There are 3 ways we can connect with nature:
- there is nature and there is me
- 2. I am part of nature, connected with
- 3. I AM nature, part of a larger whole
The perspective you hold determines the quality of the conversations about sustainability.
These perspectives also determine how we organize our businesses and societies. One chooses differently being separate from nature than one would do with the consciousness of being connected with nature. This is what we are discovering as a collective on Earth now.
But imagine how your business and your home would be like when it is organised AS nature. That would probably bring the most sustainable solutions we can imagine.
The only way to connect with this perspective is to genuinely connect with nature. This means not taking a walk in nature during a break of a strategy meeting – it means allowing nature to have the Chair seat IN the strategy meeting.
How this works? Nobody really knows. But standard solutions are from he past are no longer working; the industrialized economy is over it’s peak and dying. And it is taking nature with it in it’s struggle.
Are we going to allow that happen?
It is people who have created this reality
People can change their mind to choose differently.
Imagine how your business would look like AS nature. I am sure no company would look the same and people would have other priorities they have now.
This is also what we are trying to find out as ‘Meshwork for sustainable Shea’. On a practical level with REAL people who do not fit in the boxes of the SDGs and unfair practices of international trading.
Picture: Umar Mohammed at the organic community farm in Yendi region. We grow Soy beans this year. This was yesterday.
In 6 years farming we have only made losses because we do not have access to organic markets and organic certification does not lead to decent payments.
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