This episode is the first in a new series. This new series is going to focus on empowering individuals and communities to create the systemic transformation we need, so that that we all have the capacity to thrive, flourish on a planet with a vibrant and healthy biosphere and life support systems.
Although some of the themes running through this series are fundamental in nature and are topics that underpin many aspects of our lives and societies, I am focusing on food, building human scale food systems. After all, food is the basis of our lives, our health, our relationships with each other, and with life on Earth, and every single one of us plays a role in food systems every day.
So the focus of this series is to give you, a powerful approach to reimagine and build abundant, healthy, resilient, sustainable food and living systems you want and need. There are a few reasons why, I am showing you an approach rather than a series of steps…
The first is illustrated by this quote by Buckminster Fuller ““You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
We as individuals cannot easily change the predominant neoliberal, globalized, competitive economic system that is driving so many of our health, ecological, and equity challenges, but we can build a new model or many new models that replace it.
The other big reason is that when it comes to issues of ecological sustainability and food systems, or even many other solutions to complex, interconnected problems, there is no single, one right solution. As individuals we all have different bodies, histories, cultures, lifestyles, we live in different locations and what is sustainable for one person or place is not for another. But there are universal underlying principles.
The last one is that we live in a world where many of us are pulled too many different ways, in our lives. We are bombarded with content telling us various tips and lists to accomplish improvements in our lives for example 10 steps to reduce waste, cut your climate impact, lose weight, ditch sugar …..you get the picture and from my own experience these approaches leave you scattered, overwhelmed and stuck and once again they do not create the change we want.
So what are some of the themes on this series? Since we are creating a world where we as individuals and communities have the capacity to thrive, flourish, to be and feel healthy and live to our full potential, we need to dig right down to the fundamentals. So we will be talking about what it takes for we humans to thrive and flourish, we are going to look at both the symptoms of our predicament as well as take a look at the underlying limits, we are going to talk about how we, see ourselves, our relationship with ourselves and nature, as well as limits, systems and structures.
In a way we are creating a vision of the world we want, where we are now and what resources we have available to us and then learning about the strategies, skills and action to get us where we want to go.
This episode is the first in a new series. This new series is going to focus on empowering individuals and communities to create the systemic transformation we need, so that that we all have the capacity to thrive, flourish on a planet with a vibrant and healthy biosphere and life support systems.
Although some of the themes running through this series are fundamental in nature and are topics that underpin many aspects of our lives and societies, I am focusing on food, building human scale food systems. After all, food is the basis of our lives, our health, our relationships with each other, and with life on Earth, and every single one of us plays a role in food systems every day.
So the focus of this series is to give you, a powerful approach to reimagine and build abundant, healthy, resilient, sustainable food and living systems you want and need. There are a few reasons why, I am showing you an approach rather than a series of steps…
The first is illustrated by this quote by Buckminster Fuller ““You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
We as individuals cannot easily change the predominant neoliberal, globalized, competitive economic system that is driving so many of our health, ecological, and equity challenges, but we can build a new model or many new models that replace it.
The other big reason is that when it comes to issues of ecological sustainability and food systems, or even many other solutions to complex, interconnected problems, there is no single, one right solution. As individuals we all have different bodies, histories, cultures, lifestyles, we live in different locations and what is sustainable for one person or place is not for another. But there are universal underlying principles.
The last one is that we live in a world where many of us are pulled too many different ways, in our lives. We are bombarded with content telling us various tips and lists to accomplish improvements in our lives for example 10 steps to reduce waste, cut your climate impact, lose weight, ditch sugar …..you get the picture and from my own experience these approaches leave you scattered, overwhelmed and stuck and once again they do not create the change we want.
So what are some of the themes on this series? Since we are creating a world where we as individuals and communities have the capacity to thrive, flourish, to be and feel healthy and live to our full potential, we need to dig right down to the fundamentals. So we will be talking about what it takes for we humans to thrive and flourish, we are going to look at both the symptoms of our predicament as well as take a look at the underlying limits, we are going to talk about how we, see ourselves, our relationship with ourselves and nature, as well as limits, systems and structures.
In a way we are creating a vision of the world we want, where we are now and what resources we have available to us and then learning about the strategies, skills and action to get us where we want to go.