Work & Writing
Ideas, frameworks, and practices for navigating a world in transition
My work explores how communities can navigate ecological disruption, political fragmentation, and institutional uncertainty by strengthening their capacity for relationship, discernment, and shared stewardship. Across essays, research, teaching, and public talks, I focus on the intersections of food systems, epistemic fracture, regenerative paradigms, and post-partisan practice.
This page gathers my key writing and offerings, both foundational and emerging. It is the best entry point into the ideas shaping my current work and the broader ecosystem that includes Food For Us and my forthcoming book, Feeding the Future.
Post-Partisan Pathways Substack
A living inquiry into working across difference during systems transition
My Substack, Post-Partisan Pathways, is where I publish essays on:
navigating shared reality amid institutional distrust
regenerative and relational paradigms
epistemic fragmentation and meaning-making
food systems as a lens for civilizational transition
building capacity for collaboration across worldview difference
leadership in an era of contraction and complexity
It serves as the evolving public home of my framework for post-partisan practice.
On Post-Partisan Practice and Shared Reality
Essays published at Resilience.org
Selected Essays & Publications
Post-Partisan Pathways: Why Food and Place Matter for Democracy
When Resilience is Kinship: The Ecology of Post-Partisan Change
Navigating Collapse Together: Toward Regenerative Public Life
On Food Systems, Regeneration, and the Metacrisis
Food as Compass: Life-centered orientation through collapse
Beyond Partisan Battles: Food, Health, and the Practice of Living Together
Food as a Mirror of the Metacrisis (and what it reveals about how we might respond)
The Frameworks Behind the Work
Much of my writing flows from a larger body of work that includes:
The Post-Partisan Pathways Framework
A multi-dimensional approach to relational capacity, discernment, and material coordination across difference.Food For Us
A movement for food democracy grounded in regeneration, care, and shared stewardship of the material conditions of life.Regenerative Paradigms & Systems Thinking
Insights drawn from Indigenous thought, ecological sciences, complexity theory, and cooperative economics.
These frameworks are continually evolving through dialogue with practitioners, community organizers, food growers, educators, and systems thinkers.
Book: Feeding the Future: Restoring the Planet & Healing Ourselves (Georgetown University Press, January 2026)
My forthcoming book weaves together ecological literacy, cultural analysis, food system transformation, and an inquiry into meaning-making in an era of profound uncertainty. Feeding the Future offers a regenerative lens for understanding why our current systems are failing, and how communities are already building the foundations of the next world.
Learn more on the Book page.
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Speaking & Teaching
I give talks and facilitate learning experiences on:
Post-partisan practice and navigating threshold moments
Regenerative worldviews and relational paradigms
Food democracy, ecological stewardship, and community resilience
Institutional trust, epistemic fracture, and meaning-making
Ecological economics and the limits of growth
Complexity science and systems transitions