[quote"Nina Simons, Findhorn Fellow and co-founder of Bioneers"]When I listen with my heart, I am pierced with an empathic awareness that calls me into action beyond what any amount of learning, reading or mental understanding can prompt.[/quote] "While I am inspired each year by all the brilliant, innovative and effective solutions and strategies at this gathering, they won’t be enough to shift our collective course without an accompanying — and radical — change of heart. "For me, what’s … Continue reading
Towards a New Activism to Effectively Support a Transition to a Post-Growth Economy

"Activists and civil society change agents from all over the world are increasingly starting to realise that the climate crisis, the inequality crisis, and many other issues so close to activists’ hearts will not come anywhere near getting resolved if we do not change the economic system. Within all diversity of movements like the Commons, de-growth, Great Transition, or the solidarity economy, within and around them a new story of systemic change is emerging." Read the full story in Kosmos … Continue reading
Facing the future: Peace and systemic change by Justine Huxley

New Story Summiteer, Justine Huxley, envisions the proactive co-creation of a future for humanity built on peace and systemic change.... "As 2015 unfolds before us, we will no doubt be confronted daily with news of what is disintegrating. But in every direction there is also new life springing up between the rubble. We are all needed to nurture those new shoots - to share our hope with each other, to be in community, and to support each other in growing courage and inner resilience. If we are … Continue reading