Dear Council Members
We are so excited to be sharing an afternoon with all of you on February 22nd for Design Wild’s first Council.
Our time together will be facilitated by Qiana Mickie, a Design Wild partner, community advocate and wise one. The day will be hosted by Design Wild staff Shanti Nagel & Kristin West.
Please bring one object that will help you introduce yourself to the council. This could be a book you love, a pen you always write with, a stone from your favorite forest walk, a hat your grandmother made you, etc. Other than that just bring yourself!
Please find a little inspiration below as well as our Council Agenda:
COUNCIL AGENDA
I. Welcome & Introductions
II. Design Wild Ground Setting
III. Small Group Exercise #1- Reflect Back on Design Wild
IV. Small Group Exercise #2 -Intersections in Community
V. Design Wild Council Moving Forward
VI. Closing & Optional Winter Garden Tour
Further Reading:
WHAT IF WE STOPPED PRETENDING
-Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker Magazine 9/8/2019)
“any movement toward a more just and civil society can now be considered a meaningful climate action. Securing fair elections is a climate action. Combatting extreme wealth inequality is a climate action. Shutting down the hate machines on social media is a climate action. Instituting humane immigration policy, advocating for racial and gender equality, promoting respect for laws and their enforcement, supporting a free and independent press, ridding the country of assault weapons—these are all meaningful climate actions. To survive rising temperatures, every system, whether of the natural world or of the human world, will need to be as strong and healthy as we can make it.”
Decade of Transition
A very important message from this incredible elder Dr. Vandana Shiva as we enter into the New Year of 2020:
Scientists have discovered that living near trees is good for your health
-Chris Mooney, Washington Post
“Controlling for income, age and education, we found a significant independent effect of trees on the street on health,” said Marc Berman, a co-author of the study and also a psychologist at the University of Chicago. “It seemed like the effect was strongest for the public trees.”
A message from the future
In this seven minute video from The Interception sent from 10 years in the future, we practice the crucial skill of imagining an equitable future. If we can’t image we can’t create: