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November 25, 2021
Nancy N. Sidhu
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Fish

The other morning I noticed a fish in my garden.I thought, what was a 3-foot-long dead fish doing among the bushes and trees?But he wasn’t dead.He was looking around. I am sure gills work only in water, but somehow he breathed.His silvery scales shone bluish and pinkish in the sun.He was fat,...

poetry

November 24, 2021
Dorian Cave
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Weaving new connections as we journey together, locally and globally

Between October 21 and 27, 2021, an experimental multi-local event took place, online and in several places around the world: the Deep Live Gathering. Initiated and organised by a team of DAF volunteers, this event involved gatherings convened in-person, as well as online workshops and spaces for...

Community, Deep Live Gathering, in-person meetings

November 22, 2021
Bruce Alan Mcconachie
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Deep Adaptation in Popular Media

I’ve been teaching and writing about the intersections of popular culture and social-political norms for most of my professional life. Although my publications on rituals, plays, and films have sparked some progressive insights and actions, I now believe that a blog can be immediately useful in our...

media

November 18, 2021
Kristy Johnnson
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Can you hear the land yet?

In this post, ecotherapist Kristy Johnnson reflects on the strange silence that characterises our relationships with the land and the more-than-human.

November 11, 2021
Kimberley Hare
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Learning to Deeply Adapt – Together

In this post, Kimberley Hare reflects on the journey towards deep adaptation.

deep adaptation

November 9, 2021
Nancy N. Sidhu
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Global Warming

I dipped my hair into the sea.When I pulled it outIt had grown by many yards and was curly. Hanging on to every waveWere crabs, starfish, brown kelp, yellow kelp,Jellies with stingers and without,And one open-eyed, open-mouthed scaly fish. The water from my hair dripped on the ground, which...

poetry

October 31, 2021
Cat Jenkins
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COP26 – a daily reflection

COP26 day 13. The End is Nigh….or maybe not COP26, and after a frenetic fortnight it’s the (intended) final day of negotiations and drafting…though these are already looking like going far into the night, and perhaps tomorrow and further. Some are calling the COP a failure,...

climate change, COP26

October 31, 2021
Kate Wiseman
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The Myth of ‘It Takes Time’

Know this: this is an earthquake, the tremors of which will soon be sending ripples of devastation through all our lives

climate change, ecological emergency

October 22, 2021
Cat Jenkins
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Leading through storms

Cat Jenkins, reviewing Prof Jonathan Gosling’s contribution to the book Deep Adaptation: navigating the realities of climate chaos: Chapter 9 Leadership and Management in a context of Deep Adaptation. Invited to review Jonathan Gosling’s contribution to this recent book, edited by Professors Jem...

adapting, collapse, deep adaptation, diversity, emergent leaders, leadership, plurality, societal collapse

October 14, 2021
Kahren Hipscher
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Humans on earth

We came across this video post by the experimental artist Kahren Hipscher on Instagram and felt it resonated deeply, in a poetic way, with Deep Adaptation. Kahren has kindly allowed us to share it here, along with the words from her original Instagram post. A human moment, some space to breathe....

#poetry