Declaration of Interdependence
Earthkind
Mission
To build a coalition that coordinates and coheres action to address the metacrisis at the scales required and foster a transformation to a flourishing future for all life.
We, the people of Earthkind, declare that our lives are braided with one another and with the living systems that carry water through this place. We hold this plain: we depend on a multitude of unseen bacteria, on the natural systems moving water across the land, on the people who care for our children, on our partners and housemates, and on the communities of place, purpose, and passion that steady us. They are not background but the ground itself.
We see interdependence in the neighbor who says the school garden is looking okay, in the harmonies we fumble toward in one another's living rooms, in the block party that turns strangers into family, in the coffee made each morning, in the sun rising over the passion flower vines, and in the flock of crows that greets the dawn.
We commit to keep remembering — to pause and remember, to allow our energies to flow into the work of building the new, and to remember to rest. We commit to getting a lot less afraid of taking care of one another and receiving care, to getting a lot slower, to spending more time looking at clouds and wondering how the trees feel about the wind. To this end we will build a coalition that coordinates and coheres action to address the metacrisis at the scales required, fostering a transformation toward a flourishing future for all life. Action, belonging, coordination — these are not abstractions. They are the practice of remembering that we are not alone, and that the work of flourishing is done together.
We, the people of Earthkind, declare that our lives are braided with one another and with the living systems that carry water through this place. We hold this plain: we depend on a multitude of unseen bacteria, on the natural systems moving water across the land, on the people who care for our children, on our partners and housemates, and on the communities of place, purpose, and passion that steady us. They are not background but the ground itself.
We see interdependence in the neighbor who says the school garden is looking okay, in the harmonies we fumble toward in one another's living rooms, in the block party that turns strangers into family, in the coffee made each morning, in the sun rising over the passion flower vines, and in the flock of crows that greets the dawn.
We commit to keep remembering — to pause and remember, to allow our energies to flow into the work of building the new, and to remember to rest. We commit to getting a lot less afraid of taking care of one another and receiving care, to getting a lot slower, to spending more time looking at clouds and wondering how the trees feel about the wind. To this end we will build a coalition that coordinates and coheres action to address the metacrisis at the scales required, fostering a transformation toward a flourishing future for all life. Action, belonging, coordination — these are not abstractions. They are the practice of remembering that we are not alone, and that the work of flourishing is done together.