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Human Well
As humans, we are intricately connected to the evolutionary web of life. In our modern, complex world what does it mean to “human well''? Living Cities Earth is an interdisciplinary action research network, connecting 10,000 cities and a web of integral experts serving Gaia’s well-being.
To “human well” we nurture our cities and ecoregions as healthy, happy, caring homes in harmony with each other and nature, across four key dimensions: person, people, places, and planet. Our cities and bioregions survive and thrive honouring all life on our ONE planet.
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Earth’s 10,000 cities have been built from the cultures of our past, with an acceleration of growth in the last century from industrialisation. Currently, a controlling, mechanistic, human centred worldview dominates modern cities that sees the Earth as a suite of resources to be extracted for profit. Short term economic development takes priority in most decisions. As a result, regeneration sciences show that cities are impacting nine major Earth resources that constrain support for all life.
New economic paradigms reveal the continuity of all life will depend on recalibrating the relationship between Earth constraints and human social justice factors. We believe that cracking the code on how to “‘human well” in cities is a foundational key to shifting the patterns from destruction to regeneration.
Shifting worldviews is an extremely powerful leverage point in systems change and our work will focus on key worldview shifts that will make applying regenerative solutions easier in the long run. The LCE network is an agent of this essential cultural evolution and we need to learn together how to create this shift most effectively at a planetary scale. There is not currently a global network with this aim and we feel called and prepared to take on this challenge.
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