I, Krista of Miami, Florida, declare that interdependence is the holy connective tissue binding my heart and soul to one another, to Earth, and to the heaven breathing through everything. I hold this truth close: these lands and waters, every living body, mind, and soul, the soil, sand, sunset, every cell, shell, and shaman are part of the life I share; I am thou. I envision healing as communion, and intentional communion as essential to our survival. To help make that future real, I commit to giving, serving, slowing down, seeking peace and understanding, protecting our Earth, helping heal others, and holding on to hope.

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Krista

I, Emanuel of northern New Jersey, declare that interdependence means recognizing that no person, community, or living system exists alone, and that connection carries a responsibility to care for one another. I hold this truth plainly: my community, the people around me, the ecosystems that sustain us, and the countless living beings that make life possible are part of my everyday life. I want a future where progress is measured by the well-being of people and ecosystems, not endless economic growth; where cooperation, reciprocity, and care for the natural world guide how we live together. I commit to living intentionally and caring for these relationships, choosing collective well-being over endless consumption.

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Emanuel

I, Joanna of the Mystic River Watershed, declare that interdependence is love for humans, animals, plants, blue sky, deep ocean, night stars, and all this turtle planet shares with us each day and night. I hold these truths close: my husband, pup, family, friends, neighbors, pollinator plants in my garden, dragonflies, bees, ancestors, and future beings all shape the life I live. I envision a future of connection with every living and nonliving part of Earth, and a society that embraces its limits while staying open to possibility. To help grow in this direction, I commit to leaning in, listening, and connecting with people who share this vision.

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Joanna

I, Stephen of the Willamette Valley in the city of Beaverton, living in the homeland of the Tualatin band of Kalapuyans, declare my interdependence with my fellow humans, the web of life, and the natural systems of climate, geology, chemistry, and physics that sustain all life on Earth. I am the heir to a 3.8 billion year legacy of continuous, ever-changing life, a thread in the great fabric of being. I am a part of the consciousness of Earth, a little bit of nature seeking to understand itself. My family, my dogs, my neighbors and community, my co-workers and classmates, the people who grow my food and make what I use, the animals with whom I share land and resources, the trees that breathe, the bacteria and fungi that cycle life and compost death, the soil, water, wind, and lightning, my ancestors and my descendants: all of these carry me. I seek a future of clean air and water, regenerated soil, rich biodiversity, secure food and shelter, and health for all beings as a fundamental right, a future where the superorganism of the human species has matured into harmony and balance with the world. In my remaining years of life, I commit to write, imagine, inspire, and live the future I want to see come true for all.

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Stephen

We, Denizen Retreat 6 of Green Valley Farm, declare that interdependence is the deeper reality beneath every life: the truth of causes and effects, a unified process, the way all boats rise together or fail to rise at all. We hold this to be simple: connection is not abstract. It is air in our lungs, water through the faucet, soil underfoot, food in our hands, language in our mouths, memory in our bodies, and the visible and invisible systems that let us live. Interdependence is respect and reciprocity, abundance and health, flow within the whole. It is relationship and the living paradox that we are sovereign and interdependent, distinct parts held by one whole. We declare that interdependence means remembering we are nature: breathing, eating, learning, needing, giving, receiving. We are living beings inside living systems, and how we show up affects the field around us. Interdependence is Indra's net of jewels, the butterfly effect, the ripple moving through community norms and systems, the power held in relationships. It is not transaction or extraction, not hoarding or optimization for the self alone. Hoarding means we get eaten alive. True interdependence asks us to support one another, especially those least well off; to include people, problems, and histories outside our chosen community; and to attend to the signals of aliveness that tell us what right relationship requires. We name our interdependence with the Earth and its living systems: clean air and local climate; soil, ocean, sun, tides, and water; watersheds, forests, gardens, food systems, minerals, microorganisms, and the water cycle; the atmosphere, biosphere, planet, Amazon rainforest, and the ground that feeds us. We are interdependent with our microbiomes and mitochondria, with every atom in the universe and every particle since the Big Bang, with plants and animals, dogs and cats, sheep and chickens, opossum and squirrel and octopus, ancestors and the unseen beings of trees. We name our interdependence with people: children and elders, family and chosen family, former partners and present friends, neighbors, collaborators, teachers, farmers, clients, community members, and strangers whose labor sustains our lives. We are interdependent with roads, power grids, water systems, public systems, political systems, technological systems, financial systems, institutions, infrastructure, internet, cell phones, computers, capitalism, debt, taxes, global trade, AI, oil becoming plastic, collective governance, grief, wildfires, addictions, joy, fear, enemies, kindness, death, entropy, and the people and systems we would rather deny. We envision an interdependent future where relationships come before money and the value of care is built into design. We see humans and ecology held with dignity; thoughtful governance of ecosystems; communal models of care; reciprocity at scale; gatherings that make sense of the whole; different ways of knowing cherished and integrated; and a culture in which awareness and acknowledgment become care. We envision hierarchies unveiled, separations healed, control named, and power made accountable to life. We see technology in service of interdependence rather than polarization; future algorithms skewed toward relationship; information stewarded with care; resources moving where they matter most; and humans stepping into their role as keystone species and gardeners, not owners of the world. We envision radical inclusion that is actually practical: more truth, more compassion, fewer "deplorables," and less separation. We envision communities without loss of power; decentralized and conscious participation; thriving independent communities that know they depend on one another; and a right to create, build, and grow together. We see rewilding, agrifoods, bioregional and hyperlocal networks, nested communities regenerating, care-centered systems, resilient commons, stewardship gardens, sacred neighborhoods, soil and water awareness, and a thriving ecosphere. We see people practicing the future now: giving ideas away, becoming a little more human, meeting needs without a threshold of specialness, and learning to hold debate and conflict without dissolving into domination — moving from separation into care, hierarchy into reciprocity, extraction into flourishing, and scarcity into enough. And so we commit to making this future real with our bodies, choices, systems, communities, and days. We commit to share needs because we are part of community; to work with our blindspots; to optimize not only for the prosperity of the self but for the prosperity of all; to trust the process, follow courage, and accept even what we do not like as part of the field of relationship we must learn to meet. We commit to fierce protection of nature and life; to cultivating resilient systems; to sharing information larger than ourselves; to pausing before drinking water; to maintaining a relational attitude even in financial interactions; and to using our skills, crafts, wisdom, software, and global systems in service of the whole. We commit to be bridges between communities, to compost what must become soil, to champion gatherings and ecological solutions, to protect Mother Trees and spread rights of nature, to practice gratitude, service, daily inquiry, and receiving life's abundance. We do not declare perfection. We declare participation. We do not declare escape from systems. We declare responsibility within them. We declare a living commitment to the whole world already in us: water, soil, ancestors, organisms, technologies, conflicts, bridges, gardens, children, strangers, enemies, neighbors, grief, joy, food, code, care, and breath. We, Denizen Retreat 6 of Green Valley Farm, declare that interdependence is the work, the practice, the future, and the reality already holding us. We commit to live as if we remember.

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Denizen

I, Katie of Earth, declare that interdependence is the weaving that lets us thrive, bound together by our shared home, Earth Mother. I am interdependent with water, air, sun, and earth as the foundation that makes life possible, and everything that exists is bound within that symbiotic relationship. As a descendant of Ancestors and those who came before me, I see a future shaped by courage to grieve, heal, and release harmful stories, where accountability and vulnerability become super powers, and children inherit a more nurturing human family. To help build that future, I commit to keep showing up.

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Katie

I, Emma of France and Northern California, declare that my very existence depends on other beings being able to grow, feed themselves, and sustain the cycles of resources that sustain me in turn. I hold this as plain truth: I live in interdependence with humans and the more-than-human, with soil and waters, and with the wider universe and cosmos. I want a future shaped by deep accountability, equity, and deep love and care for those we depend on. To help build that future, I commit to holding myself accountable for my impact and supporting the health of waters, soils, and human actions that honor the biosphere.

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Emma

I, Jon of Eugene, Oregon, declare that I am cared for and supported by those around me, and that I care for them in turn. I hold this to be plain: I depend on the systems that hold my life, seen and unseen, and on the people close enough to lean on. They are not background but the ground I stand on. I commit to do everything I can to support equality, wherever I find it lacking.

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Jon

I, Jenny of Mill Valley, California, declare that I am not separate from other beings, but woven into the interconnection of all life — affecting and affected by the world around me. I hold this to be plain: I belong to my family and the husband I am raising our three children with, to my community both near and online, to the beings who share my watershed, to everyone bound to me through the economy of my daily choices, and to the plants who share the air I breathe. I commit my life's work to a future rooted in love, where our needs are simple and met collectively, and we share our gifts with each other in service.

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Jenny

I, Andrea of London, UK, declare that all I am has been shaped by relationships — with those seen and known to me, human and more-than-human, and with those I have never met, who through their very existence have supported all I have done, will do, and all I am. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with the wind and the sea and the sky, with my neighbour, my best friend, and my lover, and with Life itself. I commit to walk more carefully on the earth, to consider my steps, and to do so together with others.

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Andrea

I, Elana of Oakland, CA, declare that culture is made in the crucible of vulnerability, and that I am shaped by what I let myself need. I hold this to be plain: I belong to my community, to my dog, and to my garden — small, daily, and real, the places I am known. I commit to pledge allegiance to the people and to all beings, no nations and all faiths, indivisible, with empathy and equity for all.

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Elana

I, Ari Lazer of The Salish Sea, declare that reciprocity lives in relationship, cultivation, and care, asking us to steward our collective commons with patience. I hold this to be plain: We belong to our soil, to the hands of our neighbours, and to the vast systems of production, cultivation, and collective endeavour within which we are inextricably woven. I commit to carry an attentive prayer for our collective flourishing in all that we share.

