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) 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 […]
Streets of Minneapolis — Bruce Springsteen
Streets of Minneapolis — Bruce Springsteen In this raw and urgent protest song, Bruce Springsteen responds directly to the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti during the 2026 ICE operations in Minneapolis. Stripped down and unflinching, *Streets of Minneapolis* is less a performance than an act of witness—naming injustice, honoring those lost, and refusing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]