The Commons Transition/P2P Foundation team was pleasantly surprised while reading the Center for Planetary Culture's Plan for Rapid Transition, authored by Daniel Pinchbeck. It is a thorough and inspiring overview for transitioning to a more sensible cognitive framework that holds many similarities to our own Commons Transition Plan, including its focus on an integrative global phase transition.
The majority of times we think we are not free to think of the world as a unity of people all working towards human development, evolution and res-publica, which- as the Greeks taught us- means contributing to the development of the society's state of the art.
This December in Paris, the 21st U.N. climate conference COP21 is expected to be another "very last chance" to stop global warming. But during the previous 20 conferences, worldwide CO2 emissions have in fact doubled. Can we trust the politicians once more, or is time to take things in our own hands?
Every once in a while, a chart or statistic or image comes along that reminds us, all over again, why it is that this global warming thing is so terrifying. This week, it was those darn walruses, who — after a summer when Arctic sea ice was at its sixth-lowest level on record — mobbed an Alaska beach in the largest such haul-out ever observed there.
Restructure data-gathering and evaluation networks to address climate change, energy, food, health and water provision, say Yonglong Lu and colleagues.
Supporters believe fully automated luxury communism is an opportunity to realise a post-work society, where machines do the heavy lifting and employment as we know it is a thing of the past
European Federation of City Farms For over 25 years this organisation has been promoting sustainable development of local communities through the establishment and management of city farm projects.
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SELC cultivates a new legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment. We provide essential legal tools so communities everywhere can develop their own sustainable sources of food, housing, energy, jobs, and other vital aspects of a thriving community.
CAPS2015, the international annual event on Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation. The event theme is ‘Networked Social Responsibility’. The CAPS acronym covers a wide range of approaches, activities and paradigms, impossible to pull together without rough simplifications. Nonetheless, at Sigma Orionis we believe they all have in common a social responsibility dimension, that we define as caring for the common good and fostering societal changes as immediate objective or direct consequence of one’s work or engagement.
In the circles I travel, there is a lot of discussion about the importance of streets and their design to our communities. In short, for many decades there has been too little attention paid to the effect of streets on pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, merchants and their customers, on children. Instead, the overwhelming thrust of thinking about these critically important public spaces has been placed upon their role as conveyances for motor vehicles.
Join acclaimed social thinker Jeremy Rifkin, and authors and educators Gregory Cajete and Melissa K. Nelson to explore how we can incorporate the values of .
“William Rees is the co-creator of the Eco-Footprint concept. He has measured humanity’s use of the planet’s resource, and what he has discovered is frightening. We are using more resources than the planet can possibly supply us with. Without a huge change in the way we live, our planet-wide civilization will likely collapse. This 29-minute documentary is a compilation of his lectures, and a summary of his warning.”
Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems generate "free" electricity from sunlight, but manufacturing them is an energy-intensive process. It's generally assumed that it only takes a few years before solar panels have generated as much energy as it took to make them, resulting in very low greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional grid electricity. However, the studies upon which this assumption is based are written by a handful of researchers who arguably have a positive bias towards solar PV. A more critical analysis shows that the cumulative energy and CO2 balance...
Kosmos was delighted to attend the recent EDGE Funders Alliance Conference in Baltimore. The following text is from a presentation by Heike Loeschmann of the Heinrich Boell Foundation on Transformational Change. First, for context, here is the Edge Funders 5-minute Plenary Film 2015 – Better, Not More.
How can all the different aspects and arguments for sustainable lifestyles be brought together and made accessible for many people. Which tools can help show the collective intelligence of users of larger online communities?
Recreating Our Futures
GlobalNet21 is the leading forum in the UK for discussing the major issues in the 21st Century. We share a common concern for the sustainability of both...
GlobalNet21 is the leading forum in the UK for discussing the major issues in the 21st Century. We share a common concern for the sustainability of both our planet and the people on it. With almost 20,000 network members in the UK and abroad, we are making the debate, and democracy, more accessible by enlarging the Public Square and using social networks.
Share The World's Resources, December 03, 2012 -▶ THE SHARING ECONOMY: OUR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE If we believe that the sharing economy has a role to play in creating a fairer and more sustainable world, then we need to look broadly at how the...
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