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Intro: SJS / GreenPolicy Siterunner: During the earliest days of the Bioneers network in Santa Fe, a common saying of ours in speaking of the natural biological world was "it's all connected". Kenny Ausubel and our founding Bioneers would explain, as Kenny wonderfully did in one of his (and our) first books, "Seeds of Change: The Living Treasure", that biodiversity was "nature's strategy of survival" and the deep, rich ecology of nature was a guide for humanity.

Biodiversity and interconnections are key to understanding the natural world, our place within it, and science from small to large, ways of seeing that bring insight and comprehension.

Charlene Spretnak, one of the founders of Green party politics and thought, especially through her books and exploration of the green paradigm, spirituality and global green movement in its diversity, brings this understanding further along with "Relational Reality". The interconnections and interrelatedness that are there to see if we look carefully and closely, and take time to 'be' with nature and appreciate the amazing beauty of nature, can take us all into new, fulfilling ways of 'being'.

(From the US Green Party founding platform, 2000)

QUALITY OF LIFE

Our overall goal is not merely to survive, but to share lives that are truly worth living. We believe the quality of our individual lives is enriched by the quality of all of our lives. We encourage everyone to see the dignity and intrinsic worth in all of life, and to take the time to understand and appreciate themselves, their community and the magnificent beauty of this world.

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Relational Reality: New Discoveries of Interrelatedness That Are Transforming the Modern World

● http://www.charlenespretnak.com/relational_reality_116771.htm

● https://www.amazon.com/Relational-Reality-Discoveries-Interrelatedness-Transforming/dp/0615461271/

● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlene_Spretnak

● http://www.charlenespretnak.com/

"A vital book" -- Bill McKibben

Publisher: RELATIONAL REALITY reveals the coherence among numerous surprising discoveries, most made since 2004, about the interrelated nature of physical reality. These discoveries are now transforming every mainstream field of human endeavor, as basic assumptions (built on the old idea that everything in the physical world is essentially separate and functions mechanistically) are being reconsidered. No longer a marginal perspective,the Relational Shift is based on the realization that all entities in this world, including humans, are thoroughly relational beings of great complexity who are both composed of and nested within networks of creative, dynamic interrelationships. Nothing exists outside of those relationships. As we try to grasp the interrelated nature of reality, emergent relational approaches are already transforming the way we educate our children, attend to our health, green our communities, and rethink economic activity. New analyses of the crises of modernity and abundant new solutions are the result.

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(From Charlene Spretnak)

● Spiritual Dimension of Green Politics

● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Green_Key_Values_Spiritual_Dimension_of_Green_Politics-Spretnak.pdf

● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-Spirituality

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