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Now is the time to make changes.
Another world is possible

Communities need to prepare for the biggest and sudden change in human history.
You can't pick up a newspaper with out something about climate change. Like flipping between realities, we slip back from that sense that we must act and just carry on as before.

This course looks at the world situation from a range of angles - peak oil, energy, transport, economics, politics, agriculture and spirituality. From that common understanding, a new vision will be developed for the future and how to begin making change in communities.

As a case study, the way that Cuba coped with its oil crisis after the fall of the Soviet Union when over half of its oil imports were withdrawn in 1990 and how it survived.

To take action now is not a matter of choice. It is an imperative. But while the challenge is immediate, fear should not be the driver.

The aim of this course is for everyone to have the knowledge and tools to also become facilitators and to help start making these changes in their own communities.


  1. Introductions and Overview

  2. The History of Oil
    A search for possible alternative energy. Peak wood, slaves, bio-fuel, technology… What are the alternatives?

  3. Energy
    Transport, waste, water, food and agriculture

  4. Economics and politics: Making the World Round?
    Global economics and the impact of a market economy; why we must participate in the political process and how to influence political decision making.

  5. Spiritual Perspectives
    From fundamentalist Muslims and Christians to the Vedic and Mayan calendars, one thing they all agree on is that something is going to happen and soon.

  6. The Power Of Community: A Case study
    How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

  7. New World Vision
    What could the world look like and how soon.
    Transition time. What changes do we need to be making now

  8. Taking Action
    The seeds of change. Starting and running a changing worlds workshop

  9. Changing Worlds in Practice
    Practicing and living the changing worlds vision


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