Inspired by Pete and the great impact he had on environmental awareness and transforming the Hudson River, our goal was to extend this type of activism globally through new and emerging technologies.

Pete Seeger reminded us that even as the initiative grew, it was important to focus on the real people who make up the grassroots efforts such as those who made Clearwater so successful. The people are the ones with power when they come together. An example of this is evident in his markup to the proposed language for users on the WaterPathways website where he changed the very dry message "A global community of activists collaborating on water solutions" to the much more down to earth and engaging:

A global gang of folks like you working together to save the world's water. We use computers, we use the web. Do you? —Pete Seeger, 2010

While we were still building the WaterPathways website, William Bly, the technical director for the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit, reviewed the site and suggested we direct our efforts toward the UN Earth Summit. We rebranded WaterPathways to FloEarth.org (Free, Libre, Open). On schedule, the FloEarth website was publicly launched on September 17th, 2011.

That same day introduced the next big movement. Early in the afternoon, I stepped out of my apartment near Wall Street just as the first Occupy Wall Street rally was gathering. Speaking with a microphone at the head of the rally was Edward Hall III, a friend who was already involved in the Transformative Communities open-source effort.

The next two months were a whirlwind as Liberty Park, less than two blocks from my apartment was populated by the Occupy movement. In conjunction, I helped to facilitate the creation of OWS TechOps and Occupy Earth workgroups. Occupy Wall Street was formally recognized as an Interested Party Participant in the UN Rio+20 multi-stakeholder process. Out of these undertakings, the Open Source Imperative was created. A top-level policy document introducing the economic and socially transformative potential of open source technologies and culture. The FloEarth website morphed once again, this time into OccupyTheEarth.org.

After OWS, we focused on what would come next. We've Occupied, now we Reclaim. OccupyTheEarth morphed, yet again, this time into Reclaim.org building on the focus of the great potential of open source technology and culture in a living universe.

Other important technology and transformation projects have emerged out of the Occupy Movement.

• Manu Kabahizi supplied social outreach using the Ushahidi platform, a real-time issue, and crisis mapping and notification tool, for the OccupyTheEarth website, receiving over 750,000 comments globally.
• Occupy New Zealand inspired the development of Loomio, a tool for governance and consensus.
• Occupy Sandy lead to the development of open-source disaster management programs such as the Free Network Foundation which has helped to lead the development of mesh wifi network technologies.
• Occupy Debt Relief has lead to the creation of RIP Medical Debt, a not-for-profit that buys and forgives medical debt. At the end of 2019, they are closing in on having forgiven US$1Billion worth of medical debt.
• Just as Occupy Wall Street was a reaction to the financial crash, so was the development of BitCoin and cryptocurrencies as a foundational approach to creating a new monetary and value system.

Our team re-focused on the oceans in 2016 when an Australian seafood industry association contacted us. They were concerned that the new US Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) traceability requirements would place economic pressures on small and midsize businesses in the seafood industry. They asked if open source might be a solution. The first approach was to create the OpenSea Commons, inspired by the Creative Commons and Elinor Ostrom's theory for healing the Tragedy of the Commons, a term coined for a situation where individuals deplete a common resource due to the effects of greed, lack of regulation and enforcement, and uncoordinated overuse of the resource. The new name is intended to highlight the potential of a collaborative open-source framework to save the oceans as a shared resource. In the second iteration, we furthered the project with Brooklyn Law School, with the legal objective of actually creating the legal foundation of a Global Oceans Commons. Seeing that governance was key to good stewardship of the oceans as a common resource, we shifted our focus to stakeholder governance and rebranded the project Seafood Commons.

In 2019, Seafood Commons was introduced by Peter Neill, president of the World Ocean Observatory, at Capitol Hill Ocean Week to an international policy audience. We have now built the first version of Seafood.Works and open-source traceability system that is a technical foundation for the broader technology ecosystem. A comprehensive ecosystem approach is needed to implement effective large-scale ecological regeneration and industry sustainability. We have now arrived at our final brand now referred to as Seafood Ecosystem.

As we begin 2020 and the next decade our global environment is in crisis. "The summary findings are bleak," the most recent, United Nations Environment Program Emissions Gap Report recently released in November states. "Countries collectively failed to stop the growth in global GHG emissions, meaning that deeper and faster cuts are now required." The window of opportunity to avert worst-case scenarios is closing rapidly. We have come to understand that a comprehensive ecosystem framework and approach is required now on a coordinated global scale if we have any hope of meaningful regenerative impact. The Seafood.Commons concept is a part of the larger approach that is now required, an Open Seafood Ecosystem approach.