Tom Newmark

Tom Newmark is the co-founder and board chair of The Carbon Underground, co-founder of the Soil Carbon Initiative and a founding member of that standard’s Design Team, past board chair of the Greenpeace Fund USA, and a founding member of the Leadership Council of the Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems at California State University – Chico. He is also the past board chair of the America Botanical Council, publisher of the peer-reviewed journal HerbalGram.

He is the co-owner of Finca Luna Nueva Lodge, a farm and ecolodge in the mountainous rainforest of Costa Rica that teaches regenerative agriculture. www.fincalunanuevalodge.com

Tom Newmark in Kosmos

Waiter, there’s a problem with my paradigm!

The Amazon today is depleted, imperiled, and at the cusp of losing functionality as a viable forest ecosystem. And when that happens, what will happen to all the lifeforms that rely on the rainfall, oxygen, and medicines created from this glorious region? Are you prepared to find out if we humans can survive the loss of the world’s greatest rainforest?

Published in Volume 20 Issue 2

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,