Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre - Degrowth in the Suburbs

This film tells the story of one small family practicing urban sufficiency. They live on 1/10th of an acre in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. By living more simply and utilizing alternative technologies this household draws 75-80% less electricity from the grid than the...

16 min

A Usetarian Manifesto: Simple Living to Save the Planet

How to make simple living go viral.

Julyan Davey

Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class

"Ideological hegemony is the process by which the exploited come to view the world through a conceptual framework provided to them by their exploiters." - Kevin A. Carson

Tim Hjersted

There Is No Such Thing As A Bad Parent

Parenting is the most important role a person can fulfill in their lifetime.

George Siegal

Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men

In response to my recent newsletter, which I named “Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning as a Response to Patriarchy”, I received two comments from men that led me to choose to write this piece. In two very different ways they pointed me to the reality that the word...

Miki Kashtan

Who Cares?

“Just who is changing the world?”

93 min

Raise Your Son to Be a Good Man, Not a ‘Real’ Man

Michael Kimmel

Edmund Hillary Fellowship: Build the Future in New Zealand

The Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) brings together visionary entrepreneurs, investors, and change-makers to build solutions to global problems from Aotearoa New Zealand. International Fellows receive exclusive access to New Zealand’s new Global Impact Visa, an open work visa...

3 min

Mean, Kind or Non: Which Type of Racist Are You?

Do you take issue with the following declaration? “Race is real, race matters, and race is the foundation of identity.” Let's break it down. Many people are aware that the concept of race has no biological validity; that it’s a social construct, like gender or money, which...

Carlos Hoyt

Converting an Old Van into a Home & Office on Wheels

In June this year, I spent two and a half months converting a 1986 Toyota Hiace into my home and office. Watch the camper conversion process and also see a tour of the finished van! - Jordan Osmond

12 min

Initiation Into a Living Planet

Most people have passed through some kind of initiation in life. By that, I mean a crisis that defies what you knew and what you were. From the rubble of the ensuing collapse, a new self is born into a new world.

Charles Eisenstein

This Restaurant Takeout Service Swaps Styrofoam for Sustainable

After big cities like San Francisco banned businesses from using styrofoam containers, a woman from Durham, North Carolina, who was fed up with the plastic trash began her own crusade. When her efforts toward passing a local ban failed, she decided to focus on small-scale...

5 min

Voices of Transition (2012)

This inspirational film presents innovative and very concrete solutions to the food security challenges of our crisis-ridden age. Its powerful images showcase community-led agriculture in Cuba, ingenious woodland farming methods in France and the influential Transition...

65 min

It's Time to Decriminalize Immigration, Say Top Texas Dems

Two top candidates say Congress should decriminalize unauthorized border crossings entirely, while aspiring U.S. Sen. Beto O’Rourke argues asylum-seekers should be exempted from illegal entry prosecution.

Roque Planas

How to Defeat Racism

Here are 5 amazing stories that show the power of unconventional and unexpected approaches to defeating racism, via Matt Orfalea.

8 min

Permaculture Tours - Episode 1: Abdallah House

Welcome to the first episode of our new series, Permaculture Tours. In this series we’ll be diving deep into some amazing properties designed using permaculture principals, with the aim of giving you inspiration and ideas on how to apply these solutions in your own life. In...

15 min

Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency - Director's Cut (2018)

Political power—armed central authority, with states and war—is it part of human nature? Is it necessary for human community? Or is it a tool that ruling elites use to live at the community's expense? A tool that does violence to human nature and the world? Engines of...

57 min

Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy

There's a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff. 'Re-Thinking Progress' explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy works - designing products that can be 'made to be made again' and powering the system with...

4 min

A Jobless Economy

We need an economy that finally cements the most fundamental freedom: to decide how we live our lives. One simple policy can deliver that.

Samuel Miller McDonald

Why I Never Moved to Portland

I was always going to move to Portland. For years, that was my escape plan.

