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Our global society faces the challenge of moving from an industrial-growth society to a life-sustaining society. This shift is often referred to as “The Great Turning.”

We spent some of our New Year’s holiday collaborating on this videoblog to create a positive vision for the New Year. We used Creative Commons-licensed material detailed below.

Here are some resources that we find useful in describing some optimistic social change approaches for the future:

COMMUNICATION
Non-Violent Communication is an approach to communicating that focuses on creating deep connection and satisfying relationships based on mutual respect, compassion and cooperation. Kent summarizes a weekend workshop of NVC here.

COMMUNITY
Joanna Macey wrote the book “Coming Back to Life,” which teaches community practices for facing despair and how to prevent from going psychically numb in the face of global challenges. Macey says, “When we deny or repress pain or treat it a private pathology we miss out. When we acknowledge and willing accepting the pain of larger world we open a path for a sense of interconnectedness.”

HEALTH
“The New Medicine” website by PBS is an excellent resource for understanding mind-body medicine and finding therapies that treat specific conditions with a integrative approach.

CONSCIOUSNESS
The Institute of Noetic Science’s ShiftInAction.com hosted an Essential Shifts Series consisting of interviews with some of the world’s best visionary thinkers talking about the current global situation and what we can do about it.

GREEN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
We bought the book “Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century,” which describes some of the latest and greatest solutions for a bright green future. It is packed with sustainable technologies that provide a lot of hope for what is already possible.
Update: this site climatecrises.net lists small changes you can add to your daily routine to help stop global warming.

Creative Commons Music:
“Mind Field” by DJBLUE from ccmixter.org

Interview Audio:
Angeles Arrien from ShiftInAction.com

Creative Commons Video
Arin Crumley’s “Humanity Lobotomy”
freakypups’ “Free Hugs for Phoenix”
And the following Stock Footage from WGBH Labs Sandbox:
Clock, La Plaza Newspaper, New Yorkers 1939, Journey into DNA, This Information, Blood Flow, Splashes of Sparks, Of Human Bondage, Nubian Fisherman on the Nile, Crops in the Mist, Ocean Waves at the Shore, Baby Naming Ceremony, King Montgomery, Waikiki Counterclockwise, Nautilus Animation, Time Lapse Nature, Slow Motion Track

Creative Commons Flickr Photos
monkeyc, blumsy, neoncoil, kevint, benjamin_ellis, blogumentary, joyrex, ousby, tjt195, hawkey, sigman, hawkey, paulbence, hawkey, vithassan, hawkey, weston, lapidim, scatti_frullati, thomashawk, willpate, hawkey, scatti_frullati, cyberscorpion, scatti_frullati, hawkey, docman, k-girl, willemvelthoven, alfredoneto, hawkey, istanbulmike, sigman, tasteful_tn, jamesxv7

Falstad.com Physics Applets:
Ripple Tank (2-D Waves) Applet
2-D Circular Square Well Applet

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