Vital signs

Five lenses, each reading one vital sign of a living world.

• Thriving: People's lives getting better: health, safety and circumstances improving.

  How Thriving is scored

• Belonging: Communities holding together: bonds, rootedness, living culture and heritage.

  How Belonging is scored

• Recovery: Nature healing: ecosystems recovering, species returning.

  How Recovery is scored

• Solutions: Technology, policy and initiatives that work, including long-horizon plans.

  How Solutions is scored

• Discovery: Knowledge recovered that changes how we see the past.

  How Discovery is scored

A story can pass more than one lens. It is shown under the most specific one it passes. Every story names its source and links to the original.

Each lens page above says how that lens is scored. The overall method, and its limits, is on how we select stories.