What If? there was a daily imagination lesson?
The imagination is radical. It is the only way to get us beyond what is and to get us to what if. It can get us beyond business as usual, beyond what is in front of us.
building resilient societies
Why Do We Struggle? For the Shared Enjoyment of Life and Caring For the Rest of Nature
In 2020 I have frequently found that those who campaign to overcome capitalism from a socialist perspective (in my case, with an ecommunitarian vision) are so pressured by the urgencies of daily action that they lose sight of the final goal of the struggle.
Where’s the Political Leadership We Need?
We face big transitions requiring sacrifice and hard truths from the top. Instead our leaders act like used car salesmen.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 22 Kumi Naidoo
Kumi’s current roles include Professor of Practice, Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University; Global Ambassador, and Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity.
Kumi shares his thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right?
Healing the Hearts and Minds of America
How can we reach the hearts and minds of America when we find it so difficult to understand or accept the ‘other side’? Can we overcome our mutual distrust and dislike of each other?
Both hands now – an introduction to ‘A Small Farm Future’
Well … don’t get me wrong … honestly, I’m with the left, and I’m with the agrarian renegades. But on just a few significant points I’m also with the mainstream economists and the sceptics of cornucopia.
No Matter Who Wins
No matter who wins the election this week we are on the cusp of major change which will require both top-down and bottom up interventions and cultural emergence. I hope you can play a role.
Toward an age of low tech for a more resilient and sustainable society
I believe ‘high’ technology will not solve global problems and propose a different ‘low tech’ approach to building a more resilient, equitable and sustainable society.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 21 Lynne Twist
Lynne Twist is the founder of the Soul of Money Institute and author of the best-selling book “The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life.” Lynne brings a soulful connection to the question of What Could Possibly Go Right?
Review: Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy
If you find yourself overwhelmed trying to make sense of and track the multiple crises now confronting us — climate and energy, economic inequity, systemic racism and sexism, the COVID-19 pandemic — there is good news. Help is at hand.
The US election: perspectives from an ear of grain
The story of trying to hold the existing political centre will be a story of fascism, Caesarism, bread and circuses. Whereas the non-fascist story will be one of trying to create livelihoods as convivially as possible, mostly from the local resources – human and non-human – to hand.
Of Splitting Oak and People (and How to Prevent the Latter)
We can notice where our values have become inverted and choose instead to reassert the values known to support life. As we do, we’ll notice that we are not mere logs inverted on the stump of humanity, waiting to be split, but part of a larger, living tree.
