by Omega | Mar 27, 2022 | Watchlist, Webinar, Worldviews
In this Omega conversation, hosted by the Omega Collaborative, Omega founder Michael Lerner speaks with nuclear safety expert Professor Tatsujiro Suzuki. They discuss the nuclear implications of the invasion of the Ukraine, including: Nuclear threat and risk of...
by Omega | Dec 21, 2021 | Economy, Watchlist, Webinar
In this Omega Collaborative webinar, Joan Diamond & Nate Hagens speak with François-Xavier Chevallerau about his newly released paper, The Age of Energy Disruptions. François-Xavier Chevallerau provides a briefing on the paper, which was commissioned by the Crans...
by Omega | Dec 12, 2021 | Environment, Watchlist, Webinar
One of the most powerful frames for resilience work is the role of human health in the global polycrisis. While this link is core to the work of the Health and Environmental Funders Network and its global NGO community, it is often not sufficiently appreciated in the...
by Omega | Oct 12, 2021 | Polycrisis, Watchlist, Webinar
Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future” has received widespread acclaim. It has become a fundamental speculative fiction text for those interested in finding hope in climate change and the global polycrisis. Robinson imagines a heat spike in India that kills...
by Omega | Sep 24, 2021 | Resilience, Webinar
In this Omega conversation, Omega founder Michael Lerner is in conversation with Richard Heinberg from the Post Carbon Institute. Presented in Collaboration with Forsight Analysis Nexus Initiative (FAN), Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere (MAHB), The...
by Omega | Aug 5, 2021 | Worldviews
“Nature has begun to deceive us, and some say that nature has ceased to trust us. Most of our old people say that we have always adapted, but the changes have always been gradual. Now the changes are happening too quickly, and we do not have time to adapt to...
by Omega | Aug 2, 2021 | Resilience
Civilization depends on an implicit degree of general optimism. It is a collaborative exercise. Civilization amplifies and accumulates cooperation between strangers. If you expect that you can trust a stranger, that is optimism. If you expect to be cheated or hurt,...
by Omega | Jul 31, 2021 | Environment, Worldviews
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than 82 million people were displaced by conflict in 2020 – the highest number ever recorded. Yet as stunning as that figure is, it might come to be thought of in hindsight – like the current...
by Omega | Jul 27, 2021 | Politics
Now we have a different administration in Washington and the pandemic has abated enough so that office workers are back in cubicles, kids are in school, and airplanes are once again shuttling passengers to holidays, weddings, and business meetings. Does the nation...
by Omega | May 27, 2021 | Polycrisis, Watchlist, Webinar
An international group of 17 leading physical and social scientists, including Omega Advisory Board member Joan Diamond, have produced a comprehensive yet concise assessment of the state of civilization, warning that the outlook is more dire and dangerous than is...
