Transformed
Building Infrastructure for Planetary Regeneration:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — R. Buckminster Fuller
Stuart Cowan is the Executive Director at Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI.) In this conversation, Stuart presents a powerful opportunity to explore the frontiers of regenerative design, systems thinking, and whole systems transformation. Cowan is known for connecting deep ecological intelligence with design science and planetary
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Stuart Cowan, Buckminster Fuller Institute
Dr. Stuart Cowan is the Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, which is dedicated to the realization of Fuller’s vision of a world that works for 100% of humanity in the shortest time possible through spontaneous cooperation. In this role, he launched the BFI Design Lab to develop critical infrastructure for resilience and regeneration at local to bioregional to planetary scales. He brings 25 years of experience in regenerative design, finance, and systems and is a planetary strategist, ecological designer, systems scientist, and regenerative economist. He is the Co-Founder of Autopoiesis LLC, which works to regenerate communities, ecosystems, and organizations.
He was the founding convener of the Regenerative Communities Network from 2018-20, supporting 15 bioregions on their journeys of regeneration. He brings a diverse range of experiences including Chief Scientist at the Smart Cities Council, Transaction Manager for the sustainable investment fund Portland Family of Funds, and Conservation Economy Research Director at the non-profit Ecotrust. He is the co-author with Sim Van der Ryn of Ecological Design, and received his doctorate in Applied Mathematics from U.C. Berkeley with a focus on Complex Systems and Ecological Economics. He has taught and facilitated internationally for academic institutions, cities, companies, indigenous groups, government agencies, and NGOs. He serves on the Board of Regenerosity, University for International Cooperation, and the Global Solutions Alliance.
Transformed
The World Unites for a New Story.

Progress has a new home.
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We welcome media makers and earth-shakers, scientists and social entrepreneurs, investigative journalists and systems thinkers and doers to amplify and showcase how people in communities worldwide are restoring health and prosperity where they are now.
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Science
Perspective Shift through Scientific Upgrade

