By Dick Rauscher, Dick Rauscher blog
We humans use our minds to create the world we live in, so the better we understand how our minds work, the more successful we will be in creating the world we live in….and more importantly, the world we want to create.
By Vicki Robin, Stephen Dinan, Resilience.org
Stephen Dinan is an author, speaker, and the founder and CEO of The Shift Network, an organization that delivers virtual summits, courses, and trainings on spirituality, peace, holistic health, psychology, parenting, enlightened business, shamanism, indigenous wisdom, and sustainability. He addresses the quetion of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Dick Rauscher, Dick Rauscher blog
We need to intentionally create a more mature and evolved collective human consciousness. And we are rapidly running out of time to do that essential work.
By Helen Camakaris, This View of Life
It is apparent that our focus should not only be on solving climate change, but should also address other planetary boundaries, and perhaps even democratic renewal, but in every case, we need the means of transitioning from an unsatisfactory system to a better one that focuses on our strengths, and mitigates against our psychological shortcomings.
By Ian Lipton, Resilience.org
Unless we recognize and recontextualize what we perceive as threat, our actions around climate change are going to be insufficient to prevent our demise as a species.
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Self domestication, the process by which humans became a more cooperative and less aggressive species, paradoxically contributes to humanity’s overshoot predicament.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
It’s high time we discussed power more honestly, compassionately, and intelligently. But first we have to understand what we’re talking about.
By Lisi Krall, The Great Transition
The transition from hunting and gathering to grain agriculture was a monumental change in our social/economic evolution where the structure and dynamic of economic life became something distinctively different.
By Donovan C. Wilkin, Resilience.org
Simultaneously husbanding and equitably sharing multiple global common resources is the ultimate social challenge to humanity’s survival. Today specifically, that means navigating the impending perfect storm of simultaneous climate change, soil destruction, and fossil fuel depletion.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
For the foreseeable future, we will have our hands full getting past the ugliness of cultural disintegration. We’ll need whatever morsels of beauty we can preserve or produce just to keep ourselves sane.
By Guy Dauncey, The Practical Utopian
Who are we? And where are we going on this tiny planet of ours, this bright sparkle of life in a Universe so ridiculously vast? It’s a question worth exploring, if you have five minutes in your busy COVID day.
By Eleanor Finley, Uneven Earth
Our biology equips us to understand not only what is, but also what could and what should be. We are ethical creatures; we are nature debating, rationalizing, and thinking with itself.