• The guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now rather than wait for a pie-in-the-sky future.
• With every news report, the world seems to be careening off the rails. It's all too easy to slip into despair waiting for co-opted, self-serving governments to act.
• The antidote to fear and despair is hope and action. We each hold the power to make personal changes that can drive local changes and cascade into large-scale social transformation.
• This is the guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now. The first section explores the idea of transformative change - what it is, what difference it makes, and how it is connected to learning.
• The second section explores powerful new stories of everyday people who have challenged traditional understandings of food, shelter, energy, transportation, waste, and economics, and transformed aspects of their lives, their communities, and wider society.
• In the final section, the authors provide a workbook to guide people, wherever they are, through the process of catalyzing change.
We all have the power to create a more just and ecological society. We all have the power to be changemakers.

From the Preface:

"Our world seems beset by crises. For us, climate change is the defining issue of our time—but we know many intelligent people who point to the refugee crisis, war, poverty, human rights atrocities, pollution of all sorts, and the ongoing struggle against totalitarianism as the primary problem we all face. And although this is an exhausting list, it is not an exhaustive one.

Even if we don’t feel like we’re all going to hell in a handbasket, it is easy to feel despair in the face of these vast, interlocking problems.

We began this book because we were looking for reasons to choose hope over despair. We find these reasons in the stories of transformation and learning that we share here, and in the idea of transformational learning as a
way of moving through the crises that surround us.

What we have realized is that neither hope nor despair is sufficient, and neither is entirely relevant. Both hope and despair are emotions that are focused on the future rather than the present. The process of building a society that is based on compassion and care for the Earth and all its beings, human and otherwise, is not something that can happen only in the future. It can and must happen now. And, fortunately, for the sake of our collective future well-being, it is happening now. In this book, we explore the stories and experiences of individuals who are living as if the world is changing into that compassionate and caring society and, by so doing, are changing the world.

- 这是为那些想现在就创造一个新社会而不是等待天方夜谭的普通人准备的指南。

- 随着每条新闻的报道，世界似乎正在偏离轨道。人们很容易陷入绝望，等待被收买的、为自己服务的政府采取行动。

- 恐惧和绝望的解药是希望和行动。我们每个人都有能力做出个人的改变，这些改变可以推动当地的变化，并串联成大规模的社会变革。

- 这是一本为那些希望现在就创造一个新社会的普通人编写的指南。第一部分探讨了变革性变化的概念--它是什么，有什么不同，以及它与学习的关系。

- 第二部分探讨了普通人的强大新故事，他们挑战了对食物、住房、能源、交通、废物和经济的传统理解，并改变了他们的生活、社区和更广泛的社会。

- 在最后一节中，作者提供了一本工作手册，以指导人们，无论他们在哪里，通过催化变化的过程。

我们都有能力创造一个更加公正和生态的社会。我们都有能力成为变革者。

摘自序言。

"我们的世界似乎被危机所困扰。对我们来说，气候变化是我们这个时代的决定性问题，但我们知道许多聪明人指出，难民危机、战争、贫困、人权暴行、各种污染以及正在进行的反对极权主义的斗争是我们所有人面临的主要问题。尽管这是一份详尽的清单，但它并不是一份详尽的清单。

即使我们不觉得我们都要下地狱了，面对这些巨大的、环环相扣的问题，我们也很容易感到绝望。

我们开始写这本书是因为我们正在寻找选择希望而不是绝望的理由。我们在这里分享的转型和学习的故事中找到了这些理由，也在转型学习作为一种

我们在这里分享的转型和学习的故事中找到了这些理由，也在转型学习作为穿越我们周围危机的方式的理念中找到了这些理由。

我们意识到的是，希望和绝望都不充分，也不完全相关。希望和绝望都是专注于未来而不是现在的情绪。建立一个基于对地球及其所有生物（包括人类和其他生物）的同情和关怀的社会的过程，不是只能在未来发生的事情。它可以而且必须现在就发生。而且，幸运的是，为了我们集体的未来福祉，它现在正在发生。在这本书中，我们探讨了一些个人的故事和经验，他们的生活就像世界正在转变为这种富有同情心和爱心的社会，并通过这样做改变世界。