who gets to participate?

The deep knowledge about a place is most likely held by farmers and engaged locals. But it is not likely to be in a form demanded by policymakers to substantiate calls for spending. It’s not just about quantifying, it’s about qualitative data of the kind that amounts to a form of collective intelligence.”

There’s something deeply compelling to me about the idea that research—in some form—can be done by anyone with a serious commitment to intellectual inquiry.

important to work with members of the public to coin words, rather than dreaming up new vocabulary on their own

A founding motivation for the pair was a belief that the discussion of climate change needed to be participatory, not a one-way lecture. "One of the things that frustrated me so much while working for major environmental groups is this concept that there are anointed people who 'know' and there are people who are 'not knowing'," says Quan

‘We are told there is a shortage of teachers everywhere in India’, he told me, ‘but if you go out on the streets, there’s so many people who know how to do things! Who are brilliant, amazing, doing beautiful things. Our spiritual teachers, awesome mechanics who know how to fix everything you bring them, who are fantastic artisans, farmers. But none

At this moment, we are unequivocally confronted with the need to reimagine our humanity and what it means to be living organisms sharing the planet with many other organisms, some living, some not. This is nothing new.

However, at this moment, we can plainly see how black, brown, queer and disabled bodies are devalued; how people who threaten the co