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Empowerment on an Unstable Planet: From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change

Authors: 
Taylor, Carl
Authors: 
Taylor, Daniel
Authors: 
Taylor, Jesse Oak
Publisher: 
Oxford University Press
Date: 
November, 2011
Empowerment.

Since World War II, development projects have invested more than two trillion dollars towards health services, poverty alleviation, education, food security, and environmental initiatives around the world. Despite these efforts, 20% of the world still lives on less than $1.50 a day and the environment within which all live declines dramatically. There are clear limits to what further investments at this rate can achieve. This book advances the thesis that a more effective and universal foundation for social change and environmental restoration is not money, but human energy.

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Annual Report 2010: Global Lessons Coming Home

Authors: 
Future Generations
Authors: 
Future Generations Graduate School
Date: 
February, 2011
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This 2010 Annual Report features five core lessons that Future Generations and the Future Generations Graduate School advanced during the last year:

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Seed-Scale: An Introduction (one page)

Publisher: 
Future Generations
Date: 
November, 2009
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A one page summary of the Seed-Scale Process of Community Change, a process used by Future Generations to guide its field work and global training programs.

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Communities NOT State or NGOs the answer to meaningful development and sustainable peace

Authors: 
Aziz Hakimi
Date: 
March, 2009
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Future Generations Afghanistan Country Director, Aziz Hakimi, writes an occasional paper on the strength of involving communities to determine their own needs and priorities. The paper discusses the use of the SEED-SCALE approach to implement community development.  SEED-SCALE stands for Self-evaluation for effective decision making and systems for communities to adapt, learn, and expand.

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Mobilization of Human Resources for Sustainable Development: The Future Generations Arunachal Initiative

Authors: 
Kanno, Tage
Publisher: 
Development North East
Date: 
March, 2009
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Development, in today's context, should be sustainable, something to which the common man can relate, and lead to a future which they can own.  Arunachal Pradesh in the North East of India has a relative advantage as a late starter in the development arena.  It can still learn from the mistakes of other regions which have fallen prey to to a skewed perception of development.  Under this context, how can sustainable development be brought about in the face of fast depleting natural resources and tendency of the community to depend on somebody high up or powerful to initiate th

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Mobilizing Human Energy

Authors: 
Calder, Jason
Publisher: 
The Worldwatch Institute
Date: 
December, 2008
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Niger was all but given a death sentence in the 1970s when drought-propelled desertification, rapid population growth, and unsustainable farming practices threatened ecological collapse and mass human suffering. Women on average each gave birth to more than seven children, and the population was expected to double in the next two decades. Families who had worked their land for generations could see the tell-tale signs: it was taking longer and longer to get to trees and fresh water, and the Sahara desert was getting closer and closer.

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Just and Lasting Change

Authors: 
Taylor, Daniel
Authors: 
Taylor, Carl E
Publisher: 
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Date: 
January, 2002
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Just and Lasting Change presents how to transform communities rapidly and in locally appropriate ways. Daniel Taylor-Ide and Carl Taylor have been present at key events and worked with key thinkers in dealing with the large forces of inequity, environmental change, and globalization.The approach they have synthesized builds on what has worked over the last century--and can now be implemented rapidly and cost-effectively in many parts of the world.

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Redefining Community Futures: A Functioning System for Sustainability and Equity

Authors: 
Taylor, Daniel
Date: 
January, 2002
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The Future Generations model for community change

  • what it is
  • how it works
  • why it works

 

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Community Based Sustainable Human Development

Authors: 
Taylor, Daniel
Authors: 
Taylor, Carl E.
Publisher: 
UNICEF Primary Environmental Care (PEC) Discussion Papers
Date: 
February, 1995
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 A Proposal for Going to Scale with Self-Reliant Social Development

This discussion paper commissioned by UNICEF is on "Children, Environment, and Sustainable Development." Drawing on world experience, the paper brings forth a proposal for a replicable approach for sustainable human development.  Experience has shown that while sustainable human development is possible, going to scale is difficult at times to replicate. There needs to be a balanced focus on economic progress and promoting self-reliance in the communities.

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Partnerships for Social Development: A Casebook

Authors: 
Mabelle Arole
Authors: 
Elzbieta Dec
Authors: 
Lucia Dube
Authors: 
Dan Kaseje
Authors: 
Kausar Khan
Authors: 
Karl-Eric Knutsson
Authors: 
Saruni O. ole-Ngulay
Authors: 
Philomena O'Dea
Authors: 
Margarita Pacheco
Authors: 
Kraisid Tontsirin
Authors: 
Carl E. Taylor
Authors: 
Daniel Taylor-Ide
Date: 
January, 1995
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Published by a collection of authors, this 14 chapter casebook includes their projects in a number of different countries.  These authors make up the "independent task force on community action for social development."

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