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by Tim Sahay and Kate Mackenzie in Phenomenal World...There are now two competing global models of energy and influence: one based on fossil fuels, one on g ...| omega.ngo
Disaster 101: Your guide to extreme weather preparation, relief, and recovery| omega.ngo
This conversation is just beginning.| omega.ngo
by Mark Blyth in The Atlantic...Capitalism’s operating system is due for a major upgrade. How that turns out depends on enormously consequential political c ...| omega.ngo
by Alene Dawson in John Templeton Foundation News..."One way to think about resilience is the ability to recover from or successfully manage obstacles, ...| omega.ngo
from The Work That Reconnects Network,,,In the Work That Reconnects we uplift and celebrate the story of the Great Turning, the essential shift to a way of ...| omega.ngo
by Sam Wolfson in The Guardian...‘This is the idea of catabolic collapse: that what we’re living through is a series of crises … It’s not going to be a sudd ...| omega.ngo
DAY ZERO| omega.ngo
He’ll try, but Trump can’t stop the clean energy revolution| omega.ngo
Hurricanes becoming so strong that new category needed, study says| omega.ngo
by Kashmir Hill in The New York Times...reporter who writes about A.I. finds her work is catching on — with the Chatbot she often writes about.| omega.ngo
by Kashmir Hill in The New York Times...Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For ...| omega.ngo
We’re tracking what we need to know Hope & courage for these times What's going on? What's going on? Many global stressors—environmental, soci ...| omega.ngo
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Critical responses to global systemic risk in an era of polycrisis| omega.ngo
by Lyndsey Gilpin in Grist...No matter where you live, extreme weather can hit your area and change your life. Whether it’s a hurricane, winter storm, flash flood, tornado, wildfire, or heat wave, disasters can damage or destroy your home and property, cause lengthy power outages, and stall civic services. Grist created a comprehensive guide to help you stay ready and informed before, during, and after these traumatic and chaotic events, as well as where to find and build support in your co...| Omega
by Nils Gilman in Small Precautions...In sum, Planetary Salutogenesis argues that the future of health cannot be carved from the body alone. It must be cultivated in the soil, seeded in the air, woven into ecosystems and institutions alike. It is not merely about surviving a sickened world — it is about becoming well together, or not at all. Our final line is unequivocal: “The future of health will be planetary, or there will be no future health at all.”| Omega
Interview by Nate Hagen....How has an absence of ritual and the avoidance of grief in our culture distorted our relationship to loss – and therefore our abi ...| omega.ngo
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by Joanna Macy and Jess Serrante on Sounds True Podcast Network...We are the great turning takles Love, Courage, and Connection in the Climate Crisis.| omega.ngo
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from Carbon Brief...I am particularly worried about tipping points that involve the biosphere and humans due to breaching thresholds for heat or drought tha ...| omega.ngo
by United Nations press release...Food, water, energy crises, human tragedies in 2023-2025 detailed in sweeping analysis by U.S. National Drought Mitigation ...| omega.ngo
by Fiona Harvey in The Guardian...Water shortages hitting crops, energy and health as crisis gathers pace amid climate breakdown| omega.ngo
by Aaron Gell in The Guardian...Liberals in the US make up about 15% of the prepping scene and their numbers are growing. Their fears differ from their bett ...| omega.ngo
by School of International Futures...75 years is a long enough period of time for the world to change in ways that are unanticipated. For this reason, scena ...| omega.ngo
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by Susan Erikson in MIT Press...World Bank pandemic bonds paid out only after death tolls passed a threshold. They’re part of a booming market where investo ...| omega.ngo
Reading Octavia Butler in a time of change| omega.ngo
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by Lesley McClurg in interview of Larry Tye on KQED.org...He profiles the trio in his new book, “The Jazzmen.” In it, he pieces together over 250 interviews ...| omega.ngo
by Tom Ough in Asteriskmag.com...The rise and fall of the influential, embattled Oxford research center that brought us the concept of existential risk.| omega.ngo
