The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World

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Her latest book, also with questions at the core, is Ripening Time: Inside Stories for Aging with Grace (Changemakers Books, 2013).

Some closely related changes contribute to and follow from changes in worldview: changes in values, your fundamental life priorities; changes in lifestyle, the way you spend your time and money; and changes in livelihood, how you make that money in the first place. This can support positive mental health by helping individuals view society in a positive and appreciative way. The characteristics of cultural creatives incorporate a wide variety of traits related to environmentalism, personal growth and social business. For instance, they enjoy modern zen-like home design aesthetics, active outdoor hobbies and artistic ventures. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, in their 2000 publication Cultural Creatives, estimated that 50 million adult Americans focus on values that actively support the goal of ensuring everyone can pursue enough money, meaning, and friends to thrive, including an aggressive approach toward mitigating the problems of climate change. This compelling book provides historical and detailed macroscopic overviews, interspersed with microscopic interviews with Cultural Creatives from many walks of life, and the fascinating and inspiring stories they each have to share.

As the millennial generation continues to grow in power and influence, there will an increasing number of people living from this perspective. Cultural creatives do have a reputation, partially deserved, for thinking they’re above the unenlightened masses who ignorantly despoil the earth. In 2008, there was much discussion in the Western media on the 'creative economy' and the importance of the ' creative class'. The evidence is not only in the numbers from our survey questionnaires but in the everyday lives of the people behind those numbers.Hey, the farthest-out cultural creatives don’t even have children, because of our concern about population growth. Our numbers have grown from less than 5 percent of the population a generation ago to nearly 25 percent now.