Theory

Since Julien and I live on opposite sides of the world, we’ve turned this time difference into a fun feature:
🍹 For Australasian night owls, grab a gin and tonic or your favorite nightcap.
☕️For European early birds, bring your strongest coffee to kickstart your day.
It’s a laid-back space to connect...

From the website: "How can we re-imagine education with the Earth? 

The education system was built to feed a predatory economy that is now destroying the planet. Who still wants to be part of that? What can we learn from what has not worked? What can we do differently today? How can we compost our...

Although in two parts, you will hardly find a more succinct analysis of the discrepancy between acquiring knowledge that can be applied (and replicates patterns) in today's economies versus learning to transform ourselves and our environments to live differently, and the significant implications of...

From the article "The Energy System Sciences (ESS) see all systems as “flow networks” or structures that arise from the circulation of resources, information, nutrients, etc. Thinking through the lens of flow, systemic health can be seen as being based on things like: investment and re-investment of...

From the website: "Scientists spent ages mocking panpsychism. Now, some are warming to the idea that plants, cells, and even atoms are conscious."

By Sigal Samuel, published in Vox

HT: Pocket

The Timeless Way of Building serves as a profound meditation on how patterns emerge through the subtle dance of simple elements, each nested within larger wholes, each speaking the unique language of place. Alexander's work shows how enduring solutions flow from understanding the deeper grammar of...

This series of graphics and commentary are useful and fun. Consider the values on the axes (where they exist) and the relationships between functions and context among others. To what extent do they reflect the past from which we have come or the future in which we will emerge.

By Bowie Yin Sum Kung

Abstract: "Scholars and activists mobilize increasingly the term degrowth when producing knowledge critical of the ideology and costs of growth-based development. Degrowth signals a radical political and economic reorganization leading to reduced resource and energy use. The degrowth hypothesis...

This session will be of interest for those who are looking for emerging interpretations of how today's businesses and institutions should adapt to become more restorative and regenerative.  

Excerpt from article: "there is no way around the transformation of economic systems. The future of our planet will depend to a Large extent on the regeneration of our natural resources and the transformation of resilient natural, but also social systems. At the same time, nature must be preserved...