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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 crises, how best to solve our increasingly wild and fractious rides around the sun.

We focus on three priorities.

Priority #1

Ending War

War has shaped our history, but what if we could rewrite that narrative? We invite you to step beyond battlefields and explore the intricate threads of peacebuilding.

Featured

Talks

This is the decisive decade in the history of humankind.

Christiana Figueres

Talks

We the people! Not I the dictator.

How Democracies Die (2015)

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

Articles

The Humanity Initiative's blueprint for peace gatherings

Curated by Jacqueline Wigglesworth, THI

Priority #2

Solving Climate Change

Earth’s climate is in flux. As global temperatures rise, weather patterns shift, and ecosystems respond, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment. We invite you to explore the science, impact, and urgency of climate change.

Featured

Documentaries

A Life on Our Planet

Articles

How humans changed the Earth’s surface in 2023

Richard Gray

Books

A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation (1949)

Aldo Leopold

Commencement Speeches

That's Not a Cause. That's an Emergency.

Bono, Irish singer and activist

Talks

My wish to protect the oceans

Sylvia Earle

Priority #3

Saving Democracy

In a world where democratic norms face unprecedented trials, we invite you to peel back the layers, revealing the intricate tapestry of governance, participation, and accountability.

Featured

Talks

What exactly is democracy?

How Democracies Die (2015)

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

Commencement Speeches

Real Freedom?

David Foster Wallace

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 Priorities

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.

Someday they’ll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967) American poet, journalist and editor.

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May the insights and inspirations throughout this planetary assembly -- 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 the 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 unrestrained kindness, understanding, love, and, not least, deep respect for the enthralling and necessary variety of life on Earth.