I keep trying to solve the mystery of why the people I know (including relatives) see the world so differently than I do. They are perfectly nice, functioning, educated people and yet their values are often so skewed that I want to run away screaming. I’ve finally come to the conclusion that it’s because I don’t watch network news. I get my news on television from OZ or Reuters or in little glimpses on NYT before the paywall shuts me out. It is QUITE different.
I have a strong sense that there is a new alternative set of approaches to the world that are trans-national, progressive, and inclusive. The people who sensed this present fiasco early (not just Trump in the USA) have been talking about framing the future for almost a decade. Here are some leads, in case anyone is interested but doesn't know where to start. I am NOT one for sitting at a table wearing LLBean and bullshitting about virtue. But I AM interested in new ideas and you don’t have to fly around the world to conferences to find them.
Hopefully, they're through begging for money by now.
NEW ECONOMY COALITION
Our Mission:
The New Economy Coalition (NEC) is a network of organizations imagining and building a future where people, communities, and ecosystems thrive. Together, we are creating deep change in our economy and politics—placing power in the hands of people and uprooting legacies of harm—so that a fundamentally new system can take root.
Our network advances change in three main ways:
We convene and connect leaders to tackle common challenges in their work to build a new economy.
We amplify stories, tools, and analysis, weaving a collective new economy narrative that can build shared identity, shift culture and policy, and promote a clear vision of the next system.
We lift up the work of communities on the frontlines of interrelated economic and ecological crises who are organizing for transformative change, through right relationships and direct support.
Our Vision:
At the New Economy Coalition, we’re driven by a belief that all our struggles—for racial, economic, and climate justice; for true democratic governance and community ownership; for prosperity rooted in interdependence with the earth’s natural systems—are deeply interconnected. Rising to the challenge of building a better world demands that we fundamentally transform our economic and political systems.
We must imagine and create a future where capital (wealth and the means of creating it) is a tool of the people, not the other way around. What we need is a new system—a new economy—that meets human needs, enhances the quality of life, and allows us to live in balance with nature. Far from a dream, this new economy is bursting forth through the cracks of the current system as people experiment with new forms of business, governance, and culture that give life to the claim that another world is possible.
Yes! Magazine
What a Year It’s Been
At YES! Magazine, we’re known for being positive, but we’re not glossing over the dangers of the incoming Trump administration. Still, 2016 brought us more than a disastrous election. It also brought the extraordinary populism of the Bernie Sanders campaign, the continued power of Black Lives Matter, the uprising at Standing Rock, and more. Here are the gifts from 2016 we can build on as we move into this tough new era.
Sarah van Gelder, editor at large
The election divided the year into “before” and “after.” But there remain signs of hope for 2017. READ MORE »
The year’s most thought-provoking, important, or useful nonfiction books on empathy, kindness, and moving the conversation forward. READ MORE »
I fear losing the stillness I gained. But I take comfort in knowing that the abbey is there, that the monks are singing the hours, and that there is silence in between. READ MORE »
In the years to come, community bills of rights are one strategy to shelter vulnerable populations. READ MORE »
Send us your ideas by Jan. 25. READ MORE »
The life that we have built here has taught many how to live a large-scale sustainable, decolonized, anticapitalist lifestyle. READ MORE »
The Great Growth Con promises that economic growth—measured by gross domestic product—will benefit everyone, rich and poor alike. READ MORE »
We represent independent journalism. Even in the darkest times, you can depend on us to find the progressive solutions that will heal the planet and improve the lives of the many. READ MORE »
Three creative ways to strengthen local food economies. READ MORE »
Continuing to shrink our oil consumption is one way to challenge the oil uber alles mentality of the Trump administration. READ MORE »
Nearly 1 in 6 properties across the city faced tax foreclosure last year. Land trusts are one way to keep buildings—whether housing or businesses—permanently affordable. READ MORE »
Reader Carla Trankina Thornton writes, “Water and our respect for it is the issue of this generation.” READ MORE »
BIONEERS
Bioneers is a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges
Bioneers is an innovative nonprofit educational organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet. Founded in 1990 in Santa Fe, New Mexico by social entrepreneurs Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges. A celebration of the genius of nature and human ingenuity, Bioneers connects people with breakthrough solutions and each other. Our acclaimed annual national and local conferences are complemented by extensive media outreach including an award-winning radio series, book series, and role in media projects such as Leonardo DiCaprio’s film The 11th Hour. Our programs further focus on Women’s Leadership, Indigenous Wisdom, Community Resilience Networks, and Leadership Development and Youth.
Our work has evolved into six programs:
• Changing the Mindscape. A Public Education program that features the Bioneers conference(s) and extensive media production and outreach, including an award-winning radio series, book series, satellite and TV broadcasts and a consulting role for third-party films, press and media. Watch for the new Media component on our web site this year.
• Education for Action. A Formal Education program that acts as a hub for educators and students, and brings Bioneers Education for Sustainability (EfS) materials to schools and colleges. We work with specific groups and institutions to leverage educational systems for social transformation.
• Resilience from the Ground Up. A Localization program that works through the award-winning Dreaming New Mexico project to bring a practical toolkit and methodology for effective systemic change at the municipal and state level, and that other communities can customize.
• Every Woman's Leadership Initiatives. A whole systems approach to diverse Women’s Leadership that provides experiential education and media to strengthen women’s capacity to be bold, congruent and effective leaders on behalf of a healthy, just and peaceful future. The program encourages all people toward “full-spectrum leadership,” with flexible access to all of our feminine and masculine qualities.
• Becoming Native to Place. An Indigeneity program that educates people about the essential practices of indigenous and traditional knowledge. We invite people to learn with leadership from First Peoples how to re-indigenize our societies as citizens of planet Earth and our local address.
• Bioneers Global. An international program to connect social and scientific innovators for the purposes of network cultivation, cross-pollination and the transfer of effective practices, models, technologies and key ideas.
Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community, and college radio stations; on public access, PBS, satellite television (DISH network: Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link TV ch. 9410; DIRECTV: Free Speech TV ch. 348 and Link TV ch. 375); and on the internet. DN!’s podcast is one of the most popular on the web.
Democracy Now!’s War and Peace Report provides our audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts. In addition, Democracy Now! hosts real debates–debates between people who substantially disagree, such as between the White House or the Pentagon spokespeople on the one hand, and grassroots activists on the other.
New stations are adding Democracy Now! to their programming schedules all the time, and there are several movements going on around the country right now to bring Democracy Now! to new communities. To find out more about these efforts, and how to get involved, click here.
2 comments:
NEC looks like a re branding of the Whole Earth Catalog.
That's okay with me. They still feel new to me. I still read The Edge which is their voice now.
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