Archive for Life’s Necessities

A New Design for Human Enterprise by William McDonough >>

"When we look out today at the design of our world, it is leading us to tragic consequences. We need a new design. A strategy of change requires us to understand that we must become humble, because we do not know what to do."

One for All and All for One, a World-Changing Revolution in the Making >>

"A war without a battlefield, a war without an enemy, a war that is everywhere, a thousand civil wars, a war without an end.... It's rewriting the rules as to what counts as truth, and what constitutes value. Just as antibodies rally when the body is under threat, people are joining together to defend life on Earth. This movement of movements may be the last, best hope for humankind, and non-humankind likewise."

The Earth Charter >>

"We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace. Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations."

A Life Lived Whole by Parker Palmer >>

"Living integral lives is daunting. We must achieve a complex integration that spans the contradictions between inner and outer reality, that supports both personal integrity and the common good. No, it is not easy work. But, by doing it, we offer what is sacred within us to the life of the world."

• The Chosen Generation . . . Ours
• If Earth Were a Village of 100 People, This is How It Would Look Like
• The Limits to The Complexity of Social Systems by Duane Elgin and Robert A. Bushnell
• The End of the World as We Know It by Jared Diamond, On the Collapse of Societies
• Economy vs. Earth, Just So Much And No More by Donella Meadows
• The Lucifer Effect - How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
• Places to Intervene in a System by Donella H. Meadow, on the How-To of Systemic Change
• Dancing with Systems by Donella H. Meadow, What to Do When Systems Resist Change
• Resilience and Sustainable Development by The Resilience Alliance, on Building Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transformations
• Permaculture . . . Design Philosophy and Practice for a People-Planet-Caring Civilization
• 21 Worldchanging Principles for Sustainability in the 21st Century, from WorldChanging.com
• A Well-Being Manifesto for a Flourishing Society by the New Economics Foundation
• Economics as if People and Planet Mattered by the New Economics Foundation
• "Which Future? . . . Competition & Globalization vs. Partnership & Decentralization" by Donella Meadows
• The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by David Korten

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