We all need food, shelter, learning, healthy belonging, and purpose. Reinhabit is a cooperative structure for us to create these things for ourselves. There are three ideas that we are taking from brilliant thinkers to achieve this lofty goal.

We treat no plant as a weed because we value every plant’s contribution to quorum sensing and the liquid carbon pathway. We treat no insect as a pest because we value every insect’s role in supplying food for the predator insects and birds that are protecting our plants. We cannot have lady beetles unless we grow aphids to feed them.

An exercise in selecting plants to support each other in a guild.

When I read descriptions of enlightenment – realizing oneness and releasing desire – I sometimes think it must be like living in place - to fit fully and completely within the forces playing out around and through us. But those descriptions seem to make the enlightened solely observers – living in the moment. Compared to living in place, it is a abdication of responsibility to interact – to create place as you are created by it.

In Practical Holism we learn to recognize the flows through the system and how they are affected by human choices. We all build bridges to direct the flows, the best we can, for our own purposes, but alone we are separate and vulnerable in a dangerous world.