To promote the work of future change makers and connect them to the RLC network, RLC director Anwar Fazal has published a booklet, together with Lakshmi Menon, entitled “Multiversities”. There are scores of initiatives, local and global, that are emerging as living libraries, inspirational nodes, networks, brave advocates and new learning institutions that need to be better known. They encompass public interest hubs, catalysts, innovators, multipliers and accelerators- five platforms. All these have been found to be very critical for social movements to become impactful through information that both inspires others as well as ignites action.
For this purpose, Anwar Fazal and Lakshmi Menon selected a range of initiatives for a “Sourcebook for Changemakers”. The range of initiatives selected is as diverse as the world and public interest issues are. It has to be a work in progress, as initiatives come and go, rise and fall, and yet contribute to serve as lighthouses for change makers for a better world. Some of these initiatives will be presented here for you to get in touch.
Story of Stuff
“We’re a Community of 750,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet. Together, we believe it’s possible to create a society based on better not more, sharing not selfishness, community not division. We invite you to be inspired by and share our movies, participate in our study programs, and take part in our campaigns on the issues you care about… It’s an exercise plan to make the world a better place! The Citizen Muscle Boot Camp is a 4-week online program designed to provide our Community Members with the skills you need to make change on the issues you care about.”
Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) and Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
“Stockholm Resilience Centre advances research on the governance of social-ecological systems with a special emphasis on resilience – the ability to deal with change and continue to develop. The Centre launches open online course together with the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). The course, “Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities: The Quest for Safe and Just Development on a Resilient Planet” will help students explore and apply a range of emerging concepts within sustainability science. These concepts include: the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, the social-ecological systems approach and resilience thinking. Approaches that are at the core of contemporary research and debates in the arena of global sustainability.”
The Right Livelihood Programme UK and Bhutan
“A collaboration between Schumacher College and the Gross National Happiness Centre in Bhutan. Join us for a year-long transformative learning journey that aims to align your livelihood with a deeper purpose in service of happiness and well-being of people and planet. Schumacher College has an enviable reputation for cutting-edge learning. Our work is to inspire, challenge and question ourselves as co-inhabitants of the world, to ask the questions we all struggle to find answers to and to find sound knowledge, intuition and wonder in our search for solutions. People from all over the world, of all ages and backgrounds, have been informed, inspired and encouraged to act, by our 20 years of transformative courses for sustainable living.”
Ethical Markets Media (USA & Brazil)
“ETHICAL MARKETS MEDIA is an independent media company promoting the emergence of a sustainable, green, more ethical and just economy worldwide. We share the goals of all our non-profit groups and friends listed on our Partners/Links page. We research, assist and report on all the new organizations: civic, non-profit and for-profit, as well as individuals working for the transition to the new economies of the dawning information-rich solar age. Ethical markets is a Certified B. Corporation founded by Anwar Fazal in 2004.”
