Building at the speed of belonging... surviving the speed of catastrophe

As organizers, we are builders in an era of collapse. Our work is set against all probability—and it is in that space of cherished improbability where our art will be made, where our joy will be found, and where our ingenuity will fashion ways of living and caring for each other, even as the ground shifts beneath our feet. Life will be a scramble,

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When we embody the world we want, instead of only railing against what we resist, we pass on a blueprint for our descendants.… 

When we come together to feed each other, care for each other, and uplift each other, we create the conditions for beloved community. We weep, we laugh, we live. As the earth gets hotter, and more of us are endangered, we w... See more

While Gopal acknowledged that “catastrophe is inevitable,” he followed it right up with, “but change is also inevitable; transition is inevitable.” And he laid out some strategies to guide us forward. But how do we proceed at the heart level? How do we break down the walls inside our psyches, reconnect with our neighbors, and take those first steps

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At some point in our headlong rush towards ‘progress’, we cut ourselves off from the communal crucible of close human connection that nurtured our species for hundreds of thousands of years. Since we first settled into agricultural civilisation we’ve engineered a series of socio-economic systems that have incentivised us to consistently exploit one

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