My weekly compile of interesting digital happenstances, conversations, networks and confluence nodes of information, now you will see the development of thought ideas and strands emerge…
READING
Sad to hear about the death of a a great leader, a lovely tribute to Tony Hsieh by people who knew him.
Tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face shed light on people and animals from 12,500 years ago, Guardian article.
I am in love with all that is New Zealands Xlabs. I want this kind of innovative action for Ireland. This is the kind of work I want to be involved in and link to at a global and national level. The action lab on tourism has definite direction for our future nature first economy.
The Center for Emergent Diplomacy is a social-profit think tank exploring radical diplomatic processes from the frontier of whole systems theory and practice. We focus a laser beam on the underlying causes of failure and negotiate direct actions that lead to a more just and resilient future for all.
Funding Female Founders: If Male VCs Won’t Do It, Women Angels And Limited Partners Will, Forbes article.
I don’t want equality so we can add to GDP. I want equality because women and girls matter. Dame Ellen MacArthur said in a recent interview that by educating women and girls we will mitigate the climate crisis.
https://womanity.org/
Rob Shorter the creator of The Wheel of Joy (my name for it) an astonishing tool otherwise known as the imagination sundial and I were in a conversation about education, knowledge and action labs. Our conversation moved to readiness and seeding ideas. He mentioned Prosocial World and shared Y2 Tools to Act an amazing tome of brilliant work and inspiration. I’ve ordered a physical copy I can’t wait for it to arrive so I can leaf through the inspiring tome that it is.
My sense this is work very much based in my former artist social research practice. I am reminded of that work more and more as I connect with a whole network of people through the Doughnut Economics Action Lab. My creative social research practice blended community arts and education, designing open outcomes for engagement to bring communities together for connection, leadership and resilience. I was forced to stop working this way because of a dangerous driver and injuries from a road collision December 2014.
20 Creative Ideas for Online Gatherings Using Zoom (or similar)
Our boundaries are all wrong. Article from The Good Mens project.
How to Structure Your Day Like a Stoic article.
I met Danielea Castell at Flourishing Futures and was delighted to reconnect with her, experiencing her work and understanding it further as she was part of the hosting group in The Spirit of Canada, see below events. A woman of great soul, a nature empath and musician.
Innovation starts when you fall off the edge of the playground. From that article I ended up in a bit of a rabbit hole and all sorts of gobbledygook acronyms about the future being close. I am deeply reminded of #6 conclusion in Six Impossible Things
SIX. The future influences the past.
Six Impossible things author John Gribbin
#VUCACEL: building on the military reference of VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous), we see Convergence, Exponential, and Liminal emerging as equally important elements that will permeate every facet of our lives from website here. I just see a lot of men, promoting men and their thinking, infact I am sure they are very ‘learned’ and prestigious and knowledgeable but fuck I’m so fed up of listening to white men.
I’ve been living the decelerating trends \ green text for at least a decade.
We are living the future now.
I’m trying to understand and learn more about the Commons – being driven from DEAL and Doughnut Economics engagement:
European Commons Assembly
Meagan who was one of 3 presentations on Chapter 2 in IDEN Bookclub recommended John Thackra whose work I am familiar with
describe how communities the world over are creating a replacement, leave-things-better economy from the ground up.
WATCH
If you know nothing about the circular economy start here
Suggested watching from Donna Gartland IDEN bookclub Doughnut Economics Chapter 3:
EVENTS
Attending UNESCO Futures Literacy Summit
Attended:
The excellent launch of CIRCULEIRE
CIRCULÉIRE is a public-private partnership created by Irish Manufacturing Research and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and EIT Climate-KIC with 25 Founding Industry Members.
Between 2020 and 2022, CIRCULÉIRE will take manufacturers and their supply-chains on a journey from linear to circular business models through baselining, auditing, business case development and deep demonstration innovation projects delivering significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) (Scope 1, 2 and 3) and in waste production across the network.
https://circuleire.ie/
The Spirit of Canada Dialogues host on-boarding over last weekend, wonderful group of people exploring the use of the constellation modality to host conversations in communities and hold polarised conversations.
Last Night A Distributed Cooperative Organization Saved My Life: A brief introduction to DisCOs. I participated in a training about DisCOs on Monday and I definitely will be exploring their principles further and how this might support an idea I’m thinking about and researching for bringing circular economy local. When I say local think community and I mean natural, economic, social communities.
I must write about agency, power, action.
Roisin Markham 
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