The Urgency
The health and economic crises caused by COVID-19 makes it crystal clear: we are not alone. We are all connected and dependent on each other, just as we rely completely on nature’s life-supporting systems that are slowly being depleted.
The world is changing and forcing us to change as well. However, this is our chance to make a course correction. We have an urgent opportunity to build socio-economic structures that are fair and resilient and increase the well-being of all people. This will allow us to deal more humanely, effectively, and in solidarity with the challenges of the 21st century: from the climate crisis and pandemics, to artificial intelligence and automation.
The Intention
We must recruit humanity’s incredible talent for creativity and collaboration to prevent a calamity. We must develop technologies which are integrated into Earth’s ecological systems without destroying them. Most of us were fortunate enough to be born into a world of abundance. It is our responsibility to nurture this abundance, ensure that it nourishes and provides for everyone, especially society’s most vulnerable, and endow our children with a better world than the one we inherited from our parents.
Together, we can change the rules of the game, build a fair and democratic economy, and allow all people to prosper.
Our Strategies:
To create a systemic change we must work in two directions: bottom-up and top-down.
- We must inspire decision-makers through research and development of a just transition to a low-carbon economy.
- We must work with local initiatives to demonstrate that sustainable actions improve well-being for all.
- We must connect between peoples from all walks of life for regeneration and correction, because without public will, there will be no policy change.
What we do:
- We provide action-driven inspiration about the challenges of the 21st century to a variety of audiences within the Israeli public.
- We partner and promote partnerships with civil society, municipalities and the Israeli national government.
- We develop courses and transformative learning platforms.
- We develop new economic models that emphasize the connection between public health and social justice.
- We promote collaborative democracy and other methodologies to increase and safeguard the health of democracy in Israel.
- We research and develop integrative policy tools and promote them with local and national government bodies.