Expressions of
Positive Culture
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After thousands of years of war on nature and war on each other, our mainstream culture of domination and exploitation is leading to collapse. However an alternate worldview and culture is emerging, one that naturally leads to social justice and environmental stewardship. We are transitioning from a Material worldview to a Planetary worldview, from seeing only a material world made of separate objects that can be exploited and manipulated for personal gain, to seeing the world as interconnected, with interwoven living systems relying on each other and functioning as a whole. This view of the world implies and insures social justice and environmental stewardship. The Planet Project aims to support and promote the shift to a Planetary worldview by means of culture. In this section of the website we will be collecting, organizing, and bringing you expressions of culture that support and promote the Planetary worldview. And we welcome your nominations!
This shift is already in progress and there are many change agents actively involved in manifesting this shift. We will foster this macro-shift from Material Culture to Planetary Culture by highlighting books, films, podcasts, articles, videos, music, social media posts and other cultural expressions that provide direct evidence of this shift. We refer to these expressions as positive culture – both because it provides positive evidence of this macro-shift and also because it inspires us to positive action and service; it gives us hope, and provides tools that promote wellbeing. Positive culture has stories about the world we want, with characters who model kindness and courage, compassion and respect, partnership and healing, WE and not just ME.
Read more about how we define Positive Culture in the Planet Blog
In this section of the website we bring you opportunities to explore and experience various expressions of positive culture we have curated.
Please help us grow this resource by contributing your own work or that of others. We hope you will spend time exploring and enjoying these offerings and that they lift, inspire, and inform you!
Help us grow PLANETARY CULTURE.
| URL | RESOURCE | CATEGORY | FORMAT | SOURCE | DESCRIPTION | ACTION | DURATION | DATE-ADDED |
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| https://www.vitalvoices.org/news-articles/news/13-young-women-leaders-you-need-to-know/ | 13 Young Women Leaders You Need to Know | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Article | Source: Vital Voices | By investing in young women leaders early, we can help them build the tools and support systems that will enable them to flourish as leaders on the global stage. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://ajws.org/blog/8-nights-8-jewish-values-reflections-for-chanukah-on-the-jewish-obligation-to-build-a-better-world/ | 8 Nights, 8 Jewish Values: Reflections for Chanukah on the Jewish Obligation to Build a Better World | Category: Turning Inward | Format: Article | Source: Sarah Hurwitz | This is a staff recommendation from Roger Briggs because the values beautifully described in this piece are highly aligned with the Core Values of the Planet Project. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/ | 80,000 Hours' List of Pressing World Problems | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Article | Source: 80,000 Hours | This article presents a list of world problems that fit the profile of being large in scale, solvable, and neglected and therefore seem most promising for more people to work on right now. | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 6/19/2023 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/31255269?utm_source=manual | A Time Between Worlds | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Blog | Source: Roger Briggs | Humanity is now in the midst of a major evolutionary transformation from the fragmented, self-centered material worldview to a bigger, more connected planetary perspective, but the outcome is far from certain. Like childbirth, it’s a painful and perilous process, and change is terrifying for most people. The good news is that we are the first species of life on Earth that can consciously shape our own evolution, and that is the purpose of the Planet Project. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 6/19/2023 |
| https://4activepeace.com/ | Active Peace | Category: Commons | Format: Podcast | Source: Scott Brown | Active Peace: A Mindful Path to a Non-Violent World offers a holistic approach to putting peace into practice at the personal, interpersonal, and collective levels. It promises to stand the test of time as a practical, grounded guide to transformational change. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frontiers-of-commoning-with-david-bollier/id1501085005?i=1000615201925 | Alnoor Ladha & Lynn Murphy on Post-Capitalist Philanthropy | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Podcast | Source: David Bollier | This episode of the Fronters of Commoning podcast series makes a very straightforward case for why fundamental change depends upon a change in worldview. It links system-change, philanthropy, and cosmology. The real challenge for philanthrophy, say Ladha and Murphy, is to help the world move to a post-capitalist economy and culture that overcomes the cultural traumas of Western conquest and colonality. "If you do not have a critique of capitalist modernity, you are contextually irrelevant. But if all you have is a critique, you are spiritually and creatively impoverished." | I want to Learn and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 7/29/2022 |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELRm20ZkgTQ | Amber Ruffin -- How Did We Get Here? | Category: Social Justice | Format: TV Series | Source: Amber Ruffin | Amber showcases her signature smart-and-silly take on the news of the week, responding to it all with a charming, late-night mix of seriousness, nonsense, and evening gowns.New Episodes Every Friday. Streaming now on Peacock. | I want to Learn and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDAeYDn8NFk&ab_channel=GabeDixonMusic | Bend the Curve | Category: Planet Playlist | Format: Music Video | Source: Gabe Dixon | In this powerful, heartfelt song, Gabe Dixon uses MLK's famous quote -- "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -- as its lyrical foundation. It's exhortation for us to take action to "bend the curve" exemplifies the kind of participation in our own cultural evolution that this at the core of the Planet Project's strategy. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 8/27/2023 |
| https://youtu.be/15q-N-_kkrU | Body Scan Exercise | Category: Turning Inward | Format: Video | Source: Jon Kabat-Zinn | This video from acclaimed meditation teacher and Professor of Medicine Jon Kabat-Zinn is a staff recommendation from Beau Rezendes as a highly effective tool for helping to release tension and relax. | I want to Awaken and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.heartmath.org/resources/videos/love-synchronizes-our-hearts-with-each-other-and-the-earth/ | Body Scan Exercise (Heart Math) | Category: Turning Inward | Format: Video | Source: HeartMath | This short video summarizes the remarkable findings of a scientific study that showed that practicing a simple heart-focused technique synchronized the participants at a physiological level with each other and with the Earth itself. It is a staff recommendation from Roger Briggs. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://youtu.be/15q-N-_kkrU | Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending | Category: Climate Change | Format: Wisdom Library | Source: Films for Action | Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future. What this points to, in our view, is a crisis of imagination. Humans at heart are storytellers, and we enact the stories we tell ourselves. If humanity is going to unlock "the good ending," we've got to imagine it first. We've got to imagine ten thousand localized versions of it. That's how things change. Fortunately, visions of a more beautiful, compassionate, regenerative future already exist. But since they're not being broadcast daily on the evening news, we've got to dedicate a little more energy towards broadcasting them ourselves. This is what this list of films is for. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://carbon.substack.com/ | Carbon Creed eNewsletter and Blog | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Format: Blog | Source: The Climate Optimist | Walter McCleod's weekly Newsletter, Blog, and Podcast. Fierce and provocative, objective and well-informed, this diverse collection shows that climate change is not just a problem for developing nations. | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 8/23/2022 |
| https://choosingearth.org/book/ | Choosing Earth (Book) | Category: Climate Change | Format: Book | Source: Duane Elgin | The challenges facing humanity—from increasingly severe climate change and resource exhaustion to escalating social injustices and the rising threat of authoritarianism—call for a radical transformation in how we live on the planet. In this profoundly relevant and potent book, Choosing Earth, Duane Elgin brilliantly draws our vision into, and then beyond these tragedies of our own making, presenting collapse as an integral part of our rite of passage if humanity is to grow into conscious relationship with life. Choosing Earth envisions a fiery initiation that has the potential to transform humanity’s life-denying separations and awaken us to our deep interconnectedness—ultimately inspiring us to work together for the well-being of the entire Earth. With both visionary optimism and unflinching realism, Elgin draws on more than 50 years of research, writing and activism to develop this remarkable book that plants seeds of possibility and serves as a guide for our way through this time of great transformation. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 8/23/2022 |
