Why We all Need to Stop Worrying about Climate Change (and What to Do Instead)

By Max St. John, Medium

I can already see a growing recognition that connection, inclusion, creativity and celebration are the keys to a genuinely better future.

Why the Climate Emergency needs a National Imagination Act

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

A National Imagination Act could have a key role to play in making that a reality. What would you do? How would you enable the imagination to flourish where you live, work, study? What if…

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee

So try something new and get uncivilized. Banish plastic words from your vocabulary, just as you might eliminate plastic from your household.

Excerpt from The Patterning Instinct: Can We Transform Our Society for a Flourishing Future?

By Jeremy Lent, Resilience.org

The easily identifiable forces propelling humanity on its current course are the special interests that gain financially and politically – at least, in the short-term – from continued economic growth and use of fossil fuels.

A Case for Small Climate Stories

By Dylan M. Harris, Entitle Blog

In a world made nonsensical by rapid climate change, perhaps stories, one of the oldest forms of human meaning-making, can help make sense of the changed and changing world.

Turning the Tide

By Otto Scharmer, Medium

We are not alone. “Where there is danger,” the German poet Hölderlin reminds us, “the saving power also grows.” That power is always available to us. The Societal Transformation Lab aims to be a global practice field for this.

Excerpt from The Patterning Instinct | Introduction: An Archaeology of the Mind

By Jeremy Lent, Resilience.org

The book is based on a simple but compelling theme – culture shapes values, and those values shape history. It will show the layers of values that form the norms of mainstream Western culture, and how these continue to shape our world today.

Some Ways to Frame “Regeneration”

By Joe Brewer, Medium

Human activities have degraded ecosystems globally to the point that Earth is now in overshoot-and-collapse. We need to restore ecosystem functions in the coming decades in order to safeguard our collective future.

Axial Shift: The Decline of Trump, the Rise of the Greens, and the New Coordinates of Societal Change

By Otto Scharmer, Medium

These three axial shifts, political, economic, and educational, are replacing the traditional 20th-century public discourse with a new axis of conversation and thought that supports a new avenue for societal renewal.

Zombies, Magic Rocks, and Techno-utopia : Episode 6 of Crazy Town

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

In this episode, Asher, Rob, and Jason search for reasons why the movie theater is so obsessed with Armageddon and the political theater offers empty promises of infinite progress, when the reality is likely to be somewhere in the messy middle.