In this paper, we consider how the theoretical framework and hermeneutic lens known as complexity science might inform a view of ecojustice. Specifically, we examine certain underlying principles of complexity science as organizational invariances that arise within and without all relationally-embedded organizational bodies"”physiological, biological, psychological, social, cultural, political, and ecological. To this end, we consider important principles and notions like diversity and variability, redundancy, self-organization and emergence, relationships and connections, distributed leadership and governance, and organizational health and learning. By way of examples, we draw from our own experiences as educators and citizens of the world to show how an attention to many different scales is required to articulate an ecojustice pedagogy. To help us, we turn our attention to Nature for guidance in the way that life self-organizes and for a new set of images and metaphors to frame and describe ecojustice. In doing so, we show that while the substance of organizations may be different, beneath each deeply entangled and embedded organization is a set of underlying principles that prompt and give shape to healthy, sustainable, democratic organizations.
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