Past Projects
Reading Action Group #3
Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate
Do you want to know more about the relation between climate change and economics? Do you want to read in conversation with others and engage in social change? This is a 5-week reading-action community program designed to deepen our understanding and strengthen our engagement. You can join an in-person or virtual conversation or just sign up for the two zoom gatherings with guest speakers, David Korten, founder of Yes! Magazine and Mark Anielski, consultant on the Economics of Happiness.
"Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better." -Naomi Klein
Reading Action Group #2
Sponsored by The Center For Process Studies
“What Am I Called to Do? Cultivating an Active Heart in Community with Others”
Challenging times like ours pull us in two interrelated directions. We move inward-- seeking clarity of identity and purpose--and we turn outward--seeking connection with others. “What can I do?” and “What can we do?” These are the guiding questions for this round of the Flagstaff 3.5% Project. Our aim is to understand the power we have individually, the power we have together, and how we can work toward creating the kind of world we want to live in.
Project Resources:
This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Reshaping the 21 st Century, Mark and Paul Engler
The Hand of Compassion: Portraits of Moral Choice during the Holocaust, Kristen Renwick Monroe
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, Alicia Garza
Bidder 70 (film)
“The Courage to Care” (film)
“A Force More Powerful” (film)
Reading Action Group #1
Journalist Ezra Klein declared The Ministry For the Future “the most important book I’ve read this year. . . If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future.” (You can listen to Klein’s interview with Robinson here.)
Zoom Gathering #1 - Speakers: Ignacio Castuera, Ph.D. and Erica Chenoweth, Ph.D.
Zoom Gathering #2- Speakers: Stephen Mulkey, Ph.D., Brian Czech, Ph.D., and Ann Marie Chischilly, J.D.
Zoom Gathering #3- Speakers: Stefan Sommer, Ph.D., Bill McKibben, Ph.D., Nicole Antonopoulos, M.A.
Carbon-free, Socially-responsible Investment Workshop
Eric Souders, Chartered Socially-Responsible Investment Counselor
Invest in a vision of the world you want to live in. Join investment professional and long-time Flagstaff resident Eric Souders for a 3-hour workshop on how to use your personal financial capacity to promote the decarbonization of energy, support human rights, and contribute to planetary health. Eric will present a range of investment tools and options to help you align your investments with your values, now and into the future.
Writing For Healing, Hope, and Resilience Course
Annette McGivney, journalist, and author of the award-winning book, Pure Land
Writing can give form to memories, help individuals and groups process emotions, and document traumatic events in ways that are both cathartic to the author and inspiring to readers. It can also help us to think more clearly about root causes and systemic problems, so necessary to renewing personal vitality and community life. Drawing on her own experiences of healing through writing and intimacy with the natural world, author Annette McGivney provides guidance on writing as a journey of personal discovery and a path to healing life-in-relationship-with life.
The Corruption of America’s Food System
A Zoom Conversation with Austin Frerick, author of Money, Power and the Corruption of America’s Food System.
Taking Control: How To Built A Cooperative Business
Cooperatives can play an important role in building more equitable, just, and humane communities. Learn what 5 experts from across the western U.S. say about what it takes to build a successful co-op business. Watch video
Community Puppet Making Workshop
Seeding A Community Food System, a film series
2023 March Sanity Film Series! Get Inspired!
March 8: Do the Math: A Movie to Spark a Movement"
Bill McKibben explains the simple math behind climate disaster and how to build a movement that makes a difference in the climate calculus. Hear about how Fossil Free Arizona! is taking up the challenge. Watch the trailer here.
March 15: Stewart Udall and the Politics of Beauty"
As Secretary of the Interior from 1961-1969, Stewart Udall led the fight for environmental legislation, championed racial and social justice, and shaped our national park system. This is an uplifting documentary on the power of a single individual and proud Arizonan to accomplish visionary change. Watch the trailer here.
March 22: How to Let Go of the World (and love all the things climate can't change)
Oscar Nominated Director Josh Fox ("Gasland") asks, "What is it that climate change can't destroy?" And "How do we feel our own despair without giving up on the world?" Fox admits that though it’s too late on some fronts, there's still plenty we can do. Watch the trailer here.
March 29: Powerlands
In this award-winning documentary, Flagstaff-raised Diné filmmaker Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso investigates the environmental devastation and displacement of indigenous people that accompanies global energy exploitation, including on the Navajo Nation. Film director Tso will join us for conversation! Watch the trailer here.
Organizations in Solidarity with The Flagstaff 3.5% Project
