This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Most of our big systems — education, healthcare, government, business — are failing our communities. What if we stopped trying to fix them? Deborah Frieze says it’s not possible to change big systems — we can only abandon them and start over or offer hospice to what’s dying. This talk explores the underlying beliefs in our culture that continue to prop up the global mindset and shares a radical theory of change that reveals how localism is the hope of the future — and you have a critical role to play.

Deborah Frieze is an author, entrepreneur and activist committed to strengthening local economies. She is a founding partner of the Boston Impact Initiative and founder of the Old Oak Dojo, an urban learning center in Jamaica Plain where neighbors gather to rediscover how to create healthy and resilient communities.