by Richard Heinberg in Resilience.org....I’ll leave the last words to the Old Master, this time from the Bahm translation: Whenever someone sets out to remo ...| omega.ngo
Research shows people who speak another language are more utilitarian and flexible, less risk-averse and egotistical, and better able to cope with traumatic ...| omega.ngo
The long engagement is a part of an ongoing investigation into the current state of the nature, both as a crisis which traverses a political realm, but also ...| omega.ngo
In a 2022 survey, A.I. experts were asked, “What probability do you put on human inability to control future advanced A.I. systems causing human extinction ...| omega.ngo
by Ezra Klein, The New York Times...This is an example of “alignment risk,” the danger that what we want the systems to do and what they will actually do co ...| omega.ngo
Precisely twenty years ago, I published a book called “Enough” that outlined my fears about artificial intelligence and its companion technologies like adva ...| omega.ngo
Critical responses to global systemic risk in an era of polycrisis| omega.ngo
by Yuen Yuen Ang in Interest.co.nz...The polycrisis is paralyzing only for those who are attached to the old order. For those who are not, it offers what I ...| omega.ngo
by Barry Knight in Alliance Magazine...‘There are massive problems; climate, conflict, the economy are chief among them. Our international system for dealin ...| omega.ngo
From Politico Magazine...15 futurists, foreign policy analysts and other prognosticators provide some explosive potential scenarios for the new year.| omega.ngo
by Jacob Bornstein & Mesa Sebree in Mediators Foundation...Historically, the leading causes of mass disruption across the world can be boiled down to th ...| omega.ngo
Cascade Institute presents Thomas Homer-Dixon...Implications of the polycrisis for resilience in humanitarian action. A Forum for European and Central Asia ...| omega.ngo
2024 Future Perfect 50 list| omega.ngo
by Cat Tully in School of International Futures (SOIF)...My hope is that I inspire you to join in: to act, connect, support, and become part of a global mov ...| omega.ngo
by Orla Dwyer in Carbon Brief...Climate science has “done a remarkable job of anticipating global impacts on the main grains and we should continue to rely ...| omega.ngo
by Kyle Dickman in Los Alamos National Laboratory...For a variety of reasons, government support for big science has been eroding since then. Now, AI is sta ...| omega.ngo
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by Dark Matter Labs on Medium...Many-to-Many is designed for groups who want to collaborate to solve complex challenges but require new ideas about value, o ...| omega.ngo
by Ruth Richardson in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science...As grand challenges intensify and intersect across the globe, policymakers and de ...| omega.ngo
by Andrea Coveri, et al, in Intereconomics...The link between Big Tech and the military apparatus brings back traditions of economic thought too often forgo ...| omega.ngo
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by Rufus Pollock and Rosie Bell in Life Itself.org...Our new white paper on the polycrisis and metacrisis: what they are, how they are distinct, how they ar ...| omega.ngo
by Benjamin Bellegy in Alliance Magazine...We can worry that some philanthropies might reorientate their giving to align with the new zeitgeist, for instanc ...| omega.ngo
by Hans Taparia and Bruce Buchanan in The New York Times...More often than not, charities work to mitigate harms caused by business. Every year, corporation ...| omega.ngo
by Nils Gilman in Small Precautions...In conclusion, the analysis provided by La Fabrique Écologique powerfully argues that the ecological transition in Fra ...| omega.ngo
from OECD.....A Comprehensive Foresight Methodology to Support Sustainable and Future-Ready Public Policy| omega.ngo
An expansive look at the contemporary artists confronting, challenging, and reimagining R. Buckminster Fuller's techno-utopianism to envision sustainab ...| omega.ngo
How does one measure the intentions of a life? This is a question that Tekatsi:tsia’ kwa Katsi Cook (Wolf Clan, Mohawk Nation, New York) asks in h ...| omega.ngo
Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World For most of Elizabeth Sawin’s career, she was not a multisolver. Instead, she worked on a single, albeit immens ...| omega.ngo
A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberationWhen the state recedes, the commun ...| omega.ngo
by Nate Hagens Reductionism is quite useful, but both dangerous and insufficient. A science-based worldview which looks at all the puzzle pieces at once can ...| omega.ngo
