Open Rivers’ Post

Excellent presentation showing how materiales and narratives are co-constructed "The narratives focus on three main aspects: understanding the current state, uncovering the processes and activities, and envisioning future possibilities. By using different lenses derived from landscape architecture and orientation, we capture the uniqueness of each demonstration site. These lenses, accompanied by text, images, and maps, help the reader understand the diversity and scale of the sites."

Property is a core code of our everyday. For over 400 years, we’ve treated property as a near-natural law, as a quasi-sacred principle at the foundation of our modern world. But by making property a be-all and end-all, we have produced deep disparities in wealth and power, and caused severe environmental degradation. Now, a new reality of systemic crises is inviting us to reevaluate our theories and practices of managing the world through property and ownership. In this blog, we introduce a new lab we have been building at Dark Matter Labs. The Property & Beyond Lab is a new part of our ecosystem focused on developing the building blocks for futures of property and ownership. It aims to build a diverse and proactive portfolio of alternative forms of property, from collective ownership of land to self-owning houses, land, and cameras. Read more in our blog below and check out our new website at: https://lnkd.in/gae2w9jY

What do we really mean when we talk about an "ecosystem"? In this presentation to DecisionCAMP 2024 I unpack the concept and see how an ecological viewpoint could shape the future of the augmented enterprise. https://lnkd.in/epCrYfvs

Natural Intelligence can help the socially responsible businesses to spark more impact, on individuals and also operations. And it can be developed, learned and practiced. Here is how, in my biweeekly newsletter ⬇️

I am in Venice at the Biennale and one of the things I most look forward to is this talk on vulnerability on Earth Day. Some incredible people are part of it. I am so glad it will be recorded. "Ursula le Guin wrote about the openness she thought was vital in creative work: “so that death finds me at all times, and on all sides exposed, unfortressed, undefended, inviolable, vulnerable, alive”.    Vulnerability may be thought of as meaning that one is at risk in a number of possible ways. One could be physically, emotionally, financially, or socially vulnerable,e and it is natural to try to defend against falling into such a state. However, the barriers that are built to keep vulnerability at bay may also keep out other influences, sensations, ideas, relationships and possibilities.   In collaboration, it is vital to be open to possibilities that may unsettle or disturb habits, identity, and ways of engaging with the world. Holding on to established ideas, even ideas that have delivered success, advances in thinking and practice, and status, may limit or frustrate innovation. High performing teams can arise out of a culture that protects or even promotes vulnerability.   The 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights established the need to protect human dignity. How would it be to seek to protect our mutual vulnerability? In a time of climate emergency and mass biodiversity loss, could we consider extending this to the more than human world? For this to be possible, many other changes dealing with social and ecological justice would be necessary. " https://lnkd.in/eB4sNuP3

🚀 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡🚀 Team 𝐍𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 (https://lnkd.in/eA4ery7c) (Christopher Kyba, John Barentine, Nona Schulte-Roemer, Sabine Frank, et. al.) have conducted an impressive citizen science project in 2021, examining over a quarter of a million light sources across Germany and beyond to assess light pollution levels. 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 🔍 Private windows are the most common light source, based on number (not lumen output). 🌆 In German city centres and commercial areas, shop windows and signs together outnumber streetlights by a 2-to-1 ratio. 📊 To estimate the number of lights per square kilometre, multiply the DNB radiance (in nW/cm²sr) by 200. For instance, if a city centre shows 100 nW/cm²sr, participants would have counted approximately 20,000 lights/km². Explore the full preprint here: https://lnkd.in/egQ7h4Nq A huge thank you to the team for their outstanding work on this critical project and substantial contribution to the light pollution research. PLAN-B Project AquaPLAN DarkSky #LightPollution #CitizenScience #EnvironmentalResearch #Sustainability #DarkSkyProtection

A new study by Dynamic Planet and National Geographic Society Pristine Seas reveals we need 190,000 smaller protected areas in coastal regions alone to meet global conservation targets by 2030.   Why it matters: This makes the case for the crucial role communities and local governments need to play in achieving 30x30. When given the rights and resources, local communities are the most effective guardians of coastal ocean waters.    ⏰ The timing is crucial. As world leaders gather for the United Nations COP16 Colombia next week, this study sends a clear message: To reach global 30x30 goals, we need to prioritize and scale protection of our coastal seas – where the ocean’s highest concentrations of biodiversity intersect with the areas of highest human need. https://lnkd.in/eR8VTrAS

New preprint paper (under review!) led by Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta concludes that Land emissions remain a blind spot in tracking progress under the Paris Agreement, due to lack of data comparability https://lnkd.in/dCAdTVjy As a result, the first Global Stocktake, aiming to track collective mitigation progress, did not explicitly consider country targets for land! This blind spot leaves countries uninformed of the 2030 gap between their ambitions for mitigation on land and models’ benchmarks, affecting net-zero trajectories. We provide an analysis of land-related targets under NDC 2020, splitting reduced emissions and additional sinks. Land use holds a quarter of global mitigation pledges in 2030, mostly through conditional support. To provide more policy-relevant information to decision makers, it is crucial that future Global Stocktakes also include appropriate comparisons of modelled scenarios and country land-use data. Thanks to Rosa and a great group of co-authors, including Zuelclady M.F. Araujo Gutierrez, Nicklas Forsell, William Lamb, Emily McGlynn, Joana B. Melo, Simone Rossi, Malte Meinshausen, Sandro Federici, Matthew GIDDEN, Kimon Keramidas, Anu Korosuo

#LCANZSummit2024 promises to be an insightful day full of amazing talks. I'm really looking forward to learning more about Planetary Accounting - based communication from Kate Meyer!

The work of science fiction ushers into the collective zietgiest concepts and technologies just beyond current possibility, a stretching function that forces one to imagine how the near future might unfold. This was the beauty of Austin Wade Smith's recent piece on expanding the agency of non-human beings. It reads both practical and imaginative, and leaves me with an almost tangible image of how we might retool our economic and legal systems towards, as they note, ecological niche construction. The best part: it's not science fiction. "In walking this line, we hope, the notion of ecological institutions is a humble catalyst to unlearn the assumption that social life is composed of self-interested human individuals. In their place, planetary social life might be composed of relational loops between actors and their environments, working to mutually strengthen one anothers’ capacity to support life. Ecological institutions are a practical exploration into what assemblages / institutions might emerge if the basic units of social life were understood to be loops of reciprocity and regeneration, not self-interested individuals." https://lnkd.in/gxPDsx2x