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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
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
"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
"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."
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
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
How to make simple living go viral.
"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
Parenting is the most important role a person can fulfill in their lifetime.
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
“Just who is changing the world?”
93 min
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
Here are 5 amazing stories that show the power of unconventional and unexpected approaches to defeating racism, via Matt Orfalea.
8 min
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
Political power—armed central authority, with states and war—is it part of human nature?
57 min
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
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
I was always going to move to Portland. For years, that was my escape plan.
Sarah Kobos
Politics is about bringing people together and taking democratic control of the spaces where we live
Aaron Vansintjan
Human Fractals and Decentralized Alternatives to a UBI (DISCs)
Max Borders
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
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
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
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
Weaving Healthy Values Together Beyond Political In-Groups
Max Borders
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
Take that lawn by the grass and grow something!
Jennifer Luxton and Erin Sagen
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 is based in four universal growth needs of all children: belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity.
Reclaiming Youth At Risk
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
Liberation psychology doesn’t equate a lack of adjustment with mental illness, but instead promotes constructive rebellion against dehumanizing institutions, and which also provides strategies to build a genuinely democratic society.
Bruce E. Levine
The shifts in consciousness brought about by psychedelics could help to dissolve our fear of the other.
Vikram Zutshi
"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
We need a new economics for the 21st century. Here are five potential pillars.
Sam Cossar-Gilbert
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
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
“I want to kiss you all over your smile.”
Miki Kashtan
"The Democrats talk about the middle class. The Republicans talk about the military. No one's talking about the poor."
Jake Johnson
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
Humans organize themselves in groups to reach common objectives
SoFA Coop Circle
It’s time to build a new worldview around a deeper sense of connectedness.
Jeremy Lent
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
Deepening Relationships with Presence and Acceptance
Heather Plett
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
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
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.
Aikido Association of America
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
True tribalism is a societal balance point
Lothar
If we want a future worthy of the name we need a different form of revolution.
Gregory Leffel
Metamodern mindfulness offers a new way of thinking about the ideological conflicts of the past.
Gregory Leffel
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
(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
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
Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income
Paul Buchheit
When my mom was dying of cancer, I occasionally got messages from well-meaning people who wanted to offer what they thought was valuable information about how mom could cure her cancer. Eat raw food, take more vitamin C, stop drinking milk – all of those suggestions and more...
Heather Plett
“Bernard? Oh yeah, he’s great. He was always the principles guy.”
Kazu Haga
Karl Marx remains deeply important today not as the man who told us what to replace capitalism with, but as someone who brilliantly pointed out its problems. The School of Life, a pro-Capitalist institution, takes a look.
10 min
Whether it’s assault rifles, racial justice, immigration or fossil fuels, the country is rocked by conflicting narratives and rising passions. In a recent national poll, 70 percent of Americans say the political divide is at least as big as during the Vietnam War.
George Lakey
We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we must always agree – on the contrary, we must create conditions where disagreement can take...
Mark Fisher
During the four days I spent in West Virginia, I was repeatedly thanked for coming to support teachers from out of state, though mostly people seemed a bit surprised that I cared. Perhaps it was because I arrived at the exact moment that most of the national media was leaving...
Kate Doyle Griffiths
Political and ideological differences prevent us from seeing that our hopes and frustrations are interconnected.
Teodrose Fikre
A new in-depth study on the consequences of canceling all student debt in the US shows that it would help the economy far more than it would cost. We talk to Stephanie Kelton, one of the study's co-authors.
19 min
Trump supporters and immigrants come together to find middle ground. Together, they discuss President Trump's policies and media bias in portraying both sides.
16 min
A few years ago, Maria Popova wrote an article on how to criticize with kindness, based on the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett.
Tim Hjersted
Lately, I've been interested in exploring how we can apply this strategy to combatting white supremacy and other harmful, extremist and violent ideologies. Obviously, the goal would not be to show them how following us will help them create a white ethnostate; it would be to...
This is the introduction to Eric Bower's book, Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places.
To build successful relationships, it is essential to address the pain and emotional wounds that you carry from past relationships, particularly from your childhood relationships with
Eric Bowers
“Can you imagine? Can you imagine our society if we placed the children’s fire at the center of all institutions of power in our government, in our corporations, in our religions, in all institutions of power, if we rekindled the children’s fire and the chiefs of those...
14 min
Policy initiatives promoting healthy emotional development in children
Anne Manne, Robin Grille, Kali Wendorf
What is the true purpose of government? Critics would rightly say it's to control and dominate because that's the nature of every government we've known. Every government since the days of feudalism has been corrupted in some form, "captured" in other words, by monied, elite...
Good question. We can only speak from our experience from doing this work for many years, which is that men and women have different challenges and experiences of the world. We are all impacted by society (what some call ‘patriarchal culture’) but we are wounded in different...
Rebel Wisdom
The vast majority of Americans are fed up with money corrupting politics — but how do we fix it? We've got some ideas. Learn more and help make it happen at https://represent.us/action/thesolution-2/
6 min
There’s been much talk and publicity recently over the plight of women subjected to all kinds of domineering, humiliating and abusive behaviour from men. This situation needs healing for sure, for both women and men, and to do this we need to inquire deep within the problem.
Richard West
What can we do to create a culture where none of our children grow up to become killers?
"If we pass on kindness to others in immediate circumference, we can accomplish infinitely more than we can by chanting political slogans in cordoned areas and marching in restricted protest zones."
Teodrose Fikre
The global economy is in crisis. The exponential exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models. Where do we go from here? In this feature-length documentary, social and...
105 min
Machines that can think, learn and adapt are coming -- and that could mean that we humans will end up with significant unemployment. What should we do about it? In a straightforward talk about a controversial idea, futurist Martin Ford makes the case for separating income...
15 min
The Third Wave and Charles Eisenstein
This paper by Michael Shuman, 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 commissione
Michael Shuman
Many of us have heard the arguments for discarding the faulty logic behind "white pride" but what about "whiteness" itself?
In 1999, Dee Hock, founder of Visa, quipped, “It’s far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.” But 18 years later, pessimism can feel like the new realism.
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen
What comes to many people’s minds when they think of homeschooling?
Granola-eating Hippies
Christian missionaries
Anarchists
General weirdos
The next generation needs a paradigm and a code of identity that bind with a sense of purpose, community, and mission; an idea and a feeling that transcend superficial characteristics (like skin color, gender and orientation).
25 min
It’s been a roller coaster year for Sammy Rangel, the executive director of Life After Hate — a non-profit organization that encourages people to leave violent extremist groups by offering them support and a community of other “formers.” From losing its government...
Sarah Freeman-Woolpert
This story is the second in Truthout's "Visions of 2018" series, in which activist leaders answer the question: "What would you like to see created, built, imagined or begun this year?" Each piece will focus on a bold idea for transformation, to give us fuel as the year moves...
Ejeris Dixon
A fascinating insight into what perpetuates patriarchy in our society, and how we can change it.
Bethany Webster
Taking a microscope to the beloved old phrase
Has the time come to move beyond our obsession with measurement? Charles Eisenstein, author of several books on human culture and identity, compares science to religion, and makes the case for moving beyond the belief that only the measurable is real.
28 min