The Secret Activism – personal narrative about the (future) world
Secret activism encourages the co-authoring of new, good narratives about the world, to help us empathize and collaborate to build a better future.
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What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 49 John Wood, Jr.
John Wood, Jr. is a national leader for Braver Angels, a former nominee for Congress, former Vice-Chairman of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, musical artist and a noted writer and speaker on issues of political and racial reconciliation.
He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Protecting 30% of the Earth by 2030 would threaten Indigenous peoples
To ensure a healthy, just future for all life on earth, we must embrace decolonization as our guiding environmental policy.
No Time for Castles: From Closed to Open Democracy
Open democracy is a system in which power is equally distributed, or equally accessible at the very least, to ordinary citizens. E
Culture Drives Human Evolution More Than Genetics
In a new study, University of Maine researchers found that culture helps humans adapt to their environment and overcome challenges better and faster than genetics.
The Climate Crisis: Interview with Social Psychologist Kelly Fielding
Of course we need economic, political and other system change, but I think we have to also believe that we, individuals, have a role to play too, and to do whatever we can to address this looming climate crisis.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 48 Penny Livingston-Stark
Penny Livingston-Stark is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer, and speaker. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Wisdom Traditions, Science and the Search for Meaning
The story that Lent tells in The Web of Meaning is filled with fascinating accounts about ancient wisdom traditions such as Buddhism, Taoism, and neo-Confucianism…..and how the insights from these traditions actually intersect with recent findings in biological sciences.
A revolution of the imagination
The function of imagination is to bring “longing into the world”—I’d say that what this does is to create a narrative gap that we are then moved to fill.
Bright Green Lies & Deep Green Deceptions
This book was designed to divide rather than build a movement. It wrote off and ridiculed anyone engaged in fighting industrialism for humanity’s sake.
As more climate migrants cross borders seeking refuge, laws will need to adapt
Climate change is upending people’s lives around the world, but when droughts, floods or sea level rise force them to leave their countries, people often find closed borders and little assistance.
Clint Smith on Juneteenth & Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
What name is there for this sort of violence? What do you call it when the road you walk on is named for those who imagined you under a noose? What do you call it when the roof over your head is named after people who would have wanted the bricks to crush you?
