What are the deeper reasons why our world is hurtling headlong toward social, ecological, and climate collapse? In her recently published book, The Story Is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis, author and activist Osprey Orielle Lake helps us discern these reasons in the dominant worldview based upon extraction and exploitation.
The book shows how the interlocking crises of colonialism, racism, patriarchy, capitalism, and ecocide have set us on this course, and opens a portal to an alternative path of restoration and justice. Building on her experience working with global leaders, systems-thinkers, climate justice activists, and Indigenous Peoples, Osprey weaves together ecological, mythical, political, and cultural insights to summon a new way of being and thinking—showing that another world is possible.
In this Deep Transformation Network live interactive conversation, Osprey will discuss with Jeremy Lent the central themes arising from her book and her work. As founder of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey has stood with Indigenous women land defenders around the world in their struggle for policies that prioritize social, racial and economic justice, and Indigenous and human rights. Jeremy will explore with Osprey how her experience of frontline activism has informed her thinking, and how the ancient story that is in our bones can lay the groundwork for an alternative Earth-centered, vibrant future.
Event Details
This online event will be hosted by the Deep Transformation Network. It is free and open to all. Following the initial conversation, DTN members will be invited to ask questions and engage directly with Osprey and Jeremy.
[In which both Wolfram and Jaimungal suddenly seem much more sympathetic to me – perhaps because they genuinely appreciate each other and each others’ company – but also because this is such fun second order cybernetics, I can even forgive the speculation on The Nature of God (which in turn has fascinating connections to the current episode of Weird Studies, on the Devil)… worth a listen, I think]
Limicon 2024 is a month-long emergent online convention for the Liminal Web and anyone liminal-curious (Game B, metamodern, integral, tpot, etc).
Part we-space, part choose your own adventure, part field-nurturing experiment, Limicon 2024 is an open-space convention from March 6th – April 3rd, where participants can co-create the events and possibilities that they want to attend.
Sign up today for $25 for a month of events at Limicon2024 dot com.
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**WHY?**
We find ourselves in a liminal space between worlds, entrenched in a metacrisis, and embedded in cultural systems that are inadequate for regenerative future civilization.
We need to come together and co-navigate these uncertain times together.
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**WHO?**
This event is for those in the LIminal Web or those on the edges.
We welcome practitioners, artists, ritual builders, philosophers, community weavers, scientists, activists and fans of liminal, integral, metamodern, game b, tpot, bildung, and regen communities.
We embrace anyone drawn to the question: How do we become the humans we need to be, both individually and collectively, to be in service to hospicing the old systems and midwifing the new systems that are emerging?
1. Come together – Sign up at Limicon2024 dot com 2. Surface possibilities – Add yourself to the Network Map and co-create the event schedule on the Limicon Miro https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVNEa8tqg=/ 3. Be present and Attune – Be open to connection and possibilities. Attune to what is already here. 4. Reflect and Evolve – Notice: What is happening? What are we learning? How are our connections evolving? What conversations want to emerge?
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**WHEN?**
As we collectively emerge from the winter, it is time to spring up together and jolt the field into liveliness.
Limicon runs 2 weeks before and after Spring Equinox (March 6th – April 3rd).
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**WHERE?**
Sign up today for $25 for a month of events at Limicon2024 dot com.
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[Another discovery of another little planetary system in the universe of systems |complexity|cybernetics – this is ‘the system’ primarily of matching the right balanced of general/early/specialist interventions in speech and language therapy, though it does have a role for chidlren and families too]
WHAT IS THE BALANCED SYSTEM®?
The Balanced System® is a whole system strategic approach to supporting children and people with a whole range of needs, that has primarily come out of work in the area of speech, language and communication.
Marie Gascoigne has been developing the Balanced System® framework for over 15 years. It is used by a whole range of stakeholders, including commissioners from all disciplines and providers, particularly of therapy services.
As the diagram shows, it is a see-saw model with a set of blocks that provide the base above which balanced support is delivered.
Until I read this Hal Borland passage a few days ago I never realized/noticed that blossoming plants melt the snow, and it’s because that act generates a bunch of heat
Until I read this Hal Borland passage a few days ago I never realized/noticed that blossoming plants melt the snow, and it’s because that act generates a bunch of heat pic.twitter.com/zrZ7K4GfdX
This article is part of the series on Autonomy and Cohesion. It is the second part of the basic overview of the balance. If you haven’t read the previous part, I’d recommend doing so before reading further.
Cohesion Forces and ToolsIVO VELITCHKOVFEB 15, 202411ShareThis article is part of the series on Autonomy and Cohesion. It is the second part of the basic overview of the balance. If you haven’t read the previous part, I’d recommend doing so before reading further.
According to the Gaia hypothesis, which was proposed by the scientists Lovelock and Margulis in the 1970s, our planet should have been getting progressively warmer for millions of years, while our oceans should have been progressively more acidic as well. The fact that this hasn’t happened suggests a planet-wide complex system that is self-regulating, with planetary life and geological processes working together to stabilize planetary geology and climate. Despite its importance, this idea could not be previously tested due to its planetary scale.
In a recent paper, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, SFI External Professor Ricard Solé (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and collaborators propose an experimental system that will test, on a small scale, the dynamics that regulate planetary processes. Using synthetic biology, they will test two engineered micro-organisms in a self-contained system to see if they can achieve a stable equilibrium.
This proposed setup is inspired by recent research in fermentation, which has typically required finely-tuned outside control, to achieve stable, regulated conditions, including a stable pH level. “There’s been recent work in trying to see if you can engineer microorganisms for fermentation so that they can self-regulate,” Solé says. “That was the key inspiration.” This experimental setup, which Solé and several of his students developed during a visit to SFI, has the potential to answer long-standing questions in the field about planetary-wide regulatory systems.
In this experimental setup, one strain will detect if the environment is becoming too acidic, and counteract the increasing acidity, while the other strain will detect if the environment is becoming too basic, and act to counteract this decreasing acidity. “Because these strains act on the environment, and the environment affects them, this creates a closed causal loop,” Solé said. “The idea is to show that under very broad conditions, they will stabilize to a constant pH level, as predicted by the original theory.”
Read the paper “A synthetic microbial Daisyworld: planetary regulation in the test tube” in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface (February 7, 2024) by Victor Maull, Jordi Pla Mauri, Nuria Conde Pueyo, and Ricard Solé. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2023.0585
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