Great Transition Initiative Paper Series

The Great Transition Initiative (GTI) is a collective endeavour by scholars and activists who share a broad commitment to addressing the major problems confronting humanity: poverty, security, and the environment. GTI's mission is to imagine, assess, and advance a great transition to a global future of enriched lives, equity, solidarity and a healthy planet. It takes seriously the slogan of progressives everywhere that "another world is possible," but proposes that such a world must first be imagined creatively as a plausible human project.

GTI's network of 200 participants from 40 countries contributed to the preparation of this series through a more than year-long process of general exploration of ideas, thematic working groups and review. The papers in the series elaborate the global challenge, future visions, and strategic directions in various domains of culture, politics, technology, economy and society. The papers offer no "blueprint" of the future, but instead are meant to be imaginative ventures that engage and intrigue others to contribute to the enterprise of inspiring change beyond the crisis and despair of the day. According to Paul Raskin, the Coordinator of GTI and President of the Tellus Institute, the GTI's paper series will "sharpen the critique of conventional thinking, deepen the understanding of the global possible, identify critical levers for change, and promote a coherent popular movement."

Papers include:

1. Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead [available in English, Spanish, and German]
2. The Great Transition Today: A Report from the Future
3. Global Politics and Institutions
4. Visions of Regional Economies in a Great Transition World
5. Transforming the Corporation
6. Trading into the Future: Rounding the Corner to Sustainable Development
7. Security in the Great Transition
8. How Technology Could Contribute to a Sustainable World
9. Great Transition Values: Present Attitudes, Future Changes
10. The Role of Well-being in a Great Transition
11. Feminist Praxis: Women's Transnational and Place Based Struggles for Change
12. Sustainable Communities and the Great Transition
13. Climate Change: Redemption through Crisis
14. Resilience and Pluralism: Ecosystems and Society in a Great Transition
15. Dawn of the Cosmopolitan: The Hope of a Global Citizens Movement
16. World Lines: Pathways, Pivots and the Global Future