| https://choosingearth.org/video/ | Choosing Earth (Film) | Category: Climate Change | Format: Film | Source: Duane Elgin | Facing Adversity: Choosing Earth, Choosing Life is a 70-minute documentary that explores the speed, depth and magnitude of our growing planetary crisis, and the opportunity we have to meet this crisis consciously – with eyes and hearts wide open. Through a broad, whole-systems perspective, the film examines key challenges (climate change, inequities, species extinction, overconsumption, and more) and explores the deeper transformation being called forth from humanity. | I want to Learn and I have <2 hours | Duration: <2 hours | 3/1/2022 |
| https://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/climate-time-machine/ | Climate Time Machine | Category: Climate Change | Format: Interactive Tool | Source: NASA | Is there measurable evidence of climate change? This interactive online tool that allows you to quickly visualize changes over time in CO2, Temperature, Arctic Ice Cap and Sea Level Rise. As you move the sliders through time, take the visuals in with your heart as well as your mind. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/37826883 | Co-creating a New World, Inside Out | Category: Turning Inward | Format: Blog | Source: Roger Briggs | This Planet Project blog notes that the evolution of life has always been marked by major new innovations emerging from chaos and catastrophe. What’s different now is that we can see and understand the catastrophe we are creating for ourselves, and we have the ability to alter our course. Millions of people now share a planetary vision that is life-affirming and healthy for the planet – we just need to find each other and join together. With your help, we can work with people and organizations around the world to grow the Planet movement and, together, shift our course towards a just and sustainable future. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 7/16/2023 |
| https://naturaljustice.org/publication/community-protocols-toolbox-2016/ | Community Protocols Toolbox | Category: Food Sovereignty | Format: Book | Source: Natural Justice | The purpose of this Toolbox is to serve as a first stop for facilitators who are interested in helping a community to develop a community protocol. Community Protocols provide a vehicle for external parties to meaningfully engage with communities, and for communities to catalyze their own internal development strategies. Communities are profoundly impacted by the effects of national policy decisions and development projects. Often, decisions related to these policies and projects are made without meaningful input from thosethat will bear the most direct impacts, i.e. indigenous peoples and local communities. This lack of involvement in the planning and implementation of projects can lead to a number of problems, including serious human rights violations.While national legislation and implementation of large infrastructure, extractive, agricultural and other projects can represent the state’s views of development, communities have their own visions for developmentas well. They also have cultural heritage that includes rich histories, traditions, worldviews, deep connections to their lands and natural resources, and customary rules and procedures to regulate conduct as well as interactions between themselves and other parties. This cultural heritage is manifested and expressed in many different ways such as oral traditions and folklore, dances, carvings, and designs. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://mcdonough.com/writings/cradle-cradle-remaking-way-make-things/ | Cradle-to-Cradle: Re-making the Way We Make Things | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Format: Book | Source: William McDonough, Michael Braungart | This book presents an integration of design and science that provides enduring benefits for society from safe materials, water and energy in circular economies and eliminates the concept of waste. Rather than seeking to minimize the harm we inflict, Cradle to Cradle reframes design as a positive, regenerative force—one that creates footprints to delight in, not lament. This paradigm shift reveals opportunities to improve quality, increase value and spur innovation. It inspires us to constantly seek improvement in our designs, and to share our discoveries with others. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://deeptransformation.io/daniel-schmachtenberger-1-developing-deeper-perception-of-life/ | Daniel Schmachtenberger (Part 1) – Developing a Deeper Understanding of Life: Opening to the Complexity, Wholeness, and Beauty of Reality | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Podcast | Source: Deep Transformation Podcast | Daniel is widely recognized one of the foremost contributore to a deep understanding of the metacrisis. This podcast reveals more of Daniel's "origin story" and spirituality. It is a wonderful counterpoint to his more conceptually dense offerings. | I want to Learn and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 9/6/2023 |
| https://deeptransformation.io/daniel-schmachtenberger-2-developing-deeper-understanding-of-life/ | Daniel Schmachtenberger (Part 2) – Developing a Deeper Understanding of Life: Opening to the Complexity, Wholeness, and Beauty of Reality | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Podcast | Source: Deep Transformation Podcast | Daniel is widely recognized one of the foremost contributors to a deep understanding of the metacrisis. This podcast reveals more of Daniel's "origin story" and spirituality. It is a wonderful counterpoint to his more conceptually dense offerings. | I want to Learn and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 9/6/2023 |
| https://www.deeptimewalk.org | Deep Time Walk: Earth History | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Format: App | Source: Deep Time Walk | Deep Time Walk is a transformative journey through 4.6bn years of Earth history via a 4.6km guided walk. It is an invitation to view the world differently, encouraging positive action and advocacy for a regenerative Earth. This is a staff recommendation from Steve Melville. | I want to Awaken and I have <2 hours | Duration: <2 hours | 3/1/2022 |
| https://planetproject.io/democracy-and-getting-out-the-vote/ | Democracy and Getting Out the Vote | Category: Democracy and Voting | Format: Blog | Source: Roger Briggs | Most of us are proud to live in a democracy, where we have a say in what happens to our society. But where did that come from? And how do we safeguard it during these unprecedented times of division?The short answer: be informed and vote.We do not endorse any political parties or candidates. We just believe it’s every adult’s responsibility to cast a vote, and to take the time to understand the issues and people running for our government. This is a huge way we can participate in democracy and shape our future.Want to make a difference? Work to ensure your friends, family, and neighbors show up and stay informed! | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 7/16/2023 |
| https://consilienceproject.org/democracy-and-the-epistemic-commons/ | Democracy and the Epistemic Commons | Category: Democracy and Voting | Format: Article | Source: Consilience Project | Only a new movement for cultural enlightenment can harness the energy needed to reboot and revamp our ailing institutions—or generate new ones entirely—and thereby restore our democracy. | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.nrhythm.co/approach?r_done=1 | Designing for Organizational Health | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Article | Source: nRhythm | Offers guidance for creating and evovling regenerative organizations -- a "living, evolving and naturally functioning organization where abundance and resilience are recurring outcomes of its underlying health.” Defines and applies six regenerative design principles. | I want to Organize and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/21093245-discovering-awareness | Discovering Awareness; A Guide to Inner Peace, Strength and Freedom | Category: Turning Inward | Format: Book | Source: Tony D'Souza, Bud Wonsiewicz | Discovering Awareness offers a step-by-step program for building inner peace, emotional flexibility and strength. Besides individual, self-guided study, the book lends itself to group discussion and or retreats. It is a staff recommendation from Beau Rezendes. | I want to Awaken and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/ | Doughnut Economics -- 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Format: Book | Source: Kate Raworth | Humanity’s 21st century challenge is to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet. In other words, to ensure that no one falls short on life’s essentials (from food and housing to healthcare and political voice), while ensuring that collectively we do not overshoot our pressure on Earth’s life-supporting systems, on which we fundamentally depend – such as a stable climate, fertile soils, and a protective ozone layer. The Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries is a playfully serious approach to framing that challenge, and it acts as a compass for human progress this century. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://video.earthxtv.com/ | EarthxTV | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: TV Series | Source: EarthX | EarthxTV is the largest streaming platform dedicated for the future of our planet. From climate action, biodiversity, sustainability, community, diversity and more, EarthxTV offers 300+ hours of free TV and full episodes. Amazing discussions with world leaders, award-winning Films and entertaining & educational shows. EarthxTV offers a 24/7 live channel and also a large VOD content so members can control what content they want to watch, when they want it, with one simple sign up - all for free, in all English speaking countries, on mobile app, streaming devices and web. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://systems-souls-society.com/education-must-make-history-again/ | Education Must Make History Again | Category: Education | Format: Article | Source: Zac Stein | “Times between worlds—liminal epochs—always involve profound educational crises, which can rapidly cascade into total civilizational breakdowns. The ideal response has been to ‘reboot’ the social structure using an updated educational operating system. The best example from recent history — the last time this happened at scale — is the story I tell in this essay.” | I want to Learn and I have <2 hours | Duration: <2 hours | 5/22/2023 |
