SYSTEMS

Extractivism Alternatives

Satish Kumar on Peace, Nature, and Schumacher College (4 of 4)

In this four-part interview, Satish Kumar shares his views on peace, our relationship with nature, and what led him to found Schumacher College in 1991. Among those who inspire him are Vinoba Bhave, Mahatma Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, and E.F. Schumacher.

Extractivism Alternatives

Satish Kumar on Peace, Nature, and Schumacher College (3 of 4)

In this four-part interview, Satish Kumar shares his views on peace, our relationship with nature, and what led him to found Schumacher College in 1991. Among those who inspire him are Vinoba Bhave, Mahatma Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, and E.F. Schumacher.

Extractivism Alternatives

Satish Kumar on Peace, Nature, and Schumacher College (2 of 4)

In this four-part interview, Satish Kumar shares his views on peace, our relationship with nature, and what led him to found Schumacher College in 1991. Among those who inspire him are Vinoba Bhave, Mahatma Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, and E.F. Schumacher.

Extractivism Alternatives

Satish Kumar on Peace, Nature, and Schumacher College (1 of 4)

In this four-part interview, Satish Kumar shares his views on peace, our relationship with nature, and what led him to found Schumacher College in 1991. Among those who inspire him are Vinoba Bhave, Mahatma Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, and E.F. Schumacher.

LivingConfluence: Community Wellbeing-Rooted Economics, Law, Governance, and Education (ELGE)
Extractivism Alternatives

LivingConfluence: Community Wellbeing-Rooted Economics, Law, Governance, and Education (ELGE)

The LivingConfluence is an ecoweb-rooted knowledge-technology-practice (ecoliving) system that presents an innovative transitional and regenerative alternative to the extractivist ELGE system. The LivingConfluence is an income-generating, resource-sharing, co-working, co-learning ELGE entity involving ecoweb-rooted community households, nonprofit organizations, and outside investors.

FiveBecomings: A Reimagined Ancient Indigenous Framework for Ecoself-Rooted Wellbeing
Ecoweb-Rooted Framing

FiveBecomings: A Reimagined Ancient Indigenous Framework for Ecoself-Rooted Wellbeing

FiveBecomings provides a cohesively integrated framework for self-reliant ecoself-rooted being and working that derives from first principles, instead of being arbitrarily delineated by subjective man-made systems (such as economics, law, governance, and education (ELGE)) frequently characterized by fragmentation, reductionism, and control.

Ecoself: Approaching an Intellectual Understanding
Ecoweb-Rooted Framing

Ecoself: Approaching an Intellectual Understanding

Our ecoself is our entire being in the dimensional context of space, time, and simultaneity. An intellectual understanding of the nature of reality and the evolution of the perceptible universe can help us understand this context, and thus, our ecoself.

Ecoself: Restoring Our Wellbeing Rooted in Nature and Humanity
Ecoweb-Rooted Framing

Ecoself: Restoring Our Wellbeing Rooted in Nature and Humanity

Ecoself is a reimagined Indigenous concept, the understanding and expression of which restores our wellbeing. It is who we are in the context of our own natures, abilities, and experiences, our genetics, our ancestral ecological webs (ecowebs), and our adopted ecowebs.

Extractivism Alternatives

George Galvis speaking at From Bhopal to the Bay — Oakland, California, US

George Galvis: "The mission of our organization [CURYJ] is to unlock the leadership of young people to dream beyond bars. We are Indigeous-led. We are formerly incarcerated-led. We believe that our young people are the experts of their own lives."

Extractivism Alternatives

Arieann Harrison speaking at From Bhopal to the Bay — Oakland, California, US

Arieann Harrison: “I’m a sixth-generation resident of Bayview Hunters Point District 10. Part of our story is… redlining,… racism,… and being isolated to the southeast sector of San Francisco. My family migrated from the south to District 10 for work.”

424 Years and Counting: the Global System of Corporate Extractivism (1 of 3)
Systems Reform

424 Years and Counting: the Global System of Corporate Extractivism (1 of 3)

Over four centuries ago, Europeans developed a new system of amassing wealth for small groups of shareholders, taking the form of government-sanctioned exploitation of humans and ecowebs through the use of ‘legal’ tools, like charters and the doctrine of discovery.

A People’s Green Manifesto to Make Haryana Ecologically Resilient
Ecoweb-Rooted Framing

A People’s Green Manifesto to Make Haryana Ecologically Resilient

The Haryana Green Manifesto is a first-of-its-kind grassroot campaign by citizens living in a state having the lowest forest cover in India, extreme air pollution, and water stress to spell out a green vision for the state.