Keystone Attitudes and Policies of Enough

By Anne B. Ryan, Feasta

We need keystone policies that are underpinned by a vision of a rich social, personal and economic habitat for people. The role of politics is to design institutions and policies that enable people to co-operate and that facilitate citizens to act for the common good. The policies mentioned above function in this way. If key principles are observed or key attitudes developed, many structural problems can work themselves out in practice.

Finding our Common Ground and Common Purpose

By Sue Pritchard, Sustainable Food Trust

We often talk about how important it is to see the ‘whole system’ – to understand more fully the relationships and interdependencies in the world. Our own work – across food, farming and countryside, public health and wellbeing, economics and rural development – seeks to illuminate the links.

A Brief History of Systems Science, Chaos and Complexity

By Daniel Christian Wahl, P2P Foundation Blog

On the one hand I believe it is vital to accept uncertainty, not-knowing, and unpredictability fully to the point of deep humility. On the other hand, I also believe that we need to choose to act from the conviction that we can design for positive emergence in complex systems even if it is not an exact science and we cannot know with certainty how our efforts will turn out to affect transformative change.

Did Climate Change Cause the Fall of the Roman Empire? No, But What may Have Actually Happened is Amazing

By Ugo Bardi, Cassandra's legacy

The Earth's ecosystem is a typical complex system. It reacts to perturbations, even minor ones, sometimes very strongly. Don't expect it to remain stable just because it has been stable up to a certain moment.

Ecofeminism to Escape Collapse

By Margarita Mediavilla, Resilience.org

From my point of view --which comes from systems dynamics and environmentalism rather than from feminism-- one of the tools that can best help feminist economics articulate a coherent discourse is the pattern of collapse.

Vertical Literacy: Reimagining the 21st-Century University

By Otto Scharmer, Medium

The classical university was based on the unity of research and teaching; the modern university has been based on the unity of research, teaching, and practical application. I believe that the current historical moment, with one civilization ending and dying, and another being born, invites us to reconceive the 21st-century university as a unity of research, teaching, and the praxis of transforming society and self.

Re-wilding the Bauhaus: What its Foundation Course Should be like Today

By John Thackara, John Thackara blog

No textbook for the new foundation course exists – which is probably just as well. The course is better thought of as a journey, than as a body of knowledge.

What are Systemic Alternatives?

By Pablo Solón, Systemic Alternatives

The premise of systemic alternatives is that the environmental, economic, social, geopolitical, institutional and civilizational crises are part of a whole, are interrelated and feed into one another.

Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”

By Julia Adeney Thomas, Local Futures

The challenges of our altered, unpredictable Earth System cannot be met by technological tinkering within the very systems that pushed it over the edge in the first place. There’s nothing for it but to roll up our sleeves and begin the hard work of transforming our political and economic systems with the aims of decency and resilience.

A Science of Qualities: Experiencing the World Coming into Being & Living on the Edge of chaos

By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium

The Science of Qualities is really an extension of conventional science in the sense that it depends upon consensus, agreement and a methodology whereby people come to recognize the agreement or the consensus they have about the qualities of experience of other beings.