Shifting: Nature's way of change

This book is a field guide for hope.A toolkit for seeing and making plays in systems to foster meaningful change.It’s one of those books that quietly changes the lives of people who read it.A book of practical wisdom told in stories.Shifting is a series of true stories that offer tools for understanding relationships in the natural world. Many of the stories take the reader to some of America’s wildest landscapes: canyons, tundra, and deserts; while other stories bring us to schoolyards, supermarket check-out lines, or a one-inch-square patch of ordinary ground.Whether you’re an educator, technologist, activist, entrepreneur, technologist, activist, or a parent, if you believe nature is a source of wisdom, this is a book that will help you access and apply it in your world.The world around us is an extended conversation between “upward spirals”—nature in regenerative, procreative modes—and “downward spirals” toward entropy and disintegration.As nature refreshes and rebuilds, the downward spirals are overcome.Nature’s process becomes the process of replenishing hope.A process that this book invites us into in new, and beautiful ways. Read more