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Ari

I, Nina of Lakewood, Colorado, declare that interdependence is the web of life that brings nourishment to many beings, and I live within it as both giver and receiver. I hold this to be plain: soul and body are sustained through love, vulnerability, and voices learning to sound in harmony, making room for stronger abundance. In the days ahead, I will commit to connecting people.

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Nina

I, Brittani of Santa Cruz, California, declare that interdependence is the living web that holds my family, friends, and all of creation together. I hold these connections plain: my ancestors, my home, the land I live on, the waters and farms that sustain me, and my son and sister who I am deeply and lovingly rooted to. I commit to presence, gratitude, and protection for all I depend on, beginning with sacred care for this place and its people.

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Brittani

I, Carson of Occidental, CA, declare that I am bound to more than I know. I hold this to be plain: my watershed, the atmosphere, the supply chains that bring me toothpaste and sheets, my culture, my language, my ancestors, my beloved Amelia, and the ravens roosting in the redwoods. To them I commit presence — daily nature bathing, real talk with true friends, and the devotional rituals that keep me remembering who holds me.

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Carson

I, Haley of California, declare that my life is built by relationships I did not choose and cannot see. I hold this to be plain: the food I eat arrives through farmers, pollinators, and soils I will never know; my safety depends on neighbors, volunteers, forests, rivers, and systems breathing beyond my sight. To them I commit stewardship — to protect the commons, to respect the web that holds us, and to ensure no one is left without enough.

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Haley

I, Ben of Vancouver Island, declare that I am part of the natural world, not separate from it, and that my life depends on rain, water, climate, soil, trees, and the many hands that sustain it. I hold this truth close: my wife and child, my mom, grandparents, extended family, Anna’s hummingbirds, bees, garden, local farmers, and Gaia Mother Earth all help make my life possible. I envision a world that recognizes its dependence on what it calls other, because a stable, interdependent environment enables everyone’s existence. I commit to stewarding nature with my skills and care, protecting, helping, promoting, and connecting with the living world.

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Ben

I, Katie of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, declare that interdependence is my connection to this Earth and all on this Earth. I hold this truth close: I was born connected to all and will die happily connected to all, through love, pain, laughter, rain, wind, and the mountains and valleys of our journeys. My parents’ lives across three continents, my grandparents’ experiences of war and recovery, and the continents of my ancestors continue to shape me. I want a vibrant, complicated, just, love-focused world. I commit to fighting for every voice, caring for Earth, taking only what I need, sharing what I have, learning from others, and choosing love.

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Katie

I, Shannon of Charleston SC, USA, declare that interdependence gives me the ability to express autonomy while recognizing that my aspirations are shaped by what I share with others. I hold this truth close: freedom is not isolation, but the room to choose within relationships, responsibilities, and the wider world. I envision an interdependent future that protects both society and the environment, where individual voices strengthen collective care. My health, my income, my social circles, and my individual choice are connected to that future. To help build it, I commit to dedicating my health, income, social circles, and individual choice to a future of social and environmental protection.

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Shannon

I, Mandy of San Anselmo, California, is my home, declare that interdependence is made of linkages, reliance, and togetherness that shape my days. I hold these truths to be plain: I am bound to my community, my surroundings, the lifeforms around me, and the past and future that carry me forward. My vision is love, kindness, care, abundance, and mutual respect, lived in ordinary choices and shared spaces. To help bring that future closer, I commit to meeting what comes with loving kindness and care, and to honoring and knowing the place where I live.

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Mandy

I, Suzanne of Northeast woodlands of Turtle Island, Connecticut River Watershed., declare that interdependence is oneness held alongside infinite difference, and that my life moves within this living braid. I hold these truths to be plain: I am carried by all life and by the flow of energy that feeds forests, rivers, soil, and the people around me. I want a future where we experience and celebrate the flow of co-creative energy that makes us human, and where relationship is a daily practice. To help make that future real, I commit to reclaiming and reviving the social patterns and processes needed for partnership and gift economies.

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Suzanne

I, Douglas of New York's East Village, declare that interdependence is a healthy co-metabolism of love and pain, a way of living in which what sustains me also asks something of me. I hold this to be plain: not enough of my interdependents are named yet, but I am learning to notice the people, creatures, and living systems that make my life possible. I want humanity to reach the evolutionary maturity of mycelia or a tree, learning to accommodate others as part of its nature. To help bring that future closer, I commit as fully as I can, and as fully as needed.

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Douglas

I, Andrew of Earth, declare that interdependence means realizing, affirming, and tending my relationships with the life web. I hold this to be plain: my people, places, plants, creations, and ancestors shape my days and ask something of me in return. They are not separate from my becoming. I will continue telling stories of this possibility and gathering with others to practice it.

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Andrew

I, Samantha of Mill Valley, CA, declare that interdependence is mutual, diverse flourishing, vitality, and resilience. I hold this to be plain: my life is bound to my neighbors, my "enemies," the deep past, the distant future, and our more-than-human kin — mockingbirds, orangutans, giraffe, beavers, and termites. They are part of what makes a livable world. I commit to co-founding One Life Circle, a global community of kinship, placemaking, and civilization evolution.

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Samantha

I, Mony of Nashville, TN, declare that interdependence is interconnection — the bond that ties me to the whole of the living world. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with Life and with Family. I commit to appreciate life with gratitude and compassion, and to keep connecting with others in the quest for 100% of life in all its aspects — toward a firm, resilient, and equitable interconnection among our human family and all the beings we share this home planet with.

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Mony

I, Catherine of Los Angeles, on the ancestral land of the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash Peoples, declare that I am connected with all life, known and unknown, and that this felt connection is what sustains me and all things. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with all life, human and more-than-human and beyond, with those I love and those I do not, with everything. I commit to do my part to expand the field of cultural possibility, in support of the vision and practice of interdependence — the beautiful, sacred, messy work of living together with deep intention, curiosity, and mutual care.

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Catherine

I, John of Ulster Park, New York, on the ancestral land of the Esopus people, declare that nothing is attainable without relationship, and that everything is possible through us. I hold this to be plain: I am bound to my body and soul, to my family, my friends, my enemies, the Earth and the universe, to the creatures and the creators who came before and will come after. They are not background but kin. I commit myself to care, to mind, and to love.

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John

We, Regenera Rising of Hopland, California, declare that we are woven into the whole web of life. Interdependence, to us, is interbeing — the complete expression of oneness in all of reality, a relation to self and to all that is. It is a web of knots: pull one and you pull all the others; if one thing breaks, the whole is broken. It is mutual responsibility and mutual support, the humble truth that we cannot do it all on our own — that we require the ability to depend on other people and other things, some close and some far away. It is reciprocity — vulnerable relations beyond our control, alive in every exchange — and inter-DEEPendence, choosing deep connection over the surface, slow-time and beauty over the transactional. Everything is a cycle held in harmony; everything is sacred; and beneath it all runs a current of courageous love and mutual care. We hold this to be plain: we are interdependent with our parents, teachers, and ancestors; with our partners, our communities, and the places, tribes, and watersheds we live within. We are bound to the trees and the air, the soil and the plants, the water and the whales, and to all beings on Earth. We depend on food and healthcare and transportation, on the global economy and the microbiome in our own guts, on the sun and moon, on the seen and unseen systems that hold us, and on the stories that give us meaning. We are woven to the future and to every life form that came before us, to the Great Mystery, to the divine spirit, to all that is and ever was and will be. The smallest ripple reaches us; our smallest act reaches all. We hold a vision of an interdependent society: power and governance distributed to those closest to the problem, technology and capital placed in service of life, broken systems named and mended, all things kept in sync. We see a world of less scarcity and more biodiversity — walkable cities, food and resource security, shared green spaces, elders eldering and children laughing. We see a global culture of care: mutual trust and ownership, circular and gift economies, transparency and elderhood, safety so that no life is threatened. A world where wars end and peace prevails, where borders soften and no one needs to distinguish themselves from the other — rooted in nature, in original trust, in reciprocity, and in decolonization. And so we commit to make it real. Healing inside is healing outside, and so we begin with ourselves — showing up with presence, curiosity, awareness, wisdom, and joy. We commit to service and to giving, to sharing our gifts, to asking for help and support, and to trusting our own intuition. We commit to lifelong learning as both learners and educators, to honestly composting the parts of ourselves that must become fertile soil for the next era of expression, to facilitating the work that reconnects, and to helping technology serve all of life. We commit to protect the Earth, to redistribute power and abundance, to tend the narrative of our kinship journey, and to be good ancestors. We and the Earth are one — and this is our declaration of interdependence.

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Regenera

I, Ultimate Dynamos! of Ultimate Dynamo land in Berkeley Oakland and Bozeman Montana, declare that almost nothing in my life is mine alone: my shelter, plumbing, electricity, food, and children’s future are held by others with me. I hold these connections plain: Berkeley unified school system, Alameda County, the state of California, Gaia, the whole food system, my microbes, our neighbors, family, older generations, and shimmering trees. Looking ahead, I commit to volunteerism, shared child care, care for all our kids, and creating habitat and bounty for other beings.

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Ultimate

I, Allie of Sebastian, Florida, declare that I am shaped by kin seen and unseen. I hold this to be plain: I belong to the Indian River Lagoon and the St. Johns River, to the Atlantic winds, to South Africa by my father, to Costa Rica that welcomed me, to Alaska where my sister lives, to Key West where my son is, and to Solaris, our sun. I commit to kindness, open communication, and authentic creative expression in service of a future that works for 100% of life.

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Allie

I, Amanda of Northern California, declare that I live by mutual reciprocity, held by people, places, creatures, and practices that keep me connected to the web of life. I hold these ties dear: my family and friends, the builders working toward a better future for all, Miso and Mango, the monarch butterflies passing through, the turtles sunbathing along the Los Gatos trail, the full moon as it rises, and Shrine Coffee. To them I commit to showing up: to love my people well, to lend courage where I can, to understand how my choices ripple across the world, and to act accordingly.

