Breaking Down: Collapse — Episodes 1–7
Breaking Down: Collapse — Episodes 1–7 Breaking Down: Collapse offers an unusually clear and accessible introduction to the systemic vulnerabilities of modern industrial civilization. In Episodes 1–7, hosts Kory and Kellan build the case step by step, exploring societal collapse, the fragility of complex systems, energy dependence, ecological overshoot and limits to growth, catabolic collapse, […]
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 […]
WIll Ruddick on ‘Commitment Pooling’ to Build Economic Commons
WIll Ruddick on ‘Commitment Pooling’ to Build Economic Commons The present currency systems play a deep and pervasive role in perpetuating the Material Culture. We need alternatives! Will Ruddick, development economist and founder of Grassroots Economics, has spent the past 16 years in Kenya developing innovative “community inclusion currencies” for dozens of poorer communities. By […]
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, […]
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 […]
Unlearning Economics: Jon Erickson, Josh Farley, Steve Keen, Kate Raworth | Reality Roundtable #3
Unlearning Economics: Jon Erickson, Josh Farley, Steve Keen, Kate Raworth | Reality Roundtable #3 On this Reality Roundtable, Nate is joined by leading thinkers and educators in the field of heterodox economics. Each guest shares one fundamental aspect of what conventional economic theory gets wrong and how it could be improved in our education system. […]