Cul­ti­vate cir­cu­lar­i­ty in farm­ing, man­u­fac­tur­ing, and mobil­i­ty. Lever­age the ben­e­fits of closed sys­tems wher­ev­er pos­si­ble. Embrace the inputs from open sys­tems. Self-reg­u­late for bal­ance, vital­i­ty, and sustainability.

“Fly­ing moth­er nature’s sil­ver seed to a new home in the sun” — Neil Young, “After the Gold Rush”, 1970

How can we turn waste into new resources for cre­ative use? How can our val­ue chains and end prod­ucts be so cir­cu­lar they don’t even leave a foot­print? While plas­tic takes over more and more of our plan­et and we con­front greater and greater exam­ples of man­made pol­lu­tion and cli­mate change, we feel that the only viable choice for the future of our species is to see our way out the vicious cycle of extrac­tion and exploitation.

The idea of mate­ri­als that leave no mark fol­lows the old backpacker’s adage of “take only pho­tos and leave only foot­prints”. In 2019, we remain curi­ous how the next wave of mate­r­i­al inno­va­tion will devel­op. Car­bon cap­ture is part of the solu­tion toward envi­ron­men­tal replen­ish­ment, but a great deal more solu­tion find­ing enter­pris­es will have to be employed to tack­le these press­ing, large-scale concerns.

The mess we’re in as a species comes from flawed think­ing, flawed the­o­ries, and flawed sys­tems that pit peo­ple against one anoth­er. For a pos­i­tive response to this prob­lem, we envi­sion com­mu­ni­ties being built upon tal­ents dis­trib­uted through­out cit­i­zens of every com­mon­wealth. We believe a cir­cu­lar soci­ety will emerge through mod­els for par­tic­i­pa­tive demo­c­ra­t­ic self-rep­re­sen­ta­tion across all lay­ers of soci­etal living.

To replen­ish the Earth, we must first depart from an indus­tri­al par­a­digm of extrac­tion. Ceas­ing the con­ven­tion­al extrac­tion of fos­sil fuels for ener­gy gen­er­a­tion will require greater atten­tion to restora­tive process­es. Invest­ing greater research into indus­tri­al restora­tion efforts will also move soci­ety clos­er to the nec­es­sary goal of achiev­ing net zero emissions.

Along less con­ven­tion­al lines, we find the con­cept of fifth-dimen­sion­al travel—warping space and time to move effort­less­ly across vast distances—to be a com­pelling dream for achiev­ing pure, sus­tain­able mobil­i­ty. In any case, we believe that devel­op­ing abil­i­ties of mind over mat­ter will play a cru­cial role for inno­vat­ing the path­ways of our col­lec­tive human journey.