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Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
The animacy of the world is something we already know, but the language of animacy teeters on extinction—not just for Native peoples, but for everyone.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Emerge • Belonging and Butterflies in Times of Breakdown
Yet, slowly but surely, fungi and insects are making their way across the Atlantic or the Pacific in imported lumber and establishing themselves in Europe. Often they come in packing materials, such as wood pallets that haven’t been heated to sufficiently high temperatures to kill harmful organisms. And parcels sent by private individuals from over
... See morePeter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
That requires, according to Laurie Mazur, diversity, redundancy, modularity, social capital, agency, inclusiveness, tight feedbacks, and the capacity for innovation.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
city tells itself it is a closed system that must decay in order for time to run straight, while simultaneously demanding eternal growth. This means it must outsource its decay for as long as possible. For this reason, a city is dependent on the importation of resources from interconnected systems beyond its borders. The city places itself at the c
... See moreTyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
I want to understand how we humans do that—how we earn a place on this precious planet, get in the “right relationship” with it.5 So I am focusing on the ways creatures and ecosystems function together in and with the natural world.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
John Muir (“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe”),
John McPhee • Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
We’ve spent much time in the peopleless places — willfully losing our bearings and giving our organizational tropes a rest. After returning it is hard not to see the grand economy and interdependence of it all — causality and effect having become some sort of multidimensional, omnidirectional sheet with few, if any, real separations… Even the most
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