Emergent Civilization Series

The Emergent Civilization Series consists of 12 separate modules of 6 or 7 programs each. A new series will be added each month of 2026. When registering for a series, indicate the topic title in the Event Name box. All segments listed below are available.
Registration fees: $25 for Praxis members and $35 for non-members. 
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APRIL SERIES: Politics

Thom Hartmann – What is Hidden in American History and Politics?
1. The Hidden History of Neoliberalism
2. The Demise of the Middle Class and How to Rescue Our Future
Thom Hartmann is the quintessential progressive talk show host and NY Times best-selling author of many books, including the Hidden History series, The Last American President and several others.

Stephen Ducat – The Psychology of Political Tribalism
Stephen Ducat holds a PhD in clinical psychology and has published widely on the psychology of politics. His books include The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity and Hatreds We Love: The Psychology of Political Tribalism in Post Truth America.

David Talbot – Forever Debunking the Lone Assassination Theory
David Talbot is the author of Brothers (the Kennedys), The Devil’s Chessboard (the Dulles brothers) and The Season of the Witch (San Francisco politics). His research on the Kennedy assassinations is beyond thorough — and, shocking!

Sam Rosenthal – RootsAction Working for Democracy and Their Role in Campaigns
Sam Rosenthal is an organizer and researcher in Washington, DC, and is the Political Director of RootsAction. He also served as Political Director of Our Revolution and serves on the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Electoral Committee.

Gayle McLaughlin – Building a Community Movement – The Incredible Successes in Richmond, CA
Gayle McLaughlin was a two-term Mayor of Richmond, CA and long time city council member. Under her leadership, the city of Richmond transformed into a community of solidarity and a 70% reduction in Crime. She is also the author of Winning Richmond: How a Progressive Alliance Won City Hall.

Ari Rabin-Havt – On the Road with Bernie Sanders and the Inner Workings of Government
Ari Rabin-Havt served as deputy campaign manager for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign and hosts The Agenda, a national radio show on Sirius XM. He is the author of The FOX Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine, The Fighting Soul, and Lies Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics.

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MARCH SERIES: Economics – Possibilities for a New Economic Framework 

James Galbraith – Entropy Economics: The Need for an Economic Paradigm Shift
James Galbraith, PhD is not only a critic of mainstream economics, he proposes an economic system that draws on the physical and biological life processes of nature and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. He is the author of The Predator State, Entropy Economics, The End of Normal, and Inequality.

Ellen Brown – Public Banking: A Financial Reset for the People
Ellen Brown, JD, is an attorney and the founder of the Public Banking Institute. She is the author of Web of Debt, The Public Banking Solution, and Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age.

Richard Wolff – Is the Sun Setting on the American Empire?
Richard Wolff (PhD), a Marxist economist, offers a brilliant analysis of where we are economically and politically in this in-depth presentation. He holds advanced degrees in economics from Stanford University, Harvard, and Yale, and is the author of several books, including Democracy at Work and Economics: Marxian vs Neoclassical.

David Korten – Eco-nomics for an Ecological Civilization
David Korten, (MBA, PhD) is the author of When Corporations Rule the World, Agenda for a New Economy, The Post Corporate World, and Change the Story, Change the Future.

Hazel Henderson – Fixing the Money Meme
Hazel Henderson was a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and the author of the award-winning, Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy.

Martin Bernstein – How the Modern Financial Sector is Shaping our Economic Future
Martin Bernstein discusses the Increased speculation where the financial sector lends to itself rather than invest in innovation. Also discussed is federal debt, personal debt, and the high cost of debt. An important class in economics for all of us. Martin is a PhD candidate in Economic at Harvard University, specializing in macroeconomics and public finance.

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FEBRUARY SERIES: Culture

Riane Eisler – Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future
Riane Eisler, JD, is a cultural historian and author of the bestselling The Chalice and the Blade, The Real Wealth of Nations, Sacred Pleasure, The Power of Partnership, and Nurturing Our Humanity.

Jeremy Lent – The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom
Jeremy Lent was described by The Guardian’s George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age.” He is the author of The Patterning
Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning and The Web of Meaning. He is also the founder of the Deep Transformation Network.

Andrew Kimbrell – The Rise and Fall of Human Dominion and the Re-emergence of Earth Consciousness
Andrew Kimbrell is an attorney, the Executive Director of the Center for Food Safety in Wash. DC, co-founder of Foundation Earth, and the author of Salmon Economics, The Masculine Mystique, The Marketing of Life, and other books.

Anu Partanen – The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
Anu Partanen is a Finnish journalist who lived in the U.S. for several years, became a citizen, married an American, and they decided to live in Finland, deemed the “happiest country in the world.” She is the author of The Nordic Theory of Everything.

Ander Etxeberria (Mondragon) – The Extraordinary Mondragon Cooperatives in Spain
Ander Etxeberria is the Director of Dissemination at the Mondragon Cooperatives Headquarters in Mondragon, Spain and the primary educator at the Praxis seminars in Mondragon and the Basque region.

Michael Murphy – On Living Well
Michael Murphy was the co-founder of Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA and a primary mover in the Human Potential Movement. . He organized Esalen’s unique Soviet American Exchange program in the 1980s. He is also the author of Golf in the Kingdom (which was made into a film), Jacob Atabet, and The Future of the Body.

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JANUARY SERIES: The Climate Crisis

Aviva Chomsky – Is Science Enough: Forty Critical Questions about Climate Justice
Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and Latin American studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts and was a research associate at Harvard. She is the author of Is Science Enough?

Ellie Cohen – The Path to Net-Negative Emissions by 2030: The Solutions exist
Ellie Cohen is the Executive Director of the Climate Center in Santa Rosa, CA

Randy Hayes – Roadmaps to an Ecological Civilization
Randy Hayes is the Executive Director of Foundation Earth and Founder of Rainforest Action Network (RAN).

Richard Heinberg – What Would a Real Renewable Energy Transition Look Like?
Richard Heinberg is a Senior Fellow with the Post Carbon Institute and author of several books on climate, including Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival.

Osprey Orielle Lake – Worldviews: Remaking a World in Crisis
Osprey Orielle Lake is the Executive Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) and the author of Uprisings for the Earth and The Story is in Our Bones.

Kim Stanley Robinson – Climate Work for the Next Five Years: A Vision for the Future.
K.S. Robinson is the author of several best-selling science fiction books, including the ground-breaking Ministry for the Future, both a warning and a pathway to dealing with the climate crisis.

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