Narrative, Resilience, and Social Change

What’s happening in our world—and how do we respond? For the past four years, Commonweal’s Omega Resilience Awards project has been exploring this question with fellows and research teams across Africa, India, and Latin America. Now we’re ready to share what we’re learning. Join us for a conversation with two of the researchers, who will share […]

Maristella Svampa, Enrique Viale, Host Tom Kruse (Spanish-only)

~In Spanish language only~ ~Co-presented by The New School and the Omega Network~ Dr. Maristella Svampa and Enrique Viale join Host Tom Kruse from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to explore “Ecosocial collapse” in Latin America. They contextualize ecosocial collapse as part of the history of unjust extractive dynamics between Latin America and the Global North. […]

Stan Cox and Hosts Michael Lerner and Joan Diamond

Managing increasing demand for water, clean air, minerals, energy, and food is rapidly becoming one of our greatest challenges. What strategies are available to us? Are there alternatives to winners and losers? Join hosts Michael Lerner and Joan Diamond for a conversation about the issues of scarcity, justice, social order, and planetary limits.

Tatsujiro Suzuki and Host Michael Lerner

~Co-presented by The New School at Commonweal, OMEGA Network, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere (MAHB), and the Resilience Project~ Join this rapid-response webinar on the nuclear implications of the invasion of the Ukraine. Host Michael Lerner talks with Tatsujiro about nuclear threat and risk of nuclear weapon use (nuclear security), nuclear power plant safety […]

Ian Goldin and Host Michael Lerner

Join Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Ian Goldin, Oxford professor and author of Rescue,    an optimistic vision of the future after COVID-19.

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