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Design for the Climate Crisis: A 4-Step Framework
by The TransformSeries
By Raz Godelnik Let’s face it. We have a design problem when it comes to addressing the climate crisis. We have good ideas (Project Drawdown), but we fail quite miserably when it comes to actually implement them. It is time to consider a different design approach that is implementation-oriented and is serious about context andContinue ...Take a stand.
by Kevin Jones
That's the theme of the Transform/Neighborhood Economics conference next Spring in the Twin Cities. Continue ...Designing a Biocultural Diversity Fund
by Kevin Jones
If I were designing a fund to create wealth and culturally relevant assets in indigenous cultures while also making money and paying investors, it might look like this. Or at least, this is the first look.Continue ...Ejido Verde may have cracked the code on how to pay for the trees we need for climate change.
by Kevin Jones
The best thing we can do for climate change is plant and maintain millions and millions of trees. But finding the patient capital, slow money that can wait until harvest to get paid for investing in those trees is hard to find. Even people who call themselves impact investors most often want their money backContinue ...Bypassing Banks & Disrupting Mortgages with Somali Immigrants
by Kevin Jones
I was recently chatting with some Episcopal clergy and theologian friends of mine and my wife’s colleagues. The following is how I described our idea to solve housing shortages for Somalian immigrants. An imam who’s built mosques or islamic centers in 30 cities is going to get 200 people to collectively buy two houses, startingContinue ...