Publications - Great Transition Initiative

GTI Publications

Annual Reviews

Great Transition Annual Review

2025

Memoirs of Global Engagement

Encounters and Transitions

Convergent Journeys

Great Transition Annual Review

2022

Which Future Are We Living In?

The Population Debate Revisited

Conservation at the Crossroads:
Battle Lines and Ways Forward

Technology and the Future

Great Transition Annual Review

2023/24

What’s Next for the Global Movement?

Experiments in Movement Unity

Big History and Great Transition

Solidarity with Animals

Great Transition Annual Review

2020

Universal Basic Income:
Has the Time Come?

After the Pandemic: Which Future?

Planetize the Movement!

Toward a Great Ethics Transition:
The Earth Charter at Twenty

Great Transition Annual Review

2021

Visions of a New Political Order

Can Human Solidarity Globalize?

The Pedagogy of Transition: Educating for the Future We Want

Interrogating the Anthropocene: Truth and Fallacy

Great Transition Annual Review

2019 / 1

Workers of the World Unite (At Last)

Planetizing the Labor Movement

The Truth Teller: From the Pentagon Papers to the Doomsday Machine

A World Political Party: The Time Has Come

Time for a World Political Party?

The Cosmopolitan Impulse in an Entangled World

Great Transition Annual Review

2019 / 2

Corporations in the Crosshairs

Dollars to Doughnuts: The Shape of a New Economy

Farewell to the World Social Forum?

Another Europe is Possible

Think Globally, Act Locally?

What’s Next for the Climate Movement?

Great Transition Annual Review

2018 / 1

Feminism and Revolution: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Feminism and Revolution

Empire and Multitude: Sharing Our Century

Human Rights: Advancing the Frontier of Emancipation

On the Frontier of Human Rights

On the Cosmopolitan Path

Vivir Bien: Old Cosmovisions and New Paradigms

Beyond Development

Farewell to Development

Great Transition Annual Review

2018 / 2

Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future

The Case for Ecosocialism

For Love of Place: Reflections of an Agrarian Sage

The Precariat: Today’s Transformative Class?

Debating the Precariat

Living on the Frontlines of Resistance

Nuclear Abolition: The Road from Armageddon to Transformation

How to Ban the Bomb

Serving the Earth, Serving One Another

Great Transition Annual Review

2016 / 1

The Soul of a Great Transition

Farming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now

Nature’s Way: A Path to Ecological Agriculture

A Recipe for Change?

Why We Consume: Neural Design and Sustainability

Global Compact: Corporate Engagement at the UN

Fueling Value Change

Great Transition Annual Review

2016 / 2

Journey to Earthland: The Great Transition to Planetary Civilization

Reflections on Journey to Earthland

Against Ecocide: Legal Protection for Earth

Toward Global Political Integration: Time for a World Parliamentary Assembly

Liberation Ecology

A Higher Calling for Higher Education

Democratizing Science in an Age of Uncertainty

Towards a Sustainable University

Great Transition Annual Review

2015 / 1

A Tragic Scenario: Narrowly Cast

Economics for a Full World

Growing, Growing, Gone: Reaching the Limits

Economics vs. the Economy

Bounding the Planetary Future: Why We Need a Great Transition

Dialogical Citizenship: Dancing Toward Solidarity

Global Scenarios: Explorations in the Scientific Imagination

The Degrowth Alternative

Uniting Nations: The UN at a Crossroads

Mass Extinction: Is the Enemy Us?

Great Transition Annual Review

2015 / 2

The Church of Economism and its Discontents

The Earth Charter at 15: A Spiritual Lens on Sustainability

Bleak Visions, Blind Spots

Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition

Worker Cooperatives in a Globalizing World

Decolonizing the Empire of Cotton

Common Wealth Trusts: Structures of Transition

Change Agent: Evolution of a Systems Champion

Great Transition Annual Review

2014 / 1

Radical Ecological Democracy

The Future of ICSOs

Global Citizenship: Plausible Fears and Necessary Dreams

Better is Not Good Enough: Toward True Corporate Sustainability

Boiling Point: Multiple Crisis and the Democratic Deficit

The Decline and Fall of Consumer Society?

Human Rights in the Age of Climate Change

What Would Jane Jacobs Say?

The Commons as a Template for Transformation

Limits to Investment: Finance in the Anthropocene

From Business Entrepreneur to Social Entrepreneur

Great Transition Annual Review

2014 / 2

Meaning, Religion, and a Great Transition

Climate Crossroads: Toward a Just Deal in Paris

Climate: The Crisis and the Movement

A Great Transition? Where We Stand

Debating the Sharing Economy

Dreaming of a Sustainable China

Changing the Political Climate: A Transitional Imperative

Nature’s Solutions: The IUCN Perspective

Two Cheers for Piketty

Monetizing Nature

Systems Thinking and System Change

Keeping the Lid on Pandora’s Box

Searching for Radicalism in a Corporate Age

Other Publications

Perspectives on Critical Issues

(2009 – 2013)

Game on: The Basis of Hope in a Time of Despair

The Architecture of Enterprise

Premises for a New Economy

Civil Society Organizations: Time for Systemic Strategies

Beyond the Growth Paradigm

Imagine All the People: Advancing a Global Citizens Movement

When the World Rules Corporations: Pathway to a Global Corporate Charter

We the People of Earth: Toward Global Democracy

World Trade: A New Direction

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Overcoming the Impasse

Nuclear Power: Should It Have a Role?

Frontiers of a Great Transition

Paper series on alternative visions and paths forward

2006

The Global Moment and its Possibilities

Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead

The Great Transition Today: A Report from the Future

Institutional Transitions

Global Politics and Institutions

Visions of Regional Economies in a Great Transition World

Transforming the Corporation

Trading into the Future: Rounding the Corner to Sustainable Development

Security in the Great Transition

How Technology Could Contribute to a Sustainable World

Human and Environmental Dimensions

Great Transition Values: Present Attitudes, Future Changes

The Role of Well-Being in a Great Transition

Feminist Praxis: Women’s Transnational and Place Based Struggles for Change

Sustainable Communities and the Great Transition

Climate Change: Redemption Through Crisis

Resilience and Pluraliam: Ecosystems and Society in a Great Transition

Crystallizing a Systems Shift

Dawn of the Cosmopolitan:The Hope of a Global Citizens Movement

World Lines: Pathways, Pivots, and the Global Future

Founding Papers

Key documents in the development of the GT framework

Global Scenario Group (1995-2002)

Great Transition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead

Bending the Curve: Toward Global Sustainability

Branch Points: Global Scenarios and Human Choice

Modeling the Future

Contours of a Resilient Global Future

The Century Ahead: Searching for Sustainability

The Sustainability Transition: Beyond Conventional Development

Strategies for Change

Planetary Praxis: On Rhyming Hope and Reason

GTI Proposal (2003)