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Amanda

I, Brad of Victoria, BC, Canada, declare that interdependence is a word for my entanglement with the whole show. I hold this truth plainly: I am bound ecologically to the biosphere, physically to the cosmos, relationally to my family, friends, colleagues, community, and all living beings, and non-dually to everything. I want an ecocivilization where we become custodians and caretakers, expand our circle of concern, move beyond us-versus-them thinking, respect limits, see complexity, and grow into relational, responsible, embodied, intimate beings. To help make that future real, I commit to total care, choosing responsibility for the whole in every relationship and action.

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Brad

I, Amy of I call any number of places home. Mostly Utah, even though I have lived in MA for nearly 20 years. The mountains call., declare that interdependence means recognizing that people, animals, and plants are truly connected, and that every choice sends ripples near and far. I hold this truth plainly: my husband and children, siblings, parents, in-laws, extended family, schools, sports associations, related families, local and distant farms, my cats, and the rodent population all shape my life. I envision kind, caring, empathetic people sharing their skills and knowledge. I commit to helping others understand our shared future and move forward together.

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Amy

I, Ryan of Hawai‘i, the homeland of Kānaka Maoli, declare that my life is woven through Earth’s diverse ecological, biological, social, and economic systems, where mutual exchange sustains shared well-being. I hold this truth close: I depend on the living and non-living web of air, water, soil, energy, fungi, and all life, and they depend on how I choose to live. I envision synergy, with stakeholders cooperating toward a shared purpose of welfare and success for all. To help create that future, I commit to taking personal responsibility, balancing giving with receiving, and stewarding Earth with empathy for all life.

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Ryan

I, Hes of Hong Kong, declare that interdependence means I live as a “we,” working so everyone can win, not so I can be better than someone else. I hold these truths to be plain: my family, my coworkers, my community, my nation, and our world shape my days and make my choices possible. I want a future where everyone gets to thrive, and where success is measured by shared wellbeing. To help make that future real, I commit to using my influence to change how people think, starting now and continuing in the months ahead.

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Hes

I, Aryeh Shell, of Oakland, CA, am a guest in the unceded territories of the Huchiun, which is the traditional land of the Lisjan Ohlone people, where I call home. I declare that interdependence is the living truth that kinship and reciprocity bind everything to everything else, and that we belong to each other and all life. I hold this to be plain: my local creeks and Oakland watersheds, the Mokelumne River, soils and microorganisms, mycelial webs, redwoods, owls, family, neighbors, ancestors, future ones, farmers, and workers all make my life possible. I want communities shaped by bioregions, mutual care, regeneration, gratitude, and shared purpose. I commit to serving that regenerative future with responsibility and sacred reciprocity.

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Aryeh

I, Christine of Virginia USA, declare that interdependence means living in right relationship with all life on Earth and beyond, with humility about how little stands apart. I hold these truths close enough to name: I depend on everything and no thing alone, on the seen and unseen bonds that shape each breath, choice, and season. I want a world where all life can thrive in its natural cycles, with human life learning again how to belong within them rather than rule them. To help bring that future nearer, I commit to who I am being so it can inform what I do.

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Christine

I, Aliko of Outer space, declare that to be interdependent is to live in harmony with all things, living and non-living. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with all life, with my body and my mind, with my friends and my relationships. I commit to designing a future worth inhabiting — one concerted with all of life.

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Aliko

I, Gina of Berkeley, California, declare that no one rises alone — when you succeed, I succeed, and my health rises and falls with my bioregion's. I hold this plain: I depend on the people I live with, my neighborhood and city, the people I work with and build for, the stores I shop at, and the plants that trade me oxygen for my breath. I commit to being the change — to share more, to tend my bioregion, and to grow a garden that gives back.

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Gina

I, Brandon of Folsom, California, declare that my life, liberty, and happiness rest on people I will never fully repay. I hold this plain: I belong to my family, my friends, the organizations I build with, and the living ecology of this planet, and I owe them my time, attention, and steady care so no one falls through the cracks. I commit my hands to open-source civic technology and to organizing my community toward a life of dignity for all.

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Brandon

I, Natalia of Petaluma, California, declare that I act from a place of love in my heart and soul, moving outward from my body for the good of myself and my surrounding community of all kinds of beings. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with my joy and my love, and with the financial, emotional, and physical support of others. I commit to growing a farm and a community space, tending the land holistically, and spending locally — building a world where we thrive together, learn with one another, and share in our joys, successes, losses, and gains.

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Natalia

I, Marianna of Portland Oregon, on unceded lands of Grande Ronde, Clackamas and other Pacific Northwest peoples, declare that I live within a web of life held together by reciprocity and gratitude. I hold this to be plain: my family, my community, and beings from micro to macro are not apart from me, and I am both steward and beneficiary of Divine Creation. Going forward, I commit to growing a Center of Resilience where I live into a web of transformational regeneration.

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Marianna

I, Armando of Oakland, declare that all life on earth is interdependent, and that dependence is beautiful rather than shameful. I hold this to be plain: I rely on everyone and everything, on living systems, on human hands, and on the fragile bonds that let us eat, breathe, build, and belong. In the years ahead, I commit to enacting One World 1 by helping secure a regenerative economy that protects humanity, wildlife, and the climate for all.

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Armando

I, Nathaniel of Nevada City, California, declare that interdependence means I do not stand apart: I live within oneness, sovereign communities, autonomy and holocracy, and the living balance of symbiosis and homeostasis. I hold this as plain truth: my life is bound to all life, and my freedom has meaning only in right relation with it. Looking ahead, I commit an infinite and eternal care for that bond.

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Nathaniel

I, Clara of Oakland, CA, declare that my life is braided with others and with the living systems that carry water through this place. I hold this plain: I depend on a bunch of bacteria, on the people who care for my children, on my partner, on my housemates, and on communities of place, purpose, and passion that steady me. They are not background but the ground itself. I commit to keep remembering, to pause and remember, to build the new, and to remember to rest.

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Clara

I, Amelia of The Bay Area watershed, declare that mutual respect and reciprocity hold my life together — in food systems, in partnerships, in the price of gas. I hold these connections plain: my watershed, my community, the forest where I live, the dump where my trash goes, the people in my home, the generations behind me, and the generation ahead whose lives my choices will shape. To them I commit local food, time with my niece, regular climbs up Mt Tamalpais, and a family dinner each month.

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Amelia

I, Krista of Miami, Florida, declare that interdependence is the holy connective tissue binding my heart and soul to one another, to Earth, and to the heaven breathing through everything. I hold this truth close: these lands and waters, every living body, mind, and soul, the soil, sand, sunset, every cell, shell, and shaman are part of the life I share; I am thou. I envision healing as communion, and intentional communion as essential to our survival. To help make that future real, I commit to giving, serving, slowing down, seeking peace and understanding, protecting our Earth, helping heal others, and holding on to hope.

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Krista

I, Brad of Victoria, BC, Canada, declare that interdependence is a word for my entanglement with the whole show. I hold this truth plainly: I am bound ecologically to the biosphere, physically to the cosmos, relationally to my family, friends, colleagues, community, and all living beings, and non-dually to everything. I want an ecocivilization where we become custodians and caretakers, expand our circle of concern, move beyond us-versus-them thinking, respect limits, see complexity, and grow into relational, responsible, embodied, intimate beings. To help make that future real, I commit to total care, choosing responsibility for the whole in every relationship and action.

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Brad

I, Katie of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, declare that interdependence is my connection to this Earth and all on this Earth. I hold this truth close: I was born connected to all and will die happily connected to all, through love, pain, laughter, rain, wind, and the mountains and valleys of our journeys. My parents’ lives across three continents, my grandparents’ experiences of war and recovery, and the continents of my ancestors continue to shape me. I want a vibrant, complicated, just, love-focused world. I commit to fighting for every voice, caring for Earth, taking only what I need, sharing what I have, learning from others, and choosing love.

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Katie

I, Joanna of the Mystic River Watershed, declare that interdependence is love for humans, animals, plants, blue sky, deep ocean, night stars, and all this turtle planet shares with us each day and night. I hold these truths close: my husband, pup, family, friends, neighbors, pollinator plants in my garden, dragonflies, bees, ancestors, and future beings all shape the life I live. I envision a future of connection with every living and nonliving part of Earth, and a society that embraces its limits while staying open to possibility. To help grow in this direction, I commit to leaning in, listening, and connecting with people who share this vision.

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Joanna

I, Ryan of Hawai‘i, the homeland of Kānaka Maoli, declare that my life is woven through Earth’s diverse ecological, biological, social, and economic systems, where mutual exchange sustains shared well-being. I hold this truth close: I depend on the living and non-living web of air, water, soil, energy, fungi, and all life, and they depend on how I choose to live. I envision synergy, with stakeholders cooperating toward a shared purpose of welfare and success for all. To help create that future, I commit to taking personal responsibility, balancing giving with receiving, and stewarding Earth with empathy for all life.

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Ryan

I, Mandy of San Anselmo, California, is my home, declare that interdependence is made of linkages, reliance, and togetherness that shape my days. I hold these truths to be plain: I am bound to my community, my surroundings, the lifeforms around me, and the past and future that carry me forward. My vision is love, kindness, care, abundance, and mutual respect, lived in ordinary choices and shared spaces. To help bring that future closer, I commit to meeting what comes with loving kindness and care, and to honoring and knowing the place where I live.

