Climate stories are about our opportunity and crises. We’re in a global heating emergency. What’s emerging—solutions for a soft landing, drawdown and the mind-shifts that go with it.
Truly improve global social, environmental and economic conditions.
Dr Barrett Brown, steps us through a global transformation for sustainability in this case tea & cocoa from small growers in regions, such as Kenya and India, to multinational distribution by Unilever, Netherlands.
We navigate the world through stories. We tell ourselves them, create and hold on to them to make sense of complexity around us. What happens when they are past their use-by date? A new story is essential for scaling solutions. This is George Monbiot on these narratives and their power.
We co-produce our present-futures.
Antony’s quantum cloud sculpture is particles and trajectories. You determine what you see and, similarly, are a co-producer of possible futures.
Our health, human, animal and nature are linked. We can create multiple benefits with solutions that reduce the likelihood of pandemics while simultaneously delivering sustainable food systems, restored environments and animal protection.
Our world is changing. Our thinking patterns are shifting. To answer our pressing emergencies and, fortuitously, engaging in this brings an aliveness like nothing else.
We’re a worldwide civilisation now and can consciously engage in creating thriving, just, sustainable futures for everyone. Yet, sometimes, this seems like a very lonely path…
We hope this site helps us all accelerate positive shifts. Amplification, re-storying and sharing awe…
Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
Re-integration of mind and matter is addressing our social and environmental in-balances. Peter Senge and Otto Sharamer layout this essential shift. It is underway and this change is putting us back together! Our experience, in the modern world, is to make sense of what we see but not include our own feelings and vulnerabilities in that sense-making.
How do we empower people to see the transformations that are right in front of us? In addressing climate and corona and other crises, we’ve got many great examples. Scaling them means understanding our blindspots, being a little aware of our inbuilt biases.
COVID turned us upside down in minutes showing transformation is clearly possible. We need new narratives to carefully co-create a better world for all. You can help create these and find the attractors that shift us. What is pulling us forward? Please submit windows that you see opening and closing.
it’s been an amazing year. I’m here to engage and integrate, as best as I can. To assist ourselves recognize and honor the beauty emerging, the collective possibilities for answers and a thriving world for all sentient beings.
Our job is to find what the world is trying to be. Can you help answer covid-19 and climate emergencies for a better future? Beauty changes us and is part of creating new compelling, strongly attractive stories. Help enhance these stories, they already exist. Submit your pictures, poetry, phrases, stories here to help.
In these corona’s of crises, what is connecting and crystalizing while we are confounded and crying? There’s a creative cycle to the new. Here’s Yuval Noah Harari, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Zak Stein and Nick Cave with four deep and insightful pieces, relating to coronavirus and our climate, collaboration. Read on for connecting steps and transformations potentials.
You are alive at the most important moment in history. In this interview, Karen O’Brien and Terry Patten explore what it takes to overcome collective trauma and usher in climate solutions. How might our hearts break open and not breakdown? What does it look like when we widen the solution space?
We already have all the solutions we need to ensure flourishing, alleviate oceans of suffering for all sentient beings and answer pressing emergencies such as climate. Yet, we act too slowly seemingly beholden to outdated ideas. There’s a strange attraction to our old archetypes. It’s time for an upgrade! What do the new ones look like?
Our ability to cooperate is one of our most striking human features. We’ve been fixing issues like climate, collective action problems and dilemmas, throughout history. Emergency help is here, fortunately. We’re all entangled with these crises yet we have the collaborative capability solutions too.
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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