Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
In the United Nations’ IPCC most recent climate change mitigation report, the word “lifestyle” appears 193 times. The authors write, “The acceptability of collective social change over a longer term towards less resource intensive lifestyles, however, depends on the social mandate for change. This mandate can be built through public participation,... See more
Mold • Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
“It astonishes me how much that analysis shows nothing,” says Lang. “It’s still peanut butter and jelly, pizza, ham and cheese, macaroni and cheese, hamburgers. The bulk of the country hasn’t changed at all.”
Jaya Saxena • Why Are American Chips So Boring?
In 2021, a group of activists, campaigners, communications experts, researchers, artists, journalists, filmmakers, organisers and creatives from around the world, and from across different movements, began a vast collaboration. What united the group is a deep belief in the importance of narratives to create systemic change and an understanding that
... See moreAbi Knipe • Conditions to Flourish: Understanding the Ecosystem for Narrative Power
The question of impact is my favorite. If the people doing the impacting are tired and sick and frustrated and have all these needs that are not being met, what good is that impact? The quality of work that we can do for each other depends on the quality of care that we’re experiencing and cultivating for ourselves. I can’t say that enough.
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
As philosopher Jonathan Rowson often says, first souls, then systems, then society (we presently have that very often backwards). "We believe the world’s major challenges stem from a crisis of perception and imagination, and the failure of political culture to honour the fullness of reality. We are fascinated by the myriad ways in which our tacitly... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
it’s important to understand the many faces of violence and how it intersects with categories of power. We can easily understand physical assault as violent, but we might have a harder time naming beliefs, ideologies, or policies as such. The peace philosopher Johan Galtung believes that violence can fall under three important categories, all of... See more
Religiously Blonde • How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future
I believe the generous gifts of strangers are actually summoned by a deliberate willingness to be helped. You start by surrendering to your human need for help. That we cannot be helped until we embrace our need for help is another law of the universe.
Kevin Kelly • How Will the Miracle Happen Today?
generalism and midwifing change
who makes a good midwife?
