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[[File:yes-winter09.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Yes! Magazine]] The Positive Futures Network is an organization with the belief that we need deep change if we are to avoid the breakdown of society and the natural world. It was founded by David Korten and Sarah van Gelder. It works to raise awareness for an emerging society in which life, not money, is what is important. | [[File:yes-winter09.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Yes! Magazine]] The Positive Futures Network is an organization with the belief that we need deep change if we are to avoid the breakdown of society and the natural world. It was founded by David Korten and Sarah van Gelder. It works to raise awareness for an emerging society in which life, not money, is what is important. | ||
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The Positive Futures Network has also published two books that discuss possibilites for social transformation. The organization focuses on sustainability and social and economic justice. | The Positive Futures Network has also published two books that discuss possibilites for social transformation. The organization focuses on sustainability and social and economic justice. | ||
==What is the Positive Futures Network?== | |||
The Positive Futures Network is founded in the belief that humanity is in the midst of an historic transition. The industrial era, which brought tremendous increases in technical and scientific prowess, has also brought a deepening social, economic, political, and environmental crisis. The roots of our collective predicament can be traced to a culture of alienation - deeply imbedded in the institutions of the industrial era - that denies our essential relationship to the larger whole of life. | |||
Our hope lies in a cultural awakening now underway, as people from all walks of life realize that in the face of the massive failures of our dominant institutions their best hope lies in reclaiming responsibility for their lives, their communities, and our collective future. In doing so they are discovering the integral nature of their relationship to other people, to the natural world, and to the spiritual forces manifest deep within themselves. Together they are birthing what Pitirim Sorokin called an "integral culture." Willis Harman called it a global mind-change. | |||
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Revision as of 01:00, 12 May 2010
The Positive Futures Network is an organization with the belief that we need deep change if we are to avoid the breakdown of society and the natural world. It was founded by David Korten and Sarah van Gelder. It works to raise awareness for an emerging society in which life, not money, is what is important.
This organization publishes YES! Magazine. It is a non-profit, no ads magazine that is printed on recycled paper and archives all of its articles online. Each issue of the magazine focuses on a theme of social justice, working to show possibilities and practical steps people can take for change. There is also YES! for Youth, which is designed to inpsire and empower students. This magazine is widely distributed and encourages all of its readers to become part of a global community of change-makers.
The Positive Futures Network has also published two books that discuss possibilites for social transformation. The organization focuses on sustainability and social and economic justice.
What is the Positive Futures Network?
The Positive Futures Network is founded in the belief that humanity is in the midst of an historic transition. The industrial era, which brought tremendous increases in technical and scientific prowess, has also brought a deepening social, economic, political, and environmental crisis. The roots of our collective predicament can be traced to a culture of alienation - deeply imbedded in the institutions of the industrial era - that denies our essential relationship to the larger whole of life.
Our hope lies in a cultural awakening now underway, as people from all walks of life realize that in the face of the massive failures of our dominant institutions their best hope lies in reclaiming responsibility for their lives, their communities, and our collective future. In doing so they are discovering the integral nature of their relationship to other people, to the natural world, and to the spiritual forces manifest deep within themselves. Together they are birthing what Pitirim Sorokin called an "integral culture." Willis Harman called it a global mind-change.
