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A new way forward for Flourishing Diversity with Synchronicity Earth
23 January 2024
We are excited to announce that as of 2024, Flourishing Diversity is taking root within Synchronicity Earth. With a sha...
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2023 reflections
23 January 2024
Ailton Krenak and Carlos Papas enjoying the OMVED gardens during the Meeting at the River (June 2023)
“We are the me...
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Cultivating collective power through tending to individual healing with Susan Raffo
Creating theatre through embodying the essence of animals with Gabrielle Moleta
Deep medicine, nomadic thinking and decolonial subversions
Nurturing mental health through the healing properties of flowers and trees with Elsie Harp
Meeting At The River: Wild Arrows Film Screening with the Selvagem collective
Healing our bodies, ancestries, and the earth with Lakshmi Venugopal
Pioneering social change through hip hop and permaculture with Ian Solomon-Kawall
Allowing time for reflection - 2022 in review
1 February 2023
“Today it doesn’t matter whether or not I can prove how alive the world is. It doesn’t matter if I can prove an e...
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Whose voices are being listened to and acted upon at COP27?
To mark a year since we hosted the Indigenous Listening Session in Glasgow as part of COP26, we caught up with two of t... ReadClimate Change & Mental Health: Exploring Responses Across Cultures
Re-enchanting ourselves with the natural world
1 October 2022
“The attempt to see through eyes that are not your own. To understand that your way of looking at the world is not th...
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Journeying into the Queendom of the bees with Sandira Belia
Health of People, Health of the Planet: A Diversity of Perspectives
What is economy without ecology
2 September 2022
September’s Flourishing Monthly (our monthly newsletter) explores the interwoven relationship between economy and eco...
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Our Indigenous partners have a message for you
6 July 2022
This edition of the Flourishing Monthly (our monthly newsletter) is dedicated to the immediate struggles of Indigenous ...
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Re-enchanting ourselves with the natural world with Sam Lee
Listening Session with Nemonte Nenquimo at Meta
Nemonte Nenquimo in conversation at the Conduit
What does biodiversity mean to you?
26 May 2022
Welcome to May’s edition of the Flourishing Monthly exploring what biodiversity means to you.
Our Flourishing Monthli...
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Reconnecting economics and ecology with Della Duncan
Healing Earth: the Nature of Living Diversity with Dawn Hill Adams and Jerome Lewis
Rewilding begins within each of us
30 April 2022
Welcome to April’s edition of the Flourishing Monthly – a sharing of inspiration and insight for the journey towa...
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Re-imagining relations with land
31 March 2022
Welcome to the first edition of the Flourishing Monthly, a sharing of inspiration and insight for the journey towards a...
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Embodying the circular nature of life with Louis Masai
Lake Natron, conserved by the Maasai of Engaresero in northern Tanzania
Learn about a territory of life in northern Tanzania. ... ReadReturning to my roots with KM Reyes
Discovering belonging through Earth Jurisprudence and ritual with Method Gundidza
In this episode of We As Nature, Method Gundidza, Director of EarthLore Foundation-Southern Africa, shares his unique ... ListenListening to Indigenous voices at COP26
4 November 2021
Two world changing events ran in parallel in Glasgow on the eve of Monday, November 1st. In one part of the city was th...
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Connecting to people, plants & place in urban environments
Indigenous science & the Fitzroy river
Wisdom from the heart of the world
The impact of climate change on Inuit communities
Transitioning to systems for a flourishing future
Artist film and discussion
Listening Session with Pat McCabe
Listening Session with Manari Ushigua
Conserving territories of life in Iran
Discover this powerful example of an interconnected social-ecological system in desert and semi-desert landscapes. ... ReadCommunity mobilisation in Senegal
Community mobilisation for the environment brings the good life back to the village in Senegal. ... ReadCulture centred stewardship in Tsum Valley, Nepal
Learn about the nature-culture stewardship of the Tsumba people in the Western Himalaya, Nepal. ... ReadEmbracing the aliveness in everything with Judy Ling Wong
Painter, poet and Honorary President of the Black Environment Network (BEN), Judy Ling Wong, takes us on a captivating ... ListenListening to the land
What can humans learn from the rest of life?
How we reimagined conservation at the IUCN World Conservation Congress
10 October 2021
Six days; 22 organisational collaborations; over 100 participants and speakers from across the globe…
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Living in balance with the Earth and each other with Bruce Parry
Filmmaker and explorer Bruce Parry, best known for his BAFTA award-winning BBC documentaries with Indigenous Peoples,... ListenA Living Invitation To Respond
‘A Living Invitation to Respond’ offers Indigenous representatives the chance to pose the questions they have to pe... WatchRemembering the Mayan cosmovision of my ancestors with Samantha Colli
Holistic activist and multi-passionate entrepreneur, Samantha Colli, shares her personal story of remembering that she... ListenDecolonizing wealth interview with Edgar Villanueva
An Interview with Edgar Villanueva In this insightful interview held at the Skoll World Forum in 2019, Edgar Villanueva... WatchTake action: Divest
Protecting and creating biocultural diversity includes tracking our financial flow and the types of practices our money... ReadBe a biodiversity builder...Be a flourisher!
