Be like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny Douglas - Accidental Gods #296
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Be like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny Douglas - Accidental Gods #296

Clean Water is part of our heritage and a basic Right of being alive. We should be able to drink from our river, swim in our seas. This week we explore the River Dôn Project which is working to create vibrant life in the whole catchment area.

Water is our lifeblood and Clean Water (along with Clean Air and Clean Soil) is one of our core Three Asks, the non-negotiable baselines that underpin a flourishing future for people and life on our planet. Getting there, means everyone beginning to care at a bone-deep level, way beneath our conscious minds and having a sense of how we might get there, supported by evidence of what works (or doesn’t) so that we can create positive feedback loops of growing community between the human and Beyond-Human worlds.

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Building networks of citizen power with James Lock of Opus in Sheffield - Accidental Gods #279
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Building networks of citizen power with James Lock of Opus in Sheffield - Accidental Gods #279

Modernity is collapsing around us. So how can we compost its remains, to grow something constructive, generative, connected communities that can act as a bridge from where we are towards that future we’d be proud to leave behind?

We all know the current system of predatory capitalism is not fit for purpose. We don’t (yet) all agree on how to fix it, but for sure, no problem is solved from the mindset that created it. So how do we begin to compost the debris of the failing system and grow something constructive, generative, connected communities that can act as a bridge from where we are towards that future we’d be proud to leave behind?

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Bridging from the Necessary to the Possible with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs - Accidental Gods #176
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Bridging from the Necessary to the Possible with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs - Accidental Gods #176

If the present system is broken – and is in fact the heart of the meta-crisis – how can we transform peacefully to something that will work to create the future we’d want to leave behind?

That’s the core question of this podcast and so it was with great joy, that I found Dark Matter Labs. DML says of itself, “We’re working to create institutions, instruments and infrastructures for a more equitable, caring and sustainable future.

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Becoming Intentional Gods: Claiming the future with Indy Johar of the Dark Matter Labs - Accidental Gods #205
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Becoming Intentional Gods: Claiming the future with Indy Johar of the Dark Matter Labs - Accidental Gods #205

We are at a moment of decision: We either step forward into our own Great Destruction, which could theoretically see us wipe out all of humanity and most of the More than Human World…Or we could step into what Indy Johar calls ‘The Great Peace’, claiming our birthright as the Interstitial Generation between the old paradigm of extraction, consumption and pollution—and the new one that could arise where we accept the interbecoming of all things, where we as individual humans take our place in a community of care and experience that encompasses all of the world.

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A Problem Well-Stated Is Half-Solved with Daniel Schmachtenberger [Unedited]
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A Problem Well-Stated Is Half-Solved with Daniel Schmachtenberger [Unedited]

One of the first steps in exploring the problem frame of the Meta-crisis that lead to the River Dôn Project

We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of these problems are actually symptoms of the same meta-problem, or meta-crisis? And what if a key leverage point for intervening in this meta-crisis is improving our collective capacity to problem-solve?

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