Multispecies Digest

Your go-to place for cutting-edge thinking on multispecies approaches for business, design, and policymaking.

Multispecies Digest is a newsletter and podcast with reflections, approaches and questions that help us grow into humans, businesses and societies that value all life.

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We’re all 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.

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LATEST:

  • How is the same thing many different things? (on scale, pt. 2): Basics of logical typing and (illogical) classifications that feed into multispecies work (Read here)

  • We can either struggle with scale or work with it (on scale, pt. 1): Basics of scale theory that can help us navigate multispecies worlds (Read here)

  • Beware, brain rot ahead!: We're about to deal with a lot more stupidity, so how do we navigate that? (Read here)

  • Where is the money?!: Most think about money too much, but multispecies practitioners do not think about it nearly enough (Read here)

  • 10 reasons to bring nature into your work: And it does not need to be sustainability! (Read here)

SELECT/MOST READ:

  • Motivation comes from meaning: If multispecies is not personally meaningful, you and others won't do it. (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 interdependence and the variety of natural stakeholders to consider (Read here)

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