this page aggregates all examples and attempts as I explore the desire to find a middle-ground between biophysicists and land stewards.
Related notes
in 2024 november - phd, money, i first elaborated this desire: “felt a bit of holy-ness when i re-read notes about malama aina, and a bit of spicy-ness when I re-read notes about soft living matter meeting. to be honest, i do know what i want. i want the place-based rightness of malama. i want the question pattern chain rightness of biophys institution. i wish they can talk to each other - the latter have so much money. can they poor some into community technologies (cent centrifuge, bacteria remedy) instead of nuclear powered AI. do they know that the drugs don’t work in the body because they forgot to consider what the body actually contains, or the GMO golden rice. and do they realize it requires more than physics to study the physics of living systems — the kupuna who know 2000 signs of nature of the living, the birds route, the dolphin nest location, the wave cycle, they are facts as well as a way of knowing that the one sided hypothesis wouldn’t include. i do know this is the conflict in my body. maybe it’s the source of all the sleeplessness or sleepiness the dread the hope.”
luckily i’m not the only one with this desire. as i search for examples of existing attempts, the most common scope I see is science with local community.