Jun 8, 2021What makes life truly worth living (in the face of Death)?Update: This article was written a couple of years ago, before the Covid pandemic. This situation has brought home to many more people the stark awareness that our civilization is breaking down on multiple fronts. The questions posed in this article are even more relevant now. Climate change has not…Mortality10 min readMortality10 min read
Published inLiving Systems Network·Mar 26, 2021About Living Systems Network-Part I“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.” ~Margaret J. Wheatley. Living Systems Network is part of a growing global movement that is regenerative, distributed, and mutually beneficial by design. Through the sharing of knowledge and other resources in our local context, we…Vancouver6 min readVancouver6 min read
Published inLiving Systems Network·Nov 18, 2020Whose Land Is This? Stewardship over OwnershipAt the beginning of every event in the coFood Collaborative Garden, we acknowledge that we gather, work and play on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples: namely the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. In terms of time, we are interlopers here. Our tenure is less…Regenerative Culture4 min readRegenerative Culture4 min read
Published inLiving Systems Network·Oct 28, 2019A garden as an act of rebellion . . .In my first post in this series, titled Our Collaborative Garden: an “island of sanity” , I described how a small privately-owned urban site has been transformed into a beautiful gathering place for neighbours to learn, play and grow together in love and harmony with Nature. We are in the…Community Building7 min readCommunity Building7 min read
Published inLiving Systems Network·May 9, 2019Member-onlyOur Collaborative Garden: An “island of sanity”In 2010, I purchased a small vacant lot across the street from where I have lived and worked for almost 20 years- in the Brewery Creek neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, When I say small, I mean just over 2000 square feet- less than half an acre. With money from…Urban Agriculture6 min readUrban Agriculture6 min read
