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  Listen to the soundtrack here Samara is a space that is deeply playful and exploratory, radically open, and spiritually rewarding. We value our relationships and build everything we do on the foundations of trust and reciprocity.  We put humans at the ce...

What will the future bring? Nobody knows, but let's look into the Magic Crystal Ball for a moment and ask ourselves how prepared we are for a new kind of future in which Samarians can become a kind of "sacred consultancy" that honors the trust, space, rhythms,...

A maple seed falls in a characteristic helical motion; the shape of a helix; spiral.  Introduction When I (Trent) was younger, I always loved playing with samara seeds. I would collect them up – careful not to damage them, and drop them from the highest plac...

Technology is a core enabler of Samara – not as a driver ("code is law", see About DAOs and DHOs) but as a vehicle to accelerate our thinking, to organize our knowledge and to coordinate our information and data flows. We use technology to support our internal...

So, we've outlined the vessel and learned about the fundamental building blocks of the DHO. Some questions still remain for any intrepid explorer: What seas do you plan to sail? (start to determine the vessel features required) What type of vessel to do yo...

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"I try to come once a month at least," said Tendai. "Do you know that this hill was once a sacred site? Mbuya and a few other in this area are trying to revive it as a sacred site." "What does a sacred site mean?" I asked Tendai.  "I'll tell you one day. I'm ...

"Our rain used to be more reliable," Amai Moses said to me when I visited her many years ago. We were seated in her round thatched kitchen, whose walls were made of mud. The smoke drifted up and out through the roof. The inside thatch was black from years of s...

Without water , there is no life and there will be no life. Water is like the lifeblood of the earth. I wake in the morning and stumble out of bed, put the jug under the clay filter and turn on the tap. I listen to the sound of the water hitting the bottom o...

It is becoming increasingly apparent that the main drivers of life on Mother Earth are microbial. Perhaps the difficulty in recognising this is because without a microscope we can't see this incredibly complex world. Unfortunately, probably because we can't se...

"Where's the evidence that natural farming can feed the world?" This is a question thrown at those developing alternative farming systems to the conventional ones. These conventional ones generally use external chemical inputs and practice monocropping. Natura...

As I write this, looking out of my window at the food garden I'm lucky enough to have, I sense much life beating out there, way beyond my comprehension. I don't take mind enhancing drugs but sometimes as I walk around my garden it feels like I imagine that mig...

Every one of us has an incredible opportunity to help our planet restore itself. Small acts can lead to big changes. However, we are- as George Marshall sets out in his book, Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change, in many ways 'wired' to deny clima...

Climate variability and change will affect the health and livelihoods of most populations in the coming years, putting the lives and well-being of millions of people at increased risk. Most climate change adaptation and risk reduction measures require that hu...