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.
By shifting our focus from the ‘level of emissions’ to the ‘rate of warming’ we can have an immeasurably better path than our current climate-crisis trajectory.
By Paul Gilding, Fellow University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Stories from 2030, our world and reaching to visions past climate crisis, told by 7 of the 82 contributors to the book – live from Glasgow!
Opportunity and crises—can we support our psychological development and inner transformation to meet present and pressing needs?
Planetary scale crises—climate, injustice, inequity, plagues—are creating great instability.
Yet, the very pressures of these issues may help us to grow up, individually and culturally, to be sufficient for the challenges that we’re facing.
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*
Greenhouse gas has always been confounding. We’ve had profitable solutions for decades. We didn’t take them as humans are not numbers.
When we’re pushed to the edge and surrounded by disequilibrium are there places of grace?
Here are some resources and connections, links to the regular changes around us, for sources of magic and miracles.
Being fully present, sustaining ourselves while engaging with climate crises, is radical.
We’re called to be part of a profound shift, one underway within and around us all and there are some tools that can support us.
Living through colony collapse is heart-rending enough but we are not without resources.
The more we avail ourselves of the hidden nectar of Spirit inside our hearts, the more we can become like stubborn, blooming flowers in a parched and dry land.
In the crises around us we are the problems and also the solutions. That’s a thinking pattern shift. From individual to collective.
How can we assist this for thriving in the hear and now as well as the future?
A koan is a dilemma, a mystery which the rational mind cannot solve—our global village.
We are part of the world. Yet, how can we be initiated into caring for everything? Even knowing we’re connected to it all.
A single person matters? For climate answers? That’s a paradox and wisdom from shifting our perspectives, understanding we’re connected helps.
This is a shift to quantum thinking, making the problem bigger to address it.
Solving climate and equality crises takes a new script. That’s hard.
If we can expain quantum to our grandmas or grandkids our updated thinking patterns may stick.
What’s the story? A wellbeing economy in the USA and a world we can create together—we have the resources. What do you envision?
“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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