About The Living Economy
We are helping work, money and community move from machine logic to living-systems logic — an economy that treats people and the planet as alive, not as parts to be managed.
Where we started: work run like a machine
For a century we built organisations like engines: command, control, and people as parts. It produced growth, and it burned people and planet to get it.
The Living Economy in numbers
Our mission
To build a Living Economy: one where every person's dignity, every family and every community can flourish, and where the way we work, earn, give and govern serves life. We pair clear ideas with real numbers so anyone can see how their community is doing.
From machine to living
The old model treats organisations like machines: command, control, and people as parts. A living system grows from relationships, feedback and care. That shift is the heart of our work.
How the framework works
Society runs on 7 Systems. Each is a place where the Living Economy can grow, or where a "living dead" machine logic can take over.
Human Capital
People, skills and potential.
Governments
Law, freedom and stewardship.
Religion
Compassion, meaning and purpose.
Health
Body, mind and the inner ecosystem.
Energy
What powers work and life.
Money
Sound, honest exchange.
Identity
Who we are and who we belong to.
Alongside the systems we look at the 7 Capitals — Spiritual, Cultural, Enterprise, Symbolic, Social, Health and Emotional — as the kinds of wealth a community holds. The Human Health Index scores a person, place or leader across the 7 Systems (total out of 70), and the Global Map shows how countries compare. Browse every system and its resources from the Explore menu at the top of the page.
A living world
Healthy soil, healthy forests, healthy people, healthy economies: it is all one living system.
How you can take part
Learn
Explore the 7 Systems and the Human Health Index.
Check
See the real numbers for your place and leaders.
Join
Pledge support or become an ambassador.
Partner
Invest or build with us in the Living Economy.
Be honest about what we know
Scores are editorial first drafts unless stated, and every number is tagged as counted, reported or editorial. See how the numbers are counted. Where views differ, our pages include a fair note.
Get involved
Read about the 4 Pillars, partner with us, or pledge your support.