Sarah Kobos

The Promise of Radical Municipalism Today

Politics is about bringing people together and taking democratic control of the spaces where we live

Aaron Vansintjan

How We Become the Social Safety Net

Human Fractals and Decentralized Alternatives to a UBI (DISCs)

Max Borders

Displacement Battles on Two Continents Show How We Can Reshape the Politics of Housing

Communities can do more than just put a Band-Aid on the problem of gentrification and displacement, and a panel of researchers who held a forum at the Democracy Collaborative’s offices in Washington discussed the best thinking and work happening on both sides of the Atlantic...

Isaiah J. Poole

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

For many marginalized people, social justice communities are an essential form of social and emotional support. They can bring the oppressed and isolated together and help keep them afloat in a world that is at turns indifferent and cruel. While these communities often aim to...

Prefigurology

After #MeToo: How To Process The Pain And Shame That Divides Women And Men

Sara Zaltash shares her experience of a transformational process to heal the division between men and women, and what it would like for men to step up into greater responsibility.

9 min

Have You Made Up Your Mind about Jordan Peterson? Why Russell Brand Can Help

In this episode, Alter Ego uses Jordan Peterson's recent conversations with Russell Brand to reveal his major strengths and weaknesses, and how we can build on the gaps in his thinking to develop a vision of progress that integrates personal and collective change.

6 min

Towards a Synthesist Movement

Weaving Healthy Values Together Beyond Political In-Groups

Max Borders

Bulldoze the Business School

Visit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school. The business school has the best building because it makes the biggest profits (or, euphemistically, “contribution” or “surplus”) – as...

Martin Parker

Comic: Why You Should Turn Your Yard Into a Mini-Farm

Take that lawn by the grass and grow something!

Jennifer Luxton and Erin Sagen

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

For those who care about peace, equality and the future of the planet, the global political swing to the right over the past few years is deeply worrying. It has us asking ourselves, how did this happen? How did populism turn into such a divisive and destructive force? How...

Helena Norberg-Hodge

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

During the winter months of 2005-2006, several handfuls of people from numerous places throughout North America came together at two different locations to create The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship (Bemidji Statement). While much has been written in the...

Indigenous Environmental Network

The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over

Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states that’s suffered most in the drug wars of the last decade. Armed men and women — not police, but members of an autonomous militia — guard every entrance to the town, looking...

6 min

Family Flourishing on an Urban 1/4 acre Permaculture Plot - Creatures of Place

Creatures of Place is an insight into the wonderful world of Artist as Family: Meg Ulman, Patrick Jones, and their youngest son, Woody. Living on an urban 1/4 acre section in a small Australian town, Meg and Patrick have designed their property using permaculture principals...

13 min

Co-operate

Like a smile owned by its teeth, Like a kiss sold to yourself, This is how your city grows. Like the tender limbs of trees Let our timber lenders breathe in, This is how your city grows. From hand to hand, a relay sport How we shape thought into word,

2 min

Anarchism and Immigration

You have the right to live where you choose. You have the right to work where you choose. You have the right to travel where you choose. You have the right to associate with whom you choose. You have the right to speak any language you choose. You have the right to...

Scott of the Insurgency Culture Collective

Into The Open Economy - The Complete Video Series with Colin R. Turner

Colin R. Turner's informal walk-through on the topics discussed in his book Into The Open Economy. The complete four-part mini-series: I. The Problems; II. The Solution; III. The Practicalities; IV. The Transition; Please add comments and questions below.

75 min

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

“Anthropologists have long known that Native Americans reared courageous, respectful children without using harsh coercive controls. Nevertheless, Europeans colonizing North America tried to “civilize” indigenous children in punitive boarding schools, unaware that Natives...

Reclaiming Youth International

Radical Municipalism: Fearless Cities

Fear and uncertainty seem to have settled into our societies, not only among citizens, but also political leaders and transnational corporations who see their capitals and centres of power stagger in the face of the combined effects of slowing global economic growth, imminent...

Jenny Gellatly and Marcos Rivero

Toward a Liberation Psychology

The following is an excerpt from Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite (Chelsea Green, 2011) by Bruce E. Levine. In this book, Levine describes how American institutions and culture have created a passive and defeated...

Bruce E. Levine

The Political Significance of LSD

The shifts in consciousness brought about by psychedelics could help to dissolve our fear of the other.

