This Network Unites.
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There’s a whole new world out there ready for you to create.
During the weekend of May 3-4, leaders from the arts and sciences are coming together to share their wisdom into action. We’re going to discuss how communities are restoring health and prosperity through holistic system design, the advent of the smarter cities movements, localization, decentralization and most importantly, how to create the future where you are now.
Here’s the schedule of events as of April 18, 2025
PLEASE NOTE: Schedule is subject to change. All times are Eastern Time (USA/Canada.) Please make adjustments for your time zone.
- Due to various available of some of our international our presenters, we are recording a few in advance of the scheduled time below.
- We have developed a solutions-focused network that works as a holistic ecosystem of systems working for the health of the planet. The launch of the new platform follows on May 5th at 12:00 Noon.
Saturday, May 3, 2025
10:00 The Stellar World: Our Future is in our Hands:
Rethink X has spent over a decade diving into the biggest questions shaping our world today. If you’ve ever wondered why everything feels so chaotic right now, or what comes next for humanity, the new book titled “Stellar” is for you.
Stellar is a guide to understanding the biggest transformation in history, and how we can all be part of it. It’s about the end of the old system, the rise of something new, and the incredible possibilities ahead.
If you’re curious about the profound changes unfolding right now and how they’ll reshape our world, Stellar breaks it all down — what’s happening, why it matters, and how we can shape what comes next.
Presentation by James Arbib, RethinkX
11:00 Building a Trauma-Restoring Media System
Politics, business, finance and world news – legacy media tends to pigeonhole the crises erupting all around us in familiar categories. But what if the chaos is a reflection of the unresolved intergenerational and collective trauma lying latent in the collective psyche? And what if the default way that media organisations cover the news is only serving to reinforce this trauma – rather than helping to address it?
Join Matthew Green, a former international correspondent for Reuters and the Financial Times, for a lively exploration of what it would take to build a trauma-restoring media system capable of supporting collective healing. Now training as a trauma integration facilitator with Thomas Hübl and team, Matthew is dedicated to supporting the evolution of his industry into a force capable of illuminating the deepest psychological origins of our global crisis – and fulfilling its potential to support the emergence of a thriving future.
Matthew Green is global investigations editor at nonprofit climate news service DeSmog. A former climate correspondent at Reuters, he is also the creator of Resonant World, a newsletter and podcast supporting the global trauma healing movement
12:00 Understanding the Opportunities for Smarter Cities and Communities:
What is a Smart–or Smarter City? How does it work? What are its benefits? How can a city become a “smarter city” and not be controlled by big tech, but instead, maintain quality control for the people who live, work and play there?
Corey Gray, Smart Cities Council, and Fanni Melles, What’s the Future for Cities Podcast
1:00 pm Enabling Community-owned Energy Systems/Grids:
How can communities safeguard their energy grids? How can they take control over the new and improved energy systems without giving in to the dominating energy structures? And much, much more.
AJ Perkins, Hawaii Pacific Alliance for Worldwide Advancement (HI PAWA) and Fanni Melles, What’s the Future for Smart Cities
13:00 Ecological Design and Systems-Thinking.
The death of “sustainability” and the rise of “Regenerative”. Promoting ethical models for agriculture, design, and economics.
Learn about Systems-Thinking, Ecological Design, Permaculture Design, Regenerative Agriculture, Ecological Restoration, Self-Reliance, Relocalization, Decentralization, and Local Economic Design.
Presentation by Alan Enzo, Permaculture Education
On Demand: American Democracy and Other Fairy Tales: Featuring Thomas Linzey, Esq., Center for Democratic Environmental Rights
14:00 How to feed the world without killing the planet
Right now, our food production systems are primarily run by multinational corporations, foods filled with pesticides and antibiotics. This, combined with constant extraction and exploitation is creating a sick society. During this conversation, we will discuss how new and improved community owned, produced and distributed systems can enable a healthier coexistence without killing the planet.
16:00 Re-imagining media and the arts as a public service:
Art remains among the most preserved of all human achievements, displayed throughout the world in its museums both physical as well as virtual. From its earliest iterations, what we now call the internet was intended to bring communication and the exchange of ideas and information to an ever-growing non-location based community.
