RESOURCES
The resources listed below link to a handful of leading thinkers, visionaries, organizations and media who are working in powerful ways to create transformative change for people and our planet.
WELLBEING ECONOMY ALLIANCE (WEAll)
WEAll is a collaboration of organizations, alliances, movements and individuals working towards a wellbeing economy, delivering human and ecological wellbeing.
INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION
The Institute for Ecological Civilization promotes civilizational change for the long-term wellbeing of people and the planet.
YES! Media is a nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism that features rigorous reporting on the positive ways communities are responding to social problems with the goal of inspiring people to build a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world
The Hip Hop Caucus is a non-profit, non-partisan, multi-racial organization with members across the country and globe. Their vision is for racial justice, healthy communities, and a healthy planet. Formed in 2004, the organization leverages partnerships with creatives, celebrities, and media to share solutions for local to global challenges through cultural channels that reach millions of people in order to inspire action, with a focus on engaging communities on the frontlines of injustice
Project Drawdown s a leading resource on climate solutions. They conduct review and assessment of climate solutions and partner with efforts to accelerate climate solutions globally. Associated with the book by the same name edited by Paul Hawken.
INTERSECTIONAL ENVIRONMENTALIST
Intersectional Environmentalist is a media + resource hub that promotes an inclusive version of environmentalism that advocates for both the protection of people and the planet. They work to develop thoughtful partnerships through social media, training, consulting, events, media, and finding synergy with other organizations to dismantle systems of oppression.
Cultural Survival is an indigenous led organization that has been advancing Indigenous Peoples' rights & cultures worldwide for nearly 50 years. They utilize various advocacy, education and community media programs to support First Peoples as they work to claim their rights to their lands, cultures, and self-determination, and the ecosystems that are essential to the whole planet
On Being is a public radio show and podcast that has been sharing conversations with leaders and thinkers from all backgrounds exploring faith, ethics, and moral wisdom since 2003. The show is now broadcast on over 400 public radio stations across the U.S. and its podcasts have been downloaded and played over 300 million times. Their Civil Conversations Project is an ongoing series of conversations and events focused on social healing between individuals and communities at all levels of scale.
The All We Can Save Project, seeded from the best-selling book of the same name, is based in the belief that women — especially Black, Indigenous, and other women of color — are imaging the critical, most effective and potentially transformational climate solutions we need to grow a life-giving future. All We Can Save works to amplify their voices and support their vision, projects and leadership.
The Emerson Collective deploys a wide range of tools—from impact investing to philanthropy to advocacy—in pursuit of a more equal and just America. Their focus is on creating systemic change in education, immigration, climate, and cancer research and treatment.
Formed in 2013, CJA unites frontline communities and organizations in building a Just Transition away from extractive systems of production, consumption and political oppression, and towards resilient, regenerative and equitable economies. They place race, gender and class at the center of solutions to climate change to ensure transitions to new, regenerative economies are truly just and equitable.
The Earth Charter, created twenty years ago, is a document with sixteen principles powering a global movement towards a more just, sustainable and peaceful world. It seeks to inspire in all people a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the whole human family, the greater community of life, and future generations.
Earth Guardians is an intergenerational organization with youth at the forefront that trains diverse youth to be effective leaders in the environmental, climate and social justice movements across the globe - using art, music, storytelling, on the ground projects, civic engagement and legal action to advance solutions to the critical issues we face as a global community.
GreenLatinos is a national non-profit organization that convenes a broad coalition of Latino leaders committed to addressing national, regional and local environmental, natural resources and conservation issues that significantly affect the health and welfare of the Latino community in the United States.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides a blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries in a global partnership.
The Club of Rome is a group of 100 notable scientists, economists, business leaders and former politicians who are working to address the multiple crises facing humanity and the planet by defining comprehensive solutions to the complex, interconnected challenges facing our world.
The mission of Good of the Whole is to cultivate a culture of wholeness and nurture our innate capacity to live for the good of the whole. Good of the Whole creates whole-systems alternatives for the world’s biggest problems, so that every person has an opportunity to evolve to their highest potential.
THE GLOBAL INDIGENOUS WISDOM LIBRARY and the THE WORLD PEACE LIBRARY
The Global Indigenous Wisdom Library and World Peace Library, presented by The Shift Network, are collections of audio recorded interviews, stories, and trainings with, respectively, Indigenous leaders from around the globe and the world’s top peacebuilders, social change leaders, scientists, and Indigenous elders to highlight the many positive ways to approach peace and peacebuilding and the creation of new era— one in which all members of the human family are treated with respect, understanding, compassion and justice.
Y On Earth works to cultivate health, well-being and a culture of stewardship among individuals and communities through podcasts, community partnerships and educational materials for kids.
“The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before..
And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, ‘We already did. We have made our world new.’ The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.”
- Barbara Kingsolver
Ode to Joy, Children in the streets of Iquitos, Peru. Photo: Kate Lapides-Black.
Top Photo: Friends in Urcusiqui, Ecuador. Photo: Kate Lapides-Black.