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Participatory Ecology
Soil of Existence | Living For Life From Life.
Look at it. The Earth. Our home. The only place we know life exists.
Oceans move. Forests grow. Landscapes form. Organisms live, die, and become part of other life. The atmosphere, soil, sea, and living beings participate in the conditions that allow life to continue.
Nothing exists in isolation.
And somewhere within this immense ecology, humanity has become capable of participating intentionally, changing the conditions under which life continues.
We build cities, cultivate land, develop technologies, create institutions, and organize our lives together. Our participation reaches further than ever before.
Participatory Ecology addresses the question:
How can we participate more sanely in a world whose future we share?
We Exist, Therefore We Participate
Although we see ourselves as individuals standing in the world, observing it, and deciding what to do, we are already part of what is happening.
We breathe the atmosphere. We depend on other living beings. We inherit languages, cultures, knowledge, and ways of living.
