Welcome to the 7th Generation Initiative!

We'll send you (approximately) monthly updates on our ongoing efforts to help our societies realize, and act on the realization, that we need to stabilize human activity within our planet's limits.

As the times get ever riper, interest in the shift from perpetual economic expansion to sustainability grows. The on-line resources were assebled last year and this year, finally, we are able to annouce them. The response has been exciting.

Periodic updates, the Mini-Course on Shifting Society's Goals and the Think Tank are all now operable and accessible here.

These initiatives aim to engage your thoughts, imagination and creativity, along with that of many peers, for the task of getting our societies to understand that we have to stabilize our activities within planetary limits. When that goal is recognized, viable policies and actions will follow.

As part of the Think Tank you will be able to offer new thinking, help refine the suggestions of others, and push action items up the priority list. By gathering and sharing ideas, action plans and reports on how such plans have worked, we can maximize our contribution toward redirecting society. Click here to join now.

So you can have the most valuable and up-to-date sustainabilty background for the Think Tank, and for your life, we've created a mini-course in sustainability fundamentals. It's a series of short articles and videos that provide a foundation for understanding the sustainability challenge we're facing. Click here and the items will arrive in your in-box, one per week.

We encourage those joining the Shifting Society's Goals Think Tank to become familiar this course of background materials.

While the prospects sometimes look bleak, our world will change to accommodate planetary limits. What we don't know is how much confrontation with those limits it will take before we come to respect them. It is entirely possible to manage our world in ways that offer humans a long and satisfying future. We are glad that you have made the connection for monthly updates and encourage you to become familiar with the background materials and join us in discussing how to make sustainability the primary directive of personal and social strategy.

For a sustainable future,
Mike Nickerson