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Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
Nothing is created or destroyed; it just moves and changes, and this is the First Law. Creation is in a constant state of motion, and we must move with it as the custodial species or we will damage the system and doom ourselves. Nothing can be held, accumulated, stored. Every unit requires velocity and exchange in a stable system, or it will stagna
... See moreTyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
This presumption of man’s dominion over nature runs far back in Western culture, at least to the Bible’s opening verses. It also underpins the language of environmental economics, which frames the living world as a storehouse of ‘natural resources’, as if it were waiting – like a pile of Lego blocks – to be transformed by man into something useful
... See moreKate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
Abundance is fueled by constantly circulating materials, not wasting them
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Cen…
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European Bioneers conference in the Netherlands, I had the good fortune to meet Dennis Martinez, a native American elder who has been instrumental in establishing the ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network’ (IPRN). Dennis is widely recognized for creating a bridge between ‘traditional ecological knowledge’ (TEK) and Western science. His passion i
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