The Lifeboat Academy

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.” — Louise Erdrich

If the pattern seems missing, maybe we’re just zoomed in too far.
Louise Erdrich knew scale changes everything.

#LouiseErdrich #LifeboatAcademy #DesignOfTheWild #RelationalIntelligence #BiggerThanWeKnow

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “If the goal was to increase the love, rather than winning or dominating a constant opponent, I think we could actually imagine liberation from constant oppression. We would suddenly be seeing everything we do, everyone we meet, not through the tactical eyes of war, but through eyes of love. We would see that there’s no such thing as a blank canvas, an empty land or a new idea – but everywhere there is complex, ancient, fertile ground full of potential.” — adrienne maree brown

If domination worked, we’d be free by now.
Let’s lay the old power games to rest.
Increase the love.
I’ll bring the soil.
#adriennemareebrown

That's awesome, what a great idea! Gentle and frequent reminders, not edicts. Love it!

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." — Lao Tzu

Letting go ≠ losing. It’s transformation in process.

#Becoming #LaoTzu #ChangingTimes #PracticeChange #LifeboatAcademy

An entire museum filled with tens of discarded furniture, thousands of aluminum cans and other discarded items, forcing visitors to navigate through an overwhelming environment of consumer waste.

Overconsumption called.
It wants its entire living room back.

Time to redecorate the future.

Too-Too, Much-Much by Thomas Hirschhorn, 2010 (installation view, dimensions variable, found objects)

#thomashirschhorn #RegenerativeFutures #QueerEcologies #ClimateAction #CultureShift #Overconsumption

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." — James Baldwin

Love reveals who we are beneath the masks.

#JamesBaldwin #Authenticity #NightWisdom #QueerVoices #CommunityCare

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf. “And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” —J.R.R. Tolkien

We don’t choose the times — just the work that’s ours to do.

What feels like the right work for you today?

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “The one who plants trees, knowing that they will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.” — Rabindranath Tagore

The future is built by people who plant shade they’ll never sit in.
#Stewardship #Interdependence #RabindranathTagore

Our crises and our breakthroughs both begin in imagination. What new doorway are you sensing coming alive?

#Imagination #RegenerativeFutures #BillPlotkin

The Great Withholding It's a feature; not a bug

We were taught to call it the market, but it was always a negotiation with dragons.
What grows when we nurture belonging and care together?

#Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #QuietRevolution #RegenerativeCulture #PostCapitalism #RelationalEconomy #CompostTheSystem
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The Great Withholding It's a feature; not a bug

We were taught to call it the market, but it was always a negotiation with dragons.
What grows when we nurture belonging and care together?

#Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #QuietRevolution #RegenerativeCulture #PostCapitalism #RelationalEconomy #CompostTheSystem
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A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "When another person makes you suffer, it is because they suffer deeply within themselves. They do not need punishment; they need help." — Thich Nhat Hanh

Compassion is radical realism.
When another’s suffering spills over, our task is not to punish but to help.

#lifeboatacademy #livingthequestions #deepadaptation #soilandsoul #thichnhathanh

The Great Withholding It's a feature; not a bug

We were taught to call it the market, but it was always a negotiation with dragons.
What grows when we nurture belonging and care together?

#Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #QuietRevolution #RegenerativeCulture #PostCapitalism #RelationalEconomy #CompostTheSystem
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A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” — Attributed to Indigenous teachings

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

#farmastery #lifeboatacademy #reciprocity #collapseaware

IPBES ASSESSING THE VALUES OF NATURE The causes of the global biodiversity crisis and opportunities to address them are linked to the way nature is valued in political and economic decisions at all levels. But how can we assess nature's values? THE 4 "METHOD FAMILIES Nature-based valuation Gathers, measures or analyses information about the properties of nature and its contributions to people. Statement-based valuation Directly asks people to express their values. Behaviour-based valuation Identifies how people value nature by observing their behaviour and practices. Integrated valuation Brings together various types of values assessed with different information sources. There is no one-size-fits-all valuation method. The use of complementary methods helps to make a wider diversity of values visible, while improving the quality of the information generated to support decisions. IPBES #ValuesAssessment

