noun: culture; plural noun: cultures

1. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

2. the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society.

noun: gardener; plural noun: gardeners

Gardeners practice the skills and dedication to maintain a garden, taking care to work within the natural ecology of the place. Gardeners’ labour includes planting, weeding, regenerating, and tending.

PRINCIPLES FOR ACTION

• First Nations first – people and culture prioritised
• Fair, equitable & diverse – addressing colonisation, power structures, systems change
  
• Ambitious climate action – referencing best available science, zero emissions by 2030 while drawing down legacy carbon at emergency scale and speed
• Reimagine – our culture and future
• Prioritise needs and rights – exploring reasonable human need and rights within planetary boundaries and the rights of all living things
• Value creativity – vital to public health, adaptation, social transformation and fundamental to delivering on the Paris Agreement
• Holistic – systems thinking, connecting siloed territories of work with creative practices
• political – socially engaged not party aligned
• Sustainable – locally and globally accountable, including bioregions and the economies and supply chains that support them.
• Respect – consideration for cultural contexts and perspectives

• Just fucking do it – inclusive, experimental, evolving… URGENT!