It’s time for a new story
During the weekend of May 3-4, 2025, ethical leadership from the worlds of whole systems design, smarter cities and communities, community owned, produced and distributed food and energy systems, the arts and sciences are uniting to inspire a new and empowered story for us.
We’re recording these conversations with plans of editing them into the worlds first interconnected solutions media platform and documentary series dedicated to systems change at the community level.
VISION:
Transform a typical media conference into a highly productive action network featuring the co-creation of a film or documentary, “Transformed” with an infoStructure/ecosystem in place to enable momentum after the experience is over.
Our May 3-4 media experience will be edited and transformed into Daily Do-its and A feature Documentary
“Transformed: What Change Looks Like.” will be a powerful, solutions-driven evolutionary documentary that first examines how we got here and then lays out a compelling vision for systemic transformation. The project features a dynamic ecosystem to encourage and enable momentum:
This documentary would mix investigative journalism with inspiring solutions, bringing together experts, frontline activists, and everyday changemakers.
“Transformed: What Change Looks Like”
Media creates action: A documentary exploring the roots of global crises and the roadmap for a new, sustainable future.
INTERCONNECTED, INTERDEPENDENT, DOCUMENTARY VISION
Introduction: The Urgency of Now
Opening montage: stark visuals of climate disasters, political chaos, economic disparity, and community resilience.
Voiceover: “How did we get here? And more importantly—how do we transform?”
Preview of key voices: scientists, activists, indigenous leaders, economists, and system designers.
- The Breakdown: Understanding the Crisis
- The Roots of Systemic Collapse
- Industrialization and the exploitation of nature.
- Rise of profit-driven economies and corporate influence over democracy.
- Colonialism and global inequities.
- Climate & Ecological Breakdown
- A look at global warming, deforestation, ocean acidification, and biodiversity loss.
- The role of fossil fuels, factory farming, and overconsumption.
- Political and Social Dysfunction
- The failure of leadership: corruption, polarization, and short-termism.
- Media manipulation and the erosion of truth.
- The impact of technology—misinformation, surveillance, and social fragmentation.
The Human Toll
- Mental health crisis, inequality, displacement, and community breakdown.
The Turning Point: Cracks in the Old System
- Movements and moments of resistance: Indigenous land defenders, climate strikes, regenerative farming, alternative governance models.
- The pandemic and its revelations: mutual aid networks, work-from-home shifts, rethinking capitalism.
- The rise of decentralized innovation: blockchain, worker cooperatives, and participatory budgeting.
The Path Forward: A Timeline for Transformation
- Reimagining Governance & Leadership through Participatory Democracy at the community level and on up
- Participatory democracy, community-led decision-making, and leadership accountability.
- Stories on the smarter city movements
- tories on improved, locally owned public services, interconnected and interdependent, working together for the health of the whole.
- AI & tech for public good, not profit.
- Regenerating Earth
- Restorative agriculture and rewilding projects.
- Renewable energy and the transition away from fossil fuels.
- Interconnected, interdependent community owned, produced and distributed systems.
- Circular economy and zero-waste innovation.
- Economic Redesign: From Profit to Well-Being
- Localized economies, universal basic income, and new currency models.
Cooperatives, ethical investing, and post-growth strategies.
The Cultural Shift
- Education reform, intergenerational wisdom, and media responsibility.
- A return to holistic health and human connection.
The Timeline: What Can We Achieve?
- A visual roadmap of achievable milestones from 2025 to 2050.
Conclusion: The Power of Transformation
- Voices of hope and action.
- Call to the audience: What role will you play?
This documentary would mix investigative journalism with inspiring solutions, bringing together experts, frontline activists, and everyday changemakers.
