🧵 #GoodNews The news is some months old but I missed it: When the Times Magazine published its famous list of The 100 Most Influential People in 2025, #RobinWallKimmerer was among them! "During a time of tremendous #environmental fear and uncertainty, we have found, to our immeasurable relief, our master teacher." https://time.com/collections/100-most-influential-people-2025/7273748/robin-wall-kimmerer/
A relief for me that persons of such an #integrity and #decency influence our world. Despite being quiet they make an impact.

#hope #reciprocity #indigenous

Normally I don't recommend links before I didn't read/checked them myself. But #natureWriter Robert MacFarlane recommended this #essay about the Eco-Cultural #Revitalization on the #Klamath. Text by Ben Goldfarb with photos by Kiliii Yüyan: https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-river-reborn/
And as a fan of him and @emergencemagazine I believe it is brillant and will read it later! (MacFarlane, Goldfarb, and #EmergenceMagazine are now on Bsky).

#river #ecology #reciprocity #salmon #indigenousPeople #longreads

I love changing my #perspective by slipping into the most impossible roles. It helps me see everyday things with new eyes. When I became this cute little green #alien, this is the result:

🐸 a downloadable mini #zine as #HowTo #shift your perspective: https://ko-fi.com/s/700d3d3138

🌱 a photo reportage about a #space #moss #expedition: https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/d242349d-fa59-4af8-a834-c93d580a4039

🐸 more infos about #zines and how to fold them: https://www.cronenburg.net/zines/

#reciprocity #natureWriting #nature #solarpunk #cartoon #education

My opinion - Foreign media in countries like #Australia, where this piece ran, shouldn't publish #Chinese government op-eds unless #China's state media publishes foreign diplomat op-eds.

#Reciprocity is a basic tenet of #diplomacy and should be enforced in the #digital and #media spaces.

Distressed friend demands help: Even support systems need clear boundaries. Demanding emotional labour without consent violates the Principle of Reciprocity and drains energy. We move from Corrupted Code (Force) to Clean Code (Power).

Scenario: A friend is in crisis and demands immediate emotional support late at night, despite repeated hints the recipient is busy. The friend replies:

❌ Corrupted Code (Force):
"I need to talk right now, I'm having a crisis. Just drop what you're doing, I can't handle this alone." (Demands immediate, non-consensual labor, ignoring the recipient's boundaries.)

✅ Clean Code (Power):
"I'm having a crisis and need support. Are you in a good space to talk for a few minutes now? If not, please let me know when might work for you tomorrow." (Asks for consent; respects the recipient's agency and energy.)

The difference? The second message respects the recipient’s energy system. What boundary can you clearly state today?

#SystemsLeadership #EmotionalLabor #Reciprocity #CleanCode

“All that you touch, you change.
All that you change changes you.”

Octavia Butler names the reciprocity we all live inside of — ecological, emotional, relational.
A reminder that transformation isn’t something we do to the world; we change with it.

#OctaviaButler #Reciprocity #MutualBecoming #RelationalEcology #LifeboatAcademy #SlowSocial

Kimmerer’s reminder lands softly but precisely: restoration is empty without relationship. What lasts is the reciprocity we build with place — the ongoing, living exchange that outlives any single intervention.

#BraidingSweetgrass #Reciprocity #RelationalEcology

"The land doesn’t forget who listened. Neither do people." L. Nault

#Listening #Respect #Connection #Legacy #Reciprocity

I am considering this option in my life: the ability for people to pay me money, in return for my opinions and understandings. I believe this is part of the attention economy and the information and data economy, where engagement must be reciprocal and mutually beneficial. It seems that my attention and understanding are not yet widely sought after, so it makes sense to implement this.

#attentioneconomy #informationeconomy #monetisation #opinion #value #data #reciprocity #business #strategy

Collapse is hitting our sector, and Ben names what many in purpose-driven work already feel: the old economy is thinning, and relational alternatives are emerging in the cracks.

Farmastery + Lifeboat Academy are prototypes of those alternatives. To get through this lean season, two supports matter:
• contributions
• consulting referrals for Ben

If this work lands for you, read + boost:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-177223686

#reciprocity #returnonrelationship #communityresilience #postcollapsepractice

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Toadlyturtle/115554755824379271

Can we stop seeing #MutualAid as #transactional please? #Reciprocal yes, transactional no. And we must allow that #reciprocity isn't always direct. Otherwise, are we not simply uplifting #capitalist paradigms of #hierarchical value?

I keep seeing trends wherein those in pain, grieving or ill get dropped.

I know that I haven't uplifted as much, while ill and grieving and in many ways never have enough, but my loved ones are in danger and they need uplifted. Please!!

Hawken’s critique of GDP lands hard because it’s true:
we’ve normalised the extraction of the future and called it “growth.”

Witnessing this honestly is part of ecological grief — not to paralyse us, but to clarify the work ahead.
Peace, in this context, becomes a practice of repair, reciprocity, and community-scale regeneration.

#Regeneration #Degrowth #EcologicalGrief #Reciprocity #FutureCommons #MutualCare #LifeboatAcademy

What if fear is feedback? And what if feedback becomes flow?

Ben’s new piece on moving from ledgers to living rhythm.

👇 Read + let your nervous system respond:
https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-canary-and-the-ledger

#RelationalEconomy #SystemsChange #Guilds #Reciprocity #OutgrowingModernity

Digesting Food Studies (the CFS podcast)—Episode 102: Teaching about Food Studies

https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2172786/

Learning about food and food systems goes way beyond classroom lectures, involving #power and #justice, #reciprocity and #listening, getting your hands into #soil and getting your heart in a roil. It’s a full mind-body experience!

This episode features Jennifer Sumner and Michael Classens, two leaders in critical teaching and learning about food systems—and guest editors of the Food Pedagogies issue of Canadian Food Studies (Vol. 8 No. 4)… Alexia Moyer explores the kinds of school environments that support food learning before post-secondary education, and in the “After Taste,” Eric Schofield responds to “Toward a Common Understanding of Food Literacy,” by Kimberley Hernandez, Doris Gillis, Kathleen Kevany, and Sara Kirk.

#DigestingFoodStudies
#Pedagogy
#TeachingAndLearning
#SchoolGardens
#Education
#FoodLiteracy
#FoodPodcast
#FoodSystems
#PaoloFreire
#FoodJustice

image: Lucy Godoy

Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday, @lifeboatacademy !

#WhenThePeopleRise #Decolonize #Reciprocity #RegenerativeAgriculture #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #decolonization

We don’t inherit the Earth — we borrow it.
The question is, how will we return it?

#farmastery #lifeboatacademy #reciprocity #collapseaware

A handful of earth.
A tree that stands by itself.
A hand that will one day be gone.

Hold on to what is good.

#LifeboatAcademy #Farmastery #Crowfoot #EarthWisdom #Reciprocity #RelationalGoods #SlowResilience #Enoughness #EcologicalMaturity #Degrowth

Each meme a breath in the same long prayer: rise, stir, rebuild, speak.
Words are medicine when they come from the ground up.
#WordsAsMedicine #Reciprocity #HealingTheLand #Resilience #Interdependence #Listening #Restoration #LivingLanguage #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy

#Trump #Insults #Humor #Reciprocity #Alt

Rising from the ground up — the work of remembering we belong to what we tend.
#WhenThePeopleRise #Decolonize #Reciprocity #RegenerativeAgriculture #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #decolonization