Beyond Charity

Our breakdowns are too systemic to be solved by “charity” but the idea of these new millionaires embracing real social entrepreneurship is a good one. From Open Forum–On Facebook IPO Facebook is going public on Friday. The company’s market valuation at the end of its first day of trading could top $100 billion. Instantly, scores of Facebook employees will become millionaires. But what happens the following day? These newly wealthy folks will eventually have to ask themselves an important question: What should I do with this money? As a couple who was fortunate enough to face that question when we…

THRIVE Movie Premiers 11.11.11

Thanks to NextNowers Vic Desotelle and Bill Daul for circulating to our NextNowNetwork community.  The website is interesting. “My name is Foster Gamble and I’ve spent nearly a lifetime trying to figure out what happened that could account for the staggering agony and deprivation on this planet.  I set out on a journey seeking to answer questions like, is it even possible for humans to thrive?  I found a code, a pattern in nature, that’s been embedded in arts and icons throughout the centuries.  Truth hidden.”

Cultural Creatives 1.0 – The (R)Evolution

This is a rendering of what 80 million points of light on a map of the United States might look like.  Those Points of Light are the Cultural Creatives. From the website and other sources: Cultural Creatives 1.0 – THE REVOLUTION is a documentary made by Frygis Fogel, an Hungarian independent filmmaker, on the topic of the Cultural Creatives, people who are taking an interest in improving the quality of life and making it sustainable for future generations. It is NOT a global organization or any kind of political movement, yet there are an increasing number of people showing an…

Community Leaders Convene: Join us at theCoreConference Sept. 23-25 2010

NextNowCollaboratory is a Community Partner of theCoreConference The strong resonance between the goals of the two organizations is obvious in this description from their website:  ‘One of the themes of theCOREconference is “collective intent”.  How can we come together to create something bigger than ourselves that benefits everyone in greater proportion to what we can do for ourselves.  This is inherent in any successful collaboration, and we are manifesting it in every way possible in our creation and execution of the conference.” theCoreConference has created a discount code for NextNowers.  PLEASE CHECK THE NEXTNOWNetwork HUB NEWSLETTER FOR THE DISCOUNT CODE….

Adjusting National Economic Development Policy to the New Reality of Ecological Limits

The bad news is, it’s been a lean few months for posts.  The good news is, it’s because we’re too busy doing the work to report it.  Thankfully Global Footprint Network can do both. Below is the Global Footprint Network‘s report to NNC regarding the status of the Ecological Creditor and Debtor Initiative (ECDI) project we are supporting. 2009 REPORT Ecological Creditor and Debtor Initiative To NextNow Collaboratory Overview Thank you; your contributions toward kick-starting the Ecological Creditor and Debtor Initiative (ECDI) over the last year has helped us to generate a global debate about how to best adjust economic…

Klimaforum09 (..and COP15)

NextNow Collab is a partner of the WorldShift Alliance, and participated in the 2009 Great Shift Gathering in France.  Among the “transactivists” we met (those of us who choose to transcend and include differing perspectives in their activism, rather than operate from the traditional “us v. them” paradigm) was Gareth Strangemore-Jones of WorldShift 2012 (a new global movement dedicated to co-creating the foundations of a peaceful, just and sustainable world by the end of 2012), Club of Budapest, and Events4Change. We’re inundated with sobering reviews of COP15.  You don’t need to read any more here.  Read Gareth’s informal report below. …

COP15: Accepting Responsibility (Huffington Post)

Forwarded by Jim Garrison, State of the World Forum, NextNow Collab collaboration, as, in his view, “an excellent perspective on the reason for the breakdown in Copenhagen today.” William S. Becker, Executive Director, Presidential Climate Action Project HuffingtonPost: December 14, 2009 COP 15: Accepting Responsibility Imagine you’re a well-to-do person attending a dinner of your peers. The food is top-rate and there’s plenty of it. Course after course is laid upon the table. A group of less-advantaged people has been watching from the sidelines. When the dinner is done, you invite them to join you at the table. After the…

State of the World Forum Launches in Brazil: 2020 By 2050

SEE END OF POST FOR EVENT LIVE BROADCAST LINKS NextNow Collaboratory is an organizational partner of State of the World Forum, launching the global 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign today in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.  This Forum marks the first time people will be coming together from around the world at this scale to strategize plans of action to reduce carbon emissions globally by 80% by 2020 (instead of 2050, widely accepted by governments but acknowledged by scientists as “too late”) not just through a change in behavior (which can be difficult to sustain) but by re-aligning our relationship to ourselves and…

nef’s (un)Happy Planet Index 2.0: US 114 of 143

Thanks to Dr. Paul Ray for distributing this through our State of the World Forum discussion list: http://www.happyplanetindex.org As the G8 prepare to meet in Italy this week, the second global ranking of the ecological efficiency with which the world’s nations deliver long and happy lives for the people who live there – the ‘Happy Planet Index’ – reveals a surprising picture of the relative wealth and progress of nations. Latin America tops the Index with Costa Rica the ‘greenest and happiest’ country.  Nine of the ten highest-scoring nations are Latin American The USA, China and India were all ‘greener…

Ecological Creditor Nation Brazil Mobilizes: State of the World Forum moves to February 2010 (Washington, D.C.) and August 2010 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

In February, NextNow Collab helped launch the Ecological Creditor Nation Summit initiated by the Global Footprint Network.  Brazil is one of the approximately 20% of nations studied that maintains Ecological Creditor status.  Now NextNow Collab partner State of the World Forum is moving its Washington D.C. conference from November 2009 to February, 2010, largely due to the extensive involvement of Brazil, which is launching a Brazil 2020 campaign in partnership with the Forum in August 2009–the developments of which will go far in informing the subsequent Forum in Washington, D.C.– and which we plan to attend.  All of these efforts…