Architecture of abundance

Felicia considered the Autumn cycle reports as she walked out into the warm evening. The news was being read and celebrated around the world. Global poverty: down ninety – three percent since 2020. Every climate target hit this year, with three unexpectedly surpassed. Topsoil the healthiest it has been since 1920.

The New Possible: Visions of Our World beyond Crisis is a glorious collection of essays on how we can and are creating our next world.

Average work hours reduced another eighteen minutes to reach 19.2 per week, with one hundred percent employment of those able and willing to work. And perhaps most hearteningly, average global self-reported life satisfaction up two percent year over year. A bittersweet feeling washed over Felicia as she listened to the quiet of the city amid the human voices, cicadas, and songbirds.
Justin Rosenstein and the One Project Team

It joins up pieces such as climate, covid and racial justice, pieces that were not really separate in the first place. It draws on our current inspirations and past collective ways-of-being to sketch our pathways that can create bold and systemic transformational processes. Change that goes to the root of our relationship to our planet.

Pathways

Moments of existential crisis bear within them the ability to dream and imagine new possibilities. They contain the opportunity to see beyond the self – imposed bounds of what is possible and embrace a new horizon. … The impact of behavioral change on the scale we have seen the last few months is shocking to many, but this shift reflects the untapped capacity of human beings to change in response to an existential threat.
Mamphela Ramphele

If you thought you had a good handle on complexities and opportunities for wellbeing in our world, you’ll be delighted by the depth, insight and what you didn’t think of that is revealed through this book.

If you yearn for people to connect the dots—not just between opportunity and crisis but hope and despair, technology and thinking pattern shifts, past-present-futures, The New Possible is for you!

Fast positive change

We have shown we can quickly adapt. For just one measure think about the closeness and intimacy of global relationships created through video. It is March 22, 2020, in-person Earth Day is canceled and:

we threw ourselves into the great undertaking of creating a massive, seventy-two-hour live stream Earth Day Live event. In under a month, our vision came to life. Solidarity and success came from all over the world as millions of viewers watched the live stream.
Anisa Nanavati

The New Possible is as much about our present realities as it is about the power of our stories. As David Korten puts it in the closing chapter:

We must get our story right. The well-being of people and Earth, not GDP, must be our goal. Interdependence and mutual care—not individual in competition—must define our relationships.

Highly recommended! The New Possible.