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“Passive hope is about waiting for external agencies to bring about what we desire. Active Hope is about becoming active participants in bringing about what we hope for. Active Hope is a practice. Like tai chi or gardening, it is something we do rather than have.”

—Joanna Macy in Active Hope

When are we perceiving individuals that are not actually individuals after all?

One of his observations is that when any aspect of a living system is torn from its contextual relationships, it can then be exploited. How a description is made of a person, a family, a community, a culture, or an ecosystem –matters.

Nested hierarchies are different: they contain no value judgments, no better/worse or superior/inferior. Rather, they describe a set of relationships, often correlated to scale. In biology this is the hierarchical logic of Kingdom-Phylum-Class-Order-Family-Genus-Species. Though this is often graphically depicted as top-down (and thus looks similar... See more

How can we change an organization to be as adaptable and versatile as its environment? How can we get our company ready to survive and thrive in the 21st century? We need something that takes flexibility to a new level.

Radicle Civics are the emerging, entangled roots whose growth and nurture are vital for commons-centric civic infrastructures. To enable their development – and encourage cultures of equity, freedom, safety, and sustainability – we require a series of deep code innovations, so let’s now shift our focus towards systems change.