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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,…

3 weeks ago

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…

3 weeks ago

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…

3 weeks ago

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…

3 weeks ago

Update: Clean + Renewable Energy Systems

The strongest signal of the week: clean energy is no longer just replacing fossil fuels — it is becoming the…

3 weeks ago

Update: I.C.T.

The strongest signal of the week: cybersecurity is no longer an IT department issue. It is now public infrastructure, business…

3 weeks ago

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…

3 weeks ago

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…

3 weeks ago

GPS: Ethical Finance

The week’s strongest signal: finance is being redesigned as infrastructure. Money movement, development finance, climate finance, banking rules, fintech access,…

3 weeks ago

Update: Localization

The strongest signal of the week: localization is becoming a practical operating system for resilience. It is no longer only…

3 weeks ago

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,…

4 weeks ago

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…

1 month ago

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…

1 month ago

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…

1 month ago

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…

1 month ago

Tax Justice

  “Tax is one of the smartest investments you can make.” That’s Professor Chris Harrop’s promise to companies, and his…

1 month ago

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…

1 month ago

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…

1 month ago

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…

1 month ago

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.…

1 month ago

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,…

1 month ago

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…

1 month ago

Personal and Digital Democracy: Who Controls the Systems?

Democracy is being rewritten in real time. Not only by elections. By algorithms. By platforms. By data systems. By digital…

1 month ago

ICT and Cybersecurity: The Stability Layer of Modern Life

ICT and Cybersecurity: The Stability Layer of Modern Life Cybersecurity is no longer just about stopping hackers. It is about…

1 month ago

Food Production and Distribution: The System Is Being Re-Architected

The food system is moving from a model built around farms, long supply chains, global shipping, and fragile distribution networks…

1 month ago