Planting is Love
and secondhand clothing is on the rise
Dear tree planters,
More and more, the environmental movement is focused on the regeneration of land and natural systems, a process that is partly inspired by the generational change from Boomers to Millennials, and society’s subsequent shift in values. This week we share the story of the family behind the Vernessac farm in central France, and how their project illustrates the shift in how we collectively perceive both health and happiness.
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Planting is Love
“I come from a world very sick, full of fear, full of greed. I focused the first part of my life following a path to make my family and myself secure.”
Olivier Stulmacher worked in finance.
“Finance people say there are economic models that explain our world, but this is totally wrong, all of the models fail, all of the models turned into crisis, to more people starving, people poisoned, to the devastation of nature. So this is the result, and why is that so? People believe these models reflect the world, but in reality people created these models. And on the inside of the models are these core feelings of fear and greed.”
These emotions fuel the capitalist system, but they also fuel the way we interact.
“The more you feel fear, the more you’re going to feel greed, and the more things you try to possess, the more you’re going to feel afraid. It’s an insatiable, infinite circle. And when I realised that, I realised I had to reverse this inside me, not inside others, but first inside me.”
🌏 The Culture Column
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