Roisin Markham

This is part of my regular documenting, assimilation & sharing of my digital harvesting. Weeds or green manure is a question about if I’m cultivating too many tabs open in my browsers… as a nature lover and gardener the idea of green manure really speaks to me. Green manure are plants that are grown and forked into the soil to enrich it. Weeds on the other hand are just plants in the wrong place! There are no weeds in wild spaces. Weeds tend to produce a lot of seeds and are excellent at dispersing them.

Climate

^EVENT: Mainstreaming Biodiversity in the Decade of Action A virtual symposium during Spring 2021 Biodiversity Weekly events Jan – March.

BT Young Scientist online exhibition

^Training: One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership, also known as UN CC:Learn, is a collaborative initiative of 36 multilateral organizations working together to help countries build the knowledge and skills they need to take action on climate change. These include better climate literacy and other crucial skills to tackle this challenge.

1 Trillion trees, Salesforce’s commits to planting 10000 trees an amazing project including a local, hyper local project in North Wexford.

https://kumu.io/ellenmacarthurfoundation/educational-resources#circular-economy-general-resources-map/key-for-general-resources-map

EU Biodiversity strategy for 2030

The economic and social costs of inaction include

• biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, two of the biggest threats facing humanity in the next decade
• economic and social costs. The world already lost an estimated €3.5-18.5 trillion per year in ecosystem services from 1997 to 2011, and an estimated €5.5-10.5 trillion per year from land degradation. Biodiversity underpins EU and global food security.  Biodiversity loss risks puts our food systems and nutrition at risk
• reduced crop yields and fish catches, increased economic losses from flooding and other disasters, and the loss of potential new sources of medicine
• more than 75% of global food crop types rely on animal pollination
• on average, global mean crop yields of rice, maize and wheat are projected to decrease between 3% and 10% per degree of warming above historical levels.

The Essential Travel Forecast Report 2021 (Part 4) – Responsible Tourism is an area I’m interested to run a Wild Ideas lab on.

Forum for the future

2018 global mapping of the circular economy thanks to Deirdre Lane for sharing this resource with me. One of the insight from this study was ‘what is circularity and what is not‘ 3 years on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has Measuring Circularity tools and courses of study to address this.

I’ve a developing list of available free and paid for study opportunities introductions, short course and longer commitments all outside the traditional bastion of higher education. This along with how to find a job that matters, especially in relation to climate change I’m mapping my journey and building into a resource for others, more on that later.

Notion.so how to, learn to use the app look at this Brain-trust set up in Airtable but embed in the excellent Work on Climate Notion resource. The brain trust is something I want to build for the emerging Irish Doughnut Economics Network.
I was looking at Airtable because it and Notion.so are featured in Nocodefounders and that is something that makes me curious, finding great digital tools that allows you to figure things and produce work… breadcrumbs and more plotting for sure.

ClimateScape Our mission is to organize the global ecosystem of organizations fighting climate change. Our website includes a directory of thousands of companies, investors, NGOs, and other organizations that support climate solutions.

Design

Systemic patterns — supporting process design and facilitation

Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking by Leyla Acaroglu

Nora Bateson on Warm Data – Systems thinking.

AI creates images from text – I particularly like the avocado seat. Open AI trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.

Demanding more from technology

Racial literacy is a new method for addressing the racially disparate impacts of technology. The women behind this are Jessie Daniels, PhD, Mutale Nkonde and Darakhshan Mir, PhD.

All Tech Is Human is building the Responsible Tech pipeline by informing & inspiring the next generation of responsible technologists & changemakers. The have an active GDoc & would love your help on their project, Improving Social Media: The People, Organizations, and Ideas for a Better Tech Future

Seeds alternative money, this app has come up a few times. ‘A payment platform and financial ecosystem to empower humanity and heal our planet.’

Prospera is the hub of a dynamic and global movement of women’s funds driven to change the world for women, girls, trans* people, and their communities.
Possibly my answer to Inventing systems that work for women and girls blog post.

Articles

Why Do We Dream? A New Theory on How It Protects Our Brains

What is resilience anyway? From the urban to the organisational, from the community to the individual, we need to understand resilience as a way of living with change.

Resilience as living change

Finally, understanding resilience as living change seeks to integrate epistemic humility as a way of navigating uncertainty. It puts forward listening instead of fixing; holding space instead of heroism; bearing witness instead of solutionism; radical remembering instead of toxic nostalgia.

Corina Angheloiu on Meduim

22 Questions that ‘Complicate the Narrative’
Conversation techniques, interview questions, and stellar story examples born from a conflict mediation training — for journalists.

Why is this important to you?

Which experiences have shaped your views?

What do you want to understand about the other side?

How has this conflict affected your life?

What would change in your life if more people agreed with your stance?

What would it be like if people didn’t agree with your stance?

How an acclaimed pianist got his hands back.
João Carlos Martins gave up playing after high-tech treatments failed. Then a pair of low-tech gloves brought the music back.

I attended ‘The Power of Not Thinking: Book Launch‘ – leading business anthropologist Simon Roberts breaks down the revolutionary idea of embodied knowledge: the information that is unconsciously picked up by our body for use in almost every area of our lives.
Drawing on his own experience working with some of the world’s leading industry experts and looking at an incredible range of real-life examples and cutting-edge science, Roberts explains the various ways in which our body acquires, retains and employs information – and shows why we should learn to trust the instincts that inform the most crucial decisions and actions in our life.
In The Power of Not Thinking, Roberts shows why Big Data doesn’t have all the answers, why there are limits to what’s possible with AI and why humans are capable of far more than we are currently led to believe.
We just have to stop thinking and trust our bodies.