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 […]
Memetic Activation Platform (MAP) Playlist
Memetic Activation Platform (MAP) Playlist This video series introduces the Memetic Activation Platform (MAP), a framework for understanding and engaging with the evolution of culture through memes, meaning-making, and coordinated collective action. Blending systems thinking, narrative strategy, and participatory tools, MAP explores how ideas spread, how cultural patterns shift, and how intentional “memetic design” can […]
Memetic Activation Platform (MAP) – Design School for Regenerating Earth Series (2025)
Memetic Activation Platform (MAP) – Design School for Regenerating Earth Series (2025) This 4-part 2025 series presents an updated and more applied articulation of the Memetic Activation Platform (MAP), delivered through the Design School for Regenerating Earth. Building on earlier MAP concepts, it explores how cultural transformation can be intentionally guided through narrative, identity, and […]
Unity Earth Symposium V — Spiralling Up!
Unity Earth Symposium V — Spiralling Up! This post opens a window into the Unity Earth V Symposium (2026)—a living convergence of global voices sensing into the same underlying shift: from fragmentation to coherence, from isolation to interbeing, from awareness to coordinated action. Across conversations on partnerships, alliances, and interspirituality, a shared field begins to […]
What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire and the Self-Knowledge Imperative
What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire and the Self-Knowledge Imperative While most discussions of the Great Transition focus on transforming systems, Jim Collins turns attention to a parallel challenge: how do human beings navigate the periods of uncertainty, disruption, and reinvention that accompany profound change? Through the stories of people confronting life’s […]
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe The Web of Meaning addresses one of the deepest dimensions of the Great Transition: the worldview through which we understand ourselves and our relationship with the living Earth. Jeremy Lent argues that the dominant culture’s experience of separation—from nature, […]
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning The Patterning Instinct explores a foundational question for the Great Transition: how did humanity come to see the world in ways that produced today’s dominant civilization? Jeremy Lent traces the evolution of meaning-making across cultures, showing how deeply rooted patterns of thought shape societies, […]
What’s Important? Conversation at NAV
What’s Important? Conversation at NAV A terrific video conversation between Daniel Schmachtenberger, Nora Bateson and Nate Hagens. The video presents a skillful weaving of the scientific and the intuitive, the conceptual and the emotional, the objective and subjective and its cumulative impact is quite powerful. Topics range from the recent Planetary Boundaries report, ecocide, human […]
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, […]
Breaking Together: A Freedom‑Loving Response to Collapse
Breaking Together: A Freedom‑Loving Response to Collapse Jem Bendell offers a sobering yet compassionate exploration of societal collapse as a lived reality, not a distant possibility. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and personal reflection, he shows how modern economic, political, and ecological systems are unraveling and invites readers to face that truth with courage, creativity, and solidarity […]