Our Map is Growing — And We Need You On It
— November 10, 2025 —
Dear friends,
This is not just a project. It’s a lifeline.
Joanna Macy reminds us that we are living through a pivotal moment — a planetary crossroads she calls the Great Turning, where the dominant story of separation and extraction gives way to lifeways rooted in interconnection, care, and collective survival. Each of us has a role to play in this transition. This is ours.
In the face of climate collapse, political fragmentation, and deep disconnection, our mapping work is not about data — it’s about survival through relationship. The BoCo Climate Justice Hive is charting what the dominant systems have tried to erase: local leadership, mutual support, resistance, and care. This isn’t the cartography of conquest. This is the sacred act of stitching the commons back together.
Our interactive Social Ecosystems Map is already helping us see where people are organizing, struggling, surviving—and thriving.
We are hopeful that the movement infrastructure and community organizing tools that we are developing at the Hive will be of real benefit to the deep systems change needed. These tools, and our paradigm-shifting mapping efforts, are part of the Great Turning—and they exist to support it.
To give you a taste of this work, please check out the map we made last April for the Reconnecting for a Just and Regenerative Future convening hosted by our partner, the Joanna Macy Center for Resilience and Regeneration at Naropa University. The event planted seeds of collaboration that we are continuing to water—and this map helps those efforts take root.
Through this visual storytelling and the living, online version of the map, we aim to support the follow-through that so often gets lost after conferences end. We’re not just connecting dots. We’re sustaining momentum. We’re building shared power.
And we need your help.
If you haven’t yet explored our website, we invite you to check it out.
If you’re already feeling the pull, we’d love for you to become a monthly supporter of the Hive. The Colorado Gives Foundation is offering to match up to $100 for anyone who begins a new monthly donation on or after November 1—and we also have a collective match up to $30,000. So your gift could be tripled. Or possibly quadrupled. (Look, we’re justice organizers, not mathematicians, but the point is: this is a good time to join.)
Here is more info about the CO Gives matching program. And here is the link to support the Hive in these important times. Please only give to the extent that it feels right, sustainable—and even joyful.
With love and resolve,
Lodi & Micha
