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As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon #reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.”

As Elizabeth Gilbert writes, Robin Kimmerer is “a great teacher, and her words are a hymn of love to the world.” The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that “hoarding won’t save us, all flourishing is mutual.”

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@CindySue @bookstodon

"Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival"
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Petra van Cronenburg

#GoodNews: Fans of #RobinWallKimmerer know the importance of #reciprocity. "The notion of reciprocity between humans and the rest of the living world is receiving increasing attention in the environmental sciences and science–policy international bodies." A discussion to contribute to the evolution of #IBPES besjournals.onlinelibrary.wile by Sandra Diaz + Unai Pascual @upascual.bsky.social

#nature#reconnectingWithNature#ecology
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The Quiet Revolutionary

I've been collecting fountain pens for a few decades. But I never use them. People throw 20-30 pens away each year with billions of them in landfill.

So this is it! I'm going disposable pen free! From now on it's a potent mix of soil AND ink under my fingernails!

Plus, of course, they are beautiful
They're appropriate technology too! I'm a sucker for something that can outlast me and be recycled.

an array of fountain pens with the word Reciprocity written above them in black ink
#fountainpens#reciprocity#sppropriatetechnology
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Mx Verda

I only just started this book and I fucking love it. Please read. Thank.

osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/

but no srsly, thank you for considering it. It feels like talking to a friend who Knows how fucked up your family is.

You've been away for a while, so you're shielded from the worst of their damaging tantrums, but uncompromising bare facts of the situation still sober you up somehow.

osupress.oregonstate.eduIndigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge | OSU PressWith more than fifty contributors, Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge offers important perspectives by Indigenous Peoples on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous value systems. The book aims to educate and inspire readers about the importance of decolonizing how Indigenous Knowledges are considered and used outside of Native communities. By including the work of Indigenous storytellers, poets, and scholars from around the globe, editor Lara Jacobs and chapter authors effectively explore the Indigenous value systems—relationships, reciprocity, and responsibility—that are fundamental to Indigenous Knowledge systems and cultures. Indigenous languages and positionality statements are featured for each of the contributors to frame their cultural and geographical background and to allow each Indigenous voice to lead discussions and contribute critical discourse to the literature on Indigenous Knowledges and value systems. By creating space for each of these individual voices, this volume challenges colonial extraction norms and highlights the importance of decolonial methods in understanding and protecting Indigenous Knowledges. Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge is an essential resource for students, academics, members of Tribal, state, and federal governments, Indigenous communities, and non-Indigenous allies as well as a valuable addition to environmental and Indigenous studies collections.   Contributors include: Melinda M. Adams, Joe Anderson, Coral Avery, Andrew Kalani Carlson, Kathryn Champagne, Brandie Makeba Cross, Joanna M. DeMeyer, Jonathan James Fisk, Pat Gonzales-Rogers, Celina Gray, Rhode Grayson, Zena Greenawald, Jennifer Grenz, Joy Harjo, Mandi Harris, Jessica Hernandez, Victor Hernandez, David Iniguez, Michelle M. Jacob, Lara A. Jacobs, Lydia L. Jennings, Eileen Jimenez, Stephanie Kelley, David G. Lewis, Tomás A. Madrigal, Tara McAllister, Lauren Wendelle Yowelunh McLester-Davis, Angeles Mendoza, Kat Milligan-McClellan, Todd A. Mitchell swəlítub, Don Motanic, ‘Alohi Nakachi, Kaikea Nakachi, Kobe , Natachu, Ululani Kekahiliokalani Brigitte Russo Oana, Jennifer R. O’Neal, Lily Painter, Britt Postoak, Leasi Vanessa Lee Raymond, Anamaq Margaret H. C. Rudolf, Oral Saulters, Sam Schimmel, Paulette Steeves, Joni Tobacco, Angelo Villagomez, Vivi Vold, Margaret Palaghicon Von Rotz, Luhui Whitebear, Joseph Gazing Wolf, Monique Wynecoop, and Cherry YEW Yamane.
#book#BookTok#BookLovers
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Jon Awbrey

Basal Ingredients Of Society • ℞
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02

❝THE SOCIAL COMPACT❞

❝If then we discard from the social compact what is not of its essence, we shall find that it reduces itself to the following terms:

❝“Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.”❞

Reference —

Jean Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract”, G.D.H. Cole (trans.), Great Books of The Western World, Volume 38.

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability

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Jon Awbrey

Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue
• inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02

I settled on the acronym BIOS to suggest the vital elements of life in society, a life in association with others, and not just any association but one whose flickers of life are sustained for more than a few vicissitudes of history. Sustainability in that life requires democracy, a society based on a distinctive form of social compact.

• academia.edu/community/54MZbO
• bsky.app/profile/inquiryintoin
• researchgate.net/post/Basal_In

#AdaptiveSystems #Cybernetics #Democracy #Governance
#Inquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems #LearningOrganizations
#Reciprocity #Rousseau #SocialCompact #Sustainability

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FreeSchool = W🔁rk T🔁gether☑

TABLE OF CONTENTS & CHAPTERS
(Interesting list)

Chapter 1: Beyond Alarm, Toward Action
Chapter 2: Refusing to Abandon
Chapter 3: Care is Fundamental
Chapter 4: Think Like a Geographer
Chapter 5: Rejecting #Cynicism
Chapter 6: ‘Violence’ in Social Movements
Chapter 7: Don’t Pedestal Organizers
Chapter 8: Hope and Grief Can Co-exist
Chapter 9: Organizing Isn’t Matchmaking
Chapter 10: Avoiding #Burnout

Conclusion: #Relationships, #Reciprocity, and #Struggle

Conclusion: Beyond #Doom, Toward #Collective Action

Afterword: #Movements Make Life

Closing #Invitation

Reflecting on #Ideas

Self-Reflection for Organizers

Movement #Assessment

Resources

Direct Actions

Activist/Organizer Wisdom

#Bibliography

Other Useful Resources

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Source:
Let This Radicalize You - Organizing and the Revolution of #Reciprocal #Care

#Book + #Workbook about #Care #Revolution #Climate #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #Activism #DirectAction

#PDF of Workbook: 97Mb

➡️ Download Page
haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-

➡️ or Direct Download:

haymarketbooks.org/pdfs/25

haymarketbooks.orgLet This Radicalize You Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.
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