Our Actions Create the Future: A Response to Jem Bendell

By Jeremy Lent, Patterns Of Meaning blog

I believe that hope has a crucial role in healing, and in driving our engagement in effecting the deep transformation we need.

Jeremy Lent: Human History and the Climate

By Alex Wise, Jeremy Lent, Sea Change Radio

As we move into a new year, and try to square 2017 in our rear view mirrors, it’s an opportune moment to contemplate how we avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, both recent and ancient. This week on Sea Change Radio, we get philosophical with Jeremy Lent, whose new book, The Patterning Instinct seeks to explain what has made us tick as a species over the millennia.

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Patterns of Commoning

By Silke Helfrich, P2P Foundation Blog

Just like farmers, we cannot really know how big and copious the harvest will be, or when exactly it will come. But we keep seeding to help make the commons visible at different levels...

Becoming Pattern Literate

By Toby Hemenway, Pattern Literacy

The word “pattern” takes us over a vast territory.