How to Re-Imagine the World : A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries

by Weston, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780865715943
• ISBN10: 0865715947
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: New Society Pub

Summary

Who says that all possible social and political systems have already been invented? Or that work-or marriage, or environmentalism, or anything else-must be just what they are now? This book is a conceptual toolbox for imagining and initiating radical social change. Chapters offer specific, focused, and shareable techniques: Seeking a Whole Vision: creating a pull and not just a push toward change Generative Thinking: looking for "seeds" and "sparks," stretching and twisting ideas, and going two steps too far Looking for Unexpected Openings: "weeds" and "wild cards," inside tracks, leverage points, and hidden possibilities Working at the Roots: reconstructing the built world, cultural practices, and even worldviews Building Momentum: playing to our strengths, reclaiming the language, "allying everywhere," doing it now, and going for broke Leap-frogging new kinds of cars and better mass transit in turn, why not a world in which "transportation" itself is unneeded? What about remaking New Orleans as a floating city, or putting only extreme surfers in the path of hurricanes? And why not dream of the stars? The question is not whether radical change is coming. It is already well underway. The only question is who will make it. Why not us?

Table of Contents

Introduction : got possibilities?	p. 1
Work from a vision	p. 9
Work from a whole vision	p. 15
Seeds	p. 23
Sparks	p. 27
Stretches	p. 31
Twists	p. 37
"The problem is the solution"	p. 43
What's the next step?	p. 49
Inside tracks	p. 57
Leverage points	p. 63
Weeds	p. 67
Wild cards	p. 71
Hidden possibilities	p. 77
Rebuild from the ground up	p. 85
Cultures and practices	p. 91
Worldviews	p. 95
Play to your strengths	p. 103
Reclaim the language	p. 109
More new words	p. 115
Ally everywhere	p. 121
The Tao of change	p. 127
Do it now	p. 131
Go for broke	p. 135
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