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8am on London’s main shopping junction. Oxford Circus is busy with marketing executives, retail staff ready for work, London’s morning rush hour of people entering the daily grind. The sun is shining over lanes of bus and taxi traffic. Everyone is en route.

Enter The Future. Last Friday the United Nations were meeting in Bonn and somewhere, too low down, on their agenda was a discussion point: ‘how to save the world from climate change’.

As the suits gathered in Bonn to wrangle about our future, a group of young dancers from London gathered around the junction at Oxford Circus. They’re a new element of The Future: The Future Flash Mob.

We wanted to make London stop – just for a moment. We wanted people during their daily rush to ask why the kids are dancing in the midst of traffic; putting their bodies at risk to make people stop and pay attention.

And so we stepped out into the junction – easy as that.  Four of us – in high vis vests and with traffic cones that we’d found nearby – blocked four lanes of traffic. This cleared Oxford Circus for the dancers to enter and dance.  We hit play on a portable sound system and everyone stopped and watched.

As the song drew to a close the dancers picked up their bags and left the junction.  They spoke to the crowd who had gathered.  They gave them this message and told the crowd that in Bonn conversations are going on amongst the most powerful people in the world – conversations that will decide whether or not we will have a future. The crowd was concerned, for a moment, before they carried on to work.

Through our dance we joined a conversation that we have been shut out of.  The conversation about whether our generation will have a future that we can survive.  Through our dance we took Oxford Circus, and for a moment – we chose our future.

The New Earth Project from James Hardwick on Vimeo.

The New Earth Project is a pioneering initiative to unite humanity in a common cause: to define a world shaped by conscious people, in order to bring about healthy, joyful and prosperous lives. People all around the world are rising up and demanding that overbearing government stands down. None of us want our world to be coloured any further by the engineering of wars, surveillance-culture, forced vaccinations, food- stamps, corporate recklessness and media-manipulation.

www.new-earth-project.org

Humanitad: New Earth Project from New Earth Project on Vimeo.

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Energy-related economic, security, and environmental threats are intensifying the national conversation about how to regain energy leadership and competitiveness, restore jobs and prosperity, and build a secure and climate-safe energy system.

Yet America lacks a comprehensive vision of how a market economy can achieve these transformational goals.

RMI has that vision, and is now building its detailed roadmap, which we call Reinventing Fire™. This strategy will bring together RMIs 28 years of innovation and engage the world in our most ambitious and important work yet—using whole-system thinking and integrative design to move the U.S. off fossil fuels by 2050, led by business for profit.

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The League of Pragmatic Optimists (LOPO) is a meeting place in cities and towns across the globe where people who want to make the world better can meet, generate ideas and projects, get inspiration and a recharge, find collaborators and have their neurons tickled in the cause of improving the story of humanity. Another way of looking at it is as an exercise in ‘engineered serendipity’ – a mechanism for diverse people and ideas to bump into each other and create (and deliver) projects that aim to improve things. Local chapters meet at regular intervals to free themselves from day-to-day organisational or mental silos, and network in an inspiring atmosphere of do-ers.

Eight core principles

• An unashamed optimism of ambition about the future
• A pragmatic focus. Chapters meet to help people do, not just talk. (Or, if you’re a mouth on legs, you probably won’t be invited back)
• Members involve themselves in projects that are ‘bigger than me’
• There is a strong belief that ideas become more powerful when they are shared, not protected
• Your stories and opinions are nice, but your evidence is better
• Making mistakes is OK, but not trying is irresponsible
• Members strive to police their own cynicism, and keep it in check
• LOPO is a-political. All stripes are welcome but don’t come to promote your stripes

+ one (loosely enforced) ‘rule’:

You cannot leave a LOPO meeting without adding at least one item to your ‘to-do’ list – and your ticket into the next meeting is that list with at least one task crossed off.

Where are we today

The LOPO subscriber list is growing daily and chapters are ready to be set up across the globe (e.g. New York, Boston, Sydney, Singapore, Madrid etc).

Where we want to go

We aim to have a chapter of LOPO in every city and major town on the planet. Our priority in the next 18-24 months is to grow the network both online and physically to create critical mass, providing tools for people to set up chapters, attract members, organise meetings and events, make partnerships, kick-off and deliver projects.

Want to help us? Thought you did.

http://www.CulturalCreatives.CC

Featuring many key figures from Europe and the U.S., this is the first documentary film to look with scientific thoroughness at the world of Cultural Creatives. It shows that a great mass of people think differently from the way propagated by the media and promoted by the establishment. By the end of the film it becomes evident that this huge mass, were it to become aware of its power, could change the world. Because Cultural Creatives are unstoppable and their number is continuously rising, the values they champion could soon become core values for human civilization generally.

Cultural Creatives are emerging without anybody organizing their presence, without anyone seeking to create political power from their existence, and without any group having any interest in them. They are emerging simply because in real historical development the growth of human consciousness can not be stopped, no matter how much today’s establishments and intellectual elites try to ignore and even hide their appearance.

So they are all here, among and around us: 80 million Cultural Creatives in the United States and 120 million in Europe, all with a similar mindset — the citizens of a new world. They are the ones who are really preparing the future and its new social structures for us, and are doing so right now. They are the ones who anticipate the future as an astonishing opportunity never before available to mankind throughout the whole course of its history here on earth. Their message: The time is ripe to take the shaping of social life into our own hands.

We will not return to ‘business as usual’.

The Four Horsemen is an independent feature documentary which lifts the lid on how the world really works.

Website: fourhorsemenfilm.com
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Directed By: Ross Ashcroft

UK Release 15th March

Featuring: Noam Chomsky, Max Keiser, Joseph Stiglitz, Prof. Herman Daly, Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, Simon Johnson, Michael Hudson, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, John Perkins, Tarek Al Diwany, Camila Batmanghelidjh, James Turk, David Morgan, Hugo Salinas Price and more…