| https://capitalinstitute.org/8-principles-regenerative-economy/ | Eight Principles of a Regenerative Economy | Category: Regenerative | Format: Article | Source: Capital Institute | This article represents a distiallation of the Capital Institute's research into the key interconnected principles that underlie systemic health and collectively represent the eight principles or qualities of regenerative vitality that can be used as the theoretical foundation of Regenerative Economics. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://rogerpbriggs.org/books | Emerging World: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Future of Humanity - Book | Category: Humanity | Format: Book | Source: Roger Briggs | In Emerging World, Roger Briggs explores the evolution of consciousness and shows that this is behind everything humans have done, are now doing, and are capable of in the future. By bringing together the best knowledge from paleoanthropology, cultural philosophy, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary theory, Briggs makes the case that humanity is now on the verge of a major transformation, a monumental turning point in our story. Foreseen by many sages and scholars, this anticipated leap promises a new era of history and culture, and a new civilization on Earth in which the needs of all people are met and we become stewards of our living planet. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/40214070?utm_source=manual | Emerging World: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Future of Humanity - Video | Category: Humanity | Format: Video | Source: Roger Briggs | In this video, Planet Project Co-Founder, Roger Briggs distills key elements from his book, Emerging World: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Future of Humanity | I want to Learn and I have <2 hours | Duration: <2 hours | 8/6/2023 |
| http://users.tpg.com.au/users/jes999/EvArrow.htm | Evolution's Arrow: The Direction of Evolution and the Future of Humanity | Category: Cooperation | Format: Book | Source: John Stewart | This book provide deep insights into how cooperation emerges. It demonstrates that evolution moves in the direction of producing cooperative organisations of greater scale and evolvability -- from cells to societies. It also shows that evolution itself has evolve, progressively improving the ability of evolutionary mechanisms to discover effective adaptations. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/10/17/food-sovereignty-manifesto-future-our-planet | Food Sovereignty: A Manifesto for the Future of Our Planet | Category: Indigenous Wisdom and Culture | Format: Article | Source: Common Dreams | Food sovereignty... is an idea that unites humanity and puts us at the service of Mother Earth that feeds and nourishes us. Food Sovereignty promotes justice, equality, dignity, fraternity and solidarity. Food Sovereignty is also the science of life. The introduction of Food Sovereignty as a collective right changed how the world understood poverty and hunger. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://forthewild.world/podcast | For the Wild | Category: Indigenous Wisdom and Culture | Format: Podcast | Source: For the Wild | This podcast uplifts a multitude of perspectives, amplifies grassroot voices, and tells stories not featured in mainstream media. Key topics include the struggle to protect wild nature, to promote ecological renewal and resistance and to heal from the disconnection furthered by consumer culture and human supremacy. It strives to support a new paradigm of earth renewal through conservation and restoration ecology. This work is powered by socially aware community, informed by decoloniality and Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and committed to working responsibly, at the intersection between social and environmental justice -- the twin pillars of the Planet Project's vision. | I want to Learn and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/34999124?utm_source=manual | Fostering Cooperation at Global Scale -- Part I | Category: Cooperation | Format: Blog | Source: Steve Melville | Global crises demand coordinated action at planetary scale. The barriers to cooperation are indeed formidable. And yet… once we dispel some common myths about evolution, we find extraordinary examples of cooperation in the evolutionary record. The first myth is that the central story of evolution is only about competition. The facts reveal that the evolutionary dance between cooperation and competition has produced ever-greater cooperation at ever-greater scales and ever-increasing levels of complexity. The second myth is that evolution is only about genes. In fact, culture also evolves, and we have an extraordinary opportunity to shape it. | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 6/19/2023 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/36876224?utm_source=manual | Fostering Cooperation at Global Scale – Part 2 | Category: Cooperation | Format: Blog | Source: Steve Melville | Many people around the world are feeling called to action by the numerous crises we face and forge bonds with others similarly moved to action. There are now more than 10 million nonprofits in the world. And yet this network of nonprofits are not coordinating their collective action for greatest impact. They compete with each other for donations and mindshare. Meanwhile, our metacrisis is continuing to get worse.How can we ratchet up their collective impact to global scale? | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frontiers-of-commoning-with-david-bollier/id1501085005 | Frontiers of Commoning | Category: Commons | Format: Podcast | Source: David Bollier | A outstanding monthly conversation with creative activists pioneering new forms of commoning -- a foundational element of Planetary Culture. | I want to Learn and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 6/19/2023 |
| https://deeptransformation.io/gail-hochachka-1-psychology-of-climate-change-finding-solutions/ | Gail Hochachka - The Psychology of Climate Change: Understanding the Causes and Finding Solutions to the Great Challenge of Our Time -- Part 1 | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Podcast | Source: Deep Transformation Podcast | Gail Hochachka is a climate scientist who explores the human dimensions of responding to climate change. While listening to this podcast, I found myself substituting the phrase "cultural shift" for climate change and it seemed to fit. | I want to Learn and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 9/6/2023 |
| https://deeptransformation.io/gail-hochachka-2-psychology-of-climate-change-finding-solutions/ | Gail Hochachka -- The Psychology of Climate Change: Understanding the Causes and Finding Solutions to the Great Challenge of Our Time -- Part 2 | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Podcast | Source: Deep Transformation Podcast | I want to Learn and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 9/6/2023 | |
| https://indigenouswisdomsummit.com/library/8681/library | Global Indigeneous Wisdom Library | Category: Humanity | Format: Wisdom Library | Source: The Shift Network | Topics: Prophecy, Cosmovision & Spiritual Perspectives, Activism, Organizing & Leadership, Culture, Mother Earth & Land Rights, Youth, Healing | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2022/06/government-of-canada-delivers-on-commitment-to-ban-harmful-single-use-plastics.html | Government of Canada delivers on commitment to ban harmful single-use plastics | Category: Plastics | Format: Article | Source: Canadian Government | In June 2022, the Government of Canada published final regulations to prohibit single-use plastics including: checkout bags; cutlery; foodservice ware made from or containing problematic plastics that are hard to recycle; ring carriers; stir sticks; and straws (with some exceptions). The ban on the manufacture and import of these harmful single-use plastics, barring a few targeted exceptions to recognize specific cases, will come into effect in December 2022. To provide businesses in Canada with enough time to transition and to deplete their existing stocks, the sale of these items will be prohibited as of December 2023. The Government will also prohibit the export of plastics in the six categories by the end of 2025, making Canada the first among peer jurisdictions to do so internationally. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://greendreamer.com/ | Green Dreamer | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Podcast | Source: Kamea Chayne | Green Dreamer is a community-powered podcast and journal exploring our paths to collective healing, biocultural revitalization, and true abundance and wellness *for all*.This podcast seeks to unravel the dominant narratives stunting our imaginations and help spark unbounded dreaming of what could be, Green Dreamer inquisitively shares dialogues with a wide range of thought leaders, each inspiring a deepening and broadening of consciousness in their own unique ways. Green Dreamer is committed to be ad-free and freely available to all. This means they rely on donations. Help keep this independent voice thriving! | I want to Learn and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/34999312 | Hope: It's Complicated | Category: Humanity | Format: Blog | Source: Roger Briggs | This blog from the Planet Project offers reasons for hope that are grounded in an unflinching account of our current situation. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 7/16/2023 |
