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bethsawin

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Director of the Multisolving Institute - addressing #climate, #health, #equity, and #biodiversity as connected issues. she/her

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Just wrote my next "letter from the director" to come out in June. This one is about how this gardening project had me thinking about salmon, trains, justice & Joanna Macy's Great Turning. If that sounds interesting there's time to sign up to receive...https://www.multisolving.org/#newsletter

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Every multisolving project is different, but the leadership style of multisolvers - what we call Multisolving Way - is actually quite consistent. Join this webinar to learn about these common elements. https://bit.ly/MultisolvingWayWebinar

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My town email list-serve is full of celebratory bird sightings, vernal pool posts & amphibian crossing concerns. Despite centuries of culture, economics & education shouting that we are separate from nature and one another, people still want the frogs to make it across the road.

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I'm at the nettle picking. No, I'm at the seed starting. Actually, I'm at the wander around and look at the fruit trees blooming. No, I'm at the weeding the wild garden bed. Oh wait, I'm at the yay the the hummingbirds are back. That's right, I'm at the Saturday in May.

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You know this planet with auroras and eclipses? It has orchids, grass snakes & mangoes too. Rainbow trout and diatoms and self-organizing college students and star fish. What are the odds of it all & how about a just and equitable economy and then living lives of awestruck peace?

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So my daughters - a chef and a photographer - have written a cookbook together, and I'm part of the recipe testing crew. Today's assignment: maple panna cotta with rhubarb compote, which I'm making for my own mother for mother's day. Will report back.

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May your society grow food in a way that doesn't imperil the bird and mammal worlds with viruses, the insect world with chemicals, the climate with heat trapping gases, and the oceans with dead zones.
-- a wish for us all

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It may be that the college students, who learned in elementary school that the government wouldn't keep them safe from shooters or keep them safe from a pandemic or hand them a livable climate, also learned that they keep each other safe, and that no change is scarier than change. May clarity and courage be contagious.

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This #EarthDay2024 I'd like to introduce you a friend of mine. World, please meet "Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World" which will look more like a book & less like a binder in a patch of daffodils when it's released by IslandPress in fall 2024!

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My wishes for this book and you, its possible reader, (with a few spring photos just for the sake of joy) a 🧵about what I tried my hardest to offer as I wrote...

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(If you don't have time for a 🧵, but want to keep up with the book as I know more about release date and events pls sign up for the Multisolving Institute newsletter here: https://multisolving.org/#newsletter)

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For the overwhelmed - I hope the book offers a way to think about change, about scale, about emergence, about steering through crises and uncertainty. If there's any of that wisdom in the pages h/t to my three most important teachers Donella Meadows, Joanna Macy, and my garden.

bethsawin,
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For those hungry for I've done my best to share what I know about that. If you've always been interested in systems but maybe have been put off by lots of math, charts & diagrams you might like that my book is high on systems concepts but low on systems diagrams.

bethsawin,
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Last but definitely not least: for those who are - acting at intersections of equity, climate, health, biodiversity, water & more- well I hope you feel recognized & celebrated, and I hope this gives you kick ass new citation for your next grant proposal!

bethsawin,
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More to come: many people to thank, more about events & where to purchase. And the part I most look forward to - a conversation, that I hope will emerge, among multislovers, much richer than any one book could ever be. Please stay in touch to join in. https://multisolving.org/#newsletter

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Seems unlikely that markets, narrowly designed, with externalities and power imbalances built in, are going to solve the problems that markets, narrowly designed, with externalities and power imbalances built in created.

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If you want people to work across silos you have to fund and support people to work across silos. You have to put collaboration in their job description. You have to build project timetables to include time to listen, learn, and converse.

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Everybody wants win-win-wins. Far less than everybody is willing to support what it takes to get them.

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In an interconnected world we need interconnected people with the courage and the skills to span the silos that have chopped the world into pieces.

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Our local science museum is collecting eclipse glasses (after the eclipse) for Astronomers Without Borders who will get them to the people wherever the next eclipse is. Eclipses for the people! Eclipses for the reuse economy!

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I believe this: Because life is self-organizing and regenerating, even the very tiny shifts we make away from harm and towards sustenance of life open up possibilities that compound upon themselves.

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It's not just a park, a food forest, a fair trade organic banana, a pre-school with free breakfast - it's also all the descendants of that one tired butterfly that needed that shrub in that park to lay her eggs. Etc.

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Don't minimize the ripples of the healing work you do just because it starts small and humble.

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I'm very grateful for an invitation to speak at a webinar organized by Elders Climate Action March 26th at 7PM ET. I'm aiming to make it super-interactive. If you've seen other webinars of mine, this one might be a little different. I think it will be fun! https://www.eldersclimateaction.org/event/nc_march24/

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I learned from a beekeeper friend last night that they didn't get a honey harvest last fall because of the unusually high humidity all summer. The bees fanned & fanned & fanned, trying to evaporate the nectar to concentrate it into honey & they couldn't do it against all that moisture in the air.

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And now I have a new metaphor for all of us, individuals, businesses, communities, working so hard, running in place, trying to get systems that were designed for a different climate to produce some sweetness anyway and sometimes just not getting it. Exhaustion can be a climate change symptom.

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