After a year of living a glorious year in beautiful Kenya (and not publishing any Medium posts), we arrived in California to an explosion of Barbie pink. Girl-powered parties poured out of mini-vans in cinema parking lots, pink pedicures and t-shirts in tow. While LA billboards boasted the box office…

The Distress Call Mayday! is an internationally recognized word to signal distress, an English corruption of the French: “m’aidez!” meaning “help me!” Today, May 1st, is May Day. Also known as Labour Day or International Worker’s Day in over 60 countries around the world. Over 100 years ago, the day was established as…

Contemplating Simple Lessons on the Economic Importance of the First Thanksgiving Over 400 years have passed since the “First Thanksgiving” in 1621, which equals just as many years of tragedy and mourning by indigenous peoples. …

A letter for my high school students Dear students, We began our economic thinking journey together by paying attention to nature, discussing purpose, considering our values, making agreements, and exploring aspects of monetary design and strategies of the social solidarity economy. We sought alignment with nature and indigenous values, agreements, and designs. As this phase of our economic exploration…

‪”The most powerful tool in economics is not money, nor even algebra. It is a pencil. Because with a pencil you can redraw the world.” — Kate Raworth Kate Raworth, creator of the Doughnut Economics model and author of Doughnut Economics, 7 Ways to the Think Like a 21st Century…

13 Salutogenic Practices for Design-Thinking and Collaboration What is Salutogenic? Salutogenesis causes Health. It is the opposite of Pathogenesis which causes Suffering. A Salutogenic Approach to design-thinking begins with the end in mind: a Purpose. When the compass is set by Purpose, and calibrated by Values and Agreements, Salutogenic Practices set the course. Salutogenic Sailing, so to speak, allows for…

The following is the first attempt to condense and distill The End of Finance, by Massimo Amato and Luca Fantacci, chapter by chapter. As innovations and actions accelerate around decentralized and regenerative finance, understanding what finance is and how, immersed in it, our thinking may have been clouded, it is…

Purpose Salutogenic Economic Design is a framework for rooting economic understanding, and therefore new economic design, in the fundamentals of human and ecosystem flourishing. This is a framework or all futurists: activists, investors, philanthropists, Web3 designers, municipal managers, and youth. We need YOU(th)!! From Extractive Economics Toward Regeneration and Resilience Economics is essentially about how money is created…

After the debatable success of the 2000 Millennium Development Goals, in 2015, all 193 United Nations member countries signed on to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to “create the future we want in 2030.” (World Bank). In 2016, Costa Rica became the first country in the world to sign an…