Events
Upcoming Webinars
Sponsored by the OMEGA Collaborative, a joint project of:
More webinars are being planned. Check back for updates.
Past Events
« 2020-2030–Navigating a Path Between Fantasy and Doom–A Top Down Overview »: a webinar with Nate Hagens
July 30th, 2020
Resources for Resilience invites you to a webinar with Nate Hagens, a widely respected public intellectual on the big picture issues facing human society.
Nate’s most recent work has focused on how we navigate through this period of COVID, and in the face of an increasing likelihood of serious economic hardship. He has been meeting with civil society and influential members of the US congress about how to strengthen society, and how to strategically approach top down and bottom up solutions, and where the two can meet.
OMEGA webinar with grassroots community organizers
Isabel Castillo, Ebony Guy, Duane Edwards and Russel Chisolm will be in conversation with Shorey Meyers
Co-hosted by Virginia Organizing, Foresight Analysis Nexus (FAN), The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB), and The Resilience Project (TRP)
July 15, 2020
While the Global Challenges faced by OMEGA are wide-ranging, the impacts are concretely felt by communities on the front lines. Three grassroots organizers working on issues including racism, climate change, and extractive industries share their views on the Global Challenges, the impacts felt by communities, and the intersectional work needed to accelerate our transition to a just, sustainable and resilient world.
Farming and eating during times of COVID19
Miguel Altieri in conversation with Michael Lerner
Co-hosted by Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere, Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) and the Crans Foresight Analysis Consensus
June 10, 2020
Miguel Altieri is a world leader in transforming our relationship with agriculture and food. He taught agroecology and urban agriculture at UC Berkeley for 37 years and serves as guest professor in numerous Universities in Latin America, Spain and Italy. He has conducted most of his research in California and Latin America, working closely with farmers on implementing principles of agroecology to design productive, biodiverse and resilient farming systems.
COVID-19: Learning from the crisis and reimaging the future for environment and climate challenges.
Sunita Narain in conversation with Michael Lerner.
May 27, 2020
The Omega Collaborative invites you to a webinar with Sunita Narain, a leading Indian activist and environmentalist. Narain is a world-renowned Indian writer and environmentalist, known for using knowledge and compassion for social transformation. She is recognized as one of the leading voices for fundamental science-based humanitarian change, valued for her honesty and ability to work with tribal communities in India, senior government officials, and international leaders. Her influence is welcomed throughout the global south, across Asia and the western world. In 2016, Time magazine included her in their list of the most influential people in the world.
Are we in the omega phase of the adaptive cycle? with Thomas Homer Dixon
May 13, 2020
The Omega Collaborative hosted a webinar with Thomas Homer Dixon on May 13, 2020. Homer Dixon is a Canadian professor of political science and one of the world’s widest read public intellectuals in the field of the global security. The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization , has influenced millions, appealing to senior thought leaders and millennials alike. Recently he launched the Cascade Institute “..a center addressing the full range of humanity’s converging environmental, economic, political and technological crises.”
His talk addresses the Upside of Down, his forthcoming book Commanding Hope, and the Cascade Institute.
Anticipatory Preparedness and Resilience in a Time of Escalating Risk with David Korowicz
April 9, 2020
Dr. David Korowicz is a physicist and human systems ecologist. He has over a decade of experience working on large-scale and catastrophic risk. This has included work on the socio-economic impacts of pandemics and constraints on oil production, financial system failure, and integrated analysis of civilizational risk. Until recently he worked with the Geneva Global Initiative; he is now working on preparedness and resilience planning arising from the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus.