Food Rescue Program Spreads in Colorado
A group of three impassioned friends, all under the age of 30, started Boulder Food Rescue in August of 2011 with the goal of introducing the problems of waste and want to one another, and with the...
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The Science of “Enlivenment” and the Commons
This article originally appeared on Bollier.org. It introduces Andreas Weber's essay, “Enlivenment: Towards a Fundamental Shift in the Concepts of Nature, Culture, and Politics,” which Shareable is...
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Enlivenment: Towards a Fundamental Shift in the Concepts of Nature, Culture,...
Preface Our mono-cultural worldview is literally preventing us from understanding the deeper causes of our multiple crises. Author Andreas Weber, in the below essay, gives us a glimpse of the different...
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Enlivening the Crisis: Looking Beyond the Current Ideology of Death
…essay continued from the Introduction. Chapter 1. This essay tries to describe the contemporary situation on our planet from a new perspective. When I use the term "contemporary situation,“ I refer to...
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Bioeconomics: The Hidden Megascience
…essay continued from Chapter 1. Chapter 2. In this section I want to explore on a more specific level why we living beings have mostly forgotten or marginalized the notion of life. To do this, I wish...
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Life-as-Meaning: Biopoetics as Paradigm for Living Relationships
…essay continued from Chapter 2. Chapter 3. More than a decade ago, writing in the journal Science, the molecular biologist Richard Strohmann foresaw a paradigm shift that he termed the “organic turn...
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Natural Anti-Capitalism: Biospheric Householding as the Foundation of an...
… essay continued from Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Enlivenment means to get back to living reality as the inspiration and insight for all areas of science. This sounds like an essentialist position, the...
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From Enlivenment to Shared Livelihoods: The Emergence of a Commons-Based Economy
… essay continued from Chapter 4. Chapter 5. The enlivenment approach is not just an abstract philosophical re-imagining of the world. It is an emerging reality in countless corners of the earth. The...
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First-Person-Science: Towards a Culture of Poetic Objectivity
… essay continued from Chapter 5. Chapter 6. For the last 400 years or so science has relied on an “objectivity” provided by rational thinking and measurements. The empirical method introduced by the...
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Basic Principles of Enlivenment: Working with Paradoxes
… essay continued from Chapter 6. Chapter 7. In the poem “Like a countless bird,” the late French Caribbean author and political philosopher Edouard Glissant wrote about a new poetic epistemology that...
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