The enclosure of the commons began almost 600 years ago, causing the widespread loss of community self-reliance and resulting in inequity and ecocide. FiveBecomings projects aim to reverse the enclosure of the commons, thereby (re-)establishing ecology-rooted integrated community self-reliance.
Bill Weber talks about the history of the family of his maternal great-grandmother, whose great-grandfather was Luis Maria Peralta, a sergeant in the Spanish Empire’s army, who was granted almost 45,000 acres of land in the San Francisco East Bay.
The Campaign to Defend Nature and People (CDNP) seeks to unite the struggles of nature-dependent communities against the extractive system through political action and envisions alternatives that privilege nature instead of considering it as a mere resource to be exploited.
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.
An African-American worker-owner of the Mandela Grocery cooperative in West Oakland, California, James Bell shares his passion for bringing fresh, nutritious produce to his community that has been living in a food desert for many years.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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."
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.”
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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.
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.
