Post-Growth Challenge Results
Systems Change Alliance
The results of the Post-Growth Challenge are finally here! Back in January, together with Steady State Manchester and The Manchester Meteor, we challenged you to
Category: Society
Making Peace with Paradox
Alina Siegfried
Dualistic thinking is dividing us so how do we integrate complexity and multiplicity in our work towards positive social change?
Future Primal: How our Wilderness Origins Show us the Way Forward
Louis G. Herman
Today, the story we tell ourselves about our economics and politics has run its course and is exhausted. Humanity enters the twenty-first century in a state of extraordinary crisis. Yet we are on the cusp of a revolution of human consciousness.
What Would a Regenerative Economy Look Like?
Daniel Christian Wahl
Daniel Christian Wahl offers a series of questions that can support your community to explore what a regenerative economy would look like in your bioregion.
Decolonizing Environmentalism
Jazmin Murphy
Environmentalism has been unconsciously steeped in the Judeo-Christian concept of man’s dominion over the natural world. Jazmin Murphy explores how this crisis can be redressed by the inclusion of indigenous communities in environmental dialogue, research and action.
Reclaiming Our Common Home
Vandana Shiva
The path to an ecological civilization is paved by reclaiming the commons—our common home, the Earth, and the commons of the Earth family, of which we are a part. Through reclaiming the commons, we can imagine possibility for our common future, and we can sow the seeds of abundance through “commoning.”
What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
Jeremy Lent
We need to forge a new era for humanity—one that is defined, at its deepest level, by a transformation in the way we make sense of the world, and a concomitant revolution in our values, goals, and collective behavior. In short, we need to change the basis of our global civilization. We must move from a civilization based on wealth accumulation to one that is life-affirming: an ecological civilization.
From Nature’s Mutualistic Networks to More Resilient Human Networks
Carolina Carvalho
We have been taught to live in a competitive, survival-of-the-fittest world. But in reality, the natural world is mostly about cooperation. What can we learn from nature’s mutualistic networks to help us make our human networks more resilient?
What Will It Take to “Build Back Better”?
David Korten
In discussing our options, we too often get sidetracked into a debate between political philosophies—capitalism vs. socialism—that sidesteps the larger issues. We need a different framework. Our common future depends on serious institutional rethinking and restructuring to localize power and share it on a global scale.
Buen Vivir: A Concept on the Rise in Europe?
Gustavo Hernández
The concept of buen vivir has gained visibility in Latin America in recent years. Rooted in indigenous worldviews, buen vivir rests on an understanding of humanity’s relationship with nature that is fundamentally at odds with the anthropocentrism of modernity. Gustavo Hernández and Henkjan Laats trace the concept’s rising trajectory and its influence and echos in Europe.
