As an economic depression plunges the peoples of the planet into worsening humanitarian crisises of imperialist war, resource scarcity, human slavery, consumerism and individualism, some other people on the planet are brainstorming and networking ways to develop:

• new systems of exchange
• new models of sustainable living
• new communication technologies
• new paradigms of growth whose foundations are notions of universal human rights, freedom and power in communities.