awakeningearth.org
ourmediavoice.org

Sample clip from Conscious Conversations Audio CD
(available for purchase in EVOLVE Store)

Audio reading from Duane's latest book, Promise Ahead

PBS: Thinking Allowed
"The mass media and global awakening. PBS series, Thinking Allowed, nationally sundicated, 1994.

Duane Elgin
Sector(s): Whole System Design, Media & Communications

Duane Elgin is an author, speaker, educator, consultant, and media activist. For more than three decades, he has researched and written about the personal and collective dimensions of the human journey. He has worked as a senior social scientist with the think-tank, SRI International where he coauthored numerous studies on the long-range future for government agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the Presidentís Science Advisor. He has also worked as a senior staff member of a joint Presidential-Congressional Commission on the American Future. Over the past twenty years, Duane has co-founded three non-profit organizations concerned with media accountability (see link below). He has an MBA from the Wharton School, an MA in economic history from the University of Pennsylvania, and an honorary Doctor of Philosophy for work in ìecological and spiritual transformationî from the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA. Read the full biography.

BOOKS

Promise Ahead: Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future Book Study Center PDF of Chapter One Buy this book

Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich Learn more Buy this book

Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness Learn more Buy this book

DOWNLOADABLE REPORTS in PDF
(requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Self-Guiding Evolution of Civilizations
On the conscious evolution of humanity, for the Systems Research and Behavioral Science Journal (affiliated with AAAS and UNESCO)

Transformational Leadership at the Pivot of History
New approaches to leadership are being called forth to meet the unique demands and opportunities of this moment in history.

Our Living Universe
The most far-reaching trend of our times is an emerging shift in our shared view of the universeófrom thinking of it as dead to experiencing it as alive. This insightóthat we are cousins to everything that exists in a living, continuously regenerated universeórepresents a new way of looking at and relating to the world and overcomes the profound separation that has characterized the industrial era.

Collective Consciousness and Cultural Healing
This report explores the scientific foundations, evolutionary implications, and psychological dimensions of the theme of collective consciousness and cultural healing. Includes excerpts from interviews with 18 leaders and visionaries.

Choosing a New Lifeway: Voluntary Simplicity
An overview of the shift toward more sustainable and compassionate ways of living. A sustainable future for the Earth will require much more than a surface change to a different style of life; it requires a deep change to a new way of life.

Voluntary Simplicity
Co-authored with Arnold Mitchell in 1976 for the Business Intelligence Program, this was the most popular report published to that date by the program.