Sublime

Deep ecology is a philosophical and social movement that seeks to de-privilege humans as the center of the planet because this has led to untold destruction and mass extinction.

Deep ecology is a broad spiritual and philosophical movement that can be traced back to the Norwegian intellectual and activist Arne Næss, who was a trained philosopher and a student of Mahatma Gandhi. Its basic claim is that we are an intimate part of a larger ecobody or ecosystem and so should care for the ecosystem not as a collection of dead

The goal of one-planet thriving has been reinforced by a growing recognition that human beings are not separate from nature but an interdependent part of the living planetary whole.

As the American ecologist Aldo Leopold deftly put it, we need to transform the way we see ourselves, ‘from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it’.41 Thanks to forty years of Earth-system research, we have a rapidly improving scientific understanding of how the Holocene epoch – with its stable climate, ample fresh water,

Regenerative participation is:

• Rooted in place and seasonal rhythms

• Grounded in relationship and reciprocity

• Inspired by living systems (feedback, diversity, interdependence)

Rather than treating participation as a step in a process, it asks us to treat it as an ecosystem—something to be nourished, composted, and cultivated over time.