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Depart Enviromental Healing

Return Home, Make Amends, Restore Relationships

Apply recep­tive­ness, care, and com­mit­ment to any and every endeav­or. Expand inclu­siv­i­ty, cre­ativ­i­ty, and inter­con­nec­tion to cat­alyze the next wave of innovation.

Astro­naut adrift, NASA, 2016

We humans might have a far way to go before we live with­in a tru­ly sus­tain­able soci­ety. Yet, we can already work to restore the influ­en­tial sys­tems we’ve cre­at­ed with cir­cu­lar prin­ci­ples and cre­ative pat­terns that will ulti­mate­ly heal bro­ken rela­tion­ships. One of the cor­rel­a­tive results of this heal­ing involves the improve­ment of over­all phys­i­cal and men­tal capa­bil­i­ty. When we feel good, we can do good. And for­tu­nate­ly, so many of the tools nec­es­sary to bring that pos­i­tive real­i­ty home are already at hand. Now it’s time we con­nect our hearts and heads with our tech­ni­cal skills to man­i­fest the vision of our pos­i­tive future.

With human-made sys­tems more appro­pri­ate­ly inte­grat­ed toward cir­cu­lar­i­ty, we can con­tin­u­al­ly come back to that which ignites the human spir­it: the quest for adven­ture, the search for mean­ing, the endur­ing force of love…

“Tell me, when we grow up do we ever go home? And you said home becomes the high­way.” — Big Thief, “Vegas”, 2016

As human­i­ty col­lec­tive­ly grows up on eco­nom­ic, social, and emo­tion­al lev­els, we will also be fur­ther expand­ing our consciousness.

If we are learn­ing to part with what no longer serves, then we are most like­ly mov­ing more freely about what­ev­er space we enter. In this sense, return­ing home (or to where we start­ed) can become more com­fort­able and ful­fill­ing. In a calm, obser­va­tion­al state, we become bet­ter at iden­ti­fy­ing the root caus­es of our excite­ment, joy, or pain, and will devel­op more sen­si­ble respons­es to chal­lenges as a result.

We believe that the qual­i­ties nec­es­sary for the next wave of lead­er­ship will not be seduc­tion and per­sua­sion as much as empa­thy and com­pas­sion. We will suc­ceed when we final­ly learn to tru­ly embrace fail­ure as a moment of death in a time­less cycle. This will pro­vide the ground­work for rebirth on a more high­ly evolved lev­el. Renew­al has infi­nite forms.

As we re-approach the ways we think about our home plan­et, we can also learn to think of one anoth­er as fam­i­ly. If we for­get, all we have to remem­ber is we’re all dis­tant rel­a­tives of each oth­er far enough back on the evo­lu­tion­ary time­line. It helps to keep these con­nec­tions in mind. Our needs are always grow­ing in demand, dimen­sion, and expres­sion. Yet, we can con­tin­ue to learn how to make our vision of the future more inspired by the best parts of our ancient past. We believe that we can lever­age our innate capac­i­ty for humil­i­ty, inno­va­tion, and intu­itive inter­con­nec­tion as we pre­pare to rebuild soci­ety in the image of the universe.

“The Afro­nauts”, Cristi­na de Middel
SpaceX launch, 2016
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