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Mandy

We, Denizen Retreat 6 of Green Valley Farm, declare that interdependence is the deeper reality beneath every life: the truth of causes and effects, a unified process, the way all boats rise together or fail to rise at all. We hold this to be simple: connection is not abstract. It is air in our lungs, water through the faucet, soil underfoot, food in our hands, language in our mouths, memory in our bodies, and the visible and invisible systems that let us live. Interdependence is respect and reciprocity, abundance and health, flow within the whole. It is relationship and the living paradox that we are sovereign and interdependent, distinct parts held by one whole. We declare that interdependence means remembering we are nature: breathing, eating, learning, needing, giving, receiving. We are living beings inside living systems, and how we show up affects the field around us. Interdependence is Indra's net of jewels, the butterfly effect, the ripple moving through community norms and systems, the power held in relationships. It is not transaction or extraction, not hoarding or optimization for the self alone. Hoarding means we get eaten alive. True interdependence asks us to support one another, especially those least well off; to include people, problems, and histories outside our chosen community; and to attend to the signals of aliveness that tell us what right relationship requires. We name our interdependence with the Earth and its living systems: clean air and local climate; soil, ocean, sun, tides, and water; watersheds, forests, gardens, food systems, minerals, microorganisms, and the water cycle; the atmosphere, biosphere, planet, Amazon rainforest, and the ground that feeds us. We are interdependent with our microbiomes and mitochondria, with every atom in the universe and every particle since the Big Bang, with plants and animals, dogs and cats, sheep and chickens, opossum and squirrel and octopus, ancestors and the unseen beings of trees. We name our interdependence with people: children and elders, family and chosen family, former partners and present friends, neighbors, collaborators, teachers, farmers, clients, community members, and strangers whose labor sustains our lives. We are interdependent with roads, power grids, water systems, public systems, political systems, technological systems, financial systems, institutions, infrastructure, internet, cell phones, computers, capitalism, debt, taxes, global trade, AI, oil becoming plastic, collective governance, grief, wildfires, addictions, joy, fear, enemies, kindness, death, entropy, and the people and systems we would rather deny. We envision an interdependent future where relationships come before money and the value of care is built into design. We see humans and ecology held with dignity; thoughtful governance of ecosystems; communal models of care; reciprocity at scale; gatherings that make sense of the whole; different ways of knowing cherished and integrated; and a culture in which awareness and acknowledgment become care. We envision hierarchies unveiled, separations healed, control named, and power made accountable to life. We see technology in service of interdependence rather than polarization; future algorithms skewed toward relationship; information stewarded with care; resources moving where they matter most; and humans stepping into their role as keystone species and gardeners, not owners of the world. We envision radical inclusion that is actually practical: more truth, more compassion, fewer "deplorables," and less separation. We envision communities without loss of power; decentralized and conscious participation; thriving independent communities that know they depend on one another; and a right to create, build, and grow together. We see rewilding, agrifoods, bioregional and hyperlocal networks, nested communities regenerating, care-centered systems, resilient commons, stewardship gardens, sacred neighborhoods, soil and water awareness, and a thriving ecosphere. We see people practicing the future now: giving ideas away, becoming a little more human, meeting needs without a threshold of specialness, and learning to hold debate and conflict without dissolving into domination — moving from separation into care, hierarchy into reciprocity, extraction into flourishing, and scarcity into enough. And so we commit to making this future real with our bodies, choices, systems, communities, and days. We commit to share needs because we are part of community; to work with our blindspots; to optimize not only for the prosperity of the self but for the prosperity of all; to trust the process, follow courage, and accept even what we do not like as part of the field of relationship we must learn to meet. We commit to fierce protection of nature and life; to cultivating resilient systems; to sharing information larger than ourselves; to pausing before drinking water; to maintaining a relational attitude even in financial interactions; and to using our skills, crafts, wisdom, software, and global systems in service of the whole. We commit to be bridges between communities, to compost what must become soil, to champion gatherings and ecological solutions, to protect Mother Trees and spread rights of nature, to practice gratitude, service, daily inquiry, and receiving life's abundance. We do not declare perfection. We declare participation. We do not declare escape from systems. We declare responsibility within them. We declare a living commitment to the whole world already in us: water, soil, ancestors, organisms, technologies, conflicts, bridges, gardens, children, strangers, enemies, neighbors, grief, joy, food, code, care, and breath. We, Denizen Retreat 6 of Green Valley Farm, declare that interdependence is the work, the practice, the future, and the reality already holding us. We commit to live as if we remember.

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Denizen

I, Aryeh Shell, of Oakland, CA, am a guest in the unceded territories of the Huchiun, which is the traditional land of the Lisjan Ohlone people, where I call home. I declare that interdependence is the living truth that kinship and reciprocity bind everything to everything else, and that we belong to each other and all life. I hold this to be plain: my local creeks and Oakland watersheds, the Mokelumne River, soils and microorganisms, mycelial webs, redwoods, owls, family, neighbors, ancestors, future ones, farmers, and workers all make my life possible. I want communities shaped by bioregions, mutual care, regeneration, gratitude, and shared purpose. I commit to serving that regenerative future with responsibility and sacred reciprocity.

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Aryeh

I, Douglas of New York's East Village, declare that interdependence is a healthy co-metabolism of love and pain, a way of living in which what sustains me also asks something of me. I hold this to be plain: not enough of my interdependents are named yet, but I am learning to notice the people, creatures, and living systems that make my life possible. I want humanity to reach the evolutionary maturity of mycelia or a tree, learning to accommodate others as part of its nature. To help bring that future closer, I commit as fully as I can, and as fully as needed.

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Douglas

I, Emma of France and Northern California, declare that my very existence depends on other beings being able to grow, feed themselves, and sustain the cycles of resources that sustain me in turn. I hold this as plain truth: I live in interdependence with humans and the more-than-human, with soil and waters, and with the wider universe and cosmos. I want a future shaped by deep accountability, equity, and deep love and care for those we depend on. To help build that future, I commit to holding myself accountable for my impact and supporting the health of waters, soils, and human actions that honor the biosphere.

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Emma

I, Aliko of Outer space, declare that to be interdependent is to live in harmony with all things, living and non-living. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with all life, with my body and my mind, with my friends and my relationships. I commit to designing a future worth inhabiting — one concerted with all of life.

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Aliko

I, Samantha of Mill Valley, CA, declare that interdependence is mutual, diverse flourishing, vitality, and resilience. I hold this to be plain: my life is bound to my neighbors, my "enemies," the deep past, the distant future, and our more-than-human kin — mockingbirds, orangutans, giraffe, beavers, and termites. They are part of what makes a livable world. I commit to co-founding One Life Circle, a global community of kinship, placemaking, and civilization evolution.

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Samantha

I, Jenny of Mill Valley, California, declare that I am not separate from other beings, but woven into the interconnection of all life — affecting and affected by the world around me. I hold this to be plain: I belong to my family and the husband I am raising our three children with, to my community both near and online, to the beings who share my watershed, to everyone bound to me through the economy of my daily choices, and to the plants who share the air I breathe. I commit my life's work to a future rooted in love, where our needs are simple and met collectively, and we share our gifts with each other in service.

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Jenny

I, Brandon of Folsom, California, declare that my life, liberty, and happiness rest on people I will never fully repay. I hold this plain: I belong to my family, my friends, the organizations I build with, and the living ecology of this planet, and I owe them my time, attention, and steady care so no one falls through the cracks. I commit my hands to open-source civic technology and to organizing my community toward a life of dignity for all.

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Brandon

I, Catherine of Los Angeles, on the ancestral land of the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash Peoples, declare that I am connected with all life, known and unknown, and that this felt connection is what sustains me and all things. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with all life, human and more-than-human and beyond, with those I love and those I do not, with everything. I commit to do my part to expand the field of cultural possibility, in support of the vision and practice of interdependence — the beautiful, sacred, messy work of living together with deep intention, curiosity, and mutual care.

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Catherine

I, Elana of Oakland, CA, declare that culture is made in the crucible of vulnerability, and that I am shaped by what I let myself need. I hold this to be plain: I belong to my community, to my dog, and to my garden — small, daily, and real, the places I am known. I commit to pledge allegiance to the people and to all beings, no nations and all faiths, indivisible, with empathy and equity for all.

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Elana

I, Marianna of Portland Oregon, on unceded lands of Grande Ronde, Clackamas and other Pacific Northwest peoples, declare that I live within a web of life held together by reciprocity and gratitude. I hold this to be plain: my family, my community, and beings from micro to macro are not apart from me, and I am both steward and beneficiary of Divine Creation. Going forward, I commit to growing a Center of Resilience where I live into a web of transformational regeneration.

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Marianna

We, Regenera Rising of Hopland, California, declare that we are woven into the whole web of life. Interdependence, to us, is interbeing — the complete expression of oneness in all of reality, a relation to self and to all that is. It is a web of knots: pull one and you pull all the others; if one thing breaks, the whole is broken. It is mutual responsibility and mutual support, the humble truth that we cannot do it all on our own — that we require the ability to depend on other people and other things, some close and some far away. It is reciprocity — vulnerable relations beyond our control, alive in every exchange — and inter-DEEPendence, choosing deep connection over the surface, slow-time and beauty over the transactional. Everything is a cycle held in harmony; everything is sacred; and beneath it all runs a current of courageous love and mutual care. We hold this to be plain: we are interdependent with our parents, teachers, and ancestors; with our partners, our communities, and the places, tribes, and watersheds we live within. We are bound to the trees and the air, the soil and the plants, the water and the whales, and to all beings on Earth. We depend on food and healthcare and transportation, on the global economy and the microbiome in our own guts, on the sun and moon, on the seen and unseen systems that hold us, and on the stories that give us meaning. We are woven to the future and to every life form that came before us, to the Great Mystery, to the divine spirit, to all that is and ever was and will be. The smallest ripple reaches us; our smallest act reaches all. We hold a vision of an interdependent society: power and governance distributed to those closest to the problem, technology and capital placed in service of life, broken systems named and mended, all things kept in sync. We see a world of less scarcity and more biodiversity — walkable cities, food and resource security, shared green spaces, elders eldering and children laughing. We see a global culture of care: mutual trust and ownership, circular and gift economies, transparency and elderhood, safety so that no life is threatened. A world where wars end and peace prevails, where borders soften and no one needs to distinguish themselves from the other — rooted in nature, in original trust, in reciprocity, and in decolonization. And so we commit to make it real. Healing inside is healing outside, and so we begin with ourselves — showing up with presence, curiosity, awareness, wisdom, and joy. We commit to service and to giving, to sharing our gifts, to asking for help and support, and to trusting our own intuition. We commit to lifelong learning as both learners and educators, to honestly composting the parts of ourselves that must become fertile soil for the next era of expression, to facilitating the work that reconnects, and to helping technology serve all of life. We commit to protect the Earth, to redistribute power and abundance, to tend the narrative of our kinship journey, and to be good ancestors. We and the Earth are one — and this is our declaration of interdependence.

