What if we read more books?

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

When was the last time you read a book cover to cover? And if you are still able to do this, do you feel you read in the same way you did, say, 20 years ago?

Defibrillating democracy

By Rich Wilson, Claire Mellier , New Internationalist

In case you’ve not come across citizens’ assemblies, they are gatherings of people (usually 100-150), selected to be a true snapshot of the place in question (say, a country or city) based on demographic criteria such as gender, age, income and education level.

The Needful Garden

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

Our systems do not meet our needs. None of them are designed to do so. It is time to make new systems.

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 35 Trae Crowder

By Vicki Robin, Trae Crowder, Resilience.org

Hailing from Celina Tennessee, Trae Crowder is a standup comedian, writer, and self-proclaimed “Liberal Redneck.” Trae addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” through his socially aware comedic view...

Facing the Eye of the Needle

By Otto Scharmer, Medium.com

The image of the Ever Given — needing to unload its cargo in order to get unstuck — represents in a microcosm the collective impediment that rich countries and Western civilization embody today: holding on to stuff and refusing to share with those who are on the other side of the social divide.

Conspiracy Theories and Collapse, or… the Story of UFOs and Free Energy (Episode 36 of Crazy Town)

By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org

Are we experiencing a spike in conspiracy theories akin to the days of the Red Scare and the Salem Witch Trials? What’s the role of science and technology in spreading such theories? Have lizard people infiltrated the government in order to hide the truth about how flat the Earth really is?

A Manchester Boldly United for a More Equal Metropolis

By Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org

Manchester’s new strategic gameplan comes from a special commission that metro area’s top governing body created last October “to survey the damage done and the inequalities exposed” over the past year and recommend what Manchester can do to transcend those inequalities.

“The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World”

By Liz Theoharis, Tom Dispatch

Dr. King warned that “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death,” a statement that should ring some bells in April 2021.

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 34 Ellen Bass

By Vicki Robin, Ellen Bass, Resilience.org

Ellen Bass is an award-winning poet, author and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. From her view as a poet, Ellen addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”

How These Danish Bees Give Hope to Refugees

By Agostino Petroni, YES! magazine

Since then—and in the face of rising anti-immigrant sentiment in the European Union over the past decade—Bybi has worked to integrate new arrivals to Copenhagen by taking care of honeybees.

Visionary Inspiration and Practical Strategies for Direct Democracy: “Winds of Change” Book Review

By Marissa Mommaerts, Transition US

“Winds of Change,” the third part of the trilogy that began with The Dandelion Insurrection, is so rich that I simultaneously want to share it with every visionary changemaker I know...

“Them” and “Us”: Shifting Perspective on Responding to the Ecological Emergency

By Lucy Weir, MAHB

I define the ecological emergency as a phrase that encompasses both the environmental crises of pollution, deforestation, desertification, mass species extinction, and climate change, and also the human attempts to conceptualize this impact.