| https://www.howdowefixit.me/ | How Do We Fix It? | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Podcast | Source: Richard Davies and James Meigs | POSITIVE IDEAS FOR CHALLENGING TIMES. FIXES OVER FEAR. We ask questions about solutions — how to make the world a better place. Each week, hosts Richard Davies and Jim Meigs engage in smart, fun, spontaneous interviews with expert guests. We welcome constructive, unusual opinions. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2021/11/24/gen-z-big-tech | How GenZ is Fighting Back Against Big tech | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Article | Source: By Elaine Meyer, for Yes! Magazine | Many in this generation are aware of what they have lost by having grown up on social media, so they’re logging off and working to create a safer, healthier future | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/16/constitution-day-suggestions/ | How to counter today’s tribalism and build ‘a more perfect union’ | Category: Democracy and Voting | Format: Article | Source: The Washington Post | Federal judges rarely write newspaper op-eds. Rarer still: a joint op-ed by two assumed foes. In this era of poisonous tribalism, what could these two judges agree on? | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/32713764?utm_source=manual | How Wolves Change Rivers | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Format: Video | Source: Sustainable Human | This short video provides a stunning illustration of the richly interconnected, interdependent, and interrelated nature of reality by telling the story of a trophic cascade -- an ecological process that starts at the top of the food chain and tumbles all the way down to the bottom -- and this case even beyond -- the introduction of wolves changed the course of rivers! | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 9/8/2023 |
| https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/12/rebecca-solnit-climate-crisis-popular-imagination-why-we-need-new-stories | If you win the popular imagination, you change the game: why we need new stories on climate | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Article | Source: Rebecca Solnit | So much is happening, both wonderful and terrible – and it matters how we tell it. We can’t erase the bad news, but to ignore the good is the route to indifference or despair. | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XCXvzQdcug | In Search of the Third Attractor | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Video | Source: Daniel Schmachtenberger | This 2-part video series (also offered as Rebel Wisdom podcasts), offers deep insight into the systemic causes of our meta-crisis and the need for a fresh approach, a "third attractor", that avoids both of the most likely outcomes (attractors): catastrophe (chaotic breakdown of civilization) or dystrophy (control systems powerful enough to prevent the catastrophic outcomes, but at the cost of oppressive authoritarian control). | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://indigenousphotograph.com/ | Indigenous Photograph | Category: Humanity | Format: Wisdom Library | Source: | Indigenous Photograph is a space to elevate the work of Indigenous visual journalists and bring balance to the way we tell stories about Indigenous people and spaces. Our mission is to support the media industry in hiring more Indigenous photographers to tell the stories of their communities and to reflect on how we tell these stories. Our global database is available to photo editors, creative directors, and those who routinely hire photographers. Please reach out to us for a complete electronic database of our members, which includes detailed information regarding geographical areas of expertise, languages spoken, and contact information. | I want to Awaken and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 11/10/2022 |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsB5ci-rgGg&t=9s | Inner Development Goals | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Video | Source: Inner Development Goals | Inner Development Goals (IDGs) is a blueprint of the capabilities, qualities and skills we need in order to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We want to educate, inspire and empower people to be a positive force for change in society and find a more purposeful way to look at our lives and the lives of the people around us. We are a global initiative that develops inner abilities, skills and other qualities for people and organizations involved in efforts to contribute to a more sustainable global society. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://insighttimer.com/ | InsightTimer | Category: Turning Inward | Format: App | Source: Insight Timer | This free meditation app offers more than 10,000 guided meditations, talks, and music tracks. Some tracks are specifically focused on aiding sleep. The design principle behind this app is more of a smorgasbord – make many options available and let people search for and decide what they want. Both the app itself and the content available through the app are free, but optional donations to the content creator are solicited for content you use. This app is a staff recommendation from Steve Melville. | I want to Awaken and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/28920208?utm_source=manual | Is Education the Key to Accelerating the Shift? | Category: Education | Format: Blog | Source: Steve Melville | Just as our bodies require continuous regeneration at a cellular level, our culture renews itself with every generation. This blog from the Planet Project highlights the work of Dr. Zachary Stein who argues that our definition of the word education should be broadened to encompass the entire process of intergenerational transmission through which this societal regeneration happens – all the ways we “pass on” culture. Thus, education must be seen as at the heart of the global cultural shift essential for creating a world that works for all life. | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 6/19/2023 |
| https://imagine5.com/interview/is-the-key-to-fixing-the-climate-in-our-heads/?utm_source=Instagram&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=per-espen | Is the key to fixing the climate in our heads? | Category: Climate Change | Format: Article | Source: Imagine 5 | This article features Per Espen Stoknes tackling the question of what can human psychology teach us about the crisis facing our environment, and how to deal with it? “Just knowing that the climate is in crisis, and what the solutions are, is only a starting point.” Facts alone don’t work. “In addition to facts, you need to give most folks a sense of efficacy, both self-efficacy and collective efficacy. And the best way to do that is to mix those facts and balance them with at least three times as much attention to the opportunities and solutions where you can actually do something. This inspires concrete actions that last and grow, when supported with positive feedback.” | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://youtu.be/tJlzboOOoxI | It's Time to Raise the Bottom Line -- Jesse Carmichael | Category: Planet Playlist | Format: Music Video | Source: Jesse Carmichael | A moving music video by Jesse Carmichael, co-founder of Maroon 5. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://storyoftheuniverse.org/videos/ | Journey of the Universe | Category: Humanity | Format: Film | Source: Center for the Story of the Universe | I want to Awaken and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 9/19/2023 | |
| https://kindling.xyz/archive/ | KindLing Archive of Human Genius | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Wisdom Library | Source: KindLing | We are building the world’s largest database of social change milestones, from the first fire to today's good news. Change is not only possible, it has happened consistently throughout human history.Filter by era, country, topic, actor, source, and more. Submit your own milestones! | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| http://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/books/ | Lean Logic -- A dictionary for the future and how to survive it. | Category: Climate Change | Format: Book | Source: David Fleming and Shaun Chamberlin | A dictionary unlike any other, it leads readers through Fleming’s stimulating exploration of fields as diverse as culture, history, science, art, logic, ethics, myth, economics, and anthropology, being made up of four hundred and four engaging essay-entries covering topics such as Boredom, Community, Debt, Growth, Harmless Lunatics, Land, Lean Thinking, Nanotechnology, Play, Religion, Spirit, Trust, and Utopia.The threads running through every entry are Fleming’s deft and original analysis of how our present market-based economy is destroying the very foundations—ecological, economic, and cultural— on which it depends, and his core focus: a compelling, grounded vision for a cohesive society that might weather the consequences. A society that provides a satisfying, culturally-rich context for lives well lived, in an economy not reliant on the impossible promise of eternal economic growth. A society worth living in. Worth fighting for. Worth contributing to.The beauty of the dictionary format is that it allows Fleming to draw connections without detracting from his in-depth exploration of each topic. Each entry carries intriguing links to other entries, inviting the enchanted reader to break free of the imposed order of a conventional book, starting where she will and following the links in the order of her choosing. In combination with Fleming’s refreshing writing style and good-natured humor, it also creates a book perfectly suited to dipping in and out. