After the 1968 student movement in Germany, Dieter Duhm, one of the movement's intellectual leaders, began a research project for building a concrete utopia. The project today has its base in the international Tamera Peace Center in Portugal. In 1981, Dieter wrote the book Towards a New Culture, now published in English for the first time.  (more)

Is it asking too much to ask for wisdom — especially from the public? No, it isn’t. I define wisdom as “the capacity to take into account what needs to be taken into account in order to produce long-term, inclusive benefits.”  (more)

Occupy was both a militant political movement and a community. Public support was, in large part, for the community -- the mutual support and care that been lost in a culture where everything has a price. We need to re-occupy...but with the support of the larger community created by our care. (more)

“Evolver is the place where I can geek out about all my esoteric and ecological and artistic interests, full tilt, with sexy smart open-minded earnest people, and apply all that knowledge and love to doing something useful in the world.” (more)

For those seeking a healthier, wiser democracy, the question is no longer: Which is better: direct democracy or representative democracy? The more useful questions are: What are the gifts and limitations of both direct and representative democracy? What is the best role they could play together?  (more)

For all his faults, Freud did nail down "slips of the tongue" as a significant phenomena that is rarely, if ever, random. So when Romney's unconscious tells us that he is here to bring people together to "serve" problems, not to "solve" them, we should pay attention. And why did he introduce Paul Ryan as "the next President of the United States?"  (more)

Humanity currently faces its greatest challenge as a species, and up to this moment, we have not been up to the task. That challenge is accelerating global warming. We approach a point of no return, and we need to make a rapid change of direction to avert catastrophe. As 21 scientists just wrote in Nature, "Averting a planetary-scale critical transition demands global cooperation to stem current global-scale anthropogenic forcings.”  (more)

The public is not just a bunch of isolated disengaged individuals. It is the people in the sense of Lincoln’s memorable phrase “a government of the people, by the people, for the people.” When I talk about public wisdom I mean that the public has latent wisdom that can be brought out and then spoken by its public voice — the voice of the people. People can and must empower their public wisdom to have real impact in the world.  (more)

Welcome to the online version of Empowering Public Wisdom: A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics by Tom Atlee. The full text of the Evolver Editions/NAB book will be serialized here on Reality Sandwich, with each chapter updated to this homepage. (more)

Corporate media and hamburgers have a lot in common. They succeed because they stimulate the pleasure centers of our brains. Media makers now have to make a turn toward planetary ecology to become aware of how our forms of mediation impact living systems.  (more)

The Evolver Network is the only organization that links all aspects of the awakening now happening across the world, from the social and political to the spiritual and psychical. We hope you will consider joining the movement and offering your support. (more)

Evolver Podcast returns after a long year's wait, bringing listeners transformative thinking and art. (more)

I was privileged to help organize the first Evolver Convergence which happened in Pittsburgh the weekend of June 1-3. I figured that the Convergence would be lovely, I'd have a great time, meet some grand people, business as usual, etc. What a vast underestimation.  (more)

Capital today is aligned with the increasing expropriation of natural resources because money is created as interest-bearing debt. This is how the destruction of a forest is, preposterously, counted as an increase in wealth. Unless we are prepared to address the situation at this level, meetings like Rio will be futile. (more)

Sustainability can only be achieved through mass collaboration and the achievement of panarchy -- a constellation of co-equal hybrid systems of self-governance in which all individuals freely choose where they wish to be heard, and have full access to all relevant information. (more)