#systemschange — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #systemschange, aggregated by home.social.
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"Sweet dreams. How the doughnut diagram works to preempt more radical approaches to planning"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14730952261448510
>This analysis shows that the doughnut diagram forecloses ways of seeing and enjoying that more fundamentally could challenge mainstream planning.#systemschange #donuteconomics #doughnuteconomics #kateraworth
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How environmental destruction is built into corporate design
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How environmental destruction is built into corporate design
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How environmental destruction is built into corporate design
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How environmental destruction is built into corporate design
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How environmental destruction is built into corporate design
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Transition Towns are key to degrowth, but current movements remain too reformist
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Transition Towns are key to degrowth, but current movements remain too reformist
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Why we’re still marching toward collapse—and how to break the trance
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Once you've seen that the future has been absorbing everything we'd rather not deal with right now, something shifts in how the present feels. The choices we make today — what we invest in, what we decline, what we step back from — turn out to carry more weight than we'd been led to believe. Not grand gestures, but the ordinary daily texture of how we live. That texture is moral ground.
This week's reflection @ https://medium.com/collaborative-action-network/to-the-lifeboats-6fe08434d9a9
#ClimateReality #Polycrisis #SystemsChange #LifeboatAcademy -
Most of us have spent years waiting for something; the right moment, the right conditions, the clarity that will finally make it obvious what to do. There's a particular recognition that arrives when you realise the future has been quietly absorbing everything we'd rather not deal with right now. The lifeboat doesn't get built there. It gets built here, in whatever time is actually available.
This week's reflection @ bit.ly/4rzVmbR
#Polycrisis #Presence #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy -
There's something worth sitting with in the gap between knowing something and being willing to act on it — and it's not primarily about courage or cowardice. Most of us have found ourselves reaching for the version of events that lets us stay where we are. It's one of the most human things there is. The question is whether we're still doing it right now.
This week's reflection @ https://medium.com/collaborative-action-network/to-the-lifeboats-6fe08434d9a9
#Polycrisis #Awareness #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy -
There's a word in today's meme that might land harder than expected, and it's meant to — not as an accusation, but because what it names is structural and the structure needs a name before anything can change. The image is from the Farmastery — frost on kale at dawn. Something alive and tended, part of the story we're trying to live differently.
This week's reflection @ bit.ly/3PwYRSU
#ClimateReality #Polycrisis #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy
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Most of the systems we live inside were built on a particular promise — that if you get enough of the right things, happiness would follow. And most of us have spent years inside that promise without stopping to check whether it was actually delivering. The gap between what satisfaction feels like and what happiness actually is is where the most important questions live.
This week's reflection @
https://bit.ly/3PwYRSU#Polycrisis #Meaning #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy
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There's a difference between not seeing something and deciding, somewhere below the level of awareness, that you'd rather not. Most of us have done both at different points, and the interesting question — the one that sits just underneath Ben's reflection on where we put our time and energy — is which one is happening right now.
The week's reflection: https://emotus.substack.com/p/daily-reflections-2025-07-02
#Polycrisis #Awareness #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy
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David Graeber named something that changes how the work feels: the world is not inevitable. It is made — by what people build, invest in, and refuse. Which means the communities forming right now, choosing different values under real pressure, aren't peripheral. They're part of how things actually change.
If this resonates, the reflection behind it is worth your time — Reflections: January 6th, 2021:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/reflections-january-6th-2021-a8a5a281d33d#DavidGraeber #Polycrisis #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy
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David Graeber named something that changes how the work feels: the world is not inevitable. It is made — by what people build, invest in, and refuse. Which means the communities forming right now, choosing different values under real pressure, aren't peripheral. They're part of how things actually change.
If this resonates, the reflection behind it is worth your time — Reflections: January 6th, 2021:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/reflections-january-6th-2021-a8a5a281d33d#DavidGraeber #Polycrisis #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy
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David Graeber named something that changes how the work feels: the world is not inevitable. It is made — by what people build, invest in, and refuse. Which means the communities forming right now, choosing different values under real pressure, aren't peripheral. They're part of how things actually change.
If this resonates, the reflection behind it is worth your time — Reflections: January 6th, 2021:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/reflections-january-6th-2021-a8a5a281d33d#DavidGraeber #Polycrisis #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy
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David Graeber named something that changes how the work feels: the world is not inevitable. It is made — by what people build, invest in, and refuse. Which means the communities forming right now, choosing different values under real pressure, aren't peripheral. They're part of how things actually change.
