Milena Rangelov
@jellybeans
Milena Rangelov
to quote adrienne maree brown, the author of Emergent Strategy, who contrasts ‘mile wide, inch deep movements with inch wide, mile deep movements that schism the existing paradigm.’
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Do you already know that your existence--who and how you are--is in and of itself a contribution to the people and place around you? Not after or because you do some particular thing, but simply the miracle of your life. And that the people around you, and the place(s), have contributions as well? Do you understand that your quality of life and you
... See moreThis post made me think about how we apply ‘earth’ solutions to ‘air’ problems. We think we need more comfort when actually we are drowning in comfort and crying for more meaning and connection.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cityquitters/p/practicing-being-human?r=pcicf&utm_medium=ios
The internet is full of smart people writing beautiful prose about how bad everything is, how it all sucks, how it’s embarrassing to like anything, how anything that appears good is, in fact, secretly bad. I find this confusing and tragic
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The deepest problem that local-food efforts face, however, is that we’ve gotten used to paying so little for food. It may be expensive in terms of how much oil it requires, and how much greenhouse gas it pours into the atmosphere, and how much tax subsidy it receives, and how much damage it does to local communities, and how many migrant workers it
... See moreBill McKibben • Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
