Much of the time we at Axiom News feel like exiles in the wilderness for the alternative news ecology we’re trying to create here.

It was the kind of deeply heartwarming, unanticipated outcome we love to hear about at Axiom News.

My children and I are reading a book my father wrote about his experiences in several Central American countries. The sense of mission, values and adventure that drove him shines through, stirring our anxieties and longings. I am convinced we will be thinking and acting differently in the days and years to come as a result.

People everywhere are hungry for innovations that hold the promise of unlocking a brighter future for our world. We want innovations that allow for the fuller expression of ourselves as whole persons. We want more humanity.

A study this fall shows distrust of mainstream media has hit a new high, with 60 per cent of the public saying they have little or no trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.

I had the pleasure of speaking recently with Meghan Keener, Discovery Channel co-ordinating producer, on the findings of a dissertation she’s just completed on positive media for a University of Pennsylvania masters in applied positive psychology.

I just read Michael Lewis’ latest book Boomerang, where he so brilliantly recounts some of the most outrageous apparently true stories of businesses and economic systems gone terribly wrong before the global financial crash.

If Ian Bremmer’s analysis in his recent book Every Nation for Itself is correct, that we are entering a several-year period of zero global political leadership — creating a vacuum ripe for catastrophe — then there may be no better time to be honing in on another story we at Axiom News and others see happening — a worldwide economic and social transition of a different kind.

KINGSTON, Ont. - A recent day with Margaret (Meg) Wheatley was like a mental and emotional spa betwixt the sessions of my life that so often feel like what I imagine white-water rafting to be — rapid paddling over surging waters.

Considering the financial blight Ontario is apparently facing, we’re going to need a lot more creativity and innovation in the days ahead.

In spending a few days with our new friends from Belgium interested to create their own generative journalism agency I had a few of those moments that are hard to describe; flash-forwards, you might call them, when you feel the future bursting ahead, wide, wide open with possibilities.

The Cincinnati CoreChange summit is done, but the work, of course, is only begun.