Vikram Zutshi

Five Ways to Transform Our Economies

We need a new economics for the 21st century. Here are five potential pillars.

Sam Cossar-Gilbert

Worker Cooperatives Offer Real Alternatives to Trump's Retrograde Economic Vision

Announcing his presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised the nation that he’d become “the greatest job president God ever created.” His plan to accomplish this rested on a retrograde economic vision that would “make America great again,” by restoring waning coal and...

Sarah Aziza

A Future of Abundance (2013)

While the world is in crisis, there is a man who thinks the future is as bright as it can be. Peter Diamandis, author of the book Abundance and co-founder of Singularity University, sees how technology can soon provide all basic needs such as energy, clean drinking water and...

51 min

#MeToo and Liberation for All

“I want to kiss you all over your smile.”

Miki Kashtan

Decrying System That Favors 'War and the Wealthy,' Poor People's Campaign Unveils Agenda to Combat Poverty, Racism, and Militarism

"The Democrats talk about the middle class. The Republicans talk about the military. No one's talking about the poor."

Jake Johnson

Economic Democracy: An Ethically Desirable Socialism That Is Economically Viable

This paper by David Schweickart, published alongside three others, is one of many proposals for a systemic alternative we have published or will be publishing here at the Next System Project. You can read it below, or download the PDF. We have commissioned these papers in...

David Schweickart

Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: a Sociocratic Perspective

Humans organize themselves in groups to reach common objectives

SoFA Coop Circle

Culture Shift: Redirecting Humanity's Path to a Flourishing Future

It’s time to build a new worldview around a deeper sense of connectedness.

Jeremy Lent

If I Die Before We Wake… This is for the Healers

Are you a healer who is trying to bring love and light into this world? If so, you might feel the way I do sometimes… in those moments of clarity about how big the forces of harm have become and that the darkness may last for the rest of your life and beyond. I write these...

Joe Brewer

Holding Space for Outrage

Deepening Relationships with Presence and Acceptance

Heather Plett

The Coming Collapse + A Positive Course of Action

The United States and the global status quo are rapidly approaching a breaking point. Viewed from the scale of history we're milliseconds away.

11 min

The Transition

Are nations and capitalism still viable systems or are they nearing their end of life? If so, what comes next? How do we deal with climate change and biodiversity loss? How do we make sense of the world and figure out what's true to inform choices? Is humanity going to get...

103 min

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido is a powerful martial art developed throughout the mid 20th century by a Japanese named Morihei Ueshiba. Aikido differs from most other martial arts in that the practitioner seeks to achieve self-defense without injury to attackers. Furthermore, there are no...

Aikido Association of America

An Atlas of Real Utopias?

Atlas of Utopias is part of the Transformative Cities initiative, sharing 32 stories of radical transformation that demonstrate that another world is possible, and already exists.

Sol Trumbo and Nick Buxton

Tribal Revival: The Tribal Basis Of The Next Civilization

True tribalism is a societal balance point

Lothar

Is Catastrophe the Only Cure for the Weakness of Radical Politics?

If we want a future worthy of the name we need a different form of revolution.

Gregory Leffel

Will Cuba Become a Test Case for a Post-Postmodern Future?

Metamodern mindfulness offers a new way of thinking about the ideological conflicts of the past.

Gregory Leffel

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

Daniel Quinn is an observer of the failure of modern civilization and an advocate of a return to tribal values. He explores this in his book Beyond Civilization: Humanity Next Great Adventure.

Alice Linsley

Martin Luther King Jr Supported a Guaranteed Basic Income

(The following is an excerpt from King’s book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community” — Part 5 of chapter 5 titled “Where Do We Go”) There is only one general proposal that I would like to examine here, because it deals with the abolition of poverty within this nation...

Matt Orfalea

Violence Brought Us Trump, It's Not How We Will Stop Him

What’s next? That is the big question facing this country after the election of Trump. And many people have been sharing their thoughts on that over social and traditional media, over dinner conversations, at the office and on the bus with complete strangers. And, as...

Kazu Haga

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