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://leanlogic.online/guide-lean-logic/ | Lean Logic Online -- A dictionary for the future and how to survive it. | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Wisdom Library | Source: David Fleming and Shaun Chamberlin | This is an online version of David Fleming's Masterwork as brought to life in Shaun Chamberlin's book. This representation of the content allows free-form navigation of this content. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://youtu.be/szqMbKklQFM | Making a Living and a Life -- Empowering Young People with an ALL Careers Approach | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Format: Video | Source: Ethan McLeavey | This short video can broaden your perspective about how you can put environmental principles and concern into practical use in whatever career direction you choose. Don't box yourself into a narrow view of "environmental jobs." An “ALL Careers” approach can empower and inspire you with a solid sense of how you can contribute to the creation of a sustainable economy no matter what your skills or aptitudes, and therefore career direction. | I want to Awaken and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://youtu.be/szqMbKklQFM | Meditations | Category: Turning Inward | Format: Book | Source: Ethan McLeavey | This short video can broaden your perspective about how you can put environmental principles and concern into practical use in whatever career direction you choose. Don't box yourself into a narrow view of "environmental jobs." An “ALL Careers” approach can empower and inspire you with a solid sense of how you can contribute to the creation of a sustainable economy no matter what your skills or aptitudes, and therefore career direction. | I want to Awaken and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.mindourdemocracy.com/ | Mind Our Democracy Video | Category: Democracy and Voting | Format: Video | Source: Mind Our Democracy | Mind Our Democracy is a community of meditation, mindfulness, and yoga practitioners who recognize voting as an extension of contemplative practice. When we participate regularly and fully in our democracy, we protect its integrity and contribute to our collective well-being.Whether you’re registering for the first time or need to find your polling place, our partners at When We All Vote have all the resources you need to cast your ballot. | I want to Act and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwz2wnhNAYk | Mother of Mothers | Category: Turning Inward | Format: Video | Source: Craig Foster | A very brief (<4 minutes) video that powerfully evokes a central meme of the Planet Project -- that we need to wake up from the illusion of separateness and (re-)embrace that we are embedded in the interconnected, interelated, interdependent web of life. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 8/6/2023 |
| https://nativenewsonline.net/ | Native News Online | Category: Indigenous Advocacy | Format: eNewsletter | Source: Levi Rickert | I want to Learn and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 3/1/2022 | |
| https://www.n2k.world/act | Need to Know / Act | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Platform | Source: Need to Know | N2K is a platform that follows pressing issues of our time, and then provides solutions and action steps so that people can engage in creating a world that works. The site is organized by topic so that you can do four things: you can view, you can do/take action, you can discuss the issues in our groups, and you can purchase goods that relate to the topics on the site. N2K currently has two ways to navigate our material, via subject and by map view. We will add other ways to engage in our second edition of the site.In our world in chaos and transition, we understand that there is a deluge of information that is often confusing and misleading. Even before fake news and the deep fake, it was difficult. Now, we understand that the time calls for a platform/channel that lights the pathway forward to a world that works. N2K is created by Tree Media, a production company that has long been in the business of working with innovators, world leaders and visionaries who are working to create solutions to pressing problems like climate disruption, justice and respect for first nations, the crisis in democracy, loss of beauty and the night sky, war and peace, destruction/resilience, black lives matter, the collapse of pollinators and so many other challenges that create opportunities for the new world to emerge. This is the platform that will track and follow all of these stories, and we are fiercely independent -- always have been, always will be. Any collaboration with known entities was with the subject matter and the truth at the core of our priorities. | I want to Act and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.n2k.world/groups | Need to Know / Discuss | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Platform | Source: Need to Know | N2K is a platform that follows pressing issues of our time, and then provides solutions and action steps so that people can engage in creating a world that works. The site is organized by topic so that you can do four things: you can view, you can do/take action, you can discuss the issues in our groups, and you can purchase goods that relate to the topics on the site. N2K currently has two ways to navigate our material, via subject and by map view. We will add other ways to engage in our second edition of the site.In our world in chaos and transition, we understand that there is a deluge of information that is often confusing and misleading. Even before fake news and the deep fake, it was difficult. Now, we understand that the time calls for a platform/channel that lights the pathway forward to a world that works. N2K is created by Tree Media, a production company that has long been in the business of working with innovators, world leaders and visionaries who are working to create solutions to pressing problems like climate disruption, justice and respect for first nations, the crisis in democracy, loss of beauty and the night sky, war and peace, destruction/resilience, black lives matter, the collapse of pollinators and so many other challenges that create opportunities for the new world to emerge. This is the platform that will track and follow all of these stories, and we are fiercely independent -- always have been, always will be. Any collaboration with known entities was with the subject matter and the truth at the core of our priorities. | I want to Connect and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.n2k.world/ | Need to Know / View | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Video | Source: Need to Know | N2K is a platform that follows pressing issues of our time, and then provides solutions and action steps so that people can engage in creating a world that works. The site is organized by topic so that you can do four things: you can view, you can do/take action, you can discuss the issues in our groups, and you can purchase goods that relate to the topics on the site. N2K currently has two ways to navigate our material, via subject and by map view. We will add other ways to engage in our second edition of the site.In our world in chaos and transition, we understand that there is a deluge of information that is often confusing and misleading. Even before fake news and the deep fake, it was difficult. Now, we understand that the time calls for a platform/channel that lights the pathway forward to a world that works. N2K is created by Tree Media, a production company that has long been in the business of working with innovators, world leaders and visionaries who are working to create solutions to pressing problems like climate disruption, justice and respect for first nations, the crisis in democracy, loss of beauty and the night sky, war and peace, destruction/resilience, black lives matter, the collapse of pollinators and so many other challenges that create opportunities for the new world to emerge. This is the platform that will track and follow all of these stories, and we are fiercely independent -- always have been, always will be. Any collaboration with known entities was with the subject matter and the truth at the core of our priorities. | I want to Learn and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.ozy.com/pg/newsletter/the-daily-dose/449630/ | Ocean of Trash: Your Guide to Plastic Pollution | Category: Plastics | Format: Article | Source: Ozy.com | Approximately 12 million tons of plastic waste find their way into the world’s oceans each year. This humongous volume of rubbish counts among the worst environmental pollutants of our times, threatening the health of humans as well as innumerable marine species. This article profiles the various plastics making up this waste stream, where it ends up, and suggests three innovative strategies for reclaiming and recycling some of our accumulated waste. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdpDSzNVcKQ | Octopus Films Us | Category: Turning Inward | Format: Video | Source: Craig Foster | A wonderfully moving and surprising short video that challenges us to shift our perspective and consider our role in the web of life | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 8/6/2023 |
