Uncertainty: is a gift

Joanna Macy on five gifts from uncertainty for aliveness and flourishing.

Presence, Courage and intention, Awareness, Solidarity. And the Immensity of time.

Barrett Brown: climate, communication, transformation

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.

One way to combat Russia: clean energy

Drastic steps reducing our energy consumption, cutting Europe’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels, have multiple benefits.

Security, climate and more.

Slocan: Integral forest cooperative

Slocan: Integral forest cooperative

Success across multiple traditions, values and perspectives.

The Slocan cooperative is generating healthy and vibrant local communities, building on respect for one another and a healthy, fully functioning ecosystem

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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…

Festina Lente

Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally

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“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.

- Festina LentÍvaldi