Multispecies Digest
Your go-to place for cutting-edge thinking on nature-positive.
Multispecies Digest is a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast with reflections, approaches and questions that help us grow into humans, businesses and societies that value all life.
It’s basic premise?
We’re living in a multispecies world.
Humans, our creations, our lives and businesses are deeply entangled with the natural world, with all its creatures, processes, systems, and landscapes. We’re directly and indirectly connected through flows of materials, electrical energy, heat, nutrients, as well as experiences, emotions, chemical and physical reactions, and even quantum fields.
Humans and nature are inseparable, no matter how hard our education, religion, economy and personal egos might try to tell us otherwise.
Humans need to (re)learn how to live and do business in a way that sees the interconnections, acknowledges physical and other limitations, and drastically reduces the negative impact on nature. If you want to learn more of the basics, check our earlier essays of Multispecies digest or watch this lecture.
Latest / select essays:
Motivation comes from meaning: If multispecies is not personally meaningful, you and others won't do it. (Read here)
10 things that give me hope: While the world seems to implode into itself, let's look at the positive initiatives for nature (Read here)
Don't overlook the basics while rushing to do multispecies work: We likely need to relearn to sit, stand, and walk before with can run with the multispecies transitions (Read here)
What multispecies approaches can do for your company: Five perspectives on how your company can build strategic advantage through multispecies and socio-ecological thinking (Read here)
Emotional labour in multispecies transitions: When we can't shove our emotions in the trunk, but also can't let them take the wheel. (Read here)
F**k futures, we need to build multispecies presents (Read here)
Thinking beyond dogs, bees, and trees: Dissecting human-nature interdepence and the variety of natural stakeholders to consider (Read here)
Multispecies stories and empathy building: Reflections on the animation film "Flow" through the lens of a multispecies researcher (Read here)
Latest / select episodes:
#1 - Motivation comes from meaning - read out loud by Emilija (view on Substact, watch on Youtube, listen on Spotify)