Lotta discussion in the environmental world about “mitigating human impacts,” so I’d just like to remind everyone that the Amazon rainforest is an ancient food forest that once supported a vast & sophisticated civilization “Human impacts” can be a very good thing, if we try

on framing, and the spellpower of words

Peaks & Valleys

programmable money reflects yourself back to you libertarians see a vehicle for creating liberation degens see a vehicle for getting rich scammers see a vehicle for scamming people regens see a vehicle for collective action statists see something to tax .. and so on..

agua de la tierra

To address macro socio-economic incentives driving ecocide, it seems increasingly clear that self-sovereign ecologies that encode rights of nature into governance processes and a proliferation of regenerative worker-owned cooperatives are essential to preserve Life on Earth.

Hills

Writing is thinking, and thinking must be done step by step

misty punks, solar nomads Earthbased.soul Karl Schulschenk

Daniel Schmachtenberger on the design criteria for transitional systems: "The emergence of a new adequate system of economics (and attendant systems) requires three interrelated categories of work: 1) developing and implementing transitional systems that are intelligible to

Summer is here

It is Sunday. Let us seize the means of relaxation.

Too many people think that the goal is to work hard and get busy, when the goal is to get things done and spend more time with people you love.

"There is such urgency in the multitude of crises we face, it can make it hard to remember that in fact it is urgency thinking (urgent constant unsustainable growth) that got us to this point, and that our potential success lies in doing deep, slow, intentional work."

Beautiful. This is what the likes of ashton kutcher and all the other proponents of mass AI art commodification don't understand. The intentionality behind the process of creation is so important to the value of art.

8% of Mexico hosts over 50% of its population Why? Understanding it also explains the Aztecs & their pyramids 🧵

The OpenCivics Knowledge Commons and Open Protocol Library represent an experimental inquiry into the pattern languages of human coordination. Several generalizable patterns are already emerging: - federations of local nodes - commons hubs - open impact attestation schemas

6/ “We’re going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively & in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity. We’re not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth unless we see it as a whole spaceship & our fate as common.” — R. Buckminster Fuller