Our Strategies

Douglas Rushkoff, Advisory Partner

A successful movement for change requires enough intentional coordination for coherence, and enough autonomous differentiation for vitality.

This dynamic, known as reciprocal causality,

is what the Ecocivilization Coalition

plans to cultivate.

DOMINANT CIVILIZATION

ECOCIVILIZATION

ECOCIVILIZATION COALITION

Our Strategies

Change the Mainstream Narrative

The dominant worldview tells us that humans are selfish, greedy, and competitive—and separate from the rest of nature.

Amplify the Movement for Transformative Change

Around the world, visionary groups and institutions are reimagining how we can live, learn, govern, and care for one another in life-affirming ways. Many of these are building regional and global networks to implement and spread their ideas.

Uplift Ecocivilization Pathfinders

"Islands of coherence” already exist throughout the world as grassroots movements and community initiatives, laying down pathways toward a life-affirming future.

"EcoCiv weaves the weavers, engendering a yes-and approach to networking and movement making that's as personal as it is planetary."

Shift the Mainstream Narrative

Amplify the Movement for Transformative Change

Uplift Ecocivilization Pathfinders

Transformational change requires integrating grassroots community action with system-wide coherence supported by narratives of possibility

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Human Supremacy

Based on a foundation of human supremacy—an anthropocentric ideology claiming innate superiority over nonhuman nature that gives moral license to mistreat animals and destroy ecosystems without remorse.

Intrinsic Value of All Life

Eschews anthropocentrism, recognizing the intrinsic value and sacredness of life and honoring its right to thrive within healthy ecosystems.

Supremacy of Capital

The economic manifestation of a worldview that sees others as resources for exploitation and extraction is capitalism—a system that gives primacy to capital, establishing a rulebook that prioritizes its proliferation above any other consideration.

Dignity of All People

An Ecocivilization would give primacy to the essential dignity of all people and their right to flourish, setting the conditions to optimize sustainable wellbeing.

Commoditization & Homogenization

Heterogeneity & Diversity

An Ecocivilization, following the principle of integration, would conversely support heterogeneity: honoring and supporting the diverse ways in which various cultures and individuals pursue their own path to flourishing, within collective frameworks of sense-making.

Hierarchical Structures

Today’s global civilization, while unprecedented in many ways, is only the most recent instantiation of the wealth pump that has oppressed the vast majority of people for millennia, using hierarchical structures to centralize power and preserve domination by a small elite.

Grassroots Empowerment

An Ecocivilization would promote decision-making on the principle of subsidiarity: pushing power down to the lowest feasible level in the system.

Structural Inequity

An inevitable result of the wealth pump has been extreme inequality in wealth and power, now reaching egregious levels with moral backing from neoliberal doctrine.

Structural Equity

Incentives for Selfish Behavior

The dominant system motivates selfish behavior from childhood onward throughout every aspect of culture and society, rewarding it systematically with wealth, status, and power.

Design for Cooperation

An Ecocivilization would be built on core design principles for successful cooperation that reward people for acting according to the inherent prosocial disposition of human nature as it has evolved over millions of years.

ECOCIVILIZATION
COALITION

Change the
Mainstream
Narrative

Amplify the
Movement for Transformative
Change

Uplift
Ecocivilization Pathfinders

Shift the
Mainstream
Narrative

Amplify the
Movement for Transformative Change

Transformational change requires
integrating grassroots community action with system-wide
coherence supported by
narratives of possibility

Human
Supremacy

Intrinsic Value
of All Life

Supremacy
of Capital

Dignity of
All People

Commoditization &
Homogenization

Heterogeneity &
Diversity

Hierarchical
Structures

Grassroots
Empowerment

Structural
Inequity

Structural
Equity

Incentives for
Selfish Behavior

Design for
Cooperation