all life forms, a lot being offered to us and very little being asked in return. Man, by making use of
intellect when compared to any other being in the planet.
This report is the result of a conscious option and the work of our teams which grow every day and become more and more important in our institutions.
SUSTAINABILITY A New Essential Agenda ozires silva reCtor unimonte
principles which, growing further, may start a partnership between homo sapiens, as a species, which allows that
characteristics, whose balance we enjoy, without realizing
Respect to Heaven and the consciousness that there are laws in the Universe which rule us are part of our institution. To understand the Earth is to try to listen to it and respect it. The worthy values have been made real on our Charter of Values. Our leaders and the team of Poliana Abreu, Barbara Munhoz, Henrique Mizzi, Hebert Lima, Thiago Faria, and Vanessa Camargo, under the smooth coordination of Eduardo Shimahara keep monitoring the corporate and educational initiatives so that we take on Sustainability as part of our DNA. We’ve added to all that method and discipline, without which we would get nowhere.
depends on each one’s contribution We also must not allow ourselves to forget that the
and, considering what it could mean
It’s critical to observe that we cannot, without facing grave
alerting initiatives, which have increasingly mobilized
to the future, cannot be without
danger, allow, as a result to all current findings, that many
world forums of discussion and analysis, could only be
deserving our trust and the support of
of the practices from the past be allowed to continue being
promoted by the significant capacity of global and instant
all communities in general.
As a consequence to the new and accelerated means of
ways of living together in which social individual and
production and development, we have reached a boundary
collective relationships, the diverse cultural expressions,
in which all life forms are in danger. Paradoxically, while
the environment, economic and political changes may be
we live the threaten of destruction, poverty persistence,
thought over in an effective sustainability.
human rights violation, predatory processes, we also
Sustainability and education
live at a time of advancements: information technology,
The role of the school must be of a multiplier of new
the expansion of industrial achievements, globalization,
competencies which would prepare the people, whether
robotics, the notion of space and time vanishes,
part of it or not, for a responsible citizenship, seeking a formation which can and should be exerted and utilized
virtual contexts, computerized productions.
in several areas not related to those of formal and curricular knowledge. That is reasonable since society as
In so diverse contemporary spaces, would it be possible to
a whole may constitute a forum where new competencies
think of education and
are multiplied and demand responsible citizenship. Because
sustainability as one? The notion of sustainability predicts a healthy relationship between man and nature, between men and men, between men and economic reproduction.
profª sueli maria baliza dias Rector at UniBH
If man finds himself in all proposals to harmony, a
of that, the School, as a privileged space, among other institutional actors, has an invaluable role in the formation of all citizens. Committed mostly to the formation of active and
sustainable life to the planet presupposes greater
responsible citizens, the School brings together different
care to this that is the most complex being in nature:
actors, promoting production as well as the exchange of
the human being. Therefore, it’s necessary to reinvent
knowledge and information.
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The conditions originated possibly millions, or even billions
Global Compact seem to be inspired by Kung Fu-Tzu’s script.