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Mar 20, 2022

Life’s Organizing Principles — Part II: Shapes, Structures, and Patterns of Life

This is the second essay in a three-essay series on life’s organizing principles. I’ve gotten into Marvel superhero movies over the past decade after my husband took me to watch the first Avengers movie in 2012. One thing I’ve picked up on in all the Marvel movies and TV shows…

Fractals

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Life’s Organizing Principles — Part II: Shapes, Structures, and Patterns of Life
Life’s Organizing Principles — Part II: Shapes, Structures, and Patterns of Life
Fractals

22 min read


Feb 20, 2022

Life’s Organizing Principles — Part I: Intrinsic Qualities of Life

This is the first essay in a three-essay series on life’s organizing principles. Ecological design at its core is about designing with life and in support of life. This means that in order to practice ecological design successfully, we need to understand what life is. What is life? How do…

Living Systems Theory

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Life’s Organizing Principles — Part I: Intrinsic Qualities of Life
Life’s Organizing Principles — Part I: Intrinsic Qualities of Life
Living Systems Theory

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Jun 2, 2021

Building Regenerative Cultures

I was born in Burma. For the first eight years of my life, my family and I lived in a dilapidated, wooden house in a rural neighborhood far from the bustling downtown of Yangon, Burma’s largest city and former capital. My family was poor. We didn’t have basic amenities like…

Regenerative

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Building Regenerative Cultures
Building Regenerative Cultures
Regenerative

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May 17, 2021

Orientalism Is the Root of Anti-Asian Violence

Violence against people who are racialized as Asian is anything but new. It has been taking place ever since the first Chinese indentured servants landed in the United States in the early 1800’s and experienced forced residence in Chinese ghettos which evolved into modern-day Chinatowns, police and mob violence, lynchings…

Stopasianhate

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Orientalism Is the Root of Anti-Asian Violence
Orientalism Is the Root of Anti-Asian Violence
Stopasianhate

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Jan 18, 2021

Healing from the Violence of White Supremacy

What more can I say about this month’s siege of the U.S. Capitol by white supremacists that you haven’t already heard from journalists, writers, and elected officials? I am tempted to share my outrage and anger but those emotions have already been strongly reverberated on media outlets and social media…

Liberation

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Healing from the Violence of White Supremacy
Healing from the Violence of White Supremacy
Liberation

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Jul 27, 2020

Qualities of Regenerative and Liberatory Culture

White supremacy is not fringe extremism that occasionally rears its ugly head when “White power” groups, like the KKK, hold a rally. White supremacy is an entire economic and political apparatus that pervades all aspects of White-dominant societies. White supremacy is also a cultural apparatus that reinforces a particular set…

White Supremacy Culture

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Qualities of Regenerative and Liberating Culture
Qualities of Regenerative and Liberating Culture
White Supremacy Culture

12 min read


May 10, 2020

I’m Embracing the Term ‘People of the Global Majority’

I am ethnically Chinese. I was born and grew up in Myanmar for the first eight years of my life before moving to the U.S., so I also consider myself culturally Burmese. These two aspects of my identity and upbringing play a critical role in feeding my anxiety around identifying…

People Of Color

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I’m Embracing the Term ‘People of the Global Majority’
I’m Embracing the Term ‘People of the Global Majority’
People Of Color

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Apr 25, 2020

Nature Is Teaching Me Gratitude During This Pandemic

My partner and I went to Prospect Park in Brooklyn this past Saturday after being cooped up in our apartment for 36 days since we started following the stay-at-home order due to COVID-19. It wasn’t the first time we stepped outside, of course. We had been taking daily walks in…

Gratitude

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Nature Is Teaching Me Gratitude During This Pandemic
Nature Is Teaching Me Gratitude During This Pandemic
Gratitude

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Mar 26, 2020

Precepts of Regenerative Practice (An Ongoing List)

I have been on a journey through my entire twenties and now through my early thirties to cultivate a profound understanding of the organizing principles of living systems in the hopes that I can interpret and apply them to what I’m passionate about — the design of regenerative and socially…

Regenerative

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Precepts of Regenerative Practice (An Ongoing List)
Precepts of Regenerative Practice (An Ongoing List)
Regenerative

11 min read

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Daniel Lim

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Writing at the intersection of ecology, social justice, art, and magic.

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