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New York Explorers Club Hosts Global Book Launch of Hope for Life on Our Planet: Inspiration for Seven Generations for 80th UNGA and Climate Week
NEW YORK , Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Explorers Club hosted a star-studded global book launch event to celebrate the 80 UN General Assembly and 16 annual Climate Week gathering of global heads of state, business, cultural, scientific and academic leaders for Hope for Life on Our Planet: Inspiration for Seven Generations. With speaker, overflow rooms, and balconies filled, Explorers Club President Emeritus Ted Janulis and Explorers Club Trustee and Poet Laureate Leonard Levie, Chairman of AIAC, opened the event. Book editor and co-author, Dr. Osvald Bjelland , Founder and Chairman of the Origination Foundation, shared the story of the book's genesis and the mission of over 60 notable contributing authors across interdisciplinary sectors. Bjelland shared the story of his efforts through former Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee Berit Reiss-Andersen to secure an opening essay for the book from Iran's Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi – then under solitary confinement in Iran's Evin prison. The audience was stunned when Bjelland unveiled a live video link with Mohammadi in Tehran to speak.
Global icon ethologist and conservationist and Verizon Chairman and CEO delivered co-author tributes on the importance of the book and of hope for our times. A distinguished panel followed with other co-authors Vidar Helgesen , Norway's former Minister of Environment and Executive Director of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, Jonathan Granoff , UN Representative for the Summit of Nobel Laureates, and scholar Dr. Robert Thurman , Columbia University Professor Emeritus of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, moderated by Bloomberg News' Lyndsay Howard . Actor and UN Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas ' speech on leadership and human values closed the event.
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's contributing authors include three Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Iran's , Ukraine's , and two-time president of Costa Rica ; religious leaders such as the late ; business leaders with World Bank president , Verizon's , Tata Sons' , and Swedish green steel giant Stegra CEO , as well as original essays from science, conservation, and exploration giants such as and polar explorer , among over sixty voices, many of whom joined the Explorers Club book launch.
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