An Ecosocialist Path to Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C

An emergency plan to meet the climate emergency

Richard Smith

Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition

INTRODUCTION TO JUST TRANSITION“Indigenous prophecy meets scientific prediction. What we have known and believed, you also now know: The Earth is out of balance. The plants are disappearing, the animals are dying, and the very weather – rain, wind, fire itself – reacts...

Indigenous Environmental Network

We Can Restore Democracy by Disrupting Politics. Here's How.

First, you have to admit that you have a problem . . . Hi there. If you are here, it is probably because you have come to the conclusion that our political system is no longer “fixable” by ordinary means and that some sort of deep structural changes need to be made. If you...

Jordan Hall

Want to End Sexual Harassment? Landmark Study Finds Ousting 'Bad Men" Isn't Enough

The most potent predictor of sexual misconduct goes beyond individual perpetrators.

Emily Peck

The Opposite of Evil Is No Longer Goodness

My headline is provocative, so let me quickly explain, starting with a huge claim about what’s unique about our world in this moment. Then I ask, What, right now, is most required of our species? Our era has been dubbed the Anthropocene because for the first time we humans...

Frances Moore Lappé

Bringing Down A Dictator (2011)

In the year 2000, in a war barely noticed outside Yugoslavia, the indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic fought to hold power. He controlled a battle-hardened army, a tough police force, and most of the news media. But he underestimated his opponents, led by a student...

55 min

No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must Be More Generous

I want to be a member of a thriving and diverse social movement, not a cult or a religion.

Frances Lee

It's Time to Go on the Offensive Against Racism

When I read this in the morning paper, my heart stopped: Just 40 minutes away from me, the white mother of black children in New Jersey was repeatedly harassed via Facebook by a stranger, who told her that her children should be hung.

George Lakey

Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do […] HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO? — R. Buckminster Fuller We cannot individually comprehend the range, depth and detail of the consequences we are collectively generating for...

Daniel Christian Wahl

Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture (1998)

A sequel to Ancient Futures, giving examples of Local Futures' systemic approach to the problems of the global economy. The 23-minute film challenges the commonly-held belief that globalization is inevitable or "evolutionary" and argues that we need to reduce the distance...

23 min

To Help Democrats With 'Stiffening Their Spines' New Indivisible Guide Details How Trump Resistance Can Switch From Defense to Offense

"We can set the legislative agenda with a bold progressive vision rooted in inclusion, fairness, and justice. But none of this is automatic—we have to demand it of Congress."

Jake Johnson

80 Years Since the Holocaust Began: Can We Stop Fascism Today?

"The speedy rise of fascism always seems to hit the world by surprise. Yet what we're witnessing did not begin with the Bolsonaros, Trumps or Dutertes, just as German fascism did not begin with Hitler."

Martin Winiecki

A Solution to Facebook Censorship | Future of Social Media with MINDS Co-founder & CEO Bill Ottman

The Solution to Facebook Censorship? Future of Social Media with MINDS Co-founder & CEO Bill Ottman Support my work! ▶https://www.patreon.com/Orf Subscribe ▶https://www.youtube.com/orf Matt Orfalea ▶https://twitter.com/0rf ▶https://medium.com/@0rf...

46 min

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? ($5)

“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?

"Despite our best efforts to eradicate racism, it comes back like a toxic weed because we fail to pull it up by its root."

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) ($5)

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 (2018)

Political power—armed central authority, with states and war—is it part of human nature?

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

The Circle of Courage is based in four universal growth needs of all children: belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity.

Reclaiming Youth At Risk

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

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism

"You think you know what ‘feminine’ is, but you don’t. And you think you know what ‘masculine’ is, but you don’t. All you really know is how the ‘masculine’ behaves when it is plugged into a power-over paradigm. And all you know is how the ‘feminine’ behaves when it is...

Pat McCabe

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

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