making it in the Anthropocene
A new era of doing and being:
Making it in the Anthropocene.
m.i.a. is a global movement of makers, freelancers, moms & dads, and businesses that are Making it In the Anthropocene (m.i.a.)
We create solutions, tell powerful stories, and shape a future worth living through imagination, collaboration, innovation, and sometimes...just by being.
Will you join us or will you be missing in action?
Join 200+ members from 30+ countries
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The Anthropocene (n): a unit of geologic time, used to describe the most recent period in Earth's history when human activity has started to have a significant negative impact on the planet's climate and ecosystems, moving us too rapidly from the Holocene to a period of termoil.
If we are to make it in the Anthropocene, we need an entirely new way of moving through the world. We need to redefine what it means to live, work, and make a living on a living planet. We know this can’t merely be “it” and are hellbent on charting a better path together.
Welcome those who refuse to be missing in action.
for individuals
m.i.a. Guardians
Unleash your creativity. Amplify your impact.
Our m.i.a. Guardians is a membership for individuals ready to create meaningful work in the Anthropocene - where purpose meets artistry, climate change meets imagination.
Guardians are freelancers, makers, storytellers, concerned parents, & creative thinkers channeling skills into something meaningful.
The Creative Guardian membership connects you to a vibrant community and provides you with the tools, inspiration, and work opportunities to make a real difference.
for individuals
What you can expect from
m.i.a. membership:
Guardians step into the messiness of this moment with heart, skill, and a deep commitment to making something meaningful. In a world where everything is yelling at you, “look at me, I am important!” we carve out the space for what truly matters.
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sessions for us to access presence, intuition, and flow in our creative work - balancing the challenges of climate change with doing meaningful, important work.
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prompts, mini-competitions, and proposal pitches to practice and potentially win new client work.
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The Guardian’s Circle - a private, curated community of fellow purpose-driven creatives for collaboration, support, and visibility.
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Access to the m.I.a. toolkit, templates, and resources to help you find meaningful work.
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Partner and collaborate with aligned businesses (our Wayfinders) on paid impactful projects. To date we have matched freelancers and partners with over $1,000,000 USD in project work with some of the world’s leading brands.
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live sessions with leaders in their space, ops to learn new skills, and explorations (but traditional and nontraditional) in what it means to make it in the Anthropocene.
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find a mentor through our matching process, become a mentor yourself! Wherever you feel is most needed and can even be both!
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access to the mia toolkit for understanding our core principles and how to apply in your life and work.
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can we use ai for good? well, we are hellbent on trying. access our m.ai assistant to explore topics on climate change, adaptation, livelihood, the Anthropocene, and on being and doing.
who we’ve worked with over the years
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our reach, all roads have led here.
200+ members from over 30 countries (and growing)
We have matched senior and new talent to projects with world’s leading companies such as Salesforce, Google, Greenwave, Rare.org, and Mindspark
Our aligning impact and work email course has been taken by over 150 individuals
Our community has collaborated on over $1,000,000 USD in project work the last 5 years
Our community has launched their own projects in storytelling, design, climate mitigation, climate adaptation & more
from our community
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"I'm excited to connect with people about their careers in climate and exploring all the avenues I could take"
Veronica S
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"I'm excited to see the workforce transition and create our own roles that will push systemic boundaries. Because we really have no other choice."
Adlai S
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"As someone who is well into both EU, UK, and US anti-greenwashing, I'm keep to connect and be of help whilst learning from you as well"
Tanja G
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"It's great to see this community coming together online.
Andrew B.
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“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business.”
Sefiya S.
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"As an entrepreneurial couple working together to build a better future for changemakers, we are looking forward to supporting each other's businesses."
Rob & Aitzi
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"I'm excited to be here and surrounded by others that share my values!"
Christopher L
Not just “another freelancer community”.
This isn’t just about nurturing an idea or planting seeds. Some days you need to learn and develop entirely new skills - especially in the rapidly changing world of climate change in order to adapt to life in the Anthropocene. Other days, you just need to be, recoup, lean on the support & guidance of others.
What if there was a space that allowed you to do both?
For over 7 years, we’ve run a community of business owners, students, designers, marketers, creatives, subject matter experts, collaborating on projects with some of the world’s leading organizations.
What we’ve learned along the way, we are now applying to life in the Anthropocene.
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for businesses
m.i.a. Wayfinders
Our business Wayfinders are organizations that lead with purpose and transform with creativity, to be best suited to make it in the Anthropocene.
Our m.i.a. Wayfinders membership for businesses provides the tools, community, and talent to succeed in this new era of work and impact.
What businesses can expect in their Wayfinder membership:
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Self Paced Learning
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businesses we’ve supported
Businesses that will make it in the Anthropocene must accept that everything they do (or even don’t do) is now made from the understanding that we have fundamentally altered our planet for the rest of time.
understanding our past & future
Explore our interactive charts below to answer questions such as, “how bad will it get?” “How bad will it be for my children?” “What does 4 degrees warming actually mean?” “How old will my children be in 2050?”
leveraging ai
m.ai - is it possible to use ai for good?
m.ai access
With m.ai we aim to answer the question, can we leverage ai for good? Can we put its skills to use to help us navigate complexity with grace and poise? We don’t know but we’re going to try.
climate + being
m.ai has been trained on leading climate science, the most credible climate reports (from IPCC, UN, and similar) and given a balance of books and knowledge on the latest understandings of living in harmony both with ourselves and with nature.
m.ai is accessible to Wayfinder or Guardian members.
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