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A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not to grow
A must-watch TED-talk by Kate Raworth. A short and engaging introduction to how Doughnut Economics can help both humanity and the living planet to thrive together.
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
A must-read to learn how to use wellbeing economics to co-create a future where the needs of all are met within the means of the living planet.
Planet: Critical - Making Sense of the Crisis
Rachel has an unrivalled capacity for delivering facts and connecting the dots whilst being eloquent, engaging, compassionate, and witty. Only by understanding the true cause of the planetary crisis will we be able to resolve it.
The Waterworks of Money Part 1: Charting the influence of big money on our society
A production of cartographer Carlijn Kingma in collaboration with investigative journalist Thomas Bollen and researcher Martijn Jeroen van der Linden. More info at the project website https://www.waterworksofmoney.com
The Waterworks of Money Part 2: Private Profits, Public Costs
A production of cartographer Carlijn Kingma in collaboration with investigative journalist Thomas Bollen and researcher Martijn Jeroen van der Linden
Free Will is Political
Video exploring the philosophy behind free will. Does Free Will really exist? And is it a wider social, cultural, and political concept?
RSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.
The Web of Meaning: How Recognizing Our Interconnectedness Lays the Path to Full Flourishing
Jeremy Lent introduces themes from his book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe.
Presenting Doughnut Economics: Core Concepts of Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth introduces the Doughnut and the seven ways to think like a 21st century economist.
Thinking in Systems: A primer
The co-author of the international best-selling book Limits to Growth, Donella Meadows is widely regarded as a pioneer in the environmental movement and one of the world's foremost systems analysts. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills critical for 21st-century life.
Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea
From renowned organizers and activists Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, comes the first in-depth examination of Solidarity—not just as a rallying cry, but as potent political movement with potential to effect lasting change.
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
Culture shapes values. Values shape history. How will our values shape the future?
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
A coherent and intellectually solid foundation for an alternative worldview based on deep interconnectedness, showing how modern scientific knowledge echoes the ancient wisdom of earlier cultures.
The Social Dilemma: Discover What’s Hiding on the Other Side of Your Screen
Never before have a handful of tech designers had such control over the way billions of us think, act, and live our lives.
The Myth of Freedom Under Capitalism
Upstream Documentary. Although its intellectual handmaidens love to insist otherwise — capitalism is not a system that truly embodies freedom.
Bernie Krause: The voice of the natural world
A surprising look at what we can learn by listening to wild soundscapes. Since Bernie Krause started recording 45+ years ago, he has seen many environments radically altered by humans, sometimes even by practices thought to be environmentally safe.
Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - BBC Reith Lectures
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman asks what can be done to counter the moral decay of today's un-serious elites, arguing that small, committed groups can spark moral revolutions. 4 lectures of 25-30 minutes, followed by Q&A.
What is Free Software
A friendly introduction to the term "free software", why it's important and exploring its many benefits including for sustainability and resilience.
Public Money? Public Code!
A concrete policy proposal to help public institutions to use tax money more efficiently while improving transparency and sustainability of critical, digital infrastructure.
Towards the Symbiocene: Building an Eco-Civilisation with thought-leader, Jeremy Lent
What is an Ecocivilization - and how might we get there? In this podcast, Jeremy Lent introduces his book Ecocivilization: Making a World That Works for All
Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises
This bold manifesto exposes seven myths underlying wealth supremacy-the bias that institutionalizes infinite extraction of wealth by and for the wealthy and is the hidden force behind economic injustice, the climate crisis, and so many other problems of our day.
Eco-Civilisation: The future we deserve and how we will get there
What is an eco-civilisation? What are its values and what are the frames within which it works? Why do we need it in the first place and what will the Establishment do to maintain business as usual? Most importantly, what can each of us do to live an eco-civilisation into being?
Introduction to ProSocial
ProSocial is a positive change method informed by evolutionary science. Presentation by professor David Sloan Wilson.
Bo Rothstein: Why No Economic Democracy in Sweden: A Counterfactual Approach
Companies, that are owned and/or governed by their employees, either through a cooperative, stock option plan or an employee trust, has been studied empirically for almost four decades. This presentation explores the many benefits with such firms, and why economic democracy is not (yet) common in Sweden.
