ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how we can heal our relationship with our planetary home, Gaia, by examining why and how our behaviours and systems have grown so destructive over time, and how we can change this. As part of this focus, the authors explore the underlying worldviews and practices that have been driving our food cultivation systems and mainstream consumption patterns. The authors offer a wholeworld-view that addresses the many fragmented perspectives of our world and life, and offer a more unified understanding of what has now become the greatest existential challenge our species has ever faced at this scale. The wholeworld-view is explored through the study of infodynamics, which focuses on informational patterns and content that reveal deeper implicit dimensions that in-form and underlie our manifest physical world. The chapter ends with an exploration of the infodynamics of living systems as thrivability systems, and how this can be applied to the design principles and processes for developing the agroecological farming systems of tomorrow.
