Embracing Interconnectedness

By Jeremy Lent, Great Transition Initiative

It is of the utmost importance to establish the right framework of values for the deep transformation of civilization that is needed. As I have laid out in The Patterning Instinct, different cultures have constructed vastly different systems of values, and those values have shaped history. Similarly, the values we choose today as a society will shape our future. The stakes for getting it right could hardly be higher.

A Higher Calling for Higher Education

By Cristina Escrigas, The Great Transition

We need a new conception of human progress that recognizes the interdependence of the economic, social, political, and environmental spheres.

Interdependence Day

By David Bergman, EcoOptimism

The Fourth of July tends to spark a number of alternative ideas of independence.