Ahead of the ETH Localism general forum from October 13-16, in Portland OR, where I’ve been invited to share about ecoweaving and ecocoins for local, bioregional sovereignty, I sat with Amber Case and Jake Hartnell to talk about the use…
This is a reading of an article, by the arts/research collective, Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF), shared with me shortly after our Ecoweaving gathering at Wilbur Hot Springs, in early May. It “weaves together Indigenous teachings that affirm that if we approach the potential,…
This beautiful edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” found me just before leaving back for the Tronix wedding; the preface, introduction, and essay, in relation to one another, create a being and a becoming, which…
The Redwood Parliament held during DWebCamp 2022 was collectively manifested over five days in late August, as a collection of workshops, an emergence of discussion threads, and an interweaving of interdisciplinary beings. We gathered to share research and experiences around…
Kola and Mai gathered us one evening during DWebCamp, a couple of weeks ago, a generous creating of space for those of us who wished to share something we’d written, or been inspired by. I took the chance to recapitulate…
0:00 / 0:00 Biodiversity NFTs Emerging from jams at the intersection of climate and blockchain during the Earth2030 gathering, which I organized at Stanford in 2020, this idea was developed with the C3 collective of artists, then shared at the Glitch…
As I enter my forties, reflecting on my journey, I recognize the ever-present ‘care to grow’, in every context I found myself in. From childhood, when my parents allowed me to fall and fail, to pick myself up and choose…
Following my year as the Foresight Institute‘s 2020 Fellow in Legal Engineering for the Biosphere, I’m honoured and delighted to be kicking off 2021 teaching a course with the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law,…
In 2020, as part of a team working alongside Phoebe Tickell, who has written and presented extensively on the blurring of boundaries involved in complex systems and entangled, interdependent ecosystems of organizations and organisms, I delved into the mindset of…
Over the last few years, Shinrin-roku, or ‘forest-bathing’ has been lauded across a wide range of publishing outlets, from TIME and The Guardian, to Country Living, and National Geographic. Originating in Japan in the 1980s, the practice of finding physiological…