Ecological Motoring Initiative

Initiating conversations and connections towards finding ways to meet the motoring needs of all within the means of the living planet (🍩). Vehicles change everything from our cities to our mindsets, but we rarely connect the dots between. Movement is sensual and ecological and we need new forms of motoring for a new earth EMI (the ecological motoring initiative) works to transcend traditional dichotomies around machines and ecologies and bring people together around common needs. EMI creates and facilitates conversations towards a new notion of motoring. We are moved at so many levels and through so many different landscapes, be those physical, emotional, mental or virtual. From city designers to coders to car manufacturers, we can work together to create a better vision for motoring. Our minds have been channeled in part by the ways we motor--the ways we move ourselves, our materials, and our ideas. Ecological transportation begins with understanding that the vehicles and infrastructures moving us are also creating cognitive systems. A 'motor' powers any vehicle that moves us, and our vehicles come at different scales. Whether it is in a bike, a car, computing equipment, or a piece of music, the motor is the part of that vehicle that moves us consistently and structures the ways and means of our movement. We believe part of the work to be done is in noticing and better understanding the current cognitive systems being created by our forms of motoring, observing the ways they structure our daily lives and activities, and moving into the desirable unknown with a new vision of what motoring can be, including its means and materials. How can we meet the motoring needs of all in a way that is ecological? What does it mean to move within the means of the living planet? How can we move in ways that inspire and motivate us and increase our potentials longterm? Let’s think through these issues together towards a healthier future and a whole new kind of motoring.