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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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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.

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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.

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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!

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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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Tools exist for peace making, for public health for ecosystem protection for community wellbeing. Often they are the least expensive, least technical option. They take time and care. But most of all they take leaders who are oriented to protection of life and away from mass death.

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When a system gives you a result, over and over, across time and across sectors, and across geographies consider if it may be a feature and not a bug.

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Maya Angelou is famous for saying, "when someone show you who they are believe them the first time." That works for systems too.

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Higher quality information declining as news outlets lay off workers or go out of business.

Lower quality information rising with AI generated torrents.

And yet...healthy systems require timely and accurate information, nonetheless.

Systems can not execute goal-seeking behavior (whether achieving a climate target or meeting the needs of population) with distorted information flows.

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Where in your life do you see people doing a really good job working across the silos, disciplines, and jurisdictions that sometimes fracture systems into parts? Innovative budgeting processes? Really effective collaboratives? Mutual aid networks?

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