Background:  A fraction of my "hardware" collection from those days

EXAMPLES OF LOST OR FORGOTTEN HISTORIC FACTS

From 1980 to 2001, I was a Convenor of the Energy & Environment Track, one of the 16 tracks within the UofT/OISE based Global Foundation for Understanding. It was founded on occasion of the First Global Conference on the Future in Toronto in response to the appeal by Aurelio Peccei, president of the Club of Rome and ultimately the Founding Patron of Toronto/2000.

Initially incorporated as “Toronto/2000”, under the leadership of Don Toppin, the Canadian futurist who popularised the Patrick Geddes' slogan "Thinking Globally, Acting Locally", and the author of “This Cybernetic Age”, assisted by his Energy Task Force oordinator and my dear, late friend professor Helmut, Ken Burkhardt (also a physicist from Stuttgart University), Director of the Ryerson Energy Centre and President of International Society of Systems Science, a group of 35 founding members established 16 tracks focussing on imminent global issues and identifying all possible, alternative outcomes. N.B.: When updating this page, I found Don Topin's This Cybernetic Age, Jan 1, 1969 on Amazon.

One particular track of Toronto/2000 was the Global Governance and Registry of World Citizens, coordinated by Helen Tucker of the World Citizens Centre in Mississauga. As the track name implies, she was actively involved in making people aware of  the need to establish a global citizenship beyond the national boundaries of feuding countries. In her view, nations would ultimately realize that the survival of this blue planet of ours depends on all humans becoming more globally concerned and interconnected; much like centuries ago, feuding city-states realized that their survival and prosperity would improve by dismantling their fortifications and forming countries...

While posting my lanyard ID to the Home page of this website (taken in 2018 for access to GBC's Waterfront lecture rooms), I was reminded of my World Citizen’s Card from 1982.     Had I ended up in another parallel universe, a copy of a more recent ID card of the "CIUDADANO DEL MUNDO" No. 022473 would have graced my Home page.