Nate Hagens

Greetings.

One of the biggest questions we continue to get from listeners of The Great Simplification is, but what can I do?

Our team and I could draw up dozens of our own ideas, but in our experience, the richest and most creative and impactful responses come from those on the ground doing the actual work.

In other words, that's you, our global listeners and viewers of this channel.

As humanity continues through these transformational few months with the Iran situation, highlighting concrete actions and responses feels pretty important.

As such, consider this video a casting call of sorts, revisiting a special project from last year featuring our audience members.

We plan to share stories of folks on the ground who have changed their lives in meaningful ways in response to

the unfolding more than human predicament.

The theme of this iteration is technology.

Stories from the viewers that reflect technological innovation, including, but not limited to, Goldilocks technology, social innovation, or even inner tech stacks as responses to the challenges that lie ahead.

The definition of technology is pretty loose here, and it can be focused on work you're doing as an individual all the way up to the global level.

You could be working on issues like ecological restoration, or community building via crypto app, or housing reform, or protecting an individual species.

You could have changed your profession to meet the issue head on or maybe started a meditation practice to regulate your nervous system, despite all that's occurring.

If you want further inspiration, I'd recommend viewing A Framework for Action, which is a frankly we released in March of this year that outlines

a broad skeleton of how we're framing such responses.

The goal of this campaign is to celebrate the creativity and impact you've had while working on the issues that are most meaningful to you, and to share those ideas across bioregions in our world to inspire others.

We are asking you for three things in the submission.

You will send in a short video no more than two minutes long, a written description of 500 words or less detailing your work, and up to five photos of the work you're doing, if applicable.

Homework from Nate.

This initial video will only be for our internal purposes and will not be aired publicly.