Seeds of Good Anthropocenes

The Seeds of Good Anthropocenes project aims to create realistic and optimistic visions of humanity's future on the Earth. These visions may complement currently popular dystopian visions of the future, helping us move toward positive futures by giving us positive goals to "steer towards."

We expect that any “Good Anthropocene” that emerges will be radically different from the world as people know it today. Yet we also know that these futures will be composed of many elements already in existence. These elements, which we call “seeds’, could combine in unique and surprising ways to create an almost unimaginable future.

This page collects scenario projects that use seeds:

Seeds of good futures already occur in many places around the world. Identifying where these elements of a Good Anthropocene currently exist on the planet, and understanding how and why they occur, can help us envision how people might help these seeds grow into new, positive futures for the Earth and humanity. It is essential that we gather seeds from a diversity of disciplines, worldviews, values, and regions, even if we cannot hope to be represent all the great initiatives out there. Seeds are being solicited specifically from different communities of research and practice around the world, and more openly through the project's online platform. In addition to scenarios, outputs of the Seeds project include a database of seeds for analysis, a story-telling blog, games, and academic articles.

Read more about Seeds of Good Anthropocenes at goodanthropocenes.net