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Regenera

I, Nina of Lakewood, Colorado, declare that interdependence is the web of life that brings nourishment to many beings, and I live within it as both giver and receiver. I hold this to be plain: soul and body are sustained through love, vulnerability, and voices learning to sound in harmony, making room for stronger abundance. In the days ahead, I will commit to connecting people.

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Nina

I, Nathaniel of Nevada City, California, declare that interdependence means I do not stand apart: I live within oneness, sovereign communities, autonomy and holocracy, and the living balance of symbiosis and homeostasis. I hold this as plain truth: my life is bound to all life, and my freedom has meaning only in right relation with it. Looking ahead, I commit an infinite and eternal care for that bond.

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Nathaniel

I, Allie of Sebastian, Florida, declare that I am shaped by kin seen and unseen. I hold this to be plain: I belong to the Indian River Lagoon and the St. Johns River, to the Atlantic winds, to South Africa by my father, to Costa Rica that welcomed me, to Alaska where my sister lives, to Key West where my son is, and to Solaris, our sun. I commit to kindness, open communication, and authentic creative expression in service of a future that works for 100% of life.

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Allie

I, Carson of Occidental, CA, declare that I am bound to more than I know. I hold this to be plain: my watershed, the atmosphere, the supply chains that bring me toothpaste and sheets, my culture, my language, my ancestors, my beloved Amelia, and the ravens roosting in the redwoods. To them I commit presence — daily nature bathing, real talk with true friends, and the devotional rituals that keep me remembering who holds me.

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Carson

I, Amelia of The Bay Area watershed, declare that mutual respect and reciprocity hold my life together — in food systems, in partnerships, in the price of gas. I hold these connections plain: my watershed, my community, the forest where I live, the dump where my trash goes, the people in my home, the generations behind me, and the generation ahead whose lives my choices will shape. To them I commit local food, time with my niece, regular climbs up Mt Tamalpais, and a family dinner each month.

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Amelia

I, Ben of Vancouver Island, declare that I am part of the natural world, not separate from it, and that my life depends on rain, water, climate, soil, trees, and the many hands that sustain it. I hold this truth close: my wife and child, my mom, grandparents, extended family, Anna’s hummingbirds, bees, garden, local farmers, and Gaia Mother Earth all help make my life possible. I envision a world that recognizes its dependence on what it calls other, because a stable, interdependent environment enables everyone’s existence. I commit to stewarding nature with my skills and care, protecting, helping, promoting, and connecting with the living world.

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Ben

I, Emanuel of northern New Jersey, declare that interdependence means recognizing that no person, community, or living system exists alone, and that connection carries a responsibility to care for one another. I hold this truth plainly: my community, the people around me, the ecosystems that sustain us, and the countless living beings that make life possible are part of my everyday life. I want a future where progress is measured by the well-being of people and ecosystems, not endless economic growth; where cooperation, reciprocity, and care for the natural world guide how we live together. I commit to living intentionally and caring for these relationships, choosing collective well-being over endless consumption.

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Emanuel

I, Amy of I call any number of places home. Mostly Utah, even though I have lived in MA for nearly 20 years. The mountains call., declare that interdependence means recognizing that people, animals, and plants are truly connected, and that every choice sends ripples near and far. I hold this truth plainly: my husband and children, siblings, parents, in-laws, extended family, schools, sports associations, related families, local and distant farms, my cats, and the rodent population all shape my life. I envision kind, caring, empathetic people sharing their skills and knowledge. I commit to helping others understand our shared future and move forward together.

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Amy

I, Shannon of Charleston SC, USA, declare that interdependence gives me the ability to express autonomy while recognizing that my aspirations are shaped by what I share with others. I hold this truth close: freedom is not isolation, but the room to choose within relationships, responsibilities, and the wider world. I envision an interdependent future that protects both society and the environment, where individual voices strengthen collective care. My health, my income, my social circles, and my individual choice are connected to that future. To help build it, I commit to dedicating my health, income, social circles, and individual choice to a future of social and environmental protection.

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Shannon

I, Stephen of the Willamette Valley in the city of Beaverton, living in the homeland of the Tualatin band of Kalapuyans, declare my interdependence with my fellow humans, the web of life, and the natural systems of climate, geology, chemistry, and physics that sustain all life on Earth. I am the heir to a 3.8 billion year legacy of continuous, ever-changing life, a thread in the great fabric of being. I am a part of the consciousness of Earth, a little bit of nature seeking to understand itself. My family, my dogs, my neighbors and community, my co-workers and classmates, the people who grow my food and make what I use, the animals with whom I share land and resources, the trees that breathe, the bacteria and fungi that cycle life and compost death, the soil, water, wind, and lightning, my ancestors and my descendants: all of these carry me. I seek a future of clean air and water, regenerated soil, rich biodiversity, secure food and shelter, and health for all beings as a fundamental right, a future where the superorganism of the human species has matured into harmony and balance with the world. In my remaining years of life, I commit to write, imagine, inspire, and live the future I want to see come true for all.

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Stephen

I, Hes of Hong Kong, declare that interdependence means I live as a “we,” working so everyone can win, not so I can be better than someone else. I hold these truths to be plain: my family, my coworkers, my community, my nation, and our world shape my days and make my choices possible. I want a future where everyone gets to thrive, and where success is measured by shared wellbeing. To help make that future real, I commit to using my influence to change how people think, starting now and continuing in the months ahead.

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Hes

I, Suzanne of Northeast woodlands of Turtle Island, Connecticut River Watershed., declare that interdependence is oneness held alongside infinite difference, and that my life moves within this living braid. I hold these truths to be plain: I am carried by all life and by the flow of energy that feeds forests, rivers, soil, and the people around me. I want a future where we experience and celebrate the flow of co-creative energy that makes us human, and where relationship is a daily practice. To help make that future real, I commit to reclaiming and reviving the social patterns and processes needed for partnership and gift economies.

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Suzanne

I, Katie of Earth, declare that interdependence is the weaving that lets us thrive, bound together by our shared home, Earth Mother. I am interdependent with water, air, sun, and earth as the foundation that makes life possible, and everything that exists is bound within that symbiotic relationship. As a descendant of Ancestors and those who came before me, I see a future shaped by courage to grieve, heal, and release harmful stories, where accountability and vulnerability become super powers, and children inherit a more nurturing human family. To help build that future, I commit to keep showing up.

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Katie

I, Christine of Virginia USA, declare that interdependence means living in right relationship with all life on Earth and beyond, with humility about how little stands apart. I hold these truths close enough to name: I depend on everything and no thing alone, on the seen and unseen bonds that shape each breath, choice, and season. I want a world where all life can thrive in its natural cycles, with human life learning again how to belong within them rather than rule them. To help bring that future nearer, I commit to who I am being so it can inform what I do.

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Christine

I, Andrew of Earth, declare that interdependence means realizing, affirming, and tending my relationships with the life web. I hold this to be plain: my people, places, plants, creations, and ancestors shape my days and ask something of me in return. They are not separate from my becoming. I will continue telling stories of this possibility and gathering with others to practice it.

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Andrew

I, Jon of Eugene, Oregon, declare that I am cared for and supported by those around me, and that I care for them in turn. I hold this to be plain: I depend on the systems that hold my life, seen and unseen, and on the people close enough to lean on. They are not background but the ground I stand on. I commit to do everything I can to support equality, wherever I find it lacking.

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Jon

I, Gina of Berkeley, California, declare that no one rises alone — when you succeed, I succeed, and my health rises and falls with my bioregion's. I hold this plain: I depend on the people I live with, my neighborhood and city, the people I work with and build for, the stores I shop at, and the plants that trade me oxygen for my breath. I commit to being the change — to share more, to tend my bioregion, and to grow a garden that gives back.

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Gina

I, Mony of Nashville, TN, declare that interdependence is interconnection — the bond that ties me to the whole of the living world. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with Life and with Family. I commit to appreciate life with gratitude and compassion, and to keep connecting with others in the quest for 100% of life in all its aspects — toward a firm, resilient, and equitable interconnection among our human family and all the beings we share this home planet with.

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Mony

I, Andrea of London, UK, declare that all I am has been shaped by relationships — with those seen and known to me, human and more-than-human, and with those I have never met, who through their very existence have supported all I have done, will do, and all I am. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with the wind and the sea and the sky, with my neighbour, my best friend, and my lover, and with Life itself. I commit to walk more carefully on the earth, to consider my steps, and to do so together with others.

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Andrea

I, Natalia of Petaluma, California, declare that I act from a place of love in my heart and soul, moving outward from my body for the good of myself and my surrounding community of all kinds of beings. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with my joy and my love, and with the financial, emotional, and physical support of others. I commit to growing a farm and a community space, tending the land holistically, and spending locally — building a world where we thrive together, learn with one another, and share in our joys, successes, losses, and gains.

