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From Orbit to Intimacy: Beyond the Overview Effect
What if the next shift in planetary consciousness didn’t come from looking back at Earth from space, but from listening deeply to the voices already here? In this thought piece I propose the “lifeworlding effect” as the overview effect of our time: one where developments in science, technology, law, and many other disciplines are revealing our entangled presence within a multispecies world.
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When We Carved Spirals: A Himalayan Diary
A travelogue from the heart of the Himalayas, a high altitude trek around Apu Manaslu the "spirit mountain". Reflections on remote village life, deep wild nature, Buddhist worship and patterns of existence.
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Selling nature in order to save it?
My new opinion piece on the perils and nuances of market-based approaches to regenerating nature.
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Extinction is loneliness
Let’s remember what extinction is. What it feels like to those who are dying. Let’s bring it closer to home, envelop it in our arms, and promise, not on my watch. Let’s be the ones who take on the old shapes, the new shapes, pouring ourselves into the voids of extinction, the cognition of our fleshy bodies and synapses fusing again to make entirely...
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Can We Grow Closer to Life by Measuring Biodiversity?
Increasingly we must wrap our minds around the sheer complexity and beauty of biodiversity. Whether it's for the development of nature-related financial disclosures, natural capital products, biodiversity bonds, or corporate risk assessments... Biodiversity is the 'hot new thing'. But can the process of measurement actually bring us closer to the living world? I think it can. But only if we apply several key concepts.