As the solutions on this website show, we do have what it takes to both survive this decade and transform our global society into one that works far better for all living in it or affected by it. Not pipedreams or wish lists, but proven solutions already shifting our biggest problems. The challenge then is first to use the strategies most likely to put these answers to work wherever they're needed--and then to connect these varied answers to each other, within and across all sectors, resulting in overall systems transformation. And, where possible, to surface these solutions at roughly the same time and in the right sequence. For it is, as with most organic systems, for any of one of the sectors of society, each with its distinctive function, to be healthy each of the others must be healthy also, each healthy in itself and in right relation with all the others--all fully interdependent.
Thus also for even the best of solutions to actually work each needs the others working well also. They need each other. For example, to be found a needed new technology has of course to be funded--and the faith of it's seekers stoked and supported. Supportive new patterns, habits and infrastructures need to show up. New rules and practices must be defined, old ones abandoned, new priorities set and new ways of thinking embraced. thus a would be solution or strategy may fail not of itself but for lack of the essential corollaries not in sync.
Below we've taken on the presumptuous but essential task of not only naming goals and objectives, solutions and strategies, but mapping out how the answers pivotal to systems transformation today must, can and are starting to come together, within and across interacting sectors--and the diverse strategies best matched to each. Call it a theory of transformation. The potential? Societal change, global and deep and comprehensive as needed, breakthrough from breakdown. A livable future within reach, the hard birthed outcome of these times. And the purpose? To offer us not only well-founded hope but a much needed sense of direction, a map and a compass, with which we can get our bearings and better coordinate and multiply the impact of all our efforts.