If this resonates, the reflection behind it is worth your time — Reflections: January 6th, 2021:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/reflections-january-6th-2021-a8a5a281d33d#DavidGraeber #Polycrisis #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy
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David Graeber named something that changes how the work feels: the world is not inevitable. It is made — by what people build, invest in, and refuse. Which means the communities forming right now, choosing different values under real pressure, aren't peripheral. They're part of how things actually change.
If this resonates, the reflection behind it is worth your time — Reflections: January 6th, 2021:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/reflections-january-6th-2021-a8a5a281d33d#DavidGraeber #Polycrisis #SystemsChange #MutualAid #LifeboatAcademy
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Connection isn't soft. It isn't secondary.
It is the infrastructure of being #human.
And our foundations are cracking.So make a deliberate #HumanConnection today.
Call someone just to hear their voice.
Make eye contact.
Show up somewhere in-person.
Ask a real question and listen to the answer. -
This quote points to a difficult reality of collapse and care.
When people are overwhelmed or afraid, resistance isn’t always rejection — it’s often the body protecting itself. Help offered without trust or consent can land as danger.
As we move toward fair share ethics, this matters deeply. Care has to be relational, paced, and responsive — or it risks doing harm even with good intentions.
#OctaviaEButler #FairShareEthics #RelationalCare #SystemsChange #Farmastery
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This quote points to a difficult reality of collapse and care.
When people are overwhelmed or afraid, resistance isn’t always rejection — it’s often the body protecting itself. Help offered without trust or consent can land as danger.
As we move toward fair share ethics, this matters deeply. Care has to be relational, paced, and responsive — or it risks doing harm even with good intentions.
#OctaviaEButler #FairShareEthics #RelationalCare #SystemsChange #Farmastery
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This quote points to a difficult reality of collapse and care.
When people are overwhelmed or afraid, resistance isn’t always rejection — it’s often the body protecting itself. Help offered without trust or consent can land as danger.
As we move toward fair share ethics, this matters deeply. Care has to be relational, paced, and responsive — or it risks doing harm even with good intentions.
#OctaviaEButler #FairShareEthics #RelationalCare #SystemsChange #Farmastery
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This quote points to a difficult reality of collapse and care.
When people are overwhelmed or afraid, resistance isn’t always rejection — it’s often the body protecting itself. Help offered without trust or consent can land as danger.
As we move toward fair share ethics, this matters deeply. Care has to be relational, paced, and responsive — or it risks doing harm even with good intentions.
#OctaviaEButler #FairShareEthics #RelationalCare #SystemsChange #Farmastery
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This quote points to a difficult reality of collapse and care.
When people are overwhelmed or afraid, resistance isn’t always rejection — it’s often the body protecting itself. Help offered without trust or consent can land as danger.
As we move toward fair share ethics, this matters deeply. Care has to be relational, paced, and responsive — or it risks doing harm even with good intentions.
#OctaviaEButler #FairShareEthics #RelationalCare #SystemsChange #Farmastery
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Correctness offers the illusion of stability, but often blocks our capacity to see what’s truly moving.
Ben's artice this week explored how we re-orient inside complexity — how we recognise flow when surface conditions feel chaotic or still.Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti names the shift: from correctness to complexity, context, and compassion.
That’s where real clarity begins.#Complexity #Context #Compassion #SystemsChange #RelationalLeadership #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy
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What if fear is feedback? And what if feedback becomes flow?
Ben’s new piece on moving from ledgers to living rhythm.
👇 Read + let your nervous system respond:
https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-canary-and-the-ledger#RelationalEconomy #SystemsChange #Guilds #Reciprocity #OutgrowingModernity
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What if fear is feedback? And what if feedback becomes flow?
Ben’s new piece on moving from ledgers to living rhythm.
👇 Read + let your nervous system respond:
https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-canary-and-the-ledger#RelationalEconomy #SystemsChange #Guilds #Reciprocity #OutgrowingModernity
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What if fear is feedback? And what if feedback becomes flow?
Ben’s new piece on moving from ledgers to living rhythm.
👇 Read + let your nervous system respond:
https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-canary-and-the-ledger#RelationalEconomy #SystemsChange #Guilds #Reciprocity #OutgrowingModernity
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What if fear is feedback? And what if feedback becomes flow?
Ben’s new piece on moving from ledgers to living rhythm.
👇 Read + let your nervous system respond:
https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-canary-and-the-ledger#RelationalEconomy #SystemsChange #Guilds #Reciprocity #OutgrowingModernity
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A Letter, Anguish, and a Rubber Band
Your anguish, sometimes so unbearable, is in fact the force through which you can help the world come a little closer to being all that it can be.
donellameadows.org/archives/a-…
#reality #vision #future #SystemsChange #learning #ask #DonellaMeadows
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What if our economy protected what we love instead of harming it?
