Dear GTN Colleagues,
I hope you are all keeping well in these strange and troubling days. Who would have thought that a tilt toward Conventional Worlds politics in the US would become a cause of celebration, or at least relief? But we’ll take it: the best path to a GT passes through Policy Reform.
Thanks to the 60+ of you who contributed to the September GTN discussion
Universal Basic Income: Has the Time Come? It was an astonishingly animated, informative, and incisive exchange that left me, for one, with a lot to mull over. We have now gathered a representative subset of the comments into a GTI Forum geared to a general readership that is now live on our
homepage
. Please share it, republish it, blog it.
Our December GTN discussion will examine the relationship of two big ideas: the Anthropocene and the Great Transition. I will kick things off on soon with a brief—and perhaps provocative—essay, entitled “Interrogating the Anthropocene: Truth and Fallacy.”
Please post news on the
GTN Bulletin Board
(submit info to
jcohn@tellus.org). The latest announcements include:
• A job opening in sustainability policy and planning at Tufts
• Recent articles, documentaries, and webinars
• New books by Julie Schor, Jennie Stephens, Maurie Cohen, Stephen Purdey, and Joe Ravetz
• Publication of
The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed Economy, edited by Gus Speth, with contributions from a number of GTNers (including yours truly).
Onward,
Paul