Welcome! An Invitation to Dig

Welcome to Ecosystemics!

Hello and thank you for reading about Ecosystemics.org!

This post has introductory information, and it serves as an invitation to read and explore more of this website. I invite you to consider joining me in the collaborative mission and movement to solve the global ecological multi-crisis.

If that sounds like an impossible mission, or if you prefer an approach that is not about a crisis, or about solving problems…I ask that you consider my proposed framing at least long enough to wander through this website and see why I use this approach.

I can also easily and readily agree that others’ preferred framing is at least as good, and possibly better, for a way to think and act in our unique time in history. If you are working to foster planetary health of humans and the biosphere, or perhaps choose an orientation focused on human development including spiritual and social development, or are drawn to engage in emotional aspects of our times like grieving great losses, or work to change our money system, or imagine this as a Great Teachable Moment – I can happily join you in one of these missions or movements, or others, if you want to share yours with me.

So, I am not saying that the approach here – to solve the global ecological multi-crisis by changing the paradigm of science – is the only valid approach, or the best approach. I am saying that I honestly and whole-heartedly think it is an approach worth developing and testing, that it is the path that I feel called and inspired to follow, and that we will make important contributions along the way.

I invite you to help me, and I offer to help you, as we build a really, really big tent. I imagine that our unifying tent will have room for all people, all species, and all of Life and Earth.

This approach will not be attractive for everyone, and I acknowledge and expect disagreements and constructive debates, and to change and improve my work, and to find other new and better work to explore. A last introductory comment and sneak preview of things to come, in case you choose to read and explore more of ecosystemics:

This approach is not about solving environmental problems by going after “the low-hanging fruit”.

This approach is about digging down to understand “the deep tangled root” (Fiscus 2013).

Again, welcome, and thanks in advance for any comments, suggestions, thoughts, or information.

Reference cited:

Fiscus, D.A. 2013. Life, money and the “deep tangled roots” of systemic change for sustainability. World Futures: The Journal of Global Education 69(7-8): 555-571.
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JH4fJu8teEITj74yaujW/full