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Director Multisolving Institute. She/her. Systems thinking, climate justice, and multisolving, with a sprinkle of gardens and the odd puns. @bethsawin on X
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Nurture the hell out of the seeds of the future you want because they too are sprouting in the chaos.

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What are the models for distributed inexpensive worker (teacher) owned student directed higher education? If scientists, analysts, teachers are being pushed out of fields and students are being excluded how does all that human potential re-organize to serve people and planet?

Just received Multisolving by Elizabeth Sawin, Director of the Multisolving Institute! Perfect timing as we explore scale in STEM education and create inclusive environments. Sawin’s message: our toughest challenges are best solved together. Let’s break silos in STEM, equity, and beyond! #STEM

Just got off a call with a long-running collaboration supporting transboundary climate resilience in Washington & British Columbia, and I've never felt more viscerally how transboundary work is as much about building trust and goodwill among nations as its more tangible outcomes.

I'm thinking this is a good winter to start extra veggie seedlings and give them away.

This morning what I have to offer you are a few tidbits from the process of beginning to walk again after surgery on a fractured ankle in December. See if you agree that some/all may apply beyond the specifics of a healing ankle joint. A 🧵

THIS. Hang in there, lovelies. Continue to be brilliant; you are not alone. 💪 💛

Diversity, complexity, love, friendship, art, creativity, nuance will persist because that is how the life force moves. Don't take it from me. Just look around with a long, wide view.

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Let this be the day’s scripture

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Hi friends, if you have missed me I have been pulled into an alternate dimension known as caring for a relative with a complex and serious illness, a portal to a dimension that includes 12 hour long emergency room visits (2 of them), ice storms, power outages, tracking doses, insurance calls,

A valuable, brief 🧵 on finding talking points with impact.

Every snagged thread pulls the whole web askew. Look to where you can help ease it.

A good use of systems thinking in communications right now: take whatever dismantling move you are focused on and ask, what might that lead to, and what might that lead to, etc? Those ripples, the ones that will hit people one or two steps removed, are talking points.