This infographic from IPBES explains the four "method families" for assessing the values of nature. It highlights that the global biodiversity crisis is linked to how nature is valued in decisions.
#IPBES #BiodiversityLoss #metacrisis #valuesassessment

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "The real choice we face is not what to buy, whether to fly or if we have children, but whether we are willing to commit to living ethically in a broken world." — Jonathan Safran Foer

The question isn’t what to buy — it’s how to live ethically when everything feels broken.
#collapseaware #livingthequestions #lifeboatacademy #jonathansafranfoer

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “We ignite not in the light, but in lack thereof, For it is in loss that we truly learn to love. In this chaos, we will discover clarity. In suffering, we must find solidarity.” — Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman reminds us that healing asks for courage, grace, and a willingness to grow together.

#Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy #CourageToGrow #SoilAndSoul #ResilientTogether

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "Hold on to what is good, Even if it's a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, Even if it's a tree that stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, Even if it's a long way from here. Hold on to your life, Even if it's easier to let go. Hold on to my hand, Even if someday I'll be gone away from you". ― Crowfoot

Some things are worth holding on to, even when it takes everything we have.

#lifeboatacademy #farmastery #reciprocity #resilience #degrowth

The economy we need grows from care, not extraction. Degrowth invites us to live richly — with less stuff, more relationship, and room to dance. 🌾💚
#Degrowth #RelationalEconomy #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.” — N. Scott Momaday

Words as medicine.
Healing as conversation.
Listening as an act of restoration.
#WordsAsMedicine #Reciprocity #HealingTheLand #Resilience #Interdependence #Listening #Restoration #LivingLanguage #Farmastery #LifeboatAcademy

#artofliving

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "When the people rise from the ground up, the world changes. Top down doesn't work. It’s regular people who always end up doing the most extraordinary things imaginable." — Isaac Murdoch

Change doesn’t descend. It grows.
#WhenThePeopleRise #Commons #Reciprocity #Farmastery #decolonization

Gregg Deal is a Pyramid Lake Paiute street artist and activist. The piece depicts the United States Capitol Building with the text "THERE IS NO PLAN B" spray-painted over it. The artwork is part of Deal's body of work that focuses on Indigenous identity, decolonization, and social justice. The phrase "There Is No Plan B" is often used in the context of climate change activism, suggesting that there is no alternative planet to live on.

There Is No Plan B by Gregg Deal, 2016 (mixed media)
#greggdeal #art #Indigenousidentity #decolonization #socialjustice

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent responses to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places.” ― Donna Haraway

Making trouble doesn’t always mean fighting. Sometimes it’s the quiet labour of care — stirring the waters and rebuilding the calm.
#DonnaHaraway #farmastery #lifeboatacademy #resilience

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society." ― Kurt Vonnegut

“What we need most are saints who are just kind people who do good because it feels right.”

#soilandsoul #collapseaware #metacrisis #farmastery #livingthequestions

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." ― George Orwell

Truth lives where our words and actions meet.
#QuietRevolution #LivedTruth #FractalPractice #LifeboatAcademy #metacrisis

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “In a fractal conception, I am a cell-sized unit of the human organism, and I have to use my life to leverage a shift in the system by how I am, as much as with the things I do. Each day should be lived on purpose.” — adrienne maree brown (excerpt)

#adriennemareebrown #artofliving #collapse #metacrisis #bethechange

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “We all live downstream.” — David Suzuki

#davidsuzuki #metacrisis #climateaction #socialjustice #humanrights #rightsofnature #wereallinthistogether

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together. All flourishing is mutual”. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

#robinwallkimmerer #metacrisis #reciprocity #wereallinthistogether #climatejustice #socialjustice #societalcollapse

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “Collaboration – the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge – is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.” — Ian Somerhalder

#iansomerhalder #metacrisis #collaboration #climateaction #societalcollapse #reciprocity