The Future is Calling Us to Greatness
with Michael Dowd + 56 Experts
Online Conference on Science, Inspiration and Sustainability
January 26- February 8, 2015
A worldwide movement is emerging at the nexus of science, inspiration, and sustainability. Beliefs are secondary. What unites us is a pool of shared values and commitments—and the vision of a just and healthy future for humanity and the larger body of life.
This historic series of 30-60 minute Skype interviews showcases the work of many of today’s leaders and luminaries regarding what to expect in the decades ahead, what’s being done—what still needs to be done—and how to be in action despite enormous challenges. These 55 experts represent a veritable Who’s Who of prophetic inspiration.
 The 55 people Michael interviewed (over ten months) represent some of the world’s most inspiring and knowledgable thinkers and activists re climate change, peak oil, the growing gap between rich and poor, and other global scale challenges. The series includes luminaries such as James Hansen, Bill McKibben, Paul Hawken, Paul Gilding, Larry Rasmussen, Richard Heinberg, U. S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Joe Romm, Brian McLaren, James Howard Kunstler, Philip Clayton, Joel Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, Matthew Fox, Michael Lerner, and dozens more.
So much is at stake, and the timing is so urgent, that Michael and Connie are donating 100% of the money we make on this to climate organizations and activists.
All 55 expert sessions in this Symposium will stream for free January 26 - February 8, 2015.
In addition to the free two-week event, the entire set of 55 videos, audios, and transcripts is available for purchase for just $25, here. All files will be available for download after January 25th.
(Scholarships are available for those anywhere in the world for whom even this is a hardship.)
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Event Schedule
All time below are Pacific Time (PT). To find when each session airs in your timezone, please refer to the world clock
Monday, Jan 26
11:00am PT
Inspiring ‘Green for All’ Justice
with Nikki Silvestri
12:00pm PT
The 350.org Message and Movement
with Bill McKibben
1:00pm PT
The Largest Social Movement in the World
with Paul Hawken
2:00pm PT
Integral Wisdom for Challenging Times
with Ken Wilber
Tuesday, Jan 27
11:00am PT
Bringing Climate Science to Evangelicals
with Katharine Hayhoe
12:00pm PT
Speaking Prophetically in the U.S. Senate
with U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
1:00pm PT
Winning the Story Wars by Calling People to Greatness
with Jonah Sachs
2:00pm PT
Saving the Grandchildren of All Species
with James Hansen
Wednesday, Jan 28
11:00am PT
The Great Disruption and Realistic Hope
with Paul Gilding
12:00pm PT
Nature Means Business: A Positive Vision
with Amy Larkin
1:00pm PT
Peak Everything as a Blessing
with Richard Heinberg
2:00pm PT
The Future of God and Human Flourishing
with Deepak Chopra
Thursday, Jan 29
11:00am PT
Igniting a Generation of Young People
with Barbara Jefferson
12:00pm PT
Transition Culture, Transition Network
with Rob Hopkins
1:00pm PT
The Promise of Collective Intelligence
with Tom Atlee
2:00pm PT
Gracefully Navigating the Long Emergency
with James Howard Kunstler
Friday, Jan 30
11:00am PT
Giving Prophetic Voice to Climate Science
with Joe Romm
12:00pm PT
The Promise of Conscious Evolution
with Barbara Marx Hubbard
1:00pm PT
The Prophetic Political Role of Spiritual Progressives
with Rabbi Michael Lerner
2:00pm PT
Living Purposefully with Death in Mind
with Carolyn Baker
Saturday, Jan 31
11:00am PT
The Archdruid Report on the Big Picture
with John Michael Greer
12:00pm PT
Telling the Climate Story to Inspire Action
with Susan Joy Hassol
1:00pm PT
The Power of Social Change 2.0
with David Gershon
2:00pm PT
How Business Can Help Green the World
with Chris Henderson
Sunday, Feb 1
11:00am PT
Global Wisdom and the Pro-Future Mission of en*theos
with Brian Johnson
12:00pm PT
The Sacred Side of Science
with Nancy Ellen Abrams & Joel Primack
1:00pm PT
Sacred Economics and the Rebirth of a Beautiful World
with Charles Eisenstein
2:00pm PT
The Art of Planetizing the Movement
with Drew Dellinger
