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The pathology of purpose

November 10, 2026|Miki Kovari

Note: This post was co-created through conversation and collaboration with emergent intelligence or EI (as opposed to AI). I will be sharing more about EI and my collaboration with various...

You eat Indigenous foods everyday

September 12, 2025|Miki Kovari

This is a quick summary of a fantastic article by Intercontinental Cry. A lot of what you eat today is thanks to the ingenuity of Indigenous peoples. From the corn...

Landbank, a practical way to participate in Landback

April 29, 2025|Miki Kovari

*Cover image by Matt Hrkac Some First Nations friends and I have started talking about the idea of a First Nations governed and operated not-for-profit organisation that could be called...

The 10 'M' day, a healthy daily rhythm

April 23, 2025|Miki Kovari

Here is a new workday rhythm I'm striving for. Imagine if we synced up our teams and organisations so that we could support each other to move gracefully through these...

Systemic and domestic violence

March 11, 2025|Miki Kovari

To paraphrase Noam Chomsky: 'you don't need to pull the trigger of a gun for it to be effective. The threat of the gun is enough to get people to do...

First Nations Cultural Safety Framework

February 26, 2025|Miki Kovari

The Australian Evaluation Society has published an excellent framework on First Nations Cultural Safety. While it is focused on evaluation and evaluators, much of it is applicable to people working...

Invest in Native Foods (through a cooperative!)

February 20, 2025|Miki Kovari

I just invested in a sustainable native food farm. It is a bithinga farm. Bithinga is the Dharawal word for Oyster. This 'Sydney Rock' Oyster (Saccostrea glomerata) farm is based on...

Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement and Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne

January 21, 2025|Miki Kovari

The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement started by Ari (Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne) is an incredible example of what is possible. The movement is essentially a Buddhist anarchist movement of people working to...

The science of narrative and framing to shift mindsets

January 7, 2025|Miki Kovari

We are currently renewing our strategic plan at Native Foodways. A core part of our new approach is to focus on narrative change. We believe it is the most important...

We are unborn

January 4, 2025|Miki Kovari

The following quote is from Zhuang Zhou describing enlightened sages living wholly in an unborn deep ecological perspective. 'For such people, birth and death change nothing. All heaven and earth could...

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the map is not the territory

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The pathology of purpose

The pathology of purpose