A Better TomorrowAnything and everything that can help make it happen!

Since writing my last post, change is the only constant, the universe has seen fit to share a wealth of resources with me that confirm my position is correct. The majority are also of a harmonious opinion that we are at a critical juncture for our society and change must happen sooner rather than later to avoid being plunged into a perilous situation. Whether the straw that breaks our back is climate change, economic instability due to flawed financial structures, peak oil, or another discordant note we have yet to become aware of is irrelevant. The time for action is at hand. This post highlights 5 people / projects who are doing their best to connect like-minded “fiercly independant thinkers” in hopes of making the process of change just that much easier for the rest to discover.

The Next Step – Jarret Sanchez
A podcast hosted by someone who I feel could be “a brother from another mother” if you will. Jarret interviews “people whose work is clearing the way towards a possible future in which mankind is able to find ways to live in peace.” His vision for his podcast, to discuss everything from co-intelligence to permaculture and many points in between and beyond, is very similar to that of ABT highlighting examples of humanity  learning to live in harmony with our planet.

Evolutionaries, cultural creatives, change agents. Those are 3 heavy duty terms that just describe wonderful qualities in a person at this point in time if you ask me. I’m not a doomsayer, Im not a profit or anything. Nobody knows what is going to happen but it’s pretty clear that our society, the western world, is headed for some sort of calamatous juncture. Whether it be peak oil, environmental degredation, outright world war, economic collapse, disease, famine, water shortages…There are like 15 scenarios that you could go through and rationally say “Yeah, if that keeps going we’re going to be headed for potential extinction”. There are some people who are even saying we are on our way. I can’t understand carrying that meme around with me all day, I think it is highly irrational and unproductive. I have hope. I have faith. Why  not? If we don’t know, we can’t say one or the other, so atleast be optomistic. Like Robert Anton Wilson said, “Optomists live longer” so, go with that!

For The Next 7 Generations – Hope Dance
In the trailer for a new movie which explores the importance of the native tradition of considering the impact of every decision on the next 7 generations the teaser text identifies that “The time is now!”

The time is now… 13 Indiginious grandmothers from all four directions heard these words in prophecy and came together. They were told their Mother Earth was in agony… and that they must come forward now to help us heal her…and all her inhabitants. They were told nothing will change unless we change. All of us.

Resolve Ecological Overshoot – C-Realm with KMO
In the most recent episode of a podcast I consume regularly, KMO was interviewing Frank Rotering on “ecological overshoot, the logic and institutions of capitalism, technology, and the expression of human biological drives in the economic realm”. Frank suggested that it was time for fiercly independant thinkers to step forward as such personalities are often the vanguard of change.

It’s now time for us to belly up to the bar and for those of us with the intellectual capacity to generate a new logic, to start building the teams of intellectuals who can penetrate this huge corporate miasma. So let’s stop talking about the problems we have and how much the media are against us. New thinking, not complaining about the status quo. Any revolution in history whether it was political or economic, always it begins with ideas, with concepts. There always has to be an alternative to status quo ideas. Always.

You are brilliant and the earth is hiring – Paul Hawken
In a commencement address to the Class of 2009 of the University of Portland, Paul suggested that humanity is coalescing and we need to take this opportunity and “run as if your life depends on it”.

No one knows how many groups and organizations are working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more. This is the largest movement the world has ever seen. Rather than control, it seeks connection. Rather than dominance, it strives to disperse concentrations of power. Like Mercy
Corps, it works behind the scenes and gets the job done. Large as it is, no one knows the true size of this movement. It provides hope, support, and meaning to billions of people in the world. Its clout resides in idea, not in force. It is made up of teachers, children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists, government workers, fisherfolk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers, weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving Christians, street musicians, the President of the United States of America, and as the writer David James Duncan would say, the Creator, the One who
loves us all in such a huge way.

It’s OUR world to change – Evolver.net
One such group is Evolver.net, a new social network for conscious collaboration that “provides a platform for individuals, communities, and organizations to discover and share the new tools, initiatives, and ideas that will improve our lives and change the world.”

A rising grassroots movement now realizes we can no longer expect governments, corporations, or any outside authority to create the beautiful world we long to live in. We have to do it ourselves. This growing network of Evolvers, Burners, Bioneers, Transition Towners, and others are developing new cooperative networks that can help heal our planet while providing sustainable solutions to the disastrously unsustainable economic and political systems that disempower people, keeping them asleep.

Do you have other great examples of fiercly independant thinkers helping to plant the seed for future generations? Please share them and together we can help make a better tomorrow!