Planetary Citizens

Planetary Citizens was set up in 1974 and no longer operates.

"PlanetaryCitizens.net's mission is to create, expose and nurture positive change in the world. We hope to give you pertinent information and relevant facts in the process. Donald Keys, speech writer for U Thant in the 60s, coined the phrase Planetary Citizen on the way to creating The New World Alliance. The Occupy Movement, a global announcement of disastisfaction in leadership and a call for change, could be seen as a call for planetary citizens. Numerous groups and organizations are adopting the 12-sector model, illustrated here, as a means toward self-organization."

In 1970 the UN held a "Conference on Human Survival" which was chaired by Lester Pearson with funding coming from the Kettering Foundation. With funds left over from this conference Planetary Citizens was initiated.

Another collaborative project Planetary Citizens helped launch is “The Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose.” “The original inviters of the Planetary Initiative were the leaders of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, the Club of Rome, Global Education Associates, the United Nations Association of New South Wales, and of course, Planetary Citizens.”

Board of Directors (October 1975)
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 * Keith Alleyne, Alfred G. Brauch, Betsie Carter-Haar, Phil Gibbs, Matthew Haai, Anthony Hixon, Mark Horowitz, Jeff Kamen, Laraine Mai, Martha McDougle, Fred Rosenzveig, Stephen B. Shafer, David Spangler, Geir V. Vilhjalmsjon
 * TREASURER - George A. Christie
 * SECRETARY - David Genhon
 * COUNSEL - Charles Teiry
 * REGISTRAR - Donald F. Keys
 * Honorary Chairmen - Norman Cousins, U Thant 1909-1974

Advisory Council (October 1975)
Accessed May 2012:


 * Saul Mendlovitz - chair
 * Roy Amara, Richard E. Andre, Isaac Asimov, Archie J. Bahm, Richard Baker-Roshi, E. Alice Beard, Humberto Blanco, F. E. Boaten, Theodore Brameld, Noel J. Brown, William J. Butler, Peter Caddy, Sri Chinmoy, Andrew A. D. Clarke, David Steindl-Rast, Rene Dubos, J. Duncan Edmonds, Martin Ennals, Roger H. Evans, James Fadiman, Richard Fall, Jerome D. Frank, Johan Galtung, Denis A. Goulet, Alyce Green, S. Spencer Grin, Willis W. Harman, Robert J. Havighimt, Theodore M. Hesburgh, Richard Hudson, Ervin Laszlo, James D. Lenhari, Robert Jay Lifton, Mahavishnu, John McLaughlin, Edgar D. Mitchell, Henry E. Niles, Glenn A. Olds, Alan Paton, V. Madhusudan Reddy, E.F. Schumacher, Russell L. Schweickart, Philippe de Seynes, Salty Swing Shelley, Sir John Sinclair, Harold Taylor, William Irwin Thompson, Erling A. Thunberg, James G. Vargiu, Rene V.L Wadlow, Geshe Wangyal, Lucy Law Webster

First Endorsers
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 * ARGENTINA - Raul Prebisch
 * AUSTRALIA - Julius Stone
 * AUSTRIA - Konrad Lorenz
 * BELGIUM - Maurice Bejart, Paul Henri Spuk 1899-1972
 * CANADA - Lt.Gen E.L.M. Burns, Marshall McLuhan, Lester Pearson, Maurice Strong
 * SRI LANKA - T.S Fernando, Gunapala P. Malalasekera
 * COSTA RICA - Jose Figueres
 * CYPRUS - Archbishop Makarios
 * FRANCE - Marcel Marccau, Darius Milhaud, Abbe Pierre, Jean-Francois Revel, Jean Rostand
 * GREECE - Constantinos Doxiadis
 * INDIA - Rajeshwar Dayal, C.D Deshmukh, Archbishop Angelo Fernandes, Arthur Lall, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Gen. Indarjit Rikhye
 * IRELAND - Sean MacBride
 * ITALY - Giorgio La Pira, Aurelio Peccei
 * JAPAN - Toshio Miyake, Setsuo Yamada
 * LEBANON - Charles Malik
 * LIBERIA - Angie Brooks-Randolph
 * THE NETHERLANDS - HM Queen Juliana, Jan Tinbergen
 * NEW ZEALAND - Sir Edmund Hillary
 * NIGERIA - Chief Simeon O. Adebo, Sir Adeiokunbo A. Ademola
 * NORWAY - Thor Hryerdahl, OddNansen 1901-197)
 * PAKISTAN - Sir Muhammcd Zafrullah Khan
 * PHILIPPINES - Carlos P. Romulo
 * PUERTO RICO - Pablo Calais 1876- [973
 * ROMANIA - lorgu Jordan, Ion Nicodim
 * SWEDEN - Gunnar Myrdal
 * SWITZERLAND - Salvador Dr Madanaga, Adrian Pell, Jean Piaget
 * TIBET - The Dalai Lama
 * UNITED KINGDOM - Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, Lord Ritchie-Calder, Lord Hugh Caradon, Christopher Fry, Philip Noel-Baker, C.P. Snow, Arnold Toynbee, Peter Ustinov
 * UNITED STATES - Roger Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Canon Blake, Elite Boulding, Kenneth Boulding, Harrison Brown, Alexander Calder, Judy Collins, Luther Evans, R. Buckminster Fuller, Frank Herbert, Paul G. Hoffman, Robert Hutchins, Coretta Scott King, Ingrid May, Rollo May, Yehudi Menuhin, Arthur Miller, Morris Mitchell, David A. Morse, Isamu Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Victor Reuther, Pete Seeger, Leopold Stokowski, Alben Szent-Gyorgyi, John Updike, Kurt Vognegut, George Wild, Earl Warren, James Watson
 * UPPER VOLT A - Joseph Ki-Zerbo
 * WEST GERNANY- Martin Niemoller
 * YUGOSLAVIA - Leo Mates

Contact

 * Planetary Citizens
 * Attention: Zen Benefiel
 * 925 S. Sailfish Dr.
 * Gilbert, Arizona USA, 85233

Web: http://www.planetarycitizens.net/contact.html

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 * Alyce Green
 * Virginia Satir
 * Thomas Pliske
 * William J. Butler