Security, properly understood, is not the absence of threat. It is the presence of foundations strong enough that threat no longer determines our choices. The decade ahead will be decided not by who builds higher walls but by who builds deeper roots. When Impact Entrepreneur first added Intrapreneur as a department to our Impact Economy coverage, we were tracking a real and important phenomenon: the corporate change-makers building impact from inside the institutions they had inherited. The intrapreneur — a term sharpened in the 1980s by Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot and reframed for our era — captured something genuine about how transformation often begins not at the margins but in the quiet rooms where decisions about capital, supply chains, and organizational design get made.

We are not retiring that work. The articles published under Intrapreneur remain part of our archive, fully accessible, and now findable under the Intrapreneur tag. What is changing is the editorial frame.

Beginning today, the Intrapreneur department is becoming Redefining Security.

Why the shift

The conditions our movement is responding to have changed. The decade ahead will not be defined primarily by the question of whether incumbents can be persuaded to change from within — though that question still matters. It will be defined by whether civilization can build genuine resilience against a cascade of intersecting risks: climate destabilization, public-health fragility, economic precarity, democratic erosion, and the unraveling of the social fabric that binds communities to one another.

Each of those is, properly understood, a security question. And each has been answered for far too long with the same paradigm: walls higher, weapons more lethal, fortresses more isolated, defense more concentrated. That paradigm has produced what it was designed to produce — vast spending, narrow benefit, persistent vulnerability. It has not produced safety.

What is producing safety, where it is being produced, is something different. It is the slow, structural work of building distributed capacity instead of concentrated force. It is investment in the root conditions — ecological stability, community cohesion, public-health infrastructure, economic equity, democratic transparency — rather than in reaction to symptoms. It is the recognition that mutualism outperforms militarization at the civilizational scale we now inhabit.

This is the territory Redefining Security will cover. Not security as it has been imagined, but security as it is being practiced by impact entrepreneurs, communities, and capital that have stopped asking how to wall off harm and started asking how to build the foundations that make harm rarer in the first place.

What you'll find here

Redefining Security will run reportage, analysis, and case studies on:

• Climate-resilient infrastructure and the practitioners building it at municipal, regional, and bioregional scale.
• Public-health systems designed for prevention rather than only response.
• Economic models — cooperative, mutualist, place-based — that produce stability through distribution rather than extraction.
• Democratic infrastructure that maintains the trust without which no other security holds.
• Community cohesion and the social bonds that, in every disaster of the past decade, have proven more decisive than any institution.

The pieces we publish here will share a thesis: that fortress thinking, in a networked and ecologically interdependent age, is not just morally inadequate. It is strategically inadequate. The future belongs to those who can build foundations.

What stays the same

The intrapreneur as a figure has not disappeared from the impact economy and will continue to appear in our pages — in coverage of corporate transformation, supply-chain resilience, ESG integrity, and the structural innovations happening inside institutions that recognize their old extractive operating systems will not survive the century. Those stories now appear under the Intrapreneur tag, threaded across the departments where they best belong.

What is new is that the frame of intrapreneurship — change from within incumbents — is no longer adequate as a department on its own. The civilizational moment demands a wider lens. Redefining Security is that lens.

We're glad to have you reading.

— The Editors