Green Papers: Notes Toward Planetary Guardianship
A slow series of papers exploring ethics as capacity: in bodies, institutions, and living systems.
Editorial Note
The Green Paper Series is a quiet publication layer within Planetary Guardians — a long-term work dedicated to shared stewardship, living protocols, and gentle civic imagination.
These papers are offered as field notes: fragments, reflections, and research threads shaped over time through empirical work, governance practice, and interdisciplinary study. They are not written to persuade, recruit, or demand agreement. They are written to hold a space where questions can breathe.
Over time, the Green Papers connect to the wider architecture of Spiralweb — a living portal of nodes, practices, and long-term work, shared through spiralweb.earth.
Planetary Guardians continues a line of research and practice concerned with participation, governance, and institutional viability—extended here into ecological time and planetary responsibility.
Papers
- Green Paper 01 — Moral Biology PDF
- Green Paper 02 — Regulation: Body · Relation · Institution
- Green Paper 03 — Viability and the Conditions for Care
- Green Paper 04 — Attention as Ethics
- Green Paper 05 — Commons, Trust, and Local Stewardship
- Green Paper 06 — Planetary Boundaries as Ethical Constraint
- Green Paper 07 — The Civic Nervous System
- Green Paper 08 — Ritual and Repair
- Green Paper 09 — Beauty as Infrastructure
- Green Paper 10 — Notes Toward Planetary Guardianship
Notes on method
These papers are written slowly. They are edited and revised over time. References are used as orientation points—sometimes deep, sometimes partial—always in service of clarity and integrity rather than authority.
Where I come from
My academic background is rooted in political participation, governance, and institutional practice—particularly in the fields of social housing, urban regeneration, climate adaptation, and cross-sector coordination. Working in and around real institutions taught me that moral failure is rarely just a matter of missing principles; it is often a matter of limited capacity under stress. The Green Papers grow from that insight: ethics as something embodied, relational, and system-shaped, not merely declared.