The Chief Cross-Pollinator

I am a Cross-Pollinator. Nature is both my teacher and my laboratory. I dance between stigmas and anthers, moving pollen across, helping people to be fruitful.

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"On our long journey into the age of ecocide, we forgot how to speak, or even what we should be saying. We certainly forgot how to listen, and what to listen to. Silence beckons, now. Attention must be paid." - Paul Kingsnorth

#iamacrosspollinator #climatechange #COP26Glasgow

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"In the Spring and Summer, I watched my plants flower, but it was perhaps in Winter that I loved them best, when their skeletons were exposed. Then I felt they had more to say to me, were not simply dressing themselves for the crowds" - Pamela Erens, The Understory

#read #books

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"We evolved to be extraordinarily corporative in small groups, but we are not faced with the challenge of a wholly new environment in which we are asked to corporate, not just with those we know well but with people who are practically strangers" - Atkins, Sloan & Hayes

#Lead

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"Some plants produce large, thin leaves which enhance photosynthetic photon harvest in low light, and narrow, thicker leaves which conserve water in high light" - Pfennig & Ledón-Rettig, The Flexible Organism (2009)

#books #reading #biomimicry #iamacrosspollinator

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"Human cognition is rooted in navigating spatial thinking and relatedness, all bound up in a place and a story. Modern living and work has resulted in a deep sense of disorientation and disconnectedness" - Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk, How Indigenous Thinking can Save the World

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"The most important claim we have made so far is that metaphor is not just a matter of language, that is, of mere words. We shall argue that, on the contrary, human thought processes are largely metaphorical" - George Lakoff, Metaphors We Live By

#coach #FridayVibes #Books

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" - Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economics

#iamacrosspollinator #books

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"The purpose of business is not to create profit. The purpose of business is to create profitable solutions to the problems of people and planet. Not to profit by creating problems for people and planet" - Colin Mayer, reflecting on the Economics of Mutuality

#business #coach

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"I've written this book in the belief (possibly naive) that if more people understood our shared history and destiny as Earth dwellers, we might treat each other, and the planet, better" - Maria Bjornerud, Timefulness:How Thinking like a Geologist can help Save the World

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"The wrong question is: How much money is there and what can we do with it? The right question is: What needs doing and how can we structure budgets to meet those goals" - Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: a Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

#mondaythoughts #books #reading

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"In our current state of affairs, the very survival of humankind depends on the people developing concern for the whole of humanity, not just their own community or nation" - Joanna Macy, Coming back to life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects

[Exclusive Books @ExclusiveBooks]

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@PanMacmillanSA @mandla_langa @Mpakanyane

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[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"But here, in the tide country, transformation is the rule of life: rivers stray from week to week, and islands are made and unmade in days. In other places forests take centuries, even millennia, to regenerate" - Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide

#iamacrosspollinator #biomimicry

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

@MorningLiveSABC @LeanneManas @SakinaKamwendo They are sowing divisions along the lines where our biggest fragility and fault lines run - racism; hatred; violence; classism and all other isms that take us back to a past that we desperately trying to free ourselves from. What kind of leader in society does that?

[The Joburg Indaba @joburgindaba]

Dr Sydney Mufamadi, to realise the net zero emission target by 2050 we need to start building the roadmap now, we need engagement from multiple parties around this issue, more investment in R&D and play a leading role in the evolution of global standards #joburgindaba #mining

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

@MorningLiveSABC @SakinaKamwendo @LeanneManas How did this project go through all the stages, all the processes, all of those in that value chain, all the way to the point of being unveiled to the public, without anyone pointing out there was something wrong here? Like really!!! NO ONE? Like how?

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"Understanding your own culture and the ways in which it interacts with others, particularly the power dynamics of it, is far more appreciated" - Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking can Save the World

#iamacrosspollinator #books #reading #coaching #leadership

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

@MorningLiveSABC @SakinaKamwendo @LeanneManas That statement shifts the focus from what the real problem is. There are uncomfortable conversations that the ruling party would not be open to engaging honestly on, such as: Why do our policies continue creating more problems in society instead of solutions?

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

"We need to continue asking what kinds of stories, academic or otherwise, can help us account for everyday environmental violence in ways that engender meaningful, collective response" - Martha Kenney, Fables of Response-ability: Feminist Science Studies as Didactic Literature

[The Chief Cross-Pollinator @Musa_theCoach]

@MorningLiveSABC @SimzNcongwane @LeboThinane For me it's about how well they understand the real issues on the ground or are they just obsessed with fancy rhetoric