It’s time for systems that honour life.#Decolonize #ClimateJustice #SystemsChange #RobinWallKimmerer #LifeboatAcademy #Ecology #CareEconomy
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As we engage this new year, this is a great video (3 minutes long) to watch and ask ourselves, what's changed in the past year. We've known what we know for decades, and these very companies were some of the first to sound the alarm. Now, what are we doing about it?
#ClimateAction #CorporateSustainability #ESG #ClimateLeadership #NetZero #BusinessAndClimate #SystemsChange
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As we engage this new year, this is a great video (3 minutes long) to watch and ask ourselves, what's changed in the past year. We've known what we know for decades, and these very companies were some of the first to sound the alarm. Now, what are we doing about it?
#ClimateAction #CorporateSustainability #ESG #ClimateLeadership #NetZero #BusinessAndClimate #SystemsChange
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As we engage this new year, this is a great video (3 minutes long) to watch and ask ourselves, what's changed in the past year. We've known what we know for decades, and these very companies were some of the first to sound the alarm. Now, what are we doing about it?
#ClimateAction #CorporateSustainability #ESG #ClimateLeadership #NetZero #BusinessAndClimate #SystemsChange
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As we engage this new year, this is a great video (3 minutes long) to watch and ask ourselves, what's changed in the past year. We've known what we know for decades, and these very companies were some of the first to sound the alarm. Now, what are we doing about it?
#ClimateAction #CorporateSustainability #ESG #ClimateLeadership #NetZero #BusinessAndClimate #SystemsChange
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Our crises and our breakthroughs both begin in imagination. What new doorway are you sensing coming alive?
#BillPlotkin #Imagination #Ecopsychology #SystemsChange #TransitionCulture
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What does it really mean to build a career in #SocialJustice?
From #MacroSocialWork and #CommunityOrganizing to #PublicPolicy and #LegalAdvocacy, there’s no single road to systemic change. Each path offers unique trade-offs in impact, access, and sustainability.
My latest article breaks down the four most effective professional routes to drive justice at scale, and helps you find the one that aligns with your values.
https://themacrolens.com/2025/10/22/career-in-social-justice/
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What does it really mean to build a career in #SocialJustice?
From #MacroSocialWork and #CommunityOrganizing to #PublicPolicy and #LegalAdvocacy, there’s no single road to systemic change. Each path offers unique trade-offs in impact, access, and sustainability.
My latest article breaks down the four most effective professional routes to drive justice at scale, and helps you find the one that aligns with your values.
https://themacrolens.com/2025/10/22/career-in-social-justice/
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What does it really mean to build a career in #SocialJustice?
From #MacroSocialWork and #CommunityOrganizing to #PublicPolicy and #LegalAdvocacy, there’s no single road to systemic change. Each path offers unique trade-offs in impact, access, and sustainability.
My latest article breaks down the four most effective professional routes to drive justice at scale, and helps you find the one that aligns with your values.
https://themacrolens.com/2025/10/22/career-in-social-justice/
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What does it really mean to build a career in #SocialJustice?
From #MacroSocialWork and #CommunityOrganizing to #PublicPolicy and #LegalAdvocacy, there’s no single road to systemic change. Each path offers unique trade-offs in impact, access, and sustainability.
My latest article breaks down the four most effective professional routes to drive justice at scale, and helps you find the one that aligns with your values.
https://themacrolens.com/2025/10/22/career-in-social-justice/
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What does it really mean to build a career in #SocialJustice?
From #MacroSocialWork and #CommunityOrganizing to #PublicPolicy and #LegalAdvocacy, there’s no single road to systemic change. Each path offers unique trade-offs in impact, access, and sustainability.
My latest article breaks down the four most effective professional routes to drive justice at scale, and helps you find the one that aligns with your values.
https://themacrolens.com/2025/10/22/career-in-social-justice/
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The Complexity Spectrum
Philanthropies are increasingly becoming key players in the field of systems change. As organizations grow more innovative and risk tolerant, they are logical partners to those working to shift systems for the better.
blog.kumu.io/the-complexity-sp…#complexity #SystemsChange #ComplexSystems #healing #relationships #WellBeing #ComplexitySpectrum
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Because without that work, No Kings Day will just another day that ends in “Y.”
#NoKingsDay #Mediocre #WhiteWomenGetReady #WhiteMaleSupremacy #GoodWhiteFolx #Antiracism #Accountability #SystemsChange #WhitePrivilege #CulturalReckoning #PowerAndPrivilege #DoTheWork #DismantleTheMyth #ProfitWithoutOppression #KimCrayton
