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31 October 2023
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Welcome to the October edition of your monthly Insider newsletter! We're thrilled to bring you the latest updates from the SEEDS ecosystem. Our aim is to ignite your excitement and encourage deeper engagement with the SEEDS movement.
Dive into the latest news from SEEDS and wider communities.
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Hot stuff

Joe Brewer at
SEEDS Collaboratory DAO

Come join us and meet Joe Brewer at SEEDS

Joseph Brewer accepted our invitation to speak to the SEEDS community at the SEEDS Collaboratory DAO.
You will not want to miss that!

He is recognized by many as the roving ambassador of bioregionalism and as an expert on how the Earth is informing humanity regarding governance along natural systems, ie. bioregions, and watersheds.  He is currently on a 14-stop tour of the CASCADIA bioregion along with one of its key leads, Brandon Letsinger.  This is where SEEDS Collaboratory DAO members, Stephen Gomes and Charles Harrison met him.  


Regenerative Community
what is happening around Bioregions

Regenerate Cascadia 

How can we support regenerative communities and projects and weave them together in a tapestry connected across landscapes?

Cascadia is defined by the watersheds of the Columbia, Fraser, and Snake valleys. More than a place, Cascadia is also an identity and movement that stretches back decades, to the first Cascadia bioregional congress in 1986, and a vision for how people can live as a part of nature rather than removed from it.  

To help answer the question above, Regenerate Cascadia has been joined by Joe Brewer and the Design School for Regenerating Earth, 140 organizers, and hundreds of others as part of a 30-day bioregional activation tour exploring regenerative work in 14 communities.
 
It's their hope to grow teams in each watershed, able to steward a vision, a story of place, as well as develop an informational commons and framework, weave together and map the regenerative work happening in the area in a collaborative way.

Regenerative Living

Guardians of Earth & Plethora Social
A Journey Toward Regenerative Living 

In a world marked by displacement, Uganda has become a refuge for many. Challenges abound for refugees, who rely on international assistance and often face neglect. To address these challenges, Guardians of Earth and Plethora Social Initiative have joined efforts. Guardians of Earth uses technology and engagement to connect people with nature. Plethora Social Initiative empowers refugees and their host communities, promoting sustainability.

A significant aspect of this collaboration is the establishment of a Nature Realm in the area surrounding Nakivale Refugee Settlement, located in Uganda's Isingiro district and the birthplace of the Plethora Social Initiative. The focus is on biodiversity conservation, a crucial initiative in a region where it's much needed.

Through this partnership, Nakivale Refugee Settlement receives essential resources like smartphones, cameras, laptops, and internet connections. These tools enable youth within the settlement to document the surrounding biodiversity.
Seeds of

Inspiration

Here are a few seeds we selected to nourish you with some inspiration, knowledge and awareness. This month our book reading recommendation goes to:

Radical Friends

by Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty
Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) offer unique tools for translocal peers to encode rules, relations and values into their joint ventures using blockchain technology. This new book, edited by Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty, who have been at the forefront of investigations into the relationship between DAOs and the arts, constitutes over 5 years of research with essays, interviews, exercises and prototypes from leading thinkers, artists and technologists across this emerging field.