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Future Mending Radio
There are better ways of doing things, but they don't get the publicity they deserve. Future Mending Radio profiles the people and organizations that are already building a better future. Clothing swaps, pay-it-forward restaurants, experimental theatre, tech coops, repair cafes, DIY bike hubs, sustainable chocolate shops and more.
In short, relaxing episodes, we'll seek out alternatives and explore them together.
Future Mending Radio
The Four Factors for Organizations
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When I pick an organization for the podcast or the map at Futuremending.com, I’m not just picking businesses out of a hat – I have a system for evaluating orgs which I call the Four Factors for Organizations. The Four Factors are Multi-solving, Sharing, Sufficiency and Transparency.
This episode is in two parts. The opening minutes are a bit of an emotional check-in to see how people are processing the unprecedented political turmoil in the United States. The second part of the podcast discusses the Four Factors for Organizations and why seeking out certain vectors of change makes more sense than trying to lay out a detailed plan for a better future.
Read about the Four Factors: https://www.futuremending.com/what
Matt’s Blue Sky account: https://bsky.app/profile/mattliepaehlke.bsky.social
Wired Magazine coverage of the crisis in the U.S. : https://www.wired.com/tag/elon-musk/
Rebecca Solnit’s newsletter: https://meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-meditations-in-an-emergency/
Google's AI Policy: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/05/google-owner-drops-promise-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons
Future Mending Map: https://www.futuremending.com/toronto
Music Credits:
'Epilogue' by The Slow Motions. Used with permission of the artist.
‘Fashion’ by Alex Productions. Creative Commons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV1miCgT7J4
‘Miss you’ by Middle Child. Creative Commons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dayIKHEIYqY
‘Opening’ by Phillip Glass. Arr. by Karl Michelson. Performed by The Union Guitar Trio. Used with permission of the artists.
Union Guitar Trio on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/2E0NidLjIzBAO7t0BBPFUD
Union Guitar Trio on Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-union-guitar-trio/1592543833
Sound Effects:
BBC News November 9th, 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjNz1lvXgzU
wood hit low glass bowl 3.mp3 by ascap -- https://freesound.org/s/242388/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
Brightness by sonically_sound -- https://freesound.org/s/632762/ -- License: Creative Commons 0