The Post-Growth Challenge
Systems Change Alliance
Calling writers, artists, designers and video makers!Can you make a Post Growth Policy Package? An initiative by Steady State Manchester in collaboration with the Manchester
Category: Society
Beyond Collapse: The Prophetic Voices of Umair Haque, Ravi Batra, Peter Turchin, and H. T. Odum
Roar Bjonnes
Many writers nowadays are addressing the urgency of acting on the multiple crises we currently face: we are at the brink of civilizational collapse and risk a future of murder and mayhem. But they are not just doomsayers with apocalyptic visions, they also offer solutions to prevent them.
What Comes After the Crash? The Sequel
Roshnii Rose
Inspired by the life and work of David Fleming, economist, ecologist, green political campaigner, visionary and writer. The Sequel is a one-hour documentary made following the publication of Fleming’s great work, Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It.
Can We Work Less and Save the Planet, Too?
Todd Miller
Our current model of productivity and capitalism—and profit and segregation—isn’t the only way. It is possible to create something else, but mental space is needed to dream up new possibilities.
Indian Women Turn to Ancient Grains to Feed Their Families and Their Futures
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues
Vizianagaram district is one of several places in India experiencing the revival of millet cultivation and is becoming a hub of cooperatives, empowering local women.
There must be some way out of here: policies, politics and possibilities in the pancrisis
Mark Burton
As the urgency of the combined economic, social resource and ecological crises facing humanity becomes more apparent, well-meaning policy proposals to transition to a post-growth economy are being put forward. But do they address the heart of the problem?
Land Ownership & Racial Justice
Systems Change Alliance
“We still think of land as property, as inert in some way and something that we can own. What if we related to the land as an animate object and had a reciprocal relationship with it?” Discussion between Josina Calliste and Mark Walton.
A Reset for Unprecedented Times
Natasha Chassagne
Buen Vivir is both a philosophy and a lived practice that puts Earth at the center of “the Good Life.” It embodies the cultural shift necessary to move towards systemic change in how we interact with the natural world.
Six Questions About Whole Systems Thinking
Daniel Christian Wahl
Whole-systems thinking invites us to see the whole as more than the simple sum of its parts, to face complex issues from multiple perspectives, to suspend our judgement by questioning our own assumptions, and to honour insights from different disciplines and different ways of knowing.
The Elephant in the Systems Change Room
Alina Siegfried
Achieving effective systems change requires action at many levels, but we are currently mostly scratching the surface. How can we aim to achieve complete systems change?
