On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
Renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees argues that humanity’s prospects depend on our taking a very different approach to planning for tomorrow.
Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems
Panarchy is the structure in which systems, including those of nature (e.g., forests) and of humans (e.g., capitalism), as well as combined human-natural systems (e.g., institutions that govern natural resource use such as the Forest Service), are...
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
It is time, says renegade economist Kate Raworth, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century. In Doughnut Economics, she sets out seven key ways to fundamentally reframe our understanding of what economics is and does. Humanity’s 21st...
Transition Network
Transition Network is a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world. Here we explain what it is, why people do it, how the movement started and give you a sense of our underpinning principles and approach Image from...
The Change
For The Children The rising hills, the slopes,of statisticslie before us.The steep climbof everything, going up,up, as we allgo down. In the next centuryor the one beyond that,they say,are valley, pastures,we can meet there in peaceif we make it....
Courage in dark times
Omega co-founder Michael Lerner writes about how to find the path to courage—facing prospects for global and regional collapse while also seeking resilience in the near future.