The Flagstaff 3.5% Project
Past Projects
Reading Action Group #3
Fall 2022
The Theme: 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
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Zoom Gathering/Presentations:
*Youtube videos linked below
Reading Action Group #2
Sponsored by The Center For Process Studies
March 30, 2022 - April 27, 2022
The Theme: “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.
We’ll look at examples of social transformation such as the American Civil Rights movement, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the Environmental Movement. And we’ll give some attention to moral exemplars who answered the question, “What can I do?” in an inspiring way.
Project Resources:
SELECTIONS FROM:
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
Zoom Gathering/Presentations:
*Youtube videos linked below
TIM DECHRISTOPHER & ARTE ROMERO Y CARVER
TALIA BOYD & ROBERTO NUTLOUIS
PAUL ENGLER
Reading Action Group #1
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson | Oct 26, 2021 - November 18, 2021
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.)
Project Resources:
Zoom Gathering/Presentations:
*Youtube videos linked below
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.
Discussion Questions:
*PDF’s linked below
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