Martin Kleppmann — Local-first in an unstable world
Martin Kleppmann — Local-first in an unstable world Local-first computing offers a provocative design principle for the technological infrastructure of the Great Transition: put agency, resilience, and ownership back at the edges of the network. Martin Kleppmann explores an alternative to today’s cloud-dependent model in which applications and data increasingly depend upon centralized services, corporate […]
How Open Protocols Are a Key Part of Regenerative Technology
How Open Protocols Are a Key Part of Regenerative Technology This article explores an easily overlooked foundation of regenerative technology: the protocols that determine how people, communities, and technologies can connect and coordinate. Kaliya Young argues that open protocols—shared rules that anyone can implement rather than proprietary platforms controlled by a single organization—can enable interoperability, […]
Cosmo-Local Credit Visualizer: Five Pools, Commitments & Shared Liquidity
Cosmo-Local Credit Visualizer: Five Pools, Commitments & Shared Liquidity This remarkable visualization from Will Ruddick makes something normally invisible visible: what a genuinely different economic system can look like in practice. Following five community-governed Chama pools in Kenya across more than 4,600 transactions, Ruddick shows local commitments for food, labor, childcare, farming, and other goods […]
Ecocivilization
Ecocivilization Ecocivilization is Jeremy Lent’s ambitious attempt to move beyond diagnosing the failures of industrial civilization and envision what could actually replace it. Drawing on the design principles of living systems, Lent explores how economics, governance, infrastructure, agriculture, housing, and other foundations of society could be reorganized around justice, mutuality, diversity, symbiosis, and the flourishing […]
How to Fund the New System (New Earth)
How to Fund the New System (New Earth) This short video points toward a critical challenge of the Great Transition: how do we redirect capital away from maintaining the old system and toward building the regenerative systems trying to emerge? Ben Clark of Earth Regeneration Alliance reframes funding as more than financing projects—it is a […]
Why We Must Bioregionalize Now
Why We Must Bioregionalize Now The article, centered on reflections from New York Climate Week, advocates for bioregionalism as a response to the limitations of globalized systems in tackling the biospheric crisis. Highlighting the need to reestablish local resilience and community-based resource management, the article underscores the importance of becoming “native to place” and developing […]
Relationalized Finance for Generative Living Systems and Bioregions
Relationalized Finance for Generative Living Systems and Bioregions How will the Great Transition be funded? This essay by David Bollier and Natasha Hulst reimagines finance as a relational, place-based system designed to serve living systems rather than extract from them. Moving beyond conventional capital flows and profit maximization, it proposes financial models rooted in reciprocity, […]
Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph
Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph Revolution Now! is a long-form podcast that interrogates the structural foundations of modern society. Through extended monologues and in-depth conversations, the show examines economic architecture, political power, capitalism, democracy, social inheritance, ecological limits, and post-scarcity possibilities — consistently foregrounding how incentive structures and institutional design shape human behavior and social […]
Restor
Restor Restor is an open data platform for the restoration movement. Their interactive map lists over 140,000 conservation and restoration sites. Restoring nature is a huge opportunity. Bringing back healthy forests, grasslands, coastlines, and oceans is critical for communities and climate. Achieving restoration at scale requires that we act together. Restor connects people and projects […]
The Bioregional Pulse
The Bioregional Pulse This newsletter is designed to share insights, stories, and active hope from changemakers involved in bioregional regeneration projects across Europe. The newsletter includes diverse topics, such as the power of storytelling and film in bioregionalism, community-centered financial models, cross-cultural learning journeys, and practices for fostering local resilience and bio-cultural restoration. Through creative […]