Applying kinship-guided paradigm transformation and relational intelligence to resolve systemic and climate crises.
Urgency without wisdom creates reactivity, not resilience.
The OLRs provide the relational and cultural foundation that makes honoring planetary boundaries possible. They translate kinship, living systems principles, proven over millennia, into practical processes and pragmatic implementation where complexity becomes clear through kinship, relationality, and nested belonging.
This guides climate action, biodiversity protection, and bioeconomy transition rooted in sacred reciprocity.
Building organizations that strengthen the continuity of life.
ORIGINAL LIVING
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Sustainable Development Goals have given the world one of its most inspiring shared visions for human and planetary flourishing. Across governments, business, philanthropy, and civil society, they have created a common language for the future we hope to build.
Today, around 15% of the SDG targets are on track. That moment invites a deeper question.
What are the relationships, responsibilities, and ways of leading that allow shared aspirations to become lived reality?
Cultivating the relationships through which the Sustainable Development Goals can flourish.
The Original Living Responsibilities were created in response to that question.
Grounded in Indigenous knowledge, kinship, and living systems, the OLRs cultivate the relational capacities that help strategy become stewardship, governance become relationship, and leadership become a practice of caring for the conditions that allow life to continue.
Goals provide direction.
Living responsibilities cultivate the relationships through which those goals take root.
Every organization participates in communities, watersheds, ecosystems, and generations that extend far beyond its balance sheet. The OLRs help leaders recognize those relationships and bring them into everyday governance, decision-making, partnerships, and culture.
This is where long-horizon stewardship becomes practical. Strategy reflects relationship. Success is understood through continuity. Leadership grows through participation in the living systems that sustain us all.
Because every goal ultimately lives through the quality of the relationships that sustain it.