What projects do we have in the pipeline?

Why are we doing this?

How do we tell the story--write the next chapter--that can deepen our understanding and transform our world? Five guiding principles drive our work and influence each of these projects. Read them here

Mentoring Matters

We are building unique industry-education relationships. Read more here

As you can see, we are not called Global Solutions. That would assume we already have the answers.  Our shared future depends on expanding collaboration and recognizing that we can overcome our greatest challenges. We believe that finding solutions depends on rethinking the process by which we work together for mutual survival. It depends on forging frameworks to understand our common fate.  We believe in creative approaches that connect people, uncover our common purpose, and identify the systems and their interrelationships that give us a chance to create a world that works. That's Think Banana.

 

The Global Source Book

The Global Source Book is a production in book form and mirrored in enhanced and interactive digital forms. Making use of data, stories and a combination of visual and written elements, each user will be able to connect and interact on various levels. This is intended to become a common source of knowledge about our planet, its systems and the ways we have shaped, are shaping and can reshape our world.
 
The book is intended to be transformational by revealing information in a story-oriented, quest-driven and adventurous context, exploring:  

1) Critical connections within and between the human and natural systems and how they took form; 2) how unintentional relationships within the human system and between the human and natural systems result in unintended consequences that multiply, exponentially, across the entire spectrum of both systems;
 3) how we might view our world and our challenges through a different lens, in a new framework, as a system of systems, constantly impacting each other; and 4) the value of making decisions and choices that are informed by this more inclusive point of view.
 


Ultimately, the book will advocate a strategy of engagement to foster and coalesce a global community—a wide-ranging, global community that recognizes the need to transform relationships within and between the Human and Natural systems.

The Media Studio

Under the umbrella of an online digital channel, the studio's wide-ranging content will be devoted to news, history, science, health, culture, government, business and more that will be both U.S. specific and global in scope.  This will be informational and thematic.
 
The studio will create short digital films and animated shorts (easily shareable on the web); short, customizable ebooks and targeted print versions; annual or semi-annual periodicals; interviews with experts available in print and video form; and education-minded study guides linking to each facet of the co-evolution agenda. The intention is to build a communications powerhouse to foster a significant and engaged community that will find and share this information and knowledge—and can participate in creating additional content through the various social media outlets.

A Website for Questing

We will raise questions and pursue solutions to the world’s challenges, with a website designed to attract and engage people of all ages through formal and informal programs and conversations. Our quests will be experiential, employing specific systems thinking to consider targeted regions of the world and utilizing new framework models designed to lead, inspire and guide rather than dictate. Elevating the level of discourse and improving the tone of conversation around conflict and among people worldwide are intended results.

A Dramatic Series

This multi-part and inspiring dramatic series will make use of transformational, character-driven experiences. This will be a lens into the choices we’ve made, exploring both the intended and unintended consequences. Among the themes: the shared stories of humans, the roots of conflict between the Human and Natural systems, the conflict within the Human System and revealing what this portends for the future, the power of people to participate in creating a world that works. This series can be geared for television as well as the growing number of other distribution outlets that are providing provocative and inspiring dramatic content for audiences worldwide.

Global Symposia

The global symposia will be derived from the preceding materials and drawing on the wide range of experts and other thought leaders and participants. We intend to build the dialogue and extend the set of principles and issues that define the world of co-evolution with an annual event and an expanding library of interviews.