At the Small Planet Institute, the belief is that ideas have enormous power. So the institute seek to identify core, often unspoken, assumptions — economic, political, and psychological — now driving humanity to take the planet in directions that none of us individually would ever choose. To this core predicament, Small Planet focuses on solutions: From the crisis of needless hunger to that of democracy itself, they offer evidence-based, life-serving frames of understanding that enable us to perceive and join in solutions emerging all around us.