Original art by Palash Das: ‘Maya understanding and expressing her ecoself,’ digital (2020).
The fifth sector (Ākāś) of FiveBecomings, where activities related to personal evolution, i.e., understanding and expressing (realizing) the ecoself, take place, is vitally important. Creativity-assisted introspection must be incorporated into ‘development’ paradigms, if we truly wish to decolonize them.
Women in Rajasthan (India), using their local Knowledge-Technologies-Practices (Knowtep) to make regenerative essential commodities (Photograph by Kakoli Mitra, November 2024).
FiveBecomings projects work with rural Women’s Councils to lead efforts to (re)establish ecosymbiotic self-reliance for their communities, i.e., sustainably generate the commodities and services to fulfill their basic needs from their local ecoweb, based on the communities’ local/Indigenous Knowledge-Technologies-Practices (Knowtep).
Ross Jackson shares why co-founded the Gaia Trust and the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) decades ago and the role he sees ecovillages playing now, and in the future, namely being an alternative to living within mainstream extractivist systems.
An urban garden designated as 'habitat' by the region.
Theo Ferguson shares her passion for gardening and sustainable ecological practices, as she talks about and shows the designated habitat she and the members of her urban housing community have created in Berkeley, California (United States).
