SEEDS Changemakers

North America

United States

Joel Kaminski, Virginia, US

• My vision: Humanity living together totally free in a rooted culture of peace, harmony, and equity. An economy that incentivizes strengthening global/local resiliency, freedom, and respect. The people’s of the world living a life they love in abundance. Schools teaching useful things to children and communities where growing, never stops. The SEEDS project has been something I have been thinking about for awhile now as a necessary thing if we hope to build a better world, and I want to support the collective vision of a better system designed by the people, for the people. If not us, then who?
• My purpose: To build intentional communities, eco-villages, and other regenerative design models for the average person so they can experience a community designed around freedom, trust, and growth. I want to do this because I have found that the problem lies in how we live; less consumption and work, more serenity and play. If we live in areas designed to those ends with modern technology, there’s no end to what we can do. Renew damaged ecosystems, heal rampant mental health issues and bodily sicknesses, and grow as a species. SEEDS seems to me the proposed network for communities to route their goods, services, and ideas through. We are aligned.
• SEEDS interest: Outreach, Systems, Voice, Community
• Most aligned SEEDS values: Exploration, Reciprocity, Openness, Courage, Trust, Commitment, Compassion
• Additional comments: It is becoming apparent that it’s time to learn from those that know the skills I desire to accomplish my purpose. Being an ecovillage consultant and regenerative natural resources specialist is my dream. I feel a radical movement away from my 9-5 and into my true career. I only need opportunity to learn and work towards these goals to make the shift into living my purpose full time, instead of a side gig. If there are resources out there that can teach me, and work to be done with SEEDS, please reach out so we can co-create this new way together and support the vision.

RootHub aka Greg Williams, Hawaii

• My vision: Singing the world I wish to seed into being. To help the world remember that singing together, about life, is is an exploration of ritual, creativity, and wonder. A world where we acknowledge the past, honor the present, and confidently activate the future. Providing safe containers where spontaneous expression is supported, encouraged, and cultivated. Practicing regenerative agriculture both as a necessity for generational balance, as well as an example for those who are skilled, curious, or completely unaware of these methods****.
  
• My purpose: The work I am engaged with in music, i.e. Instant Anthems, SONGRISER, is rooted in regeneration. With Instant Anthems, I ask for 2 nouns & 1 verb from the receiver of the IA. They provide these worlds for their pocket sized theme song. As the spontaneous song is born, familiarity and magic intersect. The receiver is creating new neural pathways in the moment and the bliss they experience magnifies the fulfillment I experience being of service and both myself, and the individual or group, walk away with our frequencies amplified. I also apply this to the large scale food waste composting operation my partner and I have created here on Oahu. we've partnered with several non profits to bring a dual dividend business to life. By taking the food waste from several food banks and composting it in our earth flow machine, we reduce the amount of waste in our waste stream here on Oahu, while simultaneously creating healthy soil, which leads to healthier seas. Both of these practices are inherently regenerative in nature and allow me to give a whole body YES to spending my energy supporting the practices. This in turn creates community, stewards the resources we are fortunate enough to be responsible for, and increases stability.
  
• SEEDS interest: Outreach, Voice, Community
  
• Most aligned SEEDS values: Exploration, Reciprocity, Openness, Courage, Trust, Commitment, Compassion
  
• Additional comments: The SEEDS platform is exactly what I hope to seed in my local world. Little steps and deep breaths can lead to generational change. I would love to share our best practices with the SEEDS community. I have a gift at bringing people together around shared vision via song. Would love to create a SEED instant anthem. I also help teams and groups with the SONGRISER workshop. The workshop has a focus on vulnerability, vision. and expression. Ot's been utilized as leadership development for Burners Without Boarders, Red Bull, Esalen, etc. This combined with our vision and practices to create a micro grid for food waste composting here in Hawai'i allows us to share world changing methods. Looking forward to sharing. Thank you for including me.
  

M. Renee Orth, Charleston, South Carolina, US

• My vision: So much overlap! My vision is guided by my working hypothesis that one point of life is to reach high levels of complexity and this happens through synergy, which in turn happens through love in action. Compassion, joy, care, understanding, gratitude, sharing are all manifestations of love. Humanity is at a crossroads, we will survive, and even thrive, the multiple ecological crises our actions have created to the degree to which we put cooperation at the center of our lives and for most of us this requires a re-programming of our ways of communicating and interacting with ourselves, one another and the non-human world. The economic, financial and governance systems of SEEDS is an essential piece of this evolutionary development.
  
• My purpose: I work to create regenerative community and so am a "boots on the ground" servant to the SEEDS purpose.
  
• SEEDS interest: Outreach, Tools, Systems, Voice, Community, Resources
  
• Most aligned SEEDS values: Exploration, Reciprocity, Openness, Courage, Trust, Commitment, Compassion.
  
• Additional comments: I am thrilled to be involved in this endeavor. It is deeply aligned with the vision I've had for over a decade about the need to use technology, exactly in the way SEEDS and Be the Change are, to create grassroots alternatives designed to empower humans to live from compassion and care. Would like to explore how I can integrate SEEDS into the community work I do in Charleston, SC. Been wanting to create a local currency to fund the regenaissance here and am interested in figuring out if SEEDS might be a path to that end.
  

Serda Ozbenian, Maryland, US

• My vision: Yes Humanity that is more heart-forward, courageous, authentic, compassionate and truly joyful. Humanity choosing not to be driven by a desire for material possessions but rather by soul directed intuitive impulses that not only serve the individual but the collective as well as the earth. New systems born out of a hunger for oneness rather than a hunger for power. As humanity emerges from the darkness and heaviness of old systems and is reborn as multidimensional compassionate beings, the earth heals and is reborn. New innovations are supported and nurtured as they are for the greater good and therefore not stifled by competitors, leading to more and more innovations, flowing fluidly and creating a regenerative way of life. More innovation and a more nurturing society leads to less creation of "waste" and more care to ensure that our actions are responsible and lead to equitable abundance rather than inequitable scarcity. Humanity is united by honoring and listening to the earth and respecting boundaries, allowing all to flourish. I see my vision aligning with the SEEDS vision as they both prioritize and are guided by the capacities of the Earth and the creation of new systems that are more regenerative and fertile.
• My purpose: My purpose currently is to be a responsible resident of the earth and to support the creation of more compassionate, more sustainable, more natural ways of living and existing on this earth. I try to be a responsible consumer with all of my choices and live minimally. I try my best to have a minimal footprint and minimal negative impact on the environment. Professionally, I work in wildlife conservation, advocating for healthy vibrant thriving ecosystems and plant and animal communities. My purpose aligns with the SEEDS purpose as both are striving for more responsible sustainable systems.
• SEEDS interest: Outreach, Voice
• Most aligned SEEDS values: Integrity, Courage, Compassion

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