Welcome to Navigating Our Future

 

 

Navigating Our Future is a civic intelligence and publishing platform dedicated to understanding — and responding to — the interconnected challenges shaping our time.

 

We explore how climate disruption, biodiversity loss, democratic erosion, economic systems, cultural narratives, grief, and imagination interact — and how communities can design wiser paths forward when these systems collide.

 

Rather than treating these issues in isolation, our work is organized through Wisdom Hubs — living spaces that bring together articles, Resource Guides, glossaries, and contributor voices around specific themes.

 

These hubs are built using LIFE Systems, an integrated framework for whole-systems thinking, bioregional stewardship, and regenerative community practice.

Within each Wisdom Hub, you’ll find:

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• Long-form essays and short reflections that explore the core questions

• Living Resource Guides curated across local, bioregional, and global scales

• Glossaries that support shared understanding

• Connections to people, organizations, and related hubs

 

While our perspective is global, our grounding is place-based. We focus especially on the Salish Sea Ecoregion — a transboundary, inland marine ecosystem and surrounding watershed spanning from British Columbia, Canada, to Washington State, USA. It is defined as a distinct, integrated ecological unit that encompasses the Strait of Georgia, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Puget Sound, along with their connecting channels and adjoining waterways. 

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What we learn here is meant to inform communities elsewhere — not by copying outcomes, but by sharing a repeatable, place-based framework for shared sense-making that communities can adapt to their own ecosystems.

 

Navigating Our Future is not neutral, but it is careful.We do not offer simple solutions.We invite reflection, responsibility, and participation.

 

You are welcome here as a reader, contributor, and co-steward of this work.

 

With appreciation,

 

The Navigating Our Future Team