Original art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘A Sahankuri (thriving together), Sustainable Agroecological Hub Anchored in Native Knowledge, Use, and Regenerative Innovation,’ digital (2026).
Urban-centric systems and lifestyles contribute significantly to the most pressing problems, especially poverty, environmental degradation, and injustice. A network of diverse Sahankuri (Sustainable Agroecological Hub Anchored in Native Knowledge, Use, and Regenerative Innovation) across bioregions is a regenerative rural alternative.
Original art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘Communities are motivated to implement FiveBecomings to experience life-changing transitions,’ digital (2026).
The real possibilities afforded by a FiveBecomings project greatly motivate Indigenous/rural people to help implement a shared vision for an equitable and regenerative future that enables them to experience many types of life-changing transitions impossible in the mainstream extractive system.
Original art by Kakoli Mitra: ‘Poverty as a result of communities being severed from their ecowebs,’ digital (2025).
The mainstream defines poverty in terms of low income, advocating for interventions that increase monetary livelihoods. Conversely, FiveBecomings’ approach to alleviate poverty is to enable communities to themselves fulfill their basic needs by restoring their ecosymbiotic self-reliance, thus bypassing money.
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’.
