Ecocivilization
Ecocivilization Ecocivilization is Jeremy Lent’s ambitious attempt to move beyond diagnosing the failures of industrial civilization and envision what could actually replace it. Drawing on the design principles of living systems, Lent explores how economics, governance, infrastructure, agriculture, housing, and other foundations of society could be reorganized around justice, mutuality, diversity, symbiosis, and the flourishing […]
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning The Patterning Instinct explores a foundational question for the Great Transition: how did humanity come to see the world in ways that produced today’s dominant civilization? Jeremy Lent traces the evolution of meaning-making across cultures, showing how deeply rooted patterns of thought shape societies, […]
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe The Web of Meaning addresses one of the deepest dimensions of the Great Transition: the worldview through which we understand ourselves and our relationship with the living Earth. Jeremy Lent argues that the dominant culture’s experience of separation—from nature, […]
What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire and the Self-Knowledge Imperative
What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire and the Self-Knowledge Imperative While most discussions of the Great Transition focus on transforming systems, Jim Collins turns attention to a parallel challenge: how do human beings navigate the periods of uncertainty, disruption, and reinvention that accompany profound change? Through the stories of people confronting life’s […]
Breaking Together: A Freedom‑Loving Response to Collapse
Breaking Together: A Freedom‑Loving Response to Collapse Jem Bendell offers a sobering yet compassionate exploration of societal collapse as a lived reality, not a distant possibility. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and personal reflection, he shows how modern economic, political, and ecological systems are unraveling and invites readers to face that truth with courage, creativity, and solidarity […]
Think LIke a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons
Think LIke a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons The Commons is perhaps one of the most important foundations for Planetary Culture. Think Like a Commoner explains the rich history and promising future of the commons — an ageless paradigm of cooperation and fairness that is re-making our world. I want […]
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible Many of us share the feeling that at the core of our civilization something is fundamentally amiss. Few have been willing to commit themselves as fully as Charles Eisenstein to uncovering what that is. And what emerges from his inquiry is a stunning vision of a […]
The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth
The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth This book offers genuine hope. There truly is a pathway to regenerate the Earth. How? We design by embracing the fundamental insight that all living systems self-organize around the patterns of regeneration. Applied to the scale of entire landscapes, this reveals how all truly sustainable human cultures throughout history […]
The Chalice and the Blade
The Chalice and the Blade Since its publication in 1987, The Chalice and the Blade has had a significant and lasting influence across various fields, including sociology, gender studies, education, peace studies, and cultural history. Riane Eisler’s framework of the “partnership” and “dominator” models has become an influential lens through which academics, activists, and educators […]
Sacred Economics
Sacred Economics Sacred Economics traces the history of money from its roots in ancient gift economies to modern capitalism. It reveals how currencies systemically drive scarcity consciousness, polarize wealth, destroy social and relational capital, and fuel our economic systems addiction to growth. I want to Awaken and I have Time for a Deeper Dive Source: […]