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2013 Annual Report
Message to Our Friends & SupportersWe are pleased to share our annual report the WHALE Center work to expand its networks and programs to promote global healing in the world, protect our oceans, and build cultures of peace, justice, and sustainability.!!During the past year WHALE Center activities included a stronger emphasis on using new media to communicate our messages including the production of several new video programs and more active and engaged facebook pages. !!Some of the key highlights include:!!❖ The global healing program produced a climate change event.!❖ Pakistan global healing becoming active in human rights.!❖ The Waves of Change program collaborating with Walt Disney Company to produce a
series of six educational videos.!❖ UPEC’s successful advertising campaign to encourage small families.!!WHALE thanks its supporters and welcomes your support of time, money, and participation. !Click Here to make a financial contribution. http://www.trunity.net/whale!!!
2013 WHALE Center Annual meeting !held in Salt Lake City, Utah!Visit to Christ United Methodist Church (CUMC) to see solar panel system. CUMC was one of the first WHALE Center “Whole Earth Churches” and this is one of the outcomes.!
WHALE Board Member Andy Schoneberg arrives in Solar Sunzee Car
Global Healing Initiative
❖ Dr. Reese Halter presents at the USF Patel College of Global Sustainability !
❖ Dr. Reese Halter presents a program for URI grant at the Sacred Lands titled: Lessons from Climate Change Past & Present!
❖ Dr. David Randle Presents on Climate Change at Sacret Lands Conference!
❖ Dr. David Randle interviews Dr. Reese Halter !
❖ Global Healing produces PSA for Sunshine Power & Light!
❖ Dr. David Randle offers Earth Day article in Huffington Post!
❖ Dr. David Randle interviews global healing member Rev MacDonald Sembereka from Malawi.!
❖ Dr. David Randle & Rev. MacDonald Sembereka worked together to send three interns from the USF Patel College of Global Sustainability to Malawi. View an article on their experience.!
❖ Special Earth Day Message to the United Religions Initiative (URI) !
❖ Pakistan Human Rights!
❖ Planning for Logic of Nonsense Conference
The Global Healing Initiative has now grown its Facebook community to 453 persons, a 17% increase from last year. Some Highlights of 2013 include:!!
Visit from Earth Doctor Reese HalterWHALE Center Board member Dr. Reese Haler delivers address to the USF Patel College or Global Sustainability.
View Dr. Halters message to USF College of Global Sustainability
Global Healing Initiative Dr. Reese Halter visits Florida
Dr. Reese Halter and Dr. David Randle present a program on Lessons from Climate Change: Past & Present at the Sacred Lands Education and Preserve.Dr. Randle also interviewed Dr. Halter during this visit. !In addition the Global Healing initiative produced a PSA for Florida Sunshine Power & Light !❖ Dr. Reese Halter Presentation !❖ Dr. David Randle Presentation !❖ Dr. David Randle interviews Dr. Reese Halter !❖ Florida Sunshine Power & Light PSA !
Dr. Halter & Erik Anderson at Sacred Lands
Earth Day
Dr. David Randle provides an !Earth Day Message to URI.!
Human Rights EventWHALE Board member Andy Schoneberg and Pakistan Global Healing Director, Mr. Patras Dewan, hold human rights event in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Rev. MacDonald Sembereka Visits USF Patel Center
Rev. MacDonald Sembereka, presidential advisor to Malawi, made two visits to the USF Patel Center for Global Solutions in 2013.!
Dr. David Randle and Rev. MacDonald Sembereka collaborated to supervise three graduate students from the USF College of Global Sustainability in Malawi.!
Dr. Randle interviews Rev. Sembereka on the student internship program.!
USF features students in Malawi in Quarterly Journal!
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Malawi Meeting in Miami, FLThomas Bisika, MacDonald Sembereka, & David Randle mee to discuss sustainability in Malawi.
Concern for Malawi
Dr. David W. Randle and MacDonald Semberka take backstage tour of the Land at EPCOT and meet with members of the Walt Disney World Animal, Science & Environment team. The purpose of the meetings was to explore possible applications of the Disney food production methods for increasing food production in Malawi.