As the network continues to evolve, and splinter into several non-overlapping systems, the need for a localized approach is greater than ever.
The arts has served as a method of traversing cultural barriers and geo-political ideologies and has been the bleeding-edge of innovation in both thought as well as practice.
How can we leverage the enormous potential of the current media tools and the distribution and communication possibilities of those who have access to online experiences?
How can media benefit from the forward-thinking experimental model that art cultivates and preserves?
It is time to re-imagine both how mass pop culture and the more esoteric niche practices in the arts build bridges between seemingly different communities and belief systems.
Michael J. Masucci, EZTV Media/ EZTV Museum/ DNA Festival Santa Monica
17:00 Howard Bloom unveils his latest book, “The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong.:
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?
Sunday May 4, 2025
10:00 Connected the Dots……Reclaiming the rule of law.
How policy changes will affect trade, immigration, visitation and extradition to and from Brazil, The US, and worldwide
11:00 How to design the ecologically-sensible sustainable city:
Sustainability has become the most prevalent challenge in policy and business – the world is looking for answers, and the time is ripe for visions beyond single-issue solutions.
Results that address essential changes in how we live, work, produce, play, and prosper. To achieve this, the benefits of a multitude of solutions are combined into a single holistic and adaptive model. Orchid City is all about this new way of living.
We will discover this evolutionary concept, designed by Except.eco in The Netherlands:
Orchid City is a blueprint for a fully self-sustaining city where all social, environmental, financial, and material needs are met. It’s climate-adaptive, net-positive, and genuinely regenerative. It’s an open community, full of interaction with the rest of the world and an inspiring place that offers a new perspective to a healthy, exciting, and livable future. Best of all, it is affordable and realistic and can be built right now. While Orchid City functions fundamentally different from anywhere else, Orchid City is a place we can build and realize today.”
Presentation: Tom Bosschaert, Except.eco
12:00 Uncovering the Power of Imagination to create the future:
From her blog, physicist Chiara Marletto states: ” At birth, we set out on a journey to understand the Universe. As we orbit around the sun, we sense, feel, taste, and observe the vast collection of phenomena around us. In early childhood, this exploration is natural and immediate to us, like breathing, eating and sleeping. Along the way we gather many new tools — keys to access further levels of understanding. As new-borns, we can engage with the world to some extent, but still minimally: our senses have to develop further; our brain has to expand and generate novel connections; our language and thinking skills have yet to emerge. Then we go through several milestones, such as the first time we can smile back at our parents, the first words, the first steps, and so on. As toddlerhood sets in, we start speaking one (or more) languages. We learn to sing, play, amuse and be amused, yell, say ‘yes’ and ‘no’. We learn about how to tell that an object is larger than another; how to balance when we trip on an obstacle; how to stand back up after a fall, and go back to walking. At some later point, we learn about drawing and art, numbers and shapes.
It is remarkable that, especially in early childhood, we traverse this vast and far-reaching learning playfully. We seek delight by expanding the mind to appreciate more and more of the world. This process of intellectual growth is not without its problems: mistakes do occur along the way, but instead of being discouraged or ashamed by them, we quickly learn from them and move forward towards new concepts, new ideas, and new shores.”
Chiara Marletto, Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
13:00 pm Building Infrastructure for Planetary Regeneration: Stuart Cowan, Buckminster Fuller Institute
ON DEMAND: 14:00 pm Prevention is the Best Medicine:
Leading preventative cardiologist Dr. Michael Ozner has committed his life to eradicating heart disease. As the author of “The Miami Mediterranean Diet” and “Heart Attacks are Not Worth Dying For,” he has planted his feet firmly in the ground of prevention. In addition, he’s aware of how new improvements in the fields (including shifts in lifestyle as well as in methods of early detection of disease) can prevent the leading killer of people worldwide, Cardiovascular disease.
In this fascinating conversation, we will experience the good news and updates from a man whose not only on a mission to eradicate heart disease, but who is leading the way.
