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Surviving and Thriving in Oakland through Creative Community-Building (1 of 2)

Loove Moore, a native of Oakland, California, talks about why he feels it is his purpose to help people in his community survive and thrive; he does this through collaborative creativity, connecting people to nature, and spreading love and support.

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How Chief Leonard Crow Dog Transformed My Way of Being (1 of 3)

As a European-American woman, Mary Curtis Ratcliff describes her evolving understanding of the Indigenous peoples of the United States and how her meeting Chief Leonard Crow Dog in the 1970s transformed her own way of living and being.

Direct Relationship-Driven Investing in Local and Small-Scale Agroecology (1 of 2)
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Direct Relationship-Driven Investing in Local and Small-Scale Agroecology (1 of 2)

The slow money movement involves direct relationship-driven investing in local, small-scale agroecology and is an effective countermeasure to government subsidies propping up ecocidal, profit-amassing industrial agribusiness. Such impact investing helps to create food systems delivering healthy food sustainably and equitably.

Local-Global Benefits of Rural FiveBecomings Projects Designed for Community Self-Reliance (1 of 2)
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Local-Global Benefits of Rural FiveBecomings Projects Designed for Community Self-Reliance (1 of 2)

Rural FiveBecomings projects are regeneratively designed multi-sector commons to which people from a cluster of villages come to learn and work together and through their own self-reliant efforts (re)establish ecology-rooted wellbeing in all aspects, with both local and global benefits.

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Time Telling by Lichen | Gouache and Ink on Paper | 9 x 6 inches | 2023
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Time Telling by Lichen | Gouache and Ink on Paper | 9 x 6 inches | 2023

i climb into their branches

use my mouth

to wet a patch of lichen 

soft gray-green 

unfurling 

spit bubbles stretching

and merging as tiny fingers 

extend

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Surviving and Thriving in Oakland through Creative Community-Building (1 of 2)

Loove Moore, a native of Oakland, California, talks about why he feels it is his purpose to help people in his community survive and thrive; he does this through collaborative creativity, connecting people to nature, and spreading love and support.

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

Ecoself: Restoring Our Wellbeing Rooted in Nature and Humanity
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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.

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Greens, Grit, and Grooves in the Lower Bottoms

James Bell, a native of West Oakland, California, US (also known as the Lower Bottoms), talks about what inspires his special brand of music: eating healthy, cooperative ethics, and life. He shares two tracks about black identity and eating nutritiously.

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How Chief Leonard Crow Dog Transformed My Way of Being (1 of 3)

As a European-American woman, Mary Curtis Ratcliff describes her evolving understanding of the Indigenous peoples of the United States and how her meeting Chief Leonard Crow Dog in the 1970s transformed her own way of living and being.