Ecosymbionts all Regenerate Together (EaRTh) is an online knowledge-sharing and community-building platform for grassroots changemakers, innovators, and knowledge-holders from across the world.
The purpose of EaRTh is two-fold:
Facilitate synergies: Bring together and facilitate synergies between grassroots changemakers, innovators, and knowledge-holders from across the world working to regenerate systems that restore, preserve, and foster human-ecowebsymbiosis.
Regenerate systems: Collaboratively conceptualize and promote alternative systems that optimize ecoweb wellbeing (instead of exploiting, diminishing, and destroying ecowebs) by synthesizing the knowledge, ideas, and wisdom of grassroots changemakers, innovators, and knowledge-holders from across the world.
HOW TO CITE EaRTh CONTENT
If you are citing EaRTh content, please use the following format: Author name(s), Title, Ecosymbionts all Regenerate Together (EaRTh): DOI (publication date).
For example:
F. Jahan, From Bhopal to the Bay: Fighting Corporations Creating Industrial Wastelands, Ecosymbionts all Regenerate Together (EaRTh): DOI-EaRTh092024-004 (25 September, 2024).
TYPES OF CREATIVE-WORKS
Both fiction and non-fiction Creative-Works are published as content on EaRTh, in the form of (a) word narratives, (b) visual art, and (c) videos. EaRTh encourages content in vernacular languages, with English translations provided, and where applicable, English subtitles.
You ("Author") must be a grassroots changemaker, innovator, and/or knowledge-holder.
All components of your word narrative, art image, and/or audio/video, including accompanying images and/or photographs (“Creative-Work”) must be your own original work.
You must not have used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate any component of your Creative-Work.
You must own the copyright and licensing rights to all components of your Creative-Work.
Your Creative-Work must not have been published on any other medium that has the exclusive right to publish your work.
At this time, you must:
be invited to submit a Creative-Work to Ecosymbionts all Regenerate Together (“EaRTh”) (however, there is a way around this: upon reading this page in its entirety, please watch the tutorial video below or simply click on the “Submit New Creative-Work” button below the video); and/or
have participated as a strategist at an in-person Ecosymbionts Regenerate ("ER") Synergy Meeting.
EaRTh encourages human individuals, as well as ecoweb-rooted communities (see below for definition) or movements to be authors of Creative-Works submitted to EaRTh. Given the current legal framework associated with copyright and licensing, at least one human individual must be a co-author if an ecoweb-rooted community or movement is an author. Please also see the instructions below:
A Creative-Work may have up to three co-authors, wherein the first author listed must be a human individual ("Lead Author").
EaRTh encourages an ecoweb-rooted community or movement to be a co-author of a Creative-Work, but only if a human individual is also a co-author.
For the purposes of submissions of Creative-Work to EaRTh, an ecoweb-rooted community is defined as a self-associating group of human individuals that trace their origins to a particular ecoweb. Examples of ecoweb-rooted communities are: the Idu Mishmi of Arunachal Pradesh (India) and the Lisjan Ohlone of California (United States).
GUIDELINES
Your Creative-Work can be one of 3 types:
*(A) non-fiction or fiction word narrative (500-1000 words for prose, 100-250 words for poetry);
*(B) art image(s) + descriptive narrative (100-250 words); or
*(C) video (3-10 minutes) + descriptive narrative (100-250 words).
For Creative-Work type (A), your word narrative submission must be accompanied by at least one (1) image or photograph and may be accompanied by up to five (5) images or photographs.
For Creative-Work type (B), you may submit up to five (5) art images of the same or related piece(s) of art. You must provide the following details about your piece(s) of art: (a) title, (b) medium (e.g., oil on canvas), (c) dimensions, and (d) year created.
For all Creative-Work types, each image or photograph submitted must be accompanied by a brief figure caption (up to 50 words).
To be categorized as non-fiction any knowledge or ideas contained in your Creative-Work must be your own and may include your first-person account of narration by a knowledge-holder and/or ancestor who is explicitly named and credited.
A non-fiction Creative-Work that contains descriptions of knowledge and/or activities — especially harmful activities — by legal entities (e.g., corporations) and/or human persons other than yourself must be substantiated by external sources (e.g., citations) and/or be witnessed first-hand by you.
As you generate your Creative-Work, please keep in mind that readers and grassroots individuals and collectives from across the world will be viewing your Creative-Work if it is published by EaRTh as content. Thus, please write and present in a manner that explains terms and concepts specific to your region or culture, such that a person completely unfamiliar with the topic and regional/cultural context of your Creative-Work can understand.
