Category: Systems Thinking
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Earth Day Every Day: Re-thinking our Relationship with the Earth
This Earth Day let’s look deeper at the problems behind the problems in our world. What would it mean for us to begin a discussion about changing the way we perceive the world and how we act in it? This Earth Day, ask yourself what’s the story you have about the Earth? What is your…
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Crafting Sustainability: Counter-culture Movements and Sustainable Development Goals
In my blog posts Spooncarving- a ‘gateway drug’ to pro-environmental behaviour and landscape advocacy? and Craft is good for your Health I have been exploring the connections between practising crafts and skills and the benefits for both individuals and society. Their have been a few social movements that have recognised the power of craft beyond its utility, and I…
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Trusting the Process and letting things Emerge in the Dog Days of Summer
Magpie and I have just returned from the vet in Cheltenham, Ontario, to see how his his foot is getting on after a run-in with a car in the drive way. There remains only a quarter-moon sliver of rawness now where before there was what seemed to be a Grand Canyon of spilt flesh and…
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The Certainty Merchants
In the past year or so I have been undergoing a transition in my thinking and practice away from conservation ecology into a more socio-ecological position. there are no wildlife problems after all,only human ones right? Ive always been interested in systems thinking and complexity ever since reading Fritjof Kapra’s Web of Life, but I’m…
James T Jones 