“How to Survive” asks how an ethic of care can help us face interlocking crises stemming from climate change. Examining ideas of healing, sustainability, interconnectedness, caretaking, and listening – between humans, land, plants, and animals, the exhibition will invite reflection, and action, and cultivate optimism in the face of challenge. In day-to-day life, there are few opportunities to contemplate what proactive, imaginative, hopeful responses to climate collapse might look like.  How to Survive stands in contrast to patriarchy, consumerism, and individualism– ways that prioritize care and compassion, that hold up a different set of values based on sustainability, collective wellness, and compromise. The title of the show comes from the Chinese-American activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs, who said, “The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.”

Urban Systems Lab Launches Interactive NYC Stormwater Exposure Scenarios and Data Visualization Tool > link

Healing the Mataura (Mata Ura) River: an indigenous approach to river restoration > link

RIVER is committed to collaboratively illuminating our underlying worldviews and cultivating respect for our living planet in ways that enable true healing and transformation. At the same time, we focus on practical strategies, through legal frameworks, market tools, and governance bodies, maintaining a balance between stillness and action (mauri tau—to be deliberate, without panic). > link

Water must be the foundation of planning and design. With that philosophy, our mission is to increase the number of living water systems throughout the world. > link

Proposal for a World Water Law

We, citizens of Earth, call for and commit to working together to ensure that a binding international law is put in place for the immediate and universal protection of all Water, as the first vital step towards global cooperation for effective, worldwide social and ecological healing.

The World Water Law requires:

the uncompromising protection and restoration of all natural Water sources, watersheds, aquifers, rivers, lakes, wetlands, estuaries and oceans

the rewilding of ecosystems, necessary for the restoration of the planetary Water-cycle

the guaranteed, free access of all humans and animals to natural, uncontaminated Water

all governments, corporations, communities, and individuals, are held fully accountable for their impact on all Waters everywhere

This one Law serves as a unifying foundation for all governments and citizens to work together with community-led wisdom and stewardship councils in ways that effectively serve the health and vitality of the whole.

This global initiative honors the many Water Guardians around the world who have dedicated their lives to the protection and reverence of Water on behalf of all of Life.

On 01.03.2019 the United Nations General Assembly declared 2021– 2030 the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.