vision and practice for transformative social change
Your Brain on Computers Follow five neuroscientists on a remote river trip to learn how the brain responds to an absence of technology. Representing various backgrounds, the researchers all, unsuprisingly, […]
How to start a revolution Watch a trailer about the efforts of Gene Sharp, the world’s leading expert on nonviolent revolution. Learn about his book, From Dictatorship to Democracy, and […]
Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agri-food System Author Patricia Allen discusses the efforts of two movements, sustainable agriculture and community food security, in her book Together At The […]
Girls, Inc. develops researched-based programs that encourage girls to take risks and master physical, intellectual, and emotional challenges. There is also a focus on math and science education as well […]
Read reviews of legal scholar Michelle Alexander’s award winning book The New Jim Crow, which explains how the prison system is the new Jim Crow. This title won the 2011 […]
The Age of Peace In an article that appeared in the August 2010 issue of Smithsonian magazine, Carolyn O’Hara examines demographic research concerning the benefit of a maturing population as […]
The Goodman Center helps “nonprofits recruit, propose, persuade, and present more effectively.” They have a storytelling workshop that can help you tell the story of your organization. The Goodman Center […]
The Doomsday Vault & Seed Preservation The doomsday vault is designed to protect over a billion seed samples from all known varieties of food crops on the planet. The vault […]
Watch the trailer from the film Color Lines, which features conversations that span thirteen years between two formidable women activists, Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama. Color Lines What’s going on for […]
Learn more about the Center for Whole Communities, a land-based leadership development organization. Read more work from Adrienne Maree Brown’s blog, the Luscious Satyagraha. Read about how stone circles and […]
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, the Revolutionary Learn more about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. than mass media will ever reveal. After more than a decade of serious contemplation, King […]