Grokking the Elephant: A Fable for Fragmented Times
Part I: The Arrival The ship landed without ceremony on a Tuesday afternoon. Dr. Marcus Hayes, director of the Caribbean Sustainability Coalition, had expected something more dramatic for humanity’s first […]
America’s Hidden Bottlenecks: What Irish Potatoes Can Teach Us About Our Food System
The Irish Potato Famine offers powerful insights for today’s regenerative agriculture movement – but not in the way most people think. While land access was central to Ireland’s tragedy, America’s […]
Finding Flow: How Water Wisdom Inspired a Food System Revolution
When I found myself living as an expat in Ensenada, Mexico after selling my businesses and medically retiring from entrepreneurship, I was still nursing the wounds of defeat. Years of […]
Beyond ESG: Why Bioregional Thinking Is the Future of Business Resilience
When Centralized Control Fails The regional manager stared at his screen in disbelief. Three trucks down in Colorado. Five more awaiting parts in Arizona. And now, their distribution center’s lease […]
Growing What Could Be: Reimagining Trust Through Living Systems
By: Shannon J. Dobbs Beneath the forest floor, invisible to the casual observer, lies the true architect of ecosystem health: vast networks of mycelium connecting trees, cycling nutrients, and enabling […]
The Great Convergence: Sparking Regenerative Action in Unprecedented Times
In the quiet spaces between Regen World presentations, a revolutionary idea has been taking shape – not in manifestos or white papers, but in hushed conversations over coffee, in animated […]
The Implementation Crisis: A Tale of Innovation, Institutional Inertia, and the Future of Food System Transformation
In 2018, in the glittering heart of Las Vegas, an unlikely revolution in food waste began. MGM Grand Resorts, one of the Strip’s largest resort operators, faced a persistent challenge: […]
Implementation Guide: Chicken Coop Catalyst Project
Developing Grassroots Urban Food Production Capacity in a Broken System This guide provides a detailed walkthrough for implementing the first Ground Game project – a chicken coop (or several in […]
Blockchain Beyond Banking:
A New Coordination Infrastructure for Direct Action When most people hear “blockchain,” they think cryptocurrency, NFTs, or speculative investments. But what if the most powerful application of this technology isn’t […]
Beyond Financial Instruments: Blockchain as Communication Infrastructure for Direct Action
1. Introduction: The Coordination Problem The community hall buzzes with tension. Residents from across the watershed have gathered—farmers whose fields are increasingly parched, townspeople facing water restrictions, conservation advocates concerned […]
