My work focuses on helping communities and community organizations function more effectively. I work to make social infrastructure visible, understandable, and usable again by bridging the gap between systems and the people they serve. Top-down systems are no longer enough. I help build bottom-up solutions.

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Thomas Malthus is remembered as the man who believed there were simply too many people. That’s the shorthand version anyway. I think his actual idea was more impactful than that. Writing in 1798, Malthus observed that populations have a tendency to grow faster than the resources available to sustain them. Left entirely to themselves, he

Socialism and Resourceism share an urgent moral foundation: both reject the cruelty of an economy that allows wealth to accumulate in private hands while millions struggle for food, housing, healthcare, and dignity. Both recognize that capitalism routinely turns human need into a business opportunity and treats structural inequality as the natural price of freedom. In this critique, they stand on common ground. But they are not the same. Resourceism goes further—and that is why it offers a better path forward.

What is a resource based economy, what is resourceism, what is the venus project, what is a shared economy, Zeitgeist Movement, tzm, P2P Foundation

What is a resource based economy, what is resourceism, what is the venus project, what is a shared economy, Zeitgeist Movement, tzm, P2P Foundation

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For years, I’ve thought of myself as someone who serves the poor. But I’m beginning to wonder if that’s not one layer off. Perhaps my vocation is more accurately described as bearing witness to love. Serving the poor is the primary way I’ve been called to bear that witness. Building better systems is another. Writing

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I write about rebuilding systems that shape human development, agriculture, food, education, and the conditions that enable growth. I draw on lived experience inside real systems, focusing on how structure and culture shape what people can become.

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