Part 1: Original Art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations,’ digital (2025).
The Sustainable Development Goals provide a shared vocabulary and measurable targets that partially illuminate the impact of FiveBecomings projects, yet these must be reinterpreted through ecosymbiotic self-reliance, relational wellbeing, and community sovereignty beyond extractivist models of ‘development’.
Original Art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘Eight categories of interventions to effect climate resilience/stabilization,’ digital (2025).
Aspects of the impact of FiveBecomings projects on climate resilience and stabilization can be understood in part through the lens of eight categories of interventions that globally active organizations champion, from reducing fossil fuel use to increasing carbon capture.
Original Art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘Human Rights,’ digital (2025).
Efforts to improve the quality of life of human communities, like the FiveBecomings projects, are often assessed through the lens of human rights, necessitating an understanding of the historical context and limitations of the human rights framework.
Little Bear talks about his organization’s food pantry project, which he leads, and through which they distribute fresh produce and prepared foods to marginalized community members, such as unhoused people and residents of West Oakland (California, United States).