Please write in a simple and clear manner that is not academic, keeping in mind that readers and grassroots individuals and collectives viewing your Creative-Work are from a variety of occupational and cultural backgrounds and are most probably not native English speakers. When citing another’s publication, please simply state the finding and use footnotes to provide information about the full citation.
For example, do not write: “Garcia and Hussain (2018) describe various detrimental neurological effects of environmental pollution in frontline communities.”
Instead, write: “Environmental pollution has been reported to have various detrimental neurological effects in frontline communities.[1]" Then in your footnote for [1] provide the entire citation of Garcia and Hussain (2018).
If you are including citations in your Creative-Work, please format them as follows: M. Garcia, L. Hussain, Environmental Pollution Causes Neurological Effects in Impacted Communities, Journal of Impacts: Vol. 5 (Issue 12), pp. 46-48 (2018).
EaRTh encourages the submission of Creative-Works in vernacular languages. For narratives — both word narratives and descriptive narratives — please ensure that if the language is not English, you also submit an accurate English translation of the entire narrative.
For video in which the languages spoken are not English, please ensure that there are accurate English subtitles within the submitted video.
EXPLANATION OF CATEGORIES AND SUB-CATEGORIES OF EaRTh
EaRTh has five main categories that are further divided into sub-categories. To help you understand what type of content is appropriate for each category/sub-category, please see below.
ACTION
Activism
Substantive Creative-Work about specific upcoming or past activism, not a mere announcement.
Events
Substantive Creative-Work about specific upcoming or past events, not a mere announcement.
Women
About issues that concern women and members of minority genders.
INDIGENOUS
Indigenous Knowledge-Technologies-Practices
You must either be an Indigenous person narrating your own community's Knowledge-Technologies-Practices (KTP), or if you are a person narrating on behalf of an Indigenous individual and/or community the latter must be a co-author of your Creative-Work (narrate in a manner that does not reveal details of KTP so that any misappropriation by others is prevented).
Indigenous Retelling & Telling
A retelling or telling of past and/or current events from the perspective of an Indigenous individual and/or community.
Indigenous Survivance
A sharing of Indigenous individuals,especially women, being vanished by various actors and/or of the persevering of Indigenous communities, especially in the face of vanishings.
REGENERATIVE
Ecoweb Regeneration
About restoring, revitalizing, generating, and/or nurturing one or more ecowebs in a way that optimizes symbiotic health and wellbeing.
Human-Ecoweb Integration
About integrating one or more human communities into one or more natural or regenerated ecowebs.
Regenerative Technologies
About technologies that use materials and processes that are not extractive but instead preserve and/or regenerate ecowebs and human communities in ways that optimize symbiotic health and wellbeing.
SYSTEMS
Ecoweb-Rooted Framing
Creative-Work that conceptualizes legal-economic-governance systems in a manner that reframes them to optimize ecoweb-rooted symbiotic wellbeing, i.e., of human communities and one or more ecowebs we rely on.
Extractivism Alternatives
Creative-Work that describes human activity systems that present an alternative to extractivist systems, e.g., the cycle of sustainable generation, repeated use, and biodegradable disposal of objects, as opposed to the cycle of resource extraction, disposable commodity production, disposable use, and landfill waste generation.
Systems Reform
Creative-Work that describes concrete ideas on how to reshape legal-economic-governance and/or human activity systems in a manner that minimizes or eliminates extractivism.
WELLBEING
Art-Music-Performance
Visual art, literary art, and/or audiovisual media of music and/or performance.
Food Sovereignty
About systems that generate food in a manner that optimizes the wellbeing of human communities and the ecowebs we rely on.
Sustainable Health
About systems that optimize the mental and physical wellbeing of humans, especially those that incorporate connections to and sustainable utilization of biodiverse ecowebs and ecoweb resources.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION
Upon submitting a completed form to EaRTh, if you meet the eligibility criteria, you will receive an eligibility e-mail with a Submission Reference Number ("SRN"). You will not be able to click on the "Submit" button unless you check the box just below the scrollable text for the Non-Exclusive License to Publish ("NELP"). Once the editor(s) receive(s) your submission, we will begin substantively reviewing your Creative-Work.
REVIEW PROCESS
Your Creative-Work will be reviewed based on several criteria, including clarity, veracity, and relevance to the mission and approach of Ecosymbionts Regenerate. If your Creative-Work is accepted for publication as Content on EaRTh, a few rounds of editor-guided revision may be required before publication.
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
As per the terms detailed in the NELP, you grant EaRTh, ER, and the Śramani Institute (the nonprofit host organization of ER and EaRTh) a non-exclusive license to publish and use your Content. You will retain the copyright to your work and the right to also publish elsewhere.
Please watch the video tutorial below on how to submit your Creative-Work.