by Michael Lawrence...Like many other forms of systems diagrams (and network diagrams), CLDs are composed of elements and connections. But unlike many other ...| omega.ngo
A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results Systems Thinking for Social Change enables re ...| omega.ngo
One City's Response to a record-breaking drought Day Zero is an opportunity to capture some of the perspectives and experiences of the various sectors ...| omega.ngo
by Christopher P. Duggan, M.D., M.P.H., et al. in The New England Journal of Medicine...In the initial months of the Trump administration, numerous executiv ...| omega.ngo
by Zaid Hassan on LinkedIn...Unlike theories that frame collapse as an external shock, catabolic collapse suggests that the mechanism of decline is internal ...| omega.ngo
by George Monbiot in his blog...A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.| omega.ngo
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by Damian Carrington in The Guardian...Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senio ...| omega.ngo
by Rupert Read in aeon.com...The climate crisis is here. In order to thrive in these dangerous and precarious times, we must build resilient communities.| omega.ngo
by Bradley J. Cardinale, et al in The Conversation...When the natural environment is stretched beyond its ability to meet basic human needs for food, clean ...| omega.ngo
by Daniel Wahl in Medium.....Bioregions define the appropriate scale for regional self-reliance, responsible environmental action and human participation in ...| omega.ngo
Webinar hosted by Regenerosity...This webinar kicks off a new series of bioregional conversations, designed to deepen understanding, improve practice, and e ...| omega.ngo
The impunity of the unscathed: Risk, elite security, and the rage of MAGA populism| omega.ngo
by Sincerely, T...Martial law can dramatically alter daily life and limit personal freedoms. Remaining informed, prepared, and organized is essential. If re ...| omega.ngo
by Thomas Homer-Dixon at The Cascade Institute...If you want peace, prepare for war. This ancient Roman aphorism is starkly relevant to Canada’s situation t ...| omega.ngo
by Joshua Kaplan in Propublica...A Freelance Vigilante: A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover, climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He ...| omega.ngo
by Otto Scharmer in Medium...In short — the key to the profound changes that our current polycrisis is calling for lies in the cultivation of the social soi ...| omega.ngo
by George Monbiot in The Guardian...It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will ...| omega.ngo
Youtube conversation between Gerry Salole and Lucy Bernholz...We are deeply moved to share insights from an extraordinary dialogue between Lucy Bernholz and ...| omega.ngo
by Sara Herschander in The Chronicle of Philanthropy...After the election, many leaders are balancing emotional support for rattled staff with practical pre ...| omega.ngo
by Nina Luo in The Nation...Progressive philanthropy lacks good strategy, so too many of our organizations are hollow—and that left us unable to prevent a s ...| omega.ngo
by David Broder in Jacobin...A new conservative environmentalism that blends anti-modernism with nationalism and austerity is spreading across Europe.| omega.ngo
by Zoë Schlanger in The Atlantic...Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.| omega.ngo
by Aaron Gell in The New Republic...Roger Hallam is serving a five-year sentence for advocating direct action during a videoconference. It hasn’t stopped him.| omega.ngo
by Florian U. Jehn in Existential Crunch...We now know that global systemic risk is the potential for disruption on a global scale, which is then realized b ...| omega.ngo
by Phil Buchanan in CEP...Just in the past weeks I’ve heard leaders at philanthropic funders say things like ‘we’re trying to be small right now,’ ‘the lawy ...| omega.ngo
by Heidi Larson in Myriad USA...Larson would like the GLP to play a role in a new approach to preparedness and resilience. “I hope that policymakers and pro ...| omega.ngo
from blog by Nnimmo Bassey...When one part of an ecosystem is destroyed, it impacts or destroys all the other parts. This means, nothing exists in isolation ...| omega.ngo
by Andrew Zolli...I’ll be referring to resilience in the “property of systems and people” context noted above, to describe the (mostly) beneficial ability t ...| omega.ngo
by Zak Doffman in Forbes...In the last year we have seen one Gmail/Workspace AI upgrade after another. This won’t stop. And so it will become ever more impo ...| omega.ngo
by Rodrigo Cervantes and Jérôme Sessini on longlead.com...Every day, for most of her life, Norma, a 68-year-old woman from the outskirts of Mexico City, has ...| omega.ngo
