For years—decades—the organizing principle of my work has been
How can business prosper by embedding the laws of nature at the heart of enterprise?
(Prosperity in the etymological sense of pro-spera, toward one's hope, toward thriving—as well as the modern sense of toward the money.)
As you know, if you've been reading regularly, I'm increasingly living in this question: "
What might it be like if we did business, and everything else, as though we actually belonged to the living world?"
Not "…if we were less damaging, more careful, better stewards." Not even "we are nature" (which, to my ears, risks an all-too-familiar anthropocentric arrogance). But belonging to. As one belongs to a family, perhaps.
What might that be like—for our psyches and sense of identity—if we lived as though we belonged to the living world? For our actions? For the actions of our companies? How might that show up—and be nurtured—in a business? How would you know?
What do you think? Join us next Wednesday, March 20th, as we explore these questions on Living Between Worlds, our monthly conversation for possibility.
You might enjoy this piece about rethinking land as property, based in part on the fact that we belong to the land, rather than it belonging to us: https://priscillastuckey.substack.com/p/48-what-if-land-were-not-property