What is Living CARE?

Living Cities Action Research Ecosystem (Living CARE) is a dynamic global network of researchers, city and community leaders, and innovators committed to transforming cities into vibrant, resilient, interconnected ecosystems that thrive in harmony with nature. Together we nurture human potential and foster deep connections, curating meaningful, regenerative change in service of flourishing ecosystems and planetary health.

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What is a Living City?

A Living City is an urban space where people are actively contributing to the development of more vibrant, meaningful and connected human communities alongside flourishing city ecosystems. Through this site we are sharing some of the great things that are already going on worldwide, together with our own thoughts and ideas about potential new projects.

If you are working in or for a city we hope that this will provide you with hope and inspiration - and if you are working with others to create life-centred solutions, please let us know!

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What are we planning to do?

• Connect up the leaders and community innovators
• Collect and share inspirational examples of best practice
• Promote awareness-based/relational systems change
• Empower local decision-makers and champions
• Celebrate and promote ecosystemic approaches 
• Identify common and emergent patterns
• Identity what has not worked and why
• Promote regenerative stewardship
• Honour the more-than human world
• Protect the future generations

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Moving cities from

• separation to connection
• siloed thinking to integral approaches
  
• othering to belonging
• self-interest to systemic wellbeing
• blame and judgement to shared responsibility
• isolation to collaboration
• scarcity to abundance
• conflict to compassion
• human-focus to eco-systemic focus​
• surviving to thriving​​

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Join us

CO-CREATING A BETTER WORLD

We can't wait for the old systems to sort things out - instead millions of people are now choosing to do different and better. ​
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One Humanity, One World, One Life