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Natalia

I, John of Ulster Park, New York, on the ancestral land of the Esopus people, declare that nothing is attainable without relationship, and that everything is possible through us. I hold this to be plain: I am bound to my body and soul, to my family, my friends, my enemies, the Earth and the universe, to the creatures and the creators who came before and will come after. They are not background but kin. I commit myself to care, to mind, and to love.

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John

I, Ari Lazer of The Salish Sea, declare that reciprocity lives in relationship, cultivation, and care, asking us to steward our collective commons with patience. I hold this to be plain: We belong to our soil, to the hands of our neighbours, and to the vast systems of production, cultivation, and collective endeavour within which we are inextricably woven. I commit to carry an attentive prayer for our collective flourishing in all that we share.

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Ari

I, Armando of Oakland, declare that all life on earth is interdependent, and that dependence is beautiful rather than shameful. I hold this to be plain: I rely on everyone and everything, on living systems, on human hands, and on the fragile bonds that let us eat, breathe, build, and belong. In the years ahead, I commit to enacting One World 1 by helping secure a regenerative economy that protects humanity, wildlife, and the climate for all.

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Armando

I, Ultimate Dynamos! of Ultimate Dynamo land in Berkeley Oakland and Bozeman Montana, declare that almost nothing in my life is mine alone: my shelter, plumbing, electricity, food, and children’s future are held by others with me. I hold these connections plain: Berkeley unified school system, Alameda County, the state of California, Gaia, the whole food system, my microbes, our neighbors, family, older generations, and shimmering trees. Looking ahead, I commit to volunteerism, shared child care, care for all our kids, and creating habitat and bounty for other beings.

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Ultimate

I, Brittani of Santa Cruz, California, declare that interdependence is the living web that holds my family, friends, and all of creation together. I hold these connections plain: my ancestors, my home, the land I live on, the waters and farms that sustain me, and my son and sister who I am deeply and lovingly rooted to. I commit to presence, gratitude, and protection for all I depend on, beginning with sacred care for this place and its people.

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Brittani

I, Clara of Oakland, CA, declare that my life is braided with others and with the living systems that carry water through this place. I hold this plain: I depend on a bunch of bacteria, on the people who care for my children, on my partner, on my housemates, and on communities of place, purpose, and passion that steady me. They are not background but the ground itself. I commit to keep remembering, to pause and remember, to build the new, and to remember to rest.

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Clara

I, Amanda of Northern California, declare that I live by mutual reciprocity, held by people, places, creatures, and practices that keep me connected to the web of life. I hold these ties dear: my family and friends, the builders working toward a better future for all, Miso and Mango, the monarch butterflies passing through, the turtles sunbathing along the Los Gatos trail, the full moon as it rises, and Shrine Coffee. To them I commit to showing up: to love my people well, to lend courage where I can, to understand how my choices ripple across the world, and to act accordingly.

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Amanda

I, Haley of California, declare that my life is built by relationships I did not choose and cannot see. I hold this to be plain: the food I eat arrives through farmers, pollinators, and soils I will never know; my safety depends on neighbors, volunteers, forests, rivers, and systems breathing beyond my sight. To them I commit stewardship — to protect the commons, to respect the web that holds us, and to ensure no one is left without enough.

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Haley

I, Krista of Miami, Florida, declare that interdependence is the holy connective tissue binding my heart and soul to one another, to Earth, and to the heaven breathing through everything. I hold this truth close: these lands and waters, every living body, mind, and soul, the soil, sand, sunset, every cell, shell, and shaman are part of the life I share; I am thou. I envision healing as communion, and intentional communion as essential to our survival. To help make that future real, I commit to giving, serving, slowing down, seeking peace and understanding, protecting our Earth, helping heal others, and holding on to hope.

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Krista

I, Ben of Vancouver Island, declare that I am part of the natural world, not separate from it, and that my life depends on rain, water, climate, soil, trees, and the many hands that sustain it. I hold this truth close: my wife and child, my mom, grandparents, extended family, Anna’s hummingbirds, bees, garden, local farmers, and Gaia Mother Earth all help make my life possible. I envision a world that recognizes its dependence on what it calls other, because a stable, interdependent environment enables everyone’s existence. I commit to stewarding nature with my skills and care, protecting, helping, promoting, and connecting with the living world.

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Ben

I, Brad of Victoria, BC, Canada, declare that interdependence is a word for my entanglement with the whole show. I hold this truth plainly: I am bound ecologically to the biosphere, physically to the cosmos, relationally to my family, friends, colleagues, community, and all living beings, and non-dually to everything. I want an ecocivilization where we become custodians and caretakers, expand our circle of concern, move beyond us-versus-them thinking, respect limits, see complexity, and grow into relational, responsible, embodied, intimate beings. To help make that future real, I commit to total care, choosing responsibility for the whole in every relationship and action.

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Brad

I, Emanuel of northern New Jersey, declare that interdependence means recognizing that no person, community, or living system exists alone, and that connection carries a responsibility to care for one another. I hold this truth plainly: my community, the people around me, the ecosystems that sustain us, and the countless living beings that make life possible are part of my everyday life. I want a future where progress is measured by the well-being of people and ecosystems, not endless economic growth; where cooperation, reciprocity, and care for the natural world guide how we live together. I commit to living intentionally and caring for these relationships, choosing collective well-being over endless consumption.

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Emanuel

I, Katie of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, declare that interdependence is my connection to this Earth and all on this Earth. I hold this truth close: I was born connected to all and will die happily connected to all, through love, pain, laughter, rain, wind, and the mountains and valleys of our journeys. My parents’ lives across three continents, my grandparents’ experiences of war and recovery, and the continents of my ancestors continue to shape me. I want a vibrant, complicated, just, love-focused world. I commit to fighting for every voice, caring for Earth, taking only what I need, sharing what I have, learning from others, and choosing love.

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Katie

I, Amy of I call any number of places home. Mostly Utah, even though I have lived in MA for nearly 20 years. The mountains call., declare that interdependence means recognizing that people, animals, and plants are truly connected, and that every choice sends ripples near and far. I hold this truth plainly: my husband and children, siblings, parents, in-laws, extended family, schools, sports associations, related families, local and distant farms, my cats, and the rodent population all shape my life. I envision kind, caring, empathetic people sharing their skills and knowledge. I commit to helping others understand our shared future and move forward together.

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Amy

I, Joanna of the Mystic River Watershed, declare that interdependence is love for humans, animals, plants, blue sky, deep ocean, night stars, and all this turtle planet shares with us each day and night. I hold these truths close: my husband, pup, family, friends, neighbors, pollinator plants in my garden, dragonflies, bees, ancestors, and future beings all shape the life I live. I envision a future of connection with every living and nonliving part of Earth, and a society that embraces its limits while staying open to possibility. To help grow in this direction, I commit to leaning in, listening, and connecting with people who share this vision.

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Joanna

I, Shannon of Charleston SC, USA, declare that interdependence gives me the ability to express autonomy while recognizing that my aspirations are shaped by what I share with others. I hold this truth close: freedom is not isolation, but the room to choose within relationships, responsibilities, and the wider world. I envision an interdependent future that protects both society and the environment, where individual voices strengthen collective care. My health, my income, my social circles, and my individual choice are connected to that future. To help build it, I commit to dedicating my health, income, social circles, and individual choice to a future of social and environmental protection.

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Shannon

I, Ryan of Hawai‘i, the homeland of Kānaka Maoli, declare that my life is woven through Earth’s diverse ecological, biological, social, and economic systems, where mutual exchange sustains shared well-being. I hold this truth close: I depend on the living and non-living web of air, water, soil, energy, fungi, and all life, and they depend on how I choose to live. I envision synergy, with stakeholders cooperating toward a shared purpose of welfare and success for all. To help create that future, I commit to taking personal responsibility, balancing giving with receiving, and stewarding Earth with empathy for all life.

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Ryan

I, Stephen of the Willamette Valley in the city of Beaverton, living in the homeland of the Tualatin band of Kalapuyans, declare my interdependence with my fellow humans, the web of life, and the natural systems of climate, geology, chemistry, and physics that sustain all life on Earth. I am the heir to a 3.8 billion year legacy of continuous, ever-changing life, a thread in the great fabric of being. I am a part of the consciousness of Earth, a little bit of nature seeking to understand itself. My family, my dogs, my neighbors and community, my co-workers and classmates, the people who grow my food and make what I use, the animals with whom I share land and resources, the trees that breathe, the bacteria and fungi that cycle life and compost death, the soil, water, wind, and lightning, my ancestors and my descendants: all of these carry me. I seek a future of clean air and water, regenerated soil, rich biodiversity, secure food and shelter, and health for all beings as a fundamental right, a future where the superorganism of the human species has matured into harmony and balance with the world. In my remaining years of life, I commit to write, imagine, inspire, and live the future I want to see come true for all.

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Stephen

I, Mandy of San Anselmo, California, is my home, declare that interdependence is made of linkages, reliance, and togetherness that shape my days. I hold these truths to be plain: I am bound to my community, my surroundings, the lifeforms around me, and the past and future that carry me forward. My vision is love, kindness, care, abundance, and mutual respect, lived in ordinary choices and shared spaces. To help bring that future closer, I commit to meeting what comes with loving kindness and care, and to honoring and knowing the place where I live.

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Mandy

I, Hes of Hong Kong, declare that interdependence means I live as a “we,” working so everyone can win, not so I can be better than someone else. I hold these truths to be plain: my family, my coworkers, my community, my nation, and our world shape my days and make my choices possible. I want a future where everyone gets to thrive, and where success is measured by shared wellbeing. To help make that future real, I commit to using my influence to change how people think, starting now and continuing in the months ahead.

