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UEN offices, media studios and special events campus at fort worden, in port townsend, Washington state

The world is shaking. That’s not a problem. That’s our opening.

For eighty years, the world ran on agreements most of us never had to think about. The dollar would hold. The institutions would function. The phones would connect. The supply chains would supply. The treaties would be honored. The grown-ups, somewhere, were minding the store.

Look around. The grown-ups are gone. The agreements are coming undone in real time — financial, diplomatic, ecological, communicative, civic. We can feel it at the gas pump, in the headlines, in the eyes of our neighbors, in the awkward silences at our family dinners.

Most of us read this and feel afraid. That’s the right response. But it’s only half the picture.

Here’s the other half: when the old order cracks, the next one gets written.

It always does. It got written after the printing press, the first written Constitution, and two world wars. It will get written now, in our decade, on our watch — and the only real question is who and how it will get done.

The institutions that ran the last century can’t pick it up. They’re too brittle, too captured, too winded. No single organization — no government, no foundation, no movement, no company, no church — can pick it up alone either. The work is too big. The world is too connected. The Doomsday Clock is now only 85 seconds ’til midnight — the closest it’s ever been to unleashing a Doomsday Future.

If they can’t, who will and how will it happen? Those are the questions that are at the heart of  UEN’s next transformational strategy.

UEN & Hubcast are building Out new global media Pipelines

Through our partnership with Hubcast Media, UEN can today deliver a Production-to-Distribution-to-Follow-Up pipeline. It will give events a far longer afterlife with music, songs, films, speeches and stories of progress already achieved that continually drive home the event’s message and inspire the people who were there and those who wish they’d been.

This is the work we’ve been doing for 43 years. We just hadn’t yet called it by this name.