| https://onbeing.org/social-healing-at-on-being/ | On Being -- Civil Conversations and Social Healing Project | Category: Humanity | Format: Wisdom Library | Source: On Being Project | We are focused on the human transformation that makes social transformation possible. This is work of inner engagement and engagement in the world. Deepened inner life creates space for the moral wrestling that can transform interpersonal relationships. For this reason, our work engages leaders, innovators and changemakers who bring intelligence and teaching to bear on every aspect of human existence — the insights of civic leaders, teachers and neuroscientists in conversation with the wisdom and pastoral intelligence of a community’s religious and spiritual leaders.We take a conflict transformation and peacebuilding approach to the scale of change we believe our world needs and desires. There is an underlying violence that has become a part of our lives. This violence has disrupted nascent relationships, altered our sense of self, and disoriented our relationships with each other and with the world around us. The social healing that is required in the United States, in this sense, is not entirely different from what is needed in war-torn regions of the world. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://onbeing.org/series/podcast/ | On Being -- Krista Tippett | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Podcast | Source: On Being Project | A Peabody Award-winning public radio show and podcast. What does it mean to be human? How do we want to live? And who will we be to each other? Each week a new discovery about the immensity of our lives. Hosted by Krista Tippett.You’ll also find special episodes in this feed, including Living the Questions — an occasional On Being segment where Krista muses on questions from our listening community. On Being with Krista Tippett airs on more than 400 public radio stations across the U.S. and is distributed by WNYC Studios. The podcast has been played/downloaded more than 200 million times. | I want to Learn and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPpi4IsPoU4 | One Fine Day -- Sting | Category: Planet Playlist | Format: Music Video | Source: | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 | |
| https://www.mobilize.us/commoncause/event/376178/ | Our Democracy Phone Banks | Category: Democracy and Voting | Format: Platform | Source: Common Cause | Work together to demand bold changes to our democracy to create a government that represents all of us, not big corporations or special interests by joining any of our phonebank calls every Sunday (6-8p EDT), Tuesday (4-6p EDT) and Friday (4-6p EDT). We are working to get candidates on the record about their stances on key democracy issues. We are also strengthening our phonebank team to make as many calls as possible to protect our democracy. These shifts also always will include training for first-timers before you make calls. | I want to Act and I have <2 hours | Duration: <2 hours | 3/1/2022 |
| https://youtu.be/DHmXw3Etevc?si=zub2XfeYLPICnKIA | Our Planet | Category: Planet Playlist | Format: Video | Source: Chris Webby (feat. Bria Lee) | Compelling visuals combine with rapid fire lyrics to raise awareness of the metacrisis for a generation of hip hop fans. The artist has committed that every dollar generated from this song will be donated to The Rainforest Trust and The Big Life Foundation. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 9/10/2023 |
| https://peter-barnes.org/book/ours-the-case-for-universal-property/ | Ours: The Case for Universal Property | Category: Humanity | Format: Book | Source: Peter Barnes | CAPITALISM has two egregious flaws: it relentlessly widens inequality and destroys nature. For billions of people around the world, the challenge of our era is to repair or replace capitalism before its cumulative harms become irreparable. But how, quite practically, can either of those things be done, without sacrificing the benefits of liberty and markets?This book envisions a transformed market economy in which private property and businesses are complemented by universal property and fiduciary trusts whose beneficiaries are future generations and all living persons equally. The way to build such an economy is to add, gradually but steadily over time, a new class of property rights whose beneficial owners are future generations and all living members of society equally, Economists wrangle over monetary, fiscal and regulatory policies but pay little attention to property rights. Their models all assume that property rights remain just as they are forever. But this needn’t and shouldn’t be the case. My premise is that capitalism’s most grievous flaws are, at root, problems of property rights and must be addressed at that level.PROPERTY RIGHTS in modern economies are grants by governments of permission to use, lease, sell or bequeath specific assets — and just as importantly, to exclude others from doing those things. The assets involved can be tangible, like land and machinery, or intangible, like shares of stock or songs. Taken as a whole, property rights are akin to gravity: they curve economic space-time. Their tugs and repulsions are everywhere, and nothing can avoid them. And just as water flows inexorably toward the ocean, so money, goods and power flow inexorably toward property rights... the most oft-forgotten fact about property rights is that they do not exist in nature; they are constructs of human minds and societies. The assets to which they apply may exist in nature, but the rights of humans to do things with them, or prevent others from doing them, do not. Their design and allocation are entirely up to us.In this book, I take our existing fabric of property rights as both a given and merely the latest iteration in an evolutionary process that has been and will continue to be altered by living humans. While eliminating existing property rights is difficult, adding new ones is less so. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QpjR6-Uuks | Peace Train | Category: Humanity | Format: Video | Source: Cat Stevens | Words and concepts engage and inspire the mind, but music and video have the power to evoke deep leverls of meaning in both mind and heart. This video of Cat Stevens' timeless classic was released on the International Day of Peace, 9/21/2021 and features 25 musicians from 12 countries -- including Yusuf/Cat Stevens in a rare appearance. Definitely worth watching! | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 8/6/2023 |
| https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/planetize-the-movement/ | Planetize the Movement | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Video | Source: Drew Dellinger | An impactful film that brings evocative visual imagery and music to the opening stanza of Dellinger's poem -- Hieroglyphic Stairway (also featured on our website). As a scholar, Drew Dellinger has done extensive research into the teachings of Martin Luther King. The title, "Planetize the Movement" comes an essary in MLK's Trumpet of Conscience. Somewhat confusingly, Drew Dellinger also wrote a (different, but also wonderful) poem whose title was "Planetize the Movement". | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 8/17/2022 |
| https://postdoom.com | Post Doom | Category: Climate Change | Format: Wisdom Library | Source: Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow | Regenerative conversations exploring overshoot grief, grounding, and gratitude.A foreboding sense of climate chaos, societal breakdown, and economic and ecological “doom” is now widespread. Acknowledging our predicament and working through the stages of grief takes one only to the midpoint: acceptance. What lies beyond? Michael Dowd (with occasional co-hosts) invites 75 guests to share their personal journeys along this trajectory and especially the gifts they have found on the other side. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/210216-caldwell-sle-plastics-report-with-annex-210211.pdf | Reducing Plastic Pollution: Campaigns that Work | Category: Plastics | Format: Article | Source: One Planet Network | This reports presents results from their extensive research into how campaigns from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), companies and government can use behaviour change strategies to influence individuals’ sustainable use of plastic? It presents six effective strategies, four "Watch- Outs," and four common mistakes. | I want to Learn and I have <2 hours | Duration: <2 hours | 3/1/2022 |
