Resources
Key websites on great transition:
- Resilience: Blogs on building a more resilient world
- Stockholm Resilience Centre: Research on resilience for global sustainability
- Deep Adaptation Forum: Fostering mutual support, collaboration,
and professional development in the process of facing societal collapse. - Kosmos: An online journal exploring global transformation
Regeneration and Tools for Transformation
- Ecovillage Map of Regeneration – A holistic approach to sustainability, integrating the Social, Cultural, Ecological and Economic areas of existence.
Also see Ecovillage Programmes - Project Inside Out – A set of robust, flexible and powerful Guiding Principles for change agents that can be applied, as well as lots of useful tools.
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One Earth Sangha – see their Eco Sattva Training – an online course to develop authentically helpful response.
- Choosing Earth book – see pages 155 – 157 “What We Can Do Once We Know.” A free download of the PDF version is here: https://choosingearth.org/book/
- Kiss the Ground Film – Find Your Path in the Movement
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Racial Equity Tools – tools, books, articles, curricula and more for working for racial justice
- Anti-Racism Resources: An open-source resource for white people and white parents wanting to dismantle white supremacy.
- Daily Acts – inspires individuals to reclaim the power of their every daily action to create a regenerative, resilient and just world.
- Project Drawdown Solutions – conducts an ongoing review and analysis of climate solutions. Also see Drawdown Ecochallenge
- Solutions Journalism – train and connect journalist to cover how people are responding to problems
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A Climate Change Guide for Kids – visual storytelling on good and bad future specifically focused on climate change
- Take the Jump – by trying six shifts to protect our Earth and live with joy
- Donut Economics Action Lab – turning doughnut economics from a radical idea into transformative action.
Understanding the world in whole-systems crisis:
- Welcome to the Anthropocene: A visual overview of the ecological crisis
- Centre for the Study of Existential Risk: Explores risks that could lead to civilization’s extinction or collapse
- Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future: especially see their videos.
- Post-doom – regenerative conversations exploring overshoot grief, grounding, and gratitude.
- Deep Adaptation a paper by Jem Bendell
- The Fan Initiative: Building knowledge and capacities to prevent global collapse
- The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere: Reducing the threat of a shattering collapse of global civilization.
- Our World in Data: All the numbers showing our world’s biggest problems
- Connecting the Dots: A Roadmap for Critical Systemic Change: How We Got Here/ What We Can Do/ How We Can Do It. A whole systems framework, guidebook and toolkit to shift awareness and build multi-issue coalitions able to create the critical mass necessary for systemic, life-affirming, sustainable change.
A new story and new consciousness:
- Rehumans: Rethinking what it means to be humans in our changing world.
- Service Space: Igniting a spirit of service to transform ourselves and the world
- The Work that Reconnects: Discovering our innate connections with each other and the self-healing powers of the web of life
- Science and Nonduality: Exploring a new paradigm of spirituality based on wisdom traditions and science
- Peter Russell – Spirit of Now: Diverse and deep resources regarding our world in crisis and spiritual transformation.
- Great Transition Stories: A virtual hub for illuminating often invisible, archetypal satires of transition.
- A New Republic of the Heart: Become the spiritual friends and global citizens we are most deeply inspired to be.
- Pachamama Alliance: Changing the dream of the modern world. See their “game changer course.”
CONTRIBUTING AND RESPONSES:
- Article: Contributing Effectively in Times of Crisis by Roger Walsh
- Scientist Warning to Humanity: A network of researchers, scientists, and global citizen scientists warning about humanity’s future.
- We Heal for All – a space to connect and commune about the changes going on in our world.
- Good Grief Network – ten steps to personal resilience and empowerment in a chaotic climate.
CLIMATE JUSTICE :
- Climate Justice Alliance
- Movement Generation: Inspires and engages in transformative action towards the liberation and restoration of land, labor, and culture.
- Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network was created to accelerate a global women’s movement for the protection and defense of the Earth’s diverse ecosystems and communities.
- Earth Justice
- Climate Justice within UN Sustainable Development Goals
Specific News Sites:
- Medium: Deep and diverse perspectives on our changing world
- The Guardian: The UK newspaper’s climate section
- New York Times: The NYT’s climate section
Key articles on grief and/or the threat of human extinction:
- Drinking Tears of the World: Grief as DeepActivism by Francis Weller
- 5 Buddhist Practices to Help Tackle Climate Change by Lama Willa Miller
- Tools for Awakening by the Good Grief Network.
- Climate Change Denial: Facing a Reality too Big to Believe by Sara Gorman and Jack M. Gorman
- Climate Anxiety is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon by Sarah Jaquette Ray
- Grieving Well: On Mourning, Extinction, and White Privilege by Shelby Brewster
- Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility by Deena Metzner
- Rethink Activism in the Face of Catastrophic Biological Collapse by Dahr Jamail
Also see: Brace for Impact, as the Climate “End Game” Has Arrived - If Your House is on Fire by Kathleen Dean Moore on the moral urgency of climate change
Organizations at work on the great transition:
- Post Carbon Institute: Working for a transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world. See their course “Think Resilience”
- Extinction Rebellion: Creating a world that is fit for generations to come.
- Drawdown: 100 solutions to reverse global warming
- Bioneers – Breakthrough Solutions for People and the Planet; yearly conference.
- Wisdom Weavers: A multicultural council of elders and earth activists sharing indigenous wisdom and sacred teachings.
- Transition United States: Unleashing the collective genius to reimagine and rebuild our world
- Institute for Policy StudiesA progressive think tank dedicated to building a more equitable, ecologically sustainable, and peaceful society.
- Transition Network: Inspiration, encouragement, networking and training for transition initiative.
- Thriving Resilient Communities: US network of regional and national leaders using collaborative approaches to help communities become more thriving and resilient.
- Resilience Now: Sustainable solutions for resilient communities
- Climate Central:research and reporting the science and impacts of climate change.
- Climate Psychiatry Alliance: A resources for skills and training.
- Climate Psychology Alliance North America: Facing climate change and ecological crisis.
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