Looking for a common future for all of humanity? Businesses assisting this will outcompete inequitable and environmentally alarming enterprises. Meta-business!
Single, double and triple-loop learning can help us to un-stick our difficulties.
Mark Twain, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Mila A., Simon Divecha, Roebyem Anders, Joanna Macy and the Inner Development Goals illustrate how. Try it for yourself!
Greenhouse gas has always been confounding. We’ve had profitable solutions for decades. We didn’t take them as humans are not numbers.
Our next economies offer hope and life while keeping our modern-marvels
They are transcending limitations and weaving in beauty and care.
4 short videos showcasing these creations.
The paradigm has shifted in New Zealand. That change is heavily influenced by Maori culture and it’s creating significant value for us all.
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*
Our next narrative, meta-story is a much more life-affirming economics. It offers hope and life and is based around complexity and systems.
A new economic meta-story. You-I-we are creating it and moving from GNP to how we share, collaborate, support each other’s happiness and achieve our own.
Steve on supporting experimentation and connecting to really give birth to this next economy for the majority of us.
It takes a village. That’s the new paradigm.
We’re never going to be able to work through current meta crises as individuals. Glenn Page talks on creating the wellspring for collective seeing.
In coming out of crisis, bouncing beyond the old economics that’s outlived its usefulness, actions speak loudly. Amsterdam and global cities are leading and demonstrating the next economies: these underpin solutions. They’re transformational systems for thriving into pandemic and climate crisis recovery.
Economic commons activities—there are many more already than you think!
These are initiatives that are socially driven. Risks and benefits are shared mutually. We avoid costly overheads and dominating hierarchies.
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?
We are changing the purpose of business with clean energy leading the way.
Our new purpose is that we serve the world and all beings.
Our world is changing, inside and outside of ourselves.
For climate and crises answers, we need to step into the extraordinary and then hold that with the ordinary.
We can put our rising awareness next to feeling empowered for change.
David Korten does so here taking what seems impossible to easy.
“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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