Happy Soul Food Friday!
This week:
“What if economics didn’t start with money but with human wellbeing”? Join us as we Developing the SD County Doughnut:
On Thursday, I was part of a panel at Cause SD on Doughnut Economics and why are current models are simply not cutting it.
If this work interests you, let me know and we can add you to the list..
Doughnut economics creator Kate Raworth and Janine Benyus – a biologist and leading figure in biomimetic design – discuss how starting from the whole can allow us to build systems and structures that help us to thrive. This conversation was originally presented at Equilibrium.
Equilibrium brought together interdisciplinary artists, campaigners, and thinkers to address questions of environmental justice and the role of culture in creating it, part of Radical Ecology x Back to Earth Live.
In Conversation: Kate Raworth and Janine Benyus│Serpentine
Nature is Speaking:
This vid reminds us of the fragility of humans and the steadfastness of mother earth and why we must live in harmony or face the consequences at our own undoing.
Nature Is Speaking – Julia Roberts is Mother Nature | Conservation International (CI)
The world’s oldest and largest iceberg will soon be no more:
The iceberg, known as A23a, has been on a journey following the current into warmer waters for months. Now, it has begun the predicted and natural process of breaking apart and eventually melting.
The world’s biggest iceberg is breaking up : NPR
Designers create incredible tech that can attach to surfboards and kayaks — here’s how it could help solve major problem in our oceans:
It has already won multiple awards. Oct 02, 2025, As we continue to fight against microplastic pollution, a team of engineers has created an innovative solution that could have a massive impact through an unexpected activity: water sports. According to Design Wanted, three graduates from IED Milan created Hauki, a project that turns board sports like surfing into microplastic cleanup efforts. Hauki is a system that attaches to surfboards, paddleboards, and canoes, and captures microplastics
Selections From the 2025 Audubon Photography Awards Top 100:
Contest organizers from this year’s Audubon Photography Awards shared some of their Top 100 selections—featuring a ringed kingfisher, a yellow-eared parrot, whooper swans, and more.
Selections From the 2025 Audubon Photography Awards Top 100 – The Atlantic
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“If you have come to help me, you are
wasting your time. But if you have
come because your liberation is
bound up with mine, then let us walk
together…”
— Lila Watson, Australian Aboriginal woman,
in response to mission workers
Dear UC community, I know that many of you are closely following the federal administration’s actions against UCLA — including the suspension of critical research funding this summer and a demand that the university pay the federal government over $1 billion. Today, the LA Times published a story summarizing some of the administration’s demands. As we consider the unprecedented action against UCLA, it is important to keep in mind that the federal government is also pursuing investigations and actions in various stages against all 10 UC campuses. So, while we are first focused on the direct-action involving UCLA, we must also consider the implications of expanded federal action. This represents one of the gravest threats to the University of California in our 157-year history. Losses of significant research and other federal funding would devastate UC and inflict real, long-term harm on our students, our faculty and staff, our patients, and all Californians. It would also end life-saving research from which all Americans benefit. Let me provide a little more context about what’s at stake. The University of California receives more than $17 billion each year in federal support. That includes $9.9 billion in Medicare and Medicaid funding, $5.7 billion for research and program support, and $1.7 billion in student financial aid. The funds at risk support the doctors and nurses who care for millions of Californians each year, the researchers working to find new cures and make important technological discoveries, and the financial aid that keeps UC accessible for students of all backgrounds. A substantial loss of this federal funding would be devastating for our mission and for the people who depend on us most. It will mean fewer classes and student services, reduced access to health care, tens of thousands of lost jobs across the state, and an exodus of world-class faculty and researchers to other states or countries. Many of our campuses have already experienced layoffs and other negative impacts in recent months because of cuts to federal research funding and other financial pressures. But this is minor in comparison to the threat that looms. As the state’s second-largest employer, with a presence in every county in California, these reductions would have a detrimental ripple effect across the entire state economy. The work happening across UC saves lives, drives economic growth and creates opportunity for families in every community. Far too many people depend on us for the University to retreat from its mission. We must do all we can to avoid the harmful possibilities I’ve outlined. That’s why we are working with elected officials in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., to evaluate every option to resolve this conflict to continue serving communities across the state. The University of California has weathered many challenges since its founding. We will do so again — but it will undoubtedly be a difficult process for our community. The fact is that we are in uncharted waters. Our top priority now is protecting this institution — its resources, its mission and its values — for the sake of everyone we serve. I ask all of you to come together as a community — in support of our students, our patients and one another — as we navigate what lies ahead. It will take all of us working together to protect UC, the greatest public university in the nation. With deep gratitude, James B. Milliken
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