Freezing/Hunter Moon aka Karen's birthday Moon Nov 5th

 I start a new revolution around the sun this full moon, so yay me.  I'm grateful to be acquainted with you and hope we can celebrate the Hunter Moon together next year as well. 

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October 17 Milwaukee Immersion: DeGrowth, Tricklebee Café lunch, and Walk and Talks

Recording of Oct 17th DeGrowth 101 presentation by Dylan Carson and Karen Lemke: https://youtu.be/-0nP_hM_emI

Lunch break at Tricklebee Café during October 17th Immersion

Yuchen Zhao (center in black) shows Dylan Carson, Bridgid Normand and Lynne Oglesby the Cherry Street Community Garden during Immersion Walk and Talk

We had a blast talking about degrowth in the Milwaukee context, followed by lunch at Tricklebee Café and a few walk and talks to parks and community gardens in Milwaukee.  I'm planning to do more walk and talks in 2026, and the Meta-crisis MetaChrysalis : Milwaukee game play is a logical next step in designing the bioregional good relations degrowth future we wish to see.  Here is a short video about the MetaChrysalis bioregioning game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJx2ZU3t5uQ. Daniel Lindenberger, designer of the game, shared that he used the game to play through emergency response scenarios to Hurricane Melissa as well.  If you're interested in playing the game, join us at Kuumba Juice at 9 am Saturday, November 15th.  We will set up more game play opportunities, including via zoom, in 2026.

There are a few "organizations of organizations" I want to highlight:

Fair Future Movement: they have their quarterly meet up Nov 19th: RSVP here!

https://environmentaljusticemke.org/ Environmental Justice MKE Alliance.  Join their mailing list if you like.

More online class options to share: https://www.rehuman.earth/ I love these courses, taught by Dr Lyla June Johnston (Diné), whose academic research was grounded in sustainable local food systems.  All pay-what-you-can tuition goes to Indigenous-led projects.  

Next in-person meet up is November 15th game play Meta-Chrsalis: Milwaukee.  Become a playable character in local climate solutions.  We a playing a card-based role playing game developed specifically for the Milwaukee River Estuary/Watershed.

Followed by online Story Sharing/Harvest near the Solstice in late December TBD.

Badgerland Biodiversity Corridors Initiative: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pWidBMrg-M9P-7BDjFm1_IUsHFRQLLzY/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100312944364367897412&rtpof=true&sd=true

The BBCI is emerging as a framework to pay landowners for enhancing biodiversity.  We are still developing the framework, including for the urban and other-than-rural contexts.  I want to tie the Biodiversity credit scheme with the game play to be able to flow resources to local projects which grow out of the game play.

Nov 4th Great Lake Michigan and friends monthly bioregional Zoom summary and recording:

Farina Brooks, Brandice Kirchner, Dylan Carson, Deanna Geelhoed, Shivika Aggrawal, Nurul E, Erik Kvam, Stacia Nordin, Elizabeth Lezama, Lynne Oglesby, Kim Chapple and Karen Lemke met to discuss goings on in or respective places of #Milwaukee, #Chicago, #Duluth, #Purdue University/ #Wabash Rivershed, LaCrosse, WI/ #UpperMississippiRiver #Driftless Region, and #Cleveland. Two people were traveling by bus during the call, with Farina driving a school bus while listening in! People shared links related to projects and groups they were working on and within. Shivika is a doctoral student working on storytelling of midwest farmers and their resilience to climate changes. She along with Dylan, me (Karen), Daniel Lindenberger and Danielle Johnson as gamemaster/facilitator played our first round of MetaChrysalis: Milwaukee online on Saturday and have already hatched up some ideas of organizing walk and talks and game play sessions in Milwaukee and nearby regions this fall and into 2026. Dylan shared that he volunteers with Climate Action Museum emerging leaders advisory board, and is organizing a Youth Degrowth Collective. I offered that we can create a space in the design school for that group when and if they want one. Danielle noted that there is a Regen call which meets on Tuesdays at 2 pm central which is in conflict with this time slot. Erik Kvam shared his substack (erikkvam.substack.com), Brandice gave an update about the Trimborn Farm purchase proposal she submitted last week. Farina Brooks coordinates Green Teams United in Milwaukee and shared about some hot food resources and a Thanksgiving Day meal. Nurul shared information about the cooperative organizing work in Chicago: https://actionnetwork.org/events/whos-city-our-city-growing/. Stacia gave an update for her work and considered joining the League of Women Voters Upper Mississippi InterLeague Organization so we can be wondertwins entwining our bioregional work into the existing networks of the LWV as well as the Wisconsin Women in Conservation.

Deanna works with this organization and is based in Duluth: https://northlandresilience.org/