For us, it felt not just about making another community, another program, or another “thing”. For it is not lack of tools, resources, information, apps, net zero, net negative, net "something or other.” We have all the things we need to enact change.

But we felt we needed an entirely new way of placing ourselves in Earth’s history, a way of going through life, an entirely new way of operating.

Annoyed with yet dependent upon technology. More connected yet disconnected then ever. Knowing so much yet enacting so little.

When we view our lives through the lens of the Anthropocene both our plight and our opportunity becomes quite clear. This is not the time any of us wished to come into the world, a burden we did not chose to inherit, merely the time we were given.

We can continue to question and argue whether we are being too optimistic, too pessimistic, or whether the end of human civilization will come next year or in 10,000 years. We can continue to blame this group, that group, this oil company, that thing.

Or, we can simply recognize the only thing we know to be certain: we are here, now.

When we are able to place ourselves in the geological timeline of Earth, recognize that the only thing we do in fact have is the here and now, the opportunity becomes to take shape.

Everything we do, make, create, and work on needs to be viewed in the lens of ‘made in the Anthropocene’. Will this help or hurt our geological time?

Once we recognize we are all made in the Anthropocene, everything living breathing thing, even nonliving things, only then do we start to understand the role our work and livelihoods can play.

Is what I am doing helping us collectively make it in Anthropocene, or is it hindering us? Is it having known or unknown consequences on others, on our co-habitants?