by Omega | Mar 29, 2021 | Pandemics
The COVID-19 pandemic is widely seen as a potential turning point after which almost everything could be different. Margaret MacMillan, the eminent historian, has compared this crisis to the French and Russian revolutions – points at which the river of history changed...
by Omega | Mar 29, 2021 | Pandemics
By Michael Lerner The first thing to overcome with the coronavirus is fear. The virus is certainly dangerous. The likelihood is we will need to learn to live with it. A “new normal” will emerge with its own protocols for traveling, meeting, caring for each other,...
by Laurie Laybourn-Langton | Mar 8, 2021 | Polycrisis
By Laurie Laybourn-Langton I was born at the end of the eighties, this side of Hansen’s testimony to the US Congress and before the first Scientists’ Warning and Earth Summit in 1992. Much of the subsequent mainstream narrative on the environmental crisis...
by Ashok Khosla | Mar 7, 2021 | Resilience, Watchlist, Webinar
Dr. Ashok Khosla stands almost alone in the world in his leadership of the modern environmental movement. His wisdom, creativity, and humility rooted in his great compassion and respect for all humanity, as well as his Ph.D. in experimental physics, have been a source...
by Akwasi Aidoo | Feb 22, 2021 | Culture, Webinar
How do we organise around love but not exclude organizing around what enrages us, around what is unjust? How might love become the driver of transformation? How can we live with, and even embrace the paradoxes, become better facilitators and agents of the kinds of...
by Christina Conklin | Nov 4, 2020 | Polycrisis
This year we have all witnessed how major global stressors—from climate change and income inequality to pandemics and autocracy—can impact each other and cause massive, cascading changes in our world. At the same time, other factors including pollution, artificial...
by Omega | Oct 21, 2020 | Culture, Watchlist, Webinar
In this Omega Conversation, Shorey Meyers speaks with Raj Patel, an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. In addition to numerous scholarly publications in economics, philosophy, politics and public health journals, he regularly writes for The Guardian,...
by Omega | Jul 20, 2020 | Polycrisis, Watchlist, Webinar
In this Omega Conversation, Omega founder Michael Lerner is joined by Nate Hagens. They discuss how to navigate through this period of COVID in the face of an increased likelihood of serious economic hardship. During this time, Hagens has been meeting with civil...
