...building our capacity for a livable future

 
...helping higher education contribute to a livable future

...helping higher education contribute to a livable future

Even as our world grows more dangerous, people everywhere—from inside and outside of “the system”, from villages to bureaucracies, in living rooms, in boardrooms, and in the streets— are creating new solutions by the thousands, solutions that make possible a livable future:

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Ò       Non-exploitative ways to create and share wealth

Ò       New ways of making shelter, food, clothing, and communications, and of healing, manufacturing and transport, that do not harm the earth

Ò       New skills in governing ourselves, from the lowest to the highest levels, that make democracy real and diversity a resource not a threat

Ò       New ways of understanding ourselves, our planet, our universe and the world we make for ourselves to live in

 

 
                               

 
                                                                                                               

                                                                           

     

                                                                                                             

 

                                                                                                              

   

 

From the least to the most affluent, people are realigning their values, claiming their power, finding sustainable ways to survive, connecting with others from afar and stretching their ability to collaborate. As these new ways spread and evolve, they throw open a compelling vision of how we might yet shape the emerging global society, harnessing its dynamism, even its dangers, into a force potent enough to remake our world and make possible a livable future. But how do we build our capacity, as individuals and as a society, to realize this possibility?

 

 
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Universal Access to Critical Knowledge, Easy to Use and to Share

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



HIGHER EDge is a non-profit organization in Santa Cruz, California.