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Simple please, not simplistic. Easily said but hard to do in our complex world. Music, poetry, film and pictures all help words. Hence these short videos. Enjoy!
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.
Solstice: narrated walking meditation
Please join us for this virtual walking meditation.
24 hours, in 10 minutes at Calanais. You-I-we will step through time. Physically it is 2021. Virtually, millenia in the past and future.
Vandana Shiva: On the arrogance of Newtonian power
In the fossil fuel age, Newtonian power “will subjugate nature”
Vandana Shiva talking to Russell Brand on things we learn about together, where we can evolve together.
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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…
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Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
Stories from 2030: COP 2021 launch
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!
Connecting: local and global catalysts
Local, extraordinary economic solutions are limited by modern-day expectations. We can Bounce Beyond that by bringing these economies together.
Steve Waddell explains transformation systems that are allowing local brilliance to thrive and shift global structures.
Necessary wildness: a fountain of life
This beautiful video showcases Scotland’s mountainous wildness. Yet it is about more including abundance and diversity. Those are a mindset, a thinking pattern, as much being about flourishing wildlife land and seas. You-I-we thrive under such conditions.
Grace, magic and miracles: while the nights are getting longer
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.
Independent and interdependent: our new economic story
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.
Unseen economies: Kiri Dell on replenishing and Maori cultural concepts
The paradigm has shifted in New Zealand. That change is heavily influenced by Maori culture and it’s creating significant value for us all.
Six values: Sandra Waddock on next economies
Our next narrative, meta-story is a much more life-affirming economics. It offers hope and life and is based around complexity and systems.
Transformation: Steve Waddell on new economic norms
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: Glenn Page
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.
Festina Lente
Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally
“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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Feature by Julianna Gwiszcz, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND; see individual posts for other picture credits.