Ideas in Action
The Energy Transition Needs Hands
The Energy Transition Needs Hands The Workforce Behind the Transition There is no energy transition without workers. Not just engineers, founders, financiers, and policymakers. The […]
Year: 2026
Ideas in Action
How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Upgrade the Quality of Life for All Life
Mobilized News Feature AI Is a Tool. The Question Is: Who Is Holding It — and Why? How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Upgrade the Quality […]
Ideas in Action
Digital Democracy That Actually Works
Mobilized News Feature Democracy Is Not Just Voting. It Is Participation Design. Digital Democracy That Actually Works Democracy is not only what happens on Election […]
Ideas in Action
The Living Infrastructure: Nature
Mobilized News Feature The Infrastructure We Forgot Was Alive Nature as Infrastructure TL;DR: Wetlands, mangroves, forests, reefs, soils, tree canopy, dunes, grasslands, and watersheds are […]
Ideas in Action
The Most Important Climate Leaders May Be City Staff You’ve Never Heard Of
Mobilized News Feature The Most Important Climate Leaders May Be City Staff You’ve Never Heard Of The Local Government Innovation Beat TL;DR: The future is […]
Ideas in Action
Understanding the New Climate Denial: Attacking Solutions
The Fight Has Moved From Denying the Crisis to Discrediting the Tools The New Climate Denial: Attacking Solutions TL;DR: Climate misinformation is changing. The old […]
Ideas in Action
Interdependence Was Never a New Idea
Mobilized News Feature Interdependence Was Never a New Idea Indigenous Knowledge as Systems Intelligence TL;DR: Indigenous knowledge is too often treated as a quote, blessing, […]
GPS BY SECTOR
Update: Clean + Renewable Energy Systems
The strongest signal of the week: clean energy is no longer just replacing fossil fuels — it is becoming the operating system for electricity, transportation, […]
GPS BY SECTOR
Update: I.C.T.
The strongest signal of the week: cybersecurity is no longer an IT department issue. It is now public infrastructure, business continuity, national security, and democratic […]
GPS BY SECTOR
Updates: Personal + Digital Democracy
The week’s strongest signal: democracy is now being fought, weakened, protected, and redesigned inside digital systems. AI, platform accountability, civic tech, facial recognition, youth participation, […]
GPS BY SECTOR
Update: Planetary Health + Public Health
The week’s strongest signal: public health is now planetary health. Heat, air pollution, water contamination, zoonotic disease, antimicrobial resistance, food insecurity, and climate law are […]
GPS BY SECTOR
GPS: Ethical Finance
The week’s strongest signal: finance is being redesigned as infrastructure. Money movement, development finance, climate finance, banking rules, fintech access, stablecoins, and crisis funding are […]
GPS BY SECTOR
Update: Localization
The strongest signal of the week: localization is becoming a practical operating system for resilience. It is no longer only about “buy local.” It now […]
Better Understandings
The Industrial Age is Over. Our global systems have not caught up.
Most of today’s institutions were built for a world of mass production, centralized power, cheap energy, endless extraction, command-and-control management, and one-way communication. That world […]
GPS BY SECTOR
Update: Mobility + Transportation as a Service
The strongest signal of the week: transportation is no longer just about vehicles. It is becoming an integrated system of energy, data, infrastructure, public access, […]
FTS PUBLIC AND PLANETARY HEALTH
Why drugs cost so much, 101: Medicine monopolies
We’re always asking: Why do drugs cost so freaking much? And it’s a complicated question. There are a bunch of reasons — to be sure. But in our […]
FTS PUBLIC AND PLANETARY HEALTH
The Supreme Court case that could slow generic drugs
It’s a case you’ve (probably) never heard of: This week, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in Hikma v. Amarin — a legal battle that could impact […]
Economics
How a massive tax fraud that makes the Channel Islands loophole look like a tea party
Richard Allen comes across a massive tax fraud that makes the Channel Islands loophole look like a tea party. He teams up with two more […]
Economics
Tax Justice
“Tax is one of the smartest investments you can make.” That’s Professor Chris Harrop’s promise to companies, and his new tax funded impact model proves it […]
Imagination in Action
Holistic Design and Management Leads the Way
Interviewer: Bailey Chambers There have always been individuals in all parts of the world that have realized that something was wrong with the way things […]
GPS BY SECTOR
Circularity in Designed Systems
Circularity in design moved from “sustainability idea” to operating system. The strongest signals came from packaging regulation, textile-to-textile recycling, building-material reuse, and new design-for-recycling standards. […]
INSIGHTS
The most important governance word never used.
As the U.S. approaches the 250th anniversary of “Declaration of Independence” only 61 days away, it’s past time we consider the most damaging word in […]
INSIGHTS
Don’t Fear the Future
Every tool can be used for good–or bad. A hammer can build a house. A hammer could kill a person. We should not be afraid […]
Production, Reinvented
Transportation: The New Mobility System
Transportation is being rebuilt from the ground up. Not just how we move. But how energy, infrastructure, logistics, land use, batteries, grids, ports, fleets, freight […]
Production, Reinvented
Health: Designing Conditions for Life
Prevention is the best Medicine: Public health and planetary health are no longer separate stories. They are one system. The question is no longer only: […]