Halcyon Identifies

• Activism/Poverty - recent anti-poverty rallies broke the world record for coordinated public demonstration on a single issue, with an estimated 116m people participating in 131 countries.

• Activism - individuals travelling to developing countries can now find out (and suggest) schools, charities and communities that need equipment and can "stuff their rucksacks" accordingly on departure.

• Kindness/Modesty - is the current financial and economic crisis leading to a rise in humility and kindness?

• Media - "social reporting" is on the rise - i.e. the idea of doing good stuff with new stuff.

• Resilience/Sustainability - an experiment in trying to live for a year without money is an innovative response to the challenge of living a sustainable lifestyle.

• Addiction/Attention - many people now find it genuinely hard to control and limit the time they spend on the internet, and show signs not just of distraction but of real addiction.

• Civility - many, not just conservatives, now believe that encouraging the old-fashioned notion of "character" may be a key to some of the most entrenched social problems.

• Ideas - people come up with lots of new ideas everyday, but nothing happens to most of them, leading to so-called "ideaicide". 

• Slowness - like the green movement. the slowness movement is gathering pace more from outside pressures such as economic downturn and rising prices, than from individual pro-activity.

• Quietness - people are increasingly searching for silence in their lives, to the extent that providing people with opportunities for quietness is becoming a real business opportunity.