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Few would deny that we are entering a period of great change. Our environment is collapsing. Social disruption abounds. All around, it seems, we are experiencing breakdown. But out of this chaos comes the opportunity for breakthrough-the opportunity to reimagine our future.

In Dreaming the Future, Kenny Ausubel leads us into that possible new world and introduces us to the thinkers and doers who are-sometimes quietly, sometimes not-leading what he calls "a revolution from the heart of nature and the human heart."

In a collection of short, witty, poignant, even humorous essays, Ausubel tracks the big ideas, emerging trends, and game-changing developments of our time. He guides us through our watershed moment, showing how it's possible to emerge from a world where corporations are citizens, the gap between rich and poor is cavernous, and biodiversity and the climate are under assault and create a world where we take our cues from nature and focus on justice, equity, diversity, democracy, and peace.

Even those steeped in the realities of a world gone wrong and efforts to right it will find refreshing, even surprising, perspectives in Dreaming the Future. It will come as no surprise to readers that Ausubel is cofounder of Bioneers-which foreword author David W. Orr describes as "one part global salon...one part catalytic organization."

Contents:

Foreword

Introduction

Close encounters of the biological kind : Earth hospitality

The re-enchantment of Earth : a co-creation story

21st century blues : the dim ages

The clash of civilizations : disposability or sustainability?

Honey, we shrunk the planet : regime change and resilience thinking

Nature's operating instructions : the true biotechnologies

Ecological medicine : one notion indivisible

Dreaming the future : empire crash in the age of nature

Hungry ghost stories

The sting : fraud in nature

The robber barons : deja vu all over again

Survival of the fattest : the cosmology of greed

Lizards from outer space : this is your brain on public relations

Mighty corporate : a nation of hustlers

The infoganda wars : the battle of the story

Family values : why is it a crime?

A parade of dwarves : have-nots and have-a-lots

The unlikeliest of people in the unlikeliest of places : corporations, democracy, and the rights of nature

Value change for survival

Remembering the future : clear thinking, justice, and peace

The star rover : the law of love

Value change for survival : six degrees of climate separation

The revolution has begun : "the shift hits the fan"

Entangled in unity : poets, seers, science, and oneness

From here to infinity : the great mystery

Acknowledgements

Resources

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