Geoversiv Notebook entries are short notes, observations, and meditations. In as few words as possible, they examine facets of the complicated landscape of challenge, crisis, innovation, and disruption, that surrounds us as we move into the second quarter of the 21st century.

A future of liberated humanity

The future of energy systems is ultra-lightweight materials and devices. The future of resource management is coordinated, multilevel, minimalist, and circular. The future of political decision-making is decentralized, rooted, within a structure that ensures the human rights of everyone. Sustainable enterprise, accountable governance, open information, and humanizing finance, are all possible. Where we learn otherwise,…

Cooperation is success

An under-considered approach to radical individualism creates the impression that doing anything—large or small—without assistance is a kind of victory. There are cases where such stories merit real attention and celebration, where a single person refuses to give up and their persistence rallies the world around them to meaningful change. At the political level, however,…

Steering through perilous times

The challenges of the 21st century are characterized by five complicating characteristics: It very well may be that the optimal route to real solutions will run through the decentralization of technical knowledge, innovation capacity, and decision authority.