Realigning value, redefining our future — In the 1950s, Akira Miyawaki began his studies in what would become known as the Miyawaki Method: he learned that by improving the soil of a future forest site using locally available amendments, then planting a variety of 50 to 100 local plant species in a random mix, and planting…

We hope that 2022 is off to a good start and that you are feeling refreshed for the mighty year ahead. (If you missed our 2021 end of year reflection, you can read it here.) Unfortunately, (well, fortunately for democracy), we have not come bearing gifts of a technocratic utopia…

A year-end reflection on the alpha launch of Open Impact, the growth of our community, and the necessary and possible work ahead. — Dear friends and collaborators old and new, If you have arrived here looking for existential hope, don’t worry, we’ll get there…but first, we felt called to share a snippet from Soren Kierkegaard’s 1846 essay, “The Present Age.” “A revolutionary age is an age of action; ours is the age of…