| https://regeneration.org/ | Regeneration by Paul Hawken | Category: Humanity | Format: Book | Source: | Regeneration is a radical new approach to the climate crisis, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. It is the first book to describe and define the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly throughout the world.Our purpose is to end the climate crisis in one generation. Ending the crisis does not complete the challenge of global warming. That is a century-long commitment. Ending the crisis means that by 2030 collective action by humanity will have reduced total greenhouse gas emissions by 45 to 50 percent. At this writing, we are going backward and increasing emissions.The most common question about the crisis is “What should I do?” How can a person or entity create the greatest impact on the climate emergency in the shortest time? Most people do not know what to do, or may believe the things they can do are insufficient. We think otherwise.Our approach to reversing climate change differs from other proposals. It is based on the idea of regeneration. We do not oppose other strategies and plans. To the contrary, we praise and are grateful for all approaches. Our concern is simple: most people in the world remain disengaged, and we need a way forward that engages the majority of humanity. Regeneration is an inclusive and effective strategy compared to combating, fighting, or mitigating climate change. Regeneration creates, builds, and heals. Regeneration is what life has always done, we are life, and that is our focus. It includes how we live and what we do—everywhere. We have a common interest and that interest can only be served when we come together. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt3WVHLywto | Same Here | Category: Planet Playlist | Format: Song | Source: Brad Paisley | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 | |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/23174066 | Scientists Propose Planetary Intelligence. So do we. | Category: Humanity | Format: Blog | Source: Roger Briggs | This Planet Project blog cites a paper from the International Journal of Astrobiology that describes a view of intelligence “not as something which happens ON a planet but TO a planet. These astrobiologists go on to suggest that perhaps a species and its planet can evolve “planetary intelligence”, which they define as “the acquisition and application of collective knowledge, operating at a planetary scale, which is integrated into the function of coupled planetary systems.” This echoes a foundational tenet of the Planet Project is that humans are beginning to evolve planetary intelligence, and a positive future is possible for our species and our planet if enough of us can acquire this new kind of intelligence, and soon enough. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 7/16/2023 |
| https://youtu.be/crZtELb5nK4?si=fvqelbtBkhmpebuJ | Show Me Your Peace Sign | Category: Planet Playlist | Format: Music Video | Source: Michael Franti & Spearhead | Planetary culture is not so very hard to understand. The simple message in the lyrics of this song carry great power. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 8/27/2023 |
| https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645808/all-we-can-save-by-edited-by-ayana-elizabeth-johnson-and-katharine-k-wilkinson/ | The All We Can Save Book | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Book | Source: | Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 1/27/2023 |
| https://vimeo.com/77918844?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=6277967 | The Awakening Universe | Category: Turning Inward | Format: Video | Source: Neil Rogin and Drew Dellinger | This beautiful short video fires the imagination by reframing our shared story -- from the Big Bang to our current situation in just 15 minutes! It invites and inspires us to embrace the extraordinary opportunity we have to reshape our culture and to actively participate in this still unfolding story. | I want to Awaken and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.netflix.com/title/80200047 | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | Category: Humanity | Format: Film | Source: | Inspired by a science book, 13-year-old William Kamkwamba builds a wind turbine to save his Malawian village from famine. Based on a true story. | I want to Awaken and I have <2 hours | Duration: <2 hours | 3/1/2022 |
| https://earthregenerators.org/the-design-pathway-for-regenerating-earth/ | The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Format: Book | Source: Joe Brewer | This book offers genuine hope. There truly is a pathway to regenerate the Earth. How? We design by embracing the fundamental insight that all living systems self-organize around the patterns of regeneration. Applied to the scale of entire landscapes, this reveals how all truly sustainable human cultures throughout history were organized at the territorial scale as bioregional economies. A planet-wide network of learning ecosystems is needed that can hold the complexity of birthing these regenerative bioregions during and after the rest of the collapse that we were all born into. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |
| https://ecozoicstudies.org/ecozoic_journal/the-ecozoic-journal-no-5-2018/ | The Ecozoic Way | Category: Humanity | Format: Article | Source: Center for Ecozoic Studies | The foundational papers of the Center for Ecozoic Studies | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 9/13/2023 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/42475592?utm_source=manual | The End of History | Category: Humanity | Format: Blog | Source: Roger Briggs | The way we think of “history” has become obsolete. This blog encourages us to step back and see ourselves within a much larger and more inclusive story. Humans are the product of nearly 14 billion years of evolution -- cosmological, biological and now noological. This emerging "Third Story" tells us that humans can actively participate in our own evolution and are capable of steering our course in a direction that is sustainable and life-affirming. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 9/19/2023 |
| https://www.heartmath.org/resources/videos/heart-and-brain-relationship/ | The Fascinating Relationship Between the Heart and Brain | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Video | Source: HeartMath Institute | 3:39 Video exploring the heart-brain relationship | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://youtu.be/iimMOThFi5k?si=VIU5lyJwCj2tTZhy | The Flower (feat. Victoria Canal) | Category: Planet Playlist | Format: Music Video | Source: Michael Franti & Spearhead | As he says before launching into this song, "all of us have burdens, and sorrows, and pains and all of us have the power to be healers and to be the healing we need in our country right now." | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 8/27/2023 |
| https://youtu.be/vqofl9xPSaU?si=NxfkzSp6qyORu9Ar | The Great Derangement | Category: Planet Playlist | Format: Video | Source: Jedi Mind Tricks | This popular hip hop group issues a powerful message on climate change, social injustice and urges personal changes in response to the heartbreak. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 9/10/2023 |
| https://seths.blog/2022/11/the-leaf-blower-parable/ | The Leaf Blower Parable | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Article | Source: Seth Godin | Autumn in North America means removing leaves. With gas-powered blowers, the process is unhealthy for people and the planet, but there are viable, affordable win-win alternatives. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 5/12/2023 |
| https://www.joelightfoot.org/post/the-liminal-web-mapping-an-emergent-subculture-of-sensemakers-meta-theorists-systems-poets | The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets | Category: Humanity | Format: Blog | Source: Joe Lightfoot | This article identifies and brings visibility to a loose-knit group of people that defy easy categorization and yet seem to exhibit a sort of coherence. It reads somewhat like a Who's Who of thinkers, theorists, podcasters, videographers and community builders on the forefront of the evolutionary worldview shift at the heart of the Planet Project. The article includes links to a comprehensive list of resources. | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://christophertin.com/albums/thelostbirds.html | The Lost Birds | Category: Planet Playlist | Format: Music Video | Source: Christopher Tin | This link is to the trailer for The Lost Birds album -- a musical memorial to bird species driven to extinction by humankind. Sweeping and elegiac, it's a haunting tribute to those soaring flocks that once filled our skies, but whose songs have since been silenced. It's a celebration of their feathered beauty: their symbolism as messengers of hope, peace, and renewal. But it's also a warning about our own tenuous existence on the planet: that the fate that befell these once soaring flocks foreshadows our own extinction. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.history.com/news/iroquois-confederacy-influence-us-constitution | The Native American Government That Inspired the US Constitution | Category: Democracy and Voting | Format: Article | Source: History.com | The constitutional framers may have viewed Indigenous people of the Iroquois Confederacy as inferior, but that didn't stop them from admiring their federalist principles. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://atmos.earth/nature-based-solutions-climate-indigenous/ | The Problem with "Nature-Based" Solutions | Category: Indigenous Wisdom and Culture | Format: Article | Source: Yessenia Funes | This article highlights how even well-intentioned solutions, when framed in the Material Worldview, may can actually be counter-productive. Indigenous leaders say that nature-based solutions might sound inspiring and necessary, but the phrase is misleading. “What we saw referred to as ‘nature-based solutions’ was a co-optation of Indigenous worldviews but also a new strategy meant to facilitate the erasure of Indigenous-led movements, solutions, and demands necessary for us to continue to do what we’re already doing well” | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 8/6/2023 |
