🌿 It’s a wrap! The South Asia Bioregionalism Working Group South Asia Bioregionalism Working Group meeting in Bhopal, the City of Lakes, brought together incredible minds for discussions and workshops on structural formulations and envisioning bioregions from the ground up. 🌏

"the fascist threat collapses when ordinary people have meaningful opportunities for social connection and purpose" Daniel Martinez HoSang

I'm prepping for my trip to Mumbai next week. Here: how Kolis, original residents of Mumbai, and fishermen by craft, are adapting to over development along the city's ecological edges theheritagelab.in/mumbai-koli-ar… HT Bombay61 Studio

Before economics was invented (by some men) the world ran on care, and life. So I've muted here the words economics, and economist. You should try it.

An exciting convergence of commoners and friends this Friday at the Festival of Commoning in Stroud, England! festival-of-commoning.org Dil Green: Novel: -Money/-Governance/-Wisdom #BuildCommons #Commoning

We are way past peak car

"The word 'climate' is universal, placeless, and abstract. It bathes us in feelings of sadness - and of virtue. But our places and communities don't need feelings. They need practical acts of care" (John Berger). thackara.com/care/ethics-de…

Germany supplies 30% of Israel's arms imports - 10x more than the year before dw.com/en/war-in-gaza…

"Design is conventionally comprehended in terms of making new things. But, in a world where human activities often violently constrict the lives of others, can designers also cultivate creative acts of leaving be?" konstfack.se/en/Research/Ph…

"Being born into western civilization is like waking up in the middle of a massive lynch mob"

“The world does not give us very much now; it often seems to consist of nothing but noise and fear, and yet grass and trees still grow." ~ Hermann Hesse

*Bravo!* The earth observation boom continues. (But hushhhh, don't tell anyone, but monitoring climates and planets does not make them *any healthier*. Expanding data to infinity is not a viable theory of change).

Excited about this conference hosted by BITS Design School, Mumbai, over the next two days. Looking forward to sharing experiences of constructive alternatives in India and listening to many more. Vikalp Sangam Travellers' University john thackara 约翰·萨卡拉 P. Sainath