December Change the Story Work for the Best, Prepare for the Worst
Even though it looks so discouraging, we already have most of the answers we need. We know much about how children from all backgrounds can succeed in school, crime be overcome, offenders rehabilitated, neighborhoods made safe, communities prosperous, and the planet restored. What stops us from acting on these solutions is that we don’t know they exist and we’re so sure nothing can be done that we don’t look for them. This series shows these solutions and how we can to bring them home.
♦ Planet Restoration ♦ Centering ♦ Social Healing ♦ Regenerative Agriculture ♦ Renewables ♦ Land Reform ♦
January Change Our Ways Find Solutions & Take Them to Scale
The challenge is to spread awareness of these answers and to take them to scale. This episode focuses on how solutions centered, systems-focused, citizen-led actions can be leveraged to change our future.
♦ System Requirements ♦ Strategic Action Cycle ♦ Citizen-Led ♦ Systems-Focused ♦ Solutions-Centered ♦
February Move the Money Rethink the Market, Realign the Players
Even if there are solutions, we don’t have the money to take them wherever needed. Scarcity rules, and some must die that others may live. Or so we believe, but if ever that was true, it no longer is. What we need, and the money to move it, now exists in abundance. Here we map potent actions now emerging that strongly pursued could meet the needs of all and pull us back from species extinction.
♦ Public Banking ♦ Divest ♦ Realign ♦ Climate Risk Disclosure ♦ Conscious Capitalism ♦ “Viking” Economics ♦
March Change the Rules Make Every Sector Part of the Solution
Whether technologies and economies help or hurt people and planet depends greatly on the rules—the enforceable agreements, laws and other, we make or accede to. Here we look at the power to make rules and at some specific rule changes that could make of the solutions we’ve been considering achieved realities, the foundations of a viable future. We’ll need solidarity—and strategies to stop the pushback.
♦ Collective Impact ♦ Professional Standards ♦ Reframe Corporate Laws ♦ Higher Education ♦
April Change the Politics Stop Fighting Each Other, Start Solving Problems
To defeat the “divide and conquer” manipulation now tearing us apart, we’ve got to change who we listen to, how we talk to each other, and what we talk about. We are not each other’s enemy. Polls show Americans agree on 70-80% of what we need—and that our elected leaders aren’t delivering on any of it! Corporate cronies pay all sides in an election—so all doors stay open to them no matter who wins. If we focus on what meets the needs of all of us we can elect—and help—those committed to those goals.
♦ Transpartisanship ♦ NCDD ♦ Community Power ♦ Co-ops ♦ Unions ♦ Living Wage ♦ Guaranteed Income ♦
May Change the Game Shaping the Systems that Shape Us
New rules may make a better game, but new goals make it a different game. Where “success” means doing better than others, we necessarily live in a world of mostly losers. But if “success” could mean fulfilling our higher purposes, and if we organized our world to make that possible, we’d live in a world of achievers. We’re just starting to know what that would take—and it appears doable, if we go for it.
♦ Collective Impact ♦ Change Within, Across & Outside of Systems ♦ Unrigging the Game ♦ Wise Democracy ♦
June What We Can Do Strategies for Deep Change
We try to “be the change”, to live now in ways more just and sustainable. But then, we hit a wall: we need jobs, kids have to be gotten to school, rents close to jobs are more than we can afford, bus service is almost non-existent, and good food’s beyond our budget. Big systems surround us, force us, impede us, even punish us.
So, it is these systems we must change. Not by crushing them but by precisely targeted strategic action. Whatever we thus do—big or little, novel or routine—is radical if it pulls up the roots of what is wrong, and plants instead what will grow a future we can live with.
♦ Participatory Budgeting ♦ Citizen Science ♦ Learning to Learn ♦ 100 Resilient Cities ♦ Curitiba ♦
December Change the Story Work for the Best, Prepare for the Worst
Even though it looks so discouraging, we already have most of the answers we need. We know much about how children from all backgrounds can succeed in school, crime be overcome, offenders rehabilitated, neighborhoods made safe, communities prosperous, and the planet restored. What stops us from acting on these solutions is that we don’t know they exist and we’re so sure nothing can be done that we don’t look for them. This series shows these solutions and how we can to bring them home.
♦ Planet Restoration ♦ Centering ♦ Social Healing ♦ Regenerative Agriculture ♦ Renewables ♦ Land Reform ♦
January Change Our Ways Find Solutions & Take Them to Scale
The challenge is to spread awareness of these answers and to take them to scale. This episode focuses on how solutions centered, systems-focused, citizen-led actions can be leveraged to change our future.
♦ System Requirements ♦ Strategic Action Cycle ♦ Citizen-Led ♦ Systems-Focused ♦ Solutions-Centered ♦
February Move the Money Rethink the Market, Realign the Players
Even if there are solutions, we don’t have the money to take them wherever needed. Scarcity rules, and some must die that others may live. Or so we believe, but if ever that was true, it no longer is. What we need, and the money to move it, now exists in abundance. Here we map potent actions now emerging that strongly pursued could meet the needs of all and pull us back from species extinction.
♦ Public Banking ♦ Divest ♦ Realign ♦ Climate Risk Disclosure ♦ Conscious Capitalism ♦ “Viking” Economics ♦
March Change the Rules Make Every Sector Part of the Solution
Whether technologies and economies help or hurt people and planet depends greatly on the rules—the enforceable agreements, laws and other, we make or accede to. Here we look at the power to make rules and at some specific rule changes that could make of the solutions we’ve been considering achieved realities, the foundations of a viable future. We’ll need solidarity—and strategies to stop the pushback.
♦ Collective Impact ♦ Professional Standards ♦ Reframe Corporate Laws ♦ Higher Education ♦
April Change the Politics Stop Fighting Each Other, Start Solving Problems
To defeat the “divide and conquer” manipulation now tearing us apart, we’ve got to change who we listen to, how we talk to each other, and what we talk about. We are not each other’s enemy. Polls show Americans agree on 70-80% of what we need—and that our elected leaders aren’t delivering on any of it! Corporate cronies pay all sides in an election—so all doors stay open to them no matter who wins. If we focus on what meets the needs of all of us we can elect—and help—those committed to those goals.
♦ Transpartisanship ♦ NCDD ♦ Community Power ♦ Co-ops ♦ Unions ♦ Living Wage ♦ Guaranteed Income ♦
May Change the Game Shaping the Systems that Shape Us
New rules may make a better game, but new goals make it a different game. Where “success” means doing better than others, we necessarily live in a world of mostly losers. But if “success” could mean fulfilling our higher purposes, and if we organized our world to make that possible, we’d live in a world of achievers. We’re just starting to know what that would take—and it appears doable, if we go for it.
♦ Collective Impact ♦ Change Within, Across & Outside of Systems ♦ Unrigging the Game ♦ Wise Democracy ♦
June What We Can Do Strategies for Deep Change
We try to “be the change”, to live now in ways more just and sustainable. But then, we hit a wall: we need jobs, kids have to be gotten to school, rents close to jobs are more than we can afford, bus service is almost non-existent, and good food’s beyond our budget. Big systems surround us, force us, impede us, even punish us.
So, it is these systems we must change. Not by crushing them but by precisely targeted strategic action. Whatever we thus do—big or little, novel or routine—is radical if it pulls up the roots of what is wrong, and plants instead what will grow a future we can live with.