Field Notes

Look right. Each month, we publish a free essay exploring the ideas at the heart of this work. These pieces are written for anyone curious about what it means to design futures that are actually worth living in.

Portfolio

Look below. A selection of engagements across sectors — from community solar and Indigenous partnership development to Fortune 500 sustainability strategy. Each project is different. The through line is the same: rigorous thinking in service of outcomes that actually matter.

Coastal landscape

Field Notes  ·  March 2026

What the Place Remembers

On landscape literacy, and what we lose when we stop listening.

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Research Partnerships, Community Development, Stakeholder Engagement, Governance Innovation, Participatory Design, Systems Transformation Hehewutei Amakali Research Partnerships, Community Development, Stakeholder Engagement, Governance Innovation, Participatory Design, Systems Transformation Hehewutei Amakali

COMING SOON: Re-creating Extractive Resource Development with Decentralized Social Funds

Hosting innovative research on multi-stakeholder governance in resource development. Exploring how extractive industries & communities co-create regenerative futures.

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Community Development, Environmental Restoration, Traditional Knowledge System, ITEK, Regenerative Design, International Development, Environmental Peacemaking Hehewutei Amakali Community Development, Environmental Restoration, Traditional Knowledge System, ITEK, Regenerative Design, International Development, Environmental Peacemaking Hehewutei Amakali

From Polluted Waters to Prosperous Communities

Our team needed to restore a decadal tragedy that had left one portion of a mangrove and several villages without a sustainable chance at the future. In order to avert a compounding crisis, our team leverage a community-led research and design to deliver a restorative justice proposal capable of restoring thousands of acres and hundreds of peoples’ livelihoods.

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