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Last winter we held the first 8-week Surviving the Future: The Deeper Dive
online gathering, in collaboration with Vermont's Sterling College.
It proved such a powerful experience that it is now set to be an annual adventure.
This winter we will be joined by Vandana Shiva, Mark Boyle, Isabelle Frémeaux, Nate Hagens, Sherri Mitchell, Rob Hopkins, Tim DeChristopher and Stephen Jenkinson to discuss paths worth walking through our times.
I keep numbers strictly limited for these Deeper Dives to allow for real community among the group, and places for this winter are almost all gone, so if you are keen to join I highly recommend moving fast.
All offered on a trust-based inclusive pricing basis.
For more information on the Deeper Dive and enrolment, see my blog post
And for anyone who misses out, don't fear!
We have also now developed a wider Surviving the Future offering through Sterling College, including A Path Through Tumultuous Times, available all year round!
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One unexpected piece of news in recent months has been the launch of a new charitable foundation explicitly grounded in David Fleming's work:
The Chelsea Green Foundation
Good news perhaps for anyone reading this newsletter who might seek support in a Fleming-inspired endeavour!
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Keen to tell a friend about David Fleming's work?
Here's the link to share, for our regularly updated page:
www.tinyurl.com/SurvivingTheFuture
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A development that has particularly delighted me is the ever-growing popularity of the beautiful custom-built, searchable, interactive and
completely free LeanLogic.online.
The above video gives one example of the enhancement to the book's content that the format permits — in the Lean Economics entry, David draws on the example of the "exuberant ritual of the Sienese horse-race, the palio".
So I've added there the above truly spectacular 3 minute video, to give a potent taste of the power and context that inspired his words.
Wonderfully, LeanLogic.online is now accessed on average
every 9 minutes, 24/7, helping people around the world.
And that even before the Deeper Dive begins next month!
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FORTITUDE
"Persistence in the face of trouble, danger, conflict, mockery, fatigue, solitude, demoralisation, guilt or fear.
It can be mere bloody-mindedness, of course; it is the connection with judgment that matters.
And yet, the judgment itself may be intuitive. Bloody-mindedness can save the day."
~ 'Fortitude' entry,
from David Fleming's
Dictionary for the Future
and How to Survive It
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As many readers of this newsletter will know all too well, currently more than 3 million UK households cannot afford to heat their homes.
Meanwhile, as bills continue to soar, the combined quarterly profits of the largest energy companies were close to a hundred billion dollars ($100,000,000,000). To put such a number into context, that could give over $3,500 to every household in the UK.
Yes, those very same households that are often living in miserable poverty to try to scrape together the money to pay the energy companies.
With countless people choosing between malnutrition and hypothermia as the cold weather arrives, refusal to pay becomes an act of solidarity even for those who could.
As such, the Fleming Policy Centre wholeheartedly supports the Don't Pay UK campaign. Their bill strike was originally scheduled for October 1st, but the convulsions at the top of the UK government meant it was put back to December. It's happening now, and we recommend getting involved. Here's my blog with more details.
Of course this does nothing to address the underlying physical issues, but in the short-term more money in people's pockets will save lives. For the longer-term, we need TEQs, for which see below.
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Our more attractive and accessible new Fleming Policy Centre website has coincided with such energy crises and greater desperation over climate chaos to stimulate another surge of interest in David's brilliant TEQs system.
TEQs advocacy has been all over the place, from Belgium's most prestigious lecture to Ireland's Committee on Climate Action, via the New Scientist, plus this outstanding piece on MSN, the Hot or Cool thinktank, this piece in peer-reviewed journal Nature Sustainability, and even beloved British actress Joanna Lumley arguing for carbon rationing!
Long-time advocates Richard Heinberg and Stan Cox have also put out excellent new pieces, while I have accepted invitations to present to both the Wellbeing Economy Alliance and the Institute for Policy Studies.
A new campaign group in New Zealand are also organising in support, and set me up for an enjoyable briefing of the impressive Julie Anne Genter MP, energy spokesperson for the NZ Green Party, who have the Minister for Climate Change within Jacinda Ardern's coalition government.
All of that said, I remain unconvinced that physical reality is close to overruling political reality to the tune of the system reaching implementation any time soon, though have authored a new piece on TEQs of my own for the forthcoming issue of wonderful magazine The Land.
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