2024 and counting...

Time to rescue our humanity.

Welcome!

May we pour you a cup of tea? For this is an oasis with a mission, custom-made for we the people to consider, with neighbors old and new, how best to address our humanitarian and planetary alarms, how best to solve our increasingly wild and fractious rides around the sun.

To plant our investigations in the fertile soil of open hearts and curious minds, we have chosen three hundred and thirty of humanity’s most inspiring voices — ancient and current — to guide and encourage us in re-imagining our roles as changemaker for community, country, or planet.

Our Crises

We offer extensive insight on humankind's most crucial challenges: ending war, solving climate change, and saving democracy.

Our Partners in Positive Change

We shine a light on thirty of this world’s most respected non-profits and their compelling opportunities for each of us to participate immediately in positive change.

Empowering Commencement Speeches

We began our popular archive of commencement speeches in 1989. now offering thirty of the most inspirational -- from over the last hundred years and still keenly relevant today.

Peace Gatherings

The Humanity Initiative's blueprint for Peace Gatherings is designed to expand the understanding that ending war is not only necessary but also utterly possible.

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Partner Initiatives

Ashoka Changemakers - leading the way since 1980.
Commencement Speeches

Be Your Own Story

Toni Morrison
Talks

Mandela's speech after his release from prison

Nelson Mandela
Poetry

Ulysses (1833)
Talks

My wish to protect the oceans

Sylvia Earle

May the insights and inspirations throughout this town meeting for the planet — presented on the wings of essays, images, speeches, artwork, film, literature, poetry, and music — move you to help fan the aspirational breezes of our shared humanity into winds of change we so urgently need.

Let us together orchestrate a future that works for all sentient beings, a future that empowers succeeding generations with increasing kindness, understanding, love, and, not least, deep respect for the enthralling and necessary variety of life on Earth.

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