Malawi has become a major focus of programs for the WHALE Center in 2013 and will increase efforts in 2014
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Dr. David Randle & Michael Mathews!visit Morningstar Fisherman
Purpose of the visit was to see proven low tech food production techniques currently being used successfully in Malawi.
WHALE Board Members David Randle and Jeff Froeschle meet with Disney Events Group for Logic of Nonsense planning.
Major Activities for the Utah Population and Environment Coalition (UPEC) for the year 2013.!Prepared by Wayne Martinson, Chair, Utah Population and Environment Coalition!!
UPEC’s major efforts for 2013 were directed toward the Small Families Campaign in Utah.!!The Objective!!Utah has the highest per capita birth rate in the country. While families and children are wonderful, not enough Utahans are taking into consideration the many factors surrounding families and birthing children: financial strength/weakness of the family, education needs for the parents, mental health, and most importantly, the potential strain on Utah’s beautiful environment.!!Utah -- with its high percentages of Latter-day Saints and exponentially growing number of Hispanics/Latinos -- has a strong cultural tradition of ever larger families. UPEC’s primary goals for this campaign were to conduct a pilot marketing program that:!!1. Raises awareness about the economic, environmental and community reasons for!planning families and limiting family size and!!2. Stimulates conversation about family size in Utah.!This was accomplished with a $40,000 marketing campaign that is a “test case” for future!campaigns!!The following pages are a reprint from a June 26, 2013, Salt Lake Tribune article describing the program. The article can be found at: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/56516469-90/campaign-families-family-fertility.html.csp!!!!
Small families campaign comes to nation’s big-family capital !Family planning » Coalition treats new campaign in the nation’s most fertile state with “care and respect.”
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Wayne Martinson, Susan Soleil and Beth Blattenberger of the Utah Population and Environment Coalition speak at the "It’s OK To Plan Small Families" campaign, launched by the Utah Population and Environment Coalition at the Day-Riverside Library, June 26, 2013.
By Taylor Anderson, The Salt Lake Tribune!First Published Jun 26 2013 02:08 pm • Last Updated Dec 07 2013 11:34 pm!!The presentation started Wednesday with 1,530 (thankfully) clean diapers stacked in boxes at the Day-Riverside Library in Rose Park.!!The pile sat between posters marking the start of the "It’s OK to Plan Small Families" campaign, launched by the Utah Population and Environment Coalition.!!"We knew this topic was sensitive, and we wanted to treat it with the care and respect that it deserved," group chairwoman Susan Soleil said.!!The campaign in the nation’s most fertile state — the big-family capital — will have three components: a new website, radio ads and billboards along Utah’s highways that will stand through mid-September.!!The group trod lightly in its news conference, and statements about the purpose of the campaign varied from controlling Utah’s exploding population and conserving resources to encouraging conversations about family planning.!!"We are not pushing contraception, but rather we are honoring the right of each couple to choose the family size that is right for them," Soleil said, adding that the group isn’t criticizing or making judgments against large families.!
!!Pam Perlich, senior research economist at the University of Utah, said a good indicator for population growth — among other factors — is total fertility rate, which measures how many children a woman could have over the course of her childbearing span.!!For a population to maintain itself, the fertility rate should be around 2.1. "The number for Utah is 2.5," Perlich said, while the national rate was just below 2.!!The rate at which Utah women have children has decreased since 1960, when the fertility rate was about 4.4. Perlich said she expects the rates to increase as the economy rebounds and families gain confidence for planning.!When childbearing rates drop, and there are no major swings in other factors like in-migration, "you have a population where old folks outnumber young folks basically," Perlich said. Japan is dealing with an extremely large elder population due to sustained low fertility rates. Download full report
UPEC is a program of the WHALE Center a 501 (C) 3 Not-For-Profit Utah Corporation.!
Gifts to UPEC are tax-deductible!
In 2013 the WHALE Center assumed total administrative responsibilities of the Waves of Change campaign. Previously the program was co-administered by the WHALE Center and Friends of the U.N. The campaign remains affiliated with the International Oceans Institute. WHALE Center Board member Dr. Noel Brown remains the Secretary General of the Program & Dr. David Randle remains Managing Director.!!The focus of the Waves of Change campaign in 2013 was focused on the new Waves of Change initiative called Blue Community !!Highlights for 2013 included the development and implementation of a new Sustainable Tourism program for the USF College of Global Sustainability using the Blue Community strategies.!!!
