DESIGN: CIRCULARITY
Regenerative Materials: Borrowing from Nature’s Chemistry”
What if the next generation of materials didn’t come from oil wells… but from mushrooms, seaweed, agricultural waste, and trees? What if we could […]
Month: November 2025
DESIGN: CIRCULARITY
Designing Out Waste: Circularity 101 for Communities
What if I told you that waste… isn’t natural? In nature, there is no landfill. No garbage trucks. No “away.” Every leaf, every drop, every […]
DESIGN: ICT
Holistic Systems Design for ICT + Media
Building Communication Ecosystems That Behave More Like Nature — Interconnected, Adaptive, Resilient [OPEN] Our information and communication systems weren’t designed to support thriving societies. They […]
DESIGN: ICT
Media Cooperatives, Independent Journalism & Community Storytelling
How Communities Are Reclaiming Media — and Rebuilding Trust From the Ground Up We’ve been living under a media system that profits from crisis, conflict, […]
DESIGN: ICT
Information as Public Infrastructure
Why Communication Systems Are as Essential as Water, Roads, and Power — and How Communities Are Taking Them Back We think about infrastructure as roads, […]
Design for Life
Mobility for Well-Being
Mobility for Well-Being: How Communities Are Redesigning the Way We Move The big picture: Transportation isn’t just about getting from point A to point […]
Design for Life
Systems in Synergy
What if the story of our world isn’t a collection of crises… …but a single system trying to rebalance itself? Welcome to Flip The Script—where […]
Design for Life
Power to the People: Community Energy as a Health System
The big picture: Energy isn’t just about electricity. It’s the circulatory system of modern life—powering food, housing, mobility, healthcare, and communication. Around the world, […]
Design for Life
Community-Owned ICT + Interconnected Media Systems
The Big Picture How can we improve our information and communications systems to bring us closer to our ultimate potential: a healthier, more balanced […]
Design for Life
Design for Life
Design for Life
A World Designed for Well-Being Our crises are connected — so are the solutions. This media series follows how communities worldwide are restoring health by […]
DESIGN: ENERGY
Electrifying Everything, Together
How communities coordinate EVs, heat pumps, and building retrofits so that electrification lowers bills, not overwhelms the grid. Electrifying Everything, Together What if electrification […]
DESIGN: ENERGY
The Systems View: Energy, Ecology & Interdependence
The Systems View: Energy, Ecology & Interdependence What if energy wasn’t just a sector — but the circulatory system of life? For generations, we’ve treated […]
DESIGN: ENERGY
The Global South Leads in Energy
What if the places long treated as “last in line” were actually leading the future of energy? For decades, the Global South was framed as: […]
DESIGN: ENERGY
Participatory Power Planning
Participatory Power Planning What if communities didn’t just react to energy decisions — but made them? For decades, the energy system has been designed behind […]
DESIGN: ENERGY
Resilience Hubs & Disaster-Ready Communities
Resilience Hubs & Disaster-Ready Communities What if your school, library, or church could save lives during the next blackout? We’ve been told disasters are unpredictable […]
DESIGN: ENERGY
Financing the Future Co-operatively
Financing the Future Co-operatively What if clean energy wasn’t something we bought—but something we built together? For too long, people have been told the same […]
DESIGN: ENERGY
Indigenous & Ancestral Energy Sovereignty
What if the future of clean energy isn’t new at all — but rooted in 10,000 years of wisdom? For generations, the dominant energy system […]
DESIGN: ENERGY
Community Solar, Microgrids & Local Ownership
Community Solar, Microgrids & Local Ownership What if your power bill didn’t leave your community — but rebuilt it? For decades, utilities have told the […]
DESIGN: ENERGY
Energy as a Public Health System
What if electricity wasn’t just power — but medicine? For over a century, we’ve treated energy as a commodity. Something you buy. Something big utilities […]
Design for Life
Systems Change: Circularity (Materials and Resources)
♻️ Circularity in Materials & Resources How communities worldwide are restoring ecological balance and public health by designing materials, products, and systems that […]
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Systems change: Restoring Democracy
Democracy in Action: Restoring Power to the People” At a time when democracy is under unprecedented threat—undermined by disinformation, authoritarian tendencies, voter suppression, and the […]
Economics
The Wire
Clean and Renewable Energy
Week ending Jan. 2, 2026 Record Share of Solar & Wind in Power Systems Solar and wind energy set record shares in power systems during […]
Business
How can Nonprofits Survive and Thrive in Chaos, Together
From The American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) How are nonprofit leaders (like you) connecting to gather and share insights, discuss what’s working and what isn’t, […]