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Hes

We, Denizen Retreat 6 of Green Valley Farm, declare that interdependence is the deeper reality beneath every life: the truth of causes and effects, a unified process, the way all boats rise together or fail to rise at all. We hold this to be simple: connection is not abstract. It is air in our lungs, water through the faucet, soil underfoot, food in our hands, language in our mouths, memory in our bodies, and the visible and invisible systems that let us live. Interdependence is respect and reciprocity, abundance and health, flow within the whole. It is relationship and the living paradox that we are sovereign and interdependent, distinct parts held by one whole. We declare that interdependence means remembering we are nature: breathing, eating, learning, needing, giving, receiving. We are living beings inside living systems, and how we show up affects the field around us. Interdependence is Indra's net of jewels, the butterfly effect, the ripple moving through community norms and systems, the power held in relationships. It is not transaction or extraction, not hoarding or optimization for the self alone. Hoarding means we get eaten alive. True interdependence asks us to support one another, especially those least well off; to include people, problems, and histories outside our chosen community; and to attend to the signals of aliveness that tell us what right relationship requires. We name our interdependence with the Earth and its living systems: clean air and local climate; soil, ocean, sun, tides, and water; watersheds, forests, gardens, food systems, minerals, microorganisms, and the water cycle; the atmosphere, biosphere, planet, Amazon rainforest, and the ground that feeds us. We are interdependent with our microbiomes and mitochondria, with every atom in the universe and every particle since the Big Bang, with plants and animals, dogs and cats, sheep and chickens, opossum and squirrel and octopus, ancestors and the unseen beings of trees. We name our interdependence with people: children and elders, family and chosen family, former partners and present friends, neighbors, collaborators, teachers, farmers, clients, community members, and strangers whose labor sustains our lives. We are interdependent with roads, power grids, water systems, public systems, political systems, technological systems, financial systems, institutions, infrastructure, internet, cell phones, computers, capitalism, debt, taxes, global trade, AI, oil becoming plastic, collective governance, grief, wildfires, addictions, joy, fear, enemies, kindness, death, entropy, and the people and systems we would rather deny. We envision an interdependent future where relationships come before money and the value of care is built into design. We see humans and ecology held with dignity; thoughtful governance of ecosystems; communal models of care; reciprocity at scale; gatherings that make sense of the whole; different ways of knowing cherished and integrated; and a culture in which awareness and acknowledgment become care. We envision hierarchies unveiled, separations healed, control named, and power made accountable to life. We see technology in service of interdependence rather than polarization; future algorithms skewed toward relationship; information stewarded with care; resources moving where they matter most; and humans stepping into their role as keystone species and gardeners, not owners of the world. We envision radical inclusion that is actually practical: more truth, more compassion, fewer "deplorables," and less separation. We envision communities without loss of power; decentralized and conscious participation; thriving independent communities that know they depend on one another; and a right to create, build, and grow together. We see rewilding, agrifoods, bioregional and hyperlocal networks, nested communities regenerating, care-centered systems, resilient commons, stewardship gardens, sacred neighborhoods, soil and water awareness, and a thriving ecosphere. We see people practicing the future now: giving ideas away, becoming a little more human, meeting needs without a threshold of specialness, and learning to hold debate and conflict without dissolving into domination — moving from separation into care, hierarchy into reciprocity, extraction into flourishing, and scarcity into enough. And so we commit to making this future real with our bodies, choices, systems, communities, and days. We commit to share needs because we are part of community; to work with our blindspots; to optimize not only for the prosperity of the self but for the prosperity of all; to trust the process, follow courage, and accept even what we do not like as part of the field of relationship we must learn to meet. We commit to fierce protection of nature and life; to cultivating resilient systems; to sharing information larger than ourselves; to pausing before drinking water; to maintaining a relational attitude even in financial interactions; and to using our skills, crafts, wisdom, software, and global systems in service of the whole. We commit to be bridges between communities, to compost what must become soil, to champion gatherings and ecological solutions, to protect Mother Trees and spread rights of nature, to practice gratitude, service, daily inquiry, and receiving life's abundance. We do not declare perfection. We declare participation. We do not declare escape from systems. We declare responsibility within them. We declare a living commitment to the whole world already in us: water, soil, ancestors, organisms, technologies, conflicts, bridges, gardens, children, strangers, enemies, neighbors, grief, joy, food, code, care, and breath. We, Denizen Retreat 6 of Green Valley Farm, declare that interdependence is the work, the practice, the future, and the reality already holding us. We commit to live as if we remember.

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Denizen

I, Suzanne of Northeast woodlands of Turtle Island, Connecticut River Watershed., declare that interdependence is oneness held alongside infinite difference, and that my life moves within this living braid. I hold these truths to be plain: I am carried by all life and by the flow of energy that feeds forests, rivers, soil, and the people around me. I want a future where we experience and celebrate the flow of co-creative energy that makes us human, and where relationship is a daily practice. To help make that future real, I commit to reclaiming and reviving the social patterns and processes needed for partnership and gift economies.

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Suzanne

I, Aryeh Shell, of Oakland, CA, am a guest in the unceded territories of the Huchiun, which is the traditional land of the Lisjan Ohlone people, where I call home. I declare that interdependence is the living truth that kinship and reciprocity bind everything to everything else, and that we belong to each other and all life. I hold this to be plain: my local creeks and Oakland watersheds, the Mokelumne River, soils and microorganisms, mycelial webs, redwoods, owls, family, neighbors, ancestors, future ones, farmers, and workers all make my life possible. I want communities shaped by bioregions, mutual care, regeneration, gratitude, and shared purpose. I commit to serving that regenerative future with responsibility and sacred reciprocity.

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Aryeh

I, Katie of Earth, declare that interdependence is the weaving that lets us thrive, bound together by our shared home, Earth Mother. I am interdependent with water, air, sun, and earth as the foundation that makes life possible, and everything that exists is bound within that symbiotic relationship. As a descendant of Ancestors and those who came before me, I see a future shaped by courage to grieve, heal, and release harmful stories, where accountability and vulnerability become super powers, and children inherit a more nurturing human family. To help build that future, I commit to keep showing up.

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Katie

I, Douglas of New York's East Village, declare that interdependence is a healthy co-metabolism of love and pain, a way of living in which what sustains me also asks something of me. I hold this to be plain: not enough of my interdependents are named yet, but I am learning to notice the people, creatures, and living systems that make my life possible. I want humanity to reach the evolutionary maturity of mycelia or a tree, learning to accommodate others as part of its nature. To help bring that future closer, I commit as fully as I can, and as fully as needed.

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Douglas

I, Christine of Virginia USA, declare that interdependence means living in right relationship with all life on Earth and beyond, with humility about how little stands apart. I hold these truths close enough to name: I depend on everything and no thing alone, on the seen and unseen bonds that shape each breath, choice, and season. I want a world where all life can thrive in its natural cycles, with human life learning again how to belong within them rather than rule them. To help bring that future nearer, I commit to who I am being so it can inform what I do.

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Christine

I, Emma of France and Northern California, declare that my very existence depends on other beings being able to grow, feed themselves, and sustain the cycles of resources that sustain me in turn. I hold this as plain truth: I live in interdependence with humans and the more-than-human, with soil and waters, and with the wider universe and cosmos. I want a future shaped by deep accountability, equity, and deep love and care for those we depend on. To help build that future, I commit to holding myself accountable for my impact and supporting the health of waters, soils, and human actions that honor the biosphere.

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Emma

I, Andrew of Earth, declare that interdependence means realizing, affirming, and tending my relationships with the life web. I hold this to be plain: my people, places, plants, creations, and ancestors shape my days and ask something of me in return. They are not separate from my becoming. I will continue telling stories of this possibility and gathering with others to practice it.

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Andrew

I, Aliko of Outer space, declare that to be interdependent is to live in harmony with all things, living and non-living. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with all life, with my body and my mind, with my friends and my relationships. I commit to designing a future worth inhabiting — one concerted with all of life.

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Aliko

I, Jon of Eugene, Oregon, declare that I am cared for and supported by those around me, and that I care for them in turn. I hold this to be plain: I depend on the systems that hold my life, seen and unseen, and on the people close enough to lean on. They are not background but the ground I stand on. I commit to do everything I can to support equality, wherever I find it lacking.

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Jon

I, Samantha of Mill Valley, CA, declare that interdependence is mutual, diverse flourishing, vitality, and resilience. I hold this to be plain: my life is bound to my neighbors, my "enemies," the deep past, the distant future, and our more-than-human kin — mockingbirds, orangutans, giraffe, beavers, and termites. They are part of what makes a livable world. I commit to co-founding One Life Circle, a global community of kinship, placemaking, and civilization evolution.

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Samantha

I, Gina of Berkeley, California, declare that no one rises alone — when you succeed, I succeed, and my health rises and falls with my bioregion's. I hold this plain: I depend on the people I live with, my neighborhood and city, the people I work with and build for, the stores I shop at, and the plants that trade me oxygen for my breath. I commit to being the change — to share more, to tend my bioregion, and to grow a garden that gives back.

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Gina

I, Jenny of Mill Valley, California, declare that I am not separate from other beings, but woven into the interconnection of all life — affecting and affected by the world around me. I hold this to be plain: I belong to my family and the husband I am raising our three children with, to my community both near and online, to the beings who share my watershed, to everyone bound to me through the economy of my daily choices, and to the plants who share the air I breathe. I commit my life's work to a future rooted in love, where our needs are simple and met collectively, and we share our gifts with each other in service.

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Jenny

I, Mony of Nashville, TN, declare that interdependence is interconnection — the bond that ties me to the whole of the living world. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with Life and with Family. I commit to appreciate life with gratitude and compassion, and to keep connecting with others in the quest for 100% of life in all its aspects — toward a firm, resilient, and equitable interconnection among our human family and all the beings we share this home planet with.

