Increasingly catastrophic instances of human suffering, social discontent, and environmental degradation demand decisive action. The successes of global science and commerce giving rise to the emergence of improved standards of living around the world over the last 200 years have fundamentally altered the planetary environment. The logic and methods by which those successes were won no longer solve problems, they create them. The need for a new type of thinking poses the complex problem of figuring out exactly what it means to think differently. Plainly, to date, individual-level changes in the content of what is thought about and what is emphasized in our thinking have been inadequate to the task of inspiring drastically transformed ways of thinking and acting. The crux of the matter concerns the fact that the human, societal, and environmental problems created by global science and commerce are being addressed by fragmented and disconnected solutions. Until human, social, and natural capital are measured and managed on the same locally adaptable global scale as manufactured capital, little in the way of progress toward the needed solutions can be expected. Cultural progress depends on the developmental level of support provided by the institutional infrastructures of science and commerce. The logic, aesthetics, and ethics informing a participatory culturing of new ecological economies—a process of “ecologizing change”—offers practical methods for more effectively addressing the urgent challenges faced by humanity today.