How to talk about a wellbeing economy
This talk will equip you with the narratives and frameworks necessary to articulate why we need an economy designed to serve people and planet. Get practical tips on how to discuss these concepts in your communications.
The Ministry for the Future
The Ministry for the Future's setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. This extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis.
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multi-generation science fiction thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years…and the very human people who will live their consequences.
The Making of a Democratic Economy: Building Prosperity for the Many, Not Just the Few
We live in a world where twenty-six billionaires own as much wealth as half the planet's population. The extractive economy we live with now enables the financial elite to squeeze out maximum gain for themselves, heedless of damage to people or planet. But Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard show that there is a new economy emerging focused on helping everyone thrive while respecting planetary boundaries.
Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
Deficit: The Hidden Value of Care
The economic value of care has long been devalued. In Deficit, prominent Danish feminist Emma Holten reveals how and why this happened, and argues that the things that matter – doing homework with your child, checking in on loved ones, talking to a colleague who doesn’t seem well – might seem inconsequential, but are in fact the building blocks of the economy. Urgent and incisive, this is a call to rethink the economic value of care.
Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital—and indeed capitalism—in times of social upheaval from below. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material, this book offers a damning account of the rise of austerity—and of modern economics—at the levers of contemporary political power.
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. Brian Merchant intertwines a lucid examination of our current age with the story of the Luddites, showing how automation changed our world—and is shaping our future.
Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
People talk a lot about the problems with intensive farming. But the problem isn't the adjective. It's the noun. Around the world, farming has been wiping out vast habitats, depleting freshwater, polluting oceans, and accelerating global heating, while leaving millions undernourished and unfed. Increasingly, there are signs that the system itself is beginning to flicker. But, as George Monbiot shows us in this brilliant, bracingly original new book, there is another way.
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls. Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
This book explores the problems caused by endless expansion, domination and extraction. Looking forward, it explores a clear pathway to a post-capitalist economy. An economy that's more just, more caring, and more fun. An economy that enables human flourishing while reversing ecological breakdown. An economy that will not only lift us out of our current crisis, but restore our sense of connection to a world that's brimming with life. By taking less, we can become more.
Why it's time for Doughnut Economics
A short TED-talk exploring how the needs of all could be met within the means of the planet.
5 Principles for Social Sustainability (facing unpredictable change together)
Learn about five principles to achieve social sustainability.
About Doughnut Economics
The Doughnut offers a vision of what it means for humanity to thrive in the 21st century - and Doughnut Economics explores the mindset and ways of thinking needed to get us there.
Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse: What a 50-Year-Old Model of the World Taught Me About a Way Forward for Us Today
Researcher Gaya Herrington outlines what it would take to create a future where society has transformed beyond the mere avoidance of collapse and is truly thriving.
Why Meaning in Life Matters for Societal Flourishing
Research article giving an overview how a sense of meaning is connected to thriving societies.
Foundations of Humane Technology
A free, self-paced online course for professionals shaping tomorrow's technology.
The Invisible Doctrine | The secret history of Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism has come to both govern and constrain our lives in its domination of the political and economic agenda of the West. In this timely and gripping documentary essay, author George Monbiot deconstructs the roots, secretive propagation and deep impact of a little-understood doctrine that has played a profound role in transforming our economics, politics and environment, driving many of the crises we face today.
Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene
A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature. Challenging the notion of human-nature duality, and moving beyond Enlightenment-style thinking.
The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community
Learn how the legal system could be reformed to enable a future where both humanity and the living planet thrive, together.
Jennifer Hinton: Concrete visions for a sustainable economy / Konkreta visioner för en hållbar ekonomi
Jennifer Hinton explains what not-for-profit companies and a not-for-profit world model is and what we can do to work towards it. Subtitles in Swedish.
Imagining a Solarpunk Future
Keisha Howard presents how she discovered Solarpunk and what it is. Solarpunk is similar to cyberpunk with a focus on technology, however, Solarpunk offers a version of the future where communities are powered by renewable energy and most people live in a free and egalitarian world.
Four Ways of Knowing the Meta Crisis
A short overview of the meta crisis by Jonathan Rowson
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