Living Systems Alliance

= "partnership of five organisations: Transition Network International, the Biomimicry Institute, the Global Ecovillage Network, Kincentric Leadership and the Permaculture Association. It aims to accelerate nature-centric decision-making and design."

URL = https://news.transitionnetwork.org/launch-of-the-living-systems-alliance/ (announcement)

Status: later augmented to 12 members. [1]

Description

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The Living Systems Alliance (LSA) is a recently formed partnership of five organisations: Transition Network International, the Biomimicry Institute, the Global Ecovillage Network, Kincentric Leadership and the Permaculture Association. It aims to accelerate nature-centric decision-making and design. One strand of its work is gathering and sharing stories of communities acting as "keystone species", regenerating the living systems they belong to.

Its significance for the field is as a federation of established grassroots and design networks that are aligning their practice and narrative. It has a bottom-up, relational character and a long-term, place-based orientation.

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"Over the next two years, the LSA will:

• Cocreate a toolkit — accessible practices for nature-centric design, decision-making, and governance for place-based partnerships and global networks

• Work with 8–10 regional partnerships to pilot and deepen these approaches, supporting place-based communities to act as catalysts of regeneration, resilience, and transformation.

• Grow a global community of practice linking people, places, and movements that are bringing life’s intelligence into policy, planning, and everyday decisions.

• Gather and share stories of humans as keystone species, highlighting real examples of communities working in deep alignment with nature to regenerate the living systems they belong to."

(https://news.transitionnetwork.org/launch-of-the-living-systems-alliance/)