What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?

These emerging political imaginaries take on the intellectual work of breaking out of the polarisation between a wholly human-centric worldview (of the kind found in orthodox economics and most twentieth-century politics) and the extreme ecological view in which humans are to be despised and rejected. Such a reconnection was the promise of complexi

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First, all such systems exhibit a hierarchical organization. In living systems, proteins combine to form organelles, which combine to form cell types, and so on, through organs, organisms, species, and ultimately ecologies. Economies involve individuals, departments, divisions, companies, economic sectors, and so on, until one reaches national, reg

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(6) This worldview of a single reality and a single world is profoundly defuturing, to invoke Australian design theorist Fry’s (1999) concept. To recover the ability to imagine other possible futures requires going beyond the modernist ontology of separation and toward an ontology that acknowledges the interdependence of everything that exists. Int

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We are approaching the biggest ecological collapse in 65 million years. The urgency of this moment demands a different kind of thinking — one that puts life at the centre of every decision. In conversation with Standard Deviation, we explore visions for a regenerative future, and what it means to give back much more than we take.