The Global Polycrisis Reflects a Civilizational Crisis that Calls for Systemic Alternatives
A review of emerging definitions of polycrisis within literature exploring societal risk and collapse, plus implications for how to respond via just and regenerative civilizational alternatives.
Global Polycrisis as a Pathway for Economic Transition
Identifying economic alternatives that provide systemic and proactive responses to the global polycrisis.
Transformation Toward an Ecological Civilization: A Relational Approach to a Just Transition
Fundamentally re-structuring society on the basis of a relational paradigm offers the best pathways toward an Ecological Civilization.
Common Goods for the Common Good: Complexity and Community for Ecological Civilization
Exploring the social and biophysical factors underpinning collapse, and how to achieve a higher quality of life with deep democracy, the commons and the solidarity economy.
Designing Cities for All: Transitioning as Democracies
How can democracies help to design a just transition in a diverse and unequal world?
The Revolution Continues with Zack Walsh talking about the Radical Possibilities of the ‘Contemplative Commons’
A broad-ranging and personal discussion on relationality, contemplative commoning, politicized healing, systems change, and current events.
Ontology as a Hidden Driver of Politics and Policy: Commoning and Relational Approaches to Governance
Our way of making sense of the world – our paradigm – shapes our ability to respond to crisis.
Transformative Education: Towards a Relational, Justice-Oriented Approach to Sustainability
Integrating personal, social and ecological dimensions of sustainability through the development of a transformative curriculum on eco-justice.
Relational Commoning
An introduction to commoning and how it relates to relational philosophy, bioregional planning, ecological civilization studies, and where commoning is happening on the ground today.
Towards a Relational Paradigm in Sustainability Research, Practice, and Education
Literature review and call for future work that take relational approaches to sustainability.
Climate Change Ethics and the Non-Human World
The first book to examine the moral significance of non-human members of the biotic community and their omission from climate ethics literature.
Breakdown or Breakthrough? Degrowth and the Great Transition
We have already surpassed the known limits to growth, so degrowth is our only option.
Responding with Love to a Civilization in Crisis
What if our efforts to create a more just and caring world weren’t separated from our efforts to adapt to near-term social collapse?
Contemplating the More-than-Human Commons
Commoning not only creates sustainable systems—it also has the potential to birth entire new lifeways and worldviews premised on relationality and reciprocity.
Co-Designing Economies in Transition: Radical Approaches in Dialogue with Contemplative Social Sciences
Exploring the foundations for contemporary social and economic transformation.