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Wow - this should be great! I've been learning about Donella Meadows, #degrowth and #doughnuteconomics through Terra.do's Climate fellowship program, where we are lucky to have Katy Shields as an instructor. Degrowth offers an alternative to continued economic growth - so that we don't gobble everything up and destroy ourselves. Described as a "radical theory" by the World Economic Forum, degrowth aims to stabilize economies in order to achieve socio-political equity and ecological sustainability. If you're interested in capitalism and the well-being of our planet, I highly recommend checking out this podcast. Get ideas, get inspired. P.S. You can now get a master's degree in degrowth at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)!

Capitalism, Episode 6! How the balance of power shifted in the decades after the Great Depression, and led – temporarily – to a better kind of capitalism. That is, if you think prosperity being more broadly shared is a good thing. With co-host Ellen McGirt and historians Eric Rauchway and Brad DeLong. PRX https://lnkd.in/ddxXSjC8

New Episode Available! 💖🎙️ How do we measure an Individual, State or System has “too much” or "too little" power? How are we envisioning #Scarcity and #Abundance in our relationship with Power, Politics and International Relations? Questions to reflect upon on the 3 levels of IR analysis include: ✨How are Individuals and Structures of Governance envisioning the acquisition, distribution and removal of Power(s)? ✨If power exists in relation, are humans framing abundance of power through self and collective defeating or thriving modes? ✨Why is an abundance of violence in Politics and IR normalized while an abundance of nonviolence, love and empathy is disregarded, if not seen, as incompatible with these fields? ✨Is there a “fair” and “nonviolent” way to have an Abundance of Power in Politics and IR that doesn’t bring others the perception of being stripped away from their own power, that doesn’t fuel the notion of Scarcity? 💖 Let’s continue the conversation, you can listen to the episode on Spotify here https://lnkd.in/e5jpZ9ra #abundancemindset #abundanceinpolitics #endviolence #powerdynamics #unequalpowerrelations

What does the future hold for the Internet if policymakers and corporations don't grasp the (sometimes unintended) consequences of their decisions? "It is hard to describe how much the world has changed as a result of [the Internet]. But because it has changed so much, it’s very easy for people who are making [rules about the Internet] to forget that what they are doing could have negative consequences." - Andrew Sullivan, Internet Society President and CEO Andrew Sullivan and Sally Costerton, Interim President and CEO of ICANN, discuss on the SHIFT podcast by PRX: https://lnkd.in/gtpX7kAs #InternetFuture #InternetFragmentation

First episode live now! A really great discussion on worldmaking, the role of art in activism (and vice versa), and much more:

Finally! Very nice, uplifting manifesto. Here are a few shortened proposals that stuck with me during a first read. Some that feel far away and some that feel actually quite doable. "Land can no longer be capital." Land cannot be borrowed against. That would change everything. Tyson Yunkaporta "Health over wealth." This means that the Department of Health has to live above the Treasury in terms of the hierarchy of government, reinvigorating that idea of a Ministry of Health. Tim Jackson "Mother Earth citizenship papers". All human beings who live on spaceship Mother Earth will be proudly able to say that they belong on this spaceship and they can choose to live anywhere they’d like to live on this spaceship. Kavita Ramdas "Social media companies will be forced to abandon the ability to make profit." No social media will be able to benefit from keeping people attached to their devices. Jared Seide "Free education for all." Shasta Hanif Ali "Give legal personality and standing to nature. "Paul Powlesland "Each bio-region has its own university." These universities support the knowledge of their bio-regions and the flourishing of multi-species within that bio-region. Anne-Marie Culhane "A global shift to true pricing of all economic activities." Nick Romeo "Create time for deep listening". I would want to ensure that everyone took more time each week to engage in rest and deep listening. Cassie Robinson "Eradicate plastic". Every single child in every country has to be taught to refuse to use single-use plastic, any kind of plastic. Then their parents will stop buying it and then it will stop being produced. Dr Scilla Elworthy "Write women back into history". I would like to see women restored to history books and to history in general, for their leadership and voice to be featured. Bianca Pitt "Every house and school and area would have access to green and blue spaces’." Dr Penny A. Hay "Support farmers to become the genuine stewards of the countryside." Jane Davidson "A transition salary". Christian Jonet "Democratize digital advertising screens: With this policy, 50% of the ad space on those screens would be given over to voluntary associations, community groups, local charities, and the other 50% to local independent businesses. Robbie Gillett" "Change VAT so it is based on carbon". VAT is to be determined by the carbon content of the product or service. Johannes Stripple "Change the definition of ‘failure’ in the dictionary". It’s not negative. It’s just a description of the idea of trying again. Carlos Zimbrón "Every public space will have grief workers". They are available to play games, dance and/or cry with anyone that shows up and may be in need. Aimee Lewis Reau "Have tools to practice a good apology". Andrea Ritchie Many more at https://lnkd.in/ePTTUwiF Im gonna continue reading now :) #Imagination #Future #Infrastructure

Two questions: - how do you picture things looking in 2034, 2054, 2124? - what do you wildly hope for in 2034, 2054, 2124? I encourage you to read the imagination based manifesto below, and even take a moment now to ask yourself, what proportion of my day do I feel fear vs. hope. (And yes - both at once is normal! Feed the good wolf ;-)) The evidence from neuroscience shows that fear and anxiety can redirect our brain activity to the lower brainstem = survival; reactive; black and white thinking; competition, distrust. 👈 doesn’t look like the conditions for our best work! Whereas accessing our hope (it’s in there I promise! It’s why you do what you do - hopefully?) - shifts brain activity to prefrontal cortex, supporting more creative strategic thinking etc. Let’s have the courage to look for ways to work that build trust, connection and cooperation. To collectivise the William Arthur Ward quote: What we can imagine we can achieve. What we can dream we can do. “A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn’t grind us to the bone? Naïve. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly” ~ Ruha Benjamin Thank you Rob Hopkins - love your work, you’re onto something…

Inspiring agenda by Rob Hopkins and co-authors with recommendations on 35 topics, for instance, the recommendation below goes in the direction of the Faîtiere suisse de la participation - Schweizer Dachverband für Partizipation: "Employ Chief Citizen Participation Officers: Their job is to think innovatively and include citizens in right ways, through the process and delivery of every policy. Because what you measure matters, and someone has to be in charge of that measurement. And I think one of the things that we were missing, before my Ministry came in, is that we thought citizen participation was having a public hearing. The problem with that is that only the people who have a vested interest, or only the people who have the time to show up, show up. So, we need new ways to be more inclusive of the people who don’t have the time, who don’t have a vested interest. And my chief Citizen Participation Officer is thinking of inclusion all the time in every part of the process, while keeping in mind that some things need to happen quickly, and some things can take more time. Lisa Witter "

I’ve felt lost. Most of us have. And paraphrasing data from Gallup presented at the WHO Regional Office for Europe Trust and Transformation conference in Tallinn in December 2023, this feeling is at an all-time high also. Easy to feel stuck also. It challenges your sanity, of course, but what can you do? Well, before you see some light, it might help to just dare imagine ways forward. Ways back on track. Or ways towards new horizons. But daring to imagine makes room for constructive strategies. So if you feel lost - or stuck - consider reading this great collection of imaginary policies and initiatives. Useful at home, in your organisation, or country maybe. Thx to Philip Hector for guiding me to Rob. But why share ideas, that are completely imaginary, Lars? Well, because before anything new gets done, somebody had to get the idea. #futurehealth, #nordichealth Nordic Health 2030 Movement , EHFF European Health Futures Forum , European Health Forum Gastein , EuroHealthNet , Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies