The Humanity Initiative

Founded in 1984, we initially published a journal of non-fiction and photography, called humanity, designed with the participation and generosity of The Rhode Island School of Design. We decided not to carry advertising in order to avoid any overt commercial or political overlay. Our first contributor was His Holiness The Dalai Lama. He happily agreed, during a private audience, to write a letter to the children of the world. In 1997 we ceased publishing hard copy in favor of the internet.

Currently we are reimagining www.ourhumanity.org to more directly address humankind’s increasingly urgent challenges of ending war, solving climate change, and saving democracy, not to mention the rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence.

Please bear with us as we build out this new site. We are but a tiny team of four volunteers on three continents, surviving on the generosity of donations. Not least, we are in the process of posting over 300 “Voices of Humanity” from across the ages and the continents, voices that we have been curating for many years — to inspire all of us in our personal search for ways to make a difference, to take action, to rescue our humanity!