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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chasing Time (Director’s Cut)
Chasing Time (Director’s Cut) More than a climate documentary, Chasing Time is a meditation on stewardship across generations. As photographer James Balog concludes his 15-year Extreme Ice Survey project, the film invites viewers into a radically different relationship with time—one measured not by quarterly returns, election cycles, or news cycles, but by the slow unfolding […]
Thank You for the Simple Things
Thank You for the Simple Things In a culture conditioned to focus on scarcity, achievement, and endless striving, *Thank You for the Simple Things* offers a quiet act of resistance. Through a simple practice of gratitude—for breath, water, family, body, home, joy, sorrow, and the gift of being alive—the song redirects attention toward the everyday […]
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 […]
Listening To The Earth Elders
Listening To The Earth Elders This conversation between Marianne Williamson, Mindahi Bastida—founder of The Earth Elders and ritual ceremony officer of the Otomi Toltec peoples—and Lara Mastropasqua explores Indigenous wisdom and the climate crisis through a fundamentally different relationship between humanity and the living Earth. Its importance to the Great Transition lies in challenging a […]
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 […]
Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It with Luke Kemp
Why Civilizations Fall and What We Can Learn From It with Luke Kemp In this insightful conversation, researcher Luke Kemp explores the patterns and drivers behind the rise and fall of civilizations, drawing on historical and systems analysis to illuminate risks facing modern society. Rather than treating collapse as an anomaly, the discussion frames it […]
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 […]