Upcoming Events
Join Host Michael Lerner with Richard Heinberg for a conversation about his new book, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival Richard Heinberg is the author of thirteen previous books, including some of the seminal works on society’s current energy and environmental sustainability crisis. Richard Heinberg has authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as Nature, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, Yes!, and The Sun; and has appeared in many film and television documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour. A conversation with American Science Fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, Author of more than twenty books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140, Aurora, Shaman, Green Earth, and 2312. In 2008 he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine. He works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. His work has been translated into 25 languages and won a dozen awards in five countries, including the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.”
A conversation with Richard Heinberg on his book, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival
Omega Collaborative Webinar with Kim Stanley Robinson
2021 Past Events
The Heart of Resilience
Resilience is broadly defined as the capacity to recover quickly from disruption. At the personal level, we seek to recover from illness, the loss of loved ones or jobs, or misfortunes of any kind, but in the past year, whole systems—economic, environmental, social, and political—have experienced significant disruption. Conscientious people everywhere have responded by joining […]
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20
August
Global South Speaks on a Circular Bioeconomy: Ethics, Environment, and Economics
Dr. Elisha Ochungo, Cecilia Wandiga, John Kalungi Kabuye
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21
July
Grass Roots Community Organizers Discuss the Global Challenges
OMEGA webinar with grassroots community organizers Isabel Castillo, Ebony Guy, Duane Edwards and Russel Chisholm will be in conversation with Shorey Myers Co-hosted by Virginia Organizing, Foresight Analysis Nexus (FAN), The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB), and The Resilience Project (TRP) While the Global Challenges faced by OMEGA are wide-ranging, the impacts […]
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June
