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The importance of pollination in eco-networks
A brief encounter with pollinator Lauren Minis and others
Our world is moving ever faster, we have ever increasing connections and yet we feel detached. Detached from each other, detached from nature, detached from ourselves. In trying to repair my own feeling of detachment there was a time I steered away from social media. I felt that networking was part of that world that I was tired of. So when I’m invited by Lauren Minis to a ‘speed networking event’ termed regeneration pollination, my first reflex is to politely decline. But curiosity beats discomfort.
I find myself jumping on Zoom At 8 am Pacific time for the pollination event.
After a very brief welcome we are pushed into random meeting spaces. In four rounds of eight minutes I find myself having conversations ranging from women in sustainability, mobility, parenting and raising various questions on why we are all doing what we do, most of which remain unanswered or unfinished. Because well… there’s only so much you can achieve in eight minutes. At the end of it I feel like at a buffet where I’ve loaded my plate full of appetisers and I haven’t even made it to the main course. At the same time I notice an old type of fatigue… I can’t quite pinpoint it at the time and I don’t have the head space to tackle it as at 8 am…
