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How can dreaming up futures which might never happen help communities to build resilience and address the challenges of a changing world?
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Outdated cultures behind America’s failing political system
The political systems of Western liberal democracy are failing. Blinkered by their cultures, most politicians and journalists do not see the extent of this failure.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 60 Vicki Robin
In another solo episode, our host Vicki Robin shares her recent reflections on themes emerging from the “What Could Possibly Go Right?” inquiry.
Democracy Rising 2: Nine Short Arguments for Deliberative Democracy
Our belief and focus in this series is that the dysfunction at the top of our system is both a cause and a consequence of what’s broken at the bottom, and that the power of deliberative democracy is fundamental to fixing that.
Our Self-Imposed Scarcity of Nice Places
Where we’ve allowed cheaper-to-build, cheaper-to-maintain, quality-of-life-enhancing things to become luxuries, that is on us. That is our failure, and it’s a failure brought about to a large extent by bad policy that tells us we can’t have nice things, because nice things are for the rich.
Civilising the State: Excerpt
Those who dreamt and fought for the ideals of democracy, liberty, and equality in the time of monarchs were indispensable precisely because their hopes seemed so distant to the times. They were torchbearers.
Act Global, Think Local
Some thrive at the local, others the global, others at the regional, and others, still, do great bouncing from one to the other to the other. But I think there is value in considering this honestly, and better understanding at what level you want to enact change, and then focusing there.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 59 Ann Randolph
Ann Randolph is an award-winning writer and performer. She has performed her solo shows in theaters across the U.S, garnering awards along the way. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
COP26 and the Five Stages of Grief
The output of COP26 needs to be, as BreakThrough put it, “a ‘big minus’ in emissions, not ‘net zero’ emissions”. But it also needs to communicate acceptance an honest and a truthfulness, that the climate and ecological emergency goes far far deeper than just electric cars and heat pumps, it demands a fundamental reimagining of everything.
When the Bones of our Ancestors Speak to Us: A Fugitive Conversation with Bayo Akomolafe
We can only ally and build stronger coalitions for change with the world around us (and not just with humans). Postactivism is the opening to this.
The Path to a Livable Future
The possibility for a just and sustainable future exists, and there’s plenty that we can do to get there before it’s too late.
This Week on the Latest Episode of “Bubbles:” Cryptomania
Many have made millions on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—literally from nothing—but now things have started getting really kooky!