| https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-race-to-cooperation-with-david-sloan-wilson | The Race to Cooperation with David Sloan Wilson | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Podcast | Source: Center for Humane Tech | This podcast opens a brief window into the work of evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson's work on the evolution of cooperation. It includes Wilson's key insight that selfishness beats altruism WITHIN groups, but alruisitc groups beat selfish groups. Wilson also enumerates the eight core design principles of prosocial groups he developed in partnership with Elinor Ostrom. | I want to Learn and I have <60 minutes | Duration: <60 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/25287234 | The Shift: A Better Future IS Possible | Category: Humanity | Format: Blog | Source: Roger Briggs | Conventional wisdom holds that human nature and it will never change; that humanity is a finished product, and there will always be war and violence, greed and envy, winners and losers, the strong and the weak, … and males will always rule. But this blog from the Planet Project argues that an alternative view emerges when we examine humanity throught the lens of a larger evolutionary narrative. And this view paints a very different picture of the future of humanity and Earth. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 7/16/2023 |
| https://www.thinklikeacommoner.com/ | Think LIke a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons | Category: Commons | Format: Book | Source: David Bollier | The Commons is perhaps one of the most important foundations for Planetary Culture. Think Like a Commoner explains the rich history and promising future of the commons — an ageless paradigm of cooperation and fairness that is re-making our world. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 6/19/2023 |
| https://ecozoicstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Berry.T.Twelve-Principles-for-Understanding-the-Universe-and-the-Role-of-the-Human-in-the-Universe-Process.EJ5_.2018.pdf | Thomas Berry's 12 Principles PDF | Category: Humanity | Format: Article | Source: Center for Ecozoic Studies | A PDF listing of the foundational principles of Thomas Berry's Great Work. To see a video of Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme describing these principles, see https://thomasberry.org/the-twelve-principles/ | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 9/13/2023 |
| https://thomasberry.org/the-twelve-principles/ | Thomas Berry's 12 Principles Video | Category: Humanity | Format: Video | Source: Center for Ecozoic Studies | Video from 1984 of two towering figures -- Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme -- as they explain the Twelve Principles for Understanding the Universe and the Role of the Human in the Universe Process. | I want to Learn and I have <2 hours | Duration: <2 hours | 9/13/2023 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/32123698?utm_source=manual | Trailing the Gods Back Home | Category: Humanity | Format: Video | Source: Dr. Martin Shaw | Culture is transmitted through story. In this brief video interview with mythteller Dr. Martin Shaw, he offers insights in to the source and nature of stories. Shaw's illumination of the the difference between skin, flesh and bone memories is profoundly relevant to those of us seeking to transform culture through story. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 9/8/2023 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/29976932?utm_source=manual | Turning Inward | Category: Turning Inward | Format: Blog | Source: Roger Briggs | The solstice season is a perfect time to step back from thinking and analyzing and pop culture, and discover the wisdom of our own heart. Interconnectedness is not just a theory or an intellectual idea – it’s a feeling, something you know without thinking. By turning inward, taming our thinking, and opening our hearts we naturally move from it’s all about me to we’re all in this together. | I want to Awaken and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://kamea.substack.com/ | Uprooted | Category: Indigenous Wisdom and Culture | Format: eNewsletter | Source: Kamea Chayne | Uprooted is a sustainability newsletter rooted in deep ecology and decolonial thought-in-progress—sharing fresh takes, regenerative roundups, and ad-free recommendations. Occasional public posts are offered for free. Access to full content requires a paid subscription plan. | I want to Awaken and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.wakingup.com/ | Waking Up | Category: Turning Inward | Format: Video | Source: Sam Harris | This meditation app that presents a more cohesively designed program than the “grab-bag” approach of Insight Timer. But to access the content offered by this app requires a paid subscription (after a short free trial). In their words, “Waking Up isn’t just another meditation app… it is new operating system for your mind.” It is a staff recommendation from Steve Melville. | I want to Awaken and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBHyTM3VEg | Waste Expert Answers Garbage Questions | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Format: Video | Source: WIRED | Everyone's favorite garbage nerd, Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli, answers the internet's questions about waste. | I want to Act and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/32389660?utm_source=manual | We are the Ones | Category: Humanity | Format: Blog | Source: Roger Briggs | A few of us started the Planet Project because we sense that those alive today are faced with an unprecedented opportunity to shape the future of the world. We have discovered that there are many other people and organizations working on the same thing. We are the ones. Please join us as we grow the Planet Project and co-create a global planetary alliance of all those ready for the next chapter of our story. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 7/16/2023 |
| https://www.esri.com/videos/watch?videoid=JSzyiywbKfU&title=a-global-gis-jack-dangermond | Web-based GIS, “Geospatial nervous system” | Category: Environmental Stewardship | Format: Interview | Source: ESRI | Interview with Jack Dangermond. Watch Jack Dangermond discuss how we can all help to create a better future through geographic understanding. Jack shares the importance of partnerships to create new experiences, enabling everyone to address today’s challenges – globally and locally. | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/22370186 | Welcome to the Planetary Era (Part 1) | Category: Humanity | Format: Blog | Source: Roger Briggs | The Planet Project's first blog post! This short blog provides an introductory look at the vision for a possible future -- one that is rooted in a planetary consciousness that draws on indigeneous culture to live once again in harmony with Earth and life. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 7/16/2023 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/22639639 | Welcome to the Planetary Era (Part 2) | Category: Humanity | Format: Blog | Source: Roger Briggs | Part 2 of the Planet Project's first blog post. The Planet Project aims to spread positive culture in the world and this blog unpacks what we mean by "positive culture". | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 7/16/2023 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/22639742 | Welcome to the Planetary Era (Part 3) -- Fostering Cultural Change | Category: Humanity | Format: Blog | Source: Roger Briggs | Part 3 of the Planet Project's first blog post. This blog provides a deeper look into the cultural shifts in necessary to realize the vision of a world that works for all life. It introduces some of the tools the Planet Project offers to help people discover their own personal role in accelerating the global shift. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 7/16/2023 |
| https://www.positive.news/environment/what-can-i-do-about-climate-change-how-to-lower-your-carbon-footprint/ | What Can I Do About Climate Change? 14 ways to take positive action | Category: Humanity | Format: Article | Source: | Article in Positive News in response to UN's "Code Red for Humanity" in August, 2021. | I want to Act and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://planetcommunity.mn.co/posts/22639798 | What Does the Planet Project Have to Say About the War in Ukraine? | Category: Humanity | Format: Blog | Source: Steve Melville | The launch of the Planet Project occured about the same time as Russia’s unprovoked aggression in the Ukraine. It offers four different perspectives on this conflict that place it in the larger context of the needed global cultural shift. | I want to Learn and I have <10 minutes | Duration: <10 minutes | 7/16/2023 |
| https://www.positive.news/society/what-went-right-in-2021-26-good-news-stories/ | What Went Right in 2021: The Top 26 Good News Stories of the Year | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Article | Source: Positive News | Even as the pandemic rumbled on and the climate crisis intensified, there was much progress to report on. | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://www.positive.news/society/what-went-right-in-2022-the-top-25-good-news-stories-of-the-year/ | What Went Right in 2022: The Top 25 Good News Stories of the Year | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Article | Source: Positive News | There were seismic shifts in energy, major medical advances, animal comebacks, four-day week trials, a night train revival, plus plenty more good news. | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://kathleenallen.net/when-worldviews-shift-from-separation-to-connection-implications-for-leadership/ | When Worldviews Shift from Separation to Connection: Implications for Leadership | Category: Turning Inward | Format: Article | Source: Kathleen Allen | This worldview shift helps us see the hidden connections in our world and networks; interdependence becomes obvious. | I want to Learn and I have <30 minutes | Duration: <30 minutes | 3/1/2022 |
| https://worldpeacelibrary.com/ | World Peace Library | Category: Positive Solutions | Format: Wisdom Library | Source: The Shift Network | A Free Educational Resource for you to find peace within yourself and to create peace within your family, community and world. | I want to Learn and I have Time for a Deeper Dive | Duration: Time for a Deeper Dive | 3/1/2022 |