Climate, culture, and the need for a new enlightenment
By Aaron Karp, Freedom and Survival
We are called to awaken each other and collectively author our common future. What could be more meaningful than that?
Tag: social change
Prefigurative Societies in Movement
By Marina Sitrin, Global Tapestry of Alternatives
Something new is happening – something new in content, depth, breadth and global consistency. Societies around the world are in movement.
Why Vision? Why Strategy?
By Bridget Meehan, ZNetwork
It’s impossible to talk about Vision without also talking about Strategy for they are two sides of the same coin and they are both necessary. Without Strategy, we can never reach our Vision. Without Vision, our Strategy will meander aimlessly.
From Crisis to Transformation
By Kali Akuno, Katie Sandwell, Lyda Fernanda Forero, Jaron Browne, Transnational Institute
This primer seeks to explore why it is imperative to orient ourselves and our social movements towards a Just Transition and how we can consciously and deliberately move away from the dysfunctional and destructive systems that are leading us towards extinction.
Part One: The Rising of Ubuntu.Lab
By Hannah Scharmer, Medium
The Ubuntu philosophy is: I am because you are. We have already been seeing the importance of the quality of relations threading itself through the story of Ubuntu.Lab from day one.
From a Dystopian Present to a Gaian Future
By Tom Ellis, Gaianism
So…imagine that somewhere, or in many places at once, a self-replicating Gaia movement were to start, whose adherents call ourselves, simply, “Gaians.”
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 87 Phoebe Barnard
By Vicki Robin, Phoebe Barnard, Resilience.org
Phoebe Barnard is an environmental and societal futures analyst, sustainability strategist, global change ecologist, biodiversity conservation biologist, climate risk and resilience specialist, policy wonk, and film co-producer. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 85 Seth Godin
By Vicki Robin, Seth Godin, Resilience.org
Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?
Silent Stalwart
By Phila Back, Phila Back blog
Like the profuse blooms of the brown-eyed susan, a multitude of people must come forth to fully pursue, serve and save life.
Standing at the edge of change
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
The world’s population of humans stands at the edge of rapid change and the future appears unimaginable.
Just… Stop…
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
To effect real change you have to do something to create those changes. Change is work, not theatre. If you want tangible benefits, you have to craft something more tangible than a message.
Why Resistance Matters: Resistance & Regeneration
By Marissa Mommaerts, Transition US
The growing movement for regeneration offers a much needed reframe of how to fully show up in our humanity at this critical moment in our planet’s history.