by Omega | Apr 29, 2021 | Resilience
The problems philanthropy seeks to remedy are big, messy, and complicated. Yet far too often, we try to combat them with simple responses. Faced with child hunger, we focus on giving children food; but we don’t connect that work to creating a national minimum wage,...
by Omega | Apr 27, 2021 | Economy
The times are calling us to find and address root causes: A global pandemic, deepening inequities, worsening natural disasters, a tsunami of species extinctions, rising authoritarianism around the world, and polarization fueled by AI-driven tech. Why are these trends...
by Omega | Apr 21, 2021 | Environment, Watchlist, Webinar
In this Omega Conversation, Shorey Meyers speaks with Dr. Shanna H. Shwan and Dr. Pete Myers about population trends. Dr. Shanna Swan’s recently published book Countdown describes the long-term trends of declining reproductive health in men and women across a wide...
by Omega | Apr 9, 2021 | Resilience, Webinar
In this Omega Conversation hosted by Omega founder Michael Lerner, David Korowicz discusses anticipatory preparedness. Dr. David Korowicz is a physicist and human systems ecologist. He has over a decade of experience working on large-scale and catastrophic risk. This...
by Birju Pandya | Apr 5, 2021 | Worldviews
By Birju Pandya for Omega The recent group discussion around the ‘Underestimating the Challenges of a Ghastly Future’ (UCGF) paper felt quite lively and meaningful to me, grateful for the opportunity to attend! As I took in the discussion, I had a few reflections...
by Omega | Mar 30, 2021 | Books, Resilience
This was my starting place for polycrisis reading, and I was pleasantly surprised by how optimistic and engaging it was. I got the audio version and walked many miles listening to this uplifting book. If you want to wrap your head around these troubling times with...
by David Bonbright | Mar 30, 2021 | Polycrisis
If you watched the excellent series on the Chernobyl disaster, you can see with perfect hindsight why many say that Chernobyl was the proximate cause for the collapse of the Soviet Union. You can see it in the way incentives drove bad decisions, which reinforced each...
by Omega | Mar 30, 2021 | Books, Environment, Fiction
By Kim Stanley Robinson Set in the near future, the novel follows a subsidiary body, established under the Paris Agreement, whose mission is to advocate for the world’s future generations of citizens as if their rights are as valid as the present...
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,...