SUGi is a global initiative of Forest Makers and Ocean Gardeners empowering people to invest in nature, restore biodive... WatchSynchronicity Earth launches the Biocultural Diversity programme
6 April 2021
The Biocultural Diversity Programme (formerly named the Flourishing Diversity Programme) represents an exciting progres...
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Nave Gaia: A dialogue with Ailton Krenak & Antonio Nobre
Voices film
Artist duo Alexandrov Klum interviewed eight Indigenous representatives from around the world at the 2019 Flourishing D...How the Ashaninka have rallied support for Amazonian communities in the face of a pandemic
28 January 2021
Since July 2020, the Ashaninka People of the Amônia River (Apiwtxa community), of the State of Acre, Brazil, have been...
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Scientist and Indigenous communities collaborate in Finland & Norway
Indigenous communities and scientists rewild an ancient river system. ... ReadWhat happens when communities are free to shape their food systems?
When communities are free to shape their own food systems, food can be a vehicle to justice, health, and sustainability... ReadDo plants have something to say?
Scientist Monica Gagliano has been researching plant communication and shares about how her research has been guided by... ReadReimagining the post-pandemic 'normal'
Learning from Indigenous Peoples about Reconciling Culture and Nature. Nature and culture have artificially been separa... ReadProtecting natural sacred sites and the ASSEGAIA declaration
Sacred sites are the oldest form of protected areas and many of them are very important biodiversity reservoirs. Indige... WatchRainforest and Sacred Site in Guatemala at risk of privatization
Local Maya and mestizo communities have a complex and thriving land management program that meets their environmental g... ReadA message from a young Indigenous activist
17yr old climate justice activist Xiye Bastida saw her home town in Mexico devastated by drought and floods. She has ex... WatchListening Session with the Bishnoi
In this Listening Session, Mahesh Sufi, a Bishnoi documentary filmmaker, explains how by following these simple princip... WatchListening Session with the Idu Mishmi
The ancestral homeland of the Idu Mishmi community of Northeast India is the rugged and densely forested Dibang Valley,... WatchListening Session with Ashaninka & Guarani
Despite horrific violence, invasion, and destruction of their ancestral homeland by multiple industries, the Ashaninka ... WatchListening Session - Wisdom of Mother Earth
Featuring Indigenous Women and Wisdom Keepers from all four corners of the globe, this Listening Session celebrates the... WatchListening Session with the Juǀ'hoan Khoisan
Meet Mr.ǂOma Tsamkxao, affectionately known as Chief Bobo, of the Juǀ’hoan San (Khoisan) in Namibia. During a Liste... WatchListening Session with the Arhuaco Mamos
The Mamos are spiritual leaders from the Arhuaco nation of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Indigenous people... WatchArchitecture that's built to heal
Dedicated to using architecture as a ‘transformative engine for change’, the MASS Design Group has collaborated wit... WatchBuilding locally
Studio Anna Heringer has long since worked towards building local yet impactful community projects following their mott... ReadDesigning cities for our collective future
Vishaan Chakrabarti speaks to the creeping sameness besetting cities around the world and asks how we can reverse this ... WatchThe flying river of the Amazon
The largest river in the world, the Amazon, pours approx 17 billion tons of water into the Atlantic ocean every day. Ev... WatchAnti-racism in biology and conservation
Biologists and conservationists from around the world share their experiences and research relating to racism and anti-... WatchWhy a variety of life on earth is essential to sustainability
In an exploration of what sustainable living truly means, Nathalie Joel-Smith speaks to Jessica Sweidan – founder of ... ReadBringing farming back to nature
The methods used by mainstream food production systems have led to a decrease in the diversity of crops, depleted soil,... ReadThis alternative to Google Maps aims to protect Indigenous land
LandMark is the first online, interactive global platform to provide maps and other critical information on lands that ... ReadMy Name is not Greta Thunberg
Why Diverse Voices Matter in the Climate Movement. In this article published by TheElders.org, Xiye Bastida – an 18-y... ReadThe importance of listening to Indigenous peoples and building allyship
What can Western societies learn from Indigenous cultures about mutually enhancing relationships between human beings a... ReadWhat is ‘Rewilding’ and why does it matter?
In this short video created by ReWild Africa, Stephan Harding – a renowned Ecologist and author of Animated Earth –... WatchProtecting the heart of the planet in Brazil
The internationally acclaimed protection work of the Apiwtxa community. ... ReadTransforming poisoned wasteland in Finland
Community restored wetland dramatically increases wildlife and carbon storage. ... ReadFlourishing alongside wild tigers in India
Cultural practices protect biodiversity and a scientifically-new population of tigers. ... Read“The struggle belongs to all of us. It’s not for one people and one community. We are all one people. We belong to this planet.”
–Tiago Karai, Guarani Yvyrupa Commission