Design Wild was so honored to host our very first Advisory Council at the end of February. We welcomed a dozen of our wise and beloved community members to join us for a facilitated day of thoughtful learning and brainstorming. Looking for support and advice on how to continue to deepen and broaden our work, we talked about meaningful ways to share our plant magic in new and broader ways. We thank all our advisory members and we're confident with their wisdom & help we will continue to grow into greater alignment with our true work.
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: