Policing Is a Dirty Job, but Nobody's Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World

It's time to start imagining a society that isn't dominated by police

José Martín

A Few Thoughts After the #Blacklivesmatter Vigil in Lawrence, KS Tonight

After tonight's ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬ vigil, I don't have the words to speak to how powerful and moving this event was. It appeared there was about

Tim Hjersted

How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live

How can communities rethink ownership to remedy poverty? In this powerful talk, Eric Kornacki shares the story of his journey carrying lessons learned from Central American sweatshops to empower the transformation of a now-gentrifying neighborhood gripped in poverty in his...

15 min

Abolish the Police. Instead, Let's Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality.

When people ask me, “Who will protect us,” I want to say: Who protects you now?

Mychal Denzel Smith

15 Things Your City Can Do Right Now to End Police Brutality

Martin Luther King Jr. said it best in 1966: "[The] law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important also." Two years later, he was shot and killed in Memphis. But his dream that the United States legal system might...

Zak Cheney Rice

From Livelihoods to Deadlihoods

Economic globalization is destroying livelihoods and replacing them with assembly-line drudgery. But there is a path forward.

Ashish Kothari

7 Things You Should Do After Watching 'How to Let Go of the World'

My new film How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change debuted on HBO June 27th.

Josh Fox

Britain Is Not a Rainy, Fascist Island - Here's My Plan for Progrexit

Social justice and democracy must be at the heart of Brexit negotiations. Progressives must unite to stop the UK turning into a Thatcherite wasteland

Paul Mason

Post-Brexit Visions of The Possible: It's Time to Imagine a New European Community

We live in the beginning phase of a global revolution which will turn societal conditions upside down. We cannot stop this transformation, but we can influence where it will go. Will the disintegration of the globalized systems lead to fascist violence and molecular civil...

Martin Winiecki

Bernie Sanders: Here's What We Want

My supporters and I want real change in this country.

Bernie Sanders

My First Journey With Psilocybin Mushrooms

In May 2013, my whole world shifted. At the time, I was living in Amsterdam and I began to feel the call to the Peruvian Amazon to work with the sacred plant medicine ayahuasca.

Arianna Joy

Seven Must-Have Skills for the 21st Century

We live in a world that moves faster than we do. Trying to keep up can be an overwhelming task that at times feels hopeless, like we are falling further and further behind—but it doesn’t have to. We are fully capable of adapting to the changing times, and it begins with...

Tommy Lehe

We Could All Work 15-Hour Weeks, and Get Away With It

Despite countries such as Britain and the United States being five times richer than they were a century ago, we are working longer hours than ever before. And, argues author Rutger Bregman, overtime and overwork are deadly. Yet it doesn’t need to be like this – we can cut...

3 min

It's 2016 and Two Men Kissing Is Still a Stunning, Terrifying Sight

Just existing as a queer person is still a radical —and very dangerous — act.

Noah Michelson

6 Examples of Something for Nothing (And Why a Basic Income Should be the 7th)

I talk a lot about Basic Income, the concept that everyone should be provided a minimum guaranteed income to provide for basic human necessities (food, clothing, shelter). All over the world it is

Matt Orfalea

Transforming the Human Narrative: The Rise of Regenerative Development & Design

The novelist Terry Pratchett once wrote, “people think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.” However it seems these types of dichotomies are often both/and more than they are either/or. It is true that we are shaped by the stories that we...

Tommy Lehe

Alternatives to War from the Bottom Up

MORE THAN AT ANY OTHER time in history, a strong case can be made on pragmatic, utilitarian grounds that war is no longer necessary. Nonviolent statecraft need not be the dream of pacifists and dreamy idealists. It is within our reach. Simply opposing war and documenting its...

Stephen Zunes

Embracing Radical Uncertainty

How to live passionately when we’re not sure how the story will end

Even Dawn

Down With Guilt! There Are Much Better Ways to Get People to Act on Climate Change.

How do you get people to do something about climate change? For years, the answer has been to prod people into thinking about their role in causing it, to guilt trip them into action. Because any human who happens to live in North America has taken advantage of central...

Heather Smith

No Single Project Is the Magic Acorn: How All Our Efforts are Working Together

My interview with Tiziano Bonini has ben published in Italian at Che Fara. Here is the English version:

John Thackara and Tiziano Bonini

The UK Might Leave the European Union. Here’s Why.

Brilliant comic sums up tough choices around EU Referendum

Tom Humberstone

A Monthly Income Just for Being Human, and Other Sensible Ideas

Unconditional basic income, a policy option that seems radical by American standards, is gaining new traction across Europe, Canada, and even a few places in the United States. Also known as “universal basic income,” the policy mandates a guaranteed stipend to every resident...

