Joe Guinan Joe Guinan

The contours of our systemic crisis

As the first Next System Speaker of 2025, Joe Guinan spoke to George Mason University’s Next System Studies class about what TDC’s 2024 Index of Systemic Trends tells us about the present crisis in America.

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Nairuti Shastry Nairuti Shastry

Responses to Webinar Questions

In October we ran a webinar looking at the Transformative and Growing Potential of Community Wealth Building. At that event we generated a range of questions, not all of which could be answered during the Webinar. We now answer them.

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Essays from the Edge Gus Speth Essays from the Edge Gus Speth

New hope in an old fight

Just after a disaster election, the theme of the Yale Center for Environmental Justice conference,,“environmental joy,” at first seemed incongruous. But the diverse, young, and ready-to-fight group assembled kept returning to the idea that joy could be found in a determined struggle for people and planet.

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