The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer

As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds,
she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of
the gift economy. While the free market system we embrace in the
United States touts individualism and defines value by monetary
worth, a gift economy functions through an ethic of reciprocity and
interconnection. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom
and ecological systems to reimagine currencies of exchange?
“Thriving is possible,” she writes, “only if you have nurtured
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