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The GENI Initiative focuses on linking renewable energy resources around the world using international electricity transmission. Decades ago, visionary engineer Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller developed the World Game simulation, posing the question: How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone? Research shows that the premier global strategy is the interconnection of electric power networks between regions and continents into a global energy grid, with an emphasis on tapping abundant renewable energy resources - a world wide web of electricity.

Omnipedia - Thinking for Tomorrow was an electronic periodical published by International Futures Forum for three years from 2004 - 2006 (fourteen issues).

Drawing from seven decades of movement-building experience, Grace Lee Boggs shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities.

"Humanity is now at a critical juncture. As Paul Hawken succinctly put it in his inspiring address to Portland University's graduate class in May of 2009, "civilization needs a new operating system," and fast. Many of the socio-economic rules under which we operate were created under a worldview that failed to recognize that the earth is a living system"