Joyce Hostyn

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Plants little forests, pocket forests and pocket meadows as songs, poems, love letters to the land. Adjunct @QueensU

Various pollinators visiting the bunches of small white flowers of devils walking stick swaying in the breeze
Bumble bee colony with bumble bees crawling around.
Picture of a song sparrow nest with four speckled eggs in the midst of old goldenrod stems
Male and female duck feeding in small backyard pond
Branches of Red Osier Dogwood (red willow) coated with ice, with White Pine in background
screenshot from "A Declaration for Air" prepared by Centric Lab with the words: The Air is alive. They are Kin. They create life. They are part of our Great Creator. They consist of life-sustaining microbes, nutrients and oxygen. Without these element, Air is erased. We are asking for the right for Air to exist freely, expansively and abundantly. When we understand that Air is medicine, they become the medicine our bodies need.
Diagra of the ”shit” fence. A fence that was set up before a woodland planting to prevent it all from hares, rabbits etc. Already after five seasons a lot of visits by birds, that had been sitting on the fence, had done what they should. An half open,impressionistic outer edge of trees and shrubs, and sometimes hedge, had been created increasing values. The illustration points to each of the different trees and shrubs planted by birds after five seasons.
video of 5-6 chickadees in a clump of staghorn sumac, with red cedar in the background
screenshot: "Alas, in their well-intentioned zeal to protect birds, but driven by the misapprehension that birds were not getting enough to eat, early bird conservationists came up with the idea of planting shrubs that produced abundant fruit and in many cases thick cover for native birds. These included European buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) and glossy-buckthorn (a.k.a. glossy false buckthorn, Frangula alnus), Russian- and autumn-olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia, E. umbellata), multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora), Asian honeysuckles (Lonicera maackii, L. japonica, L. tatarica, L. morrowii, to name some common ones), Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii), Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus), black and pale swallowwort (Cynanchum louiseae, C. rossicum), and other fast-growing non-native species."
quote - "To imagine is to momentarily stop outside our limiting 'I' and sense into how other lifeforms experience their world - and us."
Excerpt from David Abram's book, The Spell of the Sensuous ENLIVENING STORIES — BELONGING IN A BREATHING WORLD A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense. And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is to enliven the senses. A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surroundings, tuning the tongue to the actual tastes in the air and sending chills of recognition along the surface of the skin. To make sense is to release the body from the constraints imposed by outworn ways of speaking, and hence to renew and rejuvenate one's felt awareness of the world. It is to make the senses wake up to where they are.
contrasts noun-based static governance (division of a city by industrial, commercial, residential zones) with verb-based dynamic governance... flows responding to changing ecosystem limits
illustration of California watershed alongside the following principles: - We carry into our future at least as many responsibilities as we do rights - this is our charge - we have the right to extract, but we have the responsibility to restore - we have the right to inhabit, but we have the responsibility to set aside - stewardship is the active management of leaving the more-than-human world to its own functioning devices.
table outlining four different relationships and visions of the city and its relationship to nature: contrast (wilderness), contact (accessible nature), contract (ecosystem services), contingent (indistinguishable where nature directs urban form)
Chart illustrating leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene. Intent > multispecies just and flourishing environmental governance system; Design > Adaptive, nimble approaches to biodiversity conservation; Feedbacks > The agency and adaptability of novel ecosystems to repair damaged landscapes is a new recognized dynamic; Parameters > increasing type and number of ecosystems that are protected and valued
diagram with two overlapping circles, one is aspects of systems thinking, the other aspects of complexity thinking - in the intersection sits what the author calls some of the most interesting and practical approaches such as Cynefin, ecological economics and systems ecology
scan of a page of the book on "the tree swallow" that describes the birds appearance, song and nesting behaviour. "A good Citizen of the United States, but more shy than the Martin and Barn Swallow; these two often return, year after year, to some favorite place, but the Tree Swallow is not so reliable. A Sky Sweeper.
The Dynamics of Transitions in Socio-Technical Systems: A Multi-Level Analysis of the Transition Pathway from Horse-Drawn Carriages to Automobiles (1860–1930) by F.W. Geels, 2005
table that compares individualism (competitive, focused on difference) vs communal (collaborative, focused on success of the larger group) culture. Individualism goal = independence. Communal goal = success of the tribe, family, or community. Individual sayings: "pull yourself up by your boostraps, if it's to be, it's up to me, if at first you don't succeed, try again" Communal sayings: "may hands make light work, lifting as we climb, power to the people, we shall overcome". Individualism development: "becoming the best individual creates a better society", Communal development: "building the best society makes you a better individual", Individualism resources: "work to get a bigger piece of the pie" vs Communal culture "work to widen the pie so everyone gets a bigger slice, individualism decision making: "make the best decision for yourself now" vs communal "make decisions considering the impact to the seventh generation, individualism reward: "individual success, freedom and material possessions" vs communal "healthy and thriving tribe, family or community"
Illustration of a highrise that Incorporates the needs of other life forms: clear flying paths (lights out), visible building features (glass treatment & screening), safe places to land, heat mitigation & pollution reduce with green walls, collision avoidance (sound treatments & deterrents), habitat create with dense endemic planting, risk free movement with downward motion sensing lighting & green & blue paths, habitat support with bee bricks, rockeries and crevices & shallow water points Image: © Djinjama
details of the four interrelated ontologies that allow engaging with rivers as arenas of material, social and symbolic co-production among humans and nature
illustrates dominant vs pluriversal narratives of life. Influences of the pluriversal include; bien-vivre, reinhabiting, feminism, care of life, recipes for transition, recreating the conditions for life
Conceptualisations of the different intersecting elements of Water Back movements across the six core Water themes: water cosmology & governance, water colonialism, water justice, water rights and responsibilities, water health, water & climate change
table listing typologies of nonhuman stakeholders: individual organism, single species collective, multispecies collective, life processes, living system, biogeochemical cycle, processes of the atmosphere
a conceptual illustration of thinking as being embodied, as beginning with know-how, to sense making, to meaning making, to world making
illustration of the anatomical features of an apple from Practical Guide to Pomology
Entangled Time Tree acknowledging the interweaving of multiple ways of knowing the future, linked to multiple presents and threads of multiple pasts.