Leslee Goodman

Zen and the Art of Living Deeply

Cultivating a Beginner's Mind With traditional arts in Asia much emphasis is put on long-term practice and effort, so as to reach continuously higher levels of skill development. There is a deeper character training happening as well, to reduce the ego’s voice, let go of...

Christopher Chase

We Should Look Beyond Economics and Open Our Eyes to Beauty

We seem to have forgotten that the human spirit is not satisfied by material progress alone. It’s time for us to reconnect with nature

Fiona Reynolds

United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)

United Natures explores the rights of Mother Earth, environmental philosophy, wisdom, spirituality, and the potential for a neo-indigenous future for humanity.

104 min

How to Find Your Power (Your Ability to Make a Difference in the World) - And Avoid Abusing It

For the past twenty years, I have been carrying out experiments to find out how power is distributed in groups. I have infiltrated college dorms and children’s summer camps to document who rises in power. I have brought entire sororities and fraternities into the lab...

Dacher Keltner

What a Strange Way of Life (2015) (trailer)

This documentary closely follows the eco-village Cabrum, a recent community in northern Portugal; Cooperativa Integral Catalana, in Barcelona, which practices self-management with its own coins, the Eco; and finally, the self-sustaining community Tamera also in Portugal. The...

2 min

A Brief History of Happiness: How America Lost Track of the Good Life-And Where to Find It Now

For decades, we've been taught that economic growth and buying more stuff will make us happy—while trashing the planet. The good news is, there’s a better kind of happy: It starts with meaningful work, loving relationships, and a thriving natural world.

Sarah van Gelder

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

This is a shortened version of the award-winning feature-length documentary film, The Economics of Happiness. Cut down from 68 minutes to less than 20, it provides an introduction to the concept of localization - a systemic alternative to corporate capitalism - and shows how...

19 min

Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm

In facing up to the many profound crises of our time, we face a conundrum that has no easy resolution: how are we to imagine and build a radically different system while living within the constraints of an incumbent system that aggressively resists transformational change?...

David Bollier

How to Bootstrap a Bossless Organization in 3 Easy Steps

My first impression at OuiShare Fest was a weird utopian blockchain mania: a poorly understood but massively hyped technology that will somehow fix all our social, political, and economic inequities. As I got to know some of the people here though, I started to see through...

Richard D. Bartlett

8 Ways to Defend Against Terror Nonviolently

One of my most popular courses at Swarthmore College focused on the challenge of how to defend against terrorism, nonviolently. Events now unfolding in France make our course more relevant than ever. (The syllabus was published in “Peace, Justice, and Security Studies: A...

George Lakey

Basic Income Gathers Steam Across Europe

In the last few months basic income—an unconditional cash payment to every member of the population—has been getting more and more attention in the media and social networks. Three items are especially interesting.

Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark

Joanna Macy on How to Prepare Internally for WHATEVER Comes Next

“Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great...

Joanna Macy

What Is Economic Democracy?

An animated look at David Schweickart's proposal for a next system, grounded in democratic worker cooperatives and built around public control of financial capital.

4 min

5 Reasons the Fight for Energy Democracy Starts in Communities

It is a sunny April Saturday and I’m running late to an event. This itself is not remarkable – but this time it is because the street I’m looking for in Lambeth is not marked on my map. When I find the launch for Switched On London, I discover I’m not the only one puzzled by...

Fanny Malinen

Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love

Parenthood lies deep within us. We are wired to help our little ones survive and prosper. Modern life, however, has removed us from our natural environment. It can be hard to raise a child in world of fear and distractions. Science and psychology bring back a big dose of...

Vegard Gjerde

Solving a Problem That Has Not Been Named

Many changes happening around us remain unclear. We need better names and stories for them.

Joe Brewer

From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America

More than 1,500 community gardens have been started on vacant land in Detroit alone in recent years.

Sher Watts Spooner

Changing Everything Except What Needs Changing: What's Missing From The Renewable Energy Debate

Among climate change activists, solutions usually center on a transition to renewable energy. There may be differences over whether this would be best accomplished by a carbon tax, bigger subsidies for wind and solar power, divestment from fossil fuel companies, massive...

Steven Gorelick

The Most Eco-Friendly Nation on the Planet Is Now Carbon Negative

Lodged between two of the most populated countries on earth — India and China — Bhutan may be small at 700,000 souls, but it has a mighty role to play in showing the world how to preserve the environment, while also cultivating happiness in its human population. In fact, the...

