Visionaries

Solving the world's problems requires vision, and not just one. We want to hear yours. Join our team of leading environmentalists and visionaries by sharing your vision for the future with us. By collecting your ideas, we believe we can channel our collective energy into action.

Visions

What Else?

By Wendell Berry

For more than 100 years the coal-producing counties of eastern Kentucky have been dependent on the coal industry, which has dominated them politically and, submitting only to the limits of technology, has come near to ruining them. The legacy of the coal economy in the Kentucky mountains will be immense and lasting damage to the land and to the people. Much of the damage to the land and the streams, and to water quality downstream, will be...

Let’s Envision Gender Equality—Nothing Else is Working

By Jane Roberts

At the 2007 Women Deliver conference in London, The Lancet put out a special edition with this message on the cover: “Since the human race began, women have delivered for society. It is time now for the world to deliver for women.”

I envision a world where people, men and women together, will deliver for women, who will climb over the barricades in a nonviolent struggle for enormous change. We have to make it happen....

Featured Interviews

Regulating History: A Conversation with Joe Childers

Joe Childers is an environmental lawyer, a founding member of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and chairman of the Kentucky Mine Safety Review Commission. In 2009 he was a finalist for director of the U.S. Office of Surface Mining, raising expectations that the Obama administration might begin to enforce the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act for the first time since 1981. Here, he is interviewed by Erik Reece, author of the critically acclaimed Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing...

Paul Raskin on Making the Great Transition

Dr. Paul Raskin, founding director of the Tellus Institute and founder of the Great Transition Initiative (gtinitiative.org), discusses alternative global futures and ways to transition to a sustainable and livable planetary civilization. The following is based on an interview conducted by Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change, for Yale’s program, “Visions of a...

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Reader Visions

Co-Existence Model of Ecologically and Socially Sustainable Earth.

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Co-Existence Model of Ecologically and Socially Sustainable Earth. (updated draft of "'Evolving' the Ideal Earth Design: Ensuring Transparency".) online http://www.modelearth...

Designing the Future of the Earth Co-operatively.

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The Need for Designing the Future Collaboratively: To Whom the Future of the Earth Might Concern. (online www.ModelEarth.Org ) I propose that the differences that there exist...