A deradicalization process.
A reorientation to the planet.
A family reunion.
And a new story for humankind.
Survivor's Guide to Earth is a culture-shifting project and comprehensive media brand founded by filmmaker Matthew Cooke.
The mission:
Equipping people with the knowledge, skills, and resources to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Awakening our sense of self, wonder, imagination, purpose and possibility using the 6 steps SGE framework.
Providing a community network for purpose-driven change makers and supporters.
Serving value-aligned clients and partners with award-winning creative services powered by an a-list business and media network.
Areas of social interest.
Home
Exploring the latest research and findings on personal, community, and global self-care. From food and farming, to city planning, environmental toxicity, education and resource development.
Economics
Examining the data around universal basic income, coops, automation, circular economies and models that promote well being, sustainability, and meaningful work.
Politics
Looking at integrated organizational structures that promote the highest levels of personal autonomy with the robust support of regional and global systems.
Communications
Analysis of the most effective user experience technologies for promoting connectivity, accuracy, creativity, autonomy and innovation in a digital economy and our global communications matrix.
Culture
Celebrating the vast achievements of human civlization, dispelling illusions of seperateness, and embracing our global identity.
Goodness
Magnifying the universal human values shared by all the world’s great teachings, from Indigenous to Abrahamic.
Include:
The overview effect - the cognitive shift experienced when viewing earth from space, leading to a profound sense of wonder, fragility, mortality, and interconnectedness.
Infusing our lives with a clear sense of purpose: the elevation of our human values.
Embracing a global identity (established through our local and regional identities).
Prirotizing our local home communities: City Planning. Urban Design. Architecture.
Declaring a climate emergency, rapidly phasing out fossil fuels, radically changing our energy policy.
Abolishing big money and conflicts of interest from public office.
Addressing the environmental toxicity epidemic.
Prioritizing schools, medical care, elder care and community support.
Redesigning education to empower individual talents and passions, inspire intergenerational community and creativity.
Eradicating poverty as envisioned by Martin Luther King Jr.
Making universal healthcare, parental support and child care the priority issues for global security.
Promotion of healthy food production and access.
Establishing a Universal Basic Income as described by Thomas Paine, for all human beings, as natural planetary stakeholders.
Abandoning the regressive ideologies of radical militarism and ethno-nationalism.
Dispelling xenophobia and any form of racial, religious, gender, age, & socio-economic discrimination)
Holistic reparations for survivors and descendents of collective trauma.
Promoting social democracy as prescribed by FDR’s 2nd bill of rights.
Establishing a digital bill of rights to secure individual freedom, maintain ethical systems accountability, the possibility of meaningful work, and inspire innovation.
Dismantling corporate control over markets and people unlocking innovation and competition.
Promoting economic systems that incentivize meaningful work
Ethical science & technology.
Elevating the arts as a priority for public policy and cultural investment.
Radical reform of the criminal justice system, law enforcement and public safety prioritizing prevention and restorative justice.
Phasing out the most lethal consumer product ever created: Driver-Operated Cars as the primary means of mass transport.
Decriminilization of drugs.
Abolition of advertising for addictive substances and pharmaceuticals. Advertising limits in public spaces, digital and physical.
Abolition of guns.
Promoting grounded spirituality, wonder and humility.