Carolanne Wright

8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization

There is nothing more difficult to plan, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the creator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.” —...

John Fullerton

What About Human Nature?

In the struggle for a more just society, we will be aided, not hurt, by our shared nature.

Bhaskar Sunkara & Adaner Usmani

Face It: Our Democracy Is a Sham. We Don't Have a Real Say in Most Decisions That Affect Our Lives

Are we able to stop fracking and other threats to the environment from coming into our communities? Are we able to protect local farming from sewage sludge or factory farming? Are we able to protect workers and local economies from multi-national corporations?

CELDF

How to Upgrade Democracy for the Internet Era

Pia Mancini and her colleagues want to upgrade democracy in Argentina and beyond. Through their open-source mobile platform they want to bring citizens inside the legislative process, and run candidates who will listen to what they say.

13 min

What The Wise Ones Mean When They Say "It Was a Good Day"

What does "a good day" mean to you?

3 min

One Day in Tamera (2016)

This short documentary is about the self sustaining community of Tamera, Portugal. In the film we speak with the residents of the community, who tell us how they made that originally dry land available for living, how they started organic agriculture, how they use biogas and...

23 min

What Is a Participatory Workplace?

How can we create participatory workplaces that make decision making more democratic and compensation and job assignments more equitable? In this new animation from the Next System Project, building off Robin Hahnel's paper for our New Systems series, we explore the answer...

2 min

The Cardboard House That Can Be Assembled in a Day and Last a Lifetime

Amsterdam collective Fiction Factory has developed a modular building system of cardboard components, which can be assembled in just one day to form houses or offices. Named Wikkelhouse, which translates from Dutch as Wrap House, the completed prototype comprises a series of...

1 min

Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free (2016)

Disobedience is a film about a new phase of the climate movement: courageous action that is being taken on the front lines of the climate crisis on every continent, led by regular people fed up with the power and pollution of the fossil fuel industry.

41 min

Why the Economy Should Stop Growing-And Just Grow Up

“How do we grow the economy?” is an obsolete question. Local initiatives across the world are looking for maturity instead as they rebuild caring, place-based communities and economies.

David Korten

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016)

A New Story For Humanity presents a beautifully and sensitively woven tapestry of the rich diversity that is the human family. Featuring interviews on the essential topics of our time: from cosmology to ecology, from ancient wisdom to current thinking, from leadership to...

102 min

We Need a Social Movement for Healing Broken People

The world is a pretty screwed up place. So how do we fix it when we ourselves are broken? This is the question that rarely gets asked — and it is a keystone piece of the solution to all the global crises in the world. Global Warming? Can’t fix that and create healthy...

Joe Brewer

Play Makes Us Human: Hunter-Gatherers' Playful Parenting

Have you ever noticed how we, as a society, use agricultural metaphors to talk about parenting and education? We speak of raising children, just as we speak of raising tomatoes or chickens. We speak of training children, just as we speak of training horses. Our manner of...

Peter Gray, Ph.D.

Pushing Through the Pavement: A Permaculture Action Story

It’s true; musicians can be a catalyst for social change! Watch the inspiring story about the first Permaculture Action Tour, with music producer The Polish Ambassador, that covered over 9,000 miles though 33 cities and 19 states, from San Francisco to New York City...

72 min

To Save Democracy, We Need to Make Voting Much, Much Easier

Political rhetoric in the U.S. is often characterized by sickly sweet appeals to democracy. Voting is held up as the foundation of democracy, or as the most useful or necessary method of political participation or expression. Judging by that rhetoric, and by the image of the...

Kevin Cashman

Radical Politics in the Age of American Authoritarianism: Connecting the Dots

If the left is to fight back against authoritarianism, we must bring together diverse movements working for social change.

Henry A. Giroux

Abby Martin and Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein: America's Multi-Organ Failure

Part of the way the U.S. Empire's elections are rigged is the corporate media's censorship of third-party candidates, despite their nationwide campaign efforts. The Green Party, running Dr. Jill Stein for President, has been totally ignored by the establishment. Abby Martin...

24 min

Worker Cooperatives Are More Productive Than Normal Companies

When maximizing profits isn’t the only goal, companies can actually work better.

Michelle Chen

Building New 'Nonviolent Cities'

Last year, I was invited to give a talk on peace in Carbondale, Illinois. I was surprised to discover that in recent years, activists from across Carbondale had come together with a broad vision of what their community could one day become—a nonviolent city. They wanted a new...

Rev. John Dear

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