Monday, Feb 2
11:00am PT
Climate: The Greatest Moral Issue in History
with Kathleen Dean Moore
12:00pm PT
Why Science Literacy is Essential
with J. Marshall Shepherd
1:00pm PT
Re-Localizing What Matters Most
with Michael Brownlee
2:00pm PT
Change the Story, Change the Future
with David Korten
Tuesday, Feb 3
11:00am PT
Integral Practice as a Blessing to Future Generations
with Terry Patten
12:00pm PT
Generation Waking Up
with Joshua Gorman
1:00pm PT
The Only Thing Future Generations Care About
with Derrick Jensen
2:00pm PT
Resisting Violence to Women, the Planet, the Future
with Lierre Keith
Wednesday, Feb 4
11:00am PT
Evidential Mysticism: The Art of Creation Spirituality
with Matthew Fox
12:00pm PT
The Sacred Wild Within and Without
with Bill Pfeiffer
1:00pm PT
Evolutionary Lessons from a Living Planet
with Elisabet Sahtouris
2:00pm PT
The Climate Meme Project
with Joe Brewer
Thursday, Feb 5
11:00am PT
Breakthrough Communities, Breakthrough Possibilities
with Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel
12:00pm PT
Our Greatness is Expressed in Our Collective Conduct as a Species
with Duane Elgin
1:00pm PT
Evolving Wisdom in Service to a Healthy Future
with Craig Hamilton
2:00pm PT
Earth Honoring Faith
with Larry Rasmussen
Friday, Feb 6
11:00am PT
Project Drawdown
with Amanda Joy Ravenhill
12:00pm PT
Bidder 70, Peaceful Uprising, and Climate Justice
with Tim DeChristopher
1:00pm PT
The Shift Network: Promoting Personal and Planetary Transformation
with Stephen Dinan
2:00pm PT
Peak Prosperity, the Crash Course, and Helping Others Prepare
with Chris Martenson
Saturday, Feb 7
11:00am PT
How Chaos Catalyzes Emergence
with Peggy Holman
12:00pm PT
Emerging Faith for Emerging Challenges
with Brian McLaren
1:00pm PT
The ManKind Project and Gift Community
with Bill Kauth
2:00pm PT
Permaculture as Right Relationship to Reality
with Peter Bane
Sunday, Feb 8
11:00am PT
This Sacred Earth: Faith, Science, and the Future
with Philip Clayton
12:00pm PT
It’s Time for an Integral Islam
with Amir Ahmad Nasr
1:00pm PT
Global Dark Green Integrity
with Bron Taylor
2:00pm PT
Reality Is Lord! — Science, God, and Evil on a Rapidly Overheating Planet
with Michael Dowd
Then bookmark this link to the Symposium Play page where all the sessions will be streamed
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Symposium Overview
We each have experienced times of trouble that threaten to overwhelm our individual lives. In such times, a vision of possibility is essential. The same holds for the punctuations in history when whole societies face troubles of an immense and uncharted variety. Truly, we have arrived at such a time. Humans, unwittingly, have become a planetary force. We are changing irreversibly the very climate of our world. Henceforth, any actions we take as individuals and societies will be done in the new light of climate change. What vision will carry us forward and inspire us to work together? What vision will charge us with a sense of heroic purpose that the future is indeed calling us to greatness?
"How can we face the large-scale challenges of our time with hearts of gratitude, passion for life, and inspiration to be in action in service to the future?" This and related questions are explored in this Virtual Conference with some of the world’s most helpful voices regarding the challenges and opportunities we can expect in the coming decades, what is currently being done and what still needs to be done, and how, as individuals and groups, we all can participate in the Great Work of co-creating a just and healthy future for humanity and the larger body of life.
A related goal of this Skype interview series is to lift up a worldwide movement that has been emerging for decades at the nexus of science, inspiration, justice, and sustainability. Beliefs are secondary. What unites tens of millions of the religious and non-religious alike is a pool of common values, priorities, and commitments for living in right relationship to reality and working together to foster a thriving future for all. We feel our moment in the arc of history, such that, "The past is rooting for us and the future is calling us to greatness."
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