Waves of Change!
Waves of Change Blue Community
!Summary of Major Activities for 2013 for the Waves of Change & Blue Community!!
The Waves Change campaign in 2013 worked primarily in the areas of development of the Blue Community program in collaboration with the USF Patel College of Global Sustainability Tourism Concentration program.!!The WHALE Center and Waves of Change Blue Community highlights included production of the following videos in collaboration with the Walt Disney Company. WHALE Board members Dr. Reese, Halter, Brian Schremp, and Dr. David Randle, worked on this six-part series. Dr. David Randle & Dr. Reese Halter subsequently published an article in the Huffington Post for each of the six videos. Those video links are below:!!o Sustainable Tourism: A Potential Force for Coastal Habitat and Marine Environment Protection!o Buildings, Energy, & Transportation Choices in Tourism: A Key to protecting coastal habitat and marine environments!o Water Conservation, Waste Mngt., & Reduction of Plastics Strategies Are Needed to Protect Coastal Habitat & Marine Environment!o Food Choices Are A Key Strategy for Sustainable Tourism !o Sustainable Tourism Includes Protecting Coastal Habitat and Cultural Heritage !o Earth Day: A Reminder to the Tourism Industry for the Need for Education and New Planning, Policy and Management ! !For further info on the Blue Community see: www.bluecommunity.info!!!!!!
Blue Community Video SeriesWHALE Board Members, Dr. Reese Halter, Brian Schremp, & Dr. David Randle, produce new video series in collaboration with Walt Disney Science, Animal & Environment team.
Dr. David Randle & Nikko Hansen attend Walt Disney Co. Annual Shareholder meeting in Phoenix, AZ where Dave speaks on Blue Community Program
L to R, Sully, David Randle, Nikko Hansen, & Mike
Visit with Disney ExecutivesDr. David Randle arranges visit on Earth Day for USF Patel College students to meet with Disney executives. Click Here to Read More
Dr. David W. Randle traveled Vero Beach, to participate in the Tour de Turtles program. While there, he interviewed Matt Hahn on the protection of sea turtles.
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Visit to Loggerhead Marine Life Center
Dr. Randle traveled to Juno Beach to meet with staff and explore collaboration.
Dr. David Randle tour Lowry Zoo facilities to review sustainability practices and possible applications of Blue Community strategies.
Sustainable Tourism Video Series WHALE board members Dr. Reese Halter, Brian Schremp Dr. David Randle, & Program Council Member, Capt. Don Voss. collaborate to produce article and video on sustainable tourism. Click Here to learn more.
Sustainable FoodDr. David Randle takes part in USF program at Anna Marie Island to see a model sustainable food program. Click Here to learn more.
Dr. David Randle & Dr. Reese Halter tour Vision House at EPCOT and !visit Historic Spanish Point for sustainable
Waves of Change supports !The Blue Marble Project. !Dr. David Randle awards !
Dr. Reese Halter with Blue Marble
Dr. David W. Randle, traveled to the Sarasota, Florida as an invited presenter for the USF & Sarasota Sisters City Conference on Sustainability, Renewable Energy, And Sustainable Agriculture Click Here to learn more.
WHALE Board members, Dr. David W. Randle, Dr. Reese Halter, & Brian Schremp, collaborate on article and video on Geotourism featuring Ned Stone, program development coordinator for Guy Harvey Outposts. Click Here to learn more.
Waves of ChangeBecomes Partner of Tampa Bay Green Consortium
! ! A Look to 2014 !
In 2014 the WHALE Center will focus on:
❖ Continued video production for the Waves of Change Blue Community program.!
❖ Continued collaboration with the USF Patel College of Global Sustainability Sustainable Tourism program featuring the 12 Blue Community strategies.!
❖ Global Healing video programs with Dr. Reese Halter and Dr. Randle global issues, public policy, and science!
❖ Continuation of the UPEC Population Media Campaign !
❖ Expanded work in Malawi, Africa!
❖ Development of new Coastal Habitat Certification program.!
❖ Continued collaboration with Dr. Moody on Logic of Nonsense program.