Howard Bloom unveils his latest book, “The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong.”
Howard Bloom is a visionary thinker known for synthesizing science, philosophy, and culture—about his latest book “The Case of the Sexual Cosmos” presents a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of biology, cosmology, desire, and the fundamental forces of creation. His work reframes sexuality not as a mere biological function, but as a cosmic principle that shapes evolution, cooperation, innovation, and existence itself.
How can scientifically more accurate perception of life and the Cosmos can provide us with healthier and more prosperous lives in balance with the natural world:
Since science is the constant pursuit of truth, and as new discoveries and innovations are continually being made and discovered, how can a radical new perception bring us closer to our ultimate potential?
The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong is a book about why two of science’s most cherished assumptions are wrong and what sex has to do with it. not to mention, what sex tells us about the universe. and about your role in it.
It’s the story of greening a planet of disaster and strife.
It’s a tale of transformation. It’s the tale of the uplift of a toxic planet, a poison pill of stone. It’s the saga of how the first teaspoon of life and its children overcame 142 mass extinctions. It’s the story of the savagery of non-stop climate change. But it’s the story of more than a mere struggle for survival.
It’s the story of how life harnessed disaster. It’s the story of how life poisoned the atmosphere. Then how life invented a way to turn that poison into a power source: oxygen. It’s the story of how life wrenched, wounded, and ate its environment of stone to create something radically unnatural-nature.
And it’s the story of a battle for flamboyance, excess and splendor. It’s the story of a race for invention. A battle for self-upgrade. It’s the story of audacity. It’s the tale of how disrespectful macromolecules milked manna from Armageddon on this toxic ball of stone.
It’s the tale of how an upstart macromolecular team upped the GAL, the gross amount of life, the gross amount of living matter, on this planet. Not to mention the GAS. The gross amount of spirit. The gross amount of sentience. The gross amount of soul.
Presentation by Howard Bloom.
Howard Bloom is a visionary thinker known for synthesizing science, philosophy, and culture— his latest book “The Case of the Sexual Cosmos” explores the intersection of biology, cosmology, desire, and the fundamental forces of creation. Bloom’s work reframes sexuality not as a mere biological function, but as a lens through which we can perceive evolution, cooperation, innovation, and existence itself in a radically new way.
Bloom says that a scientifically more accurate perception of life and the Cosmos can provide us with healthier and more prosperous lives in balance with the natural world. A natural world that prizes being out of balance.
Since science is the constant pursuit of truth, and since new discoveries and innovations are continually being made, how can a radical new perception bring us closer to our ultimate potential?
The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong is a book about why two of science’s most cherished assumptions are wrong and what sex has to do with it. Not to mention, what sex tells us about the universe. And about your role in it. And mine.
The Case of the Sexual Cosmos is the story of greening a planet of disaster and strife.
The Case of the Sexual Cosmos is a tale of transformation. It’s the tale of the uplift of a toxic planet, a poison pill of stone. It’s the saga of how the first teaspoon of life and its children overcame 142 mass extinctions. It’s the story of the savagery of non-stop climate change. But it’s the story of more than a mere struggle for survival.
It’s a story of how the cosmos prizes materialism, consumerism, waste and vain display. It’s the story of how life harnessed disaster. It’s the story of how life poisoned the atmosphere. Then how life invented a way to turn that poison into a power source: oxygen. It’s the story of how life wrenched, wounded, and ate its environment of stone to create something radically unnatural–nature.
And it’s the story of a battle for extravagance, excess and splendor. It’s the story of a race for innovation. A battle for self-upgrade. A story of how nature and the universe within which nature lives radically reinvent themselves.
It’s a story of obstreperousness. It’s the tale of how disrespectful macromolecules milked manna from Armageddon on this toxic ball of stone.
The Case of the Sexual Cosmos is the tale of how an upstart macromolecular team upped the GAL, the gross amount of life, the gross amount of living matter, on this planet. Not to mention the GAS. The gross amount of spirit. The gross amount of sentience. The gross amount of soul.
Presentation by Howard Bloom.
Channel 4 TV in the UK calls Howard Bloom the Einstein, Newton, Darwin and Freud of the 21st Century. And Gear Magazine calls him “the philosopher at the end of the universe.” Bloom is a visionary thinker known for synthesizing science, philosophy, and culture. His latest book “The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature Is Wrong” presents a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of biology, cosmology, desire, and the fundamental forces of creation. Bloom’s work reframes sexuality not as a mere biological function, but as the clue to a cosmic principle, the clue to the cosmos’ flamboyance. Sex reveals the ultimate urge of nature: to produce supersized surprises. To generate material miracles. So that the very cosmos can reinvent herself.
The cosmic focus on revolutionary invention reshapes the way we see evolution, cooperation, innovation, and existence itself.’
Howard Bloom has been called “the next Stephen Hawking” by Gear Magazine. He is the author of eight books, including The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and the new Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me: A Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense threw a symposium on Bloom’s second book, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, and brought in representatives from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT.
The eleventh president of India, Dr. A.P.J. Kalam called Bloom’s third book, The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism, “a visionary creation.” And the Sheikh who runs Dubai named a racehorse—the Beast–after that same book.
Bloom has published or lectured at scholarly conferences in twelve different fields, from quantum physics and cosmology to neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, information science, governance, and aerospace.
His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Knight Financial News Service, Cosmopolitan, The Village Voice, and the blog sites of Psychology Today and The Scientific American. In a full-page article in Business Insider, SpaceX’s Elon Musk praised one of Bloom space projects, the Two Billion Dollar Moon Prize.
The Two Billion Dollar Moon Prize was also covered in Time, Newsweek, CBS, NBC, Fox News, and Politico. And Jeff Bezos tweeted a Bloom blog from the Scientific American calling for the establishment of a permanent transport infrastructure in space.
Transformed
Now it’s easier to make more informed decisions

Sarah Savory, systems thinker, regenerative land steward, and daughter of Allan Savory, offers a unique window into the emotional, ecological, and decision-making dimensions of holistic management. Her work bridges personal transformation, community-based land healing, and practical reframing of how we make decisions in complex systems—especially under stress and uncertainty.
Everything is connected. All of life is interconnected and interdependent. Despite this time-tested wisdom, many of us wondered, why do we keep falling down the same trap door? What is it about our decision-making process that keeps us on the same trajectory we’ve always gone?
What it the answers to our questions have been in how we’ve been hardwired?
The conversation between Sarah Savory and Mobilized’s Steven Jay brings us to the realization that the answer we’ve been seeking is in how we make our decisions—and a way to course correct.
Sarah Savory, In her own words.
I am the single mother of Luke (14) and Mika (11) and I am the youngest daughter of Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory. I was born, brought up and live in Zimbabwe…like my father, I grew up passionate about wildlife and I have dedicated my life to making a difference…as a result, the discoveries you will make in this book were born of a deep passion and love of the wildlife and the people of Africa. But this is for all wildlife and all people.
My goal is to share these critical new insights to inspire and empower people and show how we can all work together towards a better world.
The discoveries Allan made were born of a deep passion and love of the wildlife and the people of Africa. But this is for all wildlife and all people. Everywhere.
I teach these discoveries and wrote the workbook because I want to share knowledge and understanding of these incredibly exciting new management and ecological insights – these show how each of us can make decisions in a way that will have a consistently positive impact on the world around us.
The first thing we have to understand is when and why our decisions began negatively impacting the health of our planet and how we can make a simple adjustment to ensure our decisions always reflect the incredible connections that make up our amazing world.