What We Can Do

Here’s where you can access all the “What We Can Do” project content, to read the series in order.

Eventually this will be pulled together as an ebook, but for now here’s where you can link to all the contents that are currently available. (I’ll be posting more over time.)

Section 1: Know your Story

• What is the What We Can Do project about? (a.k.a. The Map)
  • Why did you create the What We Can Do project?
  • My story: an example of change-making
• Stories for our time

Section 2: Understand the Problems

• What is Sustainability?
• The Climate Crisis
• Understand Peak
• Biocapacity
• The Economy
• Disenfranchisement
• Coping
  • How to create your own “good news” feed

Section 3: Strive for Energy Descent

• The Energy Descent curve — David Holmgren
• The Third Great Revolution — Joanna Macy
• The Permaculture Flower — David Holmgren
• (additional content to come)

Section 4: Fit into the Ecosystem of Solutions

• What is an ecosystem?
• Systems thinking
• Strategies and general tools
  • 3 types of action — Joanna Macy
  • Resilience
  • Adaptation versus mitigation
  • Nonlinearity — adrienne maree brown
  • The Amoeba of Cultural Change — Alan AtKisson
• (additional content to come)

Section 5: Top-down solutions

• (additional content to come)

Section 6: Community or grassroots solutions

• (additional content to come)

Section 7: Economic solutions

• (additional content to come)
• 5 broad approaches
• 10 Practical Tools
• How does buying local support a better economy?
• Debt: Borrowing money in times of economic contraction

Section 8: Individual or personal solutions

• (additional content to come)
• How to create your own “good news” feed

Section 9: Use Discernment to evaluate

• Discernment: How do you sort out what’s really sustainable?

Section 10: Embrace your Superpowers

• (additional content to come)

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