by Omega | Mar 17, 2025 | Resilience
Between climate, politics, viruses and technology, we have a lot to fear. In his new short essay film LOOKING FORWARD, Oscar nominated and Emmy and Peabody winning filmmaker Steven Ascher explores how our feelings about the future affect how our lives...
by Omega | Mar 14, 2025 | Resilience
Habitat of Greater Charlottesville in Virginia is redeveloping a mobile home park into a financially sustainable, mixedincome, mixed-use community, with the residents leading the way. To realize a community-defined vision forredevelopment, Habitat and the residents...
by Omega | Mar 13, 2025 | Resilience
Strategic foresight itself is not new. It is a well-developed approach to explore and analyse emerging issues andpossible futures, turning the insights into action today. It has been used for decades in other sectors to planahead, innovate and adjust to sudden shocks,...
by Omega | Mar 12, 2025 | Economy
In recent years, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg and many others have poured billions into fighting poverty, protecting the environment and improving health outcomes. Corporate giving has also grown significantly over the past five...
by Omega | Mar 11, 2025 | Resilience
For centuries, we’ve believed that with enough knowledge and technology, humanity could master nature. Our worldview positions certainty (confidence in ‘knowing’ what to expect) and preparedness (capacity to respond with minimal ‘casualty’) as natural allies,...
by Omega | Mar 10, 2025 | Economy
Here we are. The entirety of USAID’s, the biggest bilateral aid donor on earth, programmes were suddenly frozen last week by US President Trump. The organisation’s website is now offline, and the Trump administration is moving to put the free-standing agency...
by Omega | Mar 7, 2025 | Politics
In the seven observations & reflections below I offer some of my own initial sensemaking as part of a broader conversation happening now. These points reflect my own experiences from a viewpoint of awareness-based systems change: the idea that for deep change to...
by Omega | Mar 6, 2025 | Polycrisis
The reason conversations about the polycrisis always seem to hit a dead end is straightforward: they fail to recognize the industrial-colonial paradigm that has led to our crises in the first place. Warning about the polycrisis, the World Economic...
by Omega | Mar 5, 2025 | Pandemics
On Thursday, 38 prominent biologists issued a dire warning: Within a few decades, scientists will be able create a microbe that could cause an unstoppable pandemic, devastating crop losses or the collapse of entire ecosystems. The scientists called for a ban on...
by Omega | Mar 4, 2025 | Worldviews
National food security depends above all other factors on a resilient global food system. Understanding this system is crucial to effective decision-making and the avoidance of crisis. One of the great deficiencies of our education is that few of us are taught systems...
