Human society has become the victim of an escalating social system crisis. It does not only concern the environment and economy. All over the world citizens are hit by a deep social alienation syndrome, and open-minded observers begin to describe the history of our species as an evolutionary failure. The Scandinavian R&D institute EcoLife is one of the still rare institutions which have diagnosed the situation as a paradigm crisis and try to define the new landmarks of a radical system change. While some frontline actors choose to follow one or a few strings into the future, others are applying a humanitarian strategy or preach social revival. Our contribution is a life scientific analysis which tries to diagnose the organic system errors of development and describe their ecological consequences. On these fundaments an alternative model of human development is designed. Basically, we regard human existence as a privileged exponent of life under the sun in our cosmic neighbourhood. Protecting planetary life is the overarching goal of our efforts.

The intellectual inspiration for our effort derives from the literally contact with the sagacious reflections of a couple of spearheads from the last half century. Clear-eyed personalities as Arne Naess, Johan Galtung, E. F. Schumacher, Fritjof Capra, Murray Bookchin, Hazel Henderson, David C. Korten, Michael Löwy, Joel Kovel, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva and Teivo Teivanen stand on the frontline. But the liberating inspiration is given by our contact with the expanding global youth movements of the last decades. Their audacious manifestations have awakened our hope that the technomaniac repression of the ruling world bureaucracy can be averted.

To the most progressive initiatives we count the World Social Forum and the Occupy movement. They represent a symbolic break with the megapowers of late-modernity, which is the financial world hierarchy. The impatient civic public now eagerly raises the question what the next step of the ultimate rebellions will be. Our spontaneous bid is that the time has come for transforming the social protests to life-dynamic action and to start erecting self-supportive Earth-communities. The transition movement led by Rob Hopkins is one of the actual examples of local mobilisation. It represents a socio-ecological initiative of ideological strength, but in order to succeed it has to be complemented with a global system perspective. Here our project enters the stage. It´s theme is the transition to a socially resilient world system. Everybody interested to take part in this endeavor is welcome to contact us!