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FROM WORLD POWER CONFERENCE TO WORLD ENERGY COUNCIL – 1923 -2013

Posted on 22. May 2024

FROM WORLD POWER CONFERENCE TO WORLD ENERGY COUNCIL 90 YEARS OF ENERGY COOPERATION, 1923-2013REBECCA WRIGHT, HIROKI SHIN, FRANK TRENTMANN Published by the World Energy Council, 2013 BIRTHIn the summer of 1924 H. G. Wells visited the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, London. For Wells, renowned for his journalism, science-fiction writing and socialism, a lot of the charade was ‘quite absurd’, but he waspleasantly surprised to discover ‘a strong breath of human common sense’ at the Exhibition. That common sense, Wells explained, was the First World Power Conference, which had been called together by the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association…

World Power Conference (World Energy Council) – Statement by its first Gen. Secretary C.H. Gray

Posted on 29. January 2024

TRANSCRIPT FROM A TAPE CONTAINING A RECORD OF A STATEMENT MADE TO MR THOMAS MEYER (PROSPECTIVE AUTHOR OF A BIOGRAPHY OF D N DUNLOP) BY MR C H GRAY, SECRETARY, INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND BRITISH NATIONAL COMMITTEE, WORLD POWER CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 1928-FEBRUARY 1966, Daniel Nicol Dunlop was born at Kilmarnock in Scotland in 1868. He was the son of a Quaker architect. At the age of about five he moved, after the death of his mother, to the house of his grandfather who was living on the Isle of Arran. He underwent his engineering apprenticeship with the Howe Machine Co….

W.J. Stein: The Earth as a Basis of World Economy

Posted on 16. February 2023

TPA 2 – No. 7 June-July 1937 (The Earth).pdf

The Present Age Volume 6 / No. 11/12 December/January 2022/23

Posted on 6. February 2023

Contents Editorial The Present World Situation Europe Between East and West T.H. Meyer Ukraine Between East and West and Russia’s Intervention Andreas Bracher The USA Deliberately Provoked the Russian Military Operation Herbert Ludwig Struggle for the Seed of Russian Culture Notebook entry by Rudolf Steiner Corona Notes II Andreas Flörsheimer The Coming Hunger Crisis T.H. Meyer Rudolf Steiner’s Chronology of Christ Jesus Ellen Schalk Community and Debt Lecture by Charles Kovacs Remembering Christoph Podak Andreas Bracher FORUM The General Anthroposophical Society (G.A.S.) and its Relationship with Weleda AG T. H. Meyer In the Sign of Great Lines of Destiny Frieder…

The Present Age Volume 6 / No. 9/10 May/June 2022

Posted on 10. August 2022

Contents Editorial Russia, Germany and the Friedman Doctrine The Gate of the Moon and the Gate of the Sun A lecture given by Charles Kovacs Jürgen Habermas and the Corona Crisis Andreas Bracher Corona Notes Andreas Flörsheimer The Epic of Gilgamesh An essay by Walter Johannes Stein May/June Calendar Socially Distanced Auras Commentary by Bodo von Bodolauben Excerpt from Hartmann’s Gilgamesh Book, p. 178 ff. War and Peace T.H. Meyer UK Colum 2022 – War in Ukraine Terry Boardman Interview with Zelensky adviser Oleksiy Arestovych Weighed, Counted, and Found to Be Too Light? Gaston Pfister In the Sign of Great…

Karl Heyer: Esoteric Foundations and Aspects of Social Threefolding

Posted on 30. June 2022

Karl Heyer (1888–1964), lawyer and historian, was one of the foremost pupils of Rudolf Steiner. He was active in the threefold movement of 1919 and out of his experiences wrote a synopsis of the threefold impulse, from an exoteric and esoteric point of view. This appeared originally as an appendix in the book Wer ist der deutsche Volksgeist? (not yet translated). Heyer who had a key conversation with Rudolf Steiner in 1911 and wrote an inspired book on Kaspar Hauser (not yet translated) had a broad overview of this new social impulse. Heyer’s text, which will be published as a…