“Cultivating the Globally Sustainable Self: How the Human Species Might Fulfill its Potential”

The Summit Series has brought together approximately 180 leading and interdisciplinary scholars, educators, and practitioners from around the world to confront urgent global issues. In the fall of 2015, Summit leadership presented these projects as part of a book proposal entitled Cultivating the Globally Sustainable Self: How the Human Species Might Fulfill its Potential to Oxford University Press. Following internal and external review in the spring of 2016, Oxford University Press approved the book project, with an anticipated completion date in 2018. With the aim of reaching and teaching a young audience of high school and college students in the U.S. and internationally, the next step is a video project that features youth-driven and youth-captured film content from at least six different countries across six different continents (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America). By design, the Summit Series includes carefully selected participants from each of these continents who will facilitate the film development process in their respective countries.