Having read this question & answer exchange from Richard Heinberg, I thought it appropriate to copy it here, as its call for a balanced state of mind & emotion is important:

When I think about all of these challenges, I just get overwhelmed. Where do we go for hope?

A: First, address your mental state. If you’re emotionally overwhelmed by information about climate change and resource depletion, you may need to ration your news intake so as to…

The Festival of Transition is a series of events, talks and walks up and down the country culminating in a nationwide day of action and re-imagining on Wednesday 20th June 2012, the first day of the UN Earth Summit in Rio. It's an invitation to explore how overcoming big challenges can lead to better lives for us all:

The future is hard to predict but one way or another our economy and society will…

There is a story about a begging bowl and a king. It is told that a wandering stranger once stopped a king in the street. Furious, the king shouted – ‘How dare you, a man of little worth, interrupt the progress of your sovereign?’ the stranger answered – ‘Can you truly be a sovereign if you cannot even fill my begging bowl?’ And he held out his bowl to the king. In wishing to show his generosity to the crowd that had now assembled, the king ordered the stranger’s begging bowl to…

The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges once famously wrote of a great Empire that created a map that was so detailed it was as large as the Empire itself. The actual map itself grew and decayed as the Empire itself conquered or lost territory. When the Empire finally crumbled, all that remained was the map. This ‘imaginary map’ finally became the only remaining reality of the great Empire: a simulation of the physical reality that now encompasses everyone. In some sense we can say…