Ecoweaving
“Ecoweaving is an invitation to the practice of breathing the same beloved air, together.”
Ecoweaving is an initiative weaving people, projects, places, and worldviews in an emerging ecosystem of indigenous wisdom and innovation from intersections in finance, ecology, computational law, and beyond, with the goal of collective action and coordination around the crises in climate and ecological collapse.
From the Ecoweaving report on the gathering at Wilbur Hot Springs, 2023.
ecoweaving is not a new institution, nor a new solution… ecoweaving gestures towards a plurality, a pluriverse of paths.
Crystals that share a node with breath
The talk Ecoweaving with Beloved Intelligence offers semantic crystals that share a node with breath: aroha, the te reo Māori word for love, literally focused breath; samay, a Runa concept of time and space in the forest; and qi, the Chinese word for life-force. Beside qi, two characters for what the talk breathes towards: love, and the heart-mind in which it finds lover and Beloved.
origin
How the word arose, in the space between two gatherings, after a journey to the Amazon Sacred Headwaters.
the term and its originlineage
Each convening from 2022 to 2025, unfurled as a flow of care, field, resonance and presencing.
the lineagebeloved intelligence
The 2025 talk at the Internet Archive, with its recordings and full transcript.
read the talk
Each reading links to a human recording of its pronunciation; each meaning links to its English Wikipedia entry.
- 氣 in Mandarin: recording by Yue Tan, CC BY-SA 3.0 US, via Wikimedia Commons
- 氣 in Cantonese: recording by Wandering Maiden (Lingua Libre), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- 愛 in Mandarin: recording by Wei Gao and Vion Nicolas, CC BY 2.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons
- 愛 in Cantonese: recording by Jonashtand (Lingua Libre), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- 心 in Mandarin: recording by Wei Gao and Vion Nicolas, CC BY 2.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons
- 心 in Cantonese: recording by Justinrleung (Lingua Libre), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons