Center for Planetary Culture

[...] I was profiled by Ever Manifesto, distributed in H&M stores. The Bigger Picture: Daniel Pinchbeck by Xerxes Cook An American philosopher and author who believes the economic systems humanity [...]

[...] with us. Please email research@planetaryculture.com for ideas on how you could get involved. Daniel Pinchbeck Executive Director Center for Planetary Culture Learn More We are a fiscally sponsored [...]

[...] with us. Please email research@planetaryculture.com for ideas on how you could get involved. Daniel Pinchbeck Executive Director Center for Planetary Culture Learn More We are a fiscally sponsored [...]

[...] three key areas: industrial infrastructure, social structure and culture. CURRENT STATUS The ecological crisis reflects a larger human predicament in which, for a myriad of reasons, the majority of [...]

[...] developed by Paul Stamets, John Todd, and others. To attract young people, the ecological crisis can be “game-ified” by creating contests, campaigns, and reward systems that build [...]

[...] today, here, Daniel Pinchbeck discusses ideas of corporate alchemy and whether the ecological crisis is an initiatory process that will lead to the next stage of human evolution. It’s been [...]

[...] global practices. What are alternative memes? We propose the model of transition to a regenerative society, or resilient society. A new effective mimetic strategy must be defined. One way to [...]

[...] , Transition Town, and MoveOn. Social and Political Organizing: The rapid transition to a regenerative society will require a melding of bottom-up and top-down approaches to social organization. [...]

[...] consolidation of the global community of progressives – “cultural creatives” – behind a unified vision. The tens or hundreds of millions of cultural creatives, [...]

[...] values and beliefs. We can identify the “early adaptors” to this worldview among the cultural creatives. But even there, we can see that values and behaviors don’t always match. We need to [...]

[...] make excessive hoarding of wealth obsolete. Art and Culture: The movement can outreach to cultural influencers, technology innovators, wealth holders, and public artists. Public artists can now reach [...]

[...] strategy must be defined. One way to propagate it is through public artists and other cultural influencers, like successful entrepreneurs, who now have direct access to mass audiences in the tens [...]

[...] an extinction event for humanity, even in the next century, with a 4 – 6 degree Celsius temperature rise possible by 2050. Defining most resilient response to accelerated climate change, [...]

[...] the precipice of an ecological mega catastrophe, with the likelihood of a 2 – 6 degree Celsius temperature rise over the next decades. At the same time, we are experiencing accelerated technological [...]

[...] conservative estimates by scientists, we are on track for at least a 4 – 6 degree Celsius temperature rise by 2100. The oceans are 30% more acidic than they were 40 years ago, because they [...]

[...] It is possible, however – if not unavoidable – that a deeper, systemic transformation of the economic paradigm needs to take place to support human continuity. This change must happen quickly. Our [...]

[...] financial gian at the expense of the health of the whole. We need a structural transition in economic paradigm to bring about a sane, post-carbon civilization. At the moment, pollution and waste are [...]

[...] creative synthesis, where the counterculture that seeks human liberation melds with the corporate infrastructure to bring about a transformation of our world from within. In the future I believe we [...]