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Mony

I, Brandon of Folsom, California, declare that my life, liberty, and happiness rest on people I will never fully repay. I hold this plain: I belong to my family, my friends, the organizations I build with, and the living ecology of this planet, and I owe them my time, attention, and steady care so no one falls through the cracks. I commit my hands to open-source civic technology and to organizing my community toward a life of dignity for all.

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Brandon

I, Andrea of London, UK, declare that all I am has been shaped by relationships — with those seen and known to me, human and more-than-human, and with those I have never met, who through their very existence have supported all I have done, will do, and all I am. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with the wind and the sea and the sky, with my neighbour, my best friend, and my lover, and with Life itself. I commit to walk more carefully on the earth, to consider my steps, and to do so together with others.

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Andrea

I, Catherine of Los Angeles, on the ancestral land of the Tongva, Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash Peoples, declare that I am connected with all life, known and unknown, and that this felt connection is what sustains me and all things. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with all life, human and more-than-human and beyond, with those I love and those I do not, with everything. I commit to do my part to expand the field of cultural possibility, in support of the vision and practice of interdependence — the beautiful, sacred, messy work of living together with deep intention, curiosity, and mutual care.

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Catherine

I, Natalia of Petaluma, California, declare that I act from a place of love in my heart and soul, moving outward from my body for the good of myself and my surrounding community of all kinds of beings. I hold this to be plain: I am interdependent with my joy and my love, and with the financial, emotional, and physical support of others. I commit to growing a farm and a community space, tending the land holistically, and spending locally — building a world where we thrive together, learn with one another, and share in our joys, successes, losses, and gains.

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Natalia

I, Elana of Oakland, CA, declare that culture is made in the crucible of vulnerability, and that I am shaped by what I let myself need. I hold this to be plain: I belong to my community, to my dog, and to my garden — small, daily, and real, the places I am known. I commit to pledge allegiance to the people and to all beings, no nations and all faiths, indivisible, with empathy and equity for all.

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Elana

I, John of Ulster Park, New York, on the ancestral land of the Esopus people, declare that nothing is attainable without relationship, and that everything is possible through us. I hold this to be plain: I am bound to my body and soul, to my family, my friends, my enemies, the Earth and the universe, to the creatures and the creators who came before and will come after. They are not background but kin. I commit myself to care, to mind, and to love.

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John

I, Marianna of Portland Oregon, on unceded lands of Grande Ronde, Clackamas and other Pacific Northwest peoples, declare that I live within a web of life held together by reciprocity and gratitude. I hold this to be plain: my family, my community, and beings from micro to macro are not apart from me, and I am both steward and beneficiary of Divine Creation. Going forward, I commit to growing a Center of Resilience where I live into a web of transformational regeneration.

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Marianna

I, Ari Lazer of The Salish Sea, declare that reciprocity lives in relationship, cultivation, and care, asking us to steward our collective commons with patience. I hold this to be plain: We belong to our soil, to the hands of our neighbours, and to the vast systems of production, cultivation, and collective endeavour within which we are inextricably woven. I commit to carry an attentive prayer for our collective flourishing in all that we share.

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Ari

We, Regenera Rising of Hopland, California, declare that we are woven into the whole web of life. Interdependence, to us, is interbeing — the complete expression of oneness in all of reality, a relation to self and to all that is. It is a web of knots: pull one and you pull all the others; if one thing breaks, the whole is broken. It is mutual responsibility and mutual support, the humble truth that we cannot do it all on our own — that we require the ability to depend on other people and other things, some close and some far away. It is reciprocity — vulnerable relations beyond our control, alive in every exchange — and inter-DEEPendence, choosing deep connection over the surface, slow-time and beauty over the transactional. Everything is a cycle held in harmony; everything is sacred; and beneath it all runs a current of courageous love and mutual care. We hold this to be plain: we are interdependent with our parents, teachers, and ancestors; with our partners, our communities, and the places, tribes, and watersheds we live within. We are bound to the trees and the air, the soil and the plants, the water and the whales, and to all beings on Earth. We depend on food and healthcare and transportation, on the global economy and the microbiome in our own guts, on the sun and moon, on the seen and unseen systems that hold us, and on the stories that give us meaning. We are woven to the future and to every life form that came before us, to the Great Mystery, to the divine spirit, to all that is and ever was and will be. The smallest ripple reaches us; our smallest act reaches all. We hold a vision of an interdependent society: power and governance distributed to those closest to the problem, technology and capital placed in service of life, broken systems named and mended, all things kept in sync. We see a world of less scarcity and more biodiversity — walkable cities, food and resource security, shared green spaces, elders eldering and children laughing. We see a global culture of care: mutual trust and ownership, circular and gift economies, transparency and elderhood, safety so that no life is threatened. A world where wars end and peace prevails, where borders soften and no one needs to distinguish themselves from the other — rooted in nature, in original trust, in reciprocity, and in decolonization. And so we commit to make it real. Healing inside is healing outside, and so we begin with ourselves — showing up with presence, curiosity, awareness, wisdom, and joy. We commit to service and to giving, to sharing our gifts, to asking for help and support, and to trusting our own intuition. We commit to lifelong learning as both learners and educators, to honestly composting the parts of ourselves that must become fertile soil for the next era of expression, to facilitating the work that reconnects, and to helping technology serve all of life. We commit to protect the Earth, to redistribute power and abundance, to tend the narrative of our kinship journey, and to be good ancestors. We and the Earth are one — and this is our declaration of interdependence.

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Regenera

I, Armando of Oakland, declare that all life on earth is interdependent, and that dependence is beautiful rather than shameful. I hold this to be plain: I rely on everyone and everything, on living systems, on human hands, and on the fragile bonds that let us eat, breathe, build, and belong. In the years ahead, I commit to enacting One World 1 by helping secure a regenerative economy that protects humanity, wildlife, and the climate for all.

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Armando

I, Nina of Lakewood, Colorado, declare that interdependence is the web of life that brings nourishment to many beings, and I live within it as both giver and receiver. I hold this to be plain: soul and body are sustained through love, vulnerability, and voices learning to sound in harmony, making room for stronger abundance. In the days ahead, I will commit to connecting people.

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Nina

I, Ultimate Dynamos! of Ultimate Dynamo land in Berkeley Oakland and Bozeman Montana, declare that almost nothing in my life is mine alone: my shelter, plumbing, electricity, food, and children’s future are held by others with me. I hold these connections plain: Berkeley unified school system, Alameda County, the state of California, Gaia, the whole food system, my microbes, our neighbors, family, older generations, and shimmering trees. Looking ahead, I commit to volunteerism, shared child care, care for all our kids, and creating habitat and bounty for other beings.

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Ultimate

I, Nathaniel of Nevada City, California, declare that interdependence means I do not stand apart: I live within oneness, sovereign communities, autonomy and holocracy, and the living balance of symbiosis and homeostasis. I hold this as plain truth: my life is bound to all life, and my freedom has meaning only in right relation with it. Looking ahead, I commit an infinite and eternal care for that bond.

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Nathaniel

I, Brittani of Santa Cruz, California, declare that interdependence is the living web that holds my family, friends, and all of creation together. I hold these connections plain: my ancestors, my home, the land I live on, the waters and farms that sustain me, and my son and sister who I am deeply and lovingly rooted to. I commit to presence, gratitude, and protection for all I depend on, beginning with sacred care for this place and its people.

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Brittani

I, Allie of Sebastian, Florida, declare that I am shaped by kin seen and unseen. I hold this to be plain: I belong to the Indian River Lagoon and the St. Johns River, to the Atlantic winds, to South Africa by my father, to Costa Rica that welcomed me, to Alaska where my sister lives, to Key West where my son is, and to Solaris, our sun. I commit to kindness, open communication, and authentic creative expression in service of a future that works for 100% of life.

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Allie

I, Clara of Oakland, CA, declare that my life is braided with others and with the living systems that carry water through this place. I hold this plain: I depend on a bunch of bacteria, on the people who care for my children, on my partner, on my housemates, and on communities of place, purpose, and passion that steady me. They are not background but the ground itself. I commit to keep remembering, to pause and remember, to build the new, and to remember to rest.

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Clara

I, Carson of Occidental, CA, declare that I am bound to more than I know. I hold this to be plain: my watershed, the atmosphere, the supply chains that bring me toothpaste and sheets, my culture, my language, my ancestors, my beloved Amelia, and the ravens roosting in the redwoods. To them I commit presence — daily nature bathing, real talk with true friends, and the devotional rituals that keep me remembering who holds me.

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Carson

I, Amanda of Northern California, declare that I live by mutual reciprocity, held by people, places, creatures, and practices that keep me connected to the web of life. I hold these ties dear: my family and friends, the builders working toward a better future for all, Miso and Mango, the monarch butterflies passing through, the turtles sunbathing along the Los Gatos trail, the full moon as it rises, and Shrine Coffee. To them I commit to showing up: to love my people well, to lend courage where I can, to understand how my choices ripple across the world, and to act accordingly.

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Amanda

I, Amelia of The Bay Area watershed, declare that mutual respect and reciprocity hold my life together — in food systems, in partnerships, in the price of gas. I hold these connections plain: my watershed, my community, the forest where I live, the dump where my trash goes, the people in my home, the generations behind me, and the generation ahead whose lives my choices will shape. To them I commit local food, time with my niece, regular climbs up Mt Tamalpais, and a family dinner each month.

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Amelia

I, Haley of California, declare that my life is built by relationships I did not choose and cannot see. I hold this to be plain: the food I eat arrives through farmers, pollinators, and soils I will never know; my safety depends on neighbors, volunteers, forests, rivers, and systems breathing beyond my sight. To them I commit stewardship — to protect the commons, to respect the web that holds us, and to ensure no one is left without enough.

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Haley