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Sharing My Bubble: Tuning into the Global Field of Systemic Change

When Kevin Jones asked me to “unload” what I am noticing in the field of systemic transformation to a radically better world, I realized that doing it for a broad audience will be quite a challenge. With so much information that is never complete and always changing, it is hard to settle with a particular overview, but let me try. Approach My …

Art & Science River Exhibition

Celebrating the Natural Assets of Our Rivers and the Collective Work of Scientists, Stakeholders, and Artists The 70ft long mural illustrating the Yampa River from the Flat Tops to Dinosaur National Monument was the center of the Exhibition. An opportunity for visitors to see, touch and feel it, before its installation on a wall downtown, guarding the River from up …

The Rise and Rise of McEmpathy

I own a book on Victorian inventions that I enjoy flipping through. Its pages bring to mind an era of optimism driven by the thrill of technological advancement – the feeling that all a capable person needed was an idea and the will to succeed. In fact, many of the ideas invented during that era still remain an integral part …

Re-Generation Festival

Re-Generation festivals are celebrations like no other, they leave the land and people healthier and more abundant than before! The first Re-Generation Festival took place in La Junquera, Spain in Septembre 2018. This event was the ignition of a global movement of regeneration, working together to renew our soils, spirits, and societies. Here is an overview of the celebration in Action: Be …

Future Earth

Future Earth is a 10-year international program launched in 2012 at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio in response to urgent calls for international collaborative research to find solutions to challenges posed by newly identified global environmental changes, and to identify opportunities for a transition to global sustainability. Future Earth is co-designed and co-produced by academics, governments, business and civil society ...

When in Rome, Follow Nokero’s Lead !

Last month Nokero won the Laudato SI' Challenge Startup launched by Pope Francis calling humanity to work together in order to address climate change and involuntary migration. Steve Katasaros, founder of Nokero, will spend the summer in Rome with 12 other entrepreneurs of innovative and sustainable mid-stage startups from various countries who will receive mentorship and equity investment to expand their ...

Super-Positive About The Future

A non-profit organization, human center, approach to solving poverty with profit presented by iDE Global's CEO, Tim Prewitt: Thinking about markets for the poor — using game theory Solving poverty is no game, but serious business. However, there’s a benefit to thinking about market systems in the terms of games like poker. Poker, for example, is what economists would consider a “zero-sum ...

Self Reflected – A Scientific and Artistic Look Inside Your Brain

An unprecedented insight into the brain and itself … the neural choreographies of Self Reflected are designed to mirror the functioning of the viewer’s own mind: Inspired by the cutting edge of neuroscience and engineering to expand our understanding of the natural world, Dr. Greg Dunn, neuroscientist and artist, and Dr. Brian Edwards, physicist and artist create Self Reflected images. The images …

Tompkins Conservation: A Pure Legacy

Kris and Doug Tompkins’ love for the outdoors brought them to the corporate world but their business successes and continued passion for adventure brought them full circle back to nature. We, our children, and future generations are fortunate to have such exceptional philanthropists and